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Final Season Secrets: Naturi Naughton Reveals All | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Oct 8, 2024
Dive into the captivating world of "Power Book II: Ghost" as Naturi Naughton-Lewis sits down with Sway In The Morning for an exclusive interview. Subscribe now to Sway’s Universe for more compelling content! Explore the final season secrets and hear Naturi's reflections on her dynamic journey, the show's impact, and her transformation into a multifaceted powerhouse—actress, singer, producer, and mother. With heartfelt discussions on family, black love, and navigating the entertainment industry, this conversation is not to be missed. Naturi reveals how motherhood has influenced her portrayal of Tasha and shares insights on the challenges and triumphs faced along the way. Don't miss out on unprecedented interviews, revealing moments, and a deeper look into social change and empowerment in the arts. Join the conversation and stay connected with Sway's Universe on social media for more groundbreaking insights. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 02:19 - Naturi Naughton Promotion 04:03 - Self-Made Success 07:44 - Motherhood Journey 12:19 - Impact of Motherhood on Career 15:09 - Relationship with Power 19:43 - Power Franchise Journey 22:30 - Maintaining Identity in Marriage 28:05 - Nostalgia for Singing 29:55 - Music Industry and Spirit 31:07 - Insecurities in the Music Industry 33:57 - Directorial Debut Insights Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU Watch the Best of Sway In The Morning! http://bit.ly/BestOfSITM Check out More From Sway’s Universe
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the most watched series
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ever the most watched series ever we're in the season finale of power book two
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ghost wow what an array of talent that's been
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put together over the years yeah some familiar faces some faces you don't
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know some people actually anchored this ser and gave it The credibility it needed from day one people who have been
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in the business for a long time 3 LW the sress you know what I have
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to bring that up remember she played Lil Kim mhm Kil
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it notorious it was amazing she's been on the show to talk about that say what it is she killed she was
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incredible I remember her in Fame o I want live forever she didn't sound like
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that you better sing come on thank youor I appreciate you let him sing let let
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him sing The Client List oh Jesus the list goes on and on and
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on crazy I'm proud of her I'm proud of her she's been around
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she sustained she been through ups and downs she paid her dues to be where she
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is talented artist don't ask for nothing but acknowledgement from people just recognized the work amen never wanted
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the drama she never leaned into the drama I know I've had her on the show
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plenty of times she didn't lean into that she want you to recognize the talent multi-talented multifaced
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individual not just a singer not just an actress I'm sure she's a director a
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producer she does it all she's a mother so she's a CEO as well
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beautiful kids and her husband is catching everything that she drops on the floor right now what an amazing
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manager a thank you the husband Z is doing everything in the room right now
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the water spills he's wiping it down that's a team right there he's filming right now yes and we match okay and
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they're matching colors the fits are fitting the Tracy tell them who we got in here this morning we have notori
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noton Lewis don't forget the Louis don't forget the louw cuz that's
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married now you w Louis last time I saw you though yes I I think I was you was yeah
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I had just got married oh you just got married or you know what maybe I was engaged I wasn'ted right and did you immediately
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use like change your professional name to match your personal married name uh
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my professional name at is nuturi noton Lewis now I use that um um I felt like
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as soon as I got married I just I want to celebrate you know my uh my hyphenated name come on give them a
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little and also celebrating marriage and black love why not let people know with this level success comes a partnership
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and a teammate and you can't do it alone so you can't do it alone you really can't there's a narrative out there
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though with some young artist that I can do it alone I can be independent and that's you know yeah I don't I don't
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necessarily think that that's true them that narrative is a perspective but when
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you as you get older and as you mature in this business you even if it's just friendship you know it's not just
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necessarily marriage but a lot of our relationships are in like very very
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important and necessary to where we end up in our careers in our happiness um
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socially professionally spiritually you know even if it's just your relationship with God like come on now we just to get
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right with him before we can love others and then love ourselves should we retire the term self-made I that you know what I think
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so I've never used that term I think when people self-made what you mean self-made first off that sounds very
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arrogant in my opinion self I get back in the day a selfmade like you know um
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uh what what's her name Madam uh CJ Walker and being a self you know entrepreneur and in those times it
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really did take Independence and but guess what the community around bought
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those hairs and said oh this is what we can do it took black women so you know I
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get the selfmade concept but I wouldn't lean into that too much especially in today's culture the ego back then you
