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From Self-Doubt to Sold Out ( I Heart Radio Awards Recap ) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about everything and everybody. You hear that exclusive?
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  Speaker 2: You know she don't lie about that, right?
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  Speaker 1: Lauren came in hot. Hey y'all, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of The
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  Speaker 3: Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on
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  Speaker 3: all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the
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  Speaker 3: conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, we are literally
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  Speaker 3: just getting back from the iHeartRadio Music Festival, like literally, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a bit more well rested because I got to
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  Speaker 3: finally sleep. I feel like I've been on a roll
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  Speaker 3: for the last week, but man, I never, ever, ever
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  Speaker 3: forget how blessed I am to even be able to
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  Speaker 3: experience a lot of the things that I'm experiencing right now.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all know we kick off the show, checking in behind
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  Speaker 3: the scenes of the grind. Let's do that first.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, such a time. Um, Living and walking in, living
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  Speaker 3: in your answered prayer is such a crazy feeling because
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  Speaker 3: you are in real time.
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  Speaker 1: Doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Like whatever that thing is, whatever that dream is, whatever
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  Speaker 3: that prayer is, when you're in it, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: you always realize all the time, as much as we
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  Speaker 3: honestly should, how much of an answer prayer that thing is.
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  Speaker 3: But I have these moments and it happens every so often.
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  Speaker 3: It happened to me twice while I was in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: It happened to me three times actually while I was
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  Speaker 3: in Vegas where it hits me because, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: you can be in your day to day shuffle. You up,
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  Speaker 3: you get yourself together, you're headed to work, you're paying bills,
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  Speaker 3: you got kids, you're taking care of the kids. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just so much that comes with the adulting side
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  Speaker 3: of life that. when you are blessed enough to do
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  Speaker 3: things that actually like feed you or like just fulfill you.
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  Speaker 1: In a way, you get in a rhythm of it.
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  Speaker 3: And I told myself after leaving Vegas for the I
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  Speaker 3: Heart Music Festival that whenever, like I just prayed, I
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  Speaker 3: was talking to God and I was like, look, whenever
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  Speaker 3: I am getting in the comfort rhythm of anything about
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  Speaker 3: my life, please come and be like, girl, wake it up.
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  Speaker 3: Because this, none of this is to be taken lightly.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like a circumstantial, like this thing is just happening.
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  Speaker 3: At all, ever, like literally ever. Man, so the first
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  Speaker 3: time I had like this, oh my God, this is
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  Speaker 3: one of my answer prayer moments.
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  Speaker 1: We were getting.
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  Speaker 3: Ready for, so I did a live conversation with Sierra
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  Speaker 3: during the I Heart Music Festival event. Because I have
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  Speaker 3: a short audio series called Love Lately with Lauren LaRosa,
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  Speaker 3: all about women's health, women's sexual health, love, relationships, and
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  Speaker 3: everything in between. That is launching with iHeart on October 6th.
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  Speaker 3: Eight episodes, me and Dr. Contessa from Married to Medicine.
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  Speaker 3: She's my co-host. And I was sitting at the table
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  Speaker 3: right before we were about to go into this live event, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because we posted it online. I think I posted it
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  Speaker 3: maybe one time and I know iHeart fed it out,
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  Speaker 3: but it sold out. By the time I like really
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  Speaker 3: got to posting it, people were in the comments like, yo,
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  Speaker 3: this link don't work.
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  Speaker 1: It was sold out already. So I didn't really, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm so used to having to.
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  Speaker 3: Like convince people that like the things that I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: and the things I'm putting out and the things that
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  Speaker 3: I'm a part of, I'm supposed to be there, right?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even have to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Like this was literally by the time I went to
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  Speaker 3: go open my mouth about it, it was sold out already.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm sitting in like where I went outside
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  Speaker 3: patio area of a restaurant that was next door to
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  Speaker 3: the venue where we did the live conversation in Vegas. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our producer is there. Angela Yee is actually
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  Speaker 3: sitting next to me because she introduced me. for the
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  Speaker 3: live conversation. You know, some of the iHeart team is there.
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  Speaker 3: We're just all, you know, talking through what's about to
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  Speaker 3: happen in a live event. And I'm going through my
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  Speaker 3: cards and I have been, you know, when I prepare
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  Speaker 3: for like interviews with music artists, I go back and
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  Speaker 3: listen to the music and I try to think about like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like their feeling or like wanting to put
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  Speaker 3: myself in their shoes at that time to be able
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  Speaker 3: to come up with like how I want to navigate
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  Speaker 3: the conversation. So with Ciara, I had about 40, 45
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  Speaker 3: minutes of, to really sit down and have a one-on-one
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  Speaker 3: with her about her love journey through music. So I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I broke the conversation up into, you know,
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  Speaker 3: early love and, and, and, and, you know, figuring it
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  Speaker 3: out to really learning love in a way that you
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  Speaker 3: know yourself enough that you know what you do and
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  Speaker 3: don't want to learn and really knowing love in this
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  Speaker 3: adult age. And as I'm breaking it down and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to my mom, everybody's talking, but like, I'm there,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm not really there.
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  Speaker 1: And the EP is, she was like, Lauren, you all right?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I'm good. I'm good. And
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  Speaker 1: she was like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm looking around at everybody and everybody's just so
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  Speaker 3: like jittery.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my God, this is about to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to do this. Are you good? We got
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  Speaker 1: five minutes, two minutes out. Do you need this cue card?
