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Speaker 1: just stop you at all my next days. She's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite people in the world of sports personalities. Say,
Speaker 1: I'm would say that, Sam, I'm saying. Have y'all ever
Speaker 1: heard me say that? Okay? I think so. She in
Speaker 1: her seventh season as an analyst, host and reporter for ESPN.
Speaker 1: She juggles ESPN College game day duties, sideline reporting though
Speaker 1: college game days, and nights where I host an NBA countdown.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations. But girl, Maria Taylor,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for having me on. So it's good
Speaker 1: to be talking to you again. Well, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's You're always amazing that you know, it's the beauty
Speaker 1: of less that we talked you was you was there,
Speaker 1: was the doing the finally was doing the championship period
Speaker 1: for the women's Uh. I remember talking to you and
Speaker 1: I was literally in a tunnel. I'm been at a
Speaker 1: men's basketball get maybe then I think I was in Brooklyn, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I literally was talking to you, and it's like
Speaker 1: coach k Is going by, that goes Roy Williams, and
Speaker 1: I'm like hiding behind where the characters get dressed or
Speaker 1: all the mascots get dressed. That's right, but you're not you.
Speaker 1: You may hide, but people know who you are nowadays.
Speaker 1: Is let's let's talk about that. You know you you
Speaker 1: you went to University of Georgia. You as an athlete, Um,
Speaker 1: you volleyball player, basketball player? Correct and uh so so
Speaker 1: much as she was all SEC volleyball player, uh with
Speaker 1: three times she was all SEC remember things, my girl
Speaker 1: here and so so I mean that you you, So
Speaker 1: that's that's a drive. I think the reason I bring
Speaker 1: it up that that that as an athlete, that that
Speaker 1: means that you have to push yourself and you have
Speaker 1: to be challenged and you had to especially you. You
Speaker 1: were performing at a high level to be at all
Speaker 1: SEC uh volleyball candidate. So how does that play that
Speaker 1: that that that that athletics side you play into your
Speaker 1: in this competitive world of being a sports personality. Because
Speaker 1: really the world sports has exploded and there is a
Speaker 1: path out there and it keeps growing every day and
Speaker 1: you are right in the middle of it. Yeah. It's funny.
Speaker 1: When I was in school, Um, I told my professors, Hey,
Speaker 1: I want to work in sports broadcast and they're like, great,
Speaker 1: you'll never make any money and you'll never get a job.
Speaker 1: It's like doesn't exist. And now the University of Georgia
Speaker 1: has a sports journalism certificate program. It will probably become
Speaker 1: a degree, and it's just changed so much. But for me,
Speaker 1: that's how I learned to compete was on a court,
Speaker 1: like you're always competing against yourself, Like it wasn't even
Speaker 1: always about the person that you're going up against. It's like,
Speaker 1: how can I get better every single day? And I've
Speaker 1: really been a perfectionist, but I think that evolved definitely
Speaker 1: on the court because I always wanted to put my
Speaker 1: best performance forward. You know, you've got your team relying
Speaker 1: on you, um, you want to do well for your family.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, for me, I wouldn't be able to sleep
Speaker 1: at night if I felt like I didn't play my best,
Speaker 1: or I would want to go back to the court
Speaker 1: in practice again, or I wanted to talk to my
Speaker 1: coach and figure out, Okay, how do we fix whatever
Speaker 1: I think is wrong with my volleyball sling or my
Speaker 1: shot if I was playing basketball. So that's something that
Speaker 1: kind of drove me in and I don't I think
Speaker 1: it's kind of imparted that in my personality now, where
Speaker 1: I'm never satisfied with my last performance or I'm always
Speaker 1: picking a part of the things I'd be wrong to
Speaker 1: the point where my mom is like, you don't even
Speaker 1: watch yourself like she She's like, you can be mad
Speaker 1: for twenty four hours, but that's it, Like you're moving on.
Speaker 1: You didn't like whatever you said. And she's like, and
Speaker 1: by the way, I didn't notice. No one notices ever.
