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Angela Yee: What Is It Really Like to Be a Woman In The Music Industry? Celebrity Stories, Coworker Conflict + How To Make Your Voice Heard · QUESTION EVERYTHING

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  Speaker 2: This is pretty smart. Angela Yee is the type of
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  Speaker 2: person who can talk about anything from hip hop to investing, sex,
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  Speaker 2: and relationships or celebrity gossip, and she does. She talks
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  Speaker 2: about it all. The radio host an entrepreneur, has spent
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  Speaker 2: years building her personal brand. She gained a huge following
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  Speaker 2: by being the host of the syndicated radio show The
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club. Over the course of eleven years, Angela and
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  Speaker 2: her co host Charlemagne God and DJ Envy have amassed
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  Speaker 2: eight million listeners a month. In twenty twenty, they were
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  Speaker 2: inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Angela's also focused
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  Speaker 2: on building a lasting legacy. The Brooklyn native has opened
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  Speaker 2: a coffee shop an a juice bar in her beloved
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  Speaker 2: New York neighborhood. And as you'll hear today, she's just
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  Speaker 2: getting started. You get up early early, I'm sure that's
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  Speaker 2: the first thing everybody chats with you about. Does four
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  Speaker 2: am still hurt or like, what is the trick to
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  Speaker 2: becoming an early person?
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  Speaker 1: Coffee? No, four am still does hurt.
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  Speaker 4: But the tricks are a you have got to get
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  Speaker 4: more go to bed earlier. And that's like, whenever I
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  Speaker 4: have a chance to go to bed at like nine o'clock,
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  Speaker 4: ten o'clock, i am on it, you know, And even
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  Speaker 4: at ten o'clock, that's still only six hours of sleep,
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  Speaker 4: but still it really helps me a lot. And then, yes,
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  Speaker 4: the coffee does help. I have my Las Pascialista coffee
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  Speaker 4: maker down here, and before I leave for work, I
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  Speaker 4: make myself some you know, a cocoa espresso, and I
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  Speaker 4: put a little oat milk in it, and that is
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  Speaker 4: it really does help me, Like for the whole day,
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  Speaker 4: it works.
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  Speaker 2: It's good. I'm with you too. I did a morning
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  Speaker 2: show on TV in Chicago years ago. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how people do it without coffee. It's just not human.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, as I was researching you, I realized that you're
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  Speaker 2: from Brooklyn, but you're from Brooklyn, like it shaped you
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  Speaker 2: in your mind? What part of you is Brooklyn? And
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  Speaker 2: how did it shape who you are?
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn definitely gave me a lot of street smarts.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I make a lot of great decisions
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  Speaker 4: and I have good intuition being from here. And then
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  Speaker 4: I also feel like culturally Brooklyn exposes you to a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things. I see a lot of people who
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  Speaker 4: are not accepting people who are different than them, and
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  Speaker 4: I feel like being from Brooklyn, I've seen it all
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  Speaker 4: and so nothing shocks me. You know, how we are?
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  Speaker 4: We see something like something might be crazy happening, and
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  Speaker 4: we just walk past it like it's nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And so I feel like it.
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  Speaker 4: Also has made me very accepting all different kinds of people,
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  Speaker 4: and it takes a lot for me to be shocked
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Always these funny memes online of like New Yorkers on
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  Speaker 2: the subway with something insane happening, like someone's taking their
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  Speaker 2: clothes off and everybody's just like on their phone, doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: You. We're like, oh my god, stop right. There's this
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  Speaker 1: Instagram page called sub Bay Creatures and it is the
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  Speaker 1: funniest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you started your career in the music business
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  Speaker 2: with a job that any New Yorker around your age
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  Speaker 2: would have dreamed of. You were working with Wu Tang Clan.
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  Speaker 2: What did that first job teach you about the music industry?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of things aren't what you would think it was.
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  Speaker 4: When I first started working with them, I interned in college,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought it would be really rowdy and dangerous
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  Speaker 4: and the guys would be wild, and it was the
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  Speaker 4: exact opposite. They were honestly like the nicest, most protective people,
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  Speaker 4: and so I appreciated that, and then it also taught
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  Speaker 4: me the value of having relationships, just having to deal
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  Speaker 4: with so many different people at different labels, dealing with
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  Speaker 4: people's family, to be really patient, and the importance of
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  Speaker 4: being time because I would probably be the only person
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  Speaker 4: that was on time every single day. But it really
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  Speaker 4: did matter a lot and hard work because I stayed,
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  Speaker 4: I would be the first person there and the last
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  Speaker 4: person to leave all the time. It's just a good
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  Speaker 4: work ethic to have. And I started that at a
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  Speaker 4: really young age.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have that from your parents or like, why
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  Speaker 2: were you the first person to be there in the
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  Speaker 2: last person to leave.
