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Made It ...is Subjective feat. TaylorMade it · 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?
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  Speaker 3: Lauren came in hot.
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  Speaker 1: Hey y'all, what's up?
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  Speaker 4: It's Lauren LaRosa and this is another episode of The
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  Speaker 4: Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on
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  Speaker 4: all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the
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  Speaker 4: conversations that shake the room, baby. So you guys know
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  Speaker 4: we always kick off the episode checking in behind the
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  Speaker 4: scenes of The Grind.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get it. Back on The Grind.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I have much going on with
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  Speaker 4: me right now. I think I'm just at work right now.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever seen people do that? They're going to
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  Speaker 4: do the lock-in challenge.
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  Speaker 1: You ever seen that?
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  Speaker 4: So it happens every year around, like once we get
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  Speaker 4: closer to the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: September 1st through December 31st.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're locking in because four months is more than
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  Speaker 5: enough time to change the way this year ends.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really care how many times you fell off.
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  Speaker 1: And no disrespect, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Even really care how inconsistent you've been, how far behind
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  Speaker 5: you feel, or how you felt like this year started
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  Speaker 5: in a way that you did not plan.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay, because you're not out of time. But what
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  Speaker 1: I do care about.
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  Speaker 5: Is how you keep playing with yourself, saying you keep
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  Speaker 5: wanting this life and not putting in the work to
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  Speaker 5: get it.
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  Speaker 1: The routine you keep saying you're going to do. The
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  Speaker 1: wellness you keep saying you're going to attend. The business
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  Speaker 1: you keep saying you're going to start.
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  Speaker 5: The career move you keep saying.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to make. And the notes that's been in
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  Speaker 1: your phone for the last six months that you have
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  Speaker 1: yet to execute on it.
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  Speaker 3: December is going to be here regardless.
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  Speaker 5: So when it gets here, we are not walking into
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  Speaker 5: another January carrying the same goals, the same excuses, and
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  Speaker 5: the same unfinished promises. We're walking into 2027 with the receipts.
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  Speaker 5: With proof that we showed up. With proof that we
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  Speaker 5: followed through. And with proof that we can trust ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: That is the great lock-in. And the Commitment Club is
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  Speaker 5: where we're doing it together. With planning, accountability, and a
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  Speaker 5: community that's not going to let you disappear on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Because where you going?
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  Speaker 3: I'm right here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: We begin on September 1st through December 31st. Comment locked
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  Speaker 5: in so you can get more information. We got four
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  Speaker 5: months to create the ending we've all been dreaming about.
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  Speaker 4: The crazy part is, I know people that are actually
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  Speaker 4: doing this. because they don't have, like, even if they
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  Speaker 4: have friends on a day-to-day that are, like, tunnel vision,
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  Speaker 4: working on goals, whatever, they want a more dedicated community
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  Speaker 4: of people to really use September through December 31st to, like,
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  Speaker 4: get past the finish line on a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 4: that they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like this whole summer, this whole year has
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  Speaker 4: been that for me, but for some reason, I feel
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  Speaker 4: like this summer is when I really got, like, super, super, like,
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  Speaker 4: tunnel vision. Like, a lot of things slowed down for
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  Speaker 4: me and a lot of things picked up. Like, I
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  Speaker 4: slowed down on, if I'm out, it's like planned.
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  Speaker 1: Like I plan my fun.
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  Speaker 4: I plan my, I really haven't even been on a
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  Speaker 4: vacation this summer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, April don't count, but the last vacation I
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  Speaker 4: went on, I went to Italy for my boyfriend's birthday,
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  Speaker 4: but April, May, June, July. I, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah. Like I slowed down a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of things that I felt like either I've already been
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  Speaker 4: doing for some time.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I party a lot. I hang out a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's, people be like, you don't have a hobby.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. And I'm learning that I need to get one.
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  Speaker 4: My hobby has always been my social life, like hanging
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  Speaker 4: out with friends, traveling. So right now, because I've decided
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  Speaker 4: to not do as much as that because I need
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  Speaker 4: to get more disciplined with work. Cause I really feel like,
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  Speaker 4: I know we talk about discipline a lot here on
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  Speaker 4: the podcast show, but I really feel like God be
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  Speaker 4: telling me I'm right. I'm like literally right there where
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  Speaker 4: he's about to like, next level new level unlocked but
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  Speaker 4: like i'm still not fully as sharp as.
