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Learning to Be Okay When Life Isn’t ( Meg Thee Stallion on Michelle Obama · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's Laura de Rosa and this is another episode of
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 1: So y'all know when we start the show, be checking
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes of the grind, So let's get on
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  Speaker 1: into it. I don't know what it is about today
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  Speaker 1: in this week, but I am feeling confident today and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with y'all that is not always
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  Speaker 1: the case, you know what I'm saying. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be putting it together looking like I got it together.
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  Speaker 1: But I think one of the biggest things that I'm
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  Speaker 1: learning about what I believe God is telling me A
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  Speaker 1: big part of my purposes is learning and growing in
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  Speaker 1: front of the world and letting people and showing people
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  Speaker 1: through that that showing them that it's okay that that happens.
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  Speaker 1: That everything is not always together. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: pretend like everything is always together. And honestly, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like going through it builds character, and I don't like
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one of them people that feels like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially as black people, we should always be in the
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  Speaker 1: struggle and finding the struggle and you know what I mean, Like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there should be we should be able
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  Speaker 1: to romanticize our lives and love our lives. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest things that I learned, Hi, I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: my podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You're coming in? Okay? So that was Netflix. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm recording here at the Breakfast Club studio, so Netflix
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  Speaker 1: may come in and watch me record the podcast live.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are listening to this, make sure you
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  Speaker 1: go and check the Netflix episode for August thirteenth, because
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  Speaker 1: you may see me behind the scenes recording the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, one of the biggest things that I've because
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  Speaker 1: I'm always trying to figure.
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  Speaker 2: Out like.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm in tune and tapt in enough to be
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  Speaker 1: able to hear God as I'm on this mission in
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  Speaker 1: this journey of life, and I always pray that God
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  Speaker 1: orders my steps. And when I pray that it's not
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  Speaker 1: just like a day to day thing, I am saying
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  Speaker 1: it in a day to day but I also follow
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  Speaker 1: up with show me your purpose for me, Reveal your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: revealed your divine order as you please, and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that my steps, whether I'm making the great decision as
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  Speaker 1: I make those steps or the worst decision as I
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  Speaker 1: make those steps, I just want to make sure it's
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  Speaker 1: aligned and that this is all a part of your
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  Speaker 1: divine plan and nothing of my own doing. And that
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  Speaker 1: has been such an interesting journey because it feels really
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  Speaker 1: really good when you're getting right in front of the people,
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  Speaker 1: but it can also feel really really bad when you're
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  Speaker 1: not getting it right in front of the people and
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  Speaker 1: having to learn accountability in all of that season of things.
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  Speaker 1: So today it's one of those days where I'm just
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling good about what I do,
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  Speaker 1: what I know how to do. You know, last weekend
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  Speaker 1: was really a lot for me. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you guys heard it in the beginning of this week
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  Speaker 1: and some of our behind the scenes of the Grinds
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  Speaker 1: check ins, but I was like so depleted energy wise
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  Speaker 1: because there was a lot that I had to figure
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  Speaker 1: out really really fast. I let you guys know that
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother, you know, she's just getting older and things
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  Speaker 1: are changing, like you know, she needs a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more help around the home and all that and all
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  Speaker 1: that jazz. So having to go and figure out that
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  Speaker 1: in like forty eight hours because she had gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the point where she had an episode where like she
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  Speaker 1: couldn't breathe and like she was having chest pains and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't know if it was like a heart attack
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  Speaker 1: or what was happening. And when that happens, it's really
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  Speaker 1: really scary for her, it's scary for us. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that came out of that as me
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  Speaker 1: and my grandmother were able to have a really honest
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  Speaker 1: conversation about the fact that she's finally accepting that she
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  Speaker 1: needs the help, which has been my fight and my
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  Speaker 1: battle and my struggle in all of this. I can't
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  Speaker 1: do anything for her that she doesn't want me to
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  Speaker 1: do for her. I have to allow her to still
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  Speaker 1: live her life because she's she's human. She's able to
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  Speaker 1: do for herself still, so she just needs a little assistance.
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  Speaker 1: And I never want to step on that. What I've
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  Speaker 1: learned with people as they're aging, like I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: my journey and being able to like live and grow
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  Speaker 1: and do well and mess up in front of the world.
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  Speaker 1: But it's crazy how like when you get older things
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  Speaker 1: come full circle. Because right now in front of the world,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, my grandma's dealing with the fact that,
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of her friends, she's actually lost them.
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  Speaker 1: She's not able to do and maneuver the things that
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  Speaker 1: she used to do, so mentally that takes.
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  Speaker 2: A toll on her.
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  Speaker 1: So the last four y eight hours of last week
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  Speaker 1: and was me dealing with that and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: that back on tracks so that I would even be
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  Speaker 1: able to be free enough to come back to work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm finally at a good place with everything right.
