Latest / The Breakfast Club / Living In Your Purpose
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- 0:02Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
- 0:04Speaker 1: and everybody.
- 0:05Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Right, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren L. Rosa and
- 0:12Speaker 3: this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa.
- 0:15Speaker 1: This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
- 0:19Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Baby.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Now we are checking in behind the scenes of the grind.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Now.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Today, honestly is very cold outside in New York City,
- 0:33Speaker 1: but we are literally days away from Christmas. I have
- 0:39Speaker 1: yet to do any Christmas shopping, but I am really
- 0:40Speaker 1: excited about just being able. I told you guys about
- 0:43Speaker 1: a week ago that I am counting down the days
- 0:46Speaker 1: until I'm able to just be at home, not leaving
- 0:49Speaker 1: my home, and I don't choose to not having to
- 0:51Speaker 1: wake up at four o'clock in the morning, but also
- 0:54Speaker 1: just being with my family. Thanksgiving was a bit short
- 1:00Speaker 1: because it was also my birthday, so I went over
- 1:02Speaker 1: to the Bahamas. But just those couple of days I
- 1:03Speaker 1: was home, it was good to just be home. And
- 1:06Speaker 1: then Christmas will be the same. Like Christmas, I'll get
- 1:09Speaker 1: to really just chill, just spend time with the family.
- 1:13Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. Max'ally about to head on
- 1:15Speaker 1: over to our Christmas party for iHeartMedia, the annual Christmas
- 1:20Speaker 1: party that we do, which honestly just reminds me of
- 1:24Speaker 1: like the progression of my journey here at iHeart because
- 1:28Speaker 1: my very first Christmas party that I ever attended with
- 1:33Speaker 1: iHeart was two years ago and I wasn't even working here.
- 1:36Speaker 1: I didn't even have a badge like anything like whatsoever.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I was just here guest hosting and was like, I'm
- 1:45Speaker 1: going to the Christmas party, and I was like, the
- 1:46Speaker 1: running joke was like, you don't even work here, why
- 1:50Speaker 1: are you and the Christmas party? And now fast forward
- 1:53Speaker 1: two years later, I'm working here, headed to the Christmas
- 1:55Speaker 1: party real quick to say hello to everybody. And today
- 1:59Speaker 1: is a good day to just be thinking about progress
- 2:01Speaker 1: here with iHeartMedia and with you know, Black Effect and
- 2:06Speaker 1: Breakfast Club and just all of the people that I've
- 2:10Speaker 1: come into this with. Because we're going into a new
- 2:14Speaker 1: year and in this year. One of the things that
- 2:15Speaker 1: I've been thinking a lot about going into this year
- 2:18Speaker 1: is things that I want to send Tanto's down on,
- 2:21Speaker 1: like claiming it has been my thought process. I think
- 2:27Speaker 1: as much as you guys hear me talk about things
- 2:30Speaker 1: I want to do and like you know, all of
- 2:32Speaker 1: that energy, there is still a very real, real I
- 2:37Speaker 1: wouldn't call it fear, because I don't claim fear, but
- 2:39Speaker 1: there is still a very real new sense of hesitance
- 2:45Speaker 1: that I feel sometimes when I am wanting to do
- 2:49Speaker 1: things or you know, wanting to just trust my instinct
- 2:52Speaker 1: in the way that I did prior to you know,
- 2:57Speaker 1: being with all five million plus of my low riders
- 2:59Speaker 1: here and just you know, on the Breakfast Club platform,
- 3:02Speaker 1: just because I feel like there's a different sense of
- 3:04Speaker 1: responsibility like I do, and going into twenty twenty six,
- 3:07Speaker 1: I want to make sure, of course I.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Am always leaning in.