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  Speaker 1: He needs me that's how i feel in order to
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  Speaker 1: get there like.
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  Speaker 4: So i slowed down a lot of things so that
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  Speaker 4: i could turn up the volume on a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things um even with i have my i had a
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  Speaker 4: consultation for therapist life coach and yeah and i actually
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  Speaker 4: like her i'm not the type though that can do
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  Speaker 4: just a consultation to be like no yes no yes
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  Speaker 4: i want to actually try it so like i'm going
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  Speaker 4: to try a couple sessions with her She seems like
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  Speaker 4: she's going to be an amazing fit. And I always
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  Speaker 4: said that, like, because I've wanted I've been wanting to
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  Speaker 4: start therapy, but I always said that I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: be like led to the person that I think is
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be like my therapist.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it's multiple people and multiple therapists.
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  Speaker 4: But with her, I was speaking at an event and
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  Speaker 4: she was on a panel and I was just like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I wish she was like a therapist. And then she
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  Speaker 4: literally said she was because I didn't know what exactly
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  Speaker 4: she did. I just was listening to the panel she
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  Speaker 4: was on. I missed her intro. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I got to get her information. Beautiful black woman, mother
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  Speaker 4: of four. She has twins, twin girls. But I just
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  Speaker 4: I really like she's been married for 13 years. Like
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  Speaker 4: a lot of her like life principles. I really, really like.
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  Speaker 4: But I also like the fact that like her background
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  Speaker 4: is in trauma therapy, because I think that there is
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  Speaker 4: an essence of like trauma that also makes me sometimes
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  Speaker 4: be so hyper focused. Like I don't like I love
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  Speaker 4: to achieve and I know I want this life for
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  Speaker 4: myself and I'm getting it. But I think sometimes what
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  Speaker 4: I've learned about myself is that my achieving is rooted
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  Speaker 4: in me wanting to feel like I was raised to
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  Speaker 4: like do things and do them well and get in.
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  Speaker 4: And like once you do that, it's like, OK, good job,
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  Speaker 4: good girl. I feel like sometimes I'm out. I'm like
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  Speaker 4: seeking approval, but I get you're saying. I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: like seeking that, like, like I feel best about myself
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  Speaker 4: when I'm achieving at a high level.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to get to a point where regardless
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  Speaker 4: if I'm achieving or I want to, I want to
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  Speaker 4: feel good about myself, whether I'm achieving or if I'm
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  Speaker 4: just living. Like sometimes I think when I take the
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  Speaker 4: time to like do stuff for myself and, and unconnect
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  Speaker 4: and disconnect that isn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Related, um, I don't always it feels good to do it.
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  Speaker 4: But like in hindsight, like if I miss a story
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  Speaker 4: like that happened with me over this past weekend, I
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  Speaker 4: spent the weekend with my family intentionally disconnecting.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, I'm not going to really like do
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  Speaker 1: too much work stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Took my little time on the story and baby, a
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  Speaker 4: big story to the story because I was like.
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  Speaker 1: They came to me first intentionally. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: go nowhere else.
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  Speaker 4: Girl, get out of here. You are not the only
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  Speaker 4: one in this game at all. But that was me
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  Speaker 4: wanting to just kind of like take a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of time too and just like really disconnect. By Sunday, child,
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  Speaker 4: that story was everywhere and I was pissed. I still
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  Speaker 4: did the story when we got back to the breakfast
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  Speaker 4: cup on Monday, but it wasn't mine first anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't own it.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. Not in what I did. It's okay sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: You can let other people have the story before you.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Only because I think it was important if you're spending
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  Speaker 3: time with your family. That's what I'm saying, though. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't like you were just sleeping all day. You
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  Speaker 3: were spending time with family.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it would be different, too, if... Like,
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  Speaker 4: cause sometimes I'll be like, I need to like, there's no,
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing happening. And I want to talk about things
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  Speaker 4: that I like to talk about or like things that
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  Speaker 4: I'm interested in. So I'll go and like create news.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'll literally go, you know, follow up, create some angles,
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  Speaker 4: cold call people.
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  Speaker 1: Like I will do that.
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  Speaker 4: But this was something that like literally landed in my
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  Speaker 4: lap and I didn't follow through.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, girl, what the hell?