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  Speaker 4: I've always had like this strong sense of responsibility. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know where I get that from. It might be
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  Speaker 4: my mom. My mom still to this day, works seven
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  Speaker 4: days a week. She's always working, right, and so I
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  Speaker 4: think I get that from her. Definitely not my dad.
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  Speaker 2: So what does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: Because my dad is like a slacker, so he's not
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  Speaker 4: like that at all. But my mom is like, I
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  Speaker 4: have to be at work, I have to do this,
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  Speaker 4: I have to do that, And so she has two
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  Speaker 4: jobs and she works, like I said, every day, And
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  Speaker 4: my dad would be like my dad works for my uncle,
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  Speaker 4: you know, running the dentist's office.
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  Speaker 2: So you your career in radio started after you asked
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  Speaker 2: for an interview hoping to get into marketing at serious
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  Speaker 2: ExM Radio, and then they suggested that you auditioned a
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  Speaker 2: co host a show, which is like crazy, Like that's
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  Speaker 2: just like being plucked from oblivion, Like that doesn't happen
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  Speaker 2: to anybody. What did that feel like? And did you
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  Speaker 2: consider getting into radio before that?
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  Speaker 4: You know, people used to always tell me I had
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  Speaker 4: a unique voice, and so maybe voiceovers or something like that,
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  Speaker 4: but I never thought I would be doing radio, and
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  Speaker 4: so it is really strange and it is a blessing.
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  Speaker 4: When I first got that job, people were so mad
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  Speaker 4: because there were people that.
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  Speaker 1: Felt like they deserved it.
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  Speaker 4: There were people that I knew just from work that
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  Speaker 4: were so upset and mad about it, and some people
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  Speaker 4: were like, who dies she sleep with to get that?
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  Speaker 4: But it was just having good relationships and having an opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: And it wasn't like I got the job. I just
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  Speaker 4: had the opportunity to audition, and then the choice was
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  Speaker 4: not up to anyone other than the people as serious
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  Speaker 4: about whether or not they would hire me.
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  Speaker 1: And so I had the.
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  Speaker 4: Opportunity to audition, and I think they gave me such
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  Speaker 4: a long chance because they saw how hard I was working.
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  Speaker 1: Again, you know, I would be even.
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  Speaker 4: There, first person there, last person to leave, and so
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  Speaker 4: they saw the time that I was putting in. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that anybody can get good at anything if they.
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  Speaker 1: Put the time into it.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. People have like sort of natural
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  Speaker 2: proclivities to certain things, but if you really dedicate yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I believe the exact same thing. You said. You were
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  Speaker 2: once fired for denying your boss sex.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, So that was when I worked at Virgin Records,
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  Speaker 4: and so my boss definitely we didn't have a lot
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  Speaker 4: going on at the time. They had one artist signed
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  Speaker 4: to the label and so they had like a boutique
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  Speaker 4: label underneath Virgin. And so my boss called me in
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  Speaker 4: and asked me if I would, you know, sleep with him.
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  Speaker 1: That was what the meeting was about.
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  Speaker 2: What I was your back up. How does somebody just
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  Speaker 2: outright say, like the meeting was about if you would
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  Speaker 2: sleep with him? What does he put that on the
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  Speaker 2: zoom link?
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  Speaker 4: Like, Oh, no, it wasn't in person. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was really young at the time. I was like
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  Speaker 4: twenty four years old or something like that, and so
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  Speaker 4: I was definitely taken off guard, and of course I
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  Speaker 4: would never have even thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean my first reaction was.
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  Speaker 4: I was repulsed by it, just because he's not somebody
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  Speaker 4: I would ever even consider that with.
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  Speaker 1: And so that was my first reaction.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I was saying this that I didn't
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  Speaker 4: even think I had any power to do anything, and
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  Speaker 4: so I just was like, Okay, I'm either going to
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  Speaker 4: have to quit or I don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So a couple of days later, I got fired.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, and what did you do?
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  Speaker 1: I got another job. That was it.
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  Speaker 4: And I got another job. And they did try to
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  Speaker 4: withhold my last paycheck. So they had told me they
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  Speaker 4: were going to give me two weeks pay and then
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  Speaker 4: they canceled the check after I picked it up, and
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  Speaker 4: then I called and I said, I will assue you
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  Speaker 4: if you don't give me back my money. And then
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  Speaker 4: they were like okay, and they gave me another check.
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  Speaker 4: But I didn't really know what to do. I just
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  Speaker 4: said that and it worked.
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  Speaker 2: That's a horrible and that experience.
