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Replay: From Black-ish to Boss Status_ Marsai Martin on Leadership, Legacy & Owning Your · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren
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  Speaker 2: came in.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren l Rosa and this
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  Speaker 1: is the latest with Lauren le Rosa. This is your
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  Speaker 1: Jelli dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and
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  Speaker 1: all of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 2: Baby.
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  Speaker 1: So today I am bringing you guys, live and direct
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  Speaker 1: into a conversation that I'm pretty sure will shake the
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  Speaker 1: room in a very positive, motivational way. I got to
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  Speaker 1: sit down with marse Martin at Howard University during the
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  Speaker 1: HBCU First Look Film Festival. I was honored to be
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  Speaker 1: in conversation with her and also literally got honored as
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  Speaker 1: one of their Like You Nominated Innovators in the Content
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  Speaker 1: Creator Space, which was an award that's voted on by
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  Speaker 1: the students that are involved in the program.
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  Speaker 2: So that meant a lot to me.
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  Speaker 1: But it also just meant a lot to me to
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  Speaker 1: be in conversation with Marseille because I feel like, even
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  Speaker 1: though Marseille Martin is so much younger than me, watching
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  Speaker 1: her career has literally shown me what happened like what
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  Speaker 1: happens when you're a multi hyphen it who is you know,
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  Speaker 1: very secure and what it is that you do it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some days you're not, but you're secure in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you do good work. And we had a
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  Speaker 1: very in depth conversation just about what her journey has
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  Speaker 1: been like just trying to make sure she get all
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  Speaker 1: her props and all her just do, but doing really
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  Speaker 1: good work in the film space, creating you know, hits,
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  Speaker 1: blockbuster hits like Little, the movie Little which starts Regina
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  Speaker 1: King and herself, Marseille Martin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just.
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  Speaker 1: What that looks like and doing it with family. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: know how I feel about stuff like that. So I
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, kick off the conversation right here.
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  Speaker 1: Little background. The HBCU First Look Film Festival is an innovative,
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  Speaker 1: annual HBCU initiative that focuses on diversity and inclusion and opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: And they bring together HBCU students with HBCU graduates who are.
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  Speaker 1: Creators and leaders in film, television, and various broadcast industries.
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  Speaker 1: So this, you know, Film Festival is a part of
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  Speaker 1: a larger organization that is making sure HBCU students have
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  Speaker 1: all of the opportunities that they deserve the outlets to
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  Speaker 1: you know, put their represent and do them, but also
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  Speaker 1: the people in the real conversations to understand what they're
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  Speaker 1: walking into. So let's take a listen to the conversation
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna get ready to have this
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  Speaker 3: amazing fire side chat. And I'm excited because the moderator of.
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  Speaker 4: The fire side chat is somebody who I like in
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  Speaker 4: real life because she's just a dope human being. We
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  Speaker 4: got to know during her time on TMZ, but now
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  Speaker 4: she is a bona fide household name in her own
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  Speaker 4: right with a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: And she is the heartbeat of the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 3: Can y'all show some love to my girl laurd Louilsa
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  Speaker 3: and she stay fly and she went to Delaware Estate
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  Speaker 3: Bru's up. You got your Mary J. Blige bouto on today.
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  Speaker 3: I see I see you, come on y'all, sir Lawn
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  Speaker 3: and said well love.
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  Speaker 2: And joining her.
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  Speaker 3: Is our ambassador for the HBCU First Look Film Festival
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 5: She is a multi hyphened creative, Hollywood's youngest executive producer.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all fell in love with her own Blackish and you
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  Speaker 3: liked her in.
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  Speaker 6: Little and G twenty and she's just doing the thing
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  Speaker 6: a ball of happiness.
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  Speaker 7: She is a wonderful person. Come on, show her love
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  Speaker 7: from us, say Martin, Hey Lord, it's all yours baby.
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  Speaker 7: You got it from here, I said.
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  Speaker 8: The lifetime navigating worlds that are well beyond her age.
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  Speaker 8: We met her in the Milestone TV series Blackish. This Plano,
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  Speaker 8: Texas native held her own as the whip smart elementary
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  Speaker 8: school age Dianne Johnson in a TV family opposite Season
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  Speaker 8: Masters Anthony Anderson, Tracy Ellis Ross, Jennifer Lewis, and Lawrence Fishburn.
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  Speaker 8: At only fourteen, in twenty nineteen, she set the Guinness
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  Speaker 8: World Record as the youngest Hollywood executive producer for the
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  Speaker 8: movie Little signed a first look deal with Universal Pictures
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  Speaker 8: and became the youngest person to achieved this with any
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  Speaker 8: studio still in her teens. Forbes thirty for thirty named
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  Speaker 8: her to the list. She's been celebrated with Time one hundred,
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  Speaker 8: Next A, Refinery twenty nine's twenty nine Powerhouse Honors. She
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  Speaker 8: is an eleven time and DOUBACP Image Award winner who
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  Speaker 8: executive produced via her Genius Productions, the Skating Themed Saturdays,
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  Speaker 8: a TV series for Disney.