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  Speaker 1: Do you need it?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just sitting there because I'm like, I am
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  Speaker 3: so good. Like I am so okay right now in
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  Speaker 3: this moment because before I was in this moment, this
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  Speaker 3: moment was like ordained for me. Like it was, this
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  Speaker 3: moment was thought about and created so before I even
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  Speaker 3: realized footstep on put a step on this earth that
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  Speaker 3: am I okay I am so much more than okay
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  Speaker 3: I was so at ease and so like confident and
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  Speaker 3: just yeah we better go do this I'm good y'all
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  Speaker 3: y'all I'm like I'm looking at and I said it
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  Speaker 3: out loud I'm like yo everybody is so like uh
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  Speaker 3: like riled up you know and I know it was
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  Speaker 3: the excitement of the day and people wanted to get
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  Speaker 3: things right but for me I just felt like yeah
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  Speaker 3: come on let's go we out let's do this And
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  Speaker 3: the conversation went amazing. Everybody felt good about the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was just, that was one of the moments.
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  Speaker 3: And you guys, you know, I do the latest with
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  Speaker 3: Lauren LaRosa here, which is all about the grind and
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  Speaker 3: the behind the scenes of the grind when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to being even in the position to have platforms to
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  Speaker 3: break news and to talk to y'all about news and
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  Speaker 3: all the things that we get into here in the conversations.
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  Speaker 3: I really do this part of the podcast because I
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  Speaker 3: want you guys to understand that Yes, I can press
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  Speaker 3: a button and, you know, boom, here I am. I'm
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  Speaker 3: at work and we're reporting news. But there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: more that goes into that mentally and physically. But this.
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  Speaker 3: New audio series endeavor that we're doing with iHeart Podcast,
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  Speaker 3: eight episodes, is different for me because, I mean, I've been,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very vulnerable and I've learned a lot of what
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  Speaker 3: to put out there, you know, kind of what to
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  Speaker 3: protect a little bit more and just how to communicate
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  Speaker 3: my vulnerability because I never want to not be vulnerable.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that is such a strength and a superpower,
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  Speaker 3: but also I just, I just feel like it's needed.
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  Speaker 3: It's like my service to the people is to be
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  Speaker 3: vulnerable about my life experience. It's how I look at it.
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  Speaker 3: If I can't do nothing else, I want people to
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  Speaker 3: be able to see like, oh, okay, me too. But
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  Speaker 3: it's very different because we talk about, like when you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about sexual health and Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Contessa is a real doctor, she's an OBGYN, we're talking.
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  Speaker 3: About, you know, testing and STD testing and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: pregnancy and fertility. So I thought at first, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when I do this, I'm going to have
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  Speaker 3: to really think through what I want.
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  Speaker 1: To say and how I want to say it. And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel any of that.
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  Speaker 3: In the moment and haven't felt any of that in
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  Speaker 3: the process of building up to this point where we
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  Speaker 3: are live in a sold out venue at the Aria
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  Speaker 3: in Las Vegas with Sierra. I mean, Sierra is an
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  Speaker 3: icon and I felt none of it. And, and I was,
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  Speaker 3: and God does these like little funny things. Like we
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  Speaker 3: have like this relationship where he knows that I'm hardheaded
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  Speaker 3: and he knows I'm stubborn and he knows I'll be in.
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  Speaker 1: My own way at times.
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  Speaker 3: And he it's like he knows he has to show
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  Speaker 3: me things in real life and I have to feel
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  Speaker 3: it in order for me to hear him all the
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  Speaker 3: way about certain things. That moment, literally like it was
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  Speaker 3: like an outer body experience. I was like, OK, God
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  Speaker 3: heard you. Like, girl, this is you are literally like
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  Speaker 3: being where I'm supposed to be or you were exactly
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  Speaker 3: where you're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: I've felt it. you know, and have known it, but
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  Speaker 1: really feeling it and believing it, that moment was it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wow. Yeah, bet.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 7: I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: And I am exactly where I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's been even hard for me to
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  Speaker 3: even say the word imposter syndrome out loud, because I
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  Speaker 3: think forever I've been a person that has not struggled
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  Speaker 3: with that. Or if I did struggle with it, I've
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  Speaker 3: always been able to come up out of it real
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  Speaker 3: quick because I didn't have the choice not to. Because Normally,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the only like I'm the only black girl or
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  Speaker 3: I'm the only black person on a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: teams that I've worked across, whether it's been in media
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  Speaker 3: or creative field or, you know, even in my banking job. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was working with two white women who,
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  Speaker 3: you know, wanted to know more about me and what
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  Speaker 3: I had going on in my community because that was
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  Speaker 3: our job was to give money to that community.
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  Speaker 1: So I really haven't had the luxury to.
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  Speaker 3: Really check in with myself and deal with the fact
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  Speaker 3: that imposter syndrome creeps up. And when it creeps up,
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  Speaker 3: it becomes not just my neighbor. Imposter syndrome can move
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  Speaker 3: in your damn house if you allow it to. But
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  Speaker 3: you have to be in a space to even accept
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  Speaker 3: that that is happening. And I think more recently, if
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  Speaker 3: I'm being very honest with y'all, was the first time
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  Speaker 3: where I was like, that is happening. And that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: take away from any of the things that you've accomplished, Lauren.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't take away from the fact that you are
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  Speaker 3: a solution-based person and you gonna figure it out. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't take away from the fact that people still depend
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  Speaker 3: on you and need you. You are still needed. You
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  Speaker 3: are still worthy, but you can also be dealing with,
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  Speaker 3: but do I believe that at times? And it's weird
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  Speaker 3: to say that, too, because I think when people say
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  Speaker 3: that or you hear that, you think about this like
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  Speaker 3: really dark, deep, somber or sonder or depression or sadness.
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  Speaker 3: And that is not what I'm experiencing whatsoever. I am
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  Speaker 3: having a ball right now. I am enjoying my life.
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  Speaker 3: Most importantly, I am enjoying like I'm really one of
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  Speaker 3: those people that like I feel good about being able
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  Speaker 3: to serve other people. it's always been acts of service.