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  Speaker 1: So we're balancing things and we're doing all these things,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of times you don't feel like you
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  Speaker 1: got the flow right. I don't know what it is
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  Speaker 1: about today and it's good old Thursday, but y'all, I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling like I got the flow right today.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm on a high right now. Let's get on
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  Speaker 2: into the latest.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of times, you know, when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about celebrity and you're talking about things growing, it's really
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  Speaker 1: really tough to admit a lot of things y'all just
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  Speaker 1: hurt me admit like you don't always have it together,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't even I don't consider myself a celebrity whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: But all the things that are happening and that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing right now is literally happening in front of the world,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not the easiest thing. Megdae Stallion, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about things happening in front of the world. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she lost her father and her mother and then became
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  Speaker 1: Tina Snow. That was the first era of Megda Sallion
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  Speaker 1: in her fame. We've seen her go through, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fighting a bad label contract. We've seen her go through
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  Speaker 1: the trial with Tory Lanez. We've seen her consistently to
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  Speaker 1: this day, go through all of the dragging on social
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  Speaker 1: media that happens because I don't know, people just love
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  Speaker 1: to not like Megda Sallion. And she's been honest about
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  Speaker 1: the emotional toll that it has taken on her before.
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  Speaker 1: But she did a sit down interview which she rarely does,
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  Speaker 1: one really in depth with Michelle Obama and Michelle Obama's brother,
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  Speaker 1: Craig Robinson for Michelle Obama's podcast in my opinion, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into some of that conversation. So
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  Speaker 1: the first clip that you guys are Gonn to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: This is Megdae Stallion and Michelle Obama talking about navigating
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  Speaker 1: a bad day, because we all have them. But what
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  Speaker 1: was interesting to hear was that they talk about it
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  Speaker 1: from where they are in their perspectives of life. Right
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  Speaker 1: you look at Megdae Stallionaire's all the money, and you
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  Speaker 1: know she's finally able to provide for herself and do
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  Speaker 1: things for her family. Michelle Obama is our forever first lady,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Barack Obama are forever president. And they talk
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  Speaker 1: about how even in those dynamics, it's tough and they
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to feel their feels.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: I used to feel like when I have a bad day,
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  Speaker 3: I have to do something to fix it, Like maybe
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  Speaker 3: I need to call my therapist and I need to
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  Speaker 3: tell her everything that's going on right right now, and
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  Speaker 3: you need to tell me something that's gonna fix it
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  Speaker 3: right now, make this go away, make it feel better.
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  Speaker 3: And then I used to think like, Okay, well I
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  Speaker 3: just can't think about it. I have things to do
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  Speaker 3: and which I do, so I can never like just
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  Speaker 3: wallow in how I feel.
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  Speaker 2: But that's how I used to feel.
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  Speaker 3: Then I start learning like there's nothing anybody's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: able to say to me that's gonna fix it in
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  Speaker 3: ten minutes. So I've learned to just feel what I'm feeling.
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  Speaker 3: If it's pain, if it's sadness, I.
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  Speaker 2: Have to express it. I get under my bed to cry.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what I have to feel it. I've
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  Speaker 3: went through a lot of different emotions over the years,
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  Speaker 3: and still even talking about being happy.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes make me emotional.
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  Speaker 3: I must be going through all these things because I'm
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be some kind of example of how to
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  Speaker 3: be tough and how to be strong.
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  Speaker 2: So I never wanted to cry or like feel now
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: I watch a lot of Michelle Obama's podcast, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about a lot here on the podcast The
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  Speaker 1: Latest with Laurenn Rosa, And one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I've loved learning about Michelle Obama in these conversations that
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  Speaker 1: she's having is just how much of a down to
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  Speaker 1: earth it's like in this conversation, I felt the mother
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  Speaker 1: of Michelle Obama guarding and like wrapping her arms around Megdacien.
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  Speaker 2: But I also felt like the.
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  Speaker 1: Young Chicago girl who's just enthused and loves the world
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that come with it. They were
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  Speaker 1: having a conversation about reality TV and Love Island for
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  Speaker 1: like ever, and I'm purposely putting that conversation here after
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  Speaker 1: you hear them talking about having a bad day, feeling
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  Speaker 1: their feels, being regular people, because sometimes it's just as
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  Speaker 1: simple as laying in your bed and watching television and realizing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm alive. It's really not that bad because I'm still
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  Speaker 2: here and I'm alive. Let's take a listen to them.
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  Speaker 1: Poorsia Williams from Real Housewives e Atlanda got a shout
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  Speaker 1: out in this in this part of it. I saw
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  Speaker 1: her post it and like celebrating it. Let's take a listen,
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  Speaker 1: seem Na.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know how to play it. I
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  Speaker 2: think you know how to play it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like when you have a big personality, people
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  Speaker 3: just automatically assume it's you. They just took Porsche out.
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  Speaker 2: A different show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna come from two perspectives. So number one,
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  Speaker 1: the perspective of a daughter. I open this episode talking
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  Speaker 1: to you guys about if you go back and listen
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  Speaker 1: to the first three episodes and shoot, maybe in the
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  Speaker 1: first four whatever, before you got to this one.
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  Speaker 2: You hear my exhaustion.
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  Speaker 1: There was one behind the scenes of the ground that
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  Speaker 1: I did this week on the podcast where I literally
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  Speaker 1: said to y'all, I barely even have a voice.
