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INTERVIEW: Shanti Das Talks 'Silence The Shame' Initiative, Individual Grief Journeys, New App + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club. Yep, it's the world's mos dangerous morning
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  Speaker 2: to show to Breakfast Club CHARLAMAGNEA God, just hilarious. Dj Envy
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  Speaker 2: is off today. But you know, May fifth is not
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  Speaker 2: just single to mile, it is National Silence to Shame Day.
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  Speaker 2: So we could not have National Silence to Shame Day
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  Speaker 2: be happening without talking to the founder of Silence to Shame,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Shanty Dos. Good morning, Shanty.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. It's so good to be here.
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  Speaker 2: How you feeling have you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling good. It's a little cool in New York,
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  Speaker 3: but feeling good. God woke me up this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so bipolar Hea. And in New York, like
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  Speaker 1: two days ago, girl was like ninety threes and then
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  Speaker 1: now it will be forty nine today.
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  Speaker 3: It's like that in the A two a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: But congratulations to you. Is honor to be on the
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  Speaker 3: show with you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Now May fifth is National Silence
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  Speaker 2: to Shame Day for the people who are new here.
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  Speaker 2: What is National Silence to Shame Day? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: So you know my nonprofit Silence to Shame we exist
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  Speaker 3: to empower and educate communities around mental health and wellness,
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  Speaker 3: and so I made up my own day seventeen and
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  Speaker 3: we got like ninety million impressions that year, and so
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  Speaker 3: I thought, okay, let me apply to the National Day register.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a day of awareness. It's actually an official day,
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  Speaker 3: and so we utilize that day to really continue to
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  Speaker 3: normalize the conversation, encourage people to post, encourage people to
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  Speaker 3: donate to our organization because we are still a small
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  Speaker 3: nonprofit doing mighty work, and we also have an app
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  Speaker 3: coming out on mak lived. So yeah, so I'm really
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  Speaker 3: excited about it. Two years ago we partnered with Dereil
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  Speaker 3: Booker at Microsoft and they included us in their global hackathon,
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  Speaker 3: and so here we are two years later. It's a
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  Speaker 3: free mental health app call Silence the Shame. If you
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  Speaker 3: have an iPhone or an Android, you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: download it and it's going to have like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: daily content, updated mindfulness moments, daily dosage. So we might
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  Speaker 3: be able to you know, repurpose content from a lot
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  Speaker 3: of our old community conversations, new conversations. As you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've had a lot of artists to supports and athletes,
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  Speaker 3: and so we want to be able to put that
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  Speaker 3: content back out there. In addition to new content, of course,
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  Speaker 3: educate the community around different mental health challenges and be
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  Speaker 3: able to push resources. And again, the goal is to
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  Speaker 3: provide accessibility because so many people in our community still
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  Speaker 3: don't have access to the basics like Wi Fi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I like that idea because so many
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  Speaker 2: people are also addicted to their phones, and we know
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  Speaker 2: that social media is causing so many mental health issues.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're already addicted, why not give them something
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  Speaker 2: good to make a habit every day?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and as you said, you know this smartphone right here,
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  Speaker 3: you know is challenging for some, but it can save
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  Speaker 3: lives as well. So we want to meet people where
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  Speaker 3: they're at. That's why we're so excited about the app.
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  Speaker 3: And then also we're going to be doing Instagram lives
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  Speaker 3: all day again continuing to normalize the conversations. So we're
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  Speaker 3: going to be talking to Christa Renee, the actress from
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  Speaker 3: Sisters who is our official ambassador. Also doctor Raquel Martin
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  Speaker 3: who is a phenomenal Sister out of Tennessee and she
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  Speaker 3: is a psychologist. My brother Ronnie, who is also a
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  Speaker 3: board member of Silence and Shame Your Girl, My Girl,
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  Speaker 3: Angela R's gonna come on and talk. We're gonna just
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  Speaker 3: do like ten minute segments Lamar Rutger, ESPN host L Duncan,
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  Speaker 3: Our Boy King, J Barnett, and so many others. So
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  Speaker 3: we're just gonna open up, you know, the ig lives
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully get people to either share or just learn
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about why these people focus on mental health.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing I am excited about is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this generation is openly talking about it. Right. One of
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  Speaker 3: my friends said his son is ten years old and
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  Speaker 3: was like, Dad, you know, I think I need to
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  Speaker 3: talk to somebody. No, wow years old.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter does that at eight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so and then it's a testament to you too, right,
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  Speaker 3: You're you're you're normalizing the conversation right in your own household,
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  Speaker 3: and we have to continue to do that. But I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even just from still talking to some of
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  Speaker 3: my colleagues and the music business and other places, the
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  Speaker 3: resources are there, but not everybody are using them true health.