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  Speaker 3: Like me, that's how I show love to people. I
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  Speaker 3: feel so good about what I'm able to do for people,
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  Speaker 3: not just like financially and like, you know, family, but like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, even like we met, we met a couple
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  Speaker 3: of journalists on the carpet. When I say we, the
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  Speaker 3: Breakfast Club, we did a carpet during the iHeart Festival
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  Speaker 3: and we had a conversation with them. One of them,
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  Speaker 3: her name was Becky Mitts and she was there with
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  Speaker 3: iHeart And the other young lady that we ran into,
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  Speaker 3: her name is Tiffany Hunt. She used to work for Complex.
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  Speaker 3: She recently got laid off. We didn't know this, though.
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  Speaker 3: But I saw a video after, like literally days after
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  Speaker 3: we did the interview with her. But she just got
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  Speaker 3: laid off from Complex about a month ago. And it's
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  Speaker 3: harder out here right now for people that do what
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  Speaker 3: I do. Like, I mean, it's hard out here for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is trying to figure out jobs, money, sustaining, living. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it is really tough. to be adulting right now um
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  Speaker 3: specifically in journalism though they're like jobs are like here
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  Speaker 3: they're going tomorrow like BET just got rid of their
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  Speaker 3: whole written portion of their website like all that content
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  Speaker 3: just going boom poof they still do like video updates
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  Speaker 3: but like when you do stuff like that when you
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  Speaker 3: take away these dot coms when the dot coms and
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  Speaker 3: people reading them the numbers go down The teams have
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  Speaker 3: to get smaller.
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  Speaker 1: When the teams get smaller, people get cut from jobs.
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  Speaker 1: So she got laid off a complex.
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  Speaker 3: But she asked us a question on the carpet about
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  Speaker 3: building platform. And we will take a listen. It's pretty lengthy,
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  Speaker 3: but take a listen to our answer. Me, Jess, Envy, Charlamagne.
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  Speaker 3: This is how we answer the question.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: One question I want to ask you all, because you've
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  Speaker 4: been in this media industry for so long, right? And
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  Speaker 4: particularly as black folks and black women, we've been getting
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  Speaker 4: pushed out of the corporate spaces. What advice do y'all
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  Speaker 4: have for journalists who are coming up and maybe aren't
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  Speaker 4: like a Don Lemon or a Ryan Clark who made
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  Speaker 4: this name for themselves and they can create their own
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  Speaker 4: independent platform?
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  Speaker 8: My advice would be that before Ryan Clark was a
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  Speaker 8: Ryan Clark, before Don Lemon was a Don Lemon, they
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  Speaker 8: were just people trying to figure things out. And they
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  Speaker 8: actually are doing something that this whole generation can do.
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  Speaker 8: And that's just They started their own platform. Like when
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  Speaker 8: Ryan got let go from ESPN, I knew Ryan was
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  Speaker 8: going to be fine because he already had to pivot. But,
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  Speaker 8: you know, you're looking at two people who already had
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  Speaker 8: established names. I look at people like the Deontay Kyles
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  Speaker 8: of the world. You know what I'm saying? I look
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  Speaker 8: at people like Mandy and Weezy from Decisions Decisions. I
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  Speaker 8: look at Dre and Lex from the Poor Minds podcast,
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  Speaker 8: people who didn't have backgrounds in media before. But they
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  Speaker 8: just continued to put out good content and good product
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  Speaker 8: every week or every other day, whatever it is, and
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  Speaker 8: they built an audience, right? So that's what you have
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  Speaker 8: to do. You've got to be consistent, you've got to
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  Speaker 8: have patience, and you've got to put out great content.
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  Speaker 2: The most important thing is consistent. When The Breakfast Club started,
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  Speaker 2: not too many people knew who The Breakfast Club was,
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  Speaker 2: but we remained consistent.
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  Speaker 8: It didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: We interviewed everybody at the time, from Ray J to
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  Speaker 2: our best friends, and we stepped outside the box. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just music. It was athletes. It was artists. Actors, actresses, politicians, doctors.
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  Speaker 2: We just stepped outside the box.
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  Speaker 3: And I think two people sleep on the fact that
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  Speaker 3: even if you're trying to figure it out, it's a journey.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the biggest things I could tell people
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  Speaker 3: that are trying to figure it out right now is
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  Speaker 3: to hire yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And talk about that journey.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe you don't have the breaking news, but like
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  Speaker 3: you're experiencing something in real life that people can relate to,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's like financial laws, trying to figure out school,
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out just building a platform and that
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  Speaker 3: can create an audience. And those people stick with you.
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  Speaker 3: Like literally they believe in you. They follow the journey.
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  Speaker 3: They grow with you. When you get that job, when
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  Speaker 3: you lose that job, like those people are like your
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  Speaker 3: cult following audience. I have the latest with Lauren La Rosa,
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  Speaker 3: the podcast. It's a black effect podcast. And I opened
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  Speaker 3: the show with Behind the Scenes of the Grind. And
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  Speaker 3: the reason why I do it is because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like people need to, like, get to know you a
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  Speaker 3: bit more. But also, too, like, I just be really
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  Speaker 3: going through things and trying to figure things out. And
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  Speaker 3: you can't fake it. Like, if you're really.
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  Speaker 1: Experiencing something, talk about it. Figure out a way. And
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't even have to be, like, the most HD, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can just turn on your phone.
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  Speaker 9: People have it too.
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  Speaker 7: No, y'all all drop.
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  Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done.
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  Speaker 5: When you get hired into these big corporations, right? Like,
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  Speaker 5: for instance, you bought up Ryan Clark and, you know,
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  Speaker 5: somebody else. But Ryan Clark, just use him for example.
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  Speaker 8: He was at ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big, a huge corporation.