- 3:11Speaker 1: And honoring that sense of responsibility, but also too, I
- 3:14Speaker 1: don't want to get in my own way and allow
- 3:16Speaker 1: my fears I hate that word, and allow my new
- 3:24Speaker 1: this is what it is. I don't want to allow
- 3:25Speaker 1: my new found, not even new found. I don't want
- 3:30Speaker 1: to allow the fact that I am focused on substance
- 3:37Speaker 1: and longevity and purpose getting the way of trying things
- 3:45Speaker 1: that might not align with you know, where I'm going
- 3:48Speaker 1: long term, but you got to try it to know
- 3:51Speaker 1: you gotta throw things at the wall onto sticks, and
- 3:54Speaker 1: that's been something that I've been battling with a lot
- 3:56Speaker 1: this year, to be honest, as like, Okay, as things grow,
- 4:01Speaker 1: you want to keep the main thing the main thing,
- 4:03Speaker 1: and you don't want to mess up like I'm always
- 4:05Speaker 1: just like I don't want to mess up and not
- 4:07Speaker 1: wanting to mess up. I never want to bring in.
- 4:09Speaker 1: I never want to put too much on myself to
- 4:12Speaker 1: the point where like I'm getting it in my own way
- 4:14Speaker 1: and the main thing is not the main thing anymore.
- 4:16Speaker 1: And Kay Sanat just posted a video that he recorded
- 4:19Speaker 1: on his birthday not too long after speaking out at
- 4:22Speaker 1: the Streamer Awards about his mental health and some of
- 4:25Speaker 1: the new things he wanted to try. He says he
- 4:27Speaker 1: wants to go into fashion design, and he wants to
- 4:29Speaker 1: direct and do a ton of things in the creative space,
- 4:31Speaker 1: but he talked about just where his mental has been
- 4:34Speaker 1: around that.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Let's sake, come listen to Kay Sanat.
- 4:37Speaker 4: Hello, everybody. I'm currently on my laptop right now, and
- 4:41Speaker 4: I appreciate everybody who's been sending me birthday wishes as
- 4:44Speaker 4: today is my birthday, so I felt like it was
- 4:47Speaker 4: a perfect day to be transparent and honest with you guys.
- 4:50Speaker 4: A few days ago, I spread awareness on mental health
- 4:53Speaker 4: and how important it is to take care of yourself,
- 4:55Speaker 4: and honestly, for the past few months, I've been struggling
- 4:57Speaker 4: with mental health out of self doubt and fright of
- 5:00Speaker 4: pursuing goals that I really want to achieve. And the
- 5:03Speaker 4: reason I've really been in my head is because I
- 5:05Speaker 4: just wanted to do more. I've gained to realize that
- 5:08Speaker 4: I'm a true creator and I'm very passionate about creating,
- 5:12Speaker 4: and i have other goals and things that I just
- 5:16Speaker 4: want to achieve and do more of. And I would
- 5:20Speaker 4: love to show you guys what I've been working on
- 5:22Speaker 4: for the past few months through my more personal page,
- 5:25Speaker 4: which is Casey three Hidden. I am going to go
- 5:29Speaker 4: private soon on that page, so whoever gets in gets in.
- 5:34Speaker 4: But I just want to let you guys know that
- 5:36Speaker 4: sometimes it is important to take care of your mental health.
- 5:39Speaker 4: And honestly, it's been getting better. It has, but out
- 5:42Speaker 4: of frustration and fear, I've just been in my head
- 5:46Speaker 4: for some reason. I've never had this feeling before, but
- 5:49Speaker 4: I want it to be known that I truly want
- 5:52Speaker 4: to create and I don't know if I'm getting mature
- 5:55Speaker 4: or I'm just looking at looking things at a broad
- 5:59Speaker 4: point of but I am so passionate about creating in general,
- 6:05Speaker 4: and I'm excited to show you guys what's going on.
- 6:08Speaker 1: And I think that this is a very vulnerable and
- 6:10Speaker 1: real place for any person to admit that they are at.