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  Speaker 9: As an actress, she portrayed first daughter to Viola Davis's
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  Speaker 9: black female potus in the Action Pact G twenty and
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  Speaker 9: has voiced multiple projects, including the popular Paul Patrol for
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  Speaker 9: Paving the way for the next generation of storytellers, producers
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  Speaker 9: and entrepreneurs and leading with Purpose is why Marseille Martin
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  Speaker 9: is Cafe Moca's twenty twenty five Salute Them Awards.
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  Speaker 2: Bridging the Gap, Honoree. I know that's right, Marseille. When
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  Speaker 2: do you sleep?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was like thirty things, and I know
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  Speaker 1: you got like a thousand more accomplishments.
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  Speaker 2: When do you sleep?
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  Speaker 10: And when do I sleep? Yes, when I'm done with this.
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  Speaker 10: You know, a quick little thirty minute power.
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  Speaker 2: App got you well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm honored to be here in conversation with you.
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  Speaker 1: We met some time ago at the Breakfast Club and
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  Speaker 1: even before that, we've always been a fan of your
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  Speaker 1: work ethic, But just how you understood the business so early.
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  Speaker 2: So young, and I know that you know I met
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  Speaker 2: Mom backstage.
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  Speaker 1: I know that has a lot to do with you
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  Speaker 1: have great people around you, So let's get right on
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  Speaker 1: into it, right So you embarked on your career at
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  Speaker 1: a really young age. And we talk about you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the business and being able to do all these things,
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  Speaker 1: but what were some of the opportunities or challenges that
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  Speaker 1: came with the opportunities of being in the spotlight so young?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, I will put it in perspective that I
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  Speaker 11: started when I was five. So the the complications that
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  Speaker 11: we had going from I mean Dallas to la and
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  Speaker 11: then going from Huntington Beach to like Burbank, which is
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  Speaker 11: a two hour drive going back and forth from the studio.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, it was just a lot of sacrifice that
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  Speaker 11: came here to it, as it is for anybody who
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  Speaker 11: has a passion, and I believe. I mean, there's things
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  Speaker 11: in the little details that like a lot of people
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  Speaker 11: don't even think of, such as like you know, who's
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  Speaker 11: doing your hair?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how's your hair going?
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  Speaker 10: Look, a lot of people don't know how to do
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  Speaker 10: black people's hair.
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  Speaker 11: And then when you know, we're able to fix that
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  Speaker 11: with the amazing Roxy Lindsay, who.
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  Speaker 2: Is such a like like.
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  Speaker 11: A perfectionist when it comes to black women here of course,
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  Speaker 11: but I mean there's just there's so many things that
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  Speaker 11: you can talk about and you know, relate to when
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  Speaker 11: it comes to just what it was like growing up
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  Speaker 11: in that space. But I feel like, just as a whole,
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  Speaker 11: the things that you don't even think about, such as
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  Speaker 11: just your childhood just switching, you know, just shifting from
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  Speaker 11: with me being a little girl from Dallas, Texas, going
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  Speaker 11: from a public school that I was at for many
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  Speaker 11: years and then going to homeschool, you know, such as that,
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  Speaker 11: and just like the different shifts that puts on a
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  Speaker 11: perfect person and what it takes on. So I feel
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  Speaker 11: like it was a lot of changes that happened. But
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  Speaker 11: I think with me being an old soul and always
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  Speaker 11: around I'm not going to say, oh, grown people all
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  Speaker 11: the time. I used to be around my aunties and
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  Speaker 11: I was like eight years old and they were telling
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  Speaker 11: me about they divorced stories and stuff, and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, exactly, girl, like this is what you have to do.
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  Speaker 11: So going from that to then going on a set
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  Speaker 11: that you know, it's legend that I also saw as
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  Speaker 11: like my aunties, like Jennifer Luiz, like it was basically.
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  Speaker 10: The same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's just.
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  Speaker 11: Being able to kind of change my mindset at such
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  Speaker 11: a young age and not really thinking about how crazy
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  Speaker 11: the shift is from someone else who meets the I,
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  Speaker 11: but just you know, having fun, trying to find the
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  Speaker 11: fun and everything that I do.
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  Speaker 2: That I think that was the most important thing you
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  Speaker 2: talk about the shift.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine at such a young age what that
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  Speaker 1: feeling was like. But do you remember when you were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: things are different for me than the kids that I
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  Speaker 1: started going to school with, Like when you kind of
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  Speaker 1: realize like, okay, I'm a celebrity, these things are happening.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: I will say when I went from my public school
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  Speaker 11: in Daa, Texas, where I was with the same people
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  Speaker 11: for many many years, and then moved to Huntington Beach
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  Speaker 11: where it was just a bunch of white kids. I
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  Speaker 11: went to like a YMCA, and I had like it's
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  Speaker 11: like white, very like out there, jolly yes, and most
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  Speaker 11: of and sometimes sometimes I would be you know, absent
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  Speaker 11: because I would have to work. So when I come back,
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  Speaker 11: I was like I was working, and you know, I
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  Speaker 11: was a middle school kid talking about I had to work,
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  Speaker 11: like you know, I was at work. So that's when
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  Speaker 11: I kind of realized the shift in how different I
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  Speaker 11: was from just other kids, and you know, it was
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  Speaker 11: it was different at the time, but I was there
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  Speaker 11: was something in me that was very vocal about being
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  Speaker 11: like talking to my parents and me and like listen, y'all,
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  Speaker 11: this this ain't gonna work. I was like, this is
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  Speaker 11: not gonna work. I need to find something else. And
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  Speaker 11: that's when I moved into homeschool, and then my mom
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  Speaker 11: became my teacher, and then we had some amazing, amazing
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  Speaker 11: tutors on the Blackish set that helped me out so much,
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  Speaker 11: and I then eventually I had the same tutor up
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  Speaker 11: until I was finished with school. So at the end
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  Speaker 11: it was very helpful, you know, but that was definitely
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  Speaker 11: the shift of like, wow, this is different.