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  Speaker 2: Like my oldest is fifteen, and she started she was
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  Speaker 2: talking people that talk to a dervis at thirteen, and
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  Speaker 2: not because anything is necessarily wrong, it's just like why
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  Speaker 2: not like I treat it like I treat it like
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  Speaker 2: going to the gym.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And to that point, our theme this year for National
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  Speaker 3: Silence to Shame Day and Mental Health Awareness MNUTH is
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  Speaker 3: redefining mental wellness, simply put, making sure everyone knows that
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  Speaker 3: it affects your overall well being, your mental, your physical,
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  Speaker 3: and your spiritual life. It's nothing that like people say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know about that thing mental health. No, we all
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  Speaker 3: have mental health. It's how you think, how you act,
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  Speaker 3: and how you feel. So we just want to kind
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  Speaker 3: of redefine it and celebrate, like taking that journey of
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  Speaker 3: your emotional well being and making it a part of
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  Speaker 3: your everyday regimen.
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  Speaker 2: What have you learned new about yourself over the past
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  Speaker 2: year in regards to mindfulness and mental health.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I learned that one I am a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more of an introvert than I thought I was, like
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  Speaker 3: kind of being out there and having to promote. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I from doing like my prayer and meditation
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, that I really like kind of being
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  Speaker 3: by myself. I like to travel by myself of those
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  Speaker 3: introspective moments, and it's important for me to start my
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  Speaker 3: mornings like that, in the quiet, in the still, without
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  Speaker 3: the noise, and I used to be the girl like
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  Speaker 3: I'm on every let me see what's going on Instagram,
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  Speaker 3: Like I would start my day like this, almost sleeping
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  Speaker 3: like this, And I realized, like I need that peace
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  Speaker 3: and quiet and I need to embrace those, you know,
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  Speaker 3: moments where I feel like an introvert or where I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I need to just find that balance within
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  Speaker 3: myself before I even start calling people or texting or
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  Speaker 3: sending emails or taking meetings, like I need that quiet time.
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  Speaker 3: And I really realized, like I.
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  Speaker 2: Love myself, that I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think we, you know, for the first
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  Speaker 3: times we had to sit still. Some of us were
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  Speaker 3: with family members, some of us were by ourselves, and
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  Speaker 3: you had to really figure out, like I really like myself.
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  Speaker 3: Am I proud of the person that I am? How
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  Speaker 3: am I handling things? And so I just had to
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  Speaker 3: take some hard looks at myself and really work on
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  Speaker 3: getting to be the person that I wanted to because
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  Speaker 3: you know, I've been in and out of there, you know,
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  Speaker 3: over the years. I'm still grieving the loss of my
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  Speaker 3: mom and sister the last five years, but just being
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  Speaker 3: able to celebrate and know that I'm enough, and it
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  Speaker 3: took a while for me to sit there and feel
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  Speaker 3: like I was enough, Because you're walking away from the
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  Speaker 3: music business. Who does that, you know, at the height
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  Speaker 3: of their career, And there were times where I felt
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  Speaker 3: like I was less than seeing my peers still in
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  Speaker 3: it and you know, not necessarily having the same amount
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  Speaker 3: of you know, commas behind those you know, dollar signs
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  Speaker 3: and doing something different. But I'm out here doing God's work.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm doing my purpose driven work, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm just really excited to be working alongside such great
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  Speaker 3: team members. We have six staff members of Silenced. A shame,
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  Speaker 3: but like that's such a blessing. Like I walked away
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  Speaker 3: from it all, I left.
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  Speaker 2: It all, but just work is more fulfilling.
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  Speaker 3: Though it is, And I have my own staff, I'm
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  Speaker 3: my own boss, and we're saving lives now.
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  Speaker 2: Shanty just recently, sadly, you had another passing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hip hop had another passing, the great Reco Wade and
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  Speaker 2: you you worked.
