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Growing Up on Dance Moms as Bodybuilding Legend Shawn Ray’s Daughter – Asia Monet Ray | Born To The Game Podcast · Born To The Game Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And that's when I went and competed at the age
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  Speaker 1: of five and I became the youngest national title holder.
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  Speaker 1: So that is when around me time, YouTube was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like just popping off. So that's when YouTube became
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  Speaker 1: super big. That video kind of blew up and caught
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of Lifetime, which is then when they offered
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  Speaker 1: me to be on my first reality show.
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  Speaker 2: But this is on to the game.
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  Speaker 3: Legacy is in every beating rhyme, the peak, we're running
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  Speaker 3: all us and the time less on a time along
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  Speaker 3: on to the game, carrying in the plane, it goes
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  Speaker 3: on the path, but it's an oway, we running, proclaim.
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  Speaker 2: This is on to the game.
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  Speaker 1: Letasys we exploring.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to Born to the Game. Produced by Arcamedia Group
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  Speaker 4: and collaboration with Inflection Network and distributed through iHeartRadio. This
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  Speaker 4: is the space where the children of iconic athletes, entertainers,
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  Speaker 4: and cultural figures share the truth behind legacy, the pressure,
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  Speaker 4: the privilege, and the process of becoming who you are
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  Speaker 4: beyond the spotlight. Today's guests grew up performing at an
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  Speaker 4: elite level before most kids knew who they were. She's
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  Speaker 4: a dancer, an actress, a singer who rose to fame
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  Speaker 4: at a very young age through popular shows like Dance Moms.
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  Speaker 4: And she's also the daughter of a bodybuilding legend, Sean Ray.
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  Speaker 5: But today's conversation isn't about childhood fame alone. It's about
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  Speaker 5: identity and we'reclaiming your voice. Please welcome Asia Monet Ray.
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  Speaker 4: Hey girl, she just came in here.
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  Speaker 2: Look fabulous, fabulous, so excited to be Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: having me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, again, I saw you. We saw each other
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  Speaker 4: in Vegas. We did see each other in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: This last time I see each other prior for like
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  Speaker 1: what four years?
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  Speaker 4: Probably longer than that.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe last time probably was like eleven to twelve, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think minute When I met.
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  Speaker 4: You, you were eleven yeah wow, and you're what I'll
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  Speaker 4: be twenty one this year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh big any Lance.
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  Speaker 1: Oh girl, I can barely tell you what I'm doing tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You're like another international trip my eighteen birthday, So maybe
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  Speaker 1: we like do that but bigger yeah, Yeahody like to go.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Late Como was where I went for my eighteen birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and I could retire there. It was the most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: place I've ever been. I literally was there for two
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  Speaker 1: weeks and didn't want to leave. Oh, could do something
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  Speaker 1: like that because my mom and I birthday is a
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  Speaker 1: week apart my birthday, so there for like fourteen days
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  Speaker 1: fifteen maybe, So we kind of want to do something
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  Speaker 1: like that because she definitely wants.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what, if you open up your suitcase
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  Speaker 4: and find me and we.
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  Speaker 2: Pop out, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, we might we might.
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  Speaker 1: One. It has to be big, it has to be it.
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  Speaker 4: Has to be big.
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  Speaker 1: But I just don't do part I just do big trips.
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  Speaker 1: I do like big wit I love them. Like finally,
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  Speaker 1: I normally celebrate like really random years of my life,
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  Speaker 1: like ye orated a really big twelfth birthday, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: like tenth birthday, like the random birthdays. So this one
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  Speaker 1: actually has to be like twenty one. Yeah, you don't
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  Speaker 1: really get another big birthday for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's like thirty.
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  Speaker 4: It's like thirty, then forty then like yeah, after twenty one,
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  Speaker 4: you got a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah was a good one. Was a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: We're excited. So we want to just get to know
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  Speaker 4: you outside of who how I was introduced to you
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  Speaker 4: as I when I first saw you, you were on
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  Speaker 4: a TV show. Indeed, so we'll get into your time
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  Speaker 4: with dance moms. But growing up in this world of
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  Speaker 4: body builders and body buildings, not body buildings, in the
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  Speaker 4: world of body builders, how was that? So your dad
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  Speaker 4: is known for discipline and consistency. Do you think that
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  Speaker 4: mindset how you approached competition dance, did that help kind
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  Speaker 4: of just groom you into who you became? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: One thousand percent, Okay, absolutely. I mean, if I could
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  Speaker 1: even describe my childhood, I was probably the worst first
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  Speaker 1: child for any parent ever. I stopped sleeping at like
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  Speaker 1: four or five months old. I started walking and talking
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  Speaker 1: shortly after. Like my genetics, there was no choice for
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  Speaker 1: me to be in something. They just didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be. So for my mom, she's
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  Speaker 1: like just put her in anything, like everything, anything, dance, gymnastics, ice, skating,
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  Speaker 1: literally everything. But I was really quick to learn in
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  Speaker 1: those different fields of like athletics, because I think of
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  Speaker 1: my genetics and my parents. I was never coddled. I
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  Speaker 1: was never if I cried, it's like okay, like wrap
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  Speaker 1: it up, let's start again. I was never a crier.
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  Speaker 1: I never did none of that. My sister and I
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  Speaker 1: are very very different because when she got into sports
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  Speaker 1: such as gymnastics, and other things. It was a lot
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  Speaker 1: more like it. She needed time, like to figure out
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  Speaker 1: like what she wanted to do. She needed a little
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  Speaker 1: more patience with me. Patients didn't exist, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that is because both of my parents. So when I
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  Speaker 1: was my extracurricular activities would be going to the gym
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  Speaker 1: with my father wow between snack breaks would be going
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  Speaker 1: to dance competition like practice and stuff like that. So
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  Speaker 1: I never really had a normal childhood. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Still to this day, I have never been on a
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  Speaker 1: school bus. I never went to high school. I was homeschooled.
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  Speaker 1: Like things that are normal to people were never normal
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  Speaker 1: to me. So in the world of discipline, bodybuilding, those
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  Speaker 1: things are not normal, like it's quite abnormal. So I
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  Speaker 1: was already taught discipline and those types of things very
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  Speaker 1: very young. Both of my parents and luckily they were
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  Speaker 1: so incredibly supportive. If I said I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: a horseback rider, they would be like absolutely a questioning
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  Speaker 1: it is. But said I wanted to do trapezes, They'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, we'll find the nearest circus maybe something. So
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  Speaker 1: when I came to really wanting to pursue dance, it
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  Speaker 1: was after like long conversations because I loved all of
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  Speaker 1: the sports I did equally. I loved gymnastics so much,
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  Speaker 1: I loved ice skating so much, I loved dance. I
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  Speaker 1: even tried to convince them I didn't need school anymore,
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  Speaker 1: just to keep the three of them. But competitions like
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  Speaker 1: ran over each other, clearly because I didn't need education
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  Speaker 1: at two years old, like, I want to do everything.
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  Speaker 1: But ultimately, even though my genetics were made for potentially
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  Speaker 1: more so gymnastics and ice skating, dance just was like
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  Speaker 1: I was so drawn to it, and I was able
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  Speaker 1: to bring those other talents that I had into dance,
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  Speaker 1: which kind of made me who I was for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So you started Dance Moms at six, So in my mind,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, when did you know that you were a
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  Speaker 4: phenomenal dancer at Like, so the.
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  Speaker 1: Show prior to Dance Moms actually was au DC and
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  Speaker 1: that's when I was six. On on Dance Moms, I
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  Speaker 1: had just turned sevencha one year.
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  Speaker 4: So when didn't you know?
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  Speaker 2: Because you're fresh, you're fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So when I was eighteen months old, my mom
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  Speaker 1: put me in dance and ice skating and gymnastics. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: shortly to follow was more dance, like competitively related, but
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  Speaker 1: ice skating gymnastics were like the first I did and
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  Speaker 1: mommy me was an option, but my mom would rather
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  Speaker 1: just leave me there because she's just like I need
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  Speaker 1: to breathe, Like you didn sleep at night with this kid,
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  Speaker 1: like just put her in something and like handle. So
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  Speaker 1: when I decided to start obviously dancing and doing more
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  Speaker 1: competitions and stuff like that and fully just decided to
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  Speaker 1: take the initiative to stick with just dance and kind
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  Speaker 1: of leave ice skanning gymnastics on the back burner, is
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  Speaker 1: when I actually realized, like, Okay, I'm like actually pretty
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  Speaker 1: good at this, and you're passionate. I'm really passionate. And
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved musicalities, even the shows. I
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  Speaker 1: would like grow up watching Cheaterah Girls and these crazy things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to be a cheater girl. I
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  Speaker 1: need a dance, I need to do all these things.
