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Taraji P Henson Talks Mental Health, Wellness Pods, HBCU's, & Parenting + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: We all be et now.
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  Speaker 2: Wow morning, everybody's CDJ MV. Charlamagne the Guy. We are
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  Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guests in the building,
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  Speaker 2: the legendary Saraji p Henson.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome. I'm legendary, but not legendary enough to be on
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  Speaker 1: this wall.
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  Speaker 3: That's not true. We got the whole room. We're doing
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  Speaker 3: this all. You'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We should have been first. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, when you ain't wrong, when you're right,
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  Speaker 3: that's right. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 1: I feel great? I feel great.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Whenever I come to New York, and especially when I'm
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  Speaker 5: coming for Bors Lawn Hanson Foundation, you know, we're coming
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  Speaker 5: to spread joy, spread a message that it's okay not.
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  Speaker 1: To be okay.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You started that conversation for.
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  Speaker 3: People who don't know what the Boy's Lawrence Tension Foundation is.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Yes, it's Bors Lawrence Hanson Foundation. We launched in
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  Speaker 5: twenty eighteen, Oh my god, twenty eighteen, and it's really
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  Speaker 5: to eradicate the stigma around mental illness in the black community,
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  Speaker 5: to bring more awareness to mental wellness in the black
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  Speaker 5: because you know, we don't talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: We suffer in silence.
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  Speaker 5: We isolate, and we try to be strong and we're dying.
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  Speaker 5: So out of my own necessity for my own help
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  Speaker 5: mental wellness and my son, I realized there was no
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  Speaker 5: real help out there for us. So I had to
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  Speaker 5: do something about it. So my best friend since the
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  Speaker 5: seventh grade, Tracy J. We launched a Bords Laurenceanson Foundation
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  Speaker 5: to hopefully help help an underserved community.
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  Speaker 4: How's doing He's doing great.
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  Speaker 1: He's great. Yeah, he's doing great.
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  Speaker 5: He's maneuvering through, you know, trying to become being a
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  Speaker 5: young black man in America. You know when those rose
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  Speaker 5: colored glasses come off. I'm sure you remember those days.
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  Speaker 5: But he's maneuvered through it pretty well. Did he have
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  Speaker 5: a moment, Oh, he had a huge moment, But I
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  Speaker 5: was he picked the right mother because you know, and
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  Speaker 5: it's interesting because I had an older gentleman tell me
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  Speaker 5: years ago when I was on the television show called
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  Speaker 5: The Division. It was my first series regular, and I
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  Speaker 5: came in upset about something with Marcel. He was little
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  Speaker 5: at the time, and this guy said, don't you ever
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  Speaker 5: give up on them, don't ever give up. I don't
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  Speaker 5: even know if Mark is still alive to this day,
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  Speaker 5: but I just remember him. I never forget him saying that.
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  Speaker 5: Every time I would have these issues with my son,
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  Speaker 5: I wanting to choke him, I would hear his voice,
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  Speaker 5: don't ever give up on them.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't give up on your kids. You just
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  Speaker 1: gotta pray.
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  Speaker 5: Tracy sent me something or was it you a pam?
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  Speaker 5: Somebody sent me something about I think it was a
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  Speaker 5: pastor who was saying, don't give up on your baby.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they strung out on drugs.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if they whatever their problem is, you
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  Speaker 5: wrap them up in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ever give up on your children.
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  Speaker 3: So what if you have to say, can you set
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  Speaker 3: maybe think, can you set boundaries with your kids that
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  Speaker 3: you need?
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  Speaker 1: You have to set boundaries. You must set boundaries. Are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: What type of boundaries?
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  Speaker 1: Boundaries?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What are you willing to accept and not accept?
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  Speaker 5: You have to because these kids down days come so privileged,
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  Speaker 5: they're not like us.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I was talking to somebody the other day, I was like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't even think. I can't remember the last time
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  Speaker 5: I saw a group of children playing outside.
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  Speaker 3: It's real. Yeah, I make mine.
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  Speaker 5: You have to because they have these devices now, which
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  Speaker 5: is not good for the mental. So these kids aren't
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  Speaker 5: even they don't even know what fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Air is anymore. I don't think you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a weird time to be a that's tree.
