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I Met Jay-Z & Beyoncé… And This Is What Hit Me! · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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  Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it, y'all. Back on the ground. All right, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So we, I mean, look, we've been ripping and running
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  Speaker 1: throughout Fashion Week and doing the things, doing the things.
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  Speaker 1: But let me tell y'all something. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I tell y'all that every single time. But this time,
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  Speaker 1: I think you guys will believe it because guess what
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  Speaker 1: I did, y'all? I met Jay-Z and Beyonce. You probably
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  Speaker 1: heard me talk a bit about this by now because
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking about it everywhere you can hear this voice.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't care. I mean, look, let me see.
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  Speaker 1: I am T-minus two days, 48 hours removed from me
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  Speaker 1: meeting Beyonce and Jay-Z. And I don't even think it's
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  Speaker 1: like the, oh, my God, the celebrity of it for me.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I had one of my homegirls
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  Speaker 1: text one of our group chats. And she was asking
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  Speaker 1: me like, you know, she was like, how do you feel?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I feel regular. Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were mad cool, super regular, very like human down
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  Speaker 1: to earth. Like you just felt the good energy and
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  Speaker 1: you felt that like they were, it was like surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by family. It was all the things.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And that was really good to see, especially at that
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  Speaker 1: height of career, because I'm always so worried about like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: how am I going to continue to figure all of
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  Speaker 1: this out with balance and family and, And the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I love being with my family, being surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: my family, but also just the responsibility that comes with
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  Speaker 1: having family getting older and making sure they're straight. I know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you only see people's lives in a glimpse,
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  Speaker 1: especially first time meeting them. And it's Beyonce and Jay-Z
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  Speaker 1: and resources, resources are endless. But looking at them made
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  Speaker 1: me feel like, girl, it's in you, it ain't on you.
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  Speaker 1: Like you are fine. Your folks will be fine. If
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  Speaker 1: everybody will be fine. Yesterday, I actually had a very
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  Speaker 1: like challenging day only because I feel like I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready and gearing up to go to, and I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: y'all why I'm telling you guys, I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: guys why I'm telling you this. Um, and extension to
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  Speaker 1: me talking about me and Jay-Z and Beyonce and seeing
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  Speaker 1: kind of that element of them being there, enjoying our
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  Speaker 1: time with the family.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I'm gearing up to go to the I Heart
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  Speaker 1: Radio Music Festival. It's in Vegas this weekend, September 18th
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  Speaker 1: through the 20th. And it's work, you know, while there.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that because I'll be working while there
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be away from things. And there's still prep
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  Speaker 1: that goes into that. Like, you got to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: figure out what your itinerary is, what you're doing, all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff. And I have another opportunity and I'm flying
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  Speaker 1: out for L.A., to do literally by the time you
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  Speaker 1: listen to this podcast, I'm probably already on that flight.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to LA. I'll be in LA. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still working while there. So prepping stories and watching, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the things to be ready for the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 1: We also have the podcast. I also have my, my,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my personal brand and I have things that
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  Speaker 1: I am developing outside of just entertainment in general as
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  Speaker 1: well too. Now that, you know, I've been blessed to
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  Speaker 1: be in a position to be able to do so.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot to have on the plate. one of
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  Speaker 1: my biggest things that I'm always trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: is like how do you I mean I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you balance everything but how do you make everything flow
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  Speaker 1: together and I know I'm early in the faces the
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  Speaker 1: places the faces and the stages of all of this
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  Speaker 1: stuff but that has always been very important to me
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  Speaker 1: because I know that it's needed as far as like
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  Speaker 1: just creating a financial foundation for myself but also you
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  Speaker 1: know personal interests and things that I like outside of
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  Speaker 1: the world of entertainment I want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: sustain and do as my breathers and You just need it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a one dimensional person. But one of my homegirls,
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  Speaker 1: she was asking me, like, you know how I feel.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, to be honest with you, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 1: it took me a while in all of this, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm being honest, to feel like that. Not that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like I was wasn't deserving. Not that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that I work hard. Not that any of that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the thing of. I always have
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  Speaker 1: felt like if I lean too much in, I'm exactly
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  Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to be. I'm here. Will that distract
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  Speaker 1: me from the work? Will that, you know, change my
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  Speaker 1: work ethic and my ability to like push through and
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  Speaker 1: follow through? Because right now I'm in such a season
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  Speaker 1: of like, I ain't got no choice. We got to
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  Speaker 1: run this up. Like this season is personally dedicated to
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  Speaker 1: the grind. And I've always that's just always been my thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I don't want to get that too much
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  Speaker 1: in my mind because I don't want to get comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and complacent. So, no, you I mean, you're here, but
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  Speaker 1: like you are not here yet. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's a twofold mindset. I think on one end of
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  Speaker 1: the spectrum, that mindset is. does continue to motivate you.