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  Speaker 1: Like that was like my life. So I started dancing,
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  Speaker 1: obviously at a competitive level, very very early, and in
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  Speaker 1: gymnastics and ice skinning competitions. Obviously there is different categories
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but for dance, there's a title
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  Speaker 1: category that you can obviously have yes, And that's when
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  Speaker 1: I went and competed at the age of five, and
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  Speaker 1: I became the youngest national title holder. So that is
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  Speaker 1: when around my time, YouTube was kind of like just
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  Speaker 1: popping off. So that's when YouTube became super big. That
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  Speaker 1: video kind of blew up and caught the eyes of Lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: which is then when they offered me to be on
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  Speaker 1: my first reality show. But that was like a full
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  Speaker 1: thing in itself because they thought I was nine when
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  Speaker 1: I was six, so I had to do a psyche
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  Speaker 1: evaluation to be wait, so talk.
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  Speaker 4: Us through that evaluation.
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  Speaker 1: So they thought I was older because they thought the
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  Speaker 1: youngest age they would do is ten. They were literally saying, like,
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  Speaker 1: we'll make the age lower to nine for HB on
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  Speaker 1: the show. My mom's like, I hate to break it
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  Speaker 1: to you, but she's six, like she just turned six
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  Speaker 1: to They're like, wait, no, like there's no way, that's
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  Speaker 1: like this is impossible. It's like, no, I'm definitely six.
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  Speaker 1: So they flew me to New York. At first, the
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  Speaker 1: show wasn't called AUDC was called Like My Kid Can Dance,
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  Speaker 1: And so I didn't even know what the competition aspect
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  Speaker 1: of it was going to be. I just knew it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be me and my mom on the show.
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  Speaker 1: So they go there, they sit you down just kind
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  Speaker 1: of how we're sitting down, and put you through scenarios
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  Speaker 1: like if somebody said this about you, how would that
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  Speaker 1: make you feel? If somebody yelled at you? Do you cry?
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  Speaker 1: Do you get up? Do you try again? Like just
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  Speaker 1: like literally like a therapist type question of psychology like
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  Speaker 1: type of questions I blast with flying colors. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they realized what household I grew up in. But like,
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  Speaker 1: yelling is our normal tone like that, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: that none of that. And I had so many strict
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  Speaker 1: like coaches and everything I did. It wasn't just like
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  Speaker 1: just for dance. I was skating like I had rush
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  Speaker 1: and coaches and gymnastics. I had like just a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different, very strong natured coaches. That having a dance
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  Speaker 1: instructor yell at me was the least of my problems.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that's just naturally you being able to
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  Speaker 4: process it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just naturally who you are.
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  Speaker 4: Because there's some people who get yelled at and they
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  Speaker 4: just they can't handle it. They go into themselves. But
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  Speaker 4: you it's just everything is just it's like it's just
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  Speaker 4: this water that just.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of.
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  Speaker 4: I'm never seeing anything like this before in my life
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  Speaker 4: because there's times where I'm like, no, I can kind
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  Speaker 4: of take the punches, but then there I'm like, dang,
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  Speaker 4: no I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Then you got Asia level yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, like you came out, you came out of
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  Speaker 2: the world. Yeah, and your being able to do what
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  Speaker 2: you were just you were just.
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  Speaker 1: You are I do things. So like when it came
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  Speaker 1: to having that kind of like protection mechanism over like
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  Speaker 1: not letting people's words bother me, is when I started
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  Speaker 1: to realizing as I grew older that my own like
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  Speaker 1: person feeling of perfection was more something I internalized than
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  Speaker 1: having other people tell me to be perfect.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so glad you said that, because we are going
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  Speaker 4: to transition into just how you internalize that. Yeah, But
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  Speaker 4: before I want to ask you, what's one thing you
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  Speaker 4: learned from your mom? And we are going to get
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  Speaker 4: into my bit later, But your mom and your dad
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  Speaker 4: that had nothing to do with competition and winning, Like,
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  Speaker 4: what's one thing that you gained from them?
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  Speaker 1: I'd say for my father's aspect is like the continuous
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  Speaker 1: drive because mind you. My dad competed in the Olympia,
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  Speaker 1: which is the highest level that you can get in bodybuilding,
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  Speaker 1: like fourteen times, and he never won. He went back
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  Speaker 1: every single year and there was always somebody and still
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  Speaker 1: to this day, it's like an ongoing joke in the
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  Speaker 1: friend group. It's like he's the uncrowned king of Olympia
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  Speaker 1: because his body, physique and everything. But there's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be that one person that may just be picked
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  Speaker 1: over you. But the masses think it should have been you,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't you because you have a judge, and
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  Speaker 1: you have numerous judges, a panelful of judges that said
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  Speaker 1: this person was taller than you, this person looked better
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  Speaker 1: than you, they had better triceps than you, they had
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  Speaker 1: better this, this and that, all these analytical, tiny little
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  Speaker 1: things that you don't take an account. You're just trying
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  Speaker 1: to be the best version of yourself. So with my dad,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of always instilled in me like, look, there
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  Speaker 1: may be somebody that will get something that is not
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  Speaker 1: offered to you, or something that you thought you should
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  Speaker 1: have had and you didn't get it, But like you
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  Speaker 1: should strive for your own personal perfection because you'll feel
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  Speaker 1: more satisfied at the end of the day. But my mom,
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  Speaker 1: it was just the constant drive to keep going, constantly
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  Speaker 1: do it no matter what it was.
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  Speaker 4: Like.
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  Speaker 1: If I felt like I'm having a weak moment or
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  Speaker 1: like I'm a feeling like I'm just overwhelmed with too
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  Speaker 1: many things, just take that second and just like pick
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  Speaker 1: it back up. Don't let people see you mess up.
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  Speaker 1: And that's something that she always used to tell me.
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  Speaker 1: In dance specifically, I was known in dance set if
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  Speaker 1: I messed up, you would never know because I would improvise,
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  Speaker 1: and problem was my favorite thing to do. I got
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  Speaker 1: yelled aup all the time for doing that for my
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  Speaker 1: actual coaches, but I didn't care because I won, so
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter when I like the provis Nobody was
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  Speaker 1: there in the behind the scenes of learning in this dance.
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  Speaker 1: It was just me in my choreographer. So my mom
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  Speaker 1: would always tell me, like, you have to improvise. You
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  Speaker 1: just got to make it work. Nobody can see when
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  Speaker 1: you're down. And I kind of take that into my
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  Speaker 1: day to day life because nobody knows. I can't tell
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  Speaker 1: them what I'm up, so they won't see me when
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  Speaker 1: I'm down. But I also will never show you that
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  Speaker 1: I was ever down to begin with.
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  Speaker 4: That's actually a great something that I actually need to
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  Speaker 4: hear because I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Expressive, Like you can tell in my face something really
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  Speaker 1: irritates me. You're like, she's not looking very happy, little hour,
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  Speaker 1: so I've like kind of locked and I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: facial expressions on. And to me, that doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: me being fake. It seems like my own personal perfectionism,
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  Speaker 1: like mechanism, so like I can keep the vision of
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  Speaker 1: what everyone sees, and like I can have my weak
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  Speaker 1: moments by myself. I don't need to be judged on that.
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  Speaker 1: My whole life has been public everything I have to
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  Speaker 1: go and find baby photos from Google, not for my
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  Speaker 1: own camera. So when all those things are so public,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you just need to have that own personal life
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  Speaker 1: that I can kind of differentiate from my professional life.