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  Speaker 4: Um, the story was about Drake, uh, being the person
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  Speaker 4: that was paying for, um, Dirk's, attorney, Brian Steele, during
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  Speaker 4: his murder for hire trial. And I got the story
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  Speaker 4: Saturday at like 11 in the morning. By Sunday night,
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  Speaker 4: this like, I really can't stand this man. But by
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  Speaker 4: Sunday night, there was a streamer that had broken the
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  Speaker 4: story as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but he broke it first.
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  Speaker 4: And I still did the story Monday, but I was
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  Speaker 4: so annoyed because I'm like, girl, they literally, like Dirk's
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  Speaker 4: team literally had a rep reach out to me and say,
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  Speaker 4: if Lauren would love to clarify this, we would be elated.
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  Speaker 1: And I was, like, going back and forth in my
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  Speaker 1: mind about, like, me not, like, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't know, like, I'm battling with, like, am I losing
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  Speaker 4: the urgency that I've always had? Or am I balancing
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  Speaker 4: priorities in the moment? And, like, what does that honestly
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  Speaker 4: even look like? That's not a real thing in the
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  Speaker 4: world that I work in.
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  Speaker 1: Like, literally.
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  Speaker 4: Like, news don't stop. Things don't stop. Reporting doesn't stop.
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  Speaker 4: Breaking news doesn't stop.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess how I'm looking at it is, like,
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  Speaker 3: you're not losing your accolade because you didn't post that story, though.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not losing, but in my world, you... And I
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  Speaker 4: think that's maybe why I operate well in it.
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  Speaker 1: You only... you're as good as your last story.
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  Speaker 4: It just like, like I'm saying, like the way that
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  Speaker 4: I've always been my whole life is as I'm achieving,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, all right, what's next?
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  Speaker 1: What can I knock off the board?
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  Speaker 4: And now that I'm getting a bit older and want
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  Speaker 4: to be able to like, I like, I want to
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  Speaker 4: pride myself and having peace of mind, not just a mind. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I really want to pride myself in like the life
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  Speaker 4: and the, in the peace and the comfort that I
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  Speaker 4: create for myself because, you know, I'm eventually going to
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  Speaker 4: bring children into that. And I want to have that
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  Speaker 4: ready and set up when I do. Um, but trying
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  Speaker 4: to find that balance has been like a thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for me in, in this season. So I've been locked in.
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  Speaker 4: Like there's people are starting this now and shout out
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  Speaker 4: to all the y'all that are joining in on this challenge.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like I've been locked in this whole, honestly, shoot.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I've been locked in my whole dang life,
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  Speaker 4: but I feel like overly locked in from like May
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  Speaker 4: to June. Now, my, like, lock-in has been different, different. Like,
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  Speaker 4: and even then, I still feel like there's things that
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  Speaker 4: I'm slipping on and, like, things that I intentionally know, like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, I'm supposed to do this. And by the
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  Speaker 4: time I'm done everything else, if I'm exhausted, I'll be like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not doing it. I don't even know, like, at
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  Speaker 4: this point, I don't even know what, like, the next
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  Speaker 4: level of.
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  Speaker 1: Lock-in is going to look like. Like, I don't even have.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even have the room or mental energy to
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  Speaker 4: even fathom what the next level of lock-in looks like.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I know that it's not going to be
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  Speaker 4: a human thing. It's going to be like a God thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be like God literally putting me in
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  Speaker 4: a position and literally allowing me to be able to
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  Speaker 4: tunnel vision in a way that I never had before.
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  Speaker 4: Because I feel like right now I am I am
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  Speaker 4: operating at my like elitist, like not elitist, like because
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  Speaker 4: elitist is a bad word. And that's not the word
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  Speaker 4: you use in a sentence. I'm operating the most disciplined
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  Speaker 4: I know how to. And I'm teaching myself how to
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  Speaker 4: be more disciplined. Anything outside of this, I'm like, God
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  Speaker 4: going to.
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  Speaker 1: Expose me to it to see it because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And he's already kind of started.
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  Speaker 4: Like when we went and did The View, me and Charlamagne,
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  Speaker 4: I was looking and I'm like, these ladies have to
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  Speaker 4: be a different level of sharp because the amount of
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  Speaker 4: like critique, pushback, virality, headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's literally make or break. And they're dealing with like.