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  Speaker 4: It was, but I would say it would have been
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  Speaker 4: a worse experience if something would have actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like, now that I look
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  Speaker 1: back at it.
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  Speaker 4: It could have been so much worse, being that there
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  Speaker 4: were so many things that are happening to women in
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  Speaker 4: this business, so me having to get propositioned, at least
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  Speaker 4: I didn't feel like I had no options. I was
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  Speaker 4: definitely brave enough at that time to just be reposed
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  Speaker 4: to be like yuck. You know, I would never do that,
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  Speaker 4: And I was able to get another job and not
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  Speaker 4: have it affect me and not get black balls. And
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  Speaker 4: so I feel like it could have turned out so
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  Speaker 4: many different scenarios where it could have been worse.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like, you know, God definitely have my back.
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  Speaker 2: So when you say, like women deal with so much
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  Speaker 2: in this industry, do you talk to other women about it? Like,
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  Speaker 2: and do you mean radio or do you mean entertainment
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  Speaker 2: in general?
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  Speaker 4: I think any business, it doesn't even matter, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter what line of work you're in. But
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  Speaker 4: I'll say that in particular in radio, We've been having
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  Speaker 4: a lot of conversations other women just things that have
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  Speaker 4: happened to them, and it doesn't even have to be sexual,
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  Speaker 4: but just not getting treated well is a thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like in a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Industries where women are outnumbered and don't have the power
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  Speaker 4: and don't have the equity that men have. It is
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  Speaker 4: hard for us to be heard and be seen and
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  Speaker 4: be taken seriously and get promoted and get a raise,
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  Speaker 4: and just all of those things are still difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching so many clips of you with your
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  Speaker 2: co hosts Charlemagne and DJ Mvy, and in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: you're the voice of reason on the show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say I'm the most rational one when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to things. They're like all over the place,
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  Speaker 4: and it's probably because I do so much research on
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  Speaker 4: so many different things that it's probably been, like I
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  Speaker 4: said from Brooklyn, like I always give people the benefit
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  Speaker 4: of the doubt too, and so I tend to do
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  Speaker 4: that in a lot of scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a very practical person. I'm a Capricorn, so
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  Speaker 1: we're very practical. We're very hard working, we're loyal, we're practical.
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  Speaker 4: And I do feel like all of those things are
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  Speaker 4: who I am as a person.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't take my emotions out of.
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  Speaker 4: Something and look at it and say it from you know,
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  Speaker 4: a very non judgmental, non emotional point of view.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see your role as on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Like if we were to say DJ Envy is what role,
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  Speaker 2: Charlemagne's what role and what role are you?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think I'm very empathetic to other people. I'm
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  Speaker 4: the understanding one. I'm the one that is, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: that does the research. I'm the one that is going
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  Speaker 4: to make feel more comfort when you're in that space.
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  Speaker 4: And I probably have like the little jabs that if
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  Speaker 4: you can catch it, you catch it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you're like the if you know, you know
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  Speaker 2: type of girl.
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  Speaker 1: Right exactly, So if you can catch.
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  Speaker 4: The little jokes and the you know and the little
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  Speaker 4: shade here and there.
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  Speaker 1: Then you catch it. I'm the responsible one. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: first one there.
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  Speaker 4: Again every day, I'm definitely the first one at work
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  Speaker 4: every single day and usually the last one to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Too good for you. That's very cool even to this day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so now you guys always get the celebrite. What about
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  Speaker 2: the atmosphere at your show feeds that.
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  Speaker 1: I think people come on the show wanting to reveal things.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it is knowing the reach that the breakfast
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  Speaker 1: club has, you know, cicate it in over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: markets and then crazy YouTube numbers, so you know when
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  Speaker 1: you come up there, you have to come up there
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  Speaker 1: ready to talk, and you want to say whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to say. If there's something that you want to
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  Speaker 1: put out, that's the space to do it. So I
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  Speaker 1: think people are aware of that.
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  Speaker 4: So when they have something they want to get off
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  Speaker 4: their tests or they have an announcement or anything, that's
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  Speaker 4: the place to do it. And then I feel like
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  Speaker 4: as individuals, we all have our own relationships with people,
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  Speaker 4: and so we have a little bit of an inside
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  Speaker 4: scoop on things at times.
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  Speaker 2: Right, are there people in radio that you really admired
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  Speaker 2: or you studied when you were coming up?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I love Angie Martinez. And because I
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  Speaker 4: never thought I would do radio, I wouldn't say that
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  Speaker 4: I studied, you know, I just enjoyed listening. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's nice for me to be able to sit down
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  Speaker 4: and talk to her and tell her those things, even
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  Speaker 4: when she was working on her book. I remember we
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  Speaker 4: went out to eat and I was telling her all
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  Speaker 4: the things that mattered to me a lot growing up
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  Speaker 4: in New York and she was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, really, that was a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: But she doesn't even understand at times, I think the
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  Speaker 4: impact that she had and how important some of the
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  Speaker 4: milestones and things that she created were to somebody like me.
