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Dreams Do Come True: Loren Recaps the Black Effect Festival · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's up, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's Laura La Rosa, your homegirl who knows a bit
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  Speaker 1: about everything and everybody. This is the Latest with Laura
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  Speaker 1: La Rosa, where you guys know, we give you your daily
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  Speaker 1: breakdown and everything pop culture and all of the conversations
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  Speaker 1: that are currently shaking the room.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I just got back from the Black Effect Podcast Festival,
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  Speaker 1: and baby, let me tell you. I left the podcast festival,
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  Speaker 1: which just so inspired. And y'all know, we start off
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  Speaker 1: this episode always asking how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, like, really, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm right now I'm feeling I mean like I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: exhausted from the weekend and just you know, I had
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  Speaker 1: family there with me in Atlanta. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I am so inspired, yo, Like, I don't think people
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  Speaker 1: talk enough about being able to build out in business.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's a couple of reasons why I'm inspired. I
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  Speaker 1: was at the festival and I did a panel that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about here. But when I was backstage
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  Speaker 1: for the panel, I was talking to one of the
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  Speaker 1: production guys because I was so nervous because I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: they're literally Mandy and Weezy from Decision Decisions formally Horrible
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  Speaker 1: Decisions podcasts here on the Black Effect podcast Network in iHeartMedia.
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  Speaker 1: They introduced me because they were hosting the podcast festival, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm backstage and they're getting closer and closer. They're
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  Speaker 1: just calling my name, they reading a bio, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: all of the crowd get hype, all of that, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm telling the production guy, like the stage people,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, I don't have a microphone. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: told me that there was gonna be no microphone in
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  Speaker 1: my seat, just in the panel of seats, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't got no microphone. Am I supposed to grab it
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  Speaker 1: from them? Like that exchange is gonna be kind of
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  Speaker 1: weird because they're gonna be actively talking as I come out.
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  Speaker 1: So the guy is like, Yo, you're in good hands.
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  Speaker 1: You're in good hands. So I'm like okay. Then they
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  Speaker 1: literally say my name and I'm like, hey, I still
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  Speaker 1: to have a microphone. And I turn around. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: I got you, and he grabs it and gives it
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  Speaker 1: to me and He's like, yo, I got you. I
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. And he was like, I know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing, Lauren. I just then another guy came
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  Speaker 1: in and said, yeah, he just came off of working
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  Speaker 1: and producing the super Bowl. And I turned to charlat
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  Speaker 1: Mane and was like, you got money. Now he just
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  Speaker 1: was working and producing the super Bowl and now he's
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  Speaker 1: here producing the Live BLA Black Effects Podcast Festival. And
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte made was like, I don't got money. I got
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  Speaker 1: got And I was like, you know, heard you. But
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  Speaker 1: that moment, I was like yo. And just being there
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  Speaker 1: and seeing the build out in a different stages and
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  Speaker 1: all the people that come to be entertained, but also
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  Speaker 1: the celebrity talent and the podcast talent and all of
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  Speaker 1: the production crews and just it is.
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  Speaker 2: A very well oiled machine.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think people understand how how much goes
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  Speaker 1: into putting on events, live events, but just sustaining business
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  Speaker 1: to the point where you can have that many different
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  Speaker 1: tiers of business and people working for you, and it
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  Speaker 1: like go well, and it looked good, and it looked elevated,
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  Speaker 1: and it's current and it's with ease, and all of
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  Speaker 1: this came from Charlemagne deciding to chase his dream, get
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, get on people's nerves, smell a couple
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  Speaker 1: of seats. You know what I'm saying, Like I just
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  Speaker 1: was in real time, Like, yo, this is inspiring, like
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  Speaker 1: all of this. Tank and Jay Valentine for the R
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  Speaker 1: and B Money podcast, sat down with Jack Queeze. Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Jakes Roberts for her Woman Involved podcasts, sat down with
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  Speaker 1: Regene's mom Toya Mental Wellderness Conversations.
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  Speaker 2: I did a creator's panel. There was just so much.
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  Speaker 2: Who else?
