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INTERVIEW: Tasha Smith Talks 'Desire: A Temptations Story,' Tyler Perry, 'Survival of the Thickest,' TSAW +More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club pouring Everybody is the j n V
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  Speaker 2: just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Laura La Rosa is here as well, and we got
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  Speaker 2: a special guest in the building, the legendary Tasha Smith. Ladies, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: She's welcome morning.
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling.
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  Speaker 3: I feel amazing. I feel like I'm at home. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like you're with family.
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  Speaker 4: I love you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you, guys, your voice, what you do. I
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  Speaker 3: just really appreciate you. Thank you seriously.
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  Speaker 5: You are one of the most underrated people in this business.
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  Speaker 5: You do not get the credits you deserve. Well, like
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  Speaker 5: the way you pour into people in the stars that
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  Speaker 5: you've helped become stars.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if people understand that part of it.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's story is Tasha Smith said. First, Tasha Smith told.
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  Speaker 2: Me to like well, speaking of pouring into people, I
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  Speaker 2: just I don't know if you knew this, but right
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  Speaker 2: before Tasha walked in, Lauren was fixing a wig, and
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: She was asking Tasha for Tashi be fly all the time.
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  Speaker 7: You just came in here and started matching.
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  Speaker 6: Today now you're talking about being just showed up with
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  Speaker 6: the same colored face.
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  Speaker 2: But she was fixing away and kind of like wiping
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  Speaker 2: her eyes like she was tearing up.
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  Speaker 1: I said, what was happened?
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  Speaker 2: She was like, you know, when I left TMZ, the
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  Speaker 2: one person I called was Tasha Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you want to explain.
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  Speaker 6: I think I text you and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I'm thinking about leaving my job.
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  Speaker 7: I was like, I'm thinking about leaving. I don't have
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  Speaker 7: a lashes today.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, I think I about leaving my job,
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  Speaker 6: but just wanted to talk to somebody that like understands,
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  Speaker 6: like you know, career and like you know, longevity in it.
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  Speaker 6: We had met and we talked before, but I was
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  Speaker 6: just like, you know, everybody has like such a great
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  Speaker 6: story of like how your perception of them and kind
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  Speaker 6: of what you see for them. And I was like,
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  Speaker 6: I don't really know who I can call and I
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  Speaker 6: trust right now. And I reached out to you. I
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  Speaker 6: text you and you sent me a voice note back,
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  Speaker 6: and I remember I was driving into my garage and
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  Speaker 6: I pulled over and was just sent to the voice
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  Speaker 6: note and you were like, whatever it is you're feeling,
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  Speaker 6: do it. You are a star. You're going to be great.
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  Speaker 6: Don't be scared. Do it and let me know when
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  Speaker 6: it's done. And I here, I am.
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  Speaker 3: I am so proud of you. Can I just tell
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  Speaker 3: you that I am so proud of you. When I
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  Speaker 3: saw everything that was going on, I was literally singing
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  Speaker 3: your praises to have the courage and boldness to make
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  Speaker 3: a decision to live your life in the way that
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  Speaker 3: you saw it. And I'm so proud that you took
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  Speaker 3: that leap of faith. And it's something I got to
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  Speaker 3: share something with y'all because when I was at I
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  Speaker 3: was like meditating last night and I was thinking about you,
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  Speaker 3: and I was thinking about Jess, not trying to like,
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  Speaker 3: but y'all are both my girls. You know. I played
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  Speaker 3: Jess as mom, you know, on a TV show, and
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  Speaker 3: y'all are my babies. And when I think about just
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  Speaker 3: us as black women and just how powerful and unique
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  Speaker 3: we are, I was meditating and I was like, what
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  Speaker 3: is it that I can say to women?
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  Speaker 4: And do you mind if I just see share this? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: So what I ended up writing down was you are
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  Speaker 3: not in competition, You're in community. And us as women
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  Speaker 3: sometimes we think we're in competition, but we're not in competition,
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  Speaker 3: We're in community, right. And also, your light doesn't dim
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  Speaker 3: because someone else is shining, Like, it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: dim our light to let someone else shine.
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  Speaker 4: If anything, when all of us are.
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  Speaker 3: Walking in the room together allowing ourselves to shine, that
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  Speaker 3: room becomes even brighter.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing I thought about, and this was you
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  Speaker 3: and Jess, is that every woman is uniquely designed. I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking about my girls over here. That's Monique, that
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  Speaker 3: is my girl, Bendetsha, and I'm like, look at how
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  Speaker 3: individual they are, look at how individual we are.
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  Speaker 4: We're all unique, we're all.
