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Loren speaks at the the Leadership Institute in D.C. via The Thurgood Marshall Fund · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: Right, Hey, y'all, what's up.
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  Speaker 1: It's Lauren L Rosa and this is the Latest with
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  Speaker 2: Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Well, today's episode is actually us taking you to d
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  Speaker 1: C for a conversation that shakes the room.
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  Speaker 2: So I headed to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: To speak at a leadership institute in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: Via the Third Good Martial Fund, which is an organization
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  Speaker 1: that you know, just helps kid that helps kids get
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  Speaker 1: two in through college, historically black colleges and universities.
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  Speaker 2: And let me tell y'all something.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I had such a good time in d C,
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  Speaker 1: such a good conversation.
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  Speaker 2: So the audience, right, I'm setting the scene.
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  Speaker 1: The audience, it's about five or six hundred HBCU students.
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  Speaker 1: They had no idea I was coming. They had been
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  Speaker 1: in this leadership institute. It's like, you know, something that
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  Speaker 1: they fly into from various schools. So you have schools
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  Speaker 1: from all over the country that send their students. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of them are at the end of their collegiate time,
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  Speaker 1: so they're like junior seniors semoight have been some sophomores
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  Speaker 1: there as well too, but they had no idea I
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  Speaker 1: was coming there, been there for a few days. Today
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  Speaker 1: it was like one of the closing days where we
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  Speaker 1: speaking to them and they introduce that I'm here, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to talk to them. It's based on professional
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  Speaker 1: development and just you know, figuring yourself out in college,
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  Speaker 1: and they give you resources and tools this whole weekend
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  Speaker 1: to do so, which is so needed because man, it's
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  Speaker 1: college and experience. But the way you got to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to go over the world, it's a whole nother
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  Speaker 1: ball game.
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  Speaker 2: So take a listen to.
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  Speaker 1: My conversation at the Leadership Institute with the Third Goood
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  Speaker 1: Martial Fund.
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  Speaker 2: Oh y'all can hear me?
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  Speaker 1: You were checking out the shoe Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: The whole fit is just it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, it's a lot of y'all.
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  Speaker 3: This is Yeah, we got good people here. We got
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  Speaker 3: good people here, so we're gonna chop it up a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. That's a good kind of a way. So
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  Speaker 3: let's start with the very very important things yes, you
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  Speaker 3: studied at an HBCU. Would you like to tell all
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  Speaker 3: of our audience where you studied.
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  Speaker 1: The best at HBCU in the world. Delaware State University. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it one more time because I like
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  Speaker 1: to be humble. The best HBCU in the world, Delaware
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  Speaker 1: State University. Okay, all right, uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: All right, yeah, well we're here.
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  Speaker 3: This is calling response.
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  Speaker 1: It is calling response. But yeah, I studied at at HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm always so proud to say because I remember
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  Speaker 1: being at an HBCU and people telling me working in
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  Speaker 1: entertainment at the level I'm doing it wasn't possible because
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  Speaker 1: I was at HBCU. So now I love to be like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I went to Delawaressa University.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Delawaresa University.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's a historically black college, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: amongst the HBCU family.
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  Speaker 2: I love. That is like forefront for me always.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as you know, we've got five hundred scholars here
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  Speaker 3: participating in the conference. Juniors and seniors in college. Do
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  Speaker 3: me a favorite take us back in time. Can you
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  Speaker 3: talk some about your career pathway from your time at
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  Speaker 3: DSU marketing degree there, yes, and how things have progressed.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to them who that's been a journey.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, So a lot of people think that I
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  Speaker 1: studied journalism, that I was a communications major. I was
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  Speaker 1: a communications major for about a day and then I
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  Speaker 1: realized that, well, I felt like at the time a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the things that I was being taught in
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  Speaker 1: school wasn't necessarily what I needed.
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  Speaker 2: I could learn that on the job.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I needed the business and like the
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  Speaker 1: professional development that you guys are getting here, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I needed that more and the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: would be so I was on campus and I was
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  Speaker 1: doing everything I could, so like when people would come
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  Speaker 1: to campus and it's homecoming.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even a mass.
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  Speaker 1: Com major, but like I'm in a radio station doing
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  Speaker 1: interviews for whatever artists are on campus.
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  Speaker 2: I'm vlogging, and.