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  Speaker 3: Don't even tell you smell like outside. They don't go up.
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  Speaker 5: I can't remember the last time I seen girls playing
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  Speaker 5: double dutch, or or just riding bikes or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask when you talk about setting boundaries,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some people will say that it's difficult to
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  Speaker 2: set boundaries because kids get into that phase where they
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  Speaker 2: smell themselves right, they feel themselves, and sometimes that's the
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  Speaker 2: hardest part because that's where they can go left or
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  Speaker 2: they can you know, you can wheel them back in.
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  Speaker 4: What's your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 5: The thing about being parents is once you cut that
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  Speaker 5: on biblical cord, you are really letting go, you are
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  Speaker 5: literally really letting go. And you can preach, you can,
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  Speaker 5: you can do, you can do the best job ever,
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  Speaker 5: and they still have choices. But one thing I always
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  Speaker 5: would tell my son, and it's the things that you
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  Speaker 5: instilled with them in them when they're young, and it'll
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  Speaker 5: come back around once that fog is over and they
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  Speaker 5: start and they start to not stand that stitch.
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  Speaker 1: That they smell it, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: They usually they come around, and I would always tell
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  Speaker 5: my son, I'd be like, son, listen, train yourself to
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  Speaker 5: listen to that inside voice, because that's your God voice.
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  Speaker 5: That's the voice that's gonna save your ass. And if
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  Speaker 5: you can't hear that, when at least hear mine, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And so the only way they will really realize or
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  Speaker 5: really want to even listen to the voice or hear
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  Speaker 5: your voice is if you've set boundaries, if you've given
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  Speaker 5: them a blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna always follow.
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  Speaker 5: It the way that you see them to follow it,
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  Speaker 5: but eventually they'll come around.
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  Speaker 1: If you stayed on on them, I guess it will
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  Speaker 1: eventually come around.
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  Speaker 3: I guess the scariest thing is you don't want them
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  Speaker 3: to like make any mistakes that's going to really cost
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  Speaker 3: them while they're coming around.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's that was your mother's fear. That's every parent's fear,
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  Speaker 5: that was your father's fear. That's all of our fear forever.
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  Speaker 5: Like my mother to this day, she tracks me. I'm
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  Speaker 5: fifty three. She tracks me, and she's like, I just
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  Speaker 5: feel so much better knowing where you are, and when
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  Speaker 5: I see you're not moving, I can sleep at night.
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  Speaker 1: It never ends. It never ends.
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  Speaker 3: What you know, we don't talk about enough the resources
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  Speaker 3: that are available for the friends and family that have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with folks who have mental health issues.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly, you know, because it takes a toll on them,
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  Speaker 5: especially parents, because you feel like I can't fix my child.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that I did wrong.
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  Speaker 5: It's really hard because that's your job to protect your
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  Speaker 5: kids and save them from the you know, mishaps. And
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  Speaker 5: when you can't, you feel inadequate or you feel like
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  Speaker 5: you're not doing your job.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard. Parenting is not easy.
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  Speaker 5: And then being a single parent, I promise you I
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I wouldn't. I
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  Speaker 5: just wouldn't. It's it's first of all, children need both parents,
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  Speaker 5: boy boys and girls.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 5: You need both of your parents. If you're not living
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  Speaker 5: in the same household, you still need both. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, regardless of whether your relationship works out, that
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  Speaker 5: has nothing to do with the kid. You still have
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  Speaker 5: to show up both parents for that child. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I was unfortunately my son's father was murdered, so I
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  Speaker 5: didn't have an option.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's hard.
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  Speaker 5: It's tough, especially me being a boy mom.
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  Speaker 1: I need the man.
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  Speaker 5: I can't teach him how to be a man. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how to be a man, you know. And
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  Speaker 5: that was the that was the hardest struggle for us
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  Speaker 5: because when he was becoming a man, he's looking at
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  Speaker 5: me like, you can't tell me anything.
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  Speaker 1: What can you tell me your girl?
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's just the dynamic is it gets a
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  Speaker 5: little difficult in the young adult years.
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  Speaker 2: Like Selm was just saying, you know, so what do
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  Speaker 2: you do to make sure your mental is good?
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  Speaker 1: Remember when I went to Bali.