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  Speaker 3: For Ego while worked with rig Because I got hired
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  Speaker 3: at La Face Records in nineteen ninety three and met
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  Speaker 3: at La Reid introduced me to organized noise in a
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  Speaker 3: little group called Outcasts, and he was like, these are
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  Speaker 3: your guys, this is what you're gonna be responsible for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, promotions and then and then eventually doing marketing,
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  Speaker 3: and so meeting Rico for the first time, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: he is so Atlanta, but he was so passionate and
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  Speaker 3: he was really like the spokesperson for Organized Noise. Ray
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  Speaker 3: and Pat shout out as a Ray and Pat, but
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  Speaker 3: they were mostly you know, in the studio, but Rico
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  Speaker 3: was the one coming up to the label taking the meetings.
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  Speaker 3: And I, Lily literally used to go to the dungeon.
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  Speaker 3: And we've all seen pictures of the original It's red
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  Speaker 3: clay on the floor, right, plaques and speakers all around.
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  Speaker 3: But those were like incredible moments and who knew the
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  Speaker 3: impact that they would have on Southern hip hop. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Rico always said, you know, we always had Southern rap
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  Speaker 3: in Atlanta, but the trajectory of Southern hip hop really
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  Speaker 3: changed after Outcasts and Goodie Matt were born, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: all because of Organized Noise.
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  Speaker 2: And it was really red clay on the Florida studio.
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  Speaker 3: It was really red clay.
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  Speaker 2: So y'all took your shoes off, of course, no, y'all
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  Speaker 2: kett my.
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  Speaker 3: Shoes on and it was funny because I was always
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  Speaker 3: myself and Diddy Hibler, who is Peaches on the first
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  Speaker 3: Outcast album. We were kind of like the only chicks
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  Speaker 3: that was around, the only girls a lot. But all
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  Speaker 3: the guys treated me with respect, and you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was just such a creative, you know, feeling when you
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  Speaker 3: were down, and just the magic that came out of
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  Speaker 3: the dungeon was really dope. They even like at one
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  Speaker 3: time named their label Red Clay Record, so like there
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  Speaker 3: was a whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how did the passing a regal wave impact you personally?
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  Speaker 3: It was really difficult. I remember getting that call excuse
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  Speaker 3: me a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 3: and I just it was like time stood still, and
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  Speaker 3: I had just talked to Rico, like a few weeks
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  Speaker 3: before that. Excuse me. I had just talked to Rico
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  Speaker 3: a few weeks before that, and we were gonna do
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  Speaker 3: some things together, and he was just so energetic because
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  Speaker 3: he was a little sick as well. In February he
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  Speaker 3: had had surgery and he felt like, you know, that guy,
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  Speaker 3: I had given him another chance, and I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 3: now God was preparing him to welcome him into the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: Little did we know.
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  Speaker 3: But I cried a lot. You know, I went over
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  Speaker 3: to the Dungeon I mean, to the studio that day
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  Speaker 3: to see Big Boy and Killer Mike and some of
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  Speaker 3: the family members in the Dungeon family. It really is
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  Speaker 3: like a family. We may not always talk every day,
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  Speaker 3: but we came up together. We were kids in this industry,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like we changed the world. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like look at Atlanta now, it is still you know.
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  Speaker 3: I know New York is the birthplace, and I give
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  Speaker 3: New York all the props and the mecca of hip hop,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like this generation, you know, Atlanta is
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  Speaker 3: still setting the tone and the trends of hip hop.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's undeniable, and we have Rico Aid and
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  Speaker 3: Organized Noise to thank for that.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to grief, you know, could you give
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  Speaker 2: some give people tips on dealing with grief because you
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  Speaker 2: dealt with a lot of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, so I tell people, you know, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: grief is an individual journey. We all go through it,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a loss of loved ones, family members, etc.
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  Speaker 3: And you got to like really process it in your
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  Speaker 3: own way. It can hit you in so many different instances.