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could say that and maybe your ego could still stay now everyone's so ego driven social media they actually believe that
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I don't need nobody I'm out here by myself putting out these records and doing but I'm out here doing it but are
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I Don't Need No Man Yeah and I don't need no woman oh don't get me started on the Independent Women thing that's a
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whole thing that I think was misguided version of in the 70s they started making people think particularly black
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women that we don't need why you think welfare and taking black men out of the household are so important like don't
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get it twisted Independent Women really need to be inde saying I'm independent
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in my family like an independent family I'm all big on family let's talk about that on family because to me that that's
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a essential part of how we can grow and expand as a community if we Le more into
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family instead of individualism lean into collaboration instead of uh total
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Independence you know preach now you know so and I'm a kid I'm a child of that me too 70s welfare um my father
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couldn't be in the house the welfare workers would come into the apartment like I've literally saw this as a child
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wow yes see I didn't have that experience but that's yeah they come in let me tell you I remember a couple
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times vividly mhm a strange woman showing up to my mother's AP our apartment we lived at in East Oakland oh
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wow and when they knock on that door because they would tell they wouldn't tell you when they were coming so you
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had to have people in the front of the building say the the worker coming the social worker coming and if you had a
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new TV a new leather jacket new furniture you had to hide it hide it
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because they would ask you where'd you get the money and they would literally ask you if there's a man in the house
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and if you had a man in the house you would get in trouble they would stop your funding stop your support punished
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for oo oo different that's deep I see I grew up in East Orange New Jersey with
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two parents in a home my father my mother and being married you know they were married for 52 years before I
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recently lost my dad um but I know that everybody's had a
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different version of family but the thing that I learned growing up is that there is no me without family there is
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no Community without family there is no you know black businesses and support so
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all of that interesting enough and even when I think about the character of Tasha like how grounded she is in family
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and you know obviously my husband ghost is is gone now but um but I'm supporting
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my son through thick and thin and that's what family does but to be punished in that system is a part of what we need to
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I think recognize in Black America that is actually killing our family structure and stop falling into these traps I love
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that notorious up don't apologize you ain't got to apologize nothing you bring it out of me
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you know what we do you know what we do we don't back we intelligent up here intelligent we always been that way we
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have always you know how has motherhood has motherhood at all affected the way
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you play Tasha oo oh that's such a good question I became a Mother season five
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of power the original Power and it has changed my I guess my whole world but
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perspective in this character is that I now understand why Tasha is a willing to
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fall on her sword and do whatever it takes and why sometimes she will push the envelope I mean she had to kill some
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people she had to go to jail I mean she killed her best friend that was crazy la
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la la I love you girl but La had a great death though she pulled that off she had a great death yeah and a lot of the
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deaths and power are iconic the recent episode if y'all saw episode 9 oh my go I mean we we can talk about it in a
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minute can we talk about it I'm just like my heart because that's the first time I really realized what a mother's
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love will do and Mary Jay and it was just done the way that was shot and and
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Woody playing I was just I was in tears for myself and I'm thinking Tasha don't even like
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Monae Tasha Tasha should be
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like but but I had to say as interial looking at Mary and looking at the role
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of Monae motherhood does change you and it creates a sense of empathy for other mothers you know like the empathy that I
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had in realizing like okay she's not perfect she made some bad choices she's selfish she's not the best but she loves
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her children and as I now became a new mother with my son me and my husband
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have a 15-month-old son congratulations thank you his name true congratulations
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he is so cute oh my gosh and my daughter Zuri who's seven it just makes me I
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think more aware as I step into you know doing this role I'm more aware I'm more
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empathetic I'm more impassioned and when I think about the the risk and the stakes of potentially losing my son or
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my daughter and which is what I think Tasha has dealt with a lot of times she she I think a lot of that comes into the
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characters that I play so yeah for sure this is great man um we we have Michael Randy Jr get that man that young man a
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round of applause man I was just with him the other night for little farewell I can't believe known him since he was