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  Speaker 4: For a long time, went for a whole month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to. I had to.
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  Speaker 5: I was coming apart at the seams and I didn't
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  Speaker 5: realize it because I was working. And God is God
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  Speaker 5: is amazing, because God will put you in a situation
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  Speaker 5: where you had to sit down. And I have been
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  Speaker 5: work and it's doing this for over twenty years. I
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  Speaker 5: have been working NonStop my entire career, right And it
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  Speaker 5: was just this past year where I didn't have a lot,
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  Speaker 5: you know. I did color purple and I was just
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  Speaker 5: kind of like sitting around and not sitting around. I
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  Speaker 5: had other stuff to do, but as far as like
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  Speaker 5: a call sheet and showing up and knowing lines and
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  Speaker 5: that kind of work, acting gigs. And it was for
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  Speaker 5: a reason because I needed to. I needed to take
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  Speaker 5: care of me. I was not in a good place mentally.
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  Speaker 5: I just really wasn't. And and thank god I had
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  Speaker 5: that time to take care because Lord knows where I
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  Speaker 5: would be if I didn't have the time to really
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  Speaker 5: listen to myself and take time for myself. And I
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  Speaker 5: think we live in such a grind society. It's all
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  Speaker 5: about grinding it. You can sleep when you're in that box. Well,
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  Speaker 5: if you don't sleep now, you might get to that
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  Speaker 5: box a little sooner than you.
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  Speaker 3: Playing when you finally slowed down, Were you surprised that
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  Speaker 3: you weren't happy?
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  Speaker 5: I was at first, but then I wasn't because once
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  Speaker 5: you sit down and you go, well, how did you
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  Speaker 5: expect to be happy if you weren't paying attention? Like
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't tracking my feelings.
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  Speaker 1: I was just working.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, when you finally make it, you have
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  Speaker 5: this dream. I don't care what it is it could
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  Speaker 5: be to be a chef or whatever. But you have
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  Speaker 5: this dream and it finally comes true. It's like I
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  Speaker 5: can't stop now because what if the phone stops ringing,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So you're not really paying
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  Speaker 5: attention to you're not doing a mental check. And then,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, God did it for me. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: have the jobs piled up, and I literally had to
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  Speaker 5: stop and check myself. I wasn't doing well, and I
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  Speaker 5: knew because I was looking at the people around me
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  Speaker 5: and they were like walking on eggshells. And I'm a
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  Speaker 5: cool person, like I'm I'm the I'm the most fun person.
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  Speaker 5: But they were concerned because I was a short fuse.
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  Speaker 1: Any little thing. I was like, I'm so annoyed. I
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  Speaker 1: was annoyed about every little thing.
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  Speaker 5: And it was like like I could even feel myself
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  Speaker 5: wanting to get into like arguments on the streets, and
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  Speaker 5: you know nowadays that's not safe.
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  Speaker 1: It could be the end of your life, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And so it was things like little things were triggering me,
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  Speaker 5: little things that once upon a time would just you know,
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  Speaker 5: be water under the bridge, water off my back, but whatever,
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  Speaker 5: but I was literally everything was just just I felt
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  Speaker 5: like I could just run through a wall.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people, don't you know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people would be like everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm the tape, Like, if I don't feel one hundred,
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  Speaker 5: I stay home. I don't put my shit on other people,
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  Speaker 5: Like if I'm not in the best move, I want
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  Speaker 5: to be the type of person when I come into
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  Speaker 5: a room and I leave, everybody's much better after my presence, right,
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  Speaker 5: And if I can't give that, then I need to
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  Speaker 5: stay home.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you know, how difficult was
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  Speaker 2: it taking off for thirty days, because you said you've
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  Speaker 2: been working since you were probably a teen, and you've
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  Speaker 2: never stopped working. There's always been something. Even during the strike,
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  Speaker 2: there's something to do. But to actually sit down for
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  Speaker 2: thirty days has to be the most difficult thing.
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  Speaker 3: Ever.
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  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't at all.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the middle of a rice.
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  Speaker 5: Field, and honestly, I didn't want to come back.
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  Speaker 1: I cried, like, literally, I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, When I go on vacation, you get about seven days, ye,
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  Speaker 5: and that sixth day, I'm literally at the airport with
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  Speaker 5: my bags packed ready to go home. It was like
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  Speaker 5: the thirtieth day and I wasn't packed, And it took
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  Speaker 5: me forever to pack because I did not want to leave.