Speaker 1: There you go. I love your mom really because I
Speaker 1: have a daughter and I had to tell her that,
Speaker 1: you know, And because she was competitive, she was a
Speaker 1: she's a tennis prodigy, and then she blew out a
Speaker 1: knee and now she's doing well in college and I'm
Speaker 1: happy for her. And it's when you let let me,
Speaker 1: let me point out some things about her recently, when
Speaker 1: I said her, I mean Maria Taylor. Seventeen, Taylor became
Speaker 1: the first black female to co host College Game Day
Speaker 1: built by the Home Depot, which is huge by the way.
Speaker 1: Taylor was also dubbed as a sideline reporter for ABC
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Football and patrol the sidelines for the College
Speaker 1: Football Playoff and National Championship Game Mirror. Taylor's named host
Speaker 1: of NBA Countdown ESPN and ABC's long standing NBA pregame
Speaker 1: show October of this year. She also have a significant
Speaker 1: role host in NBA playoff editions of NBA countdown across
Speaker 1: ESPN networks. We're gonna, We're gonna. I want to get
Speaker 1: that out because she is uniquely I know, I when
Speaker 1: I when I look at Maria, I'm for some reason,
Speaker 1: people always I just gather information. My staff always going
Speaker 1: why you just you just gather information, just stays in
Speaker 1: your head. I just started watching her when she used
Speaker 1: to do late night packed ten games, so if you
Speaker 1: weren't up, you didn't see her. And I just always
Speaker 1: just a little just like I would say the words
Speaker 1: of the skinny young of the young lady won't the screen,
Speaker 1: but she was just stood out. She just so gifted.
Speaker 1: And I went and I remember told that girl right there,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a star. She's going said, I
Speaker 1: just know she's going to be a star. But you
Speaker 1: have you have you have an ability be real that
Speaker 1: that a lot of people can say that that people
Speaker 1: out there that look good at people like they're tall,
Speaker 1: they are people out there played the sport. But you're
Speaker 1: naturally gifted and translating the story on the spot, whether
Speaker 1: it's at the NBA Draft when you when you I've
Speaker 1: watched you interview those players who were drafted in the
Speaker 1: first round. How you pull their stories from each one?
Speaker 1: It was, it was just amazing. Tell us about that.
Speaker 1: Can you explain that gift? Though you? Can you talk
Speaker 1: about that talent? Did you naturally have? It's so interesting
Speaker 1: because I mean I hear that, but I don't know
Speaker 1: that I recognize it or see it. Like to me,
Speaker 1: it is in a lot of ways second nature. It's
Speaker 1: like it's just wanting it. There's a curiosity there. I
Speaker 1: think I remember UM hearing people talked about and Robin
Speaker 1: Roberts says it all the time. It's like, if you're
Speaker 1: a naturally curious person, then you're going to constantly be
Speaker 1: asking people about their selves, wanting to know more, wanting
Speaker 1: to know why. And I think that's how I've always been.
Speaker 1: Your Winning Age Leadership Academy is a nonprofit organization that
Speaker 1: you have developed to help student athletes with programs event
Speaker 1: through a winning age uh thought process. Talk to us
Speaker 1: about that, Yeah, Winning Age Leadership Academy and we developed
Speaker 1: it UM in fifteen was our first year having a
Speaker 1: full CoA. But I know you're not doing it boy yourself.
Speaker 1: Will you say we who is who are we saying? We? Uh?
Speaker 1: Myself and Crane Millions. She's a co founder. We've both
Speaker 1: worked at ESPN at the time, so she was working
Speaker 1: at ESPN events and I was working with SEC Network
Speaker 1: in Charlotte and we just kind of kept looking around
Speaker 1: the room. But we were like, we are the only
Speaker 1: minorities and we don't want people of color women. How
Speaker 1: do we get more of minorities into the door working
Speaker 1: in sports? And so we started this academy where we
Speaker 1: helped women and ethnic minorities and basically it's a mentoring
Speaker 1: program where we're not only partnering you with the mentor,
Speaker 1: but we have retreats, like with the last two years,
Speaker 1: we've had them in Miami and Atlanta where student athletes
Speaker 1: can come because they don't have much time to go
Speaker 1: do internships and stuff like that, so we have a
Speaker 1: four day experience for them mentor they're there. We took
Speaker 1: them to Turner, we took them to the Braves, we
Speaker 1: took them to Jackson Spalding. When we were in Miami,
Speaker 1: we had Donna Shalela, the former Miami president who's probably
Speaker 1: going to be bringing Secretary of State again or something.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're interacting with people that they wouldn't
Speaker 1: normally find themselves around, and we're teaching them how to
Speaker 1: be comfortable in that space and network and ultimately Karine
Speaker 1: and I have all of the opportunities that we we
Speaker 1: talk to people, We know what the opportunities are. We
Speaker 1: know when there's a job available at Michigan State or
Speaker 1: over here in the NFL, and we also know the
Speaker 1: young minorities and women that want those jobs. So we're
Speaker 1: just trying to build the bridge. So we're working with
Speaker 1: kids constantly on helping to job for job placement, internships,
Speaker 1: and just talking them through once you're there, getting retained,
Speaker 1: you know, dealing with being the only one in the room,
Speaker 1: some of the things and the hurdles that they're going
Speaker 1: to have to cross once they get into the sports inship.