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  Speaker 1: It does make sure that you don't get complacent because
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  Speaker 1: you can, I'm nowhere near where I want to be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm nowhere near being able to do the things I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. I'm nowhere near just being able to
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  Speaker 1: put out into the world all of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I know that God has put in me to put out.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes when you've been fighting just to create your
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  Speaker 1: own sense of stability and comfort and you finally feel Like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can— and it's different because I've had jobs now, right? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I've had really, really great jobs prior to this. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I've worked in everything from, you know, flying in the
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  Speaker 1: skies with Delta to, you know, corporate banking in the
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  Speaker 1: philanthropy arm there at Barclay. Like, I've done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. So it wasn't about, like, a money number. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I was making really good money coming out of college,
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  Speaker 1: but I chose to not— to step away from Barclay Card
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  Speaker 1: and go to L.A. and give tours around Hollywood because—
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  Speaker 1: My thing has always been I don't just want to
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  Speaker 1: be like comfortable and being able to do all these things.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be happy as well. So when I
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  Speaker 1: say I don't want to get complacent and feel too comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: it's because I'm really happy right now. And even like
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  Speaker 1: y'all hear how long it took me to say that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I'm scared that if I if I live
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  Speaker 1: in the moment and lean into the happiness and understand
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  Speaker 1: that like all this stuff is going to work out
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  Speaker 1: because it always has. I'm a trip myself up. Because
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  Speaker 1: there's this, this is the other side of the coin
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  Speaker 1: is there's this mental thing about the scarcity. Like it,
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  Speaker 1: if it's all going today, what happens tomorrow? If this
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  Speaker 1: happiness you feel right now isn't continued, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? Things happen in business and career ups, downs,
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  Speaker 1: all that. But I mean, like I'm always thinking like
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  Speaker 1: if I wake up tomorrow and like there is no
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  Speaker 1: more any of this. What is, what does that feel like?
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  Speaker 1: And what I was watching and learning from Jay-Z and
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  Speaker 1: Beyonce and Rotonda is that none of my thought process
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  Speaker 1: about myself, my I'm here moment. And it's not like
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  Speaker 1: I arrived like a diva thing. It's really like, it's
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  Speaker 1: okay for me to enjoy what I've worked for and
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  Speaker 1: for me to be confident about and trust God about
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  Speaker 1: what's coming next. Because none of, none of that stuff
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  Speaker 1: and none of the feeling that gets me to those
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  Speaker 1: feelings is should be predicated on anything, but look around you.
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  Speaker 1: You got your people with you. God is doing amazing
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  Speaker 1: things in your life, period. And that's what you feel,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in a room like that. And don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong. I mean, I ain't been in all of
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  Speaker 1: the rooms, but, you know, I've met and interacted with
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  Speaker 1: some people where it's like the success is there, the
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  Speaker 1: money is there, but something still feels empty. There wasn't
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  Speaker 1: an empty feeling in that room. It felt like, like
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was at my family's get-together. And
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, when when you interact with people
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  Speaker 1: and those type of feelings and, you know, levels of
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  Speaker 1: comfort and welcomeness hit you, it's because those people who
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  Speaker 1: are curating that space, you know, people talk about spirit
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  Speaker 1: of discernment. It's like you can sense and you can
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  Speaker 1: feel and you can tell. Like you can sense and
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  Speaker 1: you can feel and you can tell that Jay-Z, Beyonce,
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  Speaker 1: and the people they keep around them, whether it's professionally
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  Speaker 1: or personally, are people who know that like, this is
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  Speaker 1: so much deeper than how well can I perform in business.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, who are you as a person? And what
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  Speaker 1: cloth are you cut from? And what's the company you keep?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm very particular about mine. So what yours look like?