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12 wow Tariq him and Raina when I had a daughter that was alive uh
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my I mean on the show I mean so casually you know what what but yeah no he's uh
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he it's 10 years now and I'm just I'm just happy to see him grow he talked about how shocked he was when when 50
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told him he'll be anchoring power book too like what did you think when you you heard remember that yeah what was that
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moment like when we found out it was actually Courtney Kemp shout out to you know the Creator and showrunner uh an
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amazing intelligent black woman who who started the world but Courtney and 50
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you know and even making the choice to spin power off into the the through line of ghost I was like and to see Michael
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stepping into you know this kind of stepping into his manhood in this world I remember even getting the call for
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myself first of I was like woo oh my gosh thank God for the the checks cuz I was sad when it was over um so thank you
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uh for the job because at the end of the day we're all performance actors just trying to work but the other thing I remember thinking is this is a huge
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responsibility and I knew Michael was a little nervous and I just remember like telling him you got this you know encouraging him and the thing that I
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think was so special is Stars gave us the opportunity to grow like he didn't have to immediately be ghost season one
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it was a lot of Tasha and Tariq you know I was taking you know the fall for him and in prison and that relationship
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allowed him the chance to give him a foundation to grow so I think Michael stepped into the role of Tariq and has
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become you know essentially his father the new ghost but it didn't have to happen overnight and in all these
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Seasons we watched him every year just get better and better and better so so proud of Michael and I'm very happy give
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that man a round of applause right my TV s your TV and he went from being hated
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to now being liked everybody used to come up to Street I can't stand T why you didn't beat him you should have
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slapped him when he said that to you and now they're like oh we love him so look at how the worlds can shift power is
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always interchangeable absolutely you mentioned something that's so true like as artists we are trying to work as much
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as we love we do and you get projects you fall in love with them but then you're right there's responsibilities at
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home and bills and different things like that but now as a married woman and a
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mother of two will you CH I know it is crazy but we we've been here the whole
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time too I know you didn't have no baby when we met I know I was a baby when we
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met that I think it's so dope but do you now even choose roles
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differently um I guess I am more selective in it depending on what
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the the story is I guess the objective of the story but to be honest with you
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choosing is a very strong word when there isn't much work out there and a lot of people don't want to say like
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right now it's not like that the way I would like it to be in all honesty for me and for a lot of I think actors in
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general the the industry and the art is struggling it's not like you know I
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remember Viola Davis saying this and I'm thinking she just want to Oscar so I now relate and understand why aren't I
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getting like you know offers and certain things like we're always sometimes feeling like we're starting from the
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bottom and working our way back up again so the opportunities since you know obviously the strike have been slim uh
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far few and far between however when there are opportunities like I just did a movie
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Abducted with garcel bouvet producing in lifetime about black girls going missing and that was again a story that you know
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was called abducted at HBCU the whole point is doing stories that matter and even if I'm on the produc orial side if
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I'm not in the project like you know I try to think of what is this project saying so I think you're right
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motherhood and just the awareness has made me more keen to what what message
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am I putting what Legacy do I leave behind and that's really what it's all about so I'll be remiss my daughter is
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at of HBCU tell me about this show oh yeah it came out just last month um it's on it's available on Amazon Prime but it
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was on Lifetime on demand abducted at HBCU is about black girls particularly in the HBCU Community who got one girl
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got lured and you know caught up in sex trafficking and being um you know stolen
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from her her campus and were're looking for and black girls who go missing missing often you know don't get the
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national attention or the support and that's a subject that we talk about in the movie okay all right how'd you miss
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it you love lifetime I know I'm a lifetime I'm come on you go go back the
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title scared me yeah yeah be careful out here it's real out here stuff is going down you know perod I was just there
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this weekend oh really spent the weekend with my child oh good what coool you to
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tell us that I've been saying it for weeks I'm stop saying it now yeah no I understand um
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but yes so I just try to be intentional intentional that's real now Tor when I
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think about I think about how success brings power Beauty can bring power right Fame can bring power and you have