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  Speaker 5: I was scared to come back to the States. And
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  Speaker 5: then it's I started kind of like paying attention to
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  Speaker 5: the news, and I could feel it triggering me because
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  Speaker 5: I was so peaceful. I didn't have to worry about
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  Speaker 5: crime or racism or anything for thirty old days.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was time for me to come back.
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  Speaker 5: The first thing I saw on my feed was a
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  Speaker 5: mass shooting in la and I was like, here, we
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  Speaker 5: go back to the bs exactly, so it.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I honestly didn't want to come back, and when I
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  Speaker 5: got back, I felt weird. I felt I had to
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  Speaker 5: train myself to get back into the American ways because
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  Speaker 5: I was so free over there. I can't explain it.
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  Speaker 5: I was really free. I would go in places and
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  Speaker 5: I didn't feel like the only black person. No one cared.
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  Speaker 5: No one cared about what my hair looked like, or
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  Speaker 5: what clothes I had on, or all the things that
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  Speaker 5: you have to worry about in the States or especially
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  Speaker 5: in what I do, or all the vanity was stripped away.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have to worry about it. I had my
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  Speaker 5: little Jesus shoes on and my linens and I was happy.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that's the biggest issue, right, like always trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure out how to find that piece you have
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  Speaker 3: on vacation, just walking around every day when you're back
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  Speaker 3: on the ground, have you do you know what that
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  Speaker 3: is or what to do?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 5: I mean the great thing that I walked away from
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  Speaker 5: Bali is my self awareness. Because I went alone, it
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  Speaker 5: forced me to be present. I couldn't, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't preoccupy myself with conversations with my girlfriends or by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I went by myself. Wow, Yeah, and I had to
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  Speaker 1: stay present.
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  Speaker 5: I met new people, I stepped outside of my comfort zone,
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  Speaker 5: and that was therapeutic for me, me especially me, because
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  Speaker 5: you know, wherever I go, I'm always having to hide
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  Speaker 5: and not talk because they know my voice and I'll
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  Speaker 5: never be able to buy my bananas and peace, you know.
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  Speaker 5: So it was just beautiful to go over there and
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  Speaker 5: just be and meet new people and have conversations with
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  Speaker 5: random people. It was It did me, It did my
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  Speaker 5: soul good.
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  Speaker 2: What was the decision to go by yourself? How did
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  Speaker 2: you come up with that? Because that's that has to
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  Speaker 2: be a tough.
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  Speaker 5: One, because I was clear on why I was going.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't a vacation. It was literally it was a vacation,
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  Speaker 5: but it was literally a soul searching for me and
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  Speaker 5: respite for me, Like I needed to focus on me
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  Speaker 5: and only me, you know, because I take on my
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  Speaker 5: friends problems, you know, because I'm an impath. So I
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  Speaker 5: just I literally wanted to go by myself. People thought
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  Speaker 5: I was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like you've always had such an awareness
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  Speaker 3: of self though, Like I feel like you've always known
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  Speaker 3: who you were.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's not that I didn't know who I was,
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  Speaker 5: it's just knowing when you're struggling. I'm very clear on
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  Speaker 5: who I am, right, But you know, when you preoccupy
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  Speaker 5: yourself and busy yourself with other things, then you kind
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  Speaker 5: of ignore really where you are mentally.
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  Speaker 3: When did g Rogerie have that I made it moment?
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  Speaker 1: I still don't feel like I made it. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: know made it on this wall, so clearly I made.
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  Speaker 3: It, that's not true. You are a legend and icon't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't, so you still haven't felt like you made it.
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't a moment like no, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I guess when I stopped auditioning, but I don't ever
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  Speaker 5: feel like I made it, because then I stopped growing,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? Like people always go, what's
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  Speaker 5: your favorite role?
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  Speaker 1: The next one?
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  Speaker 3: I guess. I guess a better question is when did
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  Speaker 3: you When did you give yourself a chance to breathe
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  Speaker 3: enough to say, okay, I'll go take thirty days to
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  Speaker 3: myself when I went to bother okay? But it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: There wasn't a particular moment. It was just you, your.
