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From Podcast to LIVE: The Next Era of Women of Color · Women of Color An Intimate Conversation

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The big announcement show is coming right
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up. Stay tuned. Don't miss it.
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My name is Alicia Coleman coming to you live
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from Baltimore, Maryland. Today is Thursday,
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February 26th and welcome to the big announcement
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show. Now, to get things started on today's
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big announcement show, here's Leon Thomas
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with the Leon Thomas Group.
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Hey everybody, good afternoon. I'm Leon Thomas
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with the Leon Thomas Group. To learn more
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about The Leon Thomas Group, you can visit
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theleonthomasgroup.com. We're your partner
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in all things, virtual podcasts, webcasts,
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We're here. We do it. There's a lot that
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we do, a lot that we want to do, and we provide
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opportunities for others to learn broadcasting.
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and other related technologies. This is one
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of our shows that we really enjoy doing called
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The Big Announcement Show, where we bring
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someone on the show to help them make a big
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announcement. And today, we have Deneen L.
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Garrett as our guest. Hi, Deneen. How are
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you?
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Hi, Leon. I'm well.
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Right on. It's good to have you here on The
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Big announcement show. So, Daneen, tell us.
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Don't tell us the announcement yet. It's
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not time. I know you've been waiting. You've
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been posting on LinkedIn and everywhere saying,
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I got something for y'all to know. But I'm
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not telling you yet until today, right? But
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don't tell them, but tell them, tell everyone
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some things you've been doing, some things
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that you do that maybe would lead up to this
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announcement, but don't tell them yet. Go
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ahead, take a couple of minutes and tell
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us some things you've been working on.
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Okay. So to tell you a little bit about myself.
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So I describe myself as a cultural alchemist.
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I shift shape culture through storytelling.
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So through writing, through speaking, through
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coaching, and through my podcast, which happens
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to be a 100 Best Women's Empowerment Podcast.
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And also I just launched something brand
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new that I'm working on that I'm very excited
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about. And that is the Dream Lifestyle Collective,
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which is a community, a sanctuary for Black
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women, 50 plus. So we are, our doors are
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open, you know, and we are welcoming women,
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Black women who are 50 and up to come in
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and join.
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So wait a minute now. Let's go back one second
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here. Let's go back a second. You said your
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podcast is a top 100. Yeah. OK. That's true.
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That's true. It is a top 100. But it's closer
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to the top. It's like 19. Yes. But I know
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you're humble and didn't want to say. I can
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say that.
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Right.
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It's good for me to say. I can say that.
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This is, Denine hosts a Top 20 podcast, y'all.
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This is for real action when you get to the
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Top 20. So that is great. And Denine, what
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led you to do everything that you're doing
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now?
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Yeah, so in corporate prior to retiring,
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I was in diversity and inclusion and talent
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development. And back in like 2016, one of
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my segments was LGBTQ+, and I was preparing
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some colleagues to do a panel in person.
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And so the next year I was thinking, I'm
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like, you know what, there's a certain demographic
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that's missing. And so I pitched a panel
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for LGBTQ plus women of color and allies.
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I moderated that panel for three years straight.
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It was a well attended panel, you know, folks
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were so excited for it. And so at the end
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of 2019, someone said, Hey, what's next?
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And I said, a podcast. And so this is October
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2019. Fast forward to 2020 before, you know,
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the world changed, but I still hadn't launched
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the podcast. And I realized this was a Thursday.
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I had a conversation with a coach. He was
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telling me, he's like, you know what, people
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need to hear, hear what you have to say.
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And he said to me that He and I could say
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the same thing, but it would, you know, it
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would resonate with certain people for me
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versus him type thing. Okay, cool. Hung out
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with him, got on a treadmill, was reading
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a book. The first time I ever read, first
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and last time I ever read anything by Brene
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Brown. And the first word that stood out
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to me was vulnerability. And it hit, it resonated.
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I had a fear of being vulnerable and that's
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what kept me from launching a podcast. So
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the very next day, April 10, 2020, which
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was Good Friday, I Nike'd it and just did
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it. And I launched my podcast and this year
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we turned six.
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Wow. Right on. Congratulations to you. And
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I love the term. I just Nike'd it.
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Yes.
