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Speaker 1: my heart my next guest she's on the phone all right,
Speaker 1: and saw her in a long time, so the huglies
Speaker 1: when I first met her. My next guest is uh
Speaker 1: in double a CP Image Award and SAG Award nominated actress,
Speaker 1: TV Actress, Film actress, producer and fitness entrepreneur. Boy, please
Speaker 1: work with the money making conversation fitness expert at least Neil.
Speaker 1: So you're there, miss Neil here. Now, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I've seen Logan, the movie Logan about seventeen times. It's
Speaker 1: an incredible good movie. You play a major pivocal role, pivole.
Speaker 1: Can I just talk about that movie a little because
Speaker 1: you because first of all, just just just what happened
Speaker 1: to you in the movie stunned me because I just
Speaker 1: knew that was not gonna happen, but seventeen times it's happened.
Speaker 1: And uh that has to be uh you know, from
Speaker 1: a from a because the movie almost I think made
Speaker 1: like eight hundred million dollars worldwide. When you're participate in
Speaker 1: the movie like that logan, what does that do to
Speaker 1: your brand? And how does that impact you know, because
Speaker 1: every day. Because first of all, you you know, everybody
Speaker 1: has seen the movie. You're crossing so many racial lines,
Speaker 1: and when you were starting over like that, what effect
Speaker 1: did it have on your career? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: the first question becomes about wait holding, let me take
Speaker 1: your honey. Okay. The first question is like, as an actor,
Speaker 1: when you get something that big, you already know, like
Speaker 1: we know Wolverine. Everybody knows Wolverine, right, So when you
Speaker 1: get that audition for something that big, it's like, oh man,
Speaker 1: you know it's that long shot audition that you hope
Speaker 1: you're gonna get because you know it's a big role.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, it's impact is going to be worldwide,
Speaker 1: and um, to get it first of all was just
Speaker 1: like that I'm type of moments that we actives have
Speaker 1: when it's something really special that you know you're about
Speaker 1: to be part of. And I'm such a huge Hugh
Speaker 1: Jackman fan to begin with. You know, I started my
Speaker 1: career in musicals and dancing and things like that, and
Speaker 1: of course Hugh Jackman is that all around entertainer that
Speaker 1: I've always been a super fan of so to not
Speaker 1: only get it, but to come to work with him,
Speaker 1: and I mean I couldn't do anything but kind of
Speaker 1: geek out when I first saw him. And I literally
Speaker 1: I literally danced over to him when we said him
Speaker 1: for the first time because I'm like, I'm such a
Speaker 1: huge fan. But you know, coming to work room every
Speaker 1: day was great, you know, he was he was very kind,
Speaker 1: he was very sweet, very giving. He when he found
Speaker 1: out that I also did musical, he always played like
Speaker 1: a different Broadway soundtracks in the morning. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a great experience. Big fans. Now you you that's the
Speaker 1: part right there. You got the role, you participate in
Speaker 1: the production. Now the movie comes out. Yeah, the film
Speaker 1: comes out, and you know we acted here they have
Speaker 1: been doing in a while. I mean, everybody's different, but
Speaker 1: I've always been about you know, oh that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's really cool when you know fans seem to like
Speaker 1: it once it comes out. But one of those big
Speaker 1: things that let me know that it was huge is
Speaker 1: when I get an email from the the agent. It
Speaker 1: was like in early morning with numbers. You know, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: with box office numbers like first opening weekend almost ninety millions,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, okay, huge hit, huge hit. IM
Speaker 1: in another huge hit film. And you know, I was
Speaker 1: really excited about it. I've I've been led us to
Speaker 1: be a part of that, you say, crossing the lines
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. A lot of things I've done have been
Speaker 1: not necessarily just a one audience would appreciate, and you know,
Speaker 1: things like screen to you know, several other things. But
Speaker 1: this was really good. It's been a while since I
Speaker 1: was a part of some something so big and so bad.
Speaker 1: So it was great. Okay, cool because like I said,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna come on again this Neil, and I'm
Speaker 1: a you know, like a like a crazy person. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just stop and look at it like I've never
Speaker 1: seen it before for some reasons. Fun and crazy. It's fun.