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  Speaker 5: Personal, It was just me, my personal. I had gotten
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  Speaker 5: to the place where I was like I didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't give a shit about work
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  Speaker 1: right now. I have to. I have to be okay
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  Speaker 1: or work is not going to get done. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I chose me.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how are you holding up with everything that's going on?
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  Speaker 2: And how with the strike and everything? How are you
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  Speaker 2: holding up with that?
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  Speaker 5: I can't stay too close to it because everybody has
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  Speaker 5: something to say. I'm just like, call me when it's over.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm ten toes down and supporting. Of course, what
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  Speaker 5: we're fighting for is very important, but I can't be
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  Speaker 5: in the throes of every day.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: It's too much for my anxiety.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: What are you doing to stay creative?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Moving back into my house.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: I did a huge renovation to my house and finally
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: it's done and I'm back in the house. So I've
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: been unpacking, I've been under buses.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: What is joy joints?
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Joy joints?
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Okay, this is what I love because this is a
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: time for us to really celebrate us and to find
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: that joy and remind ourselves that that joy is our birthright.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: It's something that we were born with and it is
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: something that is ours And so across the nation, we
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: want people to if you have if you're at work,
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: it can be an office group, it could be friends.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Remember how I said, we don't see people playing outside
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: anymore that we're trying to recreate that. Get the kids
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: have kickball, you know, go outside and play kickball or
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: spades games, double dutch, whatever it is that brings you joy.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Get a group of people and do it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: And we're all connecting through the Boris Lawrence Hnson Foundation
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: to raise awareness of just finding your joy, tapping back
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: into your joy.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: It was like a party.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: It's a huge party, a nationwide party.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Kse Spade has been our partner since twenty a twenty
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: twenty two and they have.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Really just been incredible partners. Case Bade New York justs
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: been everything. They are the reason why we're able to
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: erect these wellness pods at HBCU campuses. They've been our
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: partners in that and just in our partners and getting
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: the message of mental wellness.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: And talk about that what you're doing on those HBCU
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: campuses and the first campuses you're started with.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we started with Alabama State University. We erected the
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: first pod back when was that April and it's been
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: a huge success. We're interested in the universities that have
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: who are very serious or invested in you know, their students,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: their student body mental wellness because it's one thing for
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: us to bring the pod, but now we need your
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: help to keep it going and make sure that the
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: kids are getting you know, the help and the resources
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: that they need.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: And our next stop is Hampton.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: And we're doing this one in November, and this is
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: our second university.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: We are you allowed to do it at Hampton.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I knew you was gonna bring some He got trying
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to get me back as he missed me on his
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: wall and.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Wow losses last weekend? You know, was it? Hampton A game.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like, y'all number one on in anything.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Damn joy joy we have.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: We're here to spread joy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: He tried his helmet.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I'm his helmet.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Get that water bucket out of it. Anyway, he threw me off.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: My joy, I'm back.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: So what are the pods exactly?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Oh so they're like these containers, you know, those containers
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: that everybody's making into homes.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Now, So we found a company. What's the company.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Again, I'm sorry, that'side container bills and they are amazing.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: We had a student from Alabama State University who's a
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: visual artist and she made the whole mural which is
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: so beautiful, and it was designed the interior designing.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, and oh yes, we said that already.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Oh she's talking to Tracy. She's not talking to herself
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: and people.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: If you're watching the show, you can see there's Tracy's
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: over there the yellow but anyway, so yeah, but anyway, yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: but it's it's so in the respite pod, you can
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: have uh meditation, you can do yoga.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: We have two actual rest pods.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: We're student because you know, when you're in college, you're
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: always around people. You know, you have roommates, it's to
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: study halls to students, and sometimes you just need to
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: get away from all of that. And so we have
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: these rooms where.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: You can go rest. But you can rest, you can
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: meet with a.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Therapist virtually or in person, or you can just go
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: in there and just relax and chill.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And sometimes you need.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, So it's a safe space for students
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: to go when they feel stressed.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: It's too much and how many specs are you going to?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: How many HBCUs are you going to?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: How many how many are we going to for this?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, the students need that because because it gets stressful,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: and especially for students that's never been alone, never been
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: by themselves, going to those schools and not knowing people
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: gives you anxiety having to pass and knowing that if
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: you get a lower grade than a certain you lose
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: your scholarship, and to meet and new friends.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: So I think that's that's amazing.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's also for students to feel like they belonged.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: The dropout rate is insane and it's I think it's
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: a lot of it is you know, it's a lot