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  Speaker 2: I am so tired right now. I cannot even think.
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  Speaker 2: It was like midnight.
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to get through and make sure
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  Speaker 1: we had the episode while also preparing for my other jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Right I think.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing Megda Sallion's story of you know, just trying to
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  Speaker 1: provide for her mom, trying to make a better life
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  Speaker 1: for her family, people don't understand just the the trauma
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  Speaker 1: that comes with being the person in your family that
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  Speaker 1: is figuring out for everybody, like at all. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, it's like people talk about it, but we
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  Speaker 1: casually have that conversation, especially the oldest daughter in the
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  Speaker 1: family and you the oldest a black family baby, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's an amazing feeling to be able to do, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of trauma associated with always having to
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  Speaker 1: be the one that figures it out or you know,
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  Speaker 1: the you're like almost a caricature of the family a bit,
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  Speaker 1: and how you have to present and you have to
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  Speaker 1: I don't perform to a certain extent, And when I
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  Speaker 1: was listening to Meg in that clip, and she says
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  Speaker 1: she even cries sometimes when she talks about being happy.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, I cry all the time talking
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  Speaker 1: about being happy and the good things that have happened
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  Speaker 1: in my life right now. And I used to think
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  Speaker 1: that it was because I was like I felt guilty,
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  Speaker 1: like I have to give up so much time, or
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've like I'm only back on the East
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  Speaker 1: Coast because my mom was fighting for her life.
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  Speaker 2: My grandmother was fighting for her life.
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  Speaker 1: And how am I now celebrating the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: came back and I got a job, and I did
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I felt bad about
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  Speaker 1: being in a good place after all of that, because
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  Speaker 1: their lives have changed so much in ways that it
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  Speaker 1: will never change back. My mom's suffering strokes and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. She's good and God has blessed her. But
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  Speaker 1: it's different. But I'm celebrating the fact that I was
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  Speaker 1: able to get through it and I have a job
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  Speaker 1: and I have a new look at least on career
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  Speaker 1: in life.
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  Speaker 2: That's always been a tough struggle for me.
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  Speaker 1: But also too, I just think sometimes I think when
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  Speaker 1: you're in these positions and you're put up in front
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  Speaker 1: of the world and like even you know, even if
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  Speaker 1: you're not you know, a person that works in entertainment
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, but just being a person in your family
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  Speaker 1: and your friend group or whatever, or a person of
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  Speaker 1: stature of any sort. When you're popped up like that,
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  Speaker 1: you don't even really get a chance to ever understand
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  Speaker 1: the emotions as they're coming. And happiness can feel so
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  Speaker 1: scary because it's finally that chance to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: take that breath and be like wow, like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so scared.
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  Speaker 1: Every single day I'm gona wake up in this happiness.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gonna like somebody's gonna pull a rug from
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  Speaker 1: up under me. And it's like, and I ask people
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  Speaker 1: who are really successful and have been for a while,
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  Speaker 1: I ask them all the time, do you feel that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a normal thing? And so many people have
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  Speaker 1: told me like, yes, I feel the anxiety. I understand it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey that just what Hey, what you're doing recording the
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  Speaker 2: podcast right? Okay? By Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: So many people have there's so many times and so
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  Speaker 1: many people that like I've had these conversations with and
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  Speaker 1: they're like yo, like yeah, that's a normal feeling.
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  Speaker 2: That's its anxiety, it's all the things.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to get out of that because at
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  Speaker 1: some point you have to celebrate the fact that, like,
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  Speaker 1: you fought through, you did it, and you're able to
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  Speaker 1: like you're here now in regardless of all the bs
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  Speaker 1: the drama that comes with it. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: with Magde Sallion, hers is like, oh my god, it's
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  Speaker 1: like time's four hundred at this point. Because of how
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  Speaker 1: her star and how big it is, they be dragging
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of her everywhere, especially about that Tory
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  Speaker 1: lanez case and people who are upset that Tory Lane
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  Speaker 1: that Tory Lanes is behind bars.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 1: But when I watched that clip, I'm like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: feel her, and she was headed into tears and then
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  Speaker 1: they cut it and I was like, oh, they just
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, the mother and the nurture of
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama.
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  Speaker 2: They cut it.
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  Speaker 1: When they come back, you hear Michelle Obama explain, you know,
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  Speaker 1: her her feeling of like I'm there too, and you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be okay. It's a really great interview, guys, y'all
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  Speaker 1: gotta check it out. Puts a lot into perspective as
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama's conversations normally do, but definitely check this one out.
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  Speaker 1: I think we still have not yet got fully into
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  Speaker 1: Meg and all of the grief and all the things
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  Speaker 1: that she is experiencing. But I think you know she
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  Speaker 1: has new music coming out. At three, she said that
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a new era of Tina
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  Speaker 1: snow Who. If you were rock on Meg the Salium
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  Speaker 1: when she first begin you understand we.
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  Speaker 2: Got some good things coming. I'm Laura the Rosa.
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  Speaker 1: This has been another episode of the Latest with Laurna Rosa,
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