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  Speaker 8: You cannot get comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta still build your own stuff on the side.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Because you may not be there all that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all that time. You can't get comfortable on the spot
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  Speaker 5: because it's ever changing.
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  Speaker 3: But after I saw her later video where she talked
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  Speaker 3: about getting laid off and how much of a blessing
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  Speaker 3: it is to even be able to be on the
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  Speaker 3: carpets I was like man you just never know what
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  Speaker 3: your gift and your voice and your platform and you're
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  Speaker 3: just you're just you just showing up somewhere you never
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  Speaker 3: know what that does for a person because I'm let's
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  Speaker 3: take a listen to her talking about that talking about
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  Speaker 3: you know being laid off and being able to get
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  Speaker 3: back on the carpets and work after being laid off
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  Speaker 3: let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Last night I worked my very first red carpet since
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: getting laid off from my job at Complex. And it
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: is not something I take lightly. It's not something I
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: take for granted. I've been unemployed for a month and
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: two weeks or so.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: And the fact that.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: I'm still able to do what it is that I
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: want to do first and foremost, but also do what
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: it is that I love to do and still have
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: access to opportunities and being a Black woman, quite frankly,
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: in this current employment environment, is something that I can't
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: even explain. Like, when we think about the amount of
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Black women who have been pushed out of the job force,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: you know, we think about the Black faces who have
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: been taken off of your favorite media outlets. When you
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: think about Ryan Clark, Ryan Clark weighs on me so
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: much in a way of how his situation played out.
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: But also, as someone who got to meet Ryan.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Clark, I actually interviewed him at the Happy Gilmore 2
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: red carpet.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: He was just so passionate about this work.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: And being in media and like, was such a beautiful
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: and peaceful spirit.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Like there's just something so iridescent about him. I don't
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: know if that's the right word I want to describe,
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: but he's just like a light. He's a light.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, it doesn't weigh lightly on me
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: that my email is still getting hit up. You know,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I personally don't know what it is about me like
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I always want to treat people with kindness and kill
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: it at my job but there's a lot of people
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: out here y'all that are killing it at their job
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: and and lead with kindness so that being said I'm
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: just so thankful for the opportunities that continue to come
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: my way I'm thankful to see the support um and
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I was really just all reflecting upon this as I
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: worked the iHeartRadio music festival carpet last night and I'm
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: about to work it again for the second night um.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm just feeling so blessed.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: And I just, I want to continue documenting my journey because,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: you know, I was forced into entrepreneurship. You know, corporate
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: hasn't been a safe space for me. They tell you,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: you know, go get your degree and then go get
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: a job. I remember my parents, my friend's parents talking about,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, I've been at this job for a decade.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: My longest job was with Complex and it was a
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: year and four months.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: So, you know, it's like when people ask me what
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: my next move is, I'm like, my next move is me.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: That's where I'm at right now.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: So, yeah.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: But as always, thank y'all for the support and the love.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: And until next time.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: And make sure y'all go follow her. Her name is
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Mommy Tiff. Underscore Mommy Tiff. T-I-F-F underscore Mommy is M-A-M-I.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Because it does matter. Like, you know, as we're doing
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: the things that I'm doing, platform, following, building audience. I mean,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: the work matters the most, but that stuff does help,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: especially when you're trying to rebound from having to only
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: be able to feed yourself when someone gives you the opportunity.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: But I know what it's like to just be in
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: a space where you're trying to figure things out and
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you're looking at people who have done it. Like Charlamagne
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: and Envy have done this for like 15 plus years.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: They are some of the two. They're literally two of
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: the most successful people in media that I know. And
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I get to sit with them every single day and
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: bug them every single day and ask them questions, whatever
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I want. If y'all missed the last episode, I had
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Envy on the last episode of the latest with Lauren
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: La Rosa. We were about to kick off the weekend
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: in Vegas just because they pour so much into me
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: on a daily. I always want to share that with
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: other people. But I'm looking and listening to this video
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: after we got done days.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: After interviewing with this girl. And I'm like.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Man she needed that like she that question was for
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: everybody that is going through it but really I'm sure
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: she took a lot out of it for herself as
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: well too and as she's figuring these things out and
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about just man like at one point my
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: whole being was just I want to be able to
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: tell stories and share things in real time because I
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: know somebody needs this and we in Vegas and we
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: having a good time and we watching a concert and
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: we drinking and we eating and we doing all these
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: things we launching you know audio series with I Heart
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Podcast but like there's these moments where it's just like
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I know somebody needs this and oh my god oh
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: it's just crazy how everything like nothing just happens by
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: chance or by choice everything is divine Us talking to
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: her in that moment was divine. Me sitting at that
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: table while everybody was like freaking out and trying to
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: figure out if everything was okay before we had the
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: live conversation with Sierra and that outer body experience that
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I had with God.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: In that moment, I needed that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Another time when it happened during the weekend, I got
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: a chance to intro Sierra.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And we'll get into that in the latest a bit.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: And I was just backstage and I'm like, yo, there's like,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Thousands and thousands.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: This is an arena, a packed arena. And you about
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to go here and talk about you?