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: on these students, and now throw.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Social media in the mix on top of all the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: other things. You know, So we're just trying to help.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: We're just trying to save us and save our future
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: by saving these kids.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I feel like you should come out with a line
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: of pre roles called joy Joints.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Joints, Yes, okay, joints, a lot of pre rolls.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I got it based medicine for the anxiety and stuff
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are dope, he says.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: He thinks they Jeordi.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: They're probably already joy Joys. You're not the first one
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: to come up.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: You also have the one man hours Joy Challenge. Oh absolutely,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: yeah you started that last bring. How did somebody join that?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Bores L Henson Foundation dot org.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: You can find out how you can sign up for
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: the joy Joints or how you just if you just
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: want to donate.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Tyler Perry spoke about something a couple of days ago. Lord,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I just got a question.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: He was talking about.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Women should be to try to talk about women dating
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: men that aren't as financially.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you know how to take a hand, do you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: You just keep going have mercy?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: We got snoop.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Flakes, shall we got snoop fruit And you were saying,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: what were you saying?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Can you talk about your Broadway show about okay?
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Okay, I am so proud to be a producer of
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: a Broadway show. What I love about this show is
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: it because it showcases these women and I love bringing
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: life to hidden figures.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And you know, I grew up in DC and.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I used to get my hair braided, but it was
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: always over somebody's house, a friend's house. I never really
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: knew about the hair braiding salons hung out millions of
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: times in Harlem and I would walk past the salons.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I just walked past them, you know.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: But this play brings such a light to these women.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: And another thing, when you think about ice and deportation,
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: you never think about us because the only images they
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: always show are the Latin community, right, But this play
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: showcases that these women are undocumented. They're in this country
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: and they're trying to make a living and.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: This is how they're doing their braiding hair.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: And in the play you see that they have an
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: issue with ice and their documentation and I never think
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: about that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Do you think about that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: No? One time when they I think it was was
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: it the Haitian micros who they say were coming over?
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: That was a couple of years ago. It was like
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: a mention.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It it was just a mention.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: But whenever Ice shows up, you never see it's always
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: they're coming down.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: On a Latin community. So I never even thought about that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I never even thought about undocumented black people in the US,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And these women literally just
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: trying to make a living, and so that was very
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: interesting to me. Not only that, yes, bringing life to
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: their story and their lives and these incredible women.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: But I love hair. I almost became a cosmetologist.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: I mean I almost went to school for cosmetology, but
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I missed it by one year. And I have a
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: haircare line, so it really makes it was a no
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: brainer for me to produce the show.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: And congratulations on the haircareline won a bunch of awards.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, are you using it at your household?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I did try some my kids as well. You know what,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: my daughter had a problem with.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Boyd and Hampton people live.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Because I actually had to go and get everybody's hair
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: product because my daughter had I don't know what it was,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: but she has something in the hair, and we we
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: went and got everybody's head. I mean I didn't got
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the brat. I didn't even know the Brat had a
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: hair products to pick up the Brat hair products. Porsche
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: has hair products.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I picked up.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Because my wife sent me to the store and I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: just looked for anybody black and I just got on
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the product.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But you love t p AH. But anyway, that's what
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you forgot to say. This one here?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: What makes t p A stand put.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Again?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: What makes t stand off of everybody else?
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Because t p A specializes in scalp care. Honey, you
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: gotta clean your scalp first, and you have a head
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: that is naked.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: You can see, do you have anything for protection?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He has a scout, doesn't it You still.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Got to and moisturizers or don't. That's what got.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: This is what I came from.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: But that's another way to bring joy.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I believe self care.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Hair care is self care, especially for women and women
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: cultural women from ethnic backgrounds, because we have curly, thick,
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: big hair, and we look at doing our hair as
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: a chore. And so with the t p H line,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: it's more of it's like a spa experience. So you
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: pamper yourself from scout to toad. That's you do not
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: have a body line too. So the whole line was
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: created to change the narrative of you know, taking care
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: of yourself as a chore and look at it more
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: as self care, like take yourself to the spa.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: And and the reason I came.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Up with that is because my hair care line launched
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: during the pandemic. People were ready to go to salons
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: and be around other people.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: So it was more like bring the.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Salon home to you you can at an affordable price
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: and affordable Can men use it?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Just absolutely? Man, you have a scout right, yes.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: But I'm talking about guys that use like the just
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: for men in the Beijing Like will they wash it out?
