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Do It Scared: Dr. B. Danielle Watkins' Unplanned Path to Success · The Purpose and Progress Podcast Show

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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: Do what you need to do, scared or not,
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knowledge or not, because we live in an information world
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now, you can find out how to do anything. Practice makes
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perfect. So when you put those two things together and you
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continue to push, there's nothing that's going to stop
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you, period.
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Jim Price:: Hello, I'm Dr. Jim Price, and welcome to The
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Purpose and Progress Podcast. This is the place where we
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explore how purpose can guide our actions, and how growth can
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become a part of our everyday lives. On the show, I talk with
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amazing guests, from educators and creators to everyday people
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with extraordinary stories about the challenges they face, the
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lessons they've learned, and how to keep moving forward. My goal
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is to share conversations that inspire you to live
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intentionally, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps to
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your own purpose. Let's get started.
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Hello, I'm your host, Dr. Jim Price of The Purpose and
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Progress Podcast show. And today, we are all about
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inspiring people, motivating people, having people be wanting
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to do better, feeling like they can do better. And today, we
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have a wonderful guest on our show that is going to inspire
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and share her story. Such a wonderful, fabulous guest we
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have today, Dr. B. Danielle Watkins is here with us today.
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I'm just so blessed and honored to have you be a part of the
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podcast, and thank you for being a part of the show.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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I'm always honored when somebody wants to talk to me, so thank
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Jim Price:: Our audience is always curious. I know
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you.
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sometimes, people will see the finished product of something,
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they see the things that are happening in the current state,
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and they don't always understand that there's a lot to it.
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There's a lot more to it than just what they see as a finished
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product. There's always a story behind how people get to where
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they're at. Today, we're going to kind of hash into that, get
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into that a little bit, and be able to have the audience know
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more about you. But before I do that, of course, I have to give
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your accolades to your award-winning writer, director,
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producer and network executive, Squirrel Vision Network
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Television, where you are the executive director, and also
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Dream N 1 Productions CEO and best-selling author. I didn't
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want to leave all that out. Has a clear indication with who, we
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got some people doing great things and stuff, so I did
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definitely want to make sure I didn't leave that out. But a lot
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of times, people don't always understand. They see the
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finished products, but they don't understand how the work,
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the body of work that takes to get to a lot of times where
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people are at. And today, we want to inspire people and have
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them be able to know you, not just as best-selling author and
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all the things you do with production, media and things,
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it's the backdrop of all that, and the things that inspired you
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to kind of go in the direction you're going. Because I'm sure a
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lot of our viewers are out there who maybe aspire to do a lot of
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things that you're doing, and it's always good to have
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somebody who has been there through, been through the
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trenches of going through everything, and got to the
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success, the level of success that you have. So one of the
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things I was going to ask in terms of everything, when do you
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feel like your journey started? What influenced that in that way?
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: When do I feel like it started? I love
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doing interviews where the questions is different. I like
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that. When do I feel it started compared to when it started is
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two totally different things, right? So I feel like I didn't
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get started for real on my journey until I left corporate
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America. But if we start there, that's 2020. By then, I had
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already written five books. I had already made movies. I had
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already done all these things, so it's almost crazy to say it
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didn't start till 2020. The first time I was published was
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in 2000 when I was 15. So if we start back then, we say my
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journey started when I was a child. But at that time, I
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didn't recognize, I didn't know this was something I wanted to
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do, I didn't know it was something my heart desired, I
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didn't know it was my purpose, I didn't know any of it. I grew up
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in Buffalo, and it's called a buffalo in the winter. You don't
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go outside, you don't spend a lot of time frightening and
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fellowshipping in the winter in New York. So I spent a lot of
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time writing to pass the time, and that was from when I was
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young, like little girl writing books, writing plays, and just
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doing stuff, because I was growing up alone. There's 10
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years older than me. So by the time I was old enough to play
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and do all these things, he wasn't even there so I grew up
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by myself, and that's what between writing, and playing
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video games, and playing barbies. That's how I spent my
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time. And even being published, that wasn't necessarily on
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purpose.
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2000, we're talking about the beginning of the worldwide
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internet being in people's homes, and people not really
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monitoring their children. Because I'm there on the
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internet in my room, and I found the anthology that I was
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published in, and I submitted my poem that I had written when I
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was in 7th grade, and it got accepted to the anthology. So
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then I had to go explain to my parents, hey, don't quite know
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what I did, but it's gonna cost us 59.99 to get the book.