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Girl.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: When I came on The Breakfast Club, I remember the
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: first conversation I had with Envy and Charlamagne, the first
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: day I was ever on The Breakfast Club. We were
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: talking about me leaving TMZ. By the way, today is
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the 21st of September. I left TMZ July 21st, 2023.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: The 21st of every month, I have a timer set
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: in my phone that reminds me, girl, you really quit
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that job.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Because I didn't believe that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I really understood how much of
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the magic I was in that. I thought it was
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: the platform. And I thought once I left that platform,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: it was going to be so hard for me to
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: do anything. So maybe I was dealing with a little
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: bit of an imposter syndrome then. I think I just
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: didn't have the luxury or the time or probably not
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: even the care to really dive into it. And I
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: care more now because it's just, Y'all are hearing my
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: voice more. And as y'all are hearing my voice, I
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: want to be really honest about what comes with that,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: what comes with the responsibility of platform and finding your way.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: And I don't even know all the way why I
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: want to be honest about that yet.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: But I know it'll be like a later moment where.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: God will be like, boom, that's exactly why I had
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: you being honest about the fact that while you're dealing
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: with all this, you know, these successes and, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: successes that you've seen over the years and, you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: being able to do this and do that. You are
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: still sometimes asking yourself, why the heck am I me?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: But let's get into the latest because I do want
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to get into Ciara and me bringing her out on
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: stage and just some of the headlines I picked up
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: from the iHeart Music Festival.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And y'all crazy. I went to go see BTS. Didn't
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: know none of the songs.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Some of them kind of sound like songs that I
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: know like our artists already made.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But some people was going crazy. Let's get into the latest.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: All right, y'all.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: So we're talking a lot about the I Heart Music
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Festival that went down in Vegas.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Now, I was there with the Breakfast Club team.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: And one of the biggest moments of my weekend was launching.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: A new audio series.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: It's an eight episode series with I Heart Podcast, all
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: about women's sexual health. about love, relationship and everything in between.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of conversations amongst ourselves and sometimes
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: not even amongst ourselves. Like sometimes you just don't even
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: talk about certain things with your friends. It's like you
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: talk about it, like you go through it by yourself.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: When it comes to our bodies and exploring our bodies
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: and just making sure we're good to be able to
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: have babies, to be able to get up on a
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: day-to-day and head to work, making sure our mental is good.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Not even about just fertility, but just in a... a
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: day-to-day dealing with the things that are thrown at you,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: making sure you are good, especially when you start talking
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: about relationship. And I think relationship spans across everything, right?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Like it's loved, with your boyfriend your husband your girlfriend
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: but relationship also happens amongst friendships as well and navigating
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: those things relationships with your co-workers and navigating those things
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: um and there's a mental piece and a physical piece
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: that comes into all of that there's questions that you
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: should be asking your doctors uh when it comes to
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the stress you're experiencing um your sexual health there's questions
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: that you should be asking your doctor when it comes
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: to how things that you might not even see like
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: stress affects everything in between um Change, especially. That's a
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: big one that I'm excited to get into on that
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: series is.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: About how quick change is.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Almost like a shock value type of thing, whether it's
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: a positive change or a negative change, how it all
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: affects us. I remember when I first got on The
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Breakfast Club and just the volume of exposure as fast
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: as it was happening, I was super stressed out, yo.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: And I felt it. I was losing my hair. I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: was not really sleeping. I was coming in here, barely
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: able to get through my segments because my brain just
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: wasn't in a good space. I couldn't think through my
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: next thought. And I'm like, what is going on with me?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: And then I started being honest about the fact that
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: like there was some stress there. And it wasn't just
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of it was me wanting to
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: make sure I got the job right. And at times
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: where I didn't get it right, feeling like if I
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: don't get this together, it's over for me. And it
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: might not be no other option. The other part of
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: it was just there's a lot of when you are
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: building anything and then it's finally here and it's tangible,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: even at the beginning stages, there's a.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Lot of noise. There's a whole lot of noise.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: You internally are throwing noise at yourself, asking yourself questions and,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you know, whatever. There's a lot of noise because there's
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: also a lot of praise, which feels really good. But
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: then you're like, I don't want to lean too much
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: into that. There's a lot of noise because people are
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: critiquing you. People that love you are critiquing you. They
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: want you to continue to do better. It's a lot
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to learn. And I've gotten through that a lot more
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: better now, months later. But I'm excited to be able
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: to talk about those things on love lately with Lauren
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: La Rosa.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: It's a bit different than what we do here at
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the latest.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Um, but Sierra was such a great guest for that
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: because I mean, Sierra has been married. Um, they've been
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: together over a decade now and expecting baby number five
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: with Russell Wilson. And honestly, Sierra has just become a friend. Um,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: not somebody I talk to every day, but every now
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: and then we do check in. And what I appreciate
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: about her is she has been a very honest person.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: nonjudgmental friend. And you never know what people will be
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: like behind the scenes when you meet them. So I
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: knew that the conversation that we had there at the
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: iHeart Festival would be amazing. And I feel like Ciara's
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: in a moment right now. You know, she is an
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: independent artist. She's doing everything under her own label. All
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: of her performances, all of the music that she's rolling
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: out newly. Everything we see is Cece, is dependent solely
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: on her. And we've known her to be such a,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you know, award-winning artist. major artists, she performs at a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: height and a level that is that. So imagine having
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: all of that on her while also being a mom,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: while also being a wife, you know, and maintaining her
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: household and moving from L.A. to New York because Russell
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Wilson was playing here with the Giants. I knew the
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: conversation was going to be bomb. But one of the
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: things that I appreciated the most about watching her this weekend,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: whether it was from the conversation or to the festival stage,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: was she don't let like you're not going to feel
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: none of that when you in her presence at all.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Ciara took the stage.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: And when I tell y'all she was going off, she
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: did about like five songs and I just did them like.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: y'all know sierra be dancing and i saw i've seen
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: like um cardi b perform pregnant and that was like
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: different uh when cardi b did coachella when she was
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: pregnant with culture and i remember she was like twerking
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: on the stage and stuff he was like oh what
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: the hell but watching sierra do full out choreography it
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: was like steps on the stage that she was performing
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: on at the festival and i was nervous i'm like
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: she might have walked on them steps while performing and
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: She was kind of making some jokes about it as well, too, because, honey,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: her and baby Cinco was getting down.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. Y'all know me and this baby
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: up here bouncing around. Women are so powerful.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Like, we really can do all things. People be saying that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: But I hope the women that are listening to this
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: podcast right now, this whole imposter syndrome thing that be
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: going on, I hope that whenever you have a question
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: about do you or can I or should I, it's like, what?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Because it should be, why not? Not why, but why not? Like,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I was watching her and watching a crowd react to her. Now,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: mind y'all, iHeart Radio Music Festival in Vegas is very diverse.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Friday night, you had BTS, Cardi B, Zara Larson. Saturday,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: you had Major Lazer, Ciara, Snoop Dogg, Lainey Wilson.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Like, it's a very diverse crowd.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: When I tell y'all everybody and a mama in there
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: loved Sierra, like just so excited for her to come
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: and perform.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I got to introduce her.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: That was a part of the rollout for Love Lately
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: with Lauren La Rosa, the eight part audio series that
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: we're doing on life, love, relationship and everything in between.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: And when they brought that idea to us, I was like, oh, okay.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Again, here go me and my imposter syndrome.