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  Speaker 1: And if that means I have to fake a smile,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I'd rather fake a smile and make myself happy
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  Speaker 1: throughout the day than like sulk in my sadness and
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, what was me?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So the feeling of being perfect really wasn't an
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  Speaker 5: issue for you, no, So you didn't have that. But
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  Speaker 5: when what about being misunderstood about being a child performer.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say that for sure, I misunderstood is a good
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  Speaker 1: word in the sense of like. For example, the reason
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  Speaker 1: I became homeschooled is because my own teachers at the
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  Speaker 1: school I was going to said that I had no
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  Speaker 1: relative conversations with my classmates. I'd get in trouble for
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  Speaker 1: speaking too much about my own personal passions of dance.
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  Speaker 1: Then my teacher came to my mom and is like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't think that she should dance anymore. And she's like,
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  Speaker 1: why all she talks about is dance. She's talking about
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  Speaker 1: her sixteen hour dance competition days and this, this and
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  Speaker 1: then and the other. It's not healthy. My mom's like,
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  Speaker 1: she seems healthy to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yea.
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  Speaker 1: But I loved it so much. But it also made
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  Speaker 1: me very isolated in friend groups. I talk to anything
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  Speaker 1: that breaths. I'm a little yapper. I have always been
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  Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, that's just how I am now. With
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  Speaker 1: people passionate about something, I want to tell you why
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  Speaker 1: I am passionate about it, and I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: what you're passionate about. But as a five six year
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  Speaker 1: old kid in first grade, hearing about people's passions was
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  Speaker 1: the newest Barbie doll, not about the competition I have
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  Speaker 1: in a week. So it became very kind of misunderstood
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  Speaker 1: of like why is she so into this? Like what
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  Speaker 1: does this mean to her? But I mean to be
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  Speaker 1: honest in the most like humble way possible. When I
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  Speaker 1: you actually compare myself to the people I grew up with,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very content with how I am right now. I
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  Speaker 1: only see myself going and growing to be better and
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  Speaker 1: bigger than what I am now. I didn't need to
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  Speaker 1: be at a standstill, and if that meant like not
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  Speaker 1: being in school and having normal activities, then I was
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  Speaker 1: okay with that, and I think my parents realized that too.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need the satisfaction of going to a prom
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  Speaker 1: to be like validated in school life or be understood
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  Speaker 1: by people my age. That's why all my friends are
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  Speaker 1: older than me. I love it. It's so great. I
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  Speaker 1: learned so many things from their own, things that they
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  Speaker 1: wish they would have changed, or things that advice that
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  Speaker 1: they give me, and like, of course every advice can
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: be taken with a grain of salt, but some things
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: have actually impacted my life and all my friends have
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: been older than me, and that's great. Even on the shows,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: I was the youngest by what they were fourteen, I
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: was six. Like now they're married and have children. I'm
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: just trying to get by. I'm just trying to get
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: to twenty one. Yeah, they're like, I'm.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: Trying to plan my trip.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So it's different. And that's where I think it's
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's misunderstood, cacase still to this day, you can
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: see people that grew up watching on the shows, maybe
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: with their moms, and their moms like, oh, how could
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Christy let Asia do this at such a young age?
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Oh my god? How could her parents that are I
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: was fine my parents Like there's numerous clips and bits
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: of the shows where you see that are so creatively
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: edited about my parents talking about what I eat or
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I'm clearly I'm gonna say this.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this. My mom and I watched, and
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: we never had that thought. It was never a how
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: could your mom? We were a fan, like, we were
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: just like, we see this little girl kicking ass, and
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: this is inspiring and good for her parents allowing her
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: to be in the space where she is thriving.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: And you could see the difference between you and the other.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: You could see it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: You could just see the athleticism. You can see this.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: The way that you came out on stage, the way
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: you controlled the stage.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Was just it. It was set apart from everybody else.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I just I also feel like it's who's viewing it.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Because if you grew up with athletes in your family,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: if you grew up around being so into your sport
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: where it becomes like your life, it's not even a
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: competition more, this is what I do for a living,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: then you can see and appreciate what you're seeing that
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: my parents did for me. If you're coming from something
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: where you kind of want your kids to just live life,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: be kids when they're kids, you're going to have a
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: lot of criticism towards my parents. They've commented on what
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: my parents had me eating scrambled eggs, no egg whites,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: nor no egg yok, only egg whites, like these little things. Clearly,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I'm perfectly fine. I love food. I'm hav a great
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: grand old time or so I wasn't able to do like, oh,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I want to go to the park with my sister,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Like I didn't need to go to the park, like
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: those little things are just like things that people kind
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: of nippick on that are definitely a part of the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: creative editing of things to kind of just show like
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: what I could have been doing rather than what I'm
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: doing now. But I'm I'm so beyond haappy. I wouldn't
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: change my child of anything. I feel like I can't
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: live life with like regrets. I can just like improve
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: what I did that I did regret at that time.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: But when it comes to the shows, I don't think
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I regret anything.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: So you had an unconventional childhood was so outside of dance?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: What was fun?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: What did you enjoy just on a normal day outside
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: of dance?
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd say like two things. My grandmother on my
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: mom's side was very like present a lot of the times,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: especially during my own show, because my sister also needed
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: somebody to watch her. When my mom and I would
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: do things so crafting. I loved arts and craps. I
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: still love arts and I paint all the time. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: love doing those things, even when it comes to like
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: be dazzling things, like there's a new trend. I guess
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: people are dazzling everything. I feel like, yeah, it's my
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: whole life.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: What are those little Stanley cups.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm a portable fan like, so like craps
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that kind of made that was my childhood.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed that. I felt like that was still kid esque,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: if you will. But outside of that, I volunteer with
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of animals, and I grew up with a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: lot of animals, and I own a lot of animals.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: There's nothing. I'm very pecularly.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: It's so much fun. It's so much fun to learn
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: about you.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: So when we did our interview talent call, we did
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: our talent call you you brought a visitor my child.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Children. I know this may be a deal breaker for
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: some have four birds. Yes, this is the one that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: you guys saw. We call him Pink, but his name
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is Maximilian and he's a Rosegalla cockatoo. So I have
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: three cockatoos and a cockatool and a dog. But my
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: mom said, the family has two farms, horse ranch and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: one that we're kind of like redoing to get more
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: animals on that was my outside world of like entertainment,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: because like, what are animals going to tell me what
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I did on to you? Like, no, it's just something
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I enjoy and then now like obviously like during COVID,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: it was a lot of like break time. But for me,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: it gave me an opportunity to allot do more like
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: charity work with animals and volunteer. So I helped phrase
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: baby birds and do things at the Animal Humane Society.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And so that's kind of like my outside, to be honest,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: my house is like rainforest cafe. I love it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And you said you've had your bird too for a.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: While, but oldest bird was on the show.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you said there was another bird that had
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: so yes, indeed, my little I wanted to leave.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I know, I kind of wanted to bring him to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: day too, you're speaking of this morning. But we took
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: him to the because he was like picking at his
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: feathers because he has an obsession with balancing things on
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: his head.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Okay, and he.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Got I mean, I'm sorry, Okay, is it here so
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: he can't judge you guys, I'm okay, you don't show him.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about him when.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: His name is Mango, Mango magnically because our oldest bird
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: is twenty four to twenty five.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: When I live.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Typically they have to be in your will they'll probably outlive.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: You have to will the birds.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all in my will.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: That's something I just learned.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They, like all of my cockatios, will probably live till
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: about sixty to seventy years.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Our cockatil probably thirty forty. They're four years old right now.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: They're with me forever, which is great. Love them so much.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But they're handful, like any children, but specifically this one
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: is definitely a handful. It was during the time I
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: was kind of volunteering and I really wanted another bird,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: but except I wanted a bird that was this big.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: And I brought home a bird that was this big,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and I begged my parents. I was like, this is
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: all I've ever wanted for Christmas, like this they've ever wanted. Please,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And someone bought him and I was like, well, looks
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: like my Christmas present. Scraps gotta find any bird to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: try and beg them to. And the person never picked
