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From Black-ish to Boss Status: Marsai Martin on Leadership, Legacy & Owning Your Story Live at Howard University · The Breakfast Club

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