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all of these things in your possession you're very welcome um have you had over
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the years of you as you've continued to rise how has your relationship with power changeed because people will treat
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you differently too the way that they perceive success perceive Beauty and it can make others feel lesser then and
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then all of a sudden they're just like a scramble in front of you and on the flip side have you ever been in a position
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where you've had to disarm someone that was on a power trip because when you in
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this industry there's a lot of characters there's a lot of egos so yeah your relationship to power and your
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relationship to someone who's been on a power trip o girl okay I like how you tied
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that in yeah I was like let me let me break that down okay now I got to really use my left side of the brain and be
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intelligent okay seen Hall University education come through come on uh because it's such a complex question
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okay how have I perceived power and just the beauty and all that what I make sure to do is remind people of our similarity
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our likeness that we are more the same than we are different and and I think power in a lot of hands there's this
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idea of hierarchy and that oh because and you talked about beauty Fame access money I mean yes some of those things
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may give me more access an opportunity but really because I think I'm so rooted
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in my faith I just me and my husband just came back from a marriage Retreat um shout out to Montel Jordan and Kristen Jordan
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[Music] Montel he has a church and he is a pastor and him and his wife in marriage
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I would just like to say that marriage Retreat the marriage Masterpiece changed my life me and my husband because to
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your point we talked about that idea of having to be small and I used to struggle with that sometimes I would
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feel like my light is too bright and maybe I make other people feel intimidated or am I too much am my
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personality too big or is my my desire to just be what God put in me is that
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too much it is not and really I don't look it as power I look at as as as
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blessings you know really if you are in a position to sing like what I had at in
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3 as a teenager to act in a show that's iconic that changed the culture like power to produce and start my own
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production company take to entertainment with my husband all these things it's not really my power is my blessing and
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at the end of the day if I utilize that leverage of course that's what we should do in an industry that requires you to
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step up but I would look at the next person like I remember meeting Ryan cougler um back in the day when he was a
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student in in in LA and he was doing a a short film called fig and he was like oh I loved you and notorious and now he's
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like Black Panther and on to the so many things but if I had but I took the meeting and talked to him and you know
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the movie I didn't wind up doing his movie fig but one thing I learned is never underestimate anyone yes like never
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because the power is really in the gift because somebody may not have access or the opportunity but they have the gift
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so that's one and then the second part of your question is power tripping there are a lot of
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people that do be power tripping um and in the world of power I have encountered a lot of uh Power Trippers uh
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personalities um I would just say thato thank God you know I was I was raised
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right I I have I have you know because the the jersey in me come on come on
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come on sometimes people will push you and you be like okay don't let my East
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Orange New Jersey out today in your Jeep Annie
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up exactly real though but you know what I
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have to do I just try to remove myself those power tripping situations when I see it happening and I know that what it
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is I recognize it and then I'm just like oh okay I see you I see you for what it is I now have identified what your
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struggle is there must be something going on within you that makes you feel powerless so you got to try to have power over me God bless you good night
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and that's that's what it is get that a round of applause for me torch man I know you grown woman this guy be Eagle
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tripping sometimes a producer come on now stay humble that's
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it stay humble what this is uh the final season but how would you just looking
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back at all of this how would you just somebody said what what was this what was this journey like how would you
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answer that that is such a good question the Journey of 10 years on the TV show I
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didn't even imagine that this would be this big and this successful but I I
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prayed for it however um The Journey was real it was awesome it was fun I mean I
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was just talking about when I was walking into with 50 and and and Jeff uh the head of stars um and just thinking
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of all the memories of being on a private jet going to DC being a part of politics being able to have influence
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powerful change using my power for good that's the other thing that I think has been dope I just realized like this
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doesn't happen every freaking day no and you don't get an opportunity to do this so the journey has been unbelievably
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amazing working with people like Amari Hardwick you know shout out toari toari original we cannot forget Amari