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: him up, and so I was like, well, it's a sign.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: But then I realized why they never picked him up.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: He's a handful. He's a hard bird to deal with,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: but you know what they say, I love him. He's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the best ever.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: He looks like a fish.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: He has huge eyes. We kind of looked like twins.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie stain angles point five stop kind
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: of uncanny.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, the best people connect with animals, yeah, character, Yeah,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: good people.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I don't walge.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: About like my fishes or anything, because that would make
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it seem like I'm not good with animals. They jumped
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on the stove when I was like seven, So the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: stove and it was just on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: They wanted to be fish, they wanted to die.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It was a bit of fish. They were very unpredictable.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I don't fish. And then we got another bait fish
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, mine attacked my sister's made of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: fish and it was the whole extravagans that we have.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: It was really beautiful to beautiful, but they're not there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Just jumped out on the Yeah.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I just I literally literally walked downstairs one morning and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, the fish and my dad just
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: had made breakfast and I'm like, what's niche though, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: like where our island was. It was like our island
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: table in the kitchen, so like the stove, so you
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: can really like put an arm over it. Well, he
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: jumped him his name is Sparkles. But Sparkles that's a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: unique one.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, for sure.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: We haven't gone back to the fish ever again. Okay,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that's why I think we kind of stuck with birds.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie jumping out onto the.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I have not like it was a really bad timing,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I'd say, but every other animal likes me.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think he jumped out. He just wanted
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: he was trying to explore the world and explored or something.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: But other than that, like four birds and a dog
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: is a lot of work. But I'm definitely getting a
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: bunny in this April. So I English and Goora Bunny.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: They're so cute and they're super fluffy. Lexi would love
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: to have this conversation with you. My sister, she loves animals.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Lexi is an animal whisper, so she would just she
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: would love this.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Do you ever like remember my Melody from like the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Hello Kitty series, My Melody, the little One. She had
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: little bunny ears and she's pink. Oh that's the reason
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I want a bunny. That was like my favorite character
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: growing up. I like loved her. So I'm like, I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: kind of want to name my bunny, but everybody I.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Know that has a bunny Like it's they really love
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the bunny and they're really like kid going.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: To be a pocket bunny. Like I'm getting a little
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: pink bag. She's gonna be potty trained. I'm getting her
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a carri potty trained the bunny. Yeah, my mom had
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a bunny that was potty trained and a ferret. I'm
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: telling you that I want another ferret so bad. I
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: never had it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Was just potty trained the bunny.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure we have to ask my mom
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that one. I think it's just kind of like how
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you potty train a dog, we need train a bunny. Yeah,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: she potty trained her fair it too.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: The farret, I know. Yeah, Well we had so our
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: neighbor across the street and Katie had one, so we
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: would watch him all the time.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: LEXI loved that farret. I want a ferret so about
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they're not like whether that's what my mom got hers
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: taken away. She didn't know they didn't have this land out.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: He told me because she wanted one. We're gonna connect
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: you on Lexie watching ferrets. Let's just get two things.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I think let's get into dance moms. Shall Yeah, absolutely
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: so when people think about your time on Dance Moms,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: there are moments that really stand out. I mean I
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: have my like lists of things that stood out for me,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: but from your perspective, what moments feel the most iconic
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: and why?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'll start with one that I personally think
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and then i'll start I mean, I'll finish with the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: one that the fan favorite re upload on social media
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: haunts me with till this day. I think one thing
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for me that I like always kind of chased for
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: was competition and winning, and I love I'm very competitive.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I won't say necessarily in like day to day things,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: because like I kind of am. Really I've gotten really
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: good at differentiating my competition level in my things that
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I do versus like competition level on a day to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: day basis. But in Dance Moms, I was originally kind
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of recruited for the show after my time on AUDC
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: because the whole reason that I even went on Dance
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Moms was because I couldn't win the show before I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: was too young. It was the the prize was the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: jof for School of Ballet and one hundred thousand dollars
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and you have to be sixteen, so they would not
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: hold a ten year spot for me being six years old.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So they're like, we want to offer you your own show,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but we want you to go on Dance Swums. That's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: what Appy wants you to go on first. She thinks
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: that you will really fit with her team. So we
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: moved to Pittsburgh, my mom and I. We stayed in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a hotel for like four or five months. I'm personally
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: not the biggest fan of Pittsburgh, to be honest, I'm
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: sure it's a lovely place to grow up if you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: have a home, but not living in a hotel for
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: fey through the winter of black ice and everything into
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the summer, it was just too much. And I was
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: obviously away from my sister and my dad and other
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: family members, but joining the actual show. Initially, the girls
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: were lovely. Everybody was lovely to me. They were quite welcoming.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: The show didn't make it seem like they were welcoming,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: but they were very welcoming. I'm still actually good friends
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: with all of them. I have nothing bad to say
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: about one of them, Like they're truly the best. I'd
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: say now, I'm probably i'd talk the most or kind
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of see the most. Nia Kenzie Brick and Page. But
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of the girls kind of just do their
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: own thing, and I honestly I love that for them, really.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But once I was on the show and stuff like that,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and I started winning consistently, and it became apparent to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: people that that is what I do, That's what I'm
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: good at. It's kind of when I got my own
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: personal validation of like, okay, cool, like this is I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: can do this for a little longer. Then once it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: got to towards the end of the show, of like
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: end of that season, because I was on season three,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm kind of over
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: this now, Like I really don't care to do the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: whole competition route anymore. And I think it was just
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: because it was just getting a little overwhelming at that time.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And the one thing I will say my parents always
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: did is when something got too overwhelming to the point
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of me saying I don't want to do it anymore,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I never had to do it again if I didn't
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: want to. So obviously I already knew I was coming
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: back home to start filming my own show, and I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: was like, let's just do that. I don't think the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: competition route I really need to do anymore. If for
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: some reason I go back home and I want to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: join a studio again, then by all means like I'll
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: do it again. But rejoining a studio after being such
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a public dancer would be very hard for me, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: so I just decided to, like, you know, wrap up
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the competition after Dance Moms and then that's when I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was presented my own show and did that first season.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: So do you feel like you accomplished everything that you
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: needed to accomplish on your for sure.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I think there's certain people that are really good with
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: being team players, and there's certain people that are very
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: good being solos. I always had a problem with being
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: in group dances because I could not dim my own
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: light to make me look like I was significant to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: everybody else. I was never good at being cohesive in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: that way. Solos is what I won, and that's why
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I won them because I was by myself due's yeah
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: here and there. I didn't mind working with another person.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I wasn't hard to work with in that sense. It
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: was hard for me to work with them. But after that,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I feel like winning so many times, like I if
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I can recall, I don't think I lost any of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: my solos, and I don't, I don't. I don't know either.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I just I think it was just I was fulfilled.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: My cup was full. I was good with that. I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: don't think that there was much more dance momps as
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a whole could offer me anymore, And so I was like,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with this. I don't want to continue doing this,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And then it make it seem like I'm not enjoying
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: myself anymore because I was having fun a grand ole
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: time and we got to go. I got to see
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: so many places I didn't see before. I got to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: do so many competitions and nationals and things and titles
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: that I just kept adding to my list a resume.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: But once that was done, it was like a chapter
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: was closed. I'm ready to start a new chapter. And
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: so I obviously leaving that show. I was around eight
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: years old by now, so it felt like, Okay, the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: year's up. But three hundred and sixty five days of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: this and I'm cool. I'm done at eight. So I retired.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Guys, So how do you feel being labeled as a
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: dancer who was who had a maturity beyond her years?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: So looking back at that now, how do you feel
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: being labeled as that person?