Speaker 1: How does one how big is that the class size
Speaker 1: when you do it, I mean I mean students and
Speaker 1: how do they find out about it? When we do
Speaker 1: the retreats, we have sixteen and we have specifically done
Speaker 1: student athletes because it's the summer and um we also
Speaker 1: did a sum in l A and that was the
Speaker 1: same thing. We had sixteen. But we also work with
Speaker 1: kids just as they kind of reach out so if
Speaker 1: we talked to a kid, we feel strongly about their
Speaker 1: potential or they've shown us you know, okay, this kid
Speaker 1: is really striving for success, they seem really determined, then
Speaker 1: will help those kids too. So overall, we've probably influenced
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty students across the country and UM
Speaker 1: with our actual retreats and all of our programming, we've
Speaker 1: probably have fifty students come through and spend extended periods
Speaker 1: of time with us. And there's the four days. M hmm.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. So now how can I can I have
Speaker 1: promote that for you? Can I have putting out those
Speaker 1: social media? So when is the next when the next
Speaker 1: one coming up? When is the next one coming up?
Speaker 1: The next routeet we'll have We usually do it the
Speaker 1: week after the NBA Draft. That's the week of June twenty.
Speaker 1: We will start sending out basically like emails or you'll
Speaker 1: see on my social media I'll be promoting it that
Speaker 1: we're going to start taking applications. So January February is
Speaker 1: when we start doing that. But you can log on
Speaker 1: to the Winning Edge Leadership dot org and that's a
Speaker 1: great way to follow us. About The about is coming.
Speaker 1: What is the future of Maria Taylor. I wish you're
Speaker 1: gonna be busy, young lady running for governor or something,
Speaker 1: were you gonna get a vote. Very college coach in
Speaker 1: the SEC, I can tell you that for Joe, they're
Speaker 1: gonna vote for you, and they're gonna push push you
Speaker 1: over the top. You know, I wouldn't push politics from
Speaker 1: being a part of Europe. I feel that that you,
Speaker 1: you know, you are a game change in Maria from
Speaker 1: a standpoint a. You understand who you are, you understand
Speaker 1: the role that you have to play. You give back
Speaker 1: and and and then that's that's really important. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about trying to be successful and trying to
Speaker 1: understand that I am a minority, not only minority from
Speaker 1: a person of a color, but gender as well. But
Speaker 1: you don't let that stop you. Why Because I know
Speaker 1: that there's some kid out there watching me that needs
Speaker 1: to see it that if I get stopped, then that's
Speaker 1: gonna make them believe that they can't make it. So
Speaker 1: if every time every Saturday, a kid can turn on
Speaker 1: their TV, a young woman or a young man and say,
Speaker 1: you know what Maria's out there doing, and she looks
Speaker 1: comfortable and um, people are enjoying being around her, then
Speaker 1: I can do whatever is in front of me tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Like that's really my hope that there's a kid somewhere
Speaker 1: that turns on the TV. It sparked the dream or
Speaker 1: something in them and makes them believe that really they
Speaker 1: can't be slowed down by anything but themselves. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: when you do the retrieve, you do another one in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Last time you came by my house, my wife wasn't there,
Speaker 1: and I will you can. You can put me down
Speaker 1: as a dessert stop. Okay, a dessert stop, okay, because
Speaker 1: because you came by, you know, you can sit it
Speaker 1: back and you can fish. You know, it could be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. They can sit and relax and
Speaker 1: I got a tennis corter back there, all kind of
Speaker 1: like our opening meal. Absolutely, absolutely absolutely, I'll just let
Speaker 1: you know, put Rashawn down because I believe in you.