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  Speaker 1: So growing up in the industry and growing up around
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  Speaker 1: the arts, you said something important, Like you said you
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  Speaker 1: were able to go to your parents and say this
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  Speaker 1: is not working for me, like I need to change
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  Speaker 1: schools because whatever just wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: On point for you to do what you need to do. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as a creative and a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the students and the people here are probably creators of businesses,
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  Speaker 1: and they're young and they're figuring things out.
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  Speaker 2: What would be your message to them?
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  Speaker 1: About being able to say, hey, this is not working
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  Speaker 1: for me, so that they're their best selves when they're
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  Speaker 1: showing up and trying to create their projects and do
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  Speaker 1: different things because you did at a very young age.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it starts with.
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  Speaker 11: Understanding the question behind the question of like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 11: isn't working.
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  Speaker 2: Why isn't it working? What are you feeling?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 11: Tell me what the perfect scenario is? How do we
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  Speaker 11: get to that point? And I think even at that age,
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  Speaker 11: it was trying to understand myself before saying what I
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  Speaker 11: had to say to everybody else outside of that, which
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  Speaker 11: I definitely had to learn, you know, just growing up,
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  Speaker 11: because I was a person that would say something and
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  Speaker 11: then someone would ask me why and I was like, hmmm,
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: So I think to be able to.
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  Speaker 11: Understand where it's coming from the feelings that are rooted
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  Speaker 11: into it, it's helped me so much, whether I'm learning
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  Speaker 11: with journaling or even like I'll do these voice memo
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  Speaker 11: diaries of just me talking just it can be like
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  Speaker 11: the most crazy ramble or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Is there like a diary or like what talk us
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  Speaker 2: through that it's like.
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  Speaker 10: A voice memo.
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  Speaker 11: I would, I mean, I guess you can call it
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  Speaker 11: a diary, but it's just a brain dump of things
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  Speaker 11: that I have on my mind because I mean it
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  Speaker 11: could be very overwhelming at times. So and then you'll
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  Speaker 11: have all these questions. I'm like, Okay, how do we
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  Speaker 11: how do we come to the solution? Yes, and just
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  Speaker 11: go from layer to layer to later to layer, because
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  Speaker 11: it's truly like an onion, you know, just trying to
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  Speaker 11: figure out what is the core, the core situation which
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  Speaker 11: has helped me, which has helped me so much. So
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  Speaker 11: I think that would be my advice to people is
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  Speaker 11: to learn yourself. Constantly learn yourself. Don't rush your process,
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  Speaker 11: don't rush into making a decision. I think it just
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  Speaker 11: it definitely helps in the long run and just your
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  Speaker 11: growth as a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Deciding to get behind the camera for you and you know,
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  Speaker 1: creating projects and producing. Was that something that you were
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  Speaker 1: always doing or was that something that you know one
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  Speaker 1: day you were like, rememb what is this?
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  Speaker 2: I want to try it?
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  Speaker 11: Like?
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  Speaker 2: How did that come about?
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  Speaker 11: When I created little with my family? That was that
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  Speaker 11: was honestly the peak of everything was being able to
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  Speaker 11: actually see something that me and my parents created in
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  Speaker 11: our living room turn into something that we go to
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  Speaker 11: Atlanta and we're filming for three months, saying you are
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  Speaker 11: just really seeing your dreams come to reality, which was
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  Speaker 11: very surreal for me. And if you've watched a little before,
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  Speaker 11: there's one scene in particular where it's literally when Jordan
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  Speaker 11: wakes up and she has these big old clothes on,
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  Speaker 11: she got this huge hair, and she's just now waking up.
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  Speaker 11: She's trying to look for her glasses and then she
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  Speaker 11: tries to see herself in the mirror and she just shook.
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  Speaker 11: And even I think that was one of the first
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  Speaker 11: scenes that we shot, and I was like, wow, I
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  Speaker 11: cannot believe. I just remember me and my mom going
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  Speaker 11: band for band on, like what she was gonna wear,
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  Speaker 11: what she's looking like, what is she saying? And then
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  Speaker 11: me actually doing that with a whole production everybody's saying
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  Speaker 11: like doing it for takes on takes, and it just
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  Speaker 11: was so special. And then to have that and then
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  Speaker 11: to realize like, oh, I could do this.
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  Speaker 10: Over and over and over again, like this is fun.