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  Speaker 1: And knowing all of that, Everything else works out. If
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  Speaker 1: family is a priority for you, that will work out
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  Speaker 1: because people around you will know and understand that. And
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  Speaker 1: God will allow that to keep happening because those are
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  Speaker 1: the people that, those are the people in business that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to bring around you. And even if they
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  Speaker 1: don't fully understand it, it's not too far, too few
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  Speaker 1: far in between where they empathize with it, even if
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  Speaker 1: they don't fully understand it because it's not their actual situation. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, meeting Jay-Z and Beyonce for me and experiencing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, J and eight, the documentary that dropped September
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  Speaker 1: 18th on HBO max was so much more of like
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual motivator. Like yes, career and business, but like
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  Speaker 1: that is going to happen when you're standing next to billions. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But just some of the conversations I was able to
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  Speaker 1: have in a room and the feeling that the room
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  Speaker 1: felt and watching, you know, these billionaires, uh, prioritize family
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  Speaker 1: and real storytelling and substance and their people, people that
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  Speaker 1: they've been rocking with for decades at a time and everybody's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, lockstep in a line. I mean, that was,
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  Speaker 1: that was different. That is like my dream. like I
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  Speaker 1: got my people with me we got our financial success
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  Speaker 1: we also mentally have been successful at keeping our head
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  Speaker 1: on our shoulders and understanding what's important and and you
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  Speaker 1: know I said it because not that I think I
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  Speaker 1: think level-headedness is really in you. It's not on you.
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  Speaker 1: It really determines the people in the cloth that you
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  Speaker 1: come from. But I think sometimes in this business that
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  Speaker 1: I am in, dealing with like the different relationships I
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  Speaker 1: have to build and people, it's like, I can't always
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  Speaker 1: expect me from other people. And my prayer to God always,
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  Speaker 1: as I figure out movement and change and new people
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  Speaker 1: and new places and new things is that even if
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  Speaker 1: I can't expect me out of the people I will
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  Speaker 1: interact with, I ask God to number one, protect me
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  Speaker 1: in those situations, protect my intentions. And because sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: still got to be transactional in those, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? Protect the journey to the goal is what
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  Speaker 1: I ask God. But I also ask God to like,
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  Speaker 1: bring more people like that into my life and let
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  Speaker 1: me see it at a level of like, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe all people with money and success and people
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  Speaker 1: have this capitalism conversation, especially when it comes to Jay-Z.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe all of them are bad people. I
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  Speaker 1: don't buy it. I don't. I think capitalism, if used
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  Speaker 1: the right way to benefit the right people, could help
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  Speaker 1: all of us. And I understand people's gripes and issues
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  Speaker 1: with it. But I got to experience a moment with
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  Speaker 1: this family and see that At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff, it's like moving variables. The money,
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  Speaker 1: the career, the performances, the albums. But what's in you
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  Speaker 1: is in you, no matter where you go. Now that
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  Speaker 1: leads us on into the latest. Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: So speaking of Jay-Z, he was on the carpet for
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  Speaker 1: the Jay-Z in 8 documentary. It's an eight part. there'll be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, episodes dropping weekly. And the first two episodes
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  Speaker 1: drop on Friday, September 18th. Now this is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's in live conversations with Rick Rubin, who he's done,
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  Speaker 1: you know, tons of music and art, not art, like
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  Speaker 1: actually painting, but he's done, you know, tons of things with,
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  Speaker 1: they've had such a creative relationship. So, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: way that this docuseries is set up is that they
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  Speaker 1: take music from Jay-Z's career and in real time, You're
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  Speaker 1: watching Jay-Z. It's great because you're in real time watching
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  Speaker 1: Jay-Z break down his mental process then at the time
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  Speaker 1: the art was created, where it has evolved to now
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  Speaker 1: and everything in between. After dealing with like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the conversations once it, cause you know, once you put
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  Speaker 1: a song out there, especially like a song, like a 444, right?