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It's actually oddly enough, was having this conversation with someone
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: really close to me, like not too long ago, and
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: it was kind of the question of like, like, how
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: do you feel rewatching yourself when you're younger? Yeah, And
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I honestly like have an out of body experience. I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's like kind of me like I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: don't know, blocking out certain memories, but when I watch myself,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like I did it. And it's a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: really weird thing. I feel like I've been like kind
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of like trying to discover in the past couple of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: years because obviously transferring into the music aspect of things
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and not doing dance as my forefront. It's the number
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: one question I get asked. It doesn't matter if anybody
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: comes up to me. Do you still dance? Do you
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: dance anymore? Why don't you dance anymore? You dance again?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: So when was that, like the last time I actually
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: competitively danced or did dance to a higher extent. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: was probably thirteen, and it was on tour with Mariah Carey.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: That was oh, just Mariah Carey. I was wow, Okay,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and ironically the choreographer for that for that tour was
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the choreographer who was on my own show and also
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a DC with me and on Dance actually lekographer for everything.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Really he's the one who said, look like I have
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a girl in la I know she's not based in
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: New York, but like we meet her. And then that's
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: when when I went on tour with hers, probably the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: last time I danced to that level of constant day
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: to day two shows today, crazy competition level training for that. Now,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I dance like privately. I dance because I enjoy it,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: not because I need to do it. And of course
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: when it comes with music, music and dance go hand
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: in hand, so you'll never not see a music video
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of me like not dancing. I never see a performance
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of me also not dancing like I think those go
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: hand in hand. But until it's at that point where
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I am consistently touring as like by myself or with
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: somebody or opening and then I just kind of dance
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and do my own thing, I don't really enjoy a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: like dance class anymore. Really, I feel like it's like
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure for a lot of people,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and I feel like everybody's trying to make their mark.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I've made my mark and dance and I'm cool with that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Are you saying you would not do a tour.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Or I would absolutely do too. It's I think that's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the next time I'll bring dancing to that level for
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: your own craft, exactly when it comes to your own
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: way and in control and picking the choreographer that sees
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: my vision for that. Because you don't ever lose the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: love for dance. I just think I lost the drive
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to continue doing it to that level anymore.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Would you ever teach?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I used to do like conventions, like I'd
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: be assistant choreographic choreographer, and I do like choreography on tour.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I did it actually one with a really good friend
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of mine when we were younger, straight off the AUDC Show,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and I loved it. I have a lot of patients
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: with like younger children, and I also have a lot
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of patience when it comes to other people who enjoy
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: like what I do as well. But I don't know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe that would be something I do in the future. Yeah,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that would be really fun. I really enjoyed that. I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: would never turn down that opportunity. So you enjoy choreographer. Yeah,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: oh absolutely, That's why I love when it comes to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: doing my own thing and being kind of like executive
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: or with somebody, I can be like, you know what,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I see this in a different way and tell me
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: how can we workshop this and make both of our
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: visions like go together. But until I go on a tour,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: which hopefully with our manifestations speaking, so manifestation visions, that's me.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: What happens when I went to her is hopefully soon. Yeah,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that's when I think I'll probably dive back into the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: level of dance that I was doing then for sure.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: So you are about to be twenty one, Yeah, when
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: you look back and you see this version of yourself
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: that's on TV that you could look up, what would
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: you say to six seven eight nine ten year old
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Asia being almost twenty six seven eight nine, because you,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, you were, you were on you were in
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: the public eye for such a for a long time
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: at such a young age for sure. So now that
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: you are about to enter adulthood, what would you tell her?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That's a good question, honestly, Like, hmm, I feel like
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: there's so much. I think one thing I will say
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is like when I look back at like how I
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: was raised and what I've done, Like my parents did
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: such a good job with me that I'd hope that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: when one day I have a family, if I have
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a daughter, and this is the route you'd want to take,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't change anything. So I feel like, if anything,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I was so overly content with everything I've done, I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: have no regrets, I'd do it all over again. Maybe
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: i'd point my toes in a couple more things straight
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a leg here and there, not get yelled at. Yeah,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: stop the sass of it. But little things like that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: But overall, like I feel like if I were to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: see myself at a younger self, like in the same
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: room as me, I'd be very proud. I'm not. I
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: don't really have anything negative to say about anything that
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I grew up with.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: But even just tell I'm proud of you, because I
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: will say.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Like especially recently too, Like when it comes to I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: always like to ask my friends this, So I feel
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: like this is I'm a very question person. Mike, tell
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: me what you think your best quality and your biggest
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: flaw is for me, Like I know that my best
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: quality is like when it comes to like personal relationships,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: friendship stuff like that. But my universal flaw is that
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I strive to perfection so much to the point it's
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: become like a personal disease for myself, to the point
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: where I've re recorded songs that are already done eight
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: more times because I think it could be better. And
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: sometimes you just kind of like had to take a second.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Nobody's perfect. Yeah, I'm never going to be the perfect
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: standard for everybody. Sometimes I'm not even perfect for myself,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and like that's okay, okay, And so I think younger
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: me had a very hard time understanding that. Why I'm
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: getting so frustrated and worked up and overwhelming feelings because
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be something I simply cannot be. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: am just doing my best. I'm just trying to give by.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do this, and I kept thinking
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: that there was something more I could have done, and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: that's where I think the regret kind of came into it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, if I just did this, like, would
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: have that been different? No, because that's not possible. Yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I cannot go back in time and change things, and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I don't plan on going back and changing anything. So
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I try and take that advice now, like when I
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: get overwhelmed about things, or when I feel like, you
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm pushing myself a little bit too hard. Yeah,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'm putting on too many hats. I'm just taking too
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: many things. I'm doing everything for everybody and myself and everything.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: It gets too much. And it's because I'm trying to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: be this perfect person that you just can't be and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that's okay. So just telling if I were to be
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: able to tell my younger self, I'm proud of you,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be perfect and it's okay. Like
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: what you're doing right now is more than enough and
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it's perfect enough. I think that I would have needed
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to hear that a little more often. I wouldn't mind.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: That, Okay, dance, I guess. I guess it's about separating
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: your artistry to real life. I guess, and dance, you
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: probably did feel like you needed to be pread to
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: reach this level absolute. I mean, you have teachers that
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: tell you that all the time. At ballet and certain things,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: people get cut for even having.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: A toe out of place. Yeah, a hairpin net, you see.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm infamous for wearing my pants on backwards
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: for a competition show, like obviously like these little things
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I can't go back and change. And it's kind of
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: humorous now to think that I used to be so
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: engulfed with this idea that like I need to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the best in this room, when sometimes I just needed
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to be the best version of myself and that's the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: reason I won.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: And then it's I think as well, it's us learning
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: that I guess. Let's say this is a dance studio.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: As soon as you leave that door, you're back into
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: the real world and you no longer.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Have to put on this and be this person exactly.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: And that took me a very very I mean even
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: still to this day, it takes me a very long
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: time because now I'm taking those aspects in those qualities
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: that I had in dance gymnastics, I skin every other
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: endeavor into music and so those same feelings when it
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: comes to something I'm putting out into the world that
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: will be judged by everybody. As long as I love it,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: then I'm cool. But it took me a long time
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to realize I don't need to re record something and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: hopes that this one person out of one hundred thousand
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: people will like it. Just as much as I do, Like,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I don't need to convince somebody to like love what
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I'm doing if I love it enough.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: So when you when you feel yourself not spiraling but
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: knowing like, okay, I'm tapping back into this, I gotta
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: be perfect syndrome, how do you get yourself out of it?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I just take a day off. You just take a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: day off. I need a day off. I need to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: just like chill and just even if that means to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: some quote unquote bed rotting, then so be it. I'll
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: do a face mask, I'll take my self caroteae her
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours a whole day. Yes, just something just
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to get my mind off of it. That's why. Now,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: like the teams that I work with and stuff, when
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it comes to music, they're like, don't give us your
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: notes until the end of the week, And I'm like,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: why why I have notes now? Like, let's red it
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: right now, let's go tomorrow. Like live with the song.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: You'll realize that these things that you're thinking can be changed.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: It's just because you're hearing it right now. Sometimes you
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: just need to like live with it and sit with it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It's okay, it guide it's really okay, and I think