- 6:15Speaker 1: But it's also one of those things that I think
- 6:18Speaker 1: you never stop running into. So I think to identify
- 6:24Speaker 1: it early to understand, you know, what resources you need
- 6:28Speaker 1: to put around yourself to be able to get through that,
- 6:31Speaker 1: work through that, stay consistent through that, and keep the
- 6:34Speaker 1: main thing the main thing through that is important. But
- 6:36Speaker 1: this is also why I love like this new era
- 6:39Speaker 1: of like media.
- 6:41Speaker 3: And content creators.
- 6:44Speaker 1: I feel like there And I said this when I
- 6:47Speaker 1: sat down with Gabe p from on the Radar, not
- 6:51Speaker 1: even just in journalism, but just in the media and
- 6:54Speaker 1: digital space in general. I think we're going to start
- 6:57Speaker 1: seeing like the cream of the crop is going to rise.
- 6:59Speaker 1: I think that you're going to see people who are
- 7:01Speaker 1: actually very passionate about what they're doing, who are passionate
- 7:04Speaker 1: about doing it well, doing it of quality of substance,
- 7:08Speaker 1: creating longevity around it.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Doing it in a way.
- 7:11Speaker 1: That's purposeful, rise to the top and kind of quiet
- 7:16Speaker 1: out a lot of the noise. But that can get
- 7:19Speaker 1: kind of heavy sometimes, it can. It definitely can get
- 7:24Speaker 1: kind of heavy sometimes when you're figuring that out. So
- 7:26Speaker 1: Constat's conversation just made me kind of think about all
- 7:29Speaker 1: of that as I go into this new year, Like,
- 7:31Speaker 1: I want to honestly shed that heaviness, because when I
- 7:34Speaker 1: think about it, it's a blessing to be able to
- 7:36Speaker 1: even be in the space.
- 7:37Speaker 3: To explore these things.
- 7:38Speaker 1: I want to shed that heaviness, But I also don't
- 7:41Speaker 1: want to ignore, you know, Like mentally some of the
- 7:44Speaker 1: it's almost like an anxious feeling, like an anti feeling
- 7:48Speaker 1: that happens whenever you are trying to figure out am
- 7:52Speaker 1: I doing this and am I doing it right? Versus
- 7:55Speaker 1: just trusting your instinct and doing what you know to do.
- 7:58Speaker 1: And the more people relying on you, the more eyes
- 8:01Speaker 1: watching you, it changes your thought process around that. Now,
- 8:06Speaker 1: speaking of a lot of eyes watching my.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Girl, Coco Jones.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Okay, I recently got a chance to sit down with
- 8:13Speaker 1: Coco Jones for an episode. No actually the final episode
- 8:16Speaker 1: that I shot with Beet talks which is a sit
- 8:20Speaker 1: down conversation over at b T or was anyway the
- 8:24Speaker 1: season and the show ended where they bring on different
- 8:26Speaker 1: guests and you have a conversation just about their careers
- 8:29Speaker 1: and new music and everything that they have happening. And
- 8:32Speaker 1: we're going to get to that because there's one clip
- 8:33Speaker 1: that I'm going to close the show with that I.
- 8:34Speaker 3: Think will be in line with how I opened the show.
- 8:38Speaker 1: But in the midst of that, Coco Jones is working
- 8:42Speaker 1: with Apple Music, and you know, she's doing a sit
- 8:46Speaker 1: down show very similar to this, almost like a podcast
- 8:49Speaker 1: or radio show, and she's giving tips, you know, on
- 8:53Speaker 1: this certain episode of the show on dealing with the
- 8:58Speaker 1: why are you still single? Question during the holidays, and
- 9:00Speaker 1: y'all know Coco is far from single, honey.
- 9:04Speaker 3: She's engaged. She is happy.