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can never he said that thing off he did and to this day when I watch reruns yeah
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I'll be like now that ghost is crazy but amazing he delivered a performance every
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episode and he made me a better actor and and a better collaborator so when
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you look at the original and watch all the the spin outs in the journey we set the tone so what I believe this journey
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has done is really just let me know that you do have the power to change the culture and a black women who is brown
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skinned to be the leading lady of that is a huge step in a direction that wasn't always the case so sometimes it
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just lets me know oh wow wait I actually am doing what I'm supposed to do I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be there
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will be more powerful moments in my life this isn't the end it's the end of an era on this show however it's not the
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end of me absolutely notor N Lewis is here man don't forget that was amazing
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right there they dressed a lot you can't forget he's wearing the same outfit don't come my husband's we are
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not wearing the same for those who are listening I am wearing a very cute Hy
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blue and white ribbed sweater dress and my husband's just wearing white
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is right get in the camera of course come come over here Mr Le come over here man come on bro shout out to uh y'all
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got to look out for they call them to our yeah take two entertainment is our production company and we have a film
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that uh Premier Tribeca called col book and we actually are going to be screening in in La at the AFI and we
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just won in France at the doville festival congratulations so shout out to black fathers and uh and that's what the
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story is about color book so look out for that s Mr two Lewis man I want to commend you bro because um it says a lot
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about you as a person um to be able to be yourself be balanced be confident
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around a person that's so powerful and famous and loved like your wife right a
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lot of us have problems with that you know it might be generational I don't know what it is this is how we rais
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especially with black men true you know cuz we don't feel like we get enough acknowledgement and props as it is is
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true yeah how have you what what what's worked for you in keeping that balance and how do you put up with me and how
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you know and not losing yourself in the process I think um before you even try
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to court a woman or you know even date or any of those things I think that you
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have to find out who you are and live in your power um um very secure you just
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got to always live in your power and know who you are and that and that comes from God I think the relationships that you have from God um and knowing how you
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show up in the world um you don't change that for anybody even when I met her um
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I had to make sure that I stood by my standards of life not go to her standards cuz a lot of people when they
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date they try to you know go into the lane that their partner is in yeah but
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you got to find a great teammate you got to find a teammate that can help you win a championship and you can help them win
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a championship not stop your life and alter everything you're doing because you going to be miserable you going to
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be like oh man I wish I can go back and do this or do that but the whole time if
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you find what God aligns with and God aligns with you you can go win the championship and assist them in winning
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their championship and that's the best partnership what's what's better than one billionaire two there you
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go I married and when you you I'm just saying ladies get you
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one get you one but when you work together you know it could be difficult
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when you're working together and you're loving together you know where do y'all draw the boundaries is it a place at
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home that you don't talk about work or what how do you do that we're still working on that actually we're working
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on that because because for me I come from like more business background since I've been in here since I was like 17
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doing this and she comes from more like being the front runner of it right so
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things come to her like projects come to her I have to go create projects to take them to other artists right and so the
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understanding of that is a little difference because I have to go out every day and try to figure things out
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and what can be uh brought to the table and and things like that yeah while she's coming on this side now as a
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director and as a producer she's learning how to not just sit back more
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and go out and so sometimes it is a balance where I'm coming home from the day and I'm like all right it's chill
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time and she's just getting up she's like yeah so we got to do this talk about work we got to I'm like dreams and
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I'm like hey it's our time to relax you know what I mean so we're learning how I relax well sway I could tell but I like
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it though tell said I can tell I feel like I've always been since a teenager
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it's hard for me to relax no that's good though that's good energy though it's always good energy it's balance so just
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trying to find like we like the marriage Retreat that we went to is finding space for each other like sure that we find