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  Speaker 11: That's how Genius Productions came about. And I could do
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  Speaker 11: it for other people, not just for me to feel this,
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  Speaker 11: but for other young black girls who want to be
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  Speaker 11: in front and behind the camera other black boys who
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  Speaker 11: want to pursue anything, anything that they want. It's like
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  Speaker 11: I understood what that energy was, yes, and how much
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  Speaker 11: I want to share that with other people.
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  Speaker 1: What are things that you so when you're doing little
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  Speaker 1: you mom, your family, your home, you're figuring it out
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  Speaker 1: and then you're on set, right What were some things
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  Speaker 1: that you were realizing that you had been learning all
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  Speaker 1: along the way that helped you a lot at that
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  Speaker 1: time that somebody right here right now could be like
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  Speaker 1: hyper focusing on because it'll get them to a point
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  Speaker 1: where they could go out and do a production with
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  Speaker 1: friends next month, next week. What are some of those
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  Speaker 1: like core things that you were like, let see what
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  Speaker 1: she did there. God, I didn't even know that this
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  Speaker 1: was preparing me.
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  Speaker 10: Ooh oh that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: Mom said use your resources.
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  Speaker 10: Oh look my mom is right here.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, right here to front, y'all, Mom is
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  Speaker 1: right hand to front.
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  Speaker 10: The fad is skill of me?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, like my mom was saying.
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  Speaker 11: Definitely using your resources. I think connection is everything. The
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  Speaker 11: reason even why a Little came about is because of
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  Speaker 11: Kenya Bears and Will Packard and of course Kenya created Blackish. Yes,
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  Speaker 11: so we had the idea, but it wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 11: able to come to fruition the way it did without
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  Speaker 11: the team behind it. And it's genuine people who want
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  Speaker 11: to see you win, you know, it's not just there
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  Speaker 11: were in it for the money, or they were in
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  Speaker 11: it because I'm a prodigy or you know, or whatever
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  Speaker 11: the whatever.
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  Speaker 10: Story you make in your head. Yes, but it's I
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  Speaker 10: mean I.
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  Speaker 11: Was nine, I was nine when that that conversation started,
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  Speaker 11: you know, so a lot of people can see that
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  Speaker 11: in different ways. You know, they can see it and
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  Speaker 11: you know, go with some kind of story that it's
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  Speaker 11: not true or I'm just the face or whatever.
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  Speaker 10: But they saw a girl with a passion, with.
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  Speaker 11: An idea and wanted to follow suit with it, you know.
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  Speaker 11: And I think that is the most important thing, is
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  Speaker 11: just following your heart with people who want to protect it,
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  Speaker 11: you know, because that's not I mean, that's not around
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  Speaker 11: a lot you know, we were that. Yeah, people absolutely,
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  Speaker 11: just genuine good people who you just want to be around,
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  Speaker 11: you know, you never want to be around no fake people,
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  Speaker 11: of course, But I think it's just important to just
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  Speaker 11: curate your team, find your team find your energy that
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  Speaker 11: you want to be around, and just create your plans
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  Speaker 11: and go from there. We had a plan, yes, and
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  Speaker 11: I think that was that was important. So I think
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  Speaker 11: that was one thing is using your resources. Another thing
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  Speaker 11: my mom says a lot is what's for you, what's
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  Speaker 11: for you, and what's for you won't miss you.
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  Speaker 10: I read every time.
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  Speaker 11: And I say it here because there was a minute
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  Speaker 11: where I, I mean, I was just on Blackish for
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  Speaker 11: like it was.
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  Speaker 10: What nine years of my life almost said.
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  Speaker 11: And I feel like I was starting to as an
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  Speaker 11: actor become stagnant or like, you know, as a whole,
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: I'm growing up in front of everybody's eyes as Diane,
• 17:16
  Speaker 11: not as Marseille, you know. So I think as a whole,
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: I had to sit back and it was more of
• 17:23
  Speaker 11: a complicated experience to find myself because of it, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 11: little in creating my production company and also turning into
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: the person I truly want to be, which is an
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: overall creator. I'm just a creator at heart. I just
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: like having fun, building businesses and stuff. That's just really
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: just what I want to do, you know. And I
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: just I think as a whole, that's what I wanted
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: to be and what I was destined to be. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: I realized, like, you know, as long as I follow
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: my path, as long as I trust in God, as
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: long as I don't stress about it, no pressure, just
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: do what is at hand.
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: And then if I.
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: I know that God is not going to put anything
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: in my heart and my mind and my gut that it's.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Not supposed to be, it's not supposed to be there.
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: It's everything that I think, everything that I feel. It's like, Okay,
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: this is this is here for a reason. I'm feeling
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: this way for a reason. So when everything came about,
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: I was just like, wow, this is.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Just really God's journey.