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  Speaker 2: Is it fair to say she's the voice of New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Absolutely, you know, to this day, like listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: still I'm still in awe.
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  Speaker 4: We went out to eat a couple of weeks ago
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, okay, believe I'm just sitting here
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  Speaker 4: kicking it with Angie Martinez. You know, it still feels
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  Speaker 4: like that. And we're going to the Radio Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: We got inducted last year and so this year we're
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  Speaker 4: going to the actual ceremony, and so it's just nice
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  Speaker 4: that I could be like, that's my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the Drake quote when your idols become
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  Speaker 2: your rivals, even though it sounds like you're not rivals.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I wouldn't even compare myself to Angie.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, she's been doing this so much longer than
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  Speaker 4: I have, and I respect what she has. Like she
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: has an interview with Tupac. She's never put out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: she has. She was instrumental in talking to Nods and
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  Speaker 4: jay Z during their beef. She just started the Battle
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  Speaker 4: of the Beasts, Like she has so many things under
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  Speaker 4: her belt. Well that I admire, so, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I hope to one day be on the level where
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  Speaker 4: people feel like that about me too.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just how I look at Angie.
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  Speaker 2: What's the best advice that she's given you?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think what I like about her is
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  Speaker 4: that she's a nice person and she doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 4: she has to be shock jock in order to be successful.
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  Speaker 4: And so I would say just for her to say,
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  Speaker 4: to be yourself and not have to feel like you
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  Speaker 4: have to fit any type of role that's not who
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  Speaker 4: you are.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like in radio, just like in anything, it
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  Speaker 2: takes time to find your footing. When you look back
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  Speaker 2: on your old footage or listen to your old tapes,
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  Speaker 2: how long do you think it took you to find
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  Speaker 2: your voice? When did it click?
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  Speaker 4: I'll say this, I was lucky that I had a
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  Speaker 4: crash course because I was on the air every day
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  Speaker 4: when I started. And I know, like there's certain people
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  Speaker 4: who do it now and they might have like a
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  Speaker 4: weekly show where they don't get as much talk time,
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  Speaker 4: but I was just thrown into it with plenty of
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  Speaker 4: talk time, Like the whole idea of the show when
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  Speaker 4: I first started, when I was working with cipher was
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  Speaker 4: for me to like have everything and then he just
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: chime in on stuff, so that I was basically doing
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  Speaker 4: the brunt of the work because he still was working
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  Speaker 4: at Hot ninety seven also, and so for him this
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  Speaker 4: was like a side hustle. For me, it was my
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  Speaker 4: main hustle right at that time. It was just me
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: kind of like doing a lot of the stuff to
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: make sure that he was comfortable and didn't have to
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: do too much. And so I feel like that crash
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: course helped me get better quicker. And so maybe like
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: three or four months it took until I finally had
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: my stride, which is it's a long time, but it's
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: not you know what I mean.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: The in the grand scheme of things. Yeah.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And then I was able to do the show
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: without him a lot because sometimes he just when it
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: comes to work and then seriously and then I just
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: had to hold it down and fortunately for like everything
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: still went smooth. And so that was just a time
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: when I was like, Okay, I can do this.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you could take vacation days now?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Or you still like I better show up every day.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I love to take a vacation. I just put two
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: in today I'm taking Listen.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: When I first started, I would not even use all
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: my vacation days. I would be like, no, I can't.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I have to work, and I just like work, work, work,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: and not even take my vacation. Now I'm like, I
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: need my vacation days and I'm going to take every
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: single one of them that I'm supposed to because you
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: earn that and you can't even really be great at
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: what you do if you're not resting. Sometimes I have
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: a lot of other things I do outside. Sometimes I
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: take vacation to go do other work because waking up
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: at four o'clock in the morning, if I don't have
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: to do that and I have a lot of things
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: going on, you know, it helps me. And so it's
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: just a balance of making sure that I don't burn
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: myself out at the same time.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: So I read that you said being the only woman
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: in the room makes you feel like you always have
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to cut in when you have something to say. How
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: do you make sure that your voice has heard because
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: you have two people with a lot of opinions co
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: hosting with you.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I do have to just like jump on top of it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: And sometimes people be like, oh, angela talk tone. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: don't care, like if I had something I want to say,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: and I try to be patient, and like it's like
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: double Dutch. I just got to jump in and figure
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: out where I can get in at a certain point.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I'll ask a questions and then I have a
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: follow up, but then they somebody else asked a question.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: So it's always just you trying to like get yourself
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: in there.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, you know. I read Charlemagne did an
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: interview with Gucci and he said something. Gucci said something
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: about you. Charlemagne didn't defend you, and then later he
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: said that you weren't friends anymore, which I was kind
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: of shocked by. Are you guys cool again?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I would say, we're just coworkers.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: So even back then, like before that, it's not like
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: we were friends. You know, we don't hang out. It's
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: not like I go to his house, he comes to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: my house. We just work together. And I think that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: the majority of people, right, They just have to work
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: with people, and it's not necessarily people that they hang
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: out with, And so I think sometimes even in order
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: for you to have a good working relationship, you really
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: can't be friends too.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Oh interesting, what do you mean by that?