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Jim Price:: That's okay. When you're on that journey, make
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those sacrifices, do what you got to do on that journey.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: But I think my father was the one that
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was just kind of like, mother was like, I'm not buying that
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because I don't know what that is. But my father was like, we
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get it. We're gonna get it. So then, I'm in this book, and then
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I didn't think about it anymore. My first novel wasn't published
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for another 11 years. I didn't know. When I say I had no clue,
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I am the poster child for, God ordered my footsteps, for sure,
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because I was going to be a school psychologist.
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Entertainment industry is insane.
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Jim Price:: Wow. So that was your first, you really were
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thinking about psychology school.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: I have a double major from Winston-Salem
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State in North Carolina in psychology and elementary
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education. And then my goal was to become bilingual because I
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was living in Las Vegas. I was going to go get another degree
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in international studies with a specialization in Spanish
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because of the demographic in Vegas, and go into the school
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system, and be a school psychologist. That was my plan.
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I had done the HBCU thing. I had joined the Divine Nine Sorority.
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I had done all the things, so that now, I could be an
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educator. I never made it. Never made it. I'm so happy, though.
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My little cousin is one. I'm so excited that there's somebody
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that did it. But yeah, I didn't make it.
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Jim Price:: Wow. It's always like sometime, you don't know
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where life is going to take you. Even though you may have a plan,
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you end up doing something else. I totally wasn't thinking about
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education either, and kind of just happened. And even with the
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book stuff with my stuff, it kind of just materialized so I
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can understand. You have one thing going on, you have a path
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going on that you're thinking you're gonna go on, and those
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things change. You never know. Divine timing is about
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everything. And sometimes, the path that you think you're on is
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not where you're gonna end up. You still end up helping people
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in the bigger picture of things. You still end up helping people
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so much. That's inspirational. People do that. It's kind of
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circle of life, you figuring out things. Especially when you're
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: goes like this, everything has an up and a
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younger, you're trying to figure things out and go through all
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down, and an up and a down. There's been so many what we
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the rigors of understanding self-identity and all these
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things while you're trying to forge a path of what you're
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think would be blockades. I remember one show we were
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gonna try to actually do in life. You know what I mean?
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working on, I was in Atlanta. I wasn't living in Atlanta yet,
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and flew to Georgia, and we had cast someone who unfortunately
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could not sustain what it took. She was comparing herself to the
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actor, she was really beating herself as a result of that. We
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lost a lot of money. And then trying to recoup, recast and
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reshoot, all the things put me in a position where I had to,
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not pay my rent. You know what I'm saying? And sitting in the
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house, I have put every money, every dime I have into trying to
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save a project that could not be saved. And now, they're knocking
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on my door saying, what you gonna do? Things like that
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happen. Those were the type of obstacles, because film is
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collaborative. Writing novels is not. When I was strictly writing
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novels, that's all me. When you move into film, there's so many
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different layers, and there's so many different things. And if
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that machine does not move together, there is no project.
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There have been several moments where we've had to sit down, and
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I've had to sit down and make real-life decisions in real
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time. I said all that to say that the biggest hurdle that I
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face in my career is the lack of professionalism. And that really
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can put you in a situation where your livelihood is on the line
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because somebody else didn't take it seriously. As a
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full-time, this is my job.
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Jim Price:: Exactly. This is how you make your bread, making your
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paper, your bills.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: And to have to get on a phone call,
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this is another situation, and to have to call the distribution
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company who has given you thousands and thousands of
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dollars, and call them to say, we spent half your money. We're
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not gonna finish this project, and I'm gonna send you the rest
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back. That is a very dehumanizing feeling when you're
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already black, you're already female in a white male dominated
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situation. And now these are the phone calls and conversations I
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have to have because there are other people who just simply do
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not take it seriously. My biggest hurdle out of everything
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that has happened, and trust has not been easy been dealing with
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unprofessional people.
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Jim Price:: A lot of essence of the things you do see, a lot of
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that in the industries too where the level of professionalism is
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not up to par and up to standard to what the expectations of
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whoever has the positions, you see that in a lot of the
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different settings. It's unfortunate that those things
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happen. I always say that when you do go through a lot of
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adversity and stuff like that, a lot of times, those are the
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times that you're able to understand more about not just
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about yourself, but you understand more about the
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industry. You grow from those situations too. Helps you grow
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stronger so that when you move forward, you're even more
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equipped to be able to deal with the obstacles and challenges
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that come about, and stuff like that. I think a lot of times,
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people overlook those experiences. Even with the
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publishing, I'm sure you know. When you came out and published
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your first book, I'm sure, like myself, I didn't know anything
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about marketing promotion, anything like that. How did you
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navigate that when you published your first book and had it
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published? It's like, okay, I got my book published. Now what?