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: Wait.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: We're going to get on the stage and introduce Sierra.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Is people even going to know who we are, who
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I am? Like Sierra is Sierra. Like my goodies, my goodies.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: What?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: But after the conversation that I did that earlier that
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: day with Sierra in that moment where I was like, okay.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: God, I hear you.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: What?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I was so pumped and so excited to introduce Sierra.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. Me and Dr. Contessa brought her
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: out and the crowd was ready. Let's take a listen.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: We are so excited to be here right now.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: At the I Heart Radio Music Festival.
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: We are here to announce our brand new audio series together,
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: Love Lately with Lora La Rosa in partnership with Gilead Sciences.
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: Yes, we are diving into everything women are talking about. Yes, dating, relationships,
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: and of course, the importance of women's sexual health. You know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: all the tea that we spill in our girls' chat,
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: we are going to talk about it. Now that's right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: So y'all can catch the premiere episode on October 6th
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: on the iHeartRadio app with our very first guest, who
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: happens to be your next performer.
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: Yes!
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Y'all ready?
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: She is a walking black woman, Grammy Award winning global superstar, okay,
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: and acclaimed singer, songwriter, intercultural icon, who just happens.
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: To shape music, culture, and beyond.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Through her own beauty marks entertainment. Get loud!
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: Y'all ready?
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Get loud!
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: For C.A.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Congratulations to Sierra, baby number five.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: And an amazing performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival as well.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Cardi B, we got to watch Cardi B's performance, too.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I was live on The Breakfast Club's Twitch account and
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: we took you guys into some of the performances. But
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: you couldn't really hear me much. But I was at
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: one point I watched it back. I'm like, girl, you
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: were just screaming at the top of your lungs because
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I was so hype. to see Cardi on stage. And
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: I've seen Cardi perform mad times, but just the energy
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: was insane. But nothing made my day more than running
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: into Raven-Symoné, y'all. Listen to how I walked up to her.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Take a listen to this little bit. This how, I
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: know I'm so dumb.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Let's take a listen.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: What's up? How you doing?
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: How's it going?
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: You good?
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll take that. Thank you. Thank you.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: How you doing?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Nice to see you.
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: Hi.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. I'm Lauren.
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: Hello.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Nice to see you.
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: How you doing?
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: We're on our live stream for Breakfast Club.
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You know, this lady right here.
• 31:41
  Speaker 12: Yes, I do.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, same, same, same.
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: You look gorgeous.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you. How you doing, love?
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: She wants to come on the show.
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: We're going to figure it out.
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: Oh my God.
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: He just be lying with a straight face.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. Okay.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Every day, please.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Can we talk to you for a second? I'm going
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to do it with you.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: No, look.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Are you going to do it? You don't want to
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: do that. I'll do it if she does it with me.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I'll do it with y'all. No, we want to.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: Leave her alone.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Envy, leave us alone.
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: We need to do it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Now, come on.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, ready? A flick. Wait, ready?
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: See, they fucking it up. Now she ain't going to
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: want to do it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I'll do it for you.
• 32:34
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Ready one two three go oh my goodness.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: If you don't even understand you don't even understand no
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: fucked up i was like oh my god like you
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: are such a pinnacle for us people tell you that
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: all the time though right like like i've been hearing
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: it recently recently i feel like especially like me and
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: jess we are like we're the same age we are
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: you know we're on black breakfast club jess has jess
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: with them as she has our platform I'm new to
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: the show, but like, I think for us, like black
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: girls that are figuring out media entertainment.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: Oh my God.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I'm Lauren. Like girl, get your words together.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I don't look, I know Raven has had some conversations
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: that got a lot of us folk, you know, upset
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: about black and color and green. And, you know, there's
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: always been a conversation with her around identity and people
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: feeling like she detaches herself from, identity especially when it
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: comes to black things and I think it's more so
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: what I realized with Raven and seeing her in that
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: moment was that there's a love for her that like
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: you can't describe it like we literally grew up watching
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: her from the Cosby show to the Cheetah Girls like
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: there's such a love for her and regardless of what
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I agree with in conversation and what I don't That love.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: For her makes me want to... I'm.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: So here to have a conversation about the whole green
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: people thing. And she said she wants to come on
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: a breakfast club. So I know we will be having
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: more conversations with her. But the love for her.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It's not going to leave because of that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: And now I finally see, you know, Charlamagne always talks
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: to me about, and honestly envious, or just being on
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: his platform that, you know, the latest here with Lauren
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: La Rosa and black effect and having, you know, platform.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: One of the things that I've learned in this chapter
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: of my life is humility. Something I didn't, I didn't
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: know humility went hand in hand with journalism. If I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: being honest with y'all, you know, coming up in a
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: TMZ newsroom and, I mean, you're human, of course, because
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: literally you're human, but you do get in a phase
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: of like humility is not at the forefront. The story,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: getting it correct and being first to do so is
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: at the forefront. I've had to literally pull that whole