Speaker 1: I will support you. Your values are outstanding and and
Speaker 1: keep winning because you are winning, Maria Taylor. And I
Speaker 1: don't say that to everybody either, Okay, Okay, if you stroll,
Speaker 1: we talked to it, okay, but it seriously put me
Speaker 1: down for that opening dinner, Okay, Okay, thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: My guest, who is currently in studio, is one of
Speaker 1: the stars in the Queen Sugar series on the Oprah
Speaker 1: Winfrey Network. She's also recognized playwright and CEO of the
Speaker 1: Inner Fitness Project, and she on she has on the
Speaker 1: show that they discussed her new book, Uh, The Little
Speaker 1: Book of Big Lives, a Journey Enter, Enter Inner Fitness.
Speaker 1: Please welcome back to the show, Tina liftod Tina, it
Speaker 1: was when I was reading the book, it was kind
Speaker 1: of like I came across like you talked about the twenties, thirties,
Speaker 1: and forties. The twenties you were assessed with figuring life out,
Speaker 1: and the thirties was a time of wakening to the
Speaker 1: puzzles of life. And the forties had a dream that
Speaker 1: opened the door to a new way of seeing yourself.
Speaker 1: That these are my take on these So if I
Speaker 1: would like to take a moment to go back, because
Speaker 1: we we we hit so many areas of how I
Speaker 1: try to communicate to people who listen to this show.
Speaker 1: I always tell people, it's not your current resume that
Speaker 1: you should be concerned about. It should be what you
Speaker 1: accomplish in your twenties, your thirties, and your forties because
Speaker 1: by mastering that, accepting the VA I use, that are
Speaker 1: the traits that come out of that, that is what
Speaker 1: you're going to be making money on in your authorities
Speaker 1: and fifties and sixties. That's gonna take you to I
Speaker 1: don't even call it. I don't use the word retirement.
Speaker 1: It will keep you through life. I think retirement as
Speaker 1: a as a stop signed for to say you're supposed
Speaker 1: to stop, and in life, you're not supposed to stop.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to keep gaining energy. So when you talk
Speaker 1: about the twenties, thursies, and forties, let's break that down
Speaker 1: a little bit. To my listeners, well, great, and and
Speaker 1: I love that you were talking about, you know, career
Speaker 1: building and UM and and longevity UM. One of the
Speaker 1: things that people don't realize is that when it comes
Speaker 1: to living a full and balanced life, we're talking we're
Speaker 1: talking success and happiness, right, but those are two separate
Speaker 1: skill sets. The skill set for six sas and career
Speaker 1: is a different skill set from happiness. People think that
Speaker 1: if they get the career and they make the money,
Speaker 1: that they are going to be happy. Happiness, however, is
Speaker 1: actually a byproduct of us feeling aligned with ourselves, feeling
Speaker 1: that we are good enough, that we um have purpose,
Speaker 1: that we are UM on point, you know, that we
Speaker 1: that we literally just have a sense of our um
Speaker 1: being worthy as we are. If we don't have that,
Speaker 1: then all the money in the world still has you
Speaker 1: feeling like there's something missing. Correct. You know, you can
Speaker 1: you can have the mate, you can have the kids,
Speaker 1: you can have the money, but if you don't have yourself,
Speaker 1: you will wake up feeling like something is missing, and
Speaker 1: so um you know. The twenties for me, Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: the twenties for me were full of a curiosity like,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know how to I didn't know
Speaker 1: how to make my career. So that was truly frustrating.
Speaker 1: But I was also fortunate enough to have a circle
Speaker 1: of friends and UH to have a place of worship
Speaker 1: that was teaching me the importance of me connecting with me,
Speaker 1: you know, and me connect connecting with me. Over over time,
Speaker 1: I came to distill that into one being able to
Speaker 1: UM acknowledge the things that have taken place, you know
Speaker 1: truly well. First you have to become aware that there's
Speaker 1: an inner you and that you have to take care
Speaker 1: of that person in addition to whatever your external aims are.