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And just, just did it. For everyone watching
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and listening, let that be something that
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resonates with you. If there's something
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you want to do, that something's been placed
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in your heart, God's placed something in
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your mind, you don't have to have everything
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right. Just do it. Just get going. So I hope
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anyone, someone watching and listening is
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thinking about doing their thing, whatever
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that is, that you go, you know what? Why
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not me? Why shouldn't I do it? Just do it.
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So I'm really, really happy that you did
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that, Deneen. Now, folks, you're here for
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the big announcement. You're watching the
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big announcement show. I'm Leon Thomas with
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the Leon Thomas Group here with Deneen L.
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Garrett. Deneen has an announcement. It's
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coming up. Just wait. I know it's 1 o'clock
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on the East Coast. You're probably just finishing
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lunch. Look, it's Thursday afternoon. You're
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not doing any work anyway.
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Right.
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It's free Friday. Just be real. If you're
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on the West Coast, it's like 5 after 10.
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If you're watching from Alaska or Hawaii,
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put in the comment that you are watching
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from Alaska and Hawaii and tell us what time
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it is. But it's Thursday. So y'all stick
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around. Because Deneen has a really big announcement.
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Deneen, before the show, we were talking
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with our producer, who's doing a great job
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in the background, always does for us. Leon
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Thomas Group, Oren Stewart. And we were talking
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a little bit about sports. And I asked this
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question. I mean, we don't have the tape
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to roll it. But the question I asked was,
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are you a Detroit Piston fan? And the answer
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was and is.
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The answer is, I'm a Detroit fan.
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So you are a Piston fan.
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I'm a fan of the city. So Pistons is a Detroit
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team. Yes. Tigers is a Detroit team. Yes.
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Lions is a Detroit team. Yes. Red Wings.
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So yes, I'm going to ride for that. I'm going
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to rock those. However, all things Detroit.
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That's me.
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OK. All right. Right on. All things Detroit.
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I live in Baltimore. I am a Ravens fan. My
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wife is an Orioles fan. If we could afford
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season tickets, we would be at every Oriole
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game. Okay. But we're not here to talk about
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sports. We're just talking about each other
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a little bit. Tell us some things you like
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to do away from work, Denise. What do you
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like to do?
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Yeah. So travel is number one. And actually,
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if you can see my shirt, it's Live a Dream
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Lifestyle. which is a decision that I made
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in 2022. You know how you start the year
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and you choose a word for the year and mine
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happened to be live. And I saw this tweet
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and somebody said, and yes, it was still
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Twitter. Someone said, go beyond, you know,
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the dream cars, the dream houses and focus
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on the dream lifestyle. So I put it together.
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And so for 2022, Live a Dream Lifestyle became
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how I lived. And now it's also part of my
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business is what I empower women of color
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to do is what I do through the podcast, is
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what I do through speaking, writing, all
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things is about empowering women to live
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a dream lifestyle. Different women, people
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in general, they have different ways of living
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their dream lifestyle. And for me, again,
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number one is travel. Number two would be
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like attending events, exhibitions, and then
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art. So for me to go travel to an art exhibition,
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I'm in heaven. And I do it all the time.
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I travel a lot for art.
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OK, right on. Now, I also know that you're
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traveling for something big. Oh yeah. You
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have a big trip coming up where you've been,
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what do they call it? Media credentialed
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to a big event. Tell us about that.
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Yeah, absolutely. And you know what? So I
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posted about this. And everything for me
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is like a journey. That's why I say I'm a
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cultural alchemist and a storyteller because
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the way that my life has, you know, Come
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about is to tell a story to share with somebody
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a journey my journey. So we talked about
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the podcast, you know, I finally launched
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it after realizing that I had a fear being
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vulnerable and said, you know, forget all
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that and let's go ahead and move forward.
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So I've attended this event. two different
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times, each time I was a corporate guest.
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And I said, you know what, when I come back,
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I'm coming back and I'm going to be on a
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stage or whatever. So not quite there yet.
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However, I am returning to the Women of Power
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Summit, and that's hosted by Black Enterprise,
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That is March 11 through 15, and I am attending
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as press. I have credentials as press, and
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yes, through my top 20 podcast.