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  Speaker 1: Where he's talking about not being faithful in his relationship
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  Speaker 1: and having to talk to his daughter about that and
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  Speaker 1: being lucky, Beyonce, you know what I mean, was the
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  Speaker 1: woman she was to see the man that he was
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  Speaker 1: becoming and not the man he was in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Having to deal with all of the conversation around putting
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  Speaker 1: out a song like that or a project where he's
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  Speaker 1: very vulnerable, which he's done for his, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: done that for his damn near entire career. Just the
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  Speaker 1: reflection of it was interesting to watch. And in real time,
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  Speaker 1: you're watching Jay-Z reflect and be very honest uh he
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  Speaker 1: you know admittedly says some of the songs specifically 444
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  Speaker 1: but i'm sure there are going to be others in
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  Speaker 1: here um he hadn't really sat and listened to and
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  Speaker 1: dealt with again since putting them out there was one
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  Speaker 1: song that jay-z um that they they brought in because
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  Speaker 1: we watched a mixture of the first episode and the
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  Speaker 1: third episode it was about like 30 to 40 minutes
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  Speaker 1: long that we sat in the um it was at
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  Speaker 1: the metropolitan opera here in new york And, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even that experience was crazy. Like, Jay-Z and Beyonce literally
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  Speaker 1: sitting right behind you as you're watching him open up
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  Speaker 1: about his most vulnerable moments in his life, which also
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  Speaker 1: include Beyonce. But he talked about how, you know, even
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  Speaker 1: over time, like, just maturing in his business and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his voice as an artist, there'd be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more heads up with people and things about certain things
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  Speaker 1: because there would be things that he would put into
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  Speaker 1: music that he didn't want to, like, really, like, talk
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  Speaker 1: about after the music.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a song that he released earlier in
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  Speaker 1: his career about his mom. Him and his mom had
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  Speaker 1: a conversation and she was like. Like certain things was
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  Speaker 1: like more she felt like it was more her story
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  Speaker 1: to tell. And he says even when he did like
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  Speaker 1: later songs in his career, like at that point, he's
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  Speaker 1: like kind of like talking things out with her, like
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  Speaker 1: and letting her, you know. like kind of approve things
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  Speaker 1: before they go. Like when he did, um, smile in
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  Speaker 1: 2017 and y'all know that there is that poem that
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  Speaker 1: is featured from his mother, Ms. Gloria, right? He says
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  Speaker 1: that at first he gave her the song and the
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  Speaker 1: poem wasn't on there, but he actually had to like,
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  Speaker 1: She wrote the poem while flying to him as kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a yes or an okay or an approval
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  Speaker 1: that the song could go out. It's just dope. It
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  Speaker 1: really gets into maturity and maturing and just understanding that
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  Speaker 1: where you start is nowhere near where you finish at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's so vulnerable as well. It's vulnerable. It's reflective. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to get a bit controversial. I think
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  Speaker 1: from what I can see or from what I can understand,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see why it wouldn't go into some of the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think the Kanye conversation is going to
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  Speaker 1: come up in this as well. Yeah, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be all of that. On the carpet, on the way
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  Speaker 1: to the premiere, Jay-Z is stopped and he is asked about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, of all of his career, the people or
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  Speaker 1: the person that he, you know, of everybody he's mentored,
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  Speaker 1: all the people he signed, Who it is that he
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  Speaker 1: is most proud of or that stands out to him?
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  Speaker 1: And he mentions Rihanna. Let's take a listen. This is
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  Speaker 1: Jay-Z talking to Arden from Foresight Company.
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  Speaker 3: We've been able to mentor a lot of athletes and musicians.