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  Speaker 3: Different, right, But we don't have to fear about anybody
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  Speaker 3: taking up space because there's room for every shade of brilliance.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing I wrote down was insecurity dissolves when
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  Speaker 3: we recognize individually as women are divine design, because we
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  Speaker 3: are all designed divinely by God, right, and when we
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  Speaker 3: embrace our uniqueness, we give others permission to do the same.
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  Speaker 3: So let's celebrate each other, you know that, right, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: And let's allow ourselves to not be afraid of anyone
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  Speaker 3: else's light out like outshining our light because it can't.
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  Speaker 4: Happen when we walk in who we are.
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  Speaker 3: I love you, I love Jess, and I love what
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  Speaker 3: both of you are doing. Your voices are so important
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  Speaker 3: to our culture and to our women, so let's allow
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  Speaker 3: ourselves to remember. And not that you guys feel like this,
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  Speaker 3: but this is for all of us women that we
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  Speaker 3: are not in competition. We are in community, period.
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  Speaker 4: I just love you.
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  Speaker 5: I say that, okay, as you were saying that, I'm
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  Speaker 5: reading your arm and it says trust God.
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  Speaker 4: And dream big.
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  Speaker 3: So these are too, like these were my first two
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  Speaker 3: tattoos that I ever got right because and I always
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  Speaker 3: say this, you may have heard me say this before,
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  Speaker 3: that we have to dream big right and how whatever
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  Speaker 3: our dreams are, it's not a figment of our imagination,
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  Speaker 3: but God's showing us a glimpse, a glimpse of our future.
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  Speaker 3: And even you deciding to leave where you were, that
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  Speaker 3: was something that God placed in you, saying it's time
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  Speaker 3: to move. And a lot of times we get comfortable
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  Speaker 3: and complacent with where we are, but God's not always
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  Speaker 3: feeding us in the place that we've already been. And
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  Speaker 3: in order for us to get that new food that
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  Speaker 3: God has for us, we got to make moves and
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  Speaker 3: go into areas that we're unsure of, but that's where
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  Speaker 3: our faith lies, and that's where we end up experiencing
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  Speaker 3: God in a whole other way.
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  Speaker 4: Could you imagine if.
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  Speaker 3: You did not leave, you wouldn't be experiencing God the
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  Speaker 3: way that you are now in your life.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm excited. Let's go. Okay, seriously, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: My god, I think right now, who did that for you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh what you just did for Lauren and Jess? Who
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  Speaker 1: did that for you when you were going to con you.
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  Speaker 7: Do it without like like it's just you.
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  Speaker 6: Like the first time I met you, I think I
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  Speaker 6: don't remember if it was at Earn. I don't think
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  Speaker 6: it was Ernes's party, but the first time I met you,
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  Speaker 6: our first interaction, I was just like, she's really like,
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  Speaker 6: this is just her? Like if if you just pour
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  Speaker 6: in like effortlessly, like who taught you to?
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  Speaker 3: And you know what, I and a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll tell us two things I want to share.
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  Speaker 3: One is I remember a while ago, and I think
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  Speaker 3: I've told you about, you know, the time I had
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  Speaker 3: gotten born again, and you know, I went to ministry
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  Speaker 3: school and I thought, oh, one day I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a preacher or something like that. But I realized that
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  Speaker 3: my ministry is what I'm doing, Like is me teaching acting,
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  Speaker 3: me empowering other people to pursue their purpose, my acting,
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  Speaker 3: my directing, you know, being a good leader. Like those
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  Speaker 3: are the things that I learned that I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I could utilize those gifts in the world that I'm in,
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  Speaker 3: within this industry as far as other people that have
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  Speaker 3: done that for me, I'm gonna be honest. Angela Bassett
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  Speaker 3: and Marianne Jean Baptiste. I don't know if you're familiar
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  Speaker 3: with mary Anne Jean Baptiste, but she's an amazing actress
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  Speaker 3: from England. You know she's she's in a film right
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  Speaker 3: now called Hard Truths, Heart Truths, and she was in
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  Speaker 3: a she was nominated for Oscar years ago called Secrets
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  Speaker 3: and Lies. But she's a brilliant actress from the UK.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember I was on as series and I
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  Speaker 3: never even shared this out loud. I've never shared this publicly,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm just I feel it. I'm gonna share it.
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  Speaker 3: I was on a show called for Better or Worse,
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  Speaker 3: and I was tired of doing the show, Like I
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  Speaker 3: just felt like God had more for me me. Although
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  Speaker 3: it was a blessing at the time and I had
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  Speaker 3: a good time and it was a wonderful thing, but
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  Speaker 3: in my spirit, I kept feeling like my voice isn't
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  Speaker 3: being heard as far as my artistic voice in a
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  Speaker 3: way that I feel like it could be. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was making money, it was cool, whatever, but I said,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like I have to go. And she
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  Speaker 3: was someone that I made that call to the way
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  Speaker 3: you talk to me. She was the one that talked
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  Speaker 3: to me like that and said, go and pursue your dreams.