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  Speaker 1: Cam Newton did his Funky Friday podcast with and he
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  Speaker 1: sat down in the conversation with Porsche Williams for Real
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  Speaker 1: Housewives of Atlanta. There was so much going on, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and just so many It was like quality everything. I'm like, bro,
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  Speaker 1: the budget was budgeting, but you could have big name
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  Speaker 1: productions in the budget be budgeting and it still looked
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  Speaker 1: a mess from the outside. Time and is off all
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  Speaker 1: of that. Things flowed. There was food trucks, The food
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  Speaker 1: was good. The bar was popping, Like then we got
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  Speaker 1: to give it up, we have to, Like, I was
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  Speaker 1: like all of this because of a dream. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling inspired. Patrick, how you feeling that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm inspired because you inspired. That sounds like an amazing time.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm feeling great. I'm feeding off your energy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're back at it for this week, So.
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  Speaker 2: How would your weekend? Would you do? This weekend? It
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  Speaker 2: was smooth.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even recall. Probably just working shooting. It's one
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  Speaker 3: of those week things was just moving so fast year
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  Speaker 3: but it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: We here with it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so podcast festival next year. I'm taking you
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  Speaker 1: with me. At one point because when I got to
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  Speaker 1: the festival, I was like, yo, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: go out in the festival. I've never been, it's my
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  Speaker 1: first year coming. I want to just see what it's like,
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  Speaker 1: what the activations are with the food trucks are, like
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  Speaker 1: all of that. People are like like in real time,
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  Speaker 1: like like noticing me. I'm like, and I'm still getting
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  Speaker 1: used to all of that stuff. So I'm just like,
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  Speaker 1: o hey, And then we started taking pictures. We took
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  Speaker 1: a couple of pictures. Next thing I know, I look
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  Speaker 1: up my managers having to like orchestrate a line. Like
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  Speaker 1: I sat for three hours during the festival. I missed
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  Speaker 1: the whole R and B Money podcast. I missed the
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  Speaker 1: first panel. I missed the majority of the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the festival because once I got in the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not going to tell these people know.
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  Speaker 1: And I actually like love engaging with people because y'all
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  Speaker 1: are listening and watching the show. So I met a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, don't Everybody had podcasts. Everybody had great energy.
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  Speaker 1: We was in there praying together, laughing together. I was
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  Speaker 1: learning about people's shows.
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  Speaker 2: It was just fire.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like a creator's family reunion. That's exactly how
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  Speaker 1: it felt. Music wise, energy, love, like all the energy,
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  Speaker 1: like all of that stuff. So the panel that I'm
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  Speaker 1: moderated was called Creatives, Creators and Curators. It was presented
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  Speaker 1: by AT and T and on the panel with me,
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  Speaker 1: we had Aaron Howard, a King who was a producer.
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  Speaker 1: He works with the Black Effects podcast Network, but he
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  Speaker 1: worked with and helped create and you know the Combat
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  Speaker 1: Jack Show, which you know when you talk about podcasts
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  Speaker 1: and podcasts and a hip hop space and a culture
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  Speaker 1: space like that show.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that show gets pointed to so much.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was the first of its condin it led
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  Speaker 1: and drove like it started a lot of people's podcast
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  Speaker 1: career seeing what Combat Jack did on that show.
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  Speaker 2: Then we had Christa Renette Hazlet, actress.
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  Speaker 1: She also has a podcast as well called keep It
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  Speaker 1: Positive Sweetie.
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  Speaker 2: She's also a producer too.
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  Speaker 1: She's done a lot of different things, so we talked
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  Speaker 1: a bit about that, like just navigating through different things
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  Speaker 1: as you go. R Carlo Handy who is a TV
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  Speaker 1: creator and executive and a CEO of Someoni's Media, Shante Lundy.
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  Speaker 1: She is the owner of black Girl Sunscreen. Black Girl
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  Speaker 1: Sunscreen is currently in twenty thousand stores, y'all. And this
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  Speaker 1: girl started this with her own savings from her corporate job.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a conversation for real, for real, just
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  Speaker 1: about figuring her all out as a dreamer and really
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  Speaker 1: making it work.
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  Speaker 4: Contry Listen, I know dreams really do come true.
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  Speaker 5: Creators on this pandel we'll share with you guys their
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  Speaker 5: story of trying them from having an idea that they
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  Speaker 5: ultimately walk to life.