Speaker 1: It's crazy when it first came out, and I do
Speaker 1: travel um quite a bit, but I was literally on
Speaker 1: a plane when it kind of like it's only been
Speaker 1: out like maybe two weeks, and I was on a
Speaker 1: plane and I'm walking back to my seat down the
Speaker 1: aisles and I'm like seeing people watch the movie on
Speaker 1: their plane. That cool. You know, You're you're looking less
Speaker 1: to writing. You're like, oh, they're watching that. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: they're watching Okay like that. That was kind of dope. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: With that being said that people people know that they
Speaker 1: put two and two together. I don't think anybody is
Speaker 1: putting any two to two together when we're all in
Speaker 1: that plane trying to figure out get there safely. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting, okay, Okay, about about you? When I know
Speaker 1: because I met you in the sitcom world on the
Speaker 1: Huge Lis way back then, and but you've done You've
Speaker 1: done a second, second, second television show, Yes, the second
Speaker 1: television show, and you went on to do many more
Speaker 1: different television shows. You know, So when you when you
Speaker 1: when you look at shows like you know, t s
Speaker 1: I one of my favorite shows, Scandal, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shows all of us, you know, Private Practice. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing a mixture of drama and I'm seeing a mixture
Speaker 1: of sitcom. Not many people can do that. It's Neil
Speaker 1: how you know, I'm just as a compliment when I
Speaker 1: say that. So no, I'm saying thank you. So what
Speaker 1: what what? What? What mindset? What allows you to click
Speaker 1: it on? It off? Because some people just be funny
Speaker 1: and then some people just can be dramatic or they
Speaker 1: try to be funny, but it doesn't work at all.
Speaker 1: So I think it's for me, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a muscle that was and still when I was training,
Speaker 1: you know, as an actor, because my journey, like I said,
Speaker 1: started with musical theater and trained for that. And then
Speaker 1: when I made a decision to try to be in
Speaker 1: the acting world, you know, I took it the same
Speaker 1: type of seriousness that I did when I started dancing.
Speaker 1: You can't necessarily start tap dancing without some instructor teaching
Speaker 1: you have, and so I studied a lot um. I
Speaker 1: was living in New York when I first started acting,
Speaker 1: so I did a lot of theater, I did a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, inexp into acting classes. I did
Speaker 1: what I could what I could, and then by the
Speaker 1: time I made a decision to come to l A,
Speaker 1: I studied at a summer program for the American Academy
Speaker 1: of Dramatic Art, and I think what I learned there
Speaker 1: was extremely helpful and finding ways to do both muscles.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I'm both people.
Speaker 1: I can be just as silly and goofy as the
Speaker 1: next person, but I'm also trained and understand, like for
Speaker 1: a long time before even people knew my name. The
Speaker 1: monologue that I did was the say Shakespearean monologue that
Speaker 1: I had learned in acting class. So I have the
Speaker 1: ability to go back and forth from both muscles pretty easily.
Speaker 1: There's another reason why she's calling on the show because
Speaker 1: you posted a picture of your fiftieth birthday on the
Speaker 1: social media, your internet. As they say, some things shut
Speaker 1: down the Internet, uh go viral? Well, the pictures she
Speaker 1: post to the fitness look did that. When we come back,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to her about that transition, I should
Speaker 1: say transition the at least body boot Camp. We've been
Speaker 1: back with more mighty making conversations. Highs for Sean McDonald.
Speaker 1: I'm back and she's on the phone. At least Neil,
Speaker 1: you're still there. Yes, I am okay. So, so on
Speaker 1: your fiftieth birthday, most people are afraid on their fiftieth
Speaker 1: birthday to post anything about themselves physically. So you decided
Speaker 1: to take a picture, you know, one of selfie pictures.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't a professional picture of were you
Speaker 1: or were you launching your brand when you took that
Speaker 1: photo or it was just a feel down for you,
Speaker 1: you break it down to me my reason, there was
Speaker 1: really a reason and purpose about the whole thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I I okay, first of all, I'm actress. I'm here
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. It's not like I'm not unaware of stigmas
Speaker 1: about Hollywood being about the youth, Hollywood being about fresh
Speaker 1: and young and what's special and important to the powers
Speaker 1: that be in Hollywood. And as a person who's been
Speaker 1: blessed enough to have I've traveled a lot. Especially I'll
Speaker 1: always go back to it being an entertainer and being
Speaker 1: a dancer and doing musicals. I got three passports from
Speaker 1: all the different beautiful cities in the world I've been
Speaker 1: able to see be a part of and cultures and stuff,
Speaker 1: and it makes me think a little differently about a
Speaker 1: lot of things, and especially when it came to being older,
Speaker 1: and how even what you just said in the intro,
Speaker 1: like people don't even want to talk about it, People
Speaker 1: don't even want to be involved in and people don't
Speaker 1: want to say nothing about it. And that's not fair.