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  Speaker 4: Politics and stuff like that. I was asking Charlamagne and
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  Speaker 4: his manager, Karen. I'm like, do y'all think that they
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  Speaker 4: have like people that they go through their, like their
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  Speaker 4: responses with, like how they're going to respond and what
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  Speaker 4: they're going to talk about, how they're going to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Like right now, you know, I kind of craft my
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  Speaker 4: own scripts per se, but I was looking at them. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I know they got like publicists and managers and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: producers and all that because it.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't just matter for them on the show.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, it could literally make or break brand deals
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  Speaker 4: they're getting, other business they're doing. Like, that's a different,
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  Speaker 4: and I even, I was looking at Charlamagne and the
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  Speaker 4: way that he navigated being at The View. And I
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  Speaker 4: was asking him, like, you know, how do you know
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  Speaker 4: when you want to do things like this because we
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  Speaker 4: had had a conversation about you know not gearing not
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  Speaker 4: me not going too much into like the whole like
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  Speaker 4: political sphere because it's a whole different beast and I
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  Speaker 4: understood what he was saying because I was there and
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  Speaker 4: I'm in real life watching them record and hearing the
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  Speaker 4: conversations and then I saw how things picked up after
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  Speaker 4: and how you know certain outlets tried to weaponize things
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  Speaker 4: that were said when it came to you know just
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  Speaker 4: different things that they were talking about in a political
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  Speaker 4: space and I was like this is like you have
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  Speaker 4: to be a different level of like sharp for that
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  Speaker 4: and that's what i'm trying to get to but i
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  Speaker 4: don't even know what that looks like because i feel
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  Speaker 4: like i am doing the best i'm doing everything i
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  Speaker 4: can right now like when mariah be mariah care be
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  Speaker 4: like doing the best i can what i got i
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  Speaker 4: literally feel like that's where i'm at right now but
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  Speaker 4: i also do feel at the same time god being
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  Speaker 4: like yeah but no like once you get these couple
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  Speaker 4: things and he's he's showing me what they are too
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  Speaker 4: So whenever they don't happen, I'm being I'm intentional. It's
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  Speaker 4: intentional that it's not happening. Like I'm making that decision
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  Speaker 4: not to do it. I just know that once I
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  Speaker 4: lock in there, it's going to be different. Like it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be real different. So for the people that
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  Speaker 4: are joining this challenge. kudos to you guys i feel
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  Speaker 4: like coming up on the other side of your lock-in
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  Speaker 4: is a is a it's a there's a different feeling
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  Speaker 4: and you can't go back like you're doing it from
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  Speaker 4: september to december 31st if you guys are joining this
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  Speaker 4: but i think the lock-in that i'm at right now
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  Speaker 4: like i could never operate at a lower level because
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  Speaker 4: now my what is required of me has like leveled
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  Speaker 4: up to that level.
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  Speaker 1: Of discipline yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's i don't know That's where I'm at behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes, y'all. I saw this challenge and I was like, dang,
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  Speaker 4: September to December, bro. I feel like I've been locked
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  Speaker 4: in all my life I had to fight. But it's
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  Speaker 4: a good feeling though. Like it is a good feeling
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  Speaker 4: to get things done. I'm trying to get better at
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  Speaker 4: getting everything done because it's a lot at one time,
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  Speaker 4: especially with me trying to also be the outlet and
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  Speaker 4: be the source that people are attributing things to, which
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  Speaker 4: takes a lot of time and discipline. That's the one
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  Speaker 4: thing too that I think It's going to unlock my
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  Speaker 4: next level of things. I got to really build out
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  Speaker 4: time where like I'm not doing anything but work and
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  Speaker 4: I need to be able to do that like probably
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  Speaker 4: six days a week. And right now, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if that's not happening right now, but I'm on my
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  Speaker 4: way there. And once I get there, that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a different level of things and content and just like.
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  Speaker 1: Exposure and platform, too.
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  Speaker 4: But I also think the reason why God hasn't put
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  Speaker 4: me there yet is because I'm still learning my responsibility
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  Speaker 4: on platform.
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  Speaker 1: Not like you can't do this.
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  Speaker 4: You can't say that in my performative, not like that,
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  Speaker 4: but just in real time, I see the effects of
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  Speaker 4: when you get on these microphones and if done the
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  Speaker 4: right way and not performative, how it can really cause
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  Speaker 4: conversation that helps people that engages people.
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  Speaker 1: When they need it the most. And that like really
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  Speaker 1: registers with people.