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  Speaker 3: And also the thing about grief, I tell people, you
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  Speaker 3: never get over it. You just find pathways forward. So
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  Speaker 3: being able to talk to a grief counselor but in
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  Speaker 3: your own time. It took me about four months or
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  Speaker 3: five months after my sister passed before I was ready
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  Speaker 3: to see a grief counselor. The other thing, too, is
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  Speaker 3: you have to set boundaries for yourself because people mean well,
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  Speaker 3: but oftentimes when people pass away and I've fallen victim
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  Speaker 3: to this, you just don't know what to say. But
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  Speaker 3: sometimes those things that you say can come off hurtful
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  Speaker 3: and insensitive. So you just have to set your personal
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  Speaker 3: and professional boundaries. And also, you know a lot of times,
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  Speaker 3: you know, companies will give you only three days and
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  Speaker 3: you have to come back to work. You might need
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  Speaker 3: some mental health days, you know, to continue. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you'll be ready to go back to work
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  Speaker 3: after losing a child, or a husband, or a spouse
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  Speaker 3: or a sibling. I mean, losing my sister and my
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  Speaker 3: mom was one of the worst things that ever happened
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  Speaker 3: to me, and so it took me time. And so
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  Speaker 3: I tell people grief on your own timetable. Just this
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  Speaker 3: past December and I'm gonna relaunch it. Literally a week
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  Speaker 3: before Christmas, got placed on my spirit to write a
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  Speaker 3: book because I feel like the holidays are really tough,
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  Speaker 3: and so I wrote a book just giving people tips.
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  Speaker 3: It was called have Yourself a Merry Little Grief Miss,
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  Speaker 3: and it was tips on navigating grief through the holidays.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to re release that and just again
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  Speaker 3: it's about grieving in your own time and your own space,
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  Speaker 3: but also letting people in. Sometimes just having a friend
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  Speaker 3: come in to sit. They ain't gonna say nothing, they
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  Speaker 3: can just be sitting there, and just knowing that their
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  Speaker 3: presence is there can help you not to feel so
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  Speaker 3: isolated and alone.
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  Speaker 2: What tips would you give women who are coming to
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  Speaker 2: work and they're pregnant and you know, like say after
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  Speaker 2: nine am they don't feel like being bothered anymore, would
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  Speaker 2: like the job, and you know, you get quiet and
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  Speaker 2: like don't want to talk.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, what would what tips would you give
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  Speaker 2: to women?
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  Speaker 3: First of all, you got to give yourself grace, because
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  Speaker 3: every day is different. We have to give ourselves grace,
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  Speaker 3: and our colleagues have to give you know, their employees
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  Speaker 3: or whoever's experiencing that grace because every day is different,
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  Speaker 3: and for women that are pregnant, you know, your hormones
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  Speaker 3: are all over the place. And for somebody like me,
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  Speaker 3: the auntie in the room, I'm fifty three, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: dealing menopause and there are some mornings where like my
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  Speaker 3: mental health and my thoughts are racing and all over
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  Speaker 3: the place, and so I just tell people, like I
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  Speaker 3: think it's okay to say, hey, you know what, it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those days, like y'all know that, Like I
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  Speaker 3: love y'all, but I'm not feeling my best self today,
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  Speaker 3: so please give me that grace that I need. It's
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  Speaker 3: not personal. I'm not trying to be a bee or anything.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just having a moment, and that's what I think
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really vocalize it, you know, just because you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is my job and I love the people I
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  Speaker 1: work with, you know what I'm saying, And so even me,
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  Speaker 1: it's just something yeah, even yeah. So like I I
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  Speaker 1: do feels and I'm six months pregnant now in my
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  Speaker 1: third trimester, and I'm like, it gets thank you, It
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  Speaker 1: gets harder getting up every morning gets harder and harder,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because baby's growing. I can't sleep on my
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  Speaker 1: stomach of course, and sometimes not most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: not even my side. So don't get properized.
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  Speaker 3: But girl, just be a lot. You gotta be kind
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  Speaker 3: to yourself. Yeah. We just had a for so May Firsus,
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  Speaker 3: a Black Children's Mental Health Day in the state of
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  Speaker 3: Georgia on path of Sileunch of Shame, and we had
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  Speaker 3: an art contest with kids and the thing was a
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  Speaker 3: kind mind. And so you got to be kind to
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  Speaker 3: yourself when you have to realize, like every day our
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  Speaker 3: emotions are going to be different. You don't know what's
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  Speaker 3: going to be triggering you. You don't know how you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be feeling. And so if we just at
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  Speaker 3: least have that open dialogue and tell each other what
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  Speaker 3: we're experiencing, we don't have to share it all and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, I need a little grace today, give
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  Speaker 3: me some space, and I'll be back to myself tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: It's just about being open and communicating. Communication is key.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that because I don't feel like when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to women being pregnant, we always look at
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  Speaker 2: it as a physical thing, but we don't focus on
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  Speaker 2: the mental and emotional toll it takes, especially women that
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  Speaker 2: are getting up every day going to work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and women in general, especially Black women, we have
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  Speaker 3: so much to deal with, even from a medical perspective,
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  Speaker 3: like showing up and making sure that we're getting in
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  Speaker 3: the proper care. We talk about maternal health and that
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  Speaker 3: sort of thing. And so again, let's support our Black
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  Speaker 3: women and even just black women in the workplace in general.