Speaker 1: It's not fair, and it's not a good message. And
Speaker 1: for me, I was like, I feel good. I still
Speaker 1: work out, I do my best to be healthy and
Speaker 1: this is why I look how I look. I said
Speaker 1: to myself, I know what, yeah, I know what age
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to be, and I'm gonna work out
Speaker 1: even harder, I'm gonna even healthier, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: just for myself be the best that I could try
Speaker 1: to be once that fifty comes my way. And so
Speaker 1: I decided to take a photo shoot for me. I
Speaker 1: just wanna posted on Instagram for me because I wanted
Speaker 1: to to show for me and my father, making like, look,
Speaker 1: you know, it's okay, this is what I look like.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, let's just for me to just
Speaker 1: feel good. And at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: photographer takes that picture because he was just testing his lights.
Speaker 1: He was like, let's take a picture on your phone.
Speaker 1: I just want to test the lights before we get
Speaker 1: to the shoot location. We're not even on the shoot location.
Speaker 1: And I posted it and the rest became what you
Speaker 1: already know. I just feel like it's important to bring
Speaker 1: that to the forefront, Like everybody in America has a
Speaker 1: lot of stigma about women first of all, and getting
Speaker 1: older and them not maybe being able to do or
Speaker 1: be x y and Z, and we need to stop
Speaker 1: that and especially as an African American woman, I thought
Speaker 1: it was important to show that you can be healthy,
Speaker 1: that it's okay to to feel good about yourself as
Speaker 1: you get older and be your best self, even in
Speaker 1: a way that you maybe weren't at forty five, and
Speaker 1: maybe that you want at forty or even thirty five,
Speaker 1: and you can just be healthier and take care of yourself,
Speaker 1: eat better, be a long in this journey of life longer.
Speaker 1: And I was okay with being a representation of that. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for saying that. I have six sisters. They
Speaker 1: are they appreciate you're saying all those things. Now you
Speaker 1: went out there and you're prepared for fifties. Seems like
Speaker 1: you know, which is cool because because I would test
Speaker 1: to tell you about Roushan. You know, I eat. I
Speaker 1: eat like a crazy person. You know. People look at me,
Speaker 1: they go, how do you look that way? And you
Speaker 1: eat like, um, you five hundred pounds. Okay, Now I
Speaker 1: see the word nutrition in your Now do you eat
Speaker 1: a certain way or you're a healthy eater? Miss Neil Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I am, but I'm also from Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I love barbecue. I love frits things. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the emphasis is on sometimes I do a lot of
Speaker 1: but um, I say, portion control is key. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't have to have fifteen French fries. I can I
Speaker 1: can be okay with five five and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to burn it off. I'm going to burn it off.
Speaker 1: And that's also the other key. You have to burn
Speaker 1: it off. You can't sit there and have barbecue all
Speaker 1: weekend and pork jobs, which I don't think people really eat.
Speaker 1: When we gonna we're gonna go past new we gonna
Speaker 1: go past that. I never had that conversation about that.
Speaker 1: Baby bake ribs of them. But what you can do
Speaker 1: is portion control it out. Maybe have two pieces of
Speaker 1: barbecue and then walk for fifteen minutes at a quick pace.
Speaker 1: You know, turn it back off. You know. The interesting
Speaker 1: thing that you're saying is absolutely true to portion control.
Speaker 1: The talk about talk about this the boot camp is
Speaker 1: a video? Is it's uh something that you tell us
Speaker 1: about the boot camp? Well, and and again going back
Speaker 1: to the whole internet, and then I got uh breaking
Speaker 1: the internet, and then she did every day it becomes
Speaker 1: every black publication and you eat it. What are you drinking?