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There you go. Right on. That is great. Congratulations
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to you. Thank you. That is great. And I also,
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typically for events like that, you're allowed
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to have someone else come with you, right?
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As a photographer, videographer, or something,
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right? When you get to that level, that means
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people are recognizing your work. That is
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what that means. People are recognizing what
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you do and the impact that it has.
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And I'm glad you said that because I actually
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do have someone attending with me. I was
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able to bring an additional person as media
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support. And my media support, what I love
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about that is that she's part of the collective
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that I talked about. So she is actually she's
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the first member of the Dream Lifestyle Collective.
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And she and I have known each other for a
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number of years because we both worked for
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the same company. But Gia Warren, she is
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a she is meeting me there And she is you
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know, so we're gonna do some behind-the-scenes
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some BTS, you know, she's walking around
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with the with the phone And recording what's
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going on as I'm taking things in so that
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I can write about it later In Gia. Yes.
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I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about
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Gia after the announcement You know our producer
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or is back there he had he had his finger
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on the keys he was like Yeah, he was he was
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ready he was ready But yeah, so folks we're
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almost at announcement time. Here's what
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we're gonna do, right? We're gonna show a
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short we're gonna take a short break and
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Show a piece that talks some about the Leon
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Thomas group and then when we come back from
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this short break Danine L Garrett will tell
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us the information she wants you to know.
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She will tell us the big announcement. You're
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watching The Big Announcement Show. I'm Leon
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Thomas here with Daneen L. Garrett. We'll
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be right back.
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I'm Leon Thomas with the Leon Thomas Group.
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Podcasts, virtual events, webinars, streaming
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shows, and so much more. We want to be your
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Hey, welcome back to the Big Announcement
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Show. Again, Leon Thomas with the Leon Thomas
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Group. To learn more about us, go to our
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website. theleonthomasgroup.com here with
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Deneen L. Garrett. Deneen, we're 15 minutes
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into the show. Folks have been waiting for
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a couple of weeks, maybe three weeks or more.
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It is now time for, wait a minute, can I
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get a drum roll, please? Ooh, nice. You've
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been rehearsing that.
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That was good.
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It is now time for the big announcement.
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Denine, tell us the big announcement.
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All right. So I kind of teased it when I
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said my podcast is turning six. What I did
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mention is that about a year or so ago, I
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prayed to level up in my podcast. And earlier
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in the year, when I announced about the Dream
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Lifestyle Collective, which is a collective,
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a community for Black women 50 and up, Leon
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responded. And he's like, I love what you're
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doing. I want to support you. I want to work
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with you. And so that collaboration, which
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I'm going to announce now, is starting next
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week, next Thursday, March 5th, 1 p.m. Eastern,
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here, wherever you are, however you're tapping
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in, a woman of color will be live. Yay! Every
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week live. Now that is huge. That is huge
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because we're live, we're being produced
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by the Leon Thomas group, and I am so excited
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to take things to the next level.
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Right on. Congratulations and thank you for
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having the Leon Thomas Group as your partner
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on this. We're very, very happy to do that,
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happy for what you're doing, and just thrilled
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to death to be a part of this. And Daneen,
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tell us about, now, this is live every Thursday
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at 1 p.m. Eastern. Tell us about some of
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the guests you have coming on, the types
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of conversations we should expect to to see
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right here on the show. Tell us, give us
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a little, a little insider information.
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Yeah, absolutely. So the podcast itself has
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always been about empowering women of color,
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right? It initially was a platform for women
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of color to use their voices And then also
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morphed into empowering women of color to
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live dream lifestyles when I decided that
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that was my focus. And I wanted more women
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to live that way as well. I didn't want anyone
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to wait until they retired to say, oh, no,
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I want to start doing this, doing that. No,
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I wanted to promote for women to tap into
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what brings them joy and to do more of that.
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So that's what it's been about. That's what
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the podcast has been about. My guests are
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women of color who talk about their various
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journeys, all different walks of life, PhDs,
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doctors, non-doctors, just regular people.
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If you're a woman of color, you're welcome
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on the show. With this new elevation, we're
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always going to center women of color. That
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is the center. Women of color, black women,
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that's the focus. That's the center. So I
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am having conversations and will have conversations
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with people who may not fit that demographic.