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: And even though I created Little at nine, I didn't
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: film me until I was thirteen. I didn't get the
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: record until I was fourteen. You know, I didn't create
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: my production company until I was fourteen fifteen. I didn't
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: start actually selling stuff until I was sixteen seventeen. You know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: I didn't start getting the recognition for it until I
• 18:42
  Speaker 11: was eighteen nineteen.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: So I think to be able to trust the plan, yeah,
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: trust the process, find joy in the process is what's
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: the most important thing, because then you realize, like, wow,
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: this is perfect timing and what's the rush?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: You know, I think that when you say it, it's
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's easier to say it than to live it
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: or feel it when you're in it. And I know, like,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: how many of you guys are creators here? Raise your hand,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: creators college everybody? Right, yeah, thank you for raising your hands, everybody.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. So I think a lot of times, especially when you're.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Creative and you live with what you love so much, right, Like,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it's like your passion, the journey, it has its twists
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: and turns, and it may.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Feel like, oh when does the light hit?
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But what she is talking about is kind of being
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: so committed to like what you're experiencing that you're not
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: worried about the end. And I know that's hard for us.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: But there's a message in what she just says. So
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I hope you guys felt that message as well too.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: End in the resources thing, a lot of you guys
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: are here, your creators are in college. This is the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: best place for you to find your director, your head
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of photography, your publicists, your social media person like link
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: up with your people, not just from homecoming all the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: fun things, but link up with them for real. And
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I know Howard is the home with that, so I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: know y'all doing that, but yeah, she dropping some gems
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: up here. You talked about Blackish, right, yeah, and having
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to find yourself out side of your character because that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: show was so impactful. Did you know going into and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: people probably ask you this all the time, the impact
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that it would have culturally, and did you understand it
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: while it was happening.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: Absolutely not. I didn't know what was going on. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: was just having fun.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I was being Diane. It was it was.
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: Just fun and ad libing.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: Even the June teenth episode where we were talking about
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: we built this and all this stuff.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: I just liked the music.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't really I didn't know.
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: I really didn't know.
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: I was learning what Juneteenth meant and the story behind
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: it while we were filming, and I think that was
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: such a special moment as a whole, for not even
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: just the audience, but as us. I mean, we grew
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: up on the show and there's so many stories and
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: concepts that even at home we would just talk about.
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: We would look at the script before the table read
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: and be like, what does this mean?
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Like, you know, how does this reflect you know, my family?
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: Is it something that.
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: We're gonna go through eventually, and it was just so
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: important and it felt like it felt like school. It
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: felt like school as a whole you were learning something new.
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: I think that, Yeah, I think Blackish was just such
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: a pivotal moment for us as as just young adults
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: just trying to figure out our way. Even when Diane
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: had so many things happened to her during these seasons,
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: I was doing the same thing. When Diane got her cycle,
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: it was like a month or two I got my first,
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: when I was telling everybody Gods, it was like true,
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: true family dynamics on that show. Yes, And it was
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: just so important, so special. Even the hair episode. I
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: would talk to Tracy about it in the trailer before
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: getting into it. It was truly like an educational experience
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: for me and something that I just truly will never forget.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like as a creator the responsibility that
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: has put on black creators right? So like with that show,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: for every young person, you guys saw them something. But
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to see a young black woman going through getting her cycle,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: learning about Juneteenth, there's another black girl here that watched
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that and she learned with you?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Is she felt seen right? That responsibility?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Do you take that into everything you do because of
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: black Ish or was that something that you were doing
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: head on, like you knew early on, Like I want
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to make sure that like the girls who see me
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: understand this at a young age.
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Absolutely, I think now it's deeper. It's deeper than that,
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: you know. I think now being behind the camera, I
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: want people to not just as an actress like there
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: might be you know, an amazing actress that happens to
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: be like an amazing black women that see that and
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: are excited about it. But now I'm like, Okay, where
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: are the black writers, Where are the black dps? Where
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: are the black I mean anything black wardrobe?
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: You know, where are the props?
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: You know?
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: So anything that I do at this point forward, I
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: want every detail to reflect who we are, right you know.
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: So anybody who from any position, any roles, you can
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: see that and be like, that's what I want to do.
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: That's where I want to be. That's the caliber that
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: I want to hit, you know. And I think that
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: is the most important thing is paying attention to the
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: little details, and not just with acting, but even with
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: the festival work that I do, with say Summer cookout
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: or the other businesses that we're trying to build.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It's always it's always learning.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: I'm constantly learning, and I want to learn with other
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: people who are genuine, like we said, just good people
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: who just want to make good content, like good real
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: stuff that we want to put out there. I think
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: that's just the most important thing. Me and me and
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: my family will go still band for a band about
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: like this is what needs to be out there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: How do we make it?
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: How do we build it? How do we start it?
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: And I think that's just the start of It's that's
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: step one.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: We got any people here that want to make some
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: good content.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Yes, out I will say something about I will say something.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: About the resources part.
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: This is the best place truly to connect, not just
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: with your fellow students.
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: But we just had Ryan Coogo last night. You know
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: what I'm saying.
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: You have your legions here that are willing to talk
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: to you, willing to have the conversation. Don't be afraid
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: to have the conversation.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: We do not bite. We can have the conversation as well.
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: Like the team that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: Is that we want to cure and want to build,
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: it starts here. That's what it is. It starts here.