- 9:06Speaker 1: She got engaged with Donovan Mitchell, who plays basketball, back
- 9:10Speaker 1: in July July of twenty twenty five, and baby been
- 9:16Speaker 1: living her best fairytale life ever since. I love to
- 9:18Speaker 1: see it for her, and I know that Sierra and
- 9:21Speaker 1: Russell Wilson were a part of the planning phase for
- 9:25Speaker 1: that engagement. They've talked about that a bit. But she's
- 9:28Speaker 1: giving out some advice to the girls who ain't taking
- 9:30Speaker 1: their fiance home this year for Thanksgiving.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Let's take a listen, Brandy from New Jersey.
- 9:35Speaker 2: So every holiday, my aunt drills me with the same
- 9:39Speaker 2: questions about why I'm still single and when I'm going
- 9:43Speaker 2: to get married and have kids. No matter how hard
- 9:47Speaker 2: I try to change the subject, she keeps pressing me.
- 9:50Speaker 2: How can I handle her this year without losing my
- 9:52Speaker 2: cool or turning the family gathering into a scene. Oh
- 9:57Speaker 2: my god, now that right there is MESSI girl, and
- 10:00Speaker 2: I do have to chuckle just a touch, just a touch.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Because why does every aunt want to be in the business.
- 10:05Speaker 2: I even in my song, my was in my business
- 10:08Speaker 2: I had and I had to call her out respectfully. Girl.
- 10:10Speaker 3: You know I love you. On to Kim anyway, here's
- 10:13Speaker 3: what I think.
- 10:14Speaker 2: I actually have been very into nice nasty reads, have
- 10:18Speaker 2: you? You know what I'm saying. I've been watching a lot
- 10:19Speaker 2: of Real housewives and they just love a nice nasty read.
- 10:23Speaker 2: It's still like cut, but it was like, you said
- 10:26Speaker 2: that really cute and you gotta like you gotta listen
- 10:27Speaker 2: to it twice, you know what I'm saying. So I
- 10:29Speaker 2: would honestly prep since you know that this happens every year.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Coco talk to me a bit about that too, just
- 10:34Speaker 1: kind of you know, her journey with therapy and you know,
- 10:39Speaker 1: figuring out and finding her voice, and I thought it
- 10:42Speaker 1: was really powerful. She said that she because she went
- 10:44Speaker 1: through a downtime in her career where she had to
- 10:47Speaker 1: really be still, like she was not working at all.
- 10:50Speaker 1: She said that that time actually helped her find her voice.
- 10:52Speaker 1: So take a listen to Cocon. You've been very vocal
- 10:54Speaker 1: at starting posting your career with like your vlogs and
- 10:56Speaker 1: your videos and telling what you were going through. What
- 10:59Speaker 1: was the turning point for you where you realize, Okay,
- 11:01Speaker 1: I really don't have it all together and I need
- 11:03Speaker 1: to take this break to figure it out.
- 11:05Speaker 2: The break took me, honestly, the break took. The space
- 11:09Speaker 2: in between was not my choice. Yeah, but now you know,
- 11:12Speaker 2: hindsight and looking back, the silence is where I could
- 11:14Speaker 2: even hear my voice, you know, be like, oh this
- 11:17Speaker 2: is who I am. Oh this is important to me.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Oh I do talk like this and I don't talk
- 11:21Speaker 2: like that, you know. So finding my voice was really
- 11:23Speaker 2: kind of what happened in the meantime in the between Honestly,
- 11:26Speaker 2: I was super happy with how everything happened with the EP.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Even though I didn't make the final say, I still
- 11:31Speaker 2: was doing what I loved. I was making songs. I
- 11:33Speaker 2: loved doing music videos. Again, there was a budget. Again, Yes,
- 11:37Speaker 2: I was up.
- 11:38Speaker 3: Hello.
- 11:39Speaker 2: I guess people from that section of my life dropped
- 11:42Speaker 2: off because you know, when you go higher, people act
- 11:44Speaker 2: weird dot com. And so when people started to drop off,
- 11:47Speaker 2: that's when I was like, Okay, I think I'm gonna
- 11:49Speaker 2: be the only one that I know for sure is
- 11:51Speaker 2: not going anywhere.