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Space to incorporate not only my ways of doing life but hers as well so you have to be able to uh alter you know a couple
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of things to make sure that both people are feeling heard and see so good to your point when you talk about you know
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how do we work together and different things the one thing that I think you know just celebrate whether it's your spouse your partner whatever you're
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doing just like he said remember who you are first your individuality but remember that you are creating the leg
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cuz you're not going to always be here when I think about you know as I've lost my dad and think about what my parents did for me the Legacy that they
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instilled in me and that I will carry on is what we want to do for our children so it's not just about a movie or a
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business venture it's about like what will we leave behind and showing Unity
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to our son and daughter and showing how difficult it is but also how rewarding it is to come out on top together is a
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beautiful moment that we want to leave for our children I love this I appreciate you getting know I wanted to
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show the unity yeah absolutely and who you are and I just want the people to
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see who actually picked out the outfit today so who who who shout out no that's
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this my stylist my stylist Harrison dress dressed her he put this together I
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usually have to dress her every day though you know in her regular life I I I do all I do all the styling for who who
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does the cooking I went to C School you do the cooking well he's from Atlanta Georgia it's not
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fair when you from down south and you know how to do ribs and he can Grill like a Grill Master like he could be on
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one of them shows right oh you that nice it's it's the most incredible food I've ever tasted that's why it's hard for me
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to stay slim y'all I'm working really hard it ain't easy this man Cooks insane
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food it's your fault that's why you still in hiding you you with me in hiding we eating good
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keep it thank God that we can eat good but no he's an insane cook that's that's good to know um notori yes do you miss
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singing ah somebody just asked me that I miss I miss doing music and recording I
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don't miss the music business I don't really you know I'm just only one
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cl something one clap there there is something deeply rooted in that and I'm going to hear about it Sis but what I
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will say is the music industry for me it it wasn't fun it wasn't as enjoyable anymore and now the industry has changed
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so much that I don't even know where you don't even know what it is I don't even know what it is anymore I don't even you know there used to be a formula there
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used to be a way that okay we know what to do where to go who's going to do it now it's just like random is as heck um
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so I would say that singing and music I love to infuse it in my roles like when I did the show Queens with Brandy and
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Eve I got to rap sing it's a it's a First Love Actually even on on power
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Tasha my first in one of my big episodes was singing um uh the Mary Jay remake um
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of of a song in in a scene in season one so I was thinking I tend to include
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music and singing into those kinds of roles so I guess music will just have to
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come through either musical theater or come through uh film and TV it doesn't have to be a record for me I mean I'm
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not just counting it but the music business is not something that I feel safe in and I think the lack of
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is why I just kind of always get disappointed and that's just the reality I'm sorry what were you going to say
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agreed okay one clap and agre that's all got
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she summed it all up it it it Sway and I and Tracy have shared this before we
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spent time as full-time artists you know um it can it can get at your your spirit
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oo yes it can get at your spirit and what does that what does it do for you what part part of your spirit is most
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rocked I'm part have me as a guest host y'all no absolutely
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um I didn't like feeling so insecure it it it was the insecurity it
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it's knowing that God has giving you gifts and talents and you spent so much
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time trying to develop that and fighting at every single stage of it and then you
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go home and somebody writes and I know that's a part of it but they can write
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something you youve worked Five Years on a project and say something and then it's how you look and then maybe you're
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dealing with a death or something on a personal or even your own personal illnesses as women and then you have to
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get out on that stage and perform and she looked busted she looked ugly she didn't sound like this this guy doesn't
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like you this executive it wasn't it wasn't worth it it wasn't worth my soul
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it just wasn't worth it and that's just speak to him and for some reason music
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in particular the music business does it more than any other industry and that is
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so I'm sorry and I know this this is probably like a way deeper conversation but for the guests that are listening let me tell you we haven't real talked
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the same thing that she said the first word was insecurity the first thing I thought of was never feeling good enough
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and the music business even when I was a teenager you know in 3w the constant
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judgment and never feeling good enough I was freed from that when I left the music I literally feel like I was saved