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: And I want to see you guys' work. I want like,
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: I want to see it out there, any part of
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: social media, any like in real life, like promote your stuff, yes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: don't don't promote your stuff, you know, don't be embarrassed. Yes,
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: sometimes it does come with embarrassment to get your stuff done.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: You can't be You gotta be comfortable with being uncomfortable
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: and that and that's just it. You know, don't be
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: afraid because it's already going to be a no if
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: you don't. If you don't do it, it's a it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: already a O. So go for it. Strive to be
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: your best. And now i'll see you want to say.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Hopefully that's your meetings.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Where we want to take some questions from the audience.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: So yes, hands in there, any questions? First hand I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: saw was over here. So when you ask your question,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you got to introduce yourself, your major, what you do,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and then your question. I'll be but I'm gonna go
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to this side in the white with the headphones right here.
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: Hi.
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: My name is Timia Anderson. I'm a sophomore Film a
• 25:25
  Speaker 13: TV major, Cheminology minor from Mephicinnesci attend Howard, And my
• 25:30
  Speaker 13: question for you would be, what do you say to
• 25:33
  Speaker 13: keep yourself going when you're not getting the results you want?
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: Like maybe, like you know, work is moving slow, you
• 25:39
  Speaker 13: just start getting what you want, or you feel like
• 25:42
  Speaker 13: you're not doing enough. For example, I do photography around
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: campus and I have I do it every so often,
• 25:47
  Speaker 13: but I also feel like I could be doing more
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: than I am. And I'm not really sure if it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: just like me or if it's just like just myself,
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: or if it's something more I could be doing. So
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: what would you say you say to yourself, like to
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: keep yourself like stable?
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I would say, I say trust the timing A
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: lot of the time. That goes for what I was
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: saying in the beginning of what's the question behind the question,
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: Like why are you feeling this way? Why do you
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: feel like you should be doing more if you already
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: given your one hundred percent? Like is it comparing? Is
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: it you know, overthinking? Is it stress? Is it pressure?
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: Is it the pressure of school but also wanting to
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: do something different? It's it's those questions that you only
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: yourself can ask, you know, and then you go from there.
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: But I think that you know emotions are emotions. Sometimes
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: I be crying.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: It's true, I cry and be like damn, you know.
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: Sometimes it just be like that, but not for long.
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: I don't let it do that.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: I don't sit in no sadness for long, no sadness.
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: I'm like, all right, I feel this way when we go,
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: get my ass back up and do what I have
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: to do. And that's just it. You know.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you just have to find a new plan.
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: Sometimes you have to pivot.
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: Sometimes you have to lean on your connections and being
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: like this is how I feel.
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: How do we figure this out together?
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: Because nine times out of ten, you're never alone in
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: how you're feeling, you know, like how do I get
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: out of this funk? You know, most of the time
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: it's just the person on your left that you're like like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: this is what I need help with, or hey, help
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: me find this person so I can learn how to
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: be a better whatever, a better photographer, a better whatever,
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: like as like, knowledge is key, you know. So I say,
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: it's so many different things. But what do I tell myself?
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: I let myself feel what I have to feel in
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: the moment, whatever that is. If it's anger, I'll go
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: on my voicemail and be like this stop it, be like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: all right, we're cool. You know what I got to write?
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: What's the plan? What's the vibes? How do I get
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: out of this? Let you feel what you have to feel.
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: That's step one, and then you go from there. Then
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: then you find what that next thing is, you know, because.
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: The good comes with the bad. That's just that's just
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: what it is.
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: You're gonna have those stagnant moments and that's okay, but
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: trust the timing.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, We're gonna take some more questions. I'll go
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: straight to the back with the green and the white.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: With the yes. She like, do I know green and white? Yeah? Girl,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you put that outfit on the day.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: My name is Brishet. I am a junior.
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: I'm a film major at Buois State University.
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: Yeap, oh my good.
• 28:47
  Speaker 14: Okay, And my question to you is when you think
• 28:50
  Speaker 14: about your legacy, do you see yourself as part of
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: a movement of young black creatives or as someone building
• 28:56
  Speaker 14: her own land entirely?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Girl, she came with the outfit the question.
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: Right, she said, this is what I gotta say.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I feel let them lead. You won't do it the
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: one you do it.
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: I know I have my peers, I know I have
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: my people around me.
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: But ever since I was little, I knew that I
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: was creating a lane for myself that is just outside
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: of what.
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: Other people are doing, and that's okay.
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: When I learned that was when I realized there was
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: nobody next to me that I can that I can
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: completely relate to because I was doing things are still
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: doing things at an age where nobody could even fathom
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: where to start.
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: So I see my legacy.
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: Being my own path and I take that head on
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: like and I think this comes from me being I
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: don't know who into astrology, but I'm a triple LEO.
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: I stand on like you know I stand on business.
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: I put my all into myself. I'm confident in myself.
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: I know what I have to do as well as
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: I know it's only me that can get myself there,
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: and I know what I'm capable of that is.
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: Different from all these other people out here.
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: You can see it in my resume, you can see
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: it in my work, you can see it in the
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: conversations I have with people. You can see me in
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: business because I don't play about that. I come from
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: a family that doesn't play about that, and that's just
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: that I get. I stay out the way and I
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: do my work, which is different, and that's it. So
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: I think as a whole, I'm just I'm just in
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: a path of my own and that comes from with
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: a whole different responsibility than anything else that I've seen.