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  Speaker 4: Like I have so many people hitting us up about
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  Speaker 4: the skill of baby interview that we did for the
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  Speaker 4: breakfast club. And when I was in the interview, it
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  Speaker 4: just felt like a conversation. And those are the conversations
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: I like to have. We talked about everything from like
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: his mental health to him being shot at and recovering
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: from that, wanting to retaliate and deciding not to, to
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: just his like faith walk. And, you know, some of
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: the people that have like come into his life to
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: kind of help him understand where he is and things.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: And he was talking about being locked in with God
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: and why he is right now. We should play that
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: clip here. But these type of conversations, I know I'm like,
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: this is what God has me here for. Like all
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: the other stuff is great. And, you know, I think
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: you need to there's the entertainment side of this. But
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: those type of conversations and I swear, like in my soul,
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: I'm like, OK, this is why.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm always trying to figure out.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: What's my why behind this microphone and I'm like those
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: type of conversations is it like we're young but we
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: have a conversations about like God and faith and and
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: even if you remove the God part of it which
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't do but you know if you are a
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: listener and that's what you do even if you remove
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: that you can't escape the fact that like there's a
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: person in front of you that is evolving learning and
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: growing in real time and being so honest about in
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: front of the world that is not easy at.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: All I'm going to stress different paths with life.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: You don't feel like you're there in life? I feel like...
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Taylor made it. It's with a show.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: Hi, y'all.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: I just feel like my path is different. I'm really
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: trying to make more of myself. What do you mean?
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Like, trying to make... You're doing amazing.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think I'm... I realize I'm about to
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: make a shift in my career, so.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: That's where I'm at.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: But see, but even that, though, a shift in your
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: career is so spiritual.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Like, what you need to do and what I did,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: because I didn't know. That's what I mean by, like,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: I be feeling it. And I know, like, God be
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: showing me stuff, but I don't really be knowing. I
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: just be feeling it. But what I did was I
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: got really, really locked in on my faith walk with God. Like,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I was raised up in the church, but, like,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I was like, nah, like, I need to, like, bear
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: it all.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like where I'm at right now is hard
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: right now. Like, it's really hard.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Why is it hard?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Just because of all the obstacles right now I have. Like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: being grateful for what I have is what I'm trying
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: to learn a lot more. Could I be, like, so, like,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I want this, I want this. But, like, not fully
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: appreciating what I have and moving up to other things
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I would would like to have, not need. A lot
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: of it, a lot of stuff I, I would like
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: to have is just wants more than need. Cause I
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: feel like I have everything I need, but I want
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: a lot more stuff though.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: And it's not that wrong with wanting more things.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Like I, I have to always go back and forth
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: with myself about that as well too. Like I always
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: think about this, um, this question, um, And I kind
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: of want to create a conversation series out of it
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: But like what.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: What would I tell other young, ambitious people that are
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: trying to figure it out and that are in the grind?
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: But that's why I started doing the made a series, though,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: because it's not like I like hearing other people's perspectives,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: especially people that other fans or whatever may look up to.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: but it helps me to like, to like bring me,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: humble me too, in a sense.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: But I think, I think one of the things though,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: like even when you think about, okay, so Taylor made it,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: who is our podcast producer here.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: She has a Made It series that she releases on
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: your Instagram and your YouTube. How do they find it?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: You go on YouTube, TaylorMadeItProductions, and my IG and on
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: TikTok with TaylorMadeIt.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: So in the series, she's talking to celebrities and influencers
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: about their Made It, like, I Made It moment, right?