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  Speaker 3: Go and do what you desire to do. You would
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  Speaker 3: act for free. You would be in acting class class
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  Speaker 3: acting for free. Go and pursue what's in your heart.
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  Speaker 3: And when I quit, for better or worse, because I did,
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  Speaker 3: I ended up going and that's when I started really
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  Speaker 3: pursuing my directing and I made space for my directing.
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  Speaker 3: So me walking out of that space, not only did
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  Speaker 3: I end up getting Empire, which gave me a whole
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  Speaker 3: nother rhythm of acting that I could experience, but that's
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  Speaker 3: also the birth of my directing career. It was me
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  Speaker 3: taking that leap of faith and now I have this
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  Speaker 3: whole new, you know, like career opportunity and all of
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. But it was for me making that one
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  Speaker 3: move that seemed crazy to everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even tell nobody.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't even know when I came here, I had
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  Speaker 6: already had the guest hosting schedule. I didn't tell my mom,
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  Speaker 6: I didn't tell my grandmother. And because I didn't want
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  Speaker 6: to hear nobody tell me not to do it, I
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  Speaker 6: just quit and drove home.
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  Speaker 7: And then I came here.
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  Speaker 4: And isn't that deep house?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes you can't tell everybody your move or your dream
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  Speaker 3: because think about it. Sometimes when you want to do
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  Speaker 3: something that might seem crazy to others, people will give
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  Speaker 3: you advice based on their own fear and their own insecurity,
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  Speaker 3: Like just because you ain't got the faith to go mean,
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  Speaker 3: don't project that on me. So sometimes no, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: keep your move silent sometimes because other people will discourage
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  Speaker 3: you out of what's in your heart to do.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm happy for you, sis.
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  Speaker 2: What's your thoughts on you know, a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: say that it's difficult for women to work with each other,
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  Speaker 2: and this is where this situation came from, and they
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  Speaker 2: say that women are always in competition and it's not
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  Speaker 2: enough community. What's your thoughts?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's what I was sharing, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes us as women, they think it's
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  Speaker 3: about being competitive. They think that just because someone else
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  Speaker 3: is shining, it's going to dim my light, when that's.
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  Speaker 4: Not the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Like, if we allow ourselves to embrace our uniqueness and
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  Speaker 3: our individuality, we will encourage other people to embrace theirs.
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  Speaker 4: Have you had the issue? I want to ask that
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  Speaker 4: you know, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Never been a jealous girl, Like it's just not how
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  Speaker 3: I've been. Like, I've never been like a girl where
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  Speaker 3: I'm like mad at somebody else's I mean, look at me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an acting teacher like and most of the women
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  Speaker 3: that I teach, from Mary J. Bloch to Andrew Day
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  Speaker 3: to MICHAELA. Cole to FKA Twigs. I mean, I can
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  Speaker 3: go on and on, like God has placed some readible
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  Speaker 3: women around me whose lives I got to pour into.
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  Speaker 3: But also they pour into my life just through the
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  Speaker 3: process of working. They encourage me to dream as big
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  Speaker 3: as possible. But I also want to say something about
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  Speaker 3: self love, and that's the thing I feel with some
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  Speaker 3: of us women that may cause us to be you know,
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  Speaker 3: insecure or jealous, because you know what jealousy does, It
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  Speaker 3: creates division and separation.
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  Speaker 4: Right. But I feel like the lack of.
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  Speaker 3: Self love sometimes could calls could create you know, the
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  Speaker 3: way that we.
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  Speaker 4: Go out in the world.
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  Speaker 3: And if we don't have self love, then I might
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  Speaker 3: be insecure around her or insecure around another person. But
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  Speaker 3: if we embrace our self love, you know, we will
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  Speaker 3: allow everybody to be. We will grant people out of love, right,
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  Speaker 3: the permission to be who they are. Like I told
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  Speaker 3: my girls today, I said, y'all, bitches better get cute.
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  Speaker 3: Today I'm not even playing. I say, y'all, bitch is
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  Speaker 3: better get cute. My sister Bernicia, she came around me
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  Speaker 3: the other day to do the first day she got
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  Speaker 3: here to do my makeup. When I tell you, she
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  Speaker 3: was covered up, like she literally covered up her entire body.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, no, she was.