- 11:52Speaker 3: So I need to be the voice.
- 11:54Speaker 2: I need to be the through line because now they
- 11:56Speaker 2: gone and who am I again? Kind of took me
- 11:58Speaker 2: shedding that skin to be like what do I really
- 12:00Speaker 2: look like? And what do I want to look like
- 12:01Speaker 2: in the future. Now it's up to me.
- 12:03Speaker 1: And that made me ask her, like, what does purpose
- 12:06Speaker 1: look like for you? Like, you know, I think when
- 12:09Speaker 1: you're young and you're creative and you just want to,
- 12:12Speaker 1: you know, be successful because people are depending on you,
- 12:14Speaker 1: or because you have these goals you want to reach,
- 12:16Speaker 1: and then you get to a point where you start
- 12:18Speaker 1: achieving these things.
- 12:20Speaker 3: There is that conversation about.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Like, well wait, hold on this is happening and and
- 12:25Speaker 1: then I don't know about anybody listening, but for me,
- 12:29Speaker 1: once I achieved something goal wise, I'm a very goal
- 12:33Speaker 1: oriented person. But you know, now at this phase in
- 12:36Speaker 1: my life when I achieve something, I'm always looking around
- 12:39Speaker 1: and like wondering, like, how is this impact to people?
- 12:43Speaker 1: I've talked about that here on the podcast, but I
- 12:44Speaker 1: ask that question all the time to myself, like what
- 12:46Speaker 1: was the impact in that? What did that do for somebody?
- 12:50Speaker 1: Did that do anything for somebody? And if not, what
- 12:53Speaker 1: else have you done? You know that that will or
- 12:56Speaker 1: that can or you know, how can you be of
- 12:57Speaker 1: service to other people? And the purpose conversation was one
- 13:02Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of the conversation with Coco, because
- 13:05Speaker 1: you know, with Coco Jones being this Disney star at
- 13:10Speaker 1: one point or this child star at one point and
- 13:13Speaker 1: having to kind of take a step back and figure
- 13:15Speaker 1: it out all over again.
- 13:16Speaker 3: A lot of times people will tell you who you
- 13:18Speaker 3: are and honestly who you're not.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Okay, Auntie at at the Christmas dinner will make you
- 13:25Speaker 1: feel like you are not a person. That is you're
- 13:27Speaker 1: not doing You could have everything else lined up, hit
- 13:30Speaker 1: every other goal for twenty twenty five. But you show
- 13:32Speaker 1: up to that dinner without yellow boo thang, and now
- 13:34Speaker 1: you are not any of those you know, good things
- 13:37Speaker 1: you felt about yourself before you walk through that door
- 13:39Speaker 1: because of this one thing that someone is identifying that
- 13:42Speaker 1: you haven't succeeded at.
- 13:45Speaker 3: No, we're not doing that over here.
- 13:46Speaker 1: We're not doing that because when you understand purpose, I
- 13:49Speaker 1: think you understand that even what hasn't fell in line
- 13:52Speaker 1: with you or for you yet, it doesn't mean it's
- 13:55Speaker 1: not happening.
- 13:55Speaker 3: It just hasn't happened yet.
- 13:57Speaker 1: You're being prepared, you know what I mean, preheated like
- 14:01Speaker 1: the oven at that Christmas dinner. Let's say, listen to
- 14:04Speaker 1: Coco talk about purpose. Does Coco Jones think about like
- 14:06Speaker 1: her purpose of her art? Like what is your purpose
- 14:09Speaker 1: of your art?
- 14:09Speaker 2: Yes? I do think about my purpose, I mean not
- 14:12Speaker 2: just of my art, but like why do I get
- 14:14Speaker 2: to be here with this platform?
- 14:16Speaker 3: And why did I make it?
- 14:18Speaker 2: Even after that time and there was so many years
- 14:21Speaker 2: of nothing, Why what.