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: But what I think is.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: so crazy about the conversation of made it. Number one,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: it's subjective because what is made it to you, it
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: might not be made it to me. And it also,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: as you grow, it changes. I'm sure your made it
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: changed when you became a mom.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: For sure. Even before you became a mom. As you aged.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: For me right now, that's what I'm saying.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I thought when I decided to make a pivot, I
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: was just like, I just want to have a peace
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of mind. Cause I felt like I was always, it
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: was all, it was just always something when I was
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: in LA and I began to love LA, but it
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: was just not, impossible for me to be there with
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: my family being here and needing so much. And I
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: couldn't really focus. So that was my, like, I was like,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I don't care what I do as long as I
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: get back closer so I can like exhale a bit.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: And now that I'm back closer, it's like, all right,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: God was like, yeah, but like, we about to ramp
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: it up. Like I literally have to plan time to
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: be with my family now, but I'm so much more
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: intentional about that. And I feel so accomplished when I
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: do it that my made it right now. It's not,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: just about the money and maybe I feel like that
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: because God has also blessed me where like you know
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I don't have everything I want to get to but
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: like God has blessed me to be able to take
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: care of myself from what I love to do and
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: take care of people I love my made it right
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: now is like all right can I get all my
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: work done be at the top of my game still
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: be disciplined but also go take a weekend and be
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: with my mom right And my grandma and my family.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Me and my cousins did a road trip down to D.C.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: for my cousin Artie's birthday. And it just was like us.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And it just felt so good. It felt like being young.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Just hanging with your cousin.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And I was looking at the stairs and I'm like,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: look at her.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We had such a good time. But we didn't even
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: do nothing.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: We literally rolled down to D.C., went to my cousin's party,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: got drunk, got up, left, and got back home.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But it just felt good.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Was this quality time? Yes.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: But that's, like, my made it now.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: And, like, you know, now I'm thinking about, like, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I want to own property more.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And, like, it just changes so much.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: And, like, one of my, like, people that I look
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: to the most in this, well, I used to. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: don't even know her. But I used to. I feel
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: like I used to do it more when I didn't.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Like Charlamagne and Envy are like really big inspiration for me.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Like I literally watch.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Everything they do, how they are with their families, how
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: they save their money, how they invest their money, how
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: they maneuver the radio conversations like it like so much.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: And being with them so closely, I feel like like.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: A lot of my other inspirations that I have, like
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Issa Rae.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: That's my idol.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: One of my biggest.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: And I look at a person like her and everything
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: that she's doing and been able to do. And she
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: does so much at one time at a very high level.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, how the hell does she figure all
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: of this out?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I think, though, I've seen a clip of her kind
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: of saying, too, that she takes breaks a lot.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: With Kevon Sage? She was talking to Kevon Sage?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Maybe. I don't remember.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I don't remember who it was, but I remember.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: She was just saying, like, no, it wasn't Kevin Statham.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: It was a girl. She was a writer, and she
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: put her on Rap Shit. She was one of the
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: girls on that. I forgot her name, though. But she
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: made her a main character on the show, and she's
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: also a writer. But she was explaining to her, like,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I take long breaks. It's okay to take breaks, basically,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: before a project. I think that's what you have to do,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: especially as a creator as well. How do you get
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: into a creative headspace?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I need a good three and a half days to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: be on a roll. When I'm first starting, I know
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going to procrastinate. I'm going to find all the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: reasons why it's hard and justify.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Taking a walk or going out to eat. That's all
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: helping me. The creative process. And it really is.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: You like, and you know, yeah, I get my favorite sandwich.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: While I'm chewing, you're like processing it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like all of those things I have to accept
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and not beat myself up about the fact.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: That I did not do anything all day. Okay.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And then the next day, especially if I know I
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: only have three and a half days and I'm like, okay,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I got to make up for the next day and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I won't force myself to sit down.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I like to freehand. You write things.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I journal a lot. I journal, yes. Even now, when
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I'm talking to you, when I'm prepared.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Yours is very neat. Do you have an ugly page?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I got a couple.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just needed to know for myself.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I knew this might show, so I had to clean
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: it up a little bit. Same, same, same.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, like that, it feels like a lost form
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to me and it just makes me one with the process.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And then by that third day, when I know that deadline,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: anytime I know a deadline is up, that's when I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: do it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: But see, that's what I'm saying though. Like, I can't