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  Speaker 1: YouTube was so new, so people didn't know what I
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  Speaker 1: was doing. But I would, you know, vlog as much
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  Speaker 1: as I could, hosting events, whatever I could do. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was a part of a modeling troop at dell
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  Speaker 1: S as well, just staying in front of people and
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  Speaker 1: branding myself. Then so people knew me for the person
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  Speaker 1: that like wanted to be in front of people, speaking
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  Speaker 1: and entertaining. But when I decided to not be a
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  Speaker 1: mass colm major, the biggest thing was I felt like
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  Speaker 1: going and getting a marketing or business degree or just
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  Speaker 1: having any level of business you know, experience and professionalism would.
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  Speaker 2: Set me apart.
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  Speaker 1: Because what I began to realize, I knew a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago that like the Internet and social media was
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  Speaker 1: going to be like home for the creators and as
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  Speaker 1: a storyteller, I was like, you know, the only way
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  Speaker 1: I can set myself apart if everybody's online, they're doing something.
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  Speaker 1: The only way I can set myself apart is to
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  Speaker 1: really understand the business of me. What is my brand?
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  Speaker 1: Who am I speaking to? How does that change every year?
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  Speaker 1: How does that change from when I'm at Dell State
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a student to first year out of college
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  Speaker 1: and I'm trying to find a job in LA to
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  Speaker 1: move into New York, like and in each level of
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  Speaker 1: my life, I've been able to kind of like I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even say rebrand, but I guess storytelling a way
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  Speaker 1: that reaches the market, my market or my audience for
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  Speaker 1: where I'm at. Like I think when I was at college,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was figuring it out. So my conversation was,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm a college student, I'm figuring it out, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm vlogging about you know, what are internships?
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  Speaker 2: How do I get them? How they you know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I thought was crazy when I
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  Speaker 1: was at college was when I graduated, they wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to already have had a job before you could get
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  Speaker 1: a job. And that was crazy to me. So I
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  Speaker 1: remember I made a YouTube video about that and and like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that got like big pick up for me,
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  Speaker 1: and then I posted it y d it.
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  Speaker 2: It was so new. I was like posting to like Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think Instagram had long form video at
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  Speaker 1: the point, right, But I was just using every point
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  Speaker 1: of my life. So after I left Dell State, I
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  Speaker 1: moved to LA. Couldn't get a job.
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  Speaker 2: YouTube too. I lived on YouTube and I.
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  Speaker 1: Meet people today, literally today who still tell me the
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  Speaker 1: videos I was posting when I moved to LA years
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  Speaker 1: ago inspired them to move to LA or you know,
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  Speaker 1: different things like that. But I was just honest about
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  Speaker 1: my journey after college with no money for real, trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out. And one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I thought was also something that was like people got
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  Speaker 1: to know about this. I wasn't afraid to go work
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  Speaker 1: a job. I think, you know, when you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: be an entrepreneur or you're trying to figure out your career,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you're in college and you get a degree
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  Speaker 1: when you graduate, especially for me because I was first generation,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, I was the first person.
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  Speaker 2: To figure it out. In my family.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's looking at you like, oh, you have this degree,
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  Speaker 1: like you're supposed to live this great life now, just instantly.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't happen like that all the time. Some
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  Speaker 1: people do have that story, but for me, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: happen like that. It wasn't instant, it wasn't right away.
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  Speaker 1: So well, not in my focus, Like I knew I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be in entertainment, so I had to go
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  Speaker 1: get a job. I worked for Barclaycard, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I was an internship I had at Delaware State for
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  Speaker 1: about two years. I was a publicist for some time.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a flight attendant in each of those roles.
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  Speaker 1: So much of what I learned at Dell State helped me.
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  Speaker 1: But I got online on YouTube and I talked about
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  Speaker 1: that like, hey, here's all the jobs I'm doing because
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  Speaker 1: no one will put me on camera. I'm putting myself
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  Speaker 1: on camera telling you guys that I don't have a job,
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  Speaker 1: and then now you know where I'm at now, and
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  Speaker 1: then moving from LA to New York. I've been just
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  Speaker 1: vlogging and documenting my journey and having to move from
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  Speaker 1: LA to New York and just figure it out. Like
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club just was one of those things that like
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  Speaker 1: kind of like just happened and it turned into so
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  Speaker 1: much more. So I've been just vlogging and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just the transition of that. But Dell State and being
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  Speaker 1: a business major helped me understand that as things evolved
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  Speaker 1: and changed, I needed to understand what that meant and
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  Speaker 1: how to get that out to what my market was.