- 14:22Speaker 3: Do I do with this?
- 14:23Speaker 2: And I hope I ain't doing another wrong, but sorry, I.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Mom live man.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Seriously, I do think about my purpose all the time,
- 14:30Speaker 2: and I'm trying to just do the best I can
- 14:32Speaker 2: with what I got and hope that inspires someone. I
- 14:37Speaker 2: do try to be very transparent about the journey, the
- 14:40Speaker 2: time that it took, the self doubt, the things that
- 14:42Speaker 2: I had to work on to be who I am now,
- 14:44Speaker 2: to live the life that I live now. It was
- 14:46Speaker 2: only because I drilled in my head that I did
- 14:48Speaker 2: deserve it, because for a while I was like, I
- 14:50Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. I feel like when you
- 14:53Speaker 2: don't know, nobody knows, right.
- 14:55Speaker 3: I love Coco.
- 14:56Speaker 1: That conversation you guys can listen to and full over
- 14:58Speaker 1: on a bet YouTube channel was a great convo between
- 15:03Speaker 1: me and my girl Coco, and definitely some things to
- 15:07Speaker 1: think about. I mean, we're all maneuvering, we're moving, grooving,
- 15:11Speaker 1: and the holidays are coming up and you will have
- 15:13Speaker 1: time to sit still, you know, hopefully outside of providing
- 15:16Speaker 1: dinner and all the things for your family or whatever
- 15:18Speaker 1: it is that you do every holiday season around this time.
- 15:21Speaker 3: But when you have that time to sit still with
- 15:22Speaker 3: the people that.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Really love you and really, you know, really love you
- 15:26Speaker 1: start to think about everything that feels like, okay, this
- 15:30Speaker 1: is in linement for me that's been my mantra. For
- 15:32Speaker 1: the last like a week or two. Charlotmae has been
- 15:34Speaker 1: talking a lot about this being the Year of the
- 15:36Speaker 1: Snake and just shutting things internally and people and in
- 15:40Speaker 1: me doing that because I went and bought a book
- 15:42Speaker 1: all about claiming and shedding things. I'm writing down things
- 15:45Speaker 1: that I want to shed, things that I want to claim.
- 15:48Speaker 1: I begin thinking about, like what feels in alignment in
- 15:53Speaker 1: my life, Like what feels in alignment in my life,
- 15:57Speaker 1: Like what feels like it's flowing and it's not forced.
- 16:03Speaker 1: What things am I doing that may make those things
- 16:06Speaker 1: feel forced? Because those are things I need to shut
- 16:09Speaker 1: for myself, like my thought processes sometimes, you know, like
- 16:12Speaker 1: my defens Like there's a lot of things I'm working through.
- 16:15Speaker 3: This is a therapy session. Lord God, hallelujah. Won't you
- 16:17Speaker 3: do it?
- 16:19Speaker 1: But yes, get you a notebook join me. These next
- 16:23Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I am writing down lit This is
- 16:25Speaker 1: what I did. I got a notebook, and in front
- 16:27Speaker 1: of the notebook, I wrote down everything that I am
- 16:30Speaker 1: letting go of or I'm shutting. In the back of
- 16:32Speaker 1: the notebook, I'm going to put everything that I'm claiming.
- 16:35Speaker 1: The two are going to meet in the middle at
- 16:38Speaker 1: some point in twenty twenty six, and we'll be okay.
- 16:42Speaker 1: We will be released, we will be free.
- 16:45Speaker 3: At the end of the day.
- 16:46Speaker 1: There's always a lot to talk about your host, Lawn Rosa,
- 16:49Speaker 1: and this is the layest with Lawn Rosa, and every
- 16:51Speaker 1: single time you guys are here with me to talk
- 16:54Speaker 1: about it, my low writers, I appreciate y'all.
- 16:56Speaker 3: I really do. I'll see you guys in my next episode.