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: take a break right now. This is not my, this
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: is not my season of taking a break.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's different paths too, y'all.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: But that's why, like, my mated right now is just like, yo,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: if I can get a weekend in of feeling good
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: and being with the family, like, or like, you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Know, a quick little trip somewhere.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I feel good.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: If I can get all my tasks done, record the
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: podcast episodes ahead of.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Time, not be... Sometimes I.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: And I never be wanting to say it out loud
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: because I never want God to think I'm complaining. But
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: sometimes I be so burnt out from conversation because I'm
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: having them all day now for work that, like, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: start to think about, like.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: You don't have energy for.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Energy, but.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Also, like, I never want the fun to leave something.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Like, I, at one point, I remember I was so
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: burnt out because I was doing so much outside of
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: the podcast and the Breakfast Club because I just was like, man,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: opportunity here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I can't pass these things up.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: But I burnt myself out so bad trying to get
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: acclimated and going through the hazing of Charlemagne. At the
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Breakfast Club, but also everything outside of it, trying to
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: do a daily podcast and a Diddy trial was happening
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: at the same time. When I said I was burnt out,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: like I was literally like, like I remember one day
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I was driving home and I was like falling asleep.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: And I was like, bro, you got it. Like, like
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I get it. You feel like you can't miss nothing,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: but like you also got to be alive to feel it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: And my mom always reminds me of that because like
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I had, you know, episode when everything was happening with
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: her when she was sick and I was just so
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: stressed out and I was just doing too much.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And I fainted and I had never done that.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: And I sent myself to the hospital and because I
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: know what that burnout point feels like, I know when
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I'm getting there.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: So I literally just like, stop. Like I won't, now
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I just, I'll stop. I won't answer my phone. I
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: won't anything.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: But the way that my work is set up, I
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: can't do that. Like, so I'm trying to get my
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: regimen strict and my program strict.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: So that I don't lose the fun in this.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I'm regulating and doing things just as much as I
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: need to and not burning myself out. I know that, like,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: pivots might happen. Like, you're pivoting currently. Like, do you
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: know what you feel like your pivot is going to
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: be going into? I think this is that season, too.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: We talked about this on a podcast episode. I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: this is a season of change for a lot of people.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Um.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Not talking about behind. Well, I asked.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Did you know, because a lot of times I feel
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: like people will feel that the season of pivot is
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: here for them, but they don't know where to go.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I'm, like, in between, though. Like, I know what I
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: want to do. It's just, um... getting myself there to
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: do it. Like when I say like having a child now,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: it makes me also want to spend a lot of
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: time with him because, because those days are not going
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: to come back. Like, and time goes really fast. And
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: on top of that too, I think to be honest,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: like My grandma passing, I think, has a lot to
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: do with, like, my mental.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I saw you post that yesterday.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, it was her... It's her year anniversary now
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: that she hasn't been here.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And, like....
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: She was such a big, um.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: How do I say? I don't want to say, like, character,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: but just a big influence for a lot of me
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: and my... Like, not just my life, but just my family. Like,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: just even my cousins. Like, that was our mom.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: So.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Understanding that time does go fast is also, like you
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: were just saying, spending time with your family. She's the
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: backbone of your family. Yeah, that's what I want to say.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: The backbone, for sure. And it just makes me think
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: a lot more about... Just really spending time with family. Like,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: that really matters to me a lot.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: You never going to feel like you do enough of it, though.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: But then on top of that, too, you got to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: provide for yourself.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: You got a kid. Right. Like, you out here hustling
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: But then at the same time, I feel like I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: also pulling back. Like, I used to be a crazy workaholic.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And understanding, too, that, like, work can't be everything.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That's hard for me.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I know. But then I get bummed at myself when
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not doing enough. But then, like, almost
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: feeling guilty that I took a break.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: You know what's crazy?
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Naomi Osaka was just talking about this. Because, you know, guys,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: the U.S. Open is happening. So all the tennis girlies...
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: or at the U.S. Open doing their damn thing. And
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Naomi Osaka, I saw a headline where she was talking
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: about how she feels like tennis is a hobby now.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Because being a mom is her full-time job now.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I never respected mothers so much until I had one.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It's such a change.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I just started thinking about so much more stuff now.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I want to have a conversation with my mom, who
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: she was before tennis. Cause all I know is she's
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: my mom. You know what I mean? Like what was
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: she before?