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  Speaker 4: There's no perfect way of doing anything, but this panel
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  Speaker 4: is here to tell.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all all the good things that y'all need to know about.
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  Speaker 4: How to get it done.
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  Speaker 5: Now for me being here at the Black of Back
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  Speaker 5: Podcast Festival and everything that you guys have been watching
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  Speaker 5: in my life over the last six months has literally
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  Speaker 5: been a dream come true as a creator.
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  Speaker 4: H thank you guys.
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  Speaker 5: As a creator, y'all, I want to get your story
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  Speaker 5: out there, you know what I mean, And you want
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  Speaker 5: to do good work and if you want to build audience,
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  Speaker 5: but you also want to make some money. It's hard
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  Speaker 5: as a creator. It's a lot of work but not
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  Speaker 5: a lot of return sometimes. So I'm excited to be
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  Speaker 5: here because that has been my journey.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm excited to talk to these creators. We've also probably.
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  Speaker 5: Had a lot of the similar things happening in their
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  Speaker 5: life that I have happen.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I'm gonna start with once upon a Dream to.
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  Speaker 5: Y'allity So, Crystal, you started as a stylist, it worked
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  Speaker 5: your way into acting and producing.
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  Speaker 4: What helps you believe that you could take that lead.
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  Speaker 2: First?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: I'm proud of me.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for allowing us to a space, Heavie.
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  Speaker 4: But for me, it was I knew when I came
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  Speaker 4: to one of what.
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  Speaker 7: I was trying to do, and there was nothing that
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  Speaker 7: was going to stop me. I had television, and what
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  Speaker 7: I had to understand was that sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: The route would be different to them what you expect.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we think that it's one way to get into
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  Speaker 7: a destination. And for me it was not the first
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  Speaker 7: thing I did. I call bah Bahm and I said, hey,
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  Speaker 7: I'm moving to Atlanta, and she said, well, pray about it.
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  Speaker 7: I had already done that because I don't think any
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  Speaker 7: moves without.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about darkness.
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  Speaker 1: That Like, I tell people all the time that the
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  Speaker 1: best thing that was ever told to me is is
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  Speaker 1: that you can be dreaming and not be in your
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  Speaker 1: current reality because you're dreaming and you're manifesting, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be able to still take care of your reality.
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  Speaker 1: So you gotta put bills, You got to keep your
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  Speaker 1: head clear so you be able to even think and create,
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  Speaker 1: which you mean, like it's hard to think, create, feel
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  Speaker 1: the energy and inspiration when you're worried about how you
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  Speaker 1: gonna eat, how you're gonna pay your bills.
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  Speaker 2: You know those type of things. So you sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, the route.
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  Speaker 1: To get to where you going is, it's twisting, it's
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  Speaker 1: up and down. But I think when you go to
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  Speaker 1: festivals like this, or you go to conferences or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the case may be, like when you're moving thought your
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  Speaker 1: day to day as a creator, and you're hungry. You're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get on you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: You want things to work out. You're trying to network up,
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  Speaker 1: so that means, you know, you feel like you should
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  Speaker 1: only be in conversation with people who can do more
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  Speaker 1: for you than you can do for them, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: financially or you know, walking you into rooms or things
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  Speaker 1: of that nature. But it has been there has been
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  Speaker 1: so many times where like people that like were interning
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  Speaker 1: after I went through an internship have ended up in
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  Speaker 1: positions and called me about jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what I mean, or like you just
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  Speaker 2: never know who people are gonna turn out.
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  Speaker 1: The bet I was raised that way, Like my mom
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  Speaker 1: always taught me, like you never know who a person
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  Speaker 1: is gonna end up being, so treat the person like
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  Speaker 1: a person and not like what they can do or
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  Speaker 1: can do for you.
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  Speaker 2: And that is so true.
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  Speaker 1: Is like my career has literally been almost like made
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  Speaker 1: at certain points in the certain opportunities I've had because
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  Speaker 1: people remembered how I treated them and doubled back and
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  Speaker 1: threw things my way. So there's a point that a
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  Speaker 1: king made Aaron Howard made and he has this saying
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  Speaker 1: that he says where he's like, you know, relationships are currency, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like who you know is money?
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  Speaker 2: Its goal?