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  Speaker 3: Looking back, which ones stick out instantly and why?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, uh, uh, no, cause I'm a, I'm a,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a guy that, you know, more than a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these guys, you know, a lot of these guys
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  Speaker 2: that turn on you, you know, and they just, change
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  Speaker 2: their life and they forget really quickly and she's just
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  Speaker 2: always been like super solid and steady the whole way.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something okay your roi on black
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  Speaker 1: women will never disappoint you period i think there is
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  Speaker 1: a camaraderie that happens between amongst men as well but
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  Speaker 1: i can only speak for myself i think especially like
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  Speaker 1: if you're a person that has changed my life And anyway,
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  Speaker 1: not even that it has to be transactional like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just think as a black woman, when I set
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  Speaker 1: out to do something, I am so gung-ho on doing
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  Speaker 1: that and doing it until I can't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's this thing that we're taught young. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if it's intentionally meaning a spillover into our career,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: but we're taught young just about being a woman and,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you know, taking care of a household. And when I
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: say taking care of a household, I mean, whether you're
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: single or married, you know, being able to cook clean
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  Speaker 1: and keep a household, you're taught that consistency matters. Repetition
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: matters with something. If something ain't broke, you don't fix it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and that who you bring into your home and into
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: your atmosphere and allow yourself to nurture should really, really matter.
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  Speaker 1: I remember my mom used to always tell me, um,
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  Speaker 1: You know, my body is a temple and not to
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  Speaker 1: run and jump so fast to commit myself long term
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  Speaker 1: to people, whether it's like I used to always be
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: like my best friend for life. And she'd be like, girl,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you was only 13 years old. What you know about
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a best friend for life? Like, don't enjoy your friendship
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  Speaker 1: that you have with this person now, but don't run
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  Speaker 1: and jump to commit yourself for life because you never
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: know who people will be. Find out who people are
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  Speaker 1: and then commit, because when you commit, that's that's all
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  Speaker 1: you got. And I think, you know, it speaks to that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like for me, I just I think that there
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  Speaker 1: is I've gotten the best results in my life when
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  Speaker 1: both personal business, whatever, when I've really committed to something
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: consistently and really committed to something in a way that like.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: It's us versus the world. period. Now, whether I've always
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: picked and chose, whether I've always picked and choose the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: right things to feel like that about, like you pick
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: about like 10 things in your life where you're like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: I'm loyal to this. You learn from about a good
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  Speaker 1: two or three of them that like, you got to
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  Speaker 1: really watch the signs leading into what you're, what you're
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: loyal to. But I think, you know, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you this. Another thing I've learned is that As a woman,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: when you're literally growing and you're being taught consistency, commitment,
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  Speaker 1: follow through, all these things as a part of being
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a nurturer, and then your parents get older and you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: start having to apply it to them in your relationship,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you completely understand why it is important, number one, but
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: you also understand why A person like Jay-Z is talking
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: about basically his return on his investment, just at morally
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: from a moral standpoint, because everybody gets to their point,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: gets to a point in something in business and relationship
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: where you have to eventually depend on the other person.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: If you are a child right now of, of, of,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you know, a person, eventually that parent is going to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: depend on you. If you are in a relationship, eventually
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: your partner one day might have to look over and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: depend on you. I think about the people that we
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: trust blindly on a day to day, like Uber drivers,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: chefs in restaurants, police officers, like all of these people.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, we look at each other and trust
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  Speaker 1: and depend on each other. So if I can control,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you know, how good and loyal I am to a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: person in the midst of all of that. I think
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that I just always know and feel like it benefits
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: me more. Like, we just understand watering the garden, man. Like,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that's what it is. We just understand watering the garden.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't always mean that things is peaches and cream. Like,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest things that we run
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: away from as black women, let me speak for myself.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Let me not overgeneralize. one of the things that I
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: run from a lot as a black woman is the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: fear of being vulnerable enough to be loyal and to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: lock into something and to commit to something and want
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to nurture and want to grow and want to feed
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  Speaker 1: and give, give, give, give, give, but being scared that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: like my cup is not going to be full at
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  Speaker 1: the end of it. And not because I know that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I might do it to a point where like, I
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: don't ever say, Hey, my cup's not full or, Hey,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I need to walk away now because my cup's not full.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And I've told you that. And, And it's not returning.