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  Speaker 3: She thought I would be insecure of her being a
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  Speaker 3: bad bitch because sometimes you know what I'm saying, like
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  Speaker 3: going around, like if you come and do some women,
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  Speaker 3: if you have insecurity and you see this this ass
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  Speaker 3: and this little waist in these titties and this fine
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  Speaker 3: girl walking in you'll be like, I'm uncomfortable, but no,
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  Speaker 3: I actually love for my girls to be beautiful. I
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  Speaker 3: love bad bitches only around me. Okay, I just love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: But we just had to yes, right right.
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  Speaker 3: But I just think lack of self love, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and us not allowing ourselves to embrace our individuality and
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  Speaker 3: our uniqueness. And the more that embrace that for ourselves,
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  Speaker 3: the more we can allow others to do that. Like
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  Speaker 3: I love like when I think about Taraji, when I
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  Speaker 3: think about Angela Bassett, when I think about Janet Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: when I think about Naomi Campbell, and these are all
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  Speaker 3: my friends. I can't be insecure with bad bitches like
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  Speaker 3: that in my life. I'm sorry because they're all incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I saw you at your sisterhood around Oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: and it was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: We got a chance to celebrate me and my sister's
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  Speaker 3: birthday together, and then niece's birthday was the.
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  Speaker 4: Next week and we went and celebrated her birthday. It
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  Speaker 4: was like we were all team Black women on steroids.
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  Speaker 4: It was just awesome. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 6: I think one of the biggest things that I learned
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  Speaker 6: from this past two weeks, like with everything that was happening,
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  Speaker 6: is like how much we were paying attention because there
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  Speaker 6: were so many people that reached out even in private
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  Speaker 6: and did what you just said, like hey, like I
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  Speaker 6: want to talk to you, I want to talk to
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  Speaker 6: y'all whatever, And I think it's like it was crazy
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  Speaker 6: when it was happening, but now like taking a step
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  Speaker 6: out of all of it, I'm like people are getting
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  Speaker 6: to realize that, like sisterhood sometimes can look like we
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  Speaker 6: might have misunderstandings and we got we we have to
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  Speaker 6: talk about it.
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  Speaker 7: We got to figure that out.
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  Speaker 6: What has that been like for you in your career,
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  Speaker 6: because we don't hear a lot of y'all stories. If
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  Speaker 6: there were misunderstandings between you and any of the other girls, and.
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  Speaker 3: Best believe it be a lot of misunderstanding. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, It'd be a lot of misunderstandings.
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  Speaker 4: It be a lot of that, like.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously and physically.
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  Speaker 3: But see that's why I like and I'm from Camden,
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  Speaker 3: so it's some people I listen because I always say
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  Speaker 3: as nice as I am, as as nice as I'm
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  Speaker 3: not right, you know what I mean? And it's some
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  Speaker 3: energy I know, I just don't flow with I just
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  Speaker 3: don't because if it's that kind of energy that's coming in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a mean girl. I don't like mean girls.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like it. I don't like seeing women treating
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  Speaker 3: each other poorly or badly. It makes me sick. But
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing about me. I have never
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  Speaker 3: ran from a fight like one. I'm not afraid of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, confronting confrontation, having hard conversations, and most people
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  Speaker 3: they will throw rocks and.
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  Speaker 4: Then hide their hands. I don't like that. I don't
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  Speaker 4: do that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm about that life of having conversations, confronting the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Let's sit down and let's talk, and let's deal with
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  Speaker 3: the discomfort of whatever it is you're feeling. But most
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  Speaker 3: of the time, y'all, most people don't want to ever
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  Speaker 3: really sit down and talk because they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: have to be able to acknowledge what it is that
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  Speaker 3: they're internally going through, like whatever their internal struggle is.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy for people to run and act like they're
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  Speaker 3: a victim.
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  Speaker 4: But if people really.
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  Speaker 3: Confronted things and had honest conversations, they would realize that
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  Speaker 3: most of the pettiness is not because of something external,
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  Speaker 3: but it's because of your own individual internal struggle, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what's creating the external problem.
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  Speaker 4: It starts within you. Period.
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  Speaker 1: How do you deal with the noise?
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  Speaker 2: Because I think even with them to go out of
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  Speaker 2: their situation, but it was the noise.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the interior outside people?
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you, oh my god, I'm getting noise though?
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  Speaker 3: Oh honey, Can I just well, I try to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I try to.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you this about noise.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: It's something you ask about noise. Were we talking about noise?