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  Speaker 1: And I asked him about how you know when to
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  Speaker 1: cash in on that goal? How do you know when
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  Speaker 1: to cash in on that currency?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you have to have value.
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  Speaker 6: Team, that's part of the currency. You just can't be
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  Speaker 6: asking people to do you aside. You know, you have
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  Speaker 6: to provide some type of value to whatever it is
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  Speaker 6: that you're trying to execute, and that takes time because
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  Speaker 6: we're all doing things, we're all working on I know
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  Speaker 6: right now there's like five people in this crowd that
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  Speaker 6: you know reached out to me. I'm probably telling too much,
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  Speaker 6: but we're trying to figure out how to do some
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  Speaker 6: GOP content. But these are five.
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  Speaker 4: Ten year relationships.
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  Speaker 6: You know, a lot of times what I find is
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  Speaker 6: when I talk to people, they get upset, They get
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  Speaker 6: frustrated because they might meet somebody that may not be
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  Speaker 6: able to reach out to them, or they reach out
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  Speaker 6: to them, theyble they didn't get a call bat or
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  Speaker 6: follow them, and they get frustrated, like, ah, sometimes you
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  Speaker 6: just got to relax and do the work, continue.
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  Speaker 7: On your journey.
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  Speaker 6: See them again, follow up and present yourself in a
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  Speaker 6: banner that shows value.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's a two way.
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  Speaker 2: Street, baby, when I tell you this right here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the podcast could have ended right there at that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it technically kind of did because our time
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  Speaker 1: was winding down. But that was such a major point,
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that I've learned because my life,
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  Speaker 1: my lifeline are my relationships are the people I can
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  Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call. Whether I need to
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  Speaker 1: confirm a story, I need to you know, book talent.
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  Speaker 1: I need to find who I need to be calling
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  Speaker 1: to confirm the story. So I got to call a friend,
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  Speaker 1: like yo, who's the publicist, who's the manager, who's this,
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  Speaker 1: who's the that. You gotta know when it's time to
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  Speaker 1: lean in and time that, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like to just not you're not catching on that currency.
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  Speaker 2: But the biggest thing that he said outside of just knowing.
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  Speaker 1: When, is you got to be able to add value
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  Speaker 1: in these conversations as well. And I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: a girl, there was a group of students there and
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  Speaker 1: shout out to y'all, y'all are watching or listening.
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  Speaker 2: There was a group of students.
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  Speaker 1: There from Morehouse, and then there was from another college
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  Speaker 1: as well. It was like a whole group. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the students, she's a girl that is from New York.
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  Speaker 1: She asked me, what is my advice to a college
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  Speaker 1: student right now about like how to get to where
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  Speaker 1: I'm at from where you know? Like she was, like,
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  Speaker 1: you did the whole college thing. You're a marketing major.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a marketing major, like you know, black girl working
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  Speaker 1: in you know, mainstream media and like doing these different
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  Speaker 1: things and you in rooms with people that don't look
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  Speaker 1: like you, Like, what have you learned that you you
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  Speaker 1: would tell us right now that we should be focused
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  Speaker 1: on it and working on I was like, you need
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  Speaker 1: to learn the artists staying ready so you don't gotta
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  Speaker 1: get ready. Like everything about pop culture, entertainment moves quick,
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  Speaker 1: moves so quick. I'm snapping my fingers because as I'm snapping,
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  Speaker 1: something else is happening, another story is breaking. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: stay ready so you don't get ready. I mean, so
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  Speaker 1: you don't got to get ready. Really being able to
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  Speaker 1: show what you can do and how you can do
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  Speaker 1: it in a way that people are wild that they
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  Speaker 1: want to bring you back to that table, and also too,
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  Speaker 1: I just said, you gotta always think about as well,
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  Speaker 1: like people be busy.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all, people be busy.
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  Speaker 1: So I like to think like with certain people when
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking certain favors or you know, certain things as
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the building phase, and you know, sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: need to stamp on certain things to make people, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just really feel it. I always think about, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: these people are this person is busy. So it's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling them about worth them stopping everything that I
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  Speaker 1: know what they're doing because they're going to stop because
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  Speaker 1: of our relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Is it worth themselves?