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: It'll wash it all off? Damn Yeah, I think I
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: hear soap and rain.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you try to be funny.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: We had a whole conversation about this because I think
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a lot of guys are doing this now, They're getting
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: their hair transplants into Beijing and the just Wan and
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, why, like who are y'all doing
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: this for? And so a lot of women called up
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: here this morning and say they don't even like that.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: They rather the guys just just be bald or go
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: to the salt and.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Pepper bag, would rather us just wear our hair and
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: not wear wigs and stuff. Oh I don't care, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I know, but I hear that, you know a lot
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: of minutes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Just be natural.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: They don't believe that. I think they just I'm I
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: think you should do whatever it is that makes you happy,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: makes you happy, unless you're a man. If you're a man,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: you should let the salt and pepper wrong.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Men can't do.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Because it looks ridiculous.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: That's terrible.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: They haven't learned how to blend it in. Like it
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: don't look good.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: You don't mind if it looks good.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: If it looks good, right, because some of those wigs
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: look really good. I'm not I'm trying to say this
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: with a straight face. I'm really not trying to be
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: funny because I believe people should do what makes them
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: feel good. And if if women can't wear lace fro,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: men can too.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Baby hair, they've been going.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Crazy with the baby hair is a little out of control.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Their baby they're bangs, they're not.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Baby baby is going down to your your your mouth
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: like this, your nose, like your cheeks.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: It's getting crazy.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Now you know what you know what it is when
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the baby here meet the eyebrow.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: That's getting crazy.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Now, it's a little I don't judge. Some people like it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: And if that makes you happy, wear that baby, bang baby,
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: because that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: That is a bang on your forehead.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: But if that makes you feel good, wear that bang
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: baby and get you some TPH products to slick it down.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right now. World Mental Health Day is
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: coming up. Yeah, what are some things people could do
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: in their community to create their own joy? Joints and
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: joy challenges?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Get the best group.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: If you like space, you like oh no, whatever it
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: is that brings you joy. It could be sitting outside,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: sitting on the stoop talking, whatever it is, whatever brings
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: you joy.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you what brings you, Joel. I know
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: what brings me joy. I want to play. I want
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to do double dutch. I want to jump double dutch.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: You're still doing nothing play checks.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I haven't in a while, but I would to bring
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: myself joy. I'm willing to do anything.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: People don't bring in a child.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, never let your in a child die.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: People don't double dut no, nor do they know how
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to double dutch. And that which is crazy because when
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: we do the events, I bring this double dutch team
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: husband and wife and they teach people how to double
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Dutch men and women, and they teach you the easy
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: way how to how to you know, because I'm double handed,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: so I don't know how to. I don't know how
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: to do it, but but it teaches you because it's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: funny and it's an exercise.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: And a lot of people that they don't know how.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: To do it anymore.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: They know because people aren't playing outside anymore.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: That is correct.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I like what you said about that, because you know
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of people are afraid to do that because
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: they're in a child still need is so broken. Yeah,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: so what do you do when you're in a child
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: still needs to be loft?
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: You have to nurture it. Have to nurture that little child,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: pay attention to it. That child cries out for attention
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: all the time. You have to pay attention.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I play still to this day. That's what my salon
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: is about. I'm a salon in.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: My house and I get my friends tease me all
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: the time because I have a square like a register.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: It's just I used to play register when I was
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: a kid, and as I grew up, I was like,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: I'm going to always purchase the things that I couldn't afford.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: When I was a kid, I was told no so
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: much because we couldn't afford it. And when I can afford,
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: I'm going to get it. And so my salon is
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: more like my playroom, and that's where I go when
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: things become too much. I go in there and I
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: tell people, don't call me clients.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: And what do you do? Do You go through a.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Whole like an appointment book, and I make up appointments.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I go there, I let my inner child play, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I have these dolls, these heads, and I do their
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: hair like one may have a wet set appointment, one
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: may have a dye.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I may have to cut.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: You do by yourself.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: I went to the University of YouTube and I learned
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: a lot. I graduated magna cum Latti, so I know
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: a lot of things.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Bring my girls over your house and you.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Too, Oh yes, bring them. I was like that, why
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: did I have a girl? You know what I mean?