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  Speaker 3: Love it, y'all feeling that that's real? Right, let's covert
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  Speaker 3: a little bit time there at Dell State and you're
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  Speaker 3: from Wilmington, Delaware as well. For my mistaken yes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: to then go to the West coast, how do you
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  Speaker 3: how do you make a move like that and still
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  Speaker 3: stay you.
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  Speaker 1: You just get on the plane and go. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: being honest with you, like that's all that it was.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've always.
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  Speaker 1: So first I want to say that I was raised
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  Speaker 1: in a household that you can't be really too timid.
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  Speaker 2: In my house.
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  Speaker 1: My mom's family is from the Bronx, so she talks
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  Speaker 1: real crazy to the Bronx. Yes, so in my household,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you you got to be able to like
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  Speaker 1: keep up. So my mom, you know, really raised me
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  Speaker 1: to be very like ambitious, to know what I want
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  Speaker 1: and to just.
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  Speaker 2: Go and do it to execute.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, when I knew I wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: to l I remember being at Dell State my senior
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  Speaker 1: year and you know, any senior is here, senior.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so for we got some sens in
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  Speaker 3: December in here too, So.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to y'all. Y'all excited.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I remember the feeling and are y'all at
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  Speaker 1: that point yet where you guys are having to put
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  Speaker 1: together like the presentations and have conversations about what you
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  Speaker 1: want to do after school? Okay, Now let me tell
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  Speaker 1: y'all how that went for me. So I'm a business major.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, delawarees A University's business program was very.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was Boxton.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't really like So I'm coming to school, I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming to class and when they're asking me this, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna move to LA and become a TV star
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, that's not the project.
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  Speaker 2: We gave you. You need to create a business.
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  Speaker 1: You need to and I'm like, I'm telling you I'm
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  Speaker 1: the business. Here's my digital numbers, here's my and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't really understand it then. So I went through that
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  Speaker 1: whole struggle before I and went to LA. So from
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  Speaker 1: that I learned that, like you, I couldn't really I
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  Speaker 1: could only be me. I didn't have a choice because
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  Speaker 1: if I chose to do whatever anybody else was telling me,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna get me to where I was going.
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  Speaker 1: Because I just knew people didn't understand it at the time.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a big push.
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  Speaker 1: But again I was raised that way, so I literally
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  Speaker 1: just was like, Okay, here's my plan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna move to LA.
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  Speaker 1: I found a friend I could like just crash it
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  Speaker 1: for like a couple months, and I'm gonna figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Went there. Once it didn't work, I ran out of money,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't find a job.
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  Speaker 1: I had to call Barclay Card and Women's in Delaware
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm on my way back to Delaware.
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  Speaker 1: I need a job, but because of my internship, I
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  Speaker 1: got the job.
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  Speaker 2: I was there for a couple of years, moved back to.
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  Speaker 1: LA That time worked. It worked, but it was rough,
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  Speaker 1: like I was broke. And if y'all are on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: watching blogs, please go check out my YouTube channels One
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  Speaker 1: on the Roads at TV, especially for the seniors and
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  Speaker 1: the juniors, because I think in that time, the second time,
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  Speaker 1: when I moved back to LA, I really realize that
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  Speaker 1: no matter how much passion you have for something, things
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  Speaker 1: will always hit a low. And if they hit a low,
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  Speaker 1: that means the highest coming. You just have to know
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  Speaker 1: how to maneuver when things aren't the way that they
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  Speaker 1: need to be or the way you want them to
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  Speaker 1: be in the moment, because it will happen, like life
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  Speaker 1: be license and you don't realize, like y'all are in
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  Speaker 1: such a good place right now, like y'all are in college,
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  Speaker 1: You guys are you know, getting to meet all these
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  Speaker 1: people and build relationships and this, don't underestimate where you
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  Speaker 1: are right now.
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  Speaker 2: Don't rush it.