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: mask down and off and think about life and things
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: the complete opposite way, like still keeping a lot of
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: the sharpness and the factual conversation going. in the conversation,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: but also learning to be a human. And I think
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: what it, what it was for me, like when I
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: first started, you know, doing anything creative, like I started
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: in the modeling world and I always knew I wanted
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: to get into, get into film and TV, you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: as talented and also as a storyteller and storyteller piece
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: of it has always been so important to me. And
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: when I, you know, When I thought about me having
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: a talk show, I thought it would be after I had,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: you know, like Oprah did it like, you know, Oprah
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: was young and built her talk show. But like now
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Oprah is she picks and chooses what she wants to
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: talk about, how she wants to talk about it. I
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: don't know if I ever thought that I would have
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: that freedom, but I always, and I always thought that
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: it was going to be a fight to have to
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: do that. Or I would have to be super famous
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: in order to do that because you just don't get
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: to see it a lot where people get to be
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: human and tell real stories while maintaining platform in a
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: large way, especially not black people and black women, like
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: black women. It's so few far in between of us.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: That's why I love the Issa Rae. That's why I love,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: you know, Oprah. That's why I love, Mara Brock Akil,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: that's who I love. There's so many people out there.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: If I'm not naming somebody, Shonda Rhimes. If I'm not
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: naming somebody, it's not because I don't think that of them.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: It's just at this moment, it's escaping my mind. But
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I literally just remember watching Raven growing up and being
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: young and wanting to be on the Cosby Show and
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: learning lines from the Cosby Show and doing the same
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: thing with Moesha. And When you have that humility for
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: a person, it shouldn't change how you do your job
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to a certain extent. Like, you know, of course, I'm
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: always report the facts. I got I have a job
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: to do. But I think that there is a human
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: side that it's like I want to create a space
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: in conversation with people where even if we don't agree,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: you're here and I want to hear you out. Like
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: those conversations across the table. That's what I was thinking
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: about with Raven as I'm talking to her. I talked
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: to her about black women and her support of black women.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And mind you, I knew all the green people stuff
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: was going on. And in my mind, I'm mentally battling. Like,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: do I even ask her that right now? because it
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: just feels so good to just have some joy right now.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Like we were just having, it was just, it was,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: it was natural. We didn't plan that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I literally walked backstage.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: We were trying to get to another room and just
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: ran into her and my, me and Jess, we just
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: lit up. Let's take a listen to Raven though, talking
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: about being an inspiration to black women.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Did you see Cardi say that you were her fashion inspiration?
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: I did see that.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: How did you feel about that? Cause I felt her
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and I understood what she meant. We were watching you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: Like, I love that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Um, I was touched, and I.
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: Felt the love.
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: I love how Cardi gives props. She did it a
• 37:51
  Speaker 12: little while ago, too, with Dave Chappelle and myself.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: In a private conversation?
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: No.
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: She said that she, a minute ago, she was like,
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: I got my comedy from them or something like that.
• 38:02
  Speaker 12: And I just, I appreciate the love that she gives
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: and the flowers she gives. And I give hers back
• 38:07
  Speaker 12: every time I see her as well.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Do you think people picked up on the wittiness and
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: the comedy that was within that story? Because now that
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I think about it and think about kind of that show,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: it was like there were quick one-liners. Look, I'm telling
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: her how much she means to us, like black women,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: especially the girls who grew up within a certain genre.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about since she was Olivia, bitch. I don't understand, like,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: every single thing.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: I love this woman.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: Of course.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: I don't want to get makeup on this outfit.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: This outfit is fire, honey.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: I'm done for the night.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: You put the makeup on, I'm done.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Tiana Taylor.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Tiana, give me. Give it to me. It's a little sneeze, right?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: Love y'all.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Love you, too.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Where you got to go now?
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Nowhere.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: I just want to. She wants to stay. We were talking.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I was telling her as a, you know, I feel
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: like there are certain conversations when it comes to, like,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I was telling her how we saw Cardi B talk
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: about that she was her style inspiration. And she was
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: talking about how she gives Cardi flowers. And she said
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: she just recently started hearing from a lot of, like,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: is it young black girls?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Or, like, who is it that she's giving? It's all girls.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It's black girls. It's all girls.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Because I wanted to be a cheetah girl. I wanted
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: to be a cheetah girl. When I went and traveled
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: out of the country, y'all were who I thought about.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Like, you did so much stuff. Thank you.
• 39:22
  Speaker 12: I appreciate that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I will say this.
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: It's interesting because when I was at the height of
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: that so raven and doing all of that stuff there
• 39:30
  Speaker 12: was no social media so I didn't get the feedback
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: and then after I kind of disappeared I did my
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: own thing so now at 40 I finished that show
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: in my 20s like at 18 actually I finished so
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: at 40 I'm hearing it now so you have to
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: like I've been but it's it feels great to know
• 39:46
  Speaker 12: that it's Brazilians Black people, South Africans, all kind of,
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: I think it's also Chinese. It's in so many languages
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: to be able to have so many different kinds of
• 39:59
  Speaker 12: women and people come and say thank you for that show.
• 40:02
  Speaker 12: It reminded me of me or a family. So from
• 40:05
  Speaker 12: every color, but including black, obviously.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Obviously.
• 40:09
  Speaker 12: But it's appreciated around the world.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: So thank you. We love you forever in the day.