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: It was a hard man.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Like miss me. With all of that, I'm not interested.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Girls are hard. I got four of them, and my
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: oldest is at that age where she don't want nothing
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: to do with daddy. She's fifteen. Oh my god. And
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: that's heartbreaking.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Your put your seat out on.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Damn.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife says it'll it'll, it'll go away. But
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: how long though, Jeuz you never know.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that she's gonna get a boyfriend and she really
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: not gonna care about five years.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: It can be ten usually a ten year pretty much.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Wait till she's twenty five that she's gonna get married
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: or not.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, because it's true, she got a baby.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: You're done.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: It's just like hang it up for the twenties. Just
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: don't watch, just wait for to come back like twenty eight,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: twenty nine.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Stop crying out.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think people realize how heartbreaking. That's something
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: that fathers don't talk about it enough, Like that's heartbreaking
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: when you're your little girl all of a sudden don't
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: want nothing to do with you and act like they
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: don't even like you.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Yea, you know, I'll understand that part. They not like
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: it your part though, I get that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I want to ask you about this quote to Roger
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Oh another quote, no, no, no no. It says healing
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: can be so hard when you're when the child wants love,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: your teenage self wants revenge, and your current self only
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: wants peace.
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  Speaker 1: That's deep.
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  Speaker 5: What comes up for you when you oh, it's facts,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: it's real. It's triggering because that's so real.
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  Speaker 1: I just never heard it. Put the anger, the teenage anger.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Get ready, Lord have mercy, Jesus RaSE would you?
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  Speaker 3: Would you say that the bory Thlornenti Foundation is your
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: life's work?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Definitely my life a life purpose, a purpose, you know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: a clear purpose. Like I thought it was acting, I'm
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: going to touch the people through my work, and of
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: course I did, but I just felt like that was
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: to bring me here, because this feels really fulfilling, Like
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I really because you could do a performance, will you
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: touch somebody?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Will you change my I don't know. I hope so.
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  Speaker 5: But this is the work that is really changing and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: saving lives. And I feel good about what I'm doing.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I feel important.
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  Speaker 3: You are important, I.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: Know, but this really makes me feel like I have
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: a life purpose beyond vanity and being pretty in front
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: of a camera or what does she have on?
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Or you know, are you almost tired of Hollywood?
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Almost almost is anyway.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: But I still got some jobs to complete. I have
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: some things that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: I'm working on, but I know, yeah, it's getting to
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: the point where I'm ready to let these kids have it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm looking for my exit strategy. I don't
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: want to be doing this one, not on a grind,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: you know. I want to dip back in when I'm ready,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: when it's a project that I feel so inclined that
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I will come out of my retirement, you know. But
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I'm literally ready to go stick my toes and some
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: saying somewhere and let these.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Kids have it. I literally feel like you.
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  Speaker 3: Never see that in how ito you feel like you
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: just see people keep going, keep going, keep going. You
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: never see nobody just say you know what I'm done?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, But I have other things I'm working on to
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: that's not just acting. The acting will not be my
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: exit strategy. Like that's not gonna be my nest egg
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: that I can lay up on.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It'll be a little bit of it, But my nest
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: egg is gonna be my brand when.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Somebody coming by buys TPH for a billion dollars or
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: something like that.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that from your mouth?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: How can people donate a contribute to the Borings lawnch
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Hinston Foundation.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Always you can always go to www.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Dot Boris l Henson dot Boris Lhinson Foundation dot org.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you doing that, and you all loved, valued
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: and appreciate it absolutely.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I will know that when I'm up on this wall.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: But we appreciate you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen from Howard University.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Hain't you no period. Get that water bucket out in.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: It's the breakfast cloak of water so farious.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: I love the work you guys are doing. I'm so
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: glad you're on my television.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: That's all I watch to be.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I even