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  Speaker 1: Spend these last couple of months whatever you have to
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  Speaker 1: really just enjoy being Like for the most part, Billless
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  Speaker 1: and worryless and all that, because once you get into life,
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  Speaker 1: so many other things are coming at you. But I
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  Speaker 1: think you know, from that time, I really built a
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  Speaker 1: strong mental relationship with myself, and I would build it
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube, to be honest with you, like I would
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  Speaker 1: turn on my camera and talk to myself because I
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  Speaker 1: just needed somebody to talk through it with who wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: discourage me. So when I was doing that, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got this. So I'm in la. I'm figuring it
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  Speaker 1: out that time. But everywhere I was going, what I
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  Speaker 1: was realizing was people had never had a meet in
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  Speaker 1: that space, and in the beginning of it, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really understand what that meant. In the beginning of it,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I was like, Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be so hard because I have a professional background.
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  Speaker 1: I have the business degree. I've been working corporate now
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  Speaker 1: for years, so I'm very well put together. I can
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  Speaker 1: run a meet and from top to bottom, honey, like
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  Speaker 1: I can, I get the things done. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to be in entertainment and people don't really understand the
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  Speaker 1: switch and then I so in the beginning I was
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  Speaker 1: really discouraged. And then that's how brown Girl Grinding. My
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  Speaker 1: brand came about because I started realizing, like, Okay, well
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a me. If I'm a marketing major,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think about this in a business aspect. If
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a me, that means there's a hole
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  Speaker 1: in the market, like there's a niche for a me,
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  Speaker 1: So why don't I make that a thing? So I
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  Speaker 1: started hashtagging brown Girl Grinding, and then I started realizing
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  Speaker 1: other black and brown women were hashtagging it too, cause
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  Speaker 1: they were catching on, like, Okay, every single time she's
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  Speaker 1: doing something or she's talking about her journey, and now
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  Speaker 1: we got guys in the mix too, but she's hashtagging that.
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  Speaker 1: And it got to a point where I realized that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people not having a meet in the room
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  Speaker 1: was my superpower.
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  Speaker 2: Took a little minute, but I realized it.
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  Speaker 1: And once I realized that, you couldn't tell me nothing all,
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  Speaker 1: no ball and nothing at all.
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  Speaker 2: So I've always been me.
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  Speaker 1: I think it just took me a while to realize
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  Speaker 1: the beauty in that.
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  Speaker 3: You had the one way ticket from the East Coast
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  Speaker 3: to LA, but you had to come back. Then you
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  Speaker 3: had a second one way ticket to LA, this time
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  Speaker 3: it's stuck. Talk about overcoming challenges. Some of the scholars
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  Speaker 3: in the room maybe in a similar position to you,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they were that first one graduating, the first one
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  Speaker 3: now going into corporate. Give them a couple of blueprint
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  Speaker 3: pieces to help them overcome challenges.
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  Speaker 1: I would say the best thing you can do is
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  Speaker 1: to always be a student, Like when you leave school,
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  Speaker 1: the learning shouldn't stop. And I know that that sounds cliche,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be really honest with y'all.
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  Speaker 2: When you're the first.
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  Speaker 1: At doing something, you're going to mess up, Like I
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  Speaker 1: mess up as stuff all the time. But what I
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  Speaker 1: do is is I learn from that, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: find people that like you can kind of latch onto
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  Speaker 1: as like mentors or and even if it's not a
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  Speaker 1: mentor that you actually pick up the phone and call,
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  Speaker 1: if it's somebody that like you just follow on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: or like you watch their YouTube content or you got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to submit a question on her Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Story something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Because what you want to do is is it's like
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  Speaker 1: trial and error, Like you want to take Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: new here, so I'm probably.
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  Speaker 2: Going to mess up.
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  Speaker 1: And if I mess up, how can I you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a person that like learns how to grow from that,
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  Speaker 1: like basically teaching yourself, because a lot of times you
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to teach yourself. Also, I ask,
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  Speaker 1: and I still do. I mean, that's my job. I
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  Speaker 1: ask a lot of questions, like if I want to
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  Speaker 1: know something, I'm not going to be in a room
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  Speaker 1: ever where there is something I want to know and
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  Speaker 1: I do not ask.
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  Speaker 2: You are doing yourself a disservice.