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a long time, I'm like, I don't like this feeling.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: What's this feeling? I feel like comfortable? I don't like this,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: like I need to say something. Yeah, it's sometimes silence
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: is better.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: It's long and just sitting and just yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: And you can take that into anything, even with conversations
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: with people. If somebody is not if I'm trying to
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: convince you of my vision and you're not seeing it,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that's okay. Maybe my vision is just not for you. Yes,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: And that's totally fine.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: And that's great that you are learning this now and no,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: but it's great because even though you're about to be
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: twenty one, you're still so young.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: It's very young.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, I take that what you said into your adulthood.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: It's a great lesson to learn.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: And that's something we're even still learning. And we're thirty
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: five and and and and you know, and but amazing,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: that's a lot. I have to shout out your ages
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: just you don't look at Oh no, so thirty five
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: and up, we're still learning that. Yeah. So it's it's
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: beautiful that you are, you are in tune with yourself
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: and you're realizing this is what you need to do
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: for you, and.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: It's everybody cup of to you.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: You're so.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I'm content with my small circle. Yes, I appreciate and
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I love the support of the masses. I know that
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: there's always going to be somebody has a critique or
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been in everything, so I don't mind anymore.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: That's kind of funny.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: When Oprah back in the day when she gave away
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: what a car and somebody somebody still was complaining about that.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: She was giving on That's what I'm saying.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: So it's like, you know, you're never going to make
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: everybody happy. No, that's just the moral of the story.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: And reiterated that if I was, they're like, it's okay.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: And that's that actually was into my next no, no.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: No, you keep going because I want to end with
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: so you.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: You've been thinking about your parents and just their support.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: Your mom, who's here today.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: It's fabulous.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: She's like, can't okay, okay, okay. But she's been known
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: for being very protective, supportive and vocal during your career.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: How do you understand her role now looking back and
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: what did having her as an advocate and still here
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: with you. I mean, she's still with you is so
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: beautiful and advocate to teach you at such a young
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: age and now beyond.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Well, that's Mama jour now, so Mama dress since like
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: day one. To be honest, my mom was like fortunate
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: enough that she had done so many different things in
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: her lifetime that she retired when I was born. She
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: so I had my mom one hundred percent. My dad
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: retired like also around the time that I was born
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: as well, but he's obviously still been heavily in the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: field that he's still working with. My mom solely became
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: my like number one person. And I feel like it's
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: also funny, like I guess certain people I don't know
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: how it is you hear the stories about like, oh
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: my god, my teenage daughter tells me nothing. My mom
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: knows like every single bit of my life down to
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: like a period a sentence anything, Like she knows every
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: single bit of my life. That it's like I don't
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: trust anybody more than her. She comes everywhere with me.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I don't drive yet, guys, let's not talk about its
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: me everywhere if I don't have my driver like that,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: She's just always with me everywhere. And I think that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: also has like kept us really close. We but had
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: all the time with the same sign where both Leo's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: were both very short. You're the eighth right the six six,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: My mom's a third, and then I'm the tenth. I
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: like Leo. I love le but yeah, I mean, like
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: it's inevitable for us to butt heads. She still sometimes
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: sees me as just her daughter and doesn't realize that
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: sometimes I view her as like business partner, like we're
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: like in this together, and so sometimes we step over
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: each other's toes and whatnot, and that's okay. I mean,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: like we still laugh about all the edits, like my
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: sister and I, Oh my god, do we clown her?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And like our group chat with these edits that come up,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: like people call her like skinny Christie, these TikTok videos
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: they make up for it. It's like actually humorous. But
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't like change anything. My mom's like,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I love her, She's the best.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Miss Christie owned that room, that ponytail, and she didn't play.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: And that's why I was a fan of Miss Christie.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: I was a fan of you, but I loved how
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: she did not play when it came to you.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, never that I mean like she's got it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: She Mama made sure that she was. She was protecting
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: her cub at all times, and there.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Are there are examples when they're not there.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: So it's very it's very apparent when you see, like,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I'm very happy with where I am in my family
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: and are very very close knit. And that's great because
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of us travel, so we
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: don't really get one hundred percent of the time together.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: But she's always there, like it don't matter, I'm my
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: plus ones always, She's always.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Going to be there, exactly, She's always going to be
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: watch we're both.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my sister is a daddy's girl because she was
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: like raised with them, because I was always with my mom.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: But now I feel like we've like it's even playing field.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Even though my dad says, I'm like my mom's spitting
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: image and I'm just like her.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: So what, so Mom's here, What's one thing you will
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: tell her?
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, one thing I would tell her like thank you.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I'd say thank you because I feel like like I
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: don't say things enough to the point of like, but
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: there's so many different that my life could have ended up.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: My mom could have said I don't want to retire,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and then I would have been in daycare while my
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: parents traveled. I would have probably not have been able
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to do things competitively. If my mom decided, you know what,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: I don't want her on these shows, I don't want
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to exploit my child, I would not have had that
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: same route or path. I could have been a bodybuilder
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: for all I know. I don't even know what I
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: could have been doing. So there's a lot of things
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that like I even though people like don't realize it,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: but my mom has said a yes to a lot
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: of things. Even though I'll say with my mom was
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: like you would never say yes, you would never let
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: me do anything. Yeah, yeah, I'll take thing. Yeah, But
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: my mom said yes to a lot of things. Now
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: may have she may have said no to certain things
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that I probably didn't even need to be at, or
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: places I didn't need to go, maybe with the wrong
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: people there that she didn't want me to. And I'm
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: very happy she's told me not to go. So there's
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: certain I think you just like an overall like thank
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: you was like enough, like obviously she knows I love her,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: she's like my best friend. But I mean, like thank
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: you for sure, because I think a lot of people
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: still run with the narrative that I didn't have control
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: over my life, but I would not be where I
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: was if I didn't have control over my life. Says
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: they had to say yes to it at the end
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: of it and look at the products like beautiful, like
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. But we're not going to talk
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: But your aura and your energy things, guys stunning, And
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: so I know your mom is a huge reason for
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: that is a huge reason.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Because she knew she was going to be there, knew
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: she was going to be there, and.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: She made it. I feel like a lot of sometimes
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: where it gets kind of like a little wishy washy
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: with people a little muddy wise is when my like
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: their parents aren't willing to take that step back back.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: My mom has always trusted me. She'd make sure that
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I was smart enough on my own that I could
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: handle myself in a room by myself. But I never
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: wanted to be in a room by myself because I
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: knew if I missed anything, if I messed up on something,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: or if I didn't get clarification about something, I needed
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: somebody to check me. I need somebody check somebody else
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: for me, because I wasn't able to check somebody that
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: was older than me. So that was where like my
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: mom and I dynamic also worked really well, is because
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I felt like she could be like the louder voice
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of my own because I was never I I was
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: never gonna disrespect somebody that was older than me, but
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I felt a certain way and I couldn't convey that
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: because I'm seven eight, like you know, I needed somebody
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: that was in jult to say like, hey, we're not
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: doing this, like that's not okay. And she made and
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: she exactly for sure. So I think that's where my
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: mom and I's relationship worked really well, and that's why
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: we're super close now because other people cannot say the
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: same in like entertainment world, which is kind of sad.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: So we're gonna before we go into Abby, we have
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: to shout out Mama because Mama was a bodybuilt I
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: don't know that.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Yea, Mama was out here, yeah keeating as well.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she competed for I believe like seven seven years seven.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately I have to say six seven years and I
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: didn't mean to say it like that because I'm so
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: over that. But yeah, six or seven years for sure.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: That's how my parents originally had met, but my mom
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: stopped doing that and became entrepreneur in like title real estate,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: had her own spa. She was an aesthetician. So that's
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: why I like my beauty tips and stuff. And then
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: just second overall, why two K Batty White ka Baddy. Honestly,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: your mother has not aged, but Christy, to be honest,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: she like actually does and it's kind of like no,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: like she's a vampire.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Was that her spot When I was younger, I'd hand
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: out towels, I made myself useful. She had to make
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: me useful do something. I love that.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: So the question that I want to know, Yes, I'm
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: sure some viewers who watch this will want to know,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: do you still have a relationship with miss Abby?