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Because sometimes when you're friends with somebody, it's hard to
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: separate things. Like I've had friendships that have gotten ruined
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: over work, because look, you can't really throw your friend
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: under the bus, or you can't really go and say,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: but you're not doing it, you know, So sometimes it's
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: easier for you to understand. You see how many people
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: that have been in groups that broke up and they
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: can't stand each other, you know, And it's business. And
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: I think if you can keep certain things business and
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: understand this is what we have to do for work
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: and not have feelings and emotions behind it, it's much
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: easier to function than if you feel like I can't
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: believe this person did that to me.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like there's a mutual respect now?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: because I think people notice if I'm not there, you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: they know that, like I do a lot a lot
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: on that show every single morning, and so when I'm
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: not there, they're like ANGELA, hurry up. Like people can't
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: it's hard for them when I'm not there because of
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: how much work I put in, So you can'tnot respect that,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: you know, And I think for all of us everybody
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: says that when one of us isn't there, it's not
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: as smooth.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. Like you guys are are a trio.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Hip hop has more women now, but for a long
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: time it was completely a boys club and you were
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: coming up in the music industry during that. What did
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: you learn from the men in hip hop? What was
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: your biggest takeaway?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: That you have to mind your business when certain things
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: are going on, and certain times you got to, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: go hard and speak up. I think people want to
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: trust that when you're around, they know that you can
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: hold it down and keep things that are personal, like
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: you see a lot and so you have to really
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: know that you cannot like talk and tell people's business.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It took a while for women to be able to.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Find their voice in this business just because we were
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: so outnumbered and didn't have the power. But I feel
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: like now we have a lot more power to do that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I would just say to pick your battles that you
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: want to fight. You know, some things are small and
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: not worth it, and other things I believe you just
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: can't let slide because a lot of times, I think
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: in the past, we let so many things slide just
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: because we didn't have power, but now I feel like
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: we have to learn how to support each other, women
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: in particular more.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like women and hip hop support each
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: other now?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a lot better.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, And I love when I see it, Like I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: love when I see women like reposting each other or
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: working on songs together or saying how much they love
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: each other, and so I think that's a really great
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: and positive thing. And yeah, I do see it. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: do see it a lot more. And listen, hip hop
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: is competitive. I know that, and we all know that,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: and it's supposed to be. And that's not to say
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: you can't be competitive, but then still give each other
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: a hug or still show each other love.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: What is the state of of hip hop right now?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: First of all, it's very oversaturated.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: There's so much stuff that coming out all the time
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: that it's impossible to keep up with everything. But just
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: like in every type of industry, the best always does
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: rise to the top and there's something for everyone.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like hip hop has different genres too.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Now we didn't really have it like that before, but
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: there's all these different genres of hip hop. Now there's
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: like hip hop that has like a punk fail to it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Then there's hip hop that is like trap music.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Then there's conscious hip hop, then there's gangster hip hop.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: You know, it's all different kinds.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: There's you know, more authentic hip hop that's all about
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: the lyrics.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: There's stuff that's just there for you to dance too.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: So I feel like it definitely has brought it into
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: so many different categories.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: So I know, I worked in radio when I first started,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and one of the things I learned pretty quickly is
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: that people that work in radio don't really listen to
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of music on their time off because they're
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: just there's always so much in their ears. When you
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: do listen to music, what are you listening to?
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I love R and B and I love dance song
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I listen to Soca. I do listen to hip hop,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: but I would say that out of those four, probably
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I listen to dance hall music the most, then R
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and B, then hip hop, then Soca.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Okay cool. You talk so much about the research and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the preparation you do. How do you prep for an interview, Like,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: if you know that you're interviewing young Thug tomorrow, what's
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: your process?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: The first thing I do is listen to his album
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: and pull that up, and then I will watch the
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: music videos that are most recent, and then with that,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I look at some other interviews that he's done recently
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: and any articles that have been written about him.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I look at his Instagram page, I look at.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: His Twitter page, you know, I read some of the
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: comments and see what people are saying. And if I
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: know anybody that knows him, I also send them a
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: message and be like, Hey, I'm interviewing young is there
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: anything you feel like I should know?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Does that ever work?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: People will kind of give you tidbits of things that
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: they know.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: All the time.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Ooh that you got sources?