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  Speaker 1: And if it's not, I don't call and maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: wait a little bit until it is worth it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So that was just some of the conversations I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that y'all got a chance to take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to. But I also ran into because Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Jack Roberts was there during her Woman in All podcast.
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  Speaker 1: All of the black creatives in La or creatives in
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  Speaker 1: general in LA, if you have lived there for over
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  Speaker 1: a year, you have been to one church LA, which
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  Speaker 1: is a potter House church. I don't know nobody that
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  Speaker 1: has lived in LA that is you know, wanting to
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  Speaker 1: go to church that is a creative that has not
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  Speaker 1: at least walked through the doors of that church one time.
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  Speaker 1: So y'all know how attached they are to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of creators' journeys that have lived in la I know,
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  Speaker 1: for me, that's the church I was going to. I
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  Speaker 1: was watching that church up until I got more into
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  Speaker 1: my church in Delaware. But yeah, seeing them in person,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh shoot.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was also like.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of like a full circle moment because
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  Speaker 1: when I was involved in that church, I even involved
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  Speaker 1: that I just used to go. I wasn't like an
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  Speaker 1: involved member where they would have known me then, but
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  Speaker 1: I was in.
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  Speaker 2: Such I remember, like man I was.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: I was in such a building phase of my life
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  Speaker 1: and career at that time. It would be some days
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  Speaker 1: but I wouldn't even have money to go to church.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to put guests in my car to
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  Speaker 1: go there. We would carpooled to church because we were
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: just so broke and just trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Me and my homegirls, sleeping on each other's couches and
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, sharing apartments and religion and faith.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Even at that time.
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  Speaker 1: It was all we had for real, like just figuring
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: it out, going to church, trying to figure it out,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and using church on Sunday as a motivation to get
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: through the week that following week of scraping together money
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: to just like make things shake for real. So to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: be in that space as a creator, in a new
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: resident of La La to then run into them backstage.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I'm at the Black Effect Podcast Festival. I'm about to
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: go on stage to host a panel. You know, all
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: of this big life and these things have happened for me,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm also a lot more rooted in my spiritual
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: journey now with God, y'all, Like it was, I don't know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: It's such a full circle moment. And I actually got
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: a chance to tell them, I got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: meet them and almost cried just hugging her because I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: she don't even know how much hurt and her husband
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  Speaker 1: and their church got me to where I'm at right
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  Speaker 1: now to be standing in front of her, because if
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: not but God, I wouldn't have made it through those years,
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  Speaker 1: my first two years in La Man. We shout out
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: to my sister Mariah. She's currently on tour with Sizza
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  Speaker 1: and Kendrick Lamar. She's a dancer and a choreographer. I
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: remember we would literally meet up to sit in the
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: car and just talk and cry because we were struggling
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  Speaker 1: so bad and we couldn't figure out why it had
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: to be so tough. And both were from Delaware, so
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: we got really really close. But to go through that
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and then to be back there, it's like Patrick, I
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: see you shaking your head.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: You like this identified with the.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Right like it's crazy, It's just kind of it was
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: a very full circle moment. I don't even know how
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: us to put it in the words, but to say
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: it like that. So the festival was a great time.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: My favorite part about the festival was meeting you guys,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: like I I'm like being so you know, honest about
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the fact of like we took probably two to three
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  Speaker 1: hours to just like touch the people, like hug people,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: take pictures. I probably met over three to four hundred
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: of y'all literally within that time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So the podcast Wressel was fire and talking about Sarah
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Jakes Roberts and Pastor Terray TD. Jake's Actually, as I
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: was coming in to film the podcast, there was a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: video and reports beginning the surface from his online service
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: today that he is stepping down from so In November,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: November twenty twenty four, Tdjkes had this scare on stage
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: while preaching where he like paused and he was shaking,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and then he went out and then it was revealed
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that it was later revealed that he had a massive
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: heart attack. He actually said that since November, his daughter
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Sarah Jakes Roberts and pastor Terray Roberts had been leading
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: in the church. Anyway, we didn't know it, but they've
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: been doing it and now they're gonna fully step in
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and take over the church.
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  Speaker 2: Huge deal.