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I was just talking to my girls about sometimes it
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: is so important for us to sit in silence.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Right. Think about when you're.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: On the phone, bro, and it's a lot of noise
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: going on, what do you do? You'd be like, hold up,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: wait a second, let me step away so that I
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: could hear this call clearly, right, And a lot of times,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: especially when you think about all the social media and
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: all that stuff, we allow ourselves to stay in the
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: noise and stay listening to the noise when sometimes we
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: might have to put the phone down, be silent, don't
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: listen to anything, because in your silence, that's when you
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: really hear the still small voice of God on the
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: inside of you, but you can't hear God. And how
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: God wants to guide you to deal with the situation
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: if you're allowing yourself to constantly listen to the noise.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: So the way I deal with noise is I try
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to allow myself to get as silent as possible.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: You feel me absolutely hundred Have you ever had to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: get lied with a person? And what does that sound like, Tasha?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Because I'm just saying.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: So from Canada, But doesn't she already loud? So what
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: just getting loud?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I put into you like this. I'm a passionate human.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I'm a passionate human.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Bruh.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: And as loud.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: As my goodness is, I put to you like this.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: One time I cust somebody out really bad and I
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: went to my pastor and I was like, oh my god,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I feel so bad. And she said to me, sometimes
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: you gotta meet the enemy's aggression.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: That the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: But the violence take it by force, and sometimes some
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: people need to get checked. So when it's time to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: get loud, like I said, I don't mind.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: It, boom boom, I don't mind it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I don't mind it, bro.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I swear my loud can be loud, and honestly, when
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I get loud, people get traumatized. I mean, I'm serious,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Like you know when I said folks that throw rocks
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: and then hide their hands, like I've had situations like
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: that and when I've had to check people like that,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: then they want to go run in the corner and.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Cry back like that. I'm like, don't cry, big bad bitch.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Don't do it, big bitch, big man. Okay, Like, don't cry.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Don't cry now boo okay. And sometimes it's what yours.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: It's the seed that's that you're reaping.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Period. You know what the Bible.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Say, whatsoever a man show it that he show also
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: reap and sometimes you know they reap that ass kicking.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that a Chappelle Chane. Yes, we were
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: actually talking about that earlier.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: Y'ah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: This was a gift from my brother Dave. I love
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: him so much. He wanted me to he was happy
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: for me doing the show, he was happy for a
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: lot of the things that's been happening in my life.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: And and this was a gift that he gifted me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And it's not many people that have a Chappelle chain,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: and I don't know, do y'all know, Like I've known
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Chappelle for like thirty years, like we started, y'all know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I used to be a stand up comic, right, Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: so I was a stand up comic. Dave was like
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: he was literally a mentor at like eighteen.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: When Dave was eighteen nineteen years old, he was I
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: call my big little brother, you know, and he helped
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: me out so much like you know some of those people.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: And I should have thought it Dave, Becausezabe was one
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: of those people that always encouraged me, inspired me every
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: time anything was happening in my life. I can't tell
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: you how many times I've gotten calls about I'm proud
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: of you.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Keep going, keep dreaming.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: He's such a motivator and he's been such a blessing
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: in my life. I cannot tell you. So, Yes, this
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: is a Chappelle chano.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I love that because you know, we live in an
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: era where people don't like to represent folks who have
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: assisted them or provided them opportunity, or helped him.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And I don't understand that.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: I don't understand resenting somebody that has helped you in
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: somewhere like you should rep them exactly.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I'm with you on that, Yeah, Rep and Dave.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Now you got a lot going on. I know she
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: got to go fast.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Yes, I love that show.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Yes, But in the newer season, season two, you have
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: like now we're learning more about your character and kind
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: of like you have your own storyline and things of
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: that nature. I know what was the decision to do
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: that because it wasn't like that in previous seasons. Fully,
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: like we knew a little bit about what you had
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: going on, but not as much focus.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I thank god for the writing team
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: that they like focus more on her relationship. And you
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: know my character, I play a queer woman, right and
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I you know, I've never.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Been a queer woman before.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just saying, like I legit ain't ever been
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: with a woman before, Like okay, like for real research, Well,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I asked, look, coach me. The acting teacher I worked
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: with was a guy named Carl Ford, who I love deeply.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Okay, Susan Batson's son.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys know Susan, but but anyway,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: so Jerry Johnson, I'll tell y'all this I directed Harlem,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: and I directed some beautiful scenes with Jerry and Gail
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: bean right, and I was just obsessed, Like I knew
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: that survival was coming up, and I was just really
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: pouring into them as a director. But while I was
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: pouring into them, I promise you, I was dreaming. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: was like saying, God, please bless me with someone like
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: these two women, Like the way that they were, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: as supportive as they were. As Gail and Jerry were
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: with one another, I wanted to experience that as an actor.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: So when it was time to see who my love
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: interest was, Jerry was up for the job. So Jerry
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: and I, I said, Jerry, we're gonna get together because
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: what I saw you do with Gail, I really want