Speaker 1: And once you are aware that there's an inner you,
Speaker 1: now you have to acknowledge who you are and what
Speaker 1: you do. You know when you say, when you can
Speaker 1: say uh, from your awareness, uh, I do this, or ah,
Speaker 1: this happened to me and this is how it made
Speaker 1: me feel, and these are the conclusions I drew based
Speaker 1: upon what happened to me. When we can be honest
Speaker 1: about that, then those those past experiences aren't held inside
Speaker 1: of us in what I call an emotional loop. When
Speaker 1: we don't acknowledge what happened to us and how it
Speaker 1: made us feel, there is a part of us sitting
Speaker 1: inside begging for that acknowledgement. When you say that this
Speaker 1: is speaking it, speaking it or tell the sharing experience
Speaker 1: with someone writing it in your journal is a great
Speaker 1: starting point. You know, being able to have just another
Speaker 1: person here you. We all want to be heard, we
Speaker 1: all want to be seen and and in order to
Speaker 1: have that happen, you have to develop community or relationships
Speaker 1: where that can take place. But the most important thing
Speaker 1: is you have to see yourself. You have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: to yourself that you have these feelings and that this
Speaker 1: is where you are. And that's where I love the book.
Speaker 1: When I say the book, I'm talking about the Little
Speaker 1: Book of Big Lies, a journey into into fitness because
Speaker 1: I have those stories, I have those moments in my
Speaker 1: life that I reveal some of them to you. Really,
Speaker 1: if they if they're still with me, that means they
Speaker 1: had an impact on If I can vividly see that
Speaker 1: young man patting me that on the corner Russell and
Speaker 1: Bain Street, that's where I was at the walk past,
Speaker 1: and suddenly just stopped showing up. Lord No, I prayed enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he went, but Lord he stopped,
Speaker 1: and that that my life was able to go on.
Speaker 1: And so and even even from the standpoint I can
Speaker 1: remember in the elementary s group with my a good
Speaker 1: friend of mine died. You know how that emotional play
Speaker 1: this role. And you know he had uh he was
Speaker 1: blowing up a balloon and he inhaled it and then
Speaker 1: and that affected me how my daughter I would never
Speaker 1: allow hard to have balloons, No balloons in here you know,
Speaker 1: have to be blown up already, but she's not blowing
Speaker 1: off anything. So those little things that you're talking about,
Speaker 1: that journey as you go up, as you evolved, those
Speaker 1: moments really do play itself out again and again, and
Speaker 1: you have to acknowledge it and admit that this had
Speaker 1: a negative or positive effect, because a lot of time
Speaker 1: there is positive. But you you have to acknowledge it
Speaker 1: either way. Absolutely, you have to do. You have to.
Speaker 1: You have to acknowledge it because once you acknowledge it,
Speaker 1: then you can actually begin to observe yourself almost like
Speaker 1: you're watching a movie. You know, I call it sitting
Speaker 1: in your observer's chair, where you sit and you watch
Speaker 1: your life like you're watching a movie, and that objectivity
Speaker 1: allows you to see things that you're subconscious hasn't yet
Speaker 1: um brought to the surface. It was something Before we
Speaker 1: wrap up the interview, I wanted to make sure we
Speaker 1: talked about this, and you made a statement in your book.
Speaker 1: We are preconditioned to think something is always wrong. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's the surviving, that's the survive itself. But you know,
Speaker 1: we we somebody calls you in the morning, what's wrong,
Speaker 1: What's that's right? That's right, that's right, and just imagine
Speaker 1: that that we laugh about it right here, But that's
Speaker 1: happening all the time. You get called into your boss's
Speaker 1: office and the immediate thing is, you know, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: What did I do wrong? And the what did I
Speaker 1: do wrong? Is? We need to begin to rewire um
Speaker 1: our immediate uh position with ourselves. You know, we need
Speaker 1: to realize that we are we are I'd love to
Speaker 1: say true up, you know, realize that we are innately creative, resilient,
Speaker 1: empowered to choose how we think in a moment and
Speaker 1: were whole, so to think of ourselves as worthy first
Speaker 1: and then be free enough to uh make decisions about
Speaker 1: what needs to change in our lives. It was so interesting,
Speaker 1: and you know, we talked about the House of Mirrors. Yes,
Speaker 1: a relatable found the looking at the two D movie
Speaker 1: and seeing the three D image in the background, which
Speaker 1: is the Santa Monica Pere. But the lite also stood out.