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that's one of the best
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: ways to do it because that's more personal. And so
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: when you have something that and you don't ever say
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: where you got it from, but when you can ask
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: somebody something that someone who knows them knows that they'll
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: care about, you, know, it shows that you went a
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: little bit out your way.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I love that you do deep research. I do deep
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: research too, Like, I don't feel comfortable going into an
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: interview without it. So I watched tons of your interviews
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and I have a few questions for you Okay, which
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: interview did you feel most out of your depths, like
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: really nervous going into.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know, it's not too often that I feel
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: like that, as long as you're prepared. The only time
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: that I feel like that is if I'm not really prepared,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: you know what. But the things that make me the
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: most nervous are one on one interviews when I.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Have to do those, Yeah, because you're not doing that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: every day. It's different.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it's all on you for real, like
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: to It's not like someone else is going to jump
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: in and say something or push the conversation.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Along if you, you know, have a moment of downtime.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: So those are always the ones that had me the
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: most anxious when I have to do those. And so
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: you know, I did one with Kodak Black, I did
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: gond Rondo, I did August Alstina, I did Young Boy.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: So I've done quite a few of them, and I
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: feel like those are the ones that are always like, damn.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, So you brought it up August Elsina that interview.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: First of all, how did you book that interview?
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: So he used to be signed to Deaf Jam. He
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: put that last project out on Empire and my friend
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Na Tina, who works at deaf Jam, asked me, would
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: you be willing to interview August and I said, yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: of course. You know, I did his album release party
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: when he first put out his first album, I did
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: his Facebook interview, so I had done a lot of
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: things with him already, and so he was comfortable with me.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Did you know that he was going to reveal that
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: he had a relationship with Jada or an entanglement pretty much?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I mean I think it was already something that was obvious,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: and before the interview he did tell me. He was like,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: look and I'm gonna, you know, give you this and
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: it's going to be a big deal. But whatever it is,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I'm about to say, I just don't want to dwell
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: on it. If you could do that for me, So
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I was like, that's fine, Like, you know, I didn't
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: know what he was going to say exactly, but I
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: kind of had that idea that it would be okay
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: for me to ask, and he was ready to be
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: honest about it and he didn't want to go into
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: detail about it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, you must have been like, like you got
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the scoop.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: You know, when I got it, I didn't think that
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: they were going to put it out for real, because
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: it was him.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And his team filming it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: So in my head, I was like, maybe they're not
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: even going to use this part, you know, they might
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: edit it out. So when it happened, I was like,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: there's no way they're going to put this out. And
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: then August tell me he said he actually sent that
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: part to Data before he put it out, just so
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: that she wouldn't be caught off guard. And so that's
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: when I realized they really were going to put it out.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Well, because there's been rumors in Hollywood for like the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: last twenty years that Will and Jada kind of had
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: like an open relationship, but nothing was ever confirmed. So
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: for this moment was really I mean, it was a moment.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's spurned a lot of things, and I
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: feel like after that, you see Will opening up about
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: different things in their relationship, and they did a red
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: table talk about it, and so a lot of things
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: are coming out now. But maybe for them that's therapeutic.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe having this open secret and people
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: are kind of talking about it and having their own
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: theories on.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It, and you get to just say what it really is.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did they ever reach out to you?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: No?