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  Speaker 1: That's like the biggest fear for me. Because I think
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  Speaker 1: that at the same time that you're taught to nurture
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and consistent and water the garden and watch things grow
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: and patience and all these things as a nurturer, we're
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: also taught to really like stick around sometimes and in
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: situations that you shouldn't. And I think when you have
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: conversations about women in business, right? Like you think about Rihanna.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Rihanna is a billionaire. She ain't never got to sing
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a song a day in her life again off of
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: her big business acumen. That means she has had to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: trust somebody enough to be like, all right, I'm going
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to try this new thing. I'm going to probably spend
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: some of my own money. I'm going to lean on
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and depend on people who want to also invest into
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: this and know that I can still have my control
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and my say-so. And all these things, like there's a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: lot of trust that goes into it. But I'm sure
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: there's burnout that has gone into it as well. But
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: it's like trusting the people who are guiding your ship
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  Speaker 1: enough to know that they're going to see you. Like, hey,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you see me. And because you see me, I'm here
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and I will always show up for you. Interestingly enough,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: when I saw Jay-Z say this about Rihanna and I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: started to think about all of the reasons why Rihanna
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: as a person, like why it didn't surprise me that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: she was the first person that was top of mind
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to her. Like I've never met her before, but just,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching her interviews and the things that
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I've heard about her and the cloth that she's cut
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: from instantly. I thought about that. And, um, I thought
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it took me back to a conversation that I watched that, uh,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Gail Bean, who is on this new series, this new
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: snowfall series, um, on effects. What is it called? the drop,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Gayle Bean, who was on the drop, it took me
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: back to a conversation that I recently watched with her
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and Cam Newton on Funky Friday. And Gayle Bean, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: she was talking a lot about being a woman who,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you know, being raised with our brothers really understands that, like,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: give and take of, like, the nurturing aspect that happens
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: between men and women and family and business and all
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the things, right? And She then shared a really, it
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was heartbreaking to hear. She then shared a really, really
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: dark experience that happened to her with the man that
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: she was working with who completely violated her boundaries. I said,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you can listen.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: There's also been really great experiences. I've had an experience
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: where an editor, I was doing, I did an indie film.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: An editor sent me footage of him editing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: My film and like, I guess jacking off. And yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: it was crazy. insane, insane. This is a real thing.
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  Speaker 4: And then I guess he bust good thing. Sorry.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: No, I'm being, this is real life, but my, um,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: my screen was cracked. So I couldn't even see it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: So I, I could just hear it.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, uh, I don't know what's wrong with you,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: but don't you ever, in fact, don't ever use my
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: phone number or number again. Like you, you dead to me.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: That was an indie film. Later on, he got hired
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: to edit on P-Valley.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: No way. Swear on my life. Reached out.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: He ended up getting fired. I didn't say nothing, because
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I don't get people fired. But I didn't say anything
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: to get him fired. It didn't work out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you, though?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Because this is the brother in me. If we were related,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Because if you're telling me, I'm angry. Because that's some.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I'm trying not to curse. I'm trying to tame my tongue.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: That's some.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Foolery that if I see you, bro, I'm whipping you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Watching Cam Newton's reaction to this, and I'll tell you
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: guys why all this makes sense at the end. Watching
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Cam Newton's reaction to this, I was like, wow, it's
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: crazy that in 2026 a man can hear that and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: still be like, what?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: What?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: How the hell? And not that he's absent-minded of it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that there
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: are certain things that just should not be happening anymore.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Because as women, we have voices. We are not afraid
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to use them. We got platforms. But also, I think
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: black men are just being a lot more conscious about
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: making sure they're our support system and being able to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: speak out for us. And it led to a point
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of the conversation where Cam Newton said, talked about wanting
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to repair his relationship and apologize to black women for
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that he thinks have led to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: black women not feeling like we have the allies we need.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And the conversations that kind of stare that feeling, which
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I thought was amazing to hear from him. Let's take
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a listen.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I'm really trying to rehabilitate my relationship with black women.