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  Speaker 1: He said that it was because he wants to work
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: more in the community. Let's say, go listen. I do
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: think that it's more about his health. I think that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that that is very prevalent. Even watching the video of
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: him announcing it, you can tell that, you know, although
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he's been still preaching and doing better, you know, he's older,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: he's he's getting up there, and I think it's a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: good idea for him to step away before he works
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: himself into a place where he's not even able to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: do the things that he's talking about he wants to do.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So that news came out, so I did want to
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: mention it, but don tomorrow's episode, we're gonna hop back
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: into the topics in the same way that we normally do.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: This episode was a bit differently, be different because I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: really wanted to bring y'all some content in real time
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: from the podcast Festival while it was fresh, while it
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: was here.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: But we will still take y'all to the streets, to
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the tweets.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Outside, we outside, we outside, outside of tweet. I really
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: have been like reflecting so much on just a lot
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of different things since leaving the podcast Festival. You probably
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: like yo, y'all probably like yo, you've reflect all the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: time since you always in your thoughts.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: I am.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I'm one of those people.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: But I've been thinking a lot since leaving the podcast Festival,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: just about what God, like, like what am I learning
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: about God and like and being faithful to God throughout
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: any season in any journey in life right now, Like
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what my life is teaching me right now about God?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Because when I tell y'all, my mind was blown seeing
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: all those people who knew me and my story and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: were inspired, and I'm just like, oh, bro, like it,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like we here, it's happening, like we hear, so I
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: tweeted out, what is one thing? What is one thing
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: that your life is currently teaching you about God? So
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: our dot Chung responded and said that everything and everything
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: is in all caps, that everything works together according to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: his purpose. Baby yes, So Rocky Thunder responded and said,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: God will never allow me to envision anything I can't achieve.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I keep checking all parts of the dream life seamlessly.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Baby.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: That hits home that how I felt leaving that dang festival, Like.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: God, what are you doing? What is life right now?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Lucky for twenty Underscore said he gonna meet you where
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you at every time. All about Jordan Underscore said that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: he is learning right now that God remains consistent. So
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: if I've seen him carry me once, I know he'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: do it again. Let me tell y'all how all of
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: these are so on point. I just grab these really
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: quick to put in the dot because there was so
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: many replies.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: They all hit home this whole episode.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: All I've been talking to y'all are about like people
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and like their elevation and their expansion of their lives
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and their careers and just all of these things, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: like like one thing that I can say that I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: learned that I'm taking with me from this episode and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: from the Podcast Festival is you can dream, but when
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you do it, you gotta do it with God because
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the way that He sets you up to achieve beyond
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: your wildest dreams. Man, oh my God. Like I'm exhausted,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: but I'm so full from this festival. So make sure
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: y'all gonna check out the post content. I'm gonna have
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: vlogs on my YouTube channel.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I have many.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Vlogs on my Instagram and photos. The photos is hitting baby.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I was in all Alexander Wayne the second day. First day,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you popped out in my sister's Milano d rouge like
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I was cute or whatever. So make sure y'all go
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: check out all of the content on my Instagram, my Twitter,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: my YouTube channel. YouTube is Laura the Rosa TV. Some
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of you guys are already here. Instagram is Laura la
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Rosa Twitter. I'm one of the roads everywhere. Go find me,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: go check it out. If you were at the Podcast
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Festival and you're listening to this episode right now, tweet
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: me talk to me about what you loved about the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: podcast Festival. If we met at the podcast Festival, tweet me,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: instagram me, all that stuff. Let me know, you know
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: what I mean, how you're feeling posts. A lot of
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: y'all have tacked me and the pictures already, but let
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: me know how y'all feeling like after our conversation, after
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the festival, or y'all feeling like I am. I'm energized,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I'm recharged, even though I'm tired. I'm physically exhausted, but
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I'm spiritually so full and it's a great place to be.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: So I'm signing out.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow We'll be back with a full episode of all
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: things entertainment and entertainment news.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I'm Maura la Rosa.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the homegirl that knows a bit about everything and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: everybody that you guys for tuning in.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I tell you all this all the time because I
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: mean it.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: You could be anywhere with anybody talking about these things
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and these topics, because at the end of the day,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there's always a lot to talk about. But y'all choose
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to be right here with me every episode, and I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for that. I will see you in
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: my next one.