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: Honestly, the only reason I got my first
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book deal is because I had written a story in college. One
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of my friends from Buffalo was making movies. I was on the
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phone with him. We grew up together, and he was like, man,
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I need another story. I got a story. I'm not gonna do anything
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with it so let me send it to him. And he calls me and he's
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like, I'm not doing this. And I was like, you had to be rude. If
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it wasn't good, you could have just said that. What are you
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calling me for? No, you need to publish it before I do anything.
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I'm like, it's not even written for that. Just do what I want
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you to do. So I honestly sent my package to that first publishing
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house with the anticipation they were going to reject it so I
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could say to him, see, they don't want it, so do what you
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got to do. And then I got a book deal. I was like, oh, my god,
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what am I gonna do with this? And then the deal that I ended
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up signing was I had 12 months to write two more books to
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finish the story because that particular one was so short.
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They were like, well, is there more to the story? We'll take
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this one, but you need two more. so then I committed to that, not
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even wanting to be a writer. All of that, I had to figure out
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selling. And selling three books in a year, writing and all the
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things, I was like, oh, okay. Sure. I had my first book. I
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hadn't even physically touched it yet, and one of my friends
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called me in California. Her girlfriend was getting ready to
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do an expo and she was like, you want a booth for your book? So
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here I am making up order forms because I don't even have the
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book yet. That's how quick it was. I'm sitting there at a
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table with a blow up of the poster and everything selling
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books that I ain't even seen yet. It was kind of just like
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jumping head first into it, and just figuring it out as I went.
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Jim Price:: Definitely for me is like that too. More like a learn
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as I go kind of experience. As you learn now, you got more
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tools in your pocket as you're moving along, learning these
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things.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: Oh, absolutely. Now, it's a whole
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different deal. I got a book coming out, end of the month,
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whole different scenario. But that first one was just kind of
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like the same way I started it, is how I continued it. It was
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just like, okay, well, I'm here now. Well, what does it look
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like?
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Jim Price:: I always say that sometimes, you just kind of
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float and go, enjoy the journey. Enjoy the journey of how things
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are progressing and opening up into the doors to be able to do
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so many different things, collaborate with so many
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different people, industry wise and stuff like that. All those
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things are important in the growth. On The Purpose and
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Progress Podcast, we're talking about purpose, we talk about
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progress and things that nature. All that resonates totally with
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the idea of how we go these paths, and try to figure out
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ways to navigate things even when we do face hurdles and
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obstacles. We allow those experiences to help us grow
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stronger and prepare us for future things and stuff. That's
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definitely inspirational.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: Honestly, if you'd have asked me then what
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would I be where I am now, I'd have thought that you were
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absolutely insane. I'd have been like, no, not doing that.
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Jim Price:: And that's how it goes. It'd be like that. If
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somebody would be like, oh, no. Even being in high school, I
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wasn't ever thinking about being what I am now. I wasn't even
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thinking about that. I got a little gray on top. It's part of
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the circle of life and stuff. Grow and nurture yourself, and
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expand. Enjoy the journey.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: And then you look back on it, and you
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say, oh, my god. You look back on it and you're like, wow.
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Reality is we ain't even at the top, we still going. So it's
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just like, wow.
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Jim Price:: Growth never stops.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: It's like learning. You got to keep
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learning, you got to keep growing. Two things that never
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I also want to ask, what projects or achievements have
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been most dear to you? What projects or achievements that
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you've already done has probably been most dear to you?
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: First one I'll say is that right there, 30
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30. My show 30 30, my best friend from high school, she's
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been my best friend since we were 16. She's in the military
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now, so she had been overseas at the time, and she came home. And
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one day, we were on the phone for hours just talking about
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things from when we lived together and stuff like that.