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But as long as you are centering women of
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color, black women, we can have a conversation.
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You're welcome to be on the live.
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All right. That is that is great. And as
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I'm thinking now, Um, I could see some guests
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that, that may fit in certain industries,
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right. That are, that may be underserved
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by, by black women, that black women have
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to really work together to move up. I'm retired
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from the hospitality business. And I'll tell
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you when I went to hotel conferences, right.
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When I started, I saw very few black people
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at all. Right. Then I'd see, see a few, a
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few black people. But then Hilton Hotels
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hired a vice president of marketing who was
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a black lady.
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Love it.
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And you talk about the pride that I felt
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in seeing her on the stage talking about
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her work. But then there was no one else
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for her to really connect with. There were
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no other or very few other black women there.
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Way back then, I started thinking, wouldn't
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it be great if Black women got together and
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did things and supported each other and helped
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each other make it, right? And man, this
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is so great. Daneen, this is good, good stuff.
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So now the show starts next Thursday at 1
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p.m. Eastern. So wherever you're watching
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this, If you're watching live, you can watch
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live here. If you're watching the recording
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because you decided to work today instead
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of watch the show, why you would do that?
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If you're a college student, ideally, This
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is for women over 50. But if you're a college
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student and you're in your 20s and you happen
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to see this, why did you go to class today?
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You knew about the announcement. I'm joking.
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Go to class. Go to class. Go to class. But,
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but here's the, here's the big thing. Wherever
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you're watching this, if you're watching
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on a recording on Thursday night, Friday
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morning, you can still watch it again Thursday
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night, Friday morning on the recording. Okay.
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So the show is going to be, now, Deneen,
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so let's see. You said in a couple weeks,
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you're going to be in Vegas.
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Oh, yeah.
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So does that mean you're doing the show from
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Vegas?
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That is correct. So yes, I will be in Vegas
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for the second show. And my guest is actually
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my guest. She's in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
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So I will be in Vegas. in having a conversation
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with someone who was in beautiful, sunny,
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hot, circle by water, St. Thomas, Virgin
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Islands. And that's who I'm having a conversation
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with. But yeah, I'll be in Vegas. And then
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the following week, Gia, who I mentioned,
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almost let it out early, Gia and I will have
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a conversation here and we'll kind of recap
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our experience at the Women of Color Summit.
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That is great. You talk about worldwide.
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Oh, right. You're in Vegas. Your guest is
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in St. Thomas. The show's and somehow the
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tech is going to bring it all together and
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it's going to go all over the world. This
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is good stuff.
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Yeah. And you know what? And so you mentioned
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that. And absolutely, the podcast itself
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is global, has been global for a number of
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years. And the women of the Dream Lifestyle
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Collective is a global collective as well.
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I have members in London, Rome and then,
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of course, throughout the US and We're looking
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to expand that footprint. You're welcome.
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The collective itself is for Black women
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50 and up. The podcast, the focus is for
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women of color in general. So it doesn't
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matter your age, but it's for women of color
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in general, especially Black women. And again,
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the collective, the Dream Lifestyle Collective
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is for 50 and up.
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Right on. This is great. I think our producers
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ready to go. to display your website, right?
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So you can kind of direct our producer Orin
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through the, through the website and he'll
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bring it up on the screen here. So folks
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can take a look at, at the website.
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So here is the entry point. When you go to
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deninogarrett.com, this is what you'll see.
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You'll scroll down and just keep scrolling
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because then you get to the podcast and then
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you can click to get to the podcast from
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there. Keep going. Now, if you are interested
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in having me as a guest, there is an entry
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point to request me. And if you want to be
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a guest, there's an entry point to register
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as a guest. And then you'll be able to choose
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your Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern to be on
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the show. And we'll move forward from there.
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Also, go back up. and click over to Dream
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Lifestyle Collective. And that's where you'll
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learn a little bit more about the community
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for Black women 50 and up. So keep scrolling
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down. You get to read a little bit about
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who it's for, which I've shared. And then
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you click at the bottom, and it will actually
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take you to the platform that houses the
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community. And then you'll have an opportunity
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to join and join with other Black women 50
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and up. Another reason that I started this
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collective, again, it was a natural progression
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from what I was already doing, but seeing
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so many Black women being displaced, being
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ousted, over 350,000 Black women last year
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alone, was another reason why I wanted to
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create this space because I want, as Leon
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talked about, I wanted a community for us.