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: you to do this part.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: So she and I.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Got together and we rehearse Michelle didn't notice.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Nobody knew this.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: We were rehearsing before her screen test, okay, so that
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: by the time we did our screen test together, our
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: chemistry was incredible. And I said to her, because she's
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: a queer woman, I said, I need you to teach
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: me everything. So the first thing she taught me when
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: we were filming our love scene was how two women
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: had sex because when they said it's top of y'all
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: to have sex, bro, I opened up.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Trying to Lake.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: I was like, how does this happen?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: And she was like you really ain't never had one.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: And then she went was like we do it like Dan, you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Know, the little scissors.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And so I was like, thank god you was here
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: because I didn't want to look stupid.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Sais okay, But it worked out for her because she
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: got the wrong She got the role and they have
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: a sex. This is your and this was your first
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: this is your first time being on camera and a
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: female female sex.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: We had like the first season.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I had some makeout scenes and stuff like that, but
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: as far as like having like a full bless second, yeah,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: that was my first time. But I gotta tell you,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: working with Jerry, it was just like easy and it
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: was just it was fun and it was wonderful and
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: she was just wonderful.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: That is my sister for life. Jerry.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I'm giving you a shout out. I love you sis
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: all the time. Now, you know, i'd be like, stop.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: You call it a dry run.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: We didn't.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: We were rehearsing that particular, like we didn't do that
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: in rehearsal, Like, but that was when.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: We were actually filming the sex scene.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Would you give a woman to try it's.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Okay for him to ask me that. I'm gonna just
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: keep it one hundred y'all. Like I'm like a gay man.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I'm like a gay man.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: What do gay men like?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Did? I mean?
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I'm not even lying, bro, I am like the gayest
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: man in the world.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Like I am a straight up bass man, like I
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: love like I just love it too much, Like I'm
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: not even playing and I mean literally, I mean, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: even if I'm out, if I'm messing with, why are.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Y'all so stupid?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: You started it at me?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Wait? Let me just tell y'all this all right, I'm
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: about to say, So that's like a little all right.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, when a man goes down on you,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: it's great. I love it, but i'd be like, I'm
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: not a lesbian, so we gotta.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Follow this motherfucker bag.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying with some penis, Like I
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: just you know, it's just what I like.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Because I've heard people say that women do it better
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: on women because they know what the woman wants. But
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I be thinking, like after that it's like, now it's
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: like you you know, want coming out.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It's that's like having a salad but you can't get
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the steak. You know what I'm saying, that's just me
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: or no dressing and okay, but you know what to
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I'll just.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Say this is all I always think about that.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Remember how I'll be having.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: The conversation with studs and I'm like, so, y'all be
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: sucking this, Like imagine having the scrapp on on and
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: a woman is sucking it and then the person with
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: the scrap on is moaning that.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: But if that's what you're into, maybe if it feels you.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: But I be thinking about like girls who are trying
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: it for the first time or like you know they're by.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: It's like, so if you're by, you know, like you're
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: not like you know what I mean.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Let me tell y'all this.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's all about preference, Like it's all about
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: what you eat.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Like I don't no way.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: But you know how there's some foods like some people
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: like chocolate cake, some people like vanilla cakes, some people
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: fish right, and some people like fish.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Some people like.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Steak, right, I mean, and for me, I just like
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: what I like and just like, you can't like turn
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a gay man that likes.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: What he likes to have a woman, you know what
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: You can't turn a straight woman to one something else.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, I just like what I like.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: But I love you know what I'm saying, Like, go
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: get yours?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And what about desiree in a temptation store?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Oh? Wow, you guys. I'm so excited about that. It's
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: funny because I was showing Monique the trailer. You girls,
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I do do? They are girls? Okay, like seriously, but
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I was.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I was showing Monique, I was showing you and Bernicia
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: last night. I was like, y'all want to see the trailer,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you know. And when Monique saw it, she was like,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I've never seen you in a role like that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: And so all these like years of being in this industry,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I've never gotten a chance to play that role. So
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: shout out to Derek Williams, my producer. I got a
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: chance to produce it with him, and he gave me
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: that script and I was so happy he gave it
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: to me, and I'm so excited about it.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: It's it's a thriller. It's like fun It's like.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: And I feel like it helped me tap into things
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: that I've never gotten a chance to really reveal on camera.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm still I feel like I'm just
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: starting acting.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: All over again.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: You have a refreshing energy all the time.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: But I do feel it like you're in a different
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: season or something about you right now.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: I don't know what it is, but it's there.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I think it's my self love season says I love
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: that for you. You hear me, I love that for you? Now?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: He need to reach out to who saying you praise?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: It's on Shannon shap Charlamage messages with him all the time.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Oh God, I love Do you know how much I
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: love you? And Donelle?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Would y'all be doing that little stuff?