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  Speaker 1: You are wasting your scholarship money or your tuition that
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  Speaker 1: you pay if you ever find yourself in a room
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: with people that you can actually learn and progress from
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: and you do not try and do that. Sometimes it
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: is about being quiet. I've had to learn that too,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: But you know, ask questions. Don't be afraid to say, hey,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking this, what do you think? And I will
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: also say too, you know, if you're new in a space,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: use your friends. Like they got this thing. When you
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: come into college, y'all do the look to left of you,
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: look to the right of you.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got that.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: And I think that even though they do it real
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: quick when you come into college, and they might do
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: it at your your graduations. It's so important because like
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of times, you're gonna use the people that
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: you went to college with when you do mess up,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: or not even mess up, but when you're at a
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: high because a lot of times, like now, what I'm
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: experiencing is like I'm reaching different success and goals that
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: even though I envision a lot for myself, I don't
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: really have people I can call and say, hey, this
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: just happened to me. Not in my regular life because
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: it's new, But as I meet new people, I begin
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: to realize that those people have experienced that as well too.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: So if you sitting in a room with me and
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I think you might have understood something, or you might
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: have been through something, or you had a similar contract
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: issue or whatever, I ask, hey, this is what's happening
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Have you experienced this?
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Do you have any lawyers you would recommend, any business managers,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: any whatever? Do it all the time. But I got
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: that from del State as well too. I'm gonna reach
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: out to a friend. I'm gonna call you. I'm gonna
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: use what I have sitting right next to me, because
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: you guys are sitting next to some of the not
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: even some, you guys are sitting next to living legends
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: and you don't even know it. So you got to
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: make sure that that's what of the things that you
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: do too, and write down stuff. Talk to yourself, baby,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: learn how to coach yourself, okay, because the world is
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: going to try and humble you. Don't let them do what.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: You gotta learn how to talk to yourself and block
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: out everything else.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to encourage yourself.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Oh all the time. Eay, we love that. Hi. My
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: name is Madison Berrietwaya.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: I'm a junior at the Delaware State University where I'm
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: major in Mass communications with the concentration and Converingence journalism. First,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: thank you for coming here and talking with us today.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: My question is do you feel a responsibility of responsibility
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: to uplift black voices and stories and how does that
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: influence your work behind the scenes and how did your
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: HBCU add to that responsibility.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: So, first of all, great question.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, I feel that responsibility and I felt that that
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you don't. I don't care if you're on camera, if
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: you're behind the camera, if you sit at a cubicle
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: in a computer. As a black person in the world,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: you're going to feel black responsibility period. Every job I've
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: ever had When I said, I realized they didn't have
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: a me. A lot of that was they didn't have
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: a black person. So I mean Breakfast Club, to be
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: honest with chall is the first place I've ever worked
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: at where I'm working with black people where I'm not
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the only black person, if not maybe one of two.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: So I've always felt a responsibility because I think that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you know, there's just certain things that will happen and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you're watching it in front of you. Like even when
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I was in corporate, I was hired by Barclays as
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a community relations coordinator and my job there was to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: take Barclay card into the community where I was from
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Front Women's in Delaware, to take them into the community
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and figure out where their money should go, who they
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: should be helping, and why these are people that don't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: even cross the blocks that I grew up on. So
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you're talking about responsibility. Not only am I having to
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: explain to them why certain places need money, but I'm
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: also having to explain to them why they shouldn't be
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: afraid to go and see it, you know what I mean,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: so that they can really understand and this is who
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you need to help so that happens there TMZ, I Raquel.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: You'll remember Raquel that was on TMZ and Van Laythan
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: who had the moment with Kanye West. So I'm in there.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'm at TMZ and they're there. They both end up
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: leaving around the same time. I probably say Raquel decided
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on like a Thursday, maybe a Friday. Hey, I just
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: had a baby. I'm not coming back. I'm cool right now.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Ahmad Aubrey gets killed instantly, it's like, oh, Lauren, you're black,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: what do we do? And this is like and now
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: this is different because I'm not in a boardroom, I'm
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: not on an email. I'm in front of millions of
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: viewers on primetime and daytime television in TMZ dot com.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: When those stories go live, they reach the world. So
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: if anything goes out wrong in such a sensitive time,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: it's like, yo, the whole world at one point was like,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: it's Lauren's fault because you're seeing me on camera and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I'm the only black face you're seeing my responsibility. I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: had to oh, I had to grow up, Like my
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: responsibility not only kicked in, but it had to become