Speaker 1: What you're doing? I need to know. I need to
Speaker 1: you know. It has become that kind of conversation and
Speaker 1: I am and we're just saying here on your radio show, Hey,
Speaker 1: anybody want to hit my people up and invest so
Speaker 1: we can do even more in this business thing. I'm
Speaker 1: down for the conversation. It is money making. Hey, it
Speaker 1: is the money make it dolf Uh yeah, um, but
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the best way. And this is
Speaker 1: why too. I did the at Least Body. I created
Speaker 1: at Least Body boot Camp because I wanted it to
Speaker 1: be a place that if when I had time, I
Speaker 1: will do these classes, that I will be the instructor
Speaker 1: so that there is no conversation. Because I was getting
Speaker 1: that at first about she just went to the doctors,
Speaker 1: she ain't working out. I got a lot of that
Speaker 1: at first at first. Um, so okay, now you're gonna
Speaker 1: work out with me, and you got your legs gonna
Speaker 1: hurt a little bit, and then you're gonna stop that
Speaker 1: conversation because you're gonna be doing it with me and
Speaker 1: you're gonna see that this is what I'm doing. And
Speaker 1: so it's and once I started creating that, it became
Speaker 1: a thing more where they understood that it is a
Speaker 1: lifestyle for me, and so I love to do at
Speaker 1: least body boot camps. They pop up every now and
Speaker 1: then where I have time, I'm in a different city,
Speaker 1: and it's a class that I create based off of
Speaker 1: what I do in the gym as a person who's
Speaker 1: a dancer who loves hip hop music. It's all set
Speaker 1: to hip hop music. We do all types of um
Speaker 1: core work, we do all types of legwork, we do
Speaker 1: all types of crunches, we do all types of things,
Speaker 1: but it's all to hip hop music. Then there's a
Speaker 1: cardio blast because that's what I like to do because
Speaker 1: my background is dance, and I make it as fun
Speaker 1: and it's hip and crazy as possible. Wow, yeah, are
Speaker 1: you tired? But but that's that's that's I'd say that
Speaker 1: humorously because first of all, I want to know how
Speaker 1: I can help you promote what you're doing these classes
Speaker 1: because of the fact that that's why I created money
Speaker 1: making conversations for this. Entrepreneurship is entertainment driven because there's
Speaker 1: so many ideas. So you have a life outside of
Speaker 1: film and television, and that's what this show is all about.
Speaker 1: So how can I when you do you have any
Speaker 1: upcoming UM boot camps coming up up or scheduled, so
Speaker 1: I can help you promote them with my social media
Speaker 1: as well or my fan club. What can I do?
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. Well, what we what we could
Speaker 1: do is after we hang up, create another one, and
Speaker 1: that's what we do. Okay coolin serious, We'll create one
Speaker 1: and we'll team up and I'll do one in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I think they would appreciate that. It's Neil, okay cool.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's almost November, so we you know,
Speaker 1: let's do if you mind, like in January. Is that cool?
Speaker 1: Because that's what that's when everybody have their you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose weight. I'm gonna lose weight. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose weight. This is when you get the conversation side.
Speaker 1: So well, we can do that, and we'll do one
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and we'll do it that way. I think
Speaker 1: they would love it, and I'll do one, you know,
Speaker 1: and again I do want to either do the app
Speaker 1: or or you know, I people like to say this.
Speaker 1: I just had this conversation. I was just in Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: speaking to the teachers and organizations of Memphis City schools
Speaker 1: and public schools, the Shelby County School System. Should I
Speaker 1: say nowt about further in education and feeling their dreams.
Speaker 1: But to say all of that to say that we
Speaker 1: were just talking about DVDs and stuff, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: DVDs aren't dead because I'm gonna late not see DVD
Speaker 1: selling And I see you know, all of those sitness
Speaker 1: DVD selling and things like that. So I'm still not
Speaker 1: necessarily opposed to even that component as well. But I
Speaker 1: like being there with them when I can and showing
Speaker 1: them personally how it's possible. And sometimes I team up
Speaker 1: with the nutritionists so they can have a conversation right
Speaker 1: before we get to the work about eating healthier and
Speaker 1: doing better and stuff like that. So that's because those
Speaker 1: are things that um I do. But I'm not the expert.
Speaker 1: I don't try to ask. I really want to do
Speaker 1: this with you. I have some ideas in my head
Speaker 1: right now. UM it's it's a it's a very popular
Speaker 1: local UH female DJ in Atlanta. She she's all about fitness.
Speaker 1: She comes on from UH she comes from Tender too.
Speaker 1: I want to I'm gonna contact her, um I this.
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer first of all. I'm I I
Speaker 1: always was a fan of yours. I'm a bigger fan.
Speaker 1: Your energy is off the charge, your your your personality,
Speaker 1: you're so clean in your conversation and your winner. I really,
Speaker 1: really really wish I met you sooner. I met you now,
Speaker 1: so we got a relationship. We're gonna do this event. Samantha.
Speaker 1: Please get her information because we're gonna do this because
Speaker 1: I'm inspired to do this because of the fact that
Speaker 1: she's challenged me to be a part of something great.
Speaker 1: Ms Neil, and you should be and it's gonna be great,
Speaker 1: and thank you for having me on the show. We're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna further this conversation. Definitely. Everybody, please remember in January,
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