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Will he be doing those?
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I mean sometimes I be text him saying, leave my
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: brother alone time.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: He needs you. He needs your coaching. I just want
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: done Know to have more confidence like Donella is dope.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: He's incredible, And y'all remember I put him on BMF
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Like I swear, I think he is so talented.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I cannot wait to work with him again. I swear
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: to God like he is so interesting, he is so funny.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: That's a good example, as far as like allowing your
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: uniqueness to shine. Like when I think about Dave and Donelle,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and I remember I had a conversation with Dave and
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: it was I'm rephrasing it, but I was like, you know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: what makes you work with him? Dave's like, I get
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: sharper when I when I have to follow someone good,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Like he's not always looking for comics that are not good.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: He looks for comics that are great. That's what challenges
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: him to be great. You know what I'm saying. So
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: greatness around us, it helps stretches us, you know. And Donelle,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I love you so much. I love you so much.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: He's somebody who needs to silence the noise in his head.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: He gotta calm down. But he I talk to you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to you, tie, you gonna be all right? Right.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: I want to ask you something as an acting coach,
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: like when you have already great talent, right, because I
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: don't know how often the great talent seeks acting coaches
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: for every role. I don't know if that's the thing,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: like this, did Zelle seek an acting coach for every role?
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I Jonathan Major seeker acting coach for every row?
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know, well, I mean I put it to
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: you like this.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know individually all the way with as far
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: as how their process is. But it's a lot of
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: us actors that enjoy the collaborative process because it's almost
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: like you want to work with someone that can maybe
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: see things that you can't see, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And the process of acting and the process of like
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: researching a character and developing a character, it's a fun
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: process to do with a great coach or teacher. Just
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: because Michael Jordan was a great athlete, it didn't mean
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: that he did not need a great coach. Most of
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: our greatest artists have great coaches, most of them, that's right,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: most of them.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: So when you have a great actor, you just teach
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: them how to capture that role, not necessarily how to act.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: No, it's not about teaching them how to act. It's
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: about us together looking for like all that we can
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: find within the characters.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Is it like redoing the fundamental.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: It's not in every For me.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I'll just say this as a teacher, every process is different.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Like it's it's a very spiritual experience. You know, you
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: have your fundamentals, like your you know, baseline, right, Like
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I come from Ivani Chabbik school, So we have something
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: called the twelve steps that we do.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: You know, we have like a base.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: What is your overall objective you're seen objective, your inner monologue,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: your inner thoughts, your substitutions, your it's certain things that
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: we are looking for within it. But outside of that baseline,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: there are other things that come up. Character research, physicality,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, like all kinds of stuff.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: So each person is different based on each character is different,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: each process is different, and it's like all of it
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: is like an incredible like spiritual experience. And I always say,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: as much as you need the character, the character needs you,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: and everything is on the inside of us, like all
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: of it is in there. We just got to look
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: for it and find it. And as a coach, I
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: just sometimes it's pushing people to trust their instincts more.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: It could be as simple.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: As that, you know what I mean, And but we
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: discover so many things through the process of acting. Absolutely,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I don't want to go to with y'all all day,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Like seriously, okay.
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: Why did I get married again?
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Where are we honey again?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna just leave it right there, girl, I am
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: not talking.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: About that because it's not happening.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Probably not, and it ain't because I'm busy tyler to
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: take what three days to do a movie?
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: Who ain't got a week I mean, who ain't got
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: a weekend?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: All right, do not get me started.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: You want to do it?
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Of course I.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Want to do it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: Why do you troll us like that?
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Why he trolled me like that?
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: So no, cause no, nothing has happened.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I refuse to answer any more questions concerning that, okay,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: because I might get loud.
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  Speaker 5: We've been having all these conversations about community. Do you
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  Speaker 5: think community is earned or a right?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it's earned, like I was.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I had one girl say I don't have
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  Speaker 3: any friends, and you know, I go back. I always
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: go back to scripture. I'm like a cussin breacher. No
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: let me stop. But you know it's like, if you
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: want a friend, you got to show yourself friendly. How
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  Speaker 3: do you create relationship? How do you create friendship? You
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: have to first allow yourself to give friendship in order
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  Speaker 3: to get friendship.
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  Speaker 4: And to me, like when.
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  Speaker 3: I look at like like acting, or when I look
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  Speaker 3: at you know, just people what makes you really valuable.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: It's not just about your own greatness, but to me,
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  Speaker 3: your value becomes the based on how you're able to
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  Speaker 3: change other people's lives.
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  Speaker 4: To me, that's what makes you valuable.