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: like I.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Was like cute little middle school responsibility.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I had to become like grown up, real real quick,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: because it's millions of you wers that that responsibility is different,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: especially when you know you don't feel as empowered because
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: it is just you. And then you transition into I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: don't care if I'm empowered or not. That's not cool.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna do that now while I'm here. You
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: want me to say what, No, I'm not saying that.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Why would I say that. Oh, I'm also gonna be
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: honest about this, and hey, you're very ignorant if you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: get on air and say that, Okay, cool, you wanna
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: get on air and say I'm gonna call you ignorant
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: on error because people need to know that that's not
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: how they should abide by anybody that doesn't look like
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: them because you don't understand. So I'm having like literally
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: like verbal sparring matches on camera, like the responsibility just
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it never stops, It never turns off.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And the way that your.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: HBCU and my HBCU came into that, when you go
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to HBCU, you just learn that, like I don't know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: like being black is this It's a gift to the world.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So all you want to do once you leave your
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: HBCU is just share that gift like ooh, okay, y'all
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: need a little sprinkle with me. Over here, you're a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: little season and over there and I'm and you really
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: learn how to show up. Like I think people are
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: always so amazed because it's like I'm fun, I know
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: how to speak.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I might be like, okay, cool period, but.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Then I also like I get on air and I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: can be buttoned up if I want to, and they're
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: so amazed by that. And I'm like, at my AGBC
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you everybody was like that. We was having a great
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: time when we were at college. But these are some
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of the best professionals in the world right now.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: But your HBCU teaches you that it's like a it's
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: like an ability to like almost like I wouldn't say
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: camouflage because I don't really like that turn, but like
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: to Ben and I guess like shake and moves. So
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the responsibility, yes, I feel it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: It's a thing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I also make sure I prioritize highlighting other black media platforms,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: which I was also doing at TMC too, because I've
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: worked for some of them, so I know how like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you know, they might break an exclusive and people don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: get to give them the.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Props they deserve.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And then also to your HBCU teaches you the full
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: circle of community. So like if you give and you
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: help when you need to get, because you're not always
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: gonna be up. You might be down and you're gonna
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: need to give help and pick up the phone. But
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: people remember when you were that person for them. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I learned that at school too.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Okay, hello, thank you for being here. My name is
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Collander Carter from Alabama State University, senior studying Communications, currently
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: with ESPN and Endscape. So my question to you is
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: working in entertainment. That's something I've always tried to push tours,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: but right now I'm kind of stuck in the sports
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: in entertainment. So how do you handle professional relationships within
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: entertainment because it can get messier.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: With rap beats?
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Like, how do you prepare and handle those situations and
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: conflicts in the entertainment industry because that's rare.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Kind of in sports and entertainment.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You mean, like because of the content aircraft.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because the content you're covering.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just get to a point where you, like,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I can't please everybody. One of the things that I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: do try to do though, is like I mean, if
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I have a personal relationship with anybody and like I'm
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: gonna speak on something on their I talk to them
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: first off there like, Yo, even if I'm like that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: was stupid, why did you do that? I'm gonna call
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you and be like, Yo, you know what, that was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: stupid and you like come on, and you know, I'm
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: mightna have to talk about this, And then that extends
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: into okay, so while we're talking, I mean, because if
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I know you personally, you know, we were on background,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: so that means I can't use anything from the conversation, right,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: But once we start talking and I'm like, okay, cool.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: So as a friend, even if you're not a friend.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: This goes for like people that I don't know personally either,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I reach out, Hey, so this happened, this is how
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I was being reported. These are this is what I know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the facts that I've learned on my own. What do
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you want to say for yourself? And then I think
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: if you present as long as I try to present
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: as many sides of the story as I can, if
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you do that and then you stay your opinion in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the mix of that, if you choose to and I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: also try and tell people like, okay, sometimes I say
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, so people know the difference between here's
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: what is actually happening and here's how I feel.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: But people won't get upset.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You cannot get around that because I think one of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the things too, that people have enjoyed watching with me
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: is the fact that, like I'm honest, Like if I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: feel away, I feel away. If I need to say
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: something I say, I think I've learned how to button
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it up and.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Keep it real cute. But I think people enjoy that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: That's why y'all like watching The Breakfast Club because you