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I wanted that safe space for us to come and
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talk and learn and share and then grow together,
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building that legacy.
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This is outstanding. And you've emphasized
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that it's for the Dream Lifestyle Collective
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is for Black women over 50. And I'm thinking
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about my family.
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Yeah.
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Right. Now, I don't know how much we've talked
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about this. My family, we just live forever.
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I had an aunt who passed away two years ago
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at 105.
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That's beautiful.
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Another one passed away in October at 100.
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I have an uncle who's 102. And then we have
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the baby. She's only 90. OK. Right? She's
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only 90. But I will tell you, my aunt that
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was 105, she would have become a member of
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the Dream Lifestyle Club. OK. She would have
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done it. Yes, Aunt Marion would have been
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here because she believed that black people
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need to be together, period. She used to
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upset her when she would see our people fighting
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with each other verbally or physically. It
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would drive her nuts. She said, we need to
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come together and have some conversation,
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y'all. We need to support each other. I could
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just see her as a guest on your show. I'm
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going to contact one of my cousins to see
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if they will come on to even talk about her
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legacy.
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I would love that. And where are we going
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to go to get started?
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Where are you going to go? You're going to
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go to thedeninelgarrett.com.
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That's right. And you're going to scroll
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down to register as a guest. Yeah.
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You're going to go right there and go as
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a guest. And you click the button, and then
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it goes on in.
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Right, right. You fill in some things. Yes.
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And then you get the announcement. There
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it is, Denine L. Garrett. That's that's what
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you do. So right on. So Deneen, we have about
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two minutes remaining in this big announcement
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show. Again, everyone, thanks for watching.
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I'm Leon Thomas with the Leon Thomas Group.
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That's Deneen L. Garrett. Deneen just made
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a big announcement that starting next Thursday
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at 1 p.m. Eastern, the Women of Color show
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goes live right here. Live. It's live. Like,
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you know, like
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Like we're doing it right now. We're live
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right now. We're live.
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This is live action, folks. This is live.
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But if you missed the live, you can see the
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recorded. But then it won't be recorded.
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It'll be live, but not. You understand? Y'all
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know what I mean. Quit playing.
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This is a recording of the live.
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Recording of the live, yes. Recording of
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the live. We got it. So two minutes ago,
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Denine, tell us anything else that everyone
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needs to know.
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Yeah, you know what? Tap in. Really, that's
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what you need. Subscribe to the YouTube channel
26:39
at Deneen L Garrett. And so that you don't
26:43
miss, you don't forget, put it on your calendar
26:45
so that you know to check in, tap in every
26:48
Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern. I'm excited about
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the conversations that are coming. If you
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already are, you know, you know of the podcast,
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you've listened to the podcast, you've watched
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the podcast, same type of energy, but a little
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bit more because it's live. So, you know,
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that brings a whole different energy. Tap
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in.
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Tap in. Tap in. Tap in. Right on. Well, this
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is great. Denine, again, congratulations
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on all the success that you're having. And
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I look forward to just great, greater things
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happening, and particularly here with the
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show. And thank you for having the Leon Thomas
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Group as your partner on this. We look forward
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to working with you. And wow, this is great
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news. Thank you for sharing the big announcement,
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the big news on the big announcement show.
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Yes, yes. Right on. And everyone, thanks
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for watching the big announcement show. And
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again, Women of Color Live starts next Thursday
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at 1 p.m. Eastern right here. Wherever you're
27:53
watching this, you're going to be able to
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see the show. I'm Leon Thomas. That's Daneen
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L. Garrett. Thanks for watching The Big Announcement
28:02
Show. We'll see you next week.
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Thanks for watching the Big Announcement
28:07
Show. Remember, Deneen's new show, Women
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of Color Live, starts next Thursday, March
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5th, at 1 p.m. Eastern. You can watch Women
28:17
of Color Live on the same platforms you watched
28:20
today's Big Announcement Show. Again, thanks
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for watching, and we'll see you next week.