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I feel like my mom had tries to have those
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: conversations with me, but like, it's always in like spurts. Like,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: like if something happens or if we like, like, I
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: don't know, like she, we've never just sat down and
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: she's just like went through all the things, but like,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I know the things are there.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: But I don't know what that's even like. You know
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like you are in it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: It's like a lot. You are a mom.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I've never experienced anxiety like how I have right now.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Or I guess these past two years. It's such a different.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I'm grateful for it, but it's like I'm a Taurus
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: and we don't like change like that. So all these
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: changes that's happening, it's a lot for me. I'll be
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: honest with you. Like mentally, it's like, wow. I'm getting
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: through it, though.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: But you know what'll happen, though, is you'll get so
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: used to navigating through all the change and the craziness
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: that you'll feel like, I mean, once you get through
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: this season of your life, I mean, I think you
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: probably already feel like this because you went and you
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: had a whole human out of your body.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: But, like, you'll feel like, yo, I could do anything.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: No, for sure. Like, that's what, even when it comes
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to mine, I was like, um, I need, I need more. Like, you,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I have another, sense of respect for myself that people
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I feel like need to also like it's just it's
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of thoughts go to my
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: mind than what it was before but you know.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: It'd be like that yeah I'm grateful for everything She said.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: We shouldn't put this audio, but I want to read
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: it to you so you can hear. She said, I
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: think people forget that my main job is to be
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: a mom. This tennis is kind of like my side
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: hustle a little bit. I just happen to be really
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: good at it. And then she smiled. This is Naomi Osaka.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: And I, you know, what's crazy is I feel like
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: last year at the U.S. Open, you know, she she
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: was she's always very open about like her her mental
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: health struggles and dealing with the change of being a
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: mom and having this high pressure career. And like she's
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: at the top of her game. And I feel like
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: last year at the U.S. Open, we watched her. you know, like,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: we watched her go through some things. She was returning
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: to certain matches, and there was just a lot of
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: conversation around her and some of the things that she
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: was dealing with last year. But this year, I feel
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: like she has, and I would love to be able
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to talk to her. I know it's probably like a
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: hoop dream, but I feel like this year, even like her, like,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna call it a tunnel look, because that's what
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: they call it in basketball, but Even her fits.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to ask you, the fit that
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: she recently had with... Ally Iverson? Yeah, what was that
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: supposed to be about?
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: She was.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Hold on, let me pull it up. For her first
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: round match, she collaborated with Law Roach.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I love Law.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: And the brand Who Decides War, which is a black-owned brand,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: by the way. And they did a really customized basketball design.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: So she did. So it was two things she did. First,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: she wore a T-shirt. No, I'm sorry. First, she did
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the walk on gown. So she entered the stadium wearing.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: This white tulle skirt paired with this like gray terry
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: like robe.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And all of it was in her honoring Allen Iverson.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: You're wearing an.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Allen Iverson shirt.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: What are your thoughts about who Allen Iverson was? when
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: he played and who he's been since.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, for me, he's a trailblazer.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: I think he's also someone that I look up to
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: a lot because he's kind of like done a lot
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: in fashion, whether it's on purpose or not, but he's
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: shifted the way that NBA players dress. And I also
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: think like the whole conversation around clothes in sports and
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: also just expressing yourself through style. I feel like he's
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: someone that I look up to in that regard.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Have you had to communicate with him, if any?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Zero right now, but hopefully he'll see this.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Allen Iverson, you know, she's a big fan of him.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: But I think, you know, with Allen Iverson, he trailblazed
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: a path and he shifted how athletes approach fashion and self-expression.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: And I think.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: This year, watching her in the U.S. Open with her
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: fits and all the content she's doing around being there.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: She was doing stuff before, but it feels like right
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: now she's in her... She's had to pivot a bit
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: and change who she was, but she's in it. She's
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: in it now. Last year, I felt like she was
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: in it and she was figuring a lot of things
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: out because she was returning and she was a mom.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Over these last couple years, she's returning, she was a mom,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: all the things. Right now, it feels like she's in
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: her groove of it. She's not afraid of the pivot.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: And the pivot, I mean, she's still playing tennis, but
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: she's a mother now. Like, there's a pivot within something
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: that she's already been doing. I think that that's important, too,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: when people realize that, like, sometimes it's not even about, like,
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: completely moving from where you are and what you're doing.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: And how you've been doing it, it might just be
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: upping what you're already in. And that's a season, like,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I've been in a lot of just, like, trying to, like,
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: really polish and hone in on the craft.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And I think... That can be a pivot. That can
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: be what you feel.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: But, like, regardless of what it is, the fact that
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: you feel it and you know it and you're dedicating yourself.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: To it, you've already, like... Like, you already... Half the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: battle is already won. And people will feel that.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Because I know I've been watching Naomi Osaka across my
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Instagram timeline.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And her energy just feels a lot more like....
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I know who I am.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. A lot more sure right now.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: And which is crazy to say about her because she's,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: you know, she's become such an icon in the sport.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: But everybody goes through their stuff. You know what I'm saying?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Like everybody goes through their stuff. So, so yeah. Well,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that was another episode of the latest one on the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Rosa y'all.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: I tell you guys every single episode y'all could be
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: anywhere with any old body doing all of the things,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: but you guys choose to be right here with me,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: my low riders.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you and I'll catch you in my next one.