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: You know, the last time I spoke with Abby one
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: on one or personally at all was on the last
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: show that I was on prior to my own show.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: If I'm being correctly honest, We've had like social media
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: interactions and things like that. I'm very appreciative of the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: platforms that she had on her own that I was
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: able to go on to kind of make my own
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: personal brand and me as a person grow. I could
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: honestly never like thank somebody enough for that. But other
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: than that, I've always just wished to the best. And
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: we don't necessarily have a close one on one relationship anymore,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: especially because a lot of the other girls don't have
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: that relationship there. And I ride or dive for those girls.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Even if you don't really talk all the time, I
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: know the struggles that they went through because I was
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: also an answer with them at that same time. So
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I'm always going to be like their number one fans,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: even if we don't talk for years at a time.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: But as for her, I just like I simply have
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: always just wished her the best. I think her with
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the things is needed, and kind of just kept it
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: pushing careio period. Yeah, perioderiod.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Well we'll end with that. Yeah, let's go into some games. Yeah,
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: we talk a little bit more about just like where
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: you are, Yeah, the things you're working on. Yeah, we're
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: gonna play a little game. Okay, so we're gonna ask you.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: We're gonna keicky a little bit. We have a Kiki
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: over here, So Tamara was going to ask you a question,
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: and I low key want to answer a little bit.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Yes you should too.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: That's a funny one.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: So this is a game. It's called asking for a Friend.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: So the question is if you had the power to
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: commit a crime, and that crime would never happen again,
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: what would it be.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: It would never happen again, or you would never get
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: You just would steal every animal available. I would literally
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: have my I'd have my own Noah's Arc, Like, you
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: have no idea. I'm not even joking, Like that is
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: like the number one thing that even with my friends
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: when it comes to that, they know that I would
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: steal that, like ceiling. It would always be something that
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: has to do with animals, or like oh if I
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: can just find the one vintage store that has everything
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: of my dreams, that would be like just and nobody
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: would ever know. And they're like, how does Asia have this?
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: One to one like John Gilliana, Like, come on, I.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: Never thought of it, but we all said steal though, girl,
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: I said I would still.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: I said, like literally, I'm not thinking about that, no,
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: but like robbing vintage store.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Every go to the museum and likes seen like the
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Oceans with like Rihanna and everybody, like that's what I'm
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: talking about. It has to be a really big high
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: scheme of like vintage nat I love vintage. I love
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: vintage things my life. I mean vintage today going and
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: love me.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. They have a really if you ever
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: come to Sacramento, they have a really good to go.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: New York obviously is like my hot spot for vintages.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: But I love you, Yeah, has some really good advantage places.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, y'all need to send me all your Yeah,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: we'll send you some stuff. It's my guilty pleasure.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: That's actually a great answer. We love that. Let's move
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: we are because look, the question asks if we could
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: commit a crime, this is what.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: We wouldn't actually do, Like don't like make it like
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the next time this happens, we're the one.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, Like it was a question, guys black.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: So let's go into impersonating greatness. So we have a
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: signature moment on board to the game. Everyone has to
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: give us their best impersonation that captures their parents. So
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: I will love for you. You do you one for
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: your mom and your dad?
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Okay for mom, Okay, just imagine slip back pony like
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: got to be glued down like a windstorm. Couldn't even
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: make this thing period. Hoops hoops probably bigger than this one.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like hoops hoops. Obviously she'd be wearing
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: her diamonds too, so she have her thing. And then
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: she'd be like, you're not gonna mess with my daughter. Okay,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna mess with my daughter.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: No.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: If Asia gets the solo this week, then Asia got
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the solo this week. But Asia, you better freaking point
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: your toes because that's so is gonna be taken away
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: like that like that, it doesn't matter the choreographer. You're
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: not going no now that zilch like that's how my
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: mom talks and today or something like that. Or she'll
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: be like if she tells us ten minutes, she actually
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: means five and sore, like you better be in the
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: car exactly if you don't want Starbucks. If you don't
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: want Starbucks this morning, then I guess we all star
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: We all stop, then, won't we. If you don't want
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to get on the car, you don't want to get
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: on the road, then that's your fault. That's your fault.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: That's my dad. My dad's all like the calm, cold
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: collected ones. If it's not like literal, like posing like
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, he'd be like, Hi, Like
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sugar Sean Ray, I'm a world famous bodybuilder. Like
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: he talks very low when like the he's talking about
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: like me and my story would be like, oh yeah, Age,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: she's a big personality. That one. She's a that's a
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: big personality. All but Bella. Oh I love sweet Bella,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Sweet Bella, this sweet belt. That's why it works because
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: you have.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Personality coming together.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Oh but he's like, oh my god, it's this man
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: in his Instagram usage. Everything on story gets a main post,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: isn't that unique? It gets a what I think it's
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: a main post to a story post gets the main
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: post to my god, the bit moji goes on anything heart.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: He just loves a good bit moji. He loves my dad.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: It's I don't know what, I don't know what it is,
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: but they really think they're doing something.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: It's just my dad.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: His favorite is like the thumbs up one. He sends
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: it after every message.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Mind you and my dad text. My Dad's really unique
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: because it's very unique. He loves to just like he'll
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: ask us like, oh, like what do you need from
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: the store, Like, I'm coming home from the store, what
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: do you need from the store? Will give him a
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: grocery list, He'll come home and none of those things
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: are here. So I was like, wait, did you go
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: to the store. He's like, you guys didn't send me
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: the thing like we send in the group chat.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Well, like your text messages ruined my storage. So I
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: deleted the thread. Okay, Well, now I guess we'll have
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to starve. I don't know what to tell you, he said.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: He's like, he's not phone.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: The thing is he will never delete a photo, but
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: anything else that will cause storage usage, you're gone. No,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: he will keep all four hundred thousand photos, but he
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: will never do.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: You better take a picture of your emergency.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he won. That's hilarious.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Well, let's go in to our legacy object.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, let's do it. Okay, so they're going to fly
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: it in for it.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we asked.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: You to bring in an item, anything that you could
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: think of that just represents you and your legacy, and
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: we have let's show the camera.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Look at your hand, but.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Just tiny, but look at her.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: This complete.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: So I was actually trying to bring the actual outfit
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: because I do have it, and my mom was getting
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: all of my dance competition outfits like photo box, but
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: this one particularly is the outpha that I won my
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: title in. So I feel like this was kind of
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the start of my dance to entertainment fame, if you will.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: And so I brought this one because it really showcases
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: obviously the literal dance and clearly the facial expressions your
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: entire personality.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: So this was not on dance, mom, this was.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: A dance competition act. So I was like five, Yeah,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: it was five when I got the title. So this
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: was right before au d C. This was actually the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: dance competition like dance that made me get on that
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: show that they saw on YouTube.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Honey them tells his pointed.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: I saw my mom in.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: The corner exactly. And this one was my p y
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: T Michael Jackson solo, which is my favorite. I got
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the song and Michael Jackson is my hypa. I love him,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: so this was great. I can see, Yeah, I love
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: that little me. I feel like I kind of look
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: the same Loki now that I look at it. I mean,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the cheeks went away, it's just ti cheekbones.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: No, you just again looking at that, I'm like, this
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: is how I was introduced to you.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: My mom always sad. She's like, I hope you have
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: a daughter just like you, so you can see all
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: the pain winder. I hope I have a daughter. That's
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: great so much you have a son. So you're like,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I haven't had my Would you have an other one?
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, yes, I tell my husband I want at
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: least one more.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: Daughter.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: You know, you send her the camp. I am Camp Christie.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: I am.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: You set me a bag and then the back of
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: my head, so I'm gonna be walking away.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Literally.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: One of my good friends is she's having a girl,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: and she's like, can I send it to Camp Christie?
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: And I was like, well yeah, Camp Christie capitalized Christy,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I said, by the time she's five, she'll have investment properties.
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: Chris car.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Taking her advice, I need to take a dollar. She chooses.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking very willing.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: So Asia, what legacy are you building on your own terms?
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: And just what are you up to these days? Like
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: what are you working on?