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: know Charlemagne is going to say what he wants to say.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You know Mv's gonna get a joke or tea, and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: y'all know Jets with the mess and her news is real.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: It's gonna say what she wants to say. And people
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like that, so you can't.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Get around it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I will say, though I wouldn't I wouldn't run from it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't run from entertainment because of that unless you're
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: just not comfortable with it, If you're not comfortable with
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: rubbing people the wrong way, people having an opinion about
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: your opinion and not liking certain things. Is it might
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: not be the industry for you on camera because it
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: literally just happens. People gonna not like the fact that.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You put on lipstick today.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: No, I promise you, I promise you. It gets that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: petty like. People will be like, why she sitting up
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: there in that red lip. Journalists don't wear red lip.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Oh baby, I wear ruby woo. I do relet down Like.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So you gotta kind of like do all you can
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: do and realize that some things you just can't help.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: You're welcome, all right, all right, we've got folks graduating
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: in December. We've got folks graduating in the spring. We've
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: got folks that are graduating next December twenty sixth or
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: into the next year. Give them a message or something
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: they can hold on to, something that they can play back.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Use this encouragement when it gets tough, close us out, says.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I would say I got two things, Okay, I would say, no,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'll just do one. Warning comes before destruction. You're going
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to experience a lot of different things. You are going
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to try things, and you should throw that at the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: wall see if they stick. Whatever you think, like, if
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you're passionate about it, do it, do it well.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Start now.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Execution is important, Discipline is important, but you have an
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: instinct and you have a gut for a reason if
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: there is You know, when I say warning comes before destruction,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I really mean that there will be times where your
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: own natural instinct will say to you, this isn't right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I should pivot here, I should take that opportunity. Even
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: though I think I didn't want to work at barclay Card,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that was the best thing that ever happened to me.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I did it for two years. Without them, I wouldn't
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: be sitting here. I learned everything about my professional delivery
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: from that job, and I didn't even want to take it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But my gut said, girl, you need a job. Just
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: take it, put your head down, do what you need
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to do. Your instinct and your gut will tell you
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: so much of what you should be doing.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Listen because those warnings will come.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: That gut instinct will come, But it ain't gonna come
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to many times before you get in your own way,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and that looks like the destruction. So get out your
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: own way, try things, stow things.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: At the well.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Execution, don't just talk about it, write it down, pray
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: on it. But actually go do it, like start now,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like right here, right now. You should be starting. If
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you rap, I should be able to go on Instagram.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: And see freestyles and covers.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: If you are a journalists, I should be able to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: see right now in your interviews. If you make clothing,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I should see right now some photo shoots, your homegirls
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and all of your branding, all that stuff like start now.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Don't wait until you graduate, don't wait until you move
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to your dream place that you want to live.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: None of that matters.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: These tables are going to be there for y'all pull
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: up a seat too, or for you to create for yourself.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: But you got to execute to do any of that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Let's give it up, y'all. Lauren, thank you again so much.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Reminded one more time on the on the ig.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'm Lauren Lorosa everywhere. So l O R
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: E N l O R O s A and be
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: my favorite.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Brown gargrinding.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, so brown gargrinding is I call it the online
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: group chat. So we inspire, we lift up, we have
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit of fun. There's news there, there's conversations there.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You have a good time over there to bron gar
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: grinding on Instagram, and I do have a podcast with
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: iHeart and the Black Effect Network called The Latest with
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Lauren Rosa. It's a daily dig on all things pop
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: culture and entertainment, news and our break exclusives.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: There we just did.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: We just wrapped up all of our Diddy trial coverage,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: so all that stuff is there as well too.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I'm at.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Helling content and again on a very very important topic.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, no, the Diddy trial coverage took my
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: social out of here. I started the trial with like
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: three thousand subscribers on YouTube.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I'm at like sixty k right now.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: It's a testament to your work.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Do it now, don't wait. Nope, all that's iPhone footage.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Do it now. Don't wait for things they.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: We'll use it as our clothes everyone. So thank you all,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: so so much. Let's give it up again, y'all for.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you guys could be
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: anywhere with anybody having a conversation about all these things,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: but you choose to be right here with me, my
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: low riders, and I appreciate you guys for that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Lorren L. Rosa.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: This is the Latest with Laurence Rosa and I will
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: see you guys in my next episode.