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  Speaker 3: Like if I can empower somebody else to pursue their purpose,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: to make money to feed their family, I just lifted
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: up myself. But not only with that, I've also created community.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I love my acting school Tea Saw, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: for me, I'm always like what I say to you
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  Speaker 3: and everybody else as far as like we're not in competition,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: we're in community, Like we are all here together. The
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: brighter we all are individually, the brighter we are in unity,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Like let's go. But I love Tea Saw because the
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: people that were in class like fifteen twenty years ago
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  Speaker 3: at my school, I look at their lives now and
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: they are all best friends today. Like when I think
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: about Tabitha Brown who came out of my school, Natari Spencer,
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  Speaker 3: who's like now feast of Williams, Chastity Saunders. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I can go on aiming Joseph Lance Gross, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Tiffany Hadish, But every time we're all in a room together,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's like, oh, come on, y'all, it's the family. It's
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: like community. But I feel like we earn that by
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: how we love each other period. You just casually throughout Sordo.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: When you move to l A, they're like, we don't
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  Speaker 6: care if you want to act or not. If you're
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: trying to be anywhere in front of people, you need
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: to go to Tasha Smith's class. Like that's how I
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: found out. It was like, this is the thing you do.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: Do do one church and Tisa, that's what you do
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  Speaker 6: as a black creative in la But you have it's
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: so many people and you're just like, you.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Know what we call TESA. We call it the Church
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  Speaker 4: of Acting.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember one time at class right I had
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: left out because I had to go save Cidra and
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: in at Martin, So I was not in class this
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: particular night, but mister Denzel Washington had decided to come
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and visit class and I wasn't there. I was pissed,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: but he came to class and from what the teacher
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: and the students told me that he was sitting in
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  Speaker 3: the back of the class with a hat on.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Nobody knew who he was.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: And in my school, I had just pictures of like
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: every incredible artist I could think of on the walls
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: because I wanted when people came into the class, I
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: wanted them to look at the walls and dream like.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: I wanted them to see where their life could be,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: what they could possibly do. And so Kevin, the teacher
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: at the time, he was like talking about that in
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the class, and then all of a sudden they heard
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: someone say in the back, I better be up on
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: that wall, and then all the students turned around and
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: it was Denzel Washington.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Can you believe that?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: And Denzel's the one that told Mary J. Blige that
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: she should come and study with me. But he ended
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: up staying in that class, and he ended up teaching
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: that class for like until like probably went two hours
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: over and it was like so incredible.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I don't even know how I got on that story.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: It was something that was being said, but that was
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: just such a blessing, like to have him there inspiring
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  Speaker 3: all the students, and just any opportunity that, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: we get to pour into other actors in order for
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: them to go and pursue their dreams. Like I see
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: so many of my students that are so wealthy and thriving.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Some of them have better careers than me. I've never
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: been nominated for an Oscar, you know what I mean,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: that's never happened, but I love seeing it happen for Andrew.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Day from Mary J. Blige and hopefully Michayla Cole and
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: FKA Twigs.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: But they do kickbas coming up like what do you
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: mean just this money? Tasha his just call you know what?
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: The only now this is sad. Okay, this is sad,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: but not Look, I don't look for kickbacks.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I put it to you like this.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Like my production my production company is called Camden Bridge
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: because there was a time I was teaching, teaching, teaching,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: and I got a little angry because I felt like
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: people were walking over me all the time. And I
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: remember I heard inside in my spirit that it's okay
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: to be a bridge.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: That it's okay. A bridge has purpose.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Right, Sometimes it gets walked over, sometimes it gets driven over,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: but it's a connector of people. And be focused and
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: be a blessing at being a bridge. So my production
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: company's name is Camden Bridge.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Okay, be a bridge. What were we saying? I mean,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: am I getting old? Okay?
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: So all right, I have to just be okay with
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: being a bridge, so I don't I don't get it
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: for kickback. But the one person, actually it's a shame.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to shame nobody. But the one person
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: that gave me a very big gift was Rebel Wilson.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: I remember one day Rebel Wilson had the white girl
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I know, but no, but Twigs actually gave me this
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: big crystal for Christmas last year, this.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Big beautiful like she said, she said.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Here's a little sparkle that you give to the world.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: And it was like the biggest, most beautiful crystal. And look,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: both of them are British and Rebel one day she
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: hit me up and said, uh, you have a delivery coming,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: make sure you're home.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: And it was just this huge, gorgeous ys l bag.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, I mean it was just big, just a huge one.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: So I know she spends the money on that period.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Okay, ok you know she got to go. But we appreciate,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: we appreciate, Thank you so much, wors Jess.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Just I thought she was trying to hang on, but
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: you okay, well we love you, Jess, I miss you,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: all right, I love you, guys.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Wake till airs up. Early in the morning at Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: Club