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  Speaker 3: And when I have conversations like this, The only thing
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that I can say is I'm sorry, because I know
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: the weight of my voice now and I'm learning more.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Contrary to what a person may believe, I'm not perfect, man.
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  Speaker 3: I just am trying to do something that I deem
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: as cool. God has given me the ability to enjoy
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: talking to people. And there's been things that I know
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: has set us back with the masculine feminine relationship in
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: our culture. And when I hear things like this, where
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: knowing that I haven't always displayed and used my platform
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: to speak truth to this is the oppression that our
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: black women have dealt with, even with black men, even
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: with the industry, even with Atlanta, it's like, man, I'm sorry.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: And I think these uncomfortable conversations, but these conversations move
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: it forward because any man who hears this just think
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: about it, bro. If, if, if this was Shakira, who's
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: my daughter, if this was sovereign Dior, who's my daughter,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: if this was Jazabella Lee, who's my daughter. And they say, daddy,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I'm at work. Matter of fact, I'm at the crib chilling.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: And this dude just sent me this message. What that
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: would ignite in me is something that would not be
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: healthy for nobody, especially that individual who sent it. So I,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I take this time to apologize publicly, but also to
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: say I'm a work in progress. You feel what I'm saying?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Because there's things that I know as I take a
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: step back and I look back and I'm like, dang,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't even have said that. I shouldn't even have
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: been a part of that discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the reason why I brought all that into it
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: is what I'll say is, is that From the brief
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: interaction that I had with Jay-Z, from watching, you know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the people in his life and how they operate. Shoot,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Desiree Perez, who is, you know, big boss over there
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: at Roc Nation. Watching the women that surround Jay-Z and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: how they move and go and stand front line for him.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I think that that is a reflection of what he
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: is in the lives of those women as well, too. Like,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: if you think about it, you know, for all my
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: female listeners, all my lady listeners, if you think about
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: any of the men in your life who have been
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the voice you can go to, the protection you can
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: go to, just a safe space of any sort, think
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: about how much you are willing to, like, stand ten
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: toes down for them. And I think us as women, like, we...
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I talked about that spirit of discernment and understanding, like,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: when and where to do that and how to do that.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things where, like, it just.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Like, with the Rihanna and the Jay-Z, I see the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: transaction within it, is what I'm saying. Like, it didn't
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: surprise me at all to hear him say that. And
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I think Black men, more openly, are getting to a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: place where they can say, yo, I probably wasn't the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: best proponent of that. Like, we watching, you know, Jay-Z
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and his doc and... just from what I saw so far,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, he openly admits in 444 that he wasn't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the best protector of, you know, the black women. woman
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: especially like talking about Beyonce in his life at one
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: point but he had to realize and understand and really
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: think about what what is this going to do for
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the black woman that I'm raising Blue Ivy and I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: think that that type of relationship with any woman I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: think that's why men need platonic relationships too because I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: think having that relationship and the men understanding that it
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: changes how they then go out into the world and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: talk about talk with talk up and or down other
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: black women and that changes the relationships that we then
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: allow ourselves to have in business in life and relationship
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: in love um with black men it's just like a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: whole like it's like a pay it forward type of
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: thing so it's beautiful to see that was a beautiful
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: answer uh to hear from him um especially knowing that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you know there's been so many people that have passed
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: through rock nation state property rockefeller on all these years
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: so yeah That was my little tidbit for today, y'all.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I hope y'all are as excited as I am that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I met Jay-Z and Beyonce. Because y'all might hear about
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: this for the next couple episodes. Okay? Excited. God just be...
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: He just be guiding. You know? It was just a party.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: It was literally just a party.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: People was like, well, how do you feel? I feel
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: so irregular. Because it was just a party. We just
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: went and had a good time. But like... Just being
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: in the presence of all of the things... It makes
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a difference. I appreciate the invite.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: All right, y'all.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: That has been another episode of The Latest with Lorna Rosa.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I tell you guys every single episode, y'all could be
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: anywhere with anybody talking about all of the things, but
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you guys choose to be right here with me. My lowriders,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, and I'll catch you in my next one.