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Were you of us that they would no, because I
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: didn't do anything, Like, first of all, I think I
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: was very.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Respectful about it.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't ask anything that was disrespectful, and I didn't
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: say anything about it that was negative. Like I'm friends
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: with August, Like I like August, and I think that
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: he's gone through a lot in his life, just with
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: his health obviously, with his family, with so many different things,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: and so whatever it is, I handle it with care.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: That's really nice. And I'm sure that's why he wanted
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you to do the interview. He felt that from you.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Why do you think he wanted to talk about it
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: because like a lot, I mean, there's a lot of
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: things that happened behind the scenes, and there's kind of
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: like this don't kiss and tell environment.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I think that he felt that he was getting BlackBelt
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: from things because of the relationship, and he said as much.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: And I can say that because you know, he did
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: say that. So there were certain opportunities and people were
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: also looking at him like he was getting in between
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: a relationship, and so he just wanted to be truthful
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: and honest about what's what happened. And August is like
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: a very open book type of person, and so I
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: can see why it was something that was weighing on him.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: You know, he lost his sister and he's taking care
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: of his nieces. He's got a lot of things going
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: on in his life, and that was something that he
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: just felt like he needed to free him from whatever
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: it was. And so listen, you can't ever be mad
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: at somebody for telling the truth, even if.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You feel like it's a kiss and tell situation.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: If it really happened, it happened, and people have the
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: right to, you know, say what they want to say
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: if it involves them.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's some challenging aspect of your job that you
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: feel like people don't give you credit for waking up early? No,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I mean people don't know how hard that is.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: That's true, that is really hard, you know, but also
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: like the sacrifices that you have to make. I don't
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: think people realize that. I don't think people realize that.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: You know, every single night, before I go to work,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: I'm still working before I go to bed, no matter
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: what time I come home, I'm still like preparing things
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: for the next day. Yeah, and I'm the only one
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: of us that does that probably on that show, which
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: is fine, you know, but it's just how I am.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: And then I get to work before everybody, and that
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: is just because I want to go over the stories,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: go over the audio clips that we're going to use,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: and make sure that I have everything together, so I'm
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: not just like reading off somebody wrote something for me.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: But I'm really familiar with what I'm talking about. And
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: I think sometimes people feel like I'm supposed to know
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: all the facts, and that's not necessarily true.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: It's a collaborative effort.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: So sometimes if like one of the guys ask me
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: something and I don't know what the answer is, I
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: also feel like, why don't you know the answer, you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: because I'm not really there to be like, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: newsperson expert. I'm just reporting on stories and doing my
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: own research.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: But you guys can do that too, Yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: So it's like, why are you the librarian?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: So sometimes people look at me like I'm supposed to
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: be doing that.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: No.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I do it as to the best of my ability,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: but it's not always perfect. And so you know, that's
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: just me putting a lot on myself all the time.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: And then I feel like I've like slipped into this
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: role of I'm supposed to be able to like answer
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: any question, and that's just not true.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I heard you ask Rick Ross such a great question.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You said, how important is it to have the right
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: woman in your life to support you and for you
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: to support her. I wanted to know how important you
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: feel like partnership is because you're so independent and strong.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Is that something that you feel like is important in
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: your life?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, listen. I love the fact that I can be
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  Speaker 4: with somebody who is supportive of what I want to do,
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  Speaker 4: who takes my side on things, so I can come
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: back and complain and be like this happen and he's like,
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: oh my god, that person's whack, and just you need
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  Speaker 4: that sometimes, right if you're man is not there to
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  Speaker 4: hype you up and be on your side, but then
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: also tell me when he thinks I'm being ridiculous and
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  Speaker 4: be able to call that out. And somebody that is
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: like that person you call first whether there's some good
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: news happening or when you need some advice, and when
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: you just like need to just sit there together and
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  Speaker 4: watch TV and chill and have a little bit of downtime.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: But that's good to celebrate your wins, or give you
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: suggestions on things you could do, or link you with
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: people like, yo, I've met this person that would be
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  Speaker 4: great for this for you. So those things are really
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: important to me, and I try to bring that to
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: the table too. So that's why I feel like it
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: is one of the most important things, because you know,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I feel like when things aren't going right, as long
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: as you have somebody great in your corner, it makes
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: life so much better, and and vice versa too. When
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: you don't have the right person in your corner, at
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: least let everything else in your life be right.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You're super entrepreneurial. You have a podcast called lip Service,
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  Speaker 2: you have a juice business, a coffee company. At what
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: point in your radio career did you start wanting to
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: seek things outside of radio.
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  Speaker 4: I've always been like a multi streams of income type
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  Speaker 4: of person, so that's something that I've always done. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: I used to be a consultant and freelance a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of different places at once.
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  Speaker 1: So now I feel like that prepared me for balancing.
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  Speaker 4: My time to do different things because I've always kind
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: of done that. The first thing I did was to
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  Speaker 4: open a juice bar and I wasn't even looking at
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  Speaker 4: it like, oh, I got to do things outside of radio.
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  Speaker 1: It was just something that I felt like.
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  Speaker 4: I never really had the disposable income to be able
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: to invest in a business that I wanted to open
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  Speaker 4: until a few years ago. So once I was able
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: to do that, and I felt good enough of like
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: having properties and having other things going on, and I
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: have this money that I feel like, even if it
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: didn't work out, I'll be okay, And so that was
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: important for me. And then a business that I felt
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: like was necessary and something that I use and could
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: be passionate about, and so I decided to start with that.