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  Speaker 3: We have to We always show up and people think
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  Speaker 3: we're the super women, right, And so my message this
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  Speaker 3: morning to all my sisters out there, especially sisters of color,
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  Speaker 3: give yourself permission to take that cape off right and
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  Speaker 3: to be who you.
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  Speaker 2: Need to be.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a really dangerous narrative when they're always
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  Speaker 3: talking about the strong black woman. Yes, we are strong.
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  Speaker 3: We've been resilient since the days of slavery. But if
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  Speaker 3: we don't allow ourselves to pour back in to have
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  Speaker 3: those moments where we have to navigate through our tough
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  Speaker 3: feelings and to give ourselves permission to see a therapist
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  Speaker 3: or to give ourself permission to see I mean, to
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  Speaker 3: set those boundaries in place, it could be really dangerous
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  Speaker 3: for us in the workplace. Within our families with you know,
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  Speaker 3: with spouses and loved ones and couples. You gotta take
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  Speaker 3: time to just stop and quiet the noise and be
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  Speaker 3: okay with just being who we are. We don't always
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  Speaker 3: have to be up and show up and be strong
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  Speaker 3: every single day because life be lifing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. How can we support Silence to Shame
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  Speaker 2: on this Sunday May fifth?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So a couple things. So, first of all, visit
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  Speaker 3: our website silencedoshame dot com or follow us at Silence
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  Speaker 3: to Shame on Instagram. We're having these virtual banners again
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  Speaker 3: so you can upload your own photo or video so
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  Speaker 3: you can become a mental health champion. You can text
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  Speaker 3: the words silence s I L E n CE To donate,
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  Speaker 3: you text the word silence to seven O seven O
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  Speaker 3: seven o. And then also check out our Instagram lives.
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  Speaker 3: Like I mentioned, so many great people from Crystal Renee
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  Speaker 3: to angela Rie to King j Burnett, El Duncan and
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  Speaker 3: so many others. And let's continue this conversation. You know,
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  Speaker 3: May fifth is really the launch and kickoff, but you
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  Speaker 3: know we're in this to win at twenty four to
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  Speaker 3: seven and we're trying to do this work and the
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  Speaker 3: last thing is download our app. It's free. Don't judge us, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: It's the first iteration, so you know how technology is.
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  Speaker 3: But let's celebrate the fact that there is another resource,
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  Speaker 3: particularly for communities of color, that provides, you know, free
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  Speaker 3: content and wellness strategies. And I also just want to
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  Speaker 3: shout out a lot of our hip hop friends, like
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  Speaker 3: a Little John or one undred three thousand that are
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  Speaker 3: doing these albums right to me that are from a
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  Speaker 3: place of wellness and meditation. And shout out to Frank
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  Speaker 3: Ski who just released an album called Climate Change. I
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  Speaker 3: tell y'all, it's like different sounds from around the world,
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  Speaker 3: the Great Barrier, reef and different things. But it's so
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  Speaker 3: dope and I've started my morning for the last week
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  Speaker 3: with it and it just puts me in such a
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  Speaker 3: great place of comm It's like nine tracks. So I
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  Speaker 3: just love that, like our black men are really leaning
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  Speaker 3: into mindfulness and meditation. And again we have people like
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  Speaker 3: you Charlemagne to think because you post about it, you
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  Speaker 3: talk about it, and you really live, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: a place of wellness and peace. And I love you
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Shanty. You love the work that you're doing too.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure you support Shanty Does Silence and Shame Day.
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  Speaker 2: Is this Sunday and also important, don't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, please donate And I also just want to mention
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  Speaker 3: I have my own podcast called The Mebo Show am
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  Speaker 3: I for My and Bo for Body and the new
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  Speaker 3: episode launches on May eighth with d Nice and we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about black men and mental wellness.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure you subscribing download that Shanty thank you for coming.
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  Speaker 2: Always it's Shanty Dodge National Silence to Shame Days. This Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: it's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Wake that ass up her in the morning.
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