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by God's grace because I could have been you know when I look at I knew Aaron Carter I was on tour within sync and on
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the tears when I see people who have fallen you know really down to the depths and some of them have lost their
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lives in this music business I think oh my gosh that could have been me you know
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like really you know being kicked out being treated you know like you know told you're not pretty told you're not
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good enough oh you you need to lose weight you need to gain weight you need to your skin a and everything you can imagine your eyelash got a eyelash like
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what the you but even though I'm under that same scrutiny today I feel like because as an actor like you said I
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don't get into like even the drama with different because it's about the work I'm like you could say what you want I
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wore one dress one day I think it was on ter and they were like oh ner n still losing the baby weight and it's just
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like okay so that's what you saw but I'm talking about literally the final season of power and the fact that I've been a
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black woman who's successful and had a show for 10 years that's what you see yeah but okay so it's it's sometimes you
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just I just can't lose my my spirit and the last thing is your joy because if you can't be joyous in your work like
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you seem so joyous every time I come up here I just have to say Sway and all of you and the ladies too I I just really
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feel like there's a joy in this room and when there is Joy when you sit at this mic and you get a chance to ask great
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questions thoughtful questions okay it says that you are joyous when you come to work yes so your joy shines and
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literally is penetrating through this microphone and people feel it this show you know Sway in the morning is not just
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about a Morning Show it's about an opportunity to give people the joy that you feel and then they riding and
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listening and they feel that Joy so thank y'all for what you Jesus man hand me some TPS you
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Trac he is literally tearing up there is a little glossiness in his eyes people
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no it's funny when walked in she said how y'all been and I said sis you know what's crazy before you walked in here
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we've been talking on morning about staying spiritually grounded and how important it is every Thursday we do a
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segment called Good News Thursday where people call up and share their testimonies we play our inspirational
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music and you here both of you here on the perfect day so God bless both of you thank youor we're proud of you that's
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just me need need a tiue too this tissue
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tissue Thursday tiue
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[Music] what what what what can we see what can we expect next from you ooh me as a
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director y'all be be ready and okay um yes no I really love
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directing I directed my first short film with uh you know co-produced by me and two take two entertainment it's called
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333 it will be in festivals in 2025 okay so look out it's it's actually a
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commentary on um a black woman played by burgundy Baker from the Shai who is dealing with the aftermath of choosing
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to have an abortion and the struggle of you know with women's rights and feeling like so many people are judging us and
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politicizing the issue and not really keeping it about the humanity of the struggle anyway 333 is uh my first uh
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directorial short film to right let it go let work work and uh it was hard work
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and my husband again too the point you made he saw my dreams and it's like you
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know the championship and I couldn't win this championship without you babe so thank you for making
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that dream come true so you know we got that coming what else what we got I mean just just our production slate um all
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the movies we trying to produce and I think you going to direct a couple more movies next year and yeah yeah I'm
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excited we're excited give it up for the louw family man come on I like that thank you bro no problem I appreciate
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you man apprciate absolutely love you know I I adore you
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and thank you for supporting me a little girl I have never been in a room that you didn't acknowledge me see me oh gosh
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get you absolutely I've always seen your what's special about you you exude that
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even when you was a a young noui you have to understand I've known her since
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she was a little little woman way back way back and and and and I'm I'm glad
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that your experience with me has been as such yes cuz it's important to me especially when people come into the
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industry and they see a a a pillar or somebody who's been in it for a long time we've all admired you and watched
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you and I want to greet you well it's like a welcoming you always have and I'mma always be here I've been here a
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long time for a reason on God's purpose right so it really just came to me uh
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sway you you provide a safe space it does yeah this is the sa you provide a safe space for for a lot of people and
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we'll continue to do that all right bless get the some tissue somebody TI
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y'all I had some glasses on I had to take the glasses off I love it that's beautiful man it's been amazing make
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sure y'all watch it power book two ghost come on man let's go let's go final season Seas
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