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She was like, since we should make that a show, and I was
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like, where will I got money to make a TV show? I had made
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movies. I had done things, but I wasn't thinking about the level
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in which what was getting ready to happen. So we talked about it
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again, and I was like, all right. Let me take a couple of
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things that happened to us, and we'll do six episodes season
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with shorter episodes. Let's just see. Because at the time,
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what was going on was the YouTube boom was happening, and
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web series were a big thing, especially in a black lesbian
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community, it was a big thing. And YouTube, they were getting
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logo deals, and they were getting literal deals from
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YouTube. I said, okay, let me just see. I cashed in my 401K.
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That's called investing yourself, right? I ain't got no
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choice. It gotta work. Because now, I don't have a retirement
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fund. So cash in my 401K. We take off two weeks, she gets
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leave from the military, and we film season one. My documentary
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parallel had gotten into a film festival in LA. And the network
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that the show started on, REVRY, contacted me, and they were
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taking the documentary from the film festival. I said, well, we
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just made a show. Do y'all want to see it? And they picked up
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the show, so that made me the first black woman to write star
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and produce in a REVRY original series. So when that happened,
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and then we got a season two because we ended up being the
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number two show on the network on our first year, and then I
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was able to do that. My other best friend is the director. So
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now, this is a project where I'm, when I say all hands on
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deck, all of my friends. My ex did the song for the theme song.
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My cousin is one of the cameramen. I brought every
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resource that I had together to create this thing. And then
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season two, we got to go on tour. Sarita was deployed at the
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time, so we had to do that without her. And to go to these
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different cities, people who did not know us show up and be
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excited to see us was something that was, and I remember in
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Sacramento, this woman, I know she was like at least 20 years
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older than me, she was so happy to see me. I have the picture
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downstairs, she wanted me to kiss her on the cheek, and she
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just turned beat red. Right now is very popular in London. It's
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on a network over there. And even now, it's on YouTube, and
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we get comments where people say, I was not okay, and I was
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able to come laugh because I watched this. 30 30 was
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important to me because of who I did it with, and what it was
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able to achieve. That was very big to me.
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Jim Price:: Inspirational stories are always able to
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uplift communities, families and things of that nature. Your
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story is definitely one of inspiration and motivation. Our
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audience today very appreciative of all your words of wisdom,
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understanding, and be open with sharing your story, the way you
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are and stuff like that. I always say that people don't
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know the backdrop of everything, they always need a finished
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product, but never the work that it takes behind the scenes to
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get where you're going. But another question I wanted to ask
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you is, what future projects will you have coming out, or
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that are being worked on currently with you? What future
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products, or upcoming projects, or anything like that are in the
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works for you coming up?
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: Currently, I actually just started an AI
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animation studio. Me and my business partner just started
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that where we're doing vertical series on social media. We
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should be getting ready this week to release our fourth
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episode. It's called My Girlfriend's Girlfriend. The new
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trend in the industry are these two-minute social media clips
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that just, the attention span is changing, right? People are
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sitting down watching movies. But at the same time, they're
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spending a lot of time on their phones. I also have written two
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live action verticals as well that my production company
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itself are getting ready to film, put out and start doing
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that. My romance thriller, we're working on distribution for
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that. We just got it, and we just had a premiere this year
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for it. We just did a screening in Providence, Massachusetts,
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actually, last week.
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Jim Price:: Oh, got it.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: We actually just did a screening
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there during, I think it's called Women of Color Weekend.
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We just had a screening there. Like I said, my new book is
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called Boss Babe Besties. It's really me and my best
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friend/business partner. Just us talking about the last 10 years.
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And like you said, people don't really know. They don't know
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when you're homeless They don't the things that you're going
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through and fighting, and her having breast cancer, and her
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father, just the things that we endure, but we still show up for
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the job, we still tell the stories, we still make sure that
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the audience feels seen despite what we are going through. That
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comes out at the end of this month. I have a lot going on. I
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have to look at my board. I have to write some stuff. I have
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another novel I need to outline. I have three movies up there I
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need to write. I got a lot happening.
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Jim Price:: It's always good to stay busy especially when you
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enjoy what you're doing. Sometimes, people will be like,
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I go to work, but it's not fun. But when you're working on
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things that are actually fun, and that you have a passion for,
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it makes it a fun experience.
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: I have been blessed. I don't know
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anything about, when I was working for the county in
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Nevada, I didn't go to work, and hate work. I wasn't invested in
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it. That was simply an avenue at that point to push through what
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I was doing, which was writing and all those different things.