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: But I take it head on and that's just that's
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: just the.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, go well, last one? Okay, last one? Oh? I
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: want to say, you got to pick the last one.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I feel so much pressure. It's like I got the
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: auks right now, or y'all wasn't really feeling my music?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: So giving it to you?
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: What? Yeah?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Stressful? Am it?
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: No?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Do we got? Oh? What if this is the last question?
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: What if we just go, okay, let's do miss girl
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: in the white. I'm sorry, y'all, I go.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Hold it for your queen.
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: I was gonna be like better dance.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: See how did that boom? Everybody? Handshake?
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Hi?
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: First of all, thank y'all both for being here. Thank
• 31:45
  Speaker 12: you for picking me to a question. My name is
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: Selma So I'm a fourth year computer science major theater
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: arts minor from Oakland, California.
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I felt, yes, Yes, it's West Coast baby
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: contend you yes.
• 32:02
  Speaker 12: And my question is kind of about being like a
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: multi hyphenated creative.
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: I'm an actress, dancer, model, singer, creative.
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: Director, et cetera, et cetera, And I find it hard
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: sometimes to market myself when it's like there's so many
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: different things I'm interested in, so many different things I do,
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: so many different just lanes I want to go to.
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: So my question is for the multi hyphenic creatives, how
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: can we figure out ways to put it together as
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: like a full package that can be like presented and marketed.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Mmmm.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean it starts with you.
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: I mean you're the only person who can market yourself truthfully.
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: You know your brand? What is your brand? That is
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: something that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: Is a full day of just sitting with yourself and
• 32:51
  Speaker 11: thinking about you know. That's that's where the little details
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: come in, Like when are you gonna pull out your
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: dancing skills, when you're gonna pull out your singing?
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: When are you gonna do that? Is all you?
• 33:01
  Speaker 11: No one can actually do that for you, you know, that
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: is something that every person that you see has kind
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: of curated that for themselves. I think one of my
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: favorite multi hyphen stars is Tianna Taylor, you know, which
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: is someone who styles herself, creates her own content, has
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: her own production company, the conversations that she has with people,
• 33:29
  Speaker 11: conversations that she has on her own, you know. So
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: those are things that you have to do to just
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: market yourself. You're the only person who can do that,
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: and that is a beautiful thing to do, all of it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: So my my advice would be to have fun.
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  Speaker 11: Don't think too hard on it, just have fun with it,
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  Speaker 11: because that's one of the best things to do is
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  Speaker 11: just put yourself out there and have fun. I mean,
• 33:57
  Speaker 11: Halloween just passed, Like, what's a un neat thing that
• 34:00
  Speaker 11: you could do for Halloween?
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  Speaker 10: I mean Thanksgiving it is coming up. What's a unique
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: thing you can do with.
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  Speaker 11: Your family, like who are the fan of the friends,
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  Speaker 11: the connections that you have.
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  Speaker 10: They can go on campus.
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  Speaker 11: And start your own series or start your own whatever,
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  Speaker 11: like as a creative director to where you're able to.
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  Speaker 10: Sprout all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But have fun with it.
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  Speaker 11: That's one of the best things I could say is
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: don't think too hard on it. It might be something
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  Speaker 11: to even have fun with just for a day, you know,
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  Speaker 11: And that's what I would say. You know, just find
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  Speaker 11: ways to mark yourself and start and start there. You know,
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  Speaker 11: I can't tell you how to market yourself because only
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: you know you. Yeah, there's only one you show us why.
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: There's only one you, period. That's your asset in the room. Girl,
• 34:43
  Speaker 11: You're welcome, And I tell you to real quick before
• 34:46
  Speaker 11: you go.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Sometimes too, like when you can do a bunch of things,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: there's like one thing that is like super prevalent that
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: people just like run to you naturally about. Don't fight
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  Speaker 1: that either, lean into that and then allow yourself to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: like bring everything else into yeah, as it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Like think about your favorite story that you go to
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  Speaker 1: for I don't know, your favorite makeup product.
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  Speaker 2: Once you go get that product, you just happen to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: find everything else.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are strong there and that's out there,
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  Speaker 1: the people gonna find the rest of the stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Just be ready, have it all together, have your looks
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  Speaker 2: all the things.
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  Speaker 11: And I will say this for everybody in the room,
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: even with the questions that I got, you don't need
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: to have it all figured.
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  Speaker 2: Out right now. No, I know.
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: Sometimes people will look at tiktoks of us in our
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: twenty somethings.
• 35:28
  Speaker 10: Thrive and strive and whatever and being like, oh my gosh,
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: I need to be like them.
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  Speaker 11: We don't have it all figured out either, we don't.
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  Speaker 11: This is just our job, just like you have your job.
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  Speaker 2: Girl. That's it. That's just it.
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  Speaker 10: So you don't need to have it figured out out
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  Speaker 10: right now.