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: And I love you.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. 18 is crazy. 40 is crazy, girl. Like, yeah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: but you don't look crazy. I'm about to say, girl,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you still giving... No, I am not.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: And if I'm being honest with y'all, I remember early
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: on when I was in L.A. and I was trying
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: to figure out, like, outlets that I should work with
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: that would, like, really help me build my career.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I remember being told by people, by.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Black people, like, not even just Black people in L.A.,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: but I remember I had a meeting in Atlanta for
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: an outlet. And I remember they told me don't go
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: like because I was telling them I was just meeting
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: with everybody telling them what I wanted to do.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Now I'm sending to L.A.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: And I remember being told when you get out there,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: don't let them make you the token black girl on
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: the white outlets and then on the black outlets. Don't
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: work with too many of them because then you'll only
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: ever be a black journalist in a black space. So
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: for a long time, I thought in order for you
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: to make a living for real, you couldn't just do
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: something that was so legated to your people. And I
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: don't believe that anymore. I do not believe that anymore whatsoever.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if Raven's thinking on all people
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: is that.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: To me, it.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Sounds like it's more so. she's in real time getting
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: to see how her artwork and her voice and her
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: ability to turn, you know, be these characters and tell
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: a story has inspired all women.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: But, but what I will say is.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: I'm always wondering, it's like, why, why in the moment, why,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: why bring that in? I think it's my question to
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: her that I would love to have a conversation with
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: her about like, it's okay to just talk about black.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Women in our love, in our joy.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: When it comes to Raven-Symoné and the person and the
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: character and the characters that she represented for us. Like my,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: literally my thought in my mind when she said it
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: is like, why, like why, why, why the need to
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: bring that in? Yes, Cheetah Girls was everywhere. Yes, That's
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: So Raven was everywhere. Disney was a huge platform for
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: everybody and all people.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: But like, why not? Just us.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, too, if it's like, you know,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: in that TV world, especially, you know, you're on a
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Disney channel.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: The audiences are so diverse.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: And I know like, you know, there are people who
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: don't get into politics. at certain statures because they don't
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: want to alienate and because of the platforms they're working with,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: they want to and have to be able to reach
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: all people or, you know, it's a bad look or
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: pushback on the network. So I don't know if that's
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: how she's just been trained because of the networks that
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: she grew up on and, you know, whatever. Like when
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: she made the green girl comments or green comments, she
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: was having a conversation about, you know, Raven being this
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: black girl from this black ass family and, Excuse my French,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: but yeah, but she was having that conversation and she
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: brought up white people in the writer's room.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to the original comments that got
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: people upset.
• 43:19
  Speaker 13: And then people are judging me for the things that
• 43:21
  Speaker 13: I'm saying.
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: I'm like, no, no, no.
• 43:22
  Speaker 13: I love my blackness, but my blackness can look so
• 43:26
  Speaker 13: many different ways.
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but you also set up because Raven Baxter was
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: so fucking black that then people took that to be you.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Was she black?
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: She felt black as hell to me.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Give it to me, though.
• 43:37
  Speaker 13: Why did she feel black to you?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Because it was the first time that I had seen
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: like this black family.
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: So you saw color. Yeah.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Take away the color.
• 43:46
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Make them green.
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: And hear the words.
• 43:48
  Speaker 13: And hear the words.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: What color are they?
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: Because let's be 100.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Wait, who wrote Raven?
• 43:58
  Speaker 13: White people? It was a mix, but white men headed it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was white men.
• 44:02
  Speaker 13: But that's, I think that's why that show and the
• 44:05
  Speaker 13: good shows matter because it is universal.
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: That conversation was with Kalen Allen.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: So shout out to him because that clip has been
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: used so much and I don't see everybody crediting him.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: So I want to make sure I do that. But yeah,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But I do want to know. But
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: I think that you can have love and you can
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: have joy, you can have empathy for people, but there's
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: nothing wrong with being able to ask the hard questions.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with, you know, if there's a standard
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: holding people accountable to a certain standard.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: But what I'm learning in this phase.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: And chapter of things is that you can do that,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: but also remembering that people are people. There are certain
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: things that I am still learning and discovering about myself
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: that if you're holding me accountable to them in the moment, great.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: But if I, if we, if.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: We decide to agree to disagree or whatever the case
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: may be plain and simple, that's just what it is.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: And that's all it should be. I saw a whole
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: lot of hate campaigns over this Raven thing. And I'm like, bro, okay,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: I get it. I think it's a disappointment thing too.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Like people are disappointed because we don't have, like I
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: was thinking about, During that era, it was like Raven-Symoné,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: but who else? Like in the last like four years,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: who has been like the major Black person on TV
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: that represented and embodied the duality of Black people in spaces, right?
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Like the good, the bad, the ugly with us. We
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: don't really have those characters on television anymore and on
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: these streaming platforms anymore. So, you know, we hold on
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: to the ones that we have, like Raven-Symoné. So I
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: think that there's a sense of disappointment as well, too,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: because she's ours and we look at her like that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, we don't own her. You know what I mean?
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: But I just mean, like, we are proud to say that, like,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: we grew up watching her. We are proud to say
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: she inspired the way we dressed. She inspired some of
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: our little, you know, witty comebacks.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: All of the things.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: So hopefully there's more conversation coming with Raven Simone, because
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: as y'all see, I have a lot more questions, a
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: lot more things that are just left open following that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: But none outside of that, it was just a, it
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: was just so good to see her. It made me
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: feel like I was a kid again. And that's another
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: thing as well, too. It's like seeing Raven takes you
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: back to a time where things were so simple.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: None of this stuff even mattered.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: It was like, we was just young kids and, getting
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: up and going to school every day, figuring out what
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: we loved, who we were going to be, and taking
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: it day by day, step by step. That has been
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: another episode of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa, y'all. I
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: am Lauren LaRosa, and I tell you guys every single episode,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: y'all could be anywhere with any old body, but you
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: guys choose to be right here with me, my little riders,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: having all of the conversations, because y'all could be anywhere, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: for real, for real. But y'all know I appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Every single time you tune in, I'll catch you in
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  Speaker 3: my next episode.