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I did what I was supposed to do, and then I was able to go home
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and write, and make movies on the weekends, and do things like
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that. I have no idea what it's like to be that type of
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miserable. I am blessed. I don't know what it's like at all.
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Jim Price:: And that's what it is. I always say, people
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sometimes don't understand their blessings, or how they're
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blessed because they're so focused on the negatives that
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are happening in life. They forget to think about, hey, I am
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blessed with so many of these aspects of my life. People get
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so streamlined, focused on the negative things in their lives,
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that they forget all the blessings that are happening.
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They forget that there's people in a lot less fortunate
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situations than what that person currently is, and that
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definitely holds true in a lot of people's lives. It is a lot
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to digest. I'm hoping our viewers can see how we connect
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these aspects of ourselves. In that way, we are learning,
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growing, nurturing, becoming better people each day, and just
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focusing those aspects of what our purpose and where we want to
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go. You never stop growing and learning in life, and that
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should always be the drive to continue to strive to be better
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and do better. And stories like yours is definitely
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inspirational in that way. I want to know how can our viewers
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get to connect with you, get connected to your content,
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books and all that stuff. How can our viewers contact you?
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: To be able to see everything? Ggo to
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my website. My website, which is currently being updated because
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I have to do it once a year. My sorority sister does my website.
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And if not, she'd be working for me every day, all day. She does
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one bulk update for me, but my website is bdaniellewatkins.com,
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and that's gonna show everything. Every movie I've
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ever made, short film, feature film, that's where it is. They
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all have links to them. Go on my website, click on the poster and
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go straight to the show, straight to the movie. My books
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as well, you can click on there and it'll take you straight to
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be able to purchase. It shows my coaching flyer in case somebody
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needs a writing coach, the services that I freelance for.
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Things written and things like that, all of that is on there.
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More about me, the organizations that I'm a part of is on there
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like Women in Media, things like that. My website would be the
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hub for everything. But I do have Facebook, Instagram,
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YouTube, LinkedIn. I do not have TikTok. The world hates me for
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it, but I do not have a TikTok. Don't get on X either. But if
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you type in my name, B Danielle Watkins, Facebook will not let
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me change it to Doctor when I got my PhD, though. But
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Instagram does have it. But if you type in B Danielle Watkins,
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I'll come up.
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Jim Price:: Thank you for sharing that. Like I said,
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viewers, please reach out. A close-out kind of inspirational
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thing in terms of inspiring and motivating others, what would
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you say is probably a thing to be to focus on in terms of
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making progress and moving towards your purpose in that
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way? What would you say would be probably an important point for
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you, for our viewers to be able to gravitate?
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Dr. Danielle Watkins:: What has worked for me is I don't believe
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that I can't. I don't know if that's a naive thing or if that
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is super confidence because I don't feel I'm either. But
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there's nothing that I walk into that, like I said, I published a
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book, and I tried to do it and get rejected. But at that
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moment, there's nothing in me. Everything that comes up, I'm
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going to figure it out. I'm going to figure out a way to do
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it, scared or not. You got to move through fear. Fear does not
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hold any weight in my world. Even right now. We got to
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re-edit one of my movies, and that's frightening. That's
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frightening for someone to have said, hey, it ain't good enough.
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It can be. So what you need to do to get there? That would be
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my thing. Do what you need to do, scared or not, knowledge or
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not. Because we live in an information world now, you can
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find out how to do anything. Practice makes perfect. So when
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you put those two things together and you continue to
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push, there's nothing that's going to stop you. Period.
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Jim Price:: Absolutely. That is so wonderful. How you connect
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and put that all in perspective in terms of facing your fear,
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especially a lot of people is so fearful of things, fear from
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change, and fearful to go forward. Take a leap of faith
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and try something different. Go outside the box at your comfort
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level in that way. Such motivational words. It's been a
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pleasure, absolute pleasure, and a blessing to have you, Dr.
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Watkins, on The Purpose And Progress Podcast show.
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Definitely shared a lot of jewels in this interview that's
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going to definitely inspire a lot of people to change and
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stuff like that. Tune in for future episodes, and check out
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all the content, all the books, please. And make sure you always
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stay in your purpose and keep that progress. Growth never
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stops. See you next time.
31:20
Thank you for joining me on this episode of The Purpose in
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Progress Podcast. I hope today's conversation gave you insight,
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inspiration, or a fresh perspective to help you move
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forward with purpose. If you enjoyed the episode, please
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Remember, your purpose is waiting, and progress never
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