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Well, right now, I'm working on like a really really
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: exciting project that is like super close to my heart
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: that will be coming like the mid of this year,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: so I can't say too much on that, but like,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: this one is definitely something I put a lot of
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: time and consideration into and I think you guys will
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: once it comes out, I'll have to come back and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: show yeah, oh yes, But I'm really really excited for
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: that one. And of course music music. The last time,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I dropped my album now going on like
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: a year ago, but it had a really really great
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: response and it really made people realize who I was
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: as an artist in an R and B soul world,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: which I'm very excited to obviously continue to sing in.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: That's my genre of choice always, like I love me
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: some R and B soul. So now we're currently working
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: on another project and people are like, oh my god,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: drop the album. Drop the album. I was like, guys,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: give me a second, Like it takes some time. We
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: just talked about how I can have to re record everything. Yeah,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: so that is something I'm definitely working on, and just
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: like honestly being happy, I want to travel more. I
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: want to do more things. I want to spend more
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: time with the people that are closest to me, and
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I love that It's been so much fun and enjoyable,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: especially when I can I take those times because I
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: think before, if I had a day off, I wouldn't
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: think of just taking a quick trip somewhere. But now
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, like a little trip to
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Santa Barbara wouldn't hurt trip to go here, there and wherever.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: So I've been really enjoying that. But right now, full
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: focus on my exciting project and music. So that's a
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: lot of cool things happening in twenty twenty. So who
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: would be a dream collab with your music? Oh my gosh, Okay,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: So I have many. I really do have many. So
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I have like a mini list, I have a dead
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and alive Okay, Okay, the obviously past list would have
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: been Michael Jackson, Luther vandros Whitney Houston when thous and
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: percent like those are my top three, like off rip
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: like immediately, and then obviously I would love to collaborate
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: with Mariah Carey, Tony Braxton, anything to do with Babyface,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: like just quite literally, he's given away so many incredible songs.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Can he give one away to me?
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Like, just give it out, say it out didn't exist?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely, of course I can't Obviously, I have
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: to obviously say Beyonce because that's how I grew up
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: with loving Beyonce, and I saw her CONCERCT four times
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: this year. It was k crazy but all like the
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: list could go on, but those, I'd say it would
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: be my quickket top few.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: So how would you describe your music?
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Definitely arm B Soul two thousands, nineties inspired one thousand percent.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I speak all about own personal experiences of mine, if
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: not things that I'm currently going through. Anytime I have
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: a problem, everyone knows, I'm like, Okay, you're getting written about.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Let me just like cause me. If you're getting written about,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: everything is getting writen about, and it's all in my notes,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: if not in my notebook something like that. So I
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: feel like the next project that I do, to an
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: extent of an album is going to be even more
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: personal than the last one. It's gonna be a lot
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: more direct. And now that I'm older, you know, I
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: could say some more things that are on my chest
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: if you will. Absolutely, but I'm really excited for that one,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: especially now since I do have like really full control
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and full rain over my vision of how people see me.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: And that's the reason I've stayed independent for so long
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: is because so many people wanted to kind of dive
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: into that dance pop world of things. And as much
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: as I love the pop genre and respect for so
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: many artists in that genre, army soul is where it's
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: out for me. It's always been that way for me,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: and I love that. And so now being able to
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: do that to the fullest extent that I can and
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: be able to be in rooms with people that I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: never thought i'd be in rooms with is incredibly exciting.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited because I'm an R and B person.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: I love R and B.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: Like recently, just like it's been falling off, but I
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: feel like there's been a there's it's reviving and it's
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: coming back.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: So many people in that genre too. I mean, you
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: got your scissors, you got your something else. I'm so happy, Yes, amazing.
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: You are just a natural born star, so I already
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: know that you're bright. Your future is so bright. Voices
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: going out, But I do want to end by asking you,
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: what do you want people to remember you as? Oh?
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: What do I want people to remember me as? Hmmm?
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Someone who was so committed and dedicated to their craft
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: and loved it through and through. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: ever ever have somebody think that I was forced to
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  Speaker 1: do this. This was all on my own accord and
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  Speaker 1: the legacies as the people I've mentioned that have passed
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  Speaker 1: on that I would want to collaborate with. When you
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  Speaker 1: hear about those things, social media didn't exist. Yeah, people
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  Speaker 1: weren't worried about what somebody was commenting on their photos
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  Speaker 1: or worried about doing the next TikTok trying to hear
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  Speaker 1: it there, and they were just so engulfed in their
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  Speaker 1: craft that people would swarm hotels if they heard they
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  Speaker 1: were even staying there. Like to have that level of
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  Speaker 1: just importance in your craft. Are being so good at
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing is how what I'm striving to be.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be at that level where I can
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  Speaker 1: put my phone away and definitely I don't want to
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: ever touch social media a get And as much as
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: it has opened so many doors for me and I've
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: grown so many new fan bases in so many different
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  Speaker 1: places because of it. Having that international fame and success
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: as your Michael Jackson's, your Witneys, your Louther's, your the
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  Speaker 1: list goes on, That's what I'm striving for to be
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  Speaker 1: respected in my own genre outside of the social media
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  Speaker 1: world of things, and just to always know that my
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  Speaker 1: vision and what I am doing is something that I
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  Speaker 1: stuck with and something that I've planned out, something that
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  Speaker 1: I've done where I can never say somebody told me so,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why I'm mad it didn't turn out this way.
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  Speaker 1: If something happens and there's a mistake made and it's
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  Speaker 1: on me, then it's on me, and I work on
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  Speaker 1: how we can fix that, how the next time I
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: can make it better. But I think just through and
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  Speaker 1: through overall, just to make sure and remind myself to
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  Speaker 1: always just stay happy in doing it, because I think
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: once I know I've made it, it's just like happiness
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  Speaker 1: and being content and just like on my future farm
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  Speaker 1: in like Homo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They have those little joys and every day little giggles,
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  Speaker 1: something small, you know, just something not take life too seriously.
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  Speaker 1: I've taken life that pass you way too long. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it's great just have a little kiki and giggle
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: and just have moments like this because even like this,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: it becomes not working for you. Guys when you start
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  Speaker 1: talking to people and learning about their lives or things
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  Speaker 1: you find things that you can relate to or just
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: it's just fun. And it's like you can have fun
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: doing these things, you know, and not everything has to
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: be so hard and serious.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Asia, you are an inspiration to us as adults.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: You are inspiration to other young girls who are becoming
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  Speaker 4: and evolving and growing into who they are and who
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: they are called to be. And Tamara and I wish
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  Speaker 4: you nothing but the best, and we're gonna be rooting for.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: You anytime you need me. Guys back. Oh my gosh,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: it's never a prob.
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  Speaker 2: We can't wait here.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you have that this is something that's very I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: guess the only thing I could say is something unexpected. Unexpected? Yes,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: like you'll get it when you get it, girl.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we can't wait, honey, I'm so excited. So we
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: have fun today, Yes, it was. It was a great conversation.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: So well we have before we leave. We have a
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  Speaker 4: little surprise for you. We want to show you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my father, beanie, what is this?
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  Speaker 4: I love that?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Wait, let me turn the volume up.
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  Speaker 2: Is it here?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Is it up?
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  Speaker 1: I think?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: Is it up?
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  Speaker 3: Hey?
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  Speaker 6: Asia, this is your dad. I know we already know that.
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  Speaker 6: I am so proud of you. I wanted to make
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  Speaker 6: this video because maybe I don't say it enough. I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: think it all the time as you fly all across
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  Speaker 6: the country and produce your music, and you're working on
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: your brand, and you're doing your influencing, and you graduated
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: from dancing and acting and high school and straight a student.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, you're doing it all exactly how I would
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: have wanted before you were ever Asian monet, and I
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: just wanted you to hear you say those words about
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  Speaker 6: how proud you make me as I continue to do
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: my travels looking at the things that you're doing, watching
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: your growth, watching your inspiration.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: It's it's nothing short of amazing.
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  Speaker 6: You are exactly the human being I wanted you to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: turn out to be. And you make me and your
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: mom so proud, and you're a great role model to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: your little sister, and you keep inspiring with people and
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: it's exciting, it's exciting to watch.
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  Speaker 4: I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is so cute, Tousie. I'm gonna put this
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: over his head for I'm gonna I'm gonna send it
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: to you. You loved me. I knew that, I knew
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: that I need that next bet. Oh No, I love
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  Speaker 1: my parents so much. They're the best. Honestly, they really are.
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  Speaker 2: That's the same.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, so we wanted to show you that before
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: you lead. That's so cut, that's such a dream.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, of course. But thank you guys.
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  Speaker 4: You're welcome. You're welcome.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'll record, I'll be like, see that again. I
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: love it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're good to wrap.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Let's rap.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: Okay, thank you guys for joining into today's episode of
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Born to the Game with miss Asia. We had so
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: much fun.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I love so much fun anytime.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, yes, whenever we come back. We want you.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: We want you back. Make sure to like, follow, subscribe, comment,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: and we'll see you next time when Born is the game.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Bye bye