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: Just create your path, create the story you want to tell,
• 35:49
  Speaker 11: and take it day by day because your twenties is
• 35:53
  Speaker 11: where you can actually make the most mistakes and come
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: back from it, you know. And that's just it, you know,
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: Just like, keep going, keep pushing, keep thriving the best
• 36:05
  Speaker 11: that you can do. Not put any pressure on yourself
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  Speaker 11: at all. Y'all are still in school, y'all are still
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: focusing on other things and other problems. Just take it
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: day by day and it'll all fall in the place later.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and ladies, before we bred it up, I got
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: a question from mom Carol because a bunch of the
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: students keep asking.
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  Speaker 2: Me, come on, stand up, Mama Carol.
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  Speaker 5: I put it on the spot. A bunch of the
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: students keep asking me and say what ut, Mom, Carol.
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  Speaker 5: Bnt of the students have asked me this.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I have parents who don't see arts
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  Speaker 6: and entertainment as a viable career, and they want me
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: to become a doctor or a lawyer, one of these things.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: How did you have the unction to support your daughter
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  Speaker 6: through this career path? And what advice would you give
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: the students about talking to their parents about them taking
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: the journey in arts and entertainment?
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 15: I come from a family of artists, so it was
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: really easy for me to spot early that that would
• 37:07
  Speaker 15: probably be what her journey was. But if I did
• 37:10
  Speaker 15: have parents that didn't get it, or if I was
• 37:13
  Speaker 15: a parent that didn't get it, you got to understand
• 37:15
  Speaker 15: that the choices that I make for me are my choices,
• 37:20
  Speaker 15: and this is not a carbon copy of myself. And
• 37:24
  Speaker 15: God didn't give me a baby to just pour into
• 37:27
  Speaker 15: what I what I want her to be. I can
• 37:31
  Speaker 15: desire her to do all sorts of things, but she's
• 37:33
  Speaker 15: a blank piece of paper, and all I can do
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  Speaker 15: is try to make sure that I give her all
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  Speaker 15: the tools that are necessary. I make sure she's fed
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  Speaker 15: and clothed and saying, and God does the rest. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 15: knew from a baby that this is the kid that
• 37:48
  Speaker 15: I had, so I just it was funny trying to
• 37:51
  Speaker 15: get people to see what I saw because everybody. They're like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 15: everybody thinks their baby is you know, everybody's baby can
• 37:58
  Speaker 15: do I was like, nah, everybody's baby can't do it.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: This baby could do.
• 38:01
  Speaker 15: But you know, and then they saw what came to fruition,
• 38:03
  Speaker 15: and then they're.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, I knew.
• 38:04
  Speaker 15: Remember when I told you no, girl, I'm like, yeah, okay,
• 38:08
  Speaker 15: but I mean, just tried your best to give your
• 38:15
  Speaker 15: parents grace because that's what was put under them, you know,
• 38:17
  Speaker 15: like that that seems like that they want stability.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: You have to hear what's.
• 38:21
  Speaker 15: Behind that push. They may not get it because they
• 38:26
  Speaker 15: were told that same thing. You know, like the only
• 38:29
  Speaker 15: viable way to do anything is are these four careers,
• 38:32
  Speaker 15: you know, and there's the artist, the starving artists. That's
• 38:35
  Speaker 15: the actual title. So yeah, most artists are starving, you know.
• 38:39
  Speaker 15: So it's coming from a place of concern and love.
• 38:43
  Speaker 15: And if you give them that grace, they may never
• 38:45
  Speaker 15: understand it. But you gotta do what you got to
• 38:47
  Speaker 15: do for you and try to stay in that mindset
• 38:51
  Speaker 15: and know that there's the community of people that support
• 38:54
  Speaker 15: you even if they don't get it.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You just got to find your folks that do that'll
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: hold you.
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: Up and I will.
• 39:01
  Speaker 11: I will say that also comes with time. They sometimes
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: they just need to see it. Sometimes they just need
• 39:07
  Speaker 11: to see it because I mean it is people just
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: be like that sometimes. But also too, even this past year,
• 39:16
  Speaker 11: I've the conversations I have with my parents are very different.
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: They look different now because I realize that they're humans too.
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: They don't, like mom said, they don't have it all
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: figured out. This is the first time that they have
• 39:26
  Speaker 11: a twenty one year old or a twenty something year old. So,
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: like my mom said, to be able to give your
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: parents that grace, but also too, they might be a
• 39:34
  Speaker 11: part of the group that just needs to see it
• 39:36
  Speaker 11: to believe it.
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: And that's okay.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: So keep moving forward.
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: And it's not saying that you can't do this or whatever,
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: because that can feel like projection at times.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: But just follow your path and switch your mindset about it.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: It's all about mindset. Now, we see where you get
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: it from though, right.
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: Yes, yep, full of love?
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Can y'all give lad and mant say a roundab o' clock,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Come on, get up on your feet and.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Show them somewhere love.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I told y'all, I told you guys at this conversation
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: with Marseille Martin.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, let's think about it. Like Marseille
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Martin is you know, blackish Little She is literally the girl.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: She's so good at what she does and as you
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: guys were able to hear today, there is intention and
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: purpose and hard work and effort behind everything she does.
• 40:27
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