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  Speaker 4: And then once I did that, I actually felt like
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I wanted to do more. And even opening the juice
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: bars what led me to having a press juice company,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: just when people coming in and seeing the need for
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: it and people wanting juice bars in their neighborhood, realizing
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: I don't have the time to do that, but I
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: do have the time to start a press juice company,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: and so that kind of spawned that, and then the
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: coffee company came from me trying to find a storage facility.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: We were trying to look for someplace to put the
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: press juices during a pandemic, and that's when me approached
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Brooklyn Roasting and then ended up doing a partnership to
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: start our own coffee company.
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  Speaker 2: That's so cool. I so admire that. It's really hard
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: to find enough time and energy with what you do
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: getting up so early as it is. So that's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, we have some rapid fire because I know you
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: gotta go. So you talk a ton about financial freedom
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: through investment. What is your number one financial tip?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: When you decide you went to invest in something, do
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to research.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I use this app called public Right Now to invest,
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  Speaker 4: and if I see something on there that people are
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: talking about, I go off the ad and do the
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: research for myself and then I go buy it. If
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: I do want to buy it right away, I can
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: put it on my watch list so that I could
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: see when it dips, because that's a good time to
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: buy a stock when it dips, and buy at that
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: point in time.
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  Speaker 1: But definitely watch it.
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  Speaker 4: Don't try to do something that's like a fad or
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: you see everybody talking about it. Sometimes that's not the
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: best thing to do. It's about timing and it's about research.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: What's the best concert you've ever been to.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: We went to go see Boujou in the Bahamas. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: love stuff that's like, you know, outdoors in some great weather,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: so I would have to say that was probably the
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: most fun.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: He's a legend. What's the biggest perk of your job?
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  Speaker 4: The biggest perg of my job is that sometimes when
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: we get to travel, I say, and do a little
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: mini vacation.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And so the biggest perk is like all the outside.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Things that we get to do from being there too,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: just being the but I have the opportunity to make
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: money and other have other sources of income because of
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: the platform that we have on the Breakfast Club.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: That's that's definitely one of the biggest perks.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a gift. Who were you most excited about
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: following you on Instagram?
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I remember the White House followed me
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: for a little while, so that was crazy. That's how
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: I had to do was but then I think they
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: followed me. But anyway, that was pretty cool for a
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: hot second, and they followed me for a few months,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: and they don't follow They don't follow a lot of people.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: People.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: It's nice when somebody follows you and they don't follow
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of people, you know.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a big feather in your cap. What
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: is a book that changed your life?
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: I've read so many books, but I mean, I like
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Robert Green, Like I really enjoyed the book Mastery, just
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: because it really made me feel like I have to
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: go hard at researching and studying in order to be
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: great at something, and so I've been doing that.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I do a pretty smart question every week. I have
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a card deck fifty two questions. I'm gonna pick one
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: at random for you. Okay, what is the most memorable
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: meal You've ever had?
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: The most memorable mail I've ever had? Ah, so many?
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Let me see, it's probably something I made. I'm kidding.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I'm kidding. I would have to say. It's gotta be
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: in Jamaica. Jerk chicken on the side of that road.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: There's nothing like tasting that jerk chicken right off that grill,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: nice and crispy with that charcoal flavor on it.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: After the club. That is the first thing that pops
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: into my head.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I could tell that friendship is really important to you.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: What do you think the number one thing is to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: being a good friend, just.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: To be able to do what you say you're gonna do.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: You know, I think that's to show up if you
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: say I got you girl, I'm gonna do this for you,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: and vice versa. You know that you come through because
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: we live in a world where so many people do
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: not keep their word, and your friends, unless something happens
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: and you know they give you a heads up, should
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: definitely be able to keep their word and do what
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: they say they're going to do.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, last two questions. The first one is true or false?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Question everything?
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  Speaker 1: I'm false.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: What are you not supposed to question?
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: I think if something positive happens, I don't question that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: If somebody does something nice for you, I don't question that.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: If somebody is a fucked up person, I don't question
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: that either.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I love that you actually changed my mind about that.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: I tend to take things that face value most of
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: the time. I don't need an explanation. I am you
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: know I can figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that, all right. The first thing that pops
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: into your mind, what is the smartest decision you've ever.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Made by a house?
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  Speaker 2: That must have been so exciting.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a great decision. I had to figure
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: it out pretty much on my own. I got a
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: great realtor, so that was how help bo. But it
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: was a scary thing. But when I decided I wanted
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: to do it, I went so hard to save up
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: the money for that down payment, and I was just
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: doing whatever I could, all my side hustles to get
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: it together.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so glad I did it.
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  Speaker 2: That's so cool, Angela, thank you for taking the time.
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  Speaker 2: I loved getting to know you better today.
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  Speaker 5: All right, today's a good day to have a good day.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I'll see you next week.