Speaker 1: A question stood out to me that I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure I got answer to the joke. What is
Speaker 1: real confidence? A real confidence is the ability to be
Speaker 1: with yourself no matter what the challenges are. A lot
Speaker 1: of people can't be with the uncomfortable parts of themselves.
Speaker 1: But the moment that we learned to truly accept ourselves,
Speaker 1: then the opinions, the judgment and the um you know,
Speaker 1: the the u being being looked at by others will
Speaker 1: not impact us in a negative way because we know
Speaker 1: who we are. You know, I I feel you are
Speaker 1: a soul mate. I would just let you know that
Speaker 1: we because of the fact that you do a lot
Speaker 1: of things. One of the things I really loved about
Speaker 1: when reading your book you you have a downloadable free
Speaker 1: tool call a s A l Ascending Scale to an
Speaker 1: Awesome Life. You go to Tina the Foot dot com
Speaker 1: and download a free tool a s A l Ascending
Speaker 1: Scale to an Awesome Life. Please tell everybody what that is,
Speaker 1: because I want to put that in my newsletter. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the most important things we can
Speaker 1: do is to begin to understand the power of the
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Speaker 1: thought I'd be the next Richard Pryor with the New
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Speaker 1: I survived all that with the Houston became a star comedian,
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Speaker 1: She's a Grammy nominator recording artists who not only scaled
Speaker 1: the R and B and pop charts with six top
Speaker 1: twenty Billboard Magazine R and B singles and an impressive
Speaker 1: thirteen number one hits on Billboards Hot Dance Club Play Chart,
Speaker 1: but it's also carved out her place within the world
Speaker 1: Broadway tell of Broadway television, film, and fashion. Broadway shows
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Speaker 1: uh in the lead role of Elton John and Tim
Speaker 1: Rice's Broadway musical Aida. She's on the show the Day
Speaker 1: to talk about other television projects that she's involved with.
Speaker 1: Concerts she's given in community events and formal observations of
Speaker 1: World AIDS today, World Age Day which is December one,
Speaker 1: and many of the four three countries around the world
Speaker 1: that they serve. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation for
Speaker 1: the very first time, and I'm happy to have it
Speaker 1: on the show. Miss Deborah Cox. Hey, hello, after that,
Speaker 1: I was I needed some applause. Deborah. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a lot going on with your life, your career,
Speaker 1: and you look fantastic, by the way, Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. You've got all that information. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of information. Well, you know, first of all, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, off air, I will telling you that one
Speaker 1: of the first time we met when I was when
Speaker 1: I was one of the producer's own sister sister and
Speaker 1: I was one of the early early years. You was
Speaker 1: very successful singer, and you were at that turn you
Speaker 1: was making that turn to consider acting as a as
Speaker 1: a as Was it a love for acting or you
Speaker 1: just felt like that was a craft you wanted to
Speaker 1: build on when you was auditioned for sitcoms like Sister Sister,
Speaker 1: Well it was it was during my early years. I
Speaker 1: learned very very early on that you have to try
Speaker 1: and crack at everything, and so acting was something that
Speaker 1: was always in my blood. I had done musicals before,
Speaker 1: but when I went to l A, you know, doing
Speaker 1: studio sessions and working on the album wasn't enough I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I wanted to do more. And so
Speaker 1: that was um, you know, I had had an agent
Speaker 1: that would just send me on all these different auditions,
Speaker 1: you know, for different types of roles. Well, the thing
Speaker 1: that all came across to me in the in the
Speaker 1: audition was that you was just a natural um you
Speaker 1: know or not. Uh, the moment wasn't too big for you.
Speaker 1: Because the reason I say that because you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of actors, a lot of singers came through common
Speaker 1: came through a lot of individuals who and I see
Speaker 1: that what they're doing now, and I see what you're
Speaker 1: doing now, and then to see the early stages of
Speaker 1: learning or try to get a sense of who you are,
Speaker 1: what you say, what you do, because you come in there,
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, in some ways, because of the fact
Speaker 1: that you are a successful singer versus a person who
Speaker 1: may be an unknown actress, it almost is almost a
Speaker 1: disadvantage sometimes to you are are maybe uh, the fact
Speaker 1: that you know you're coming in and you're making a transition,
Speaker 1: and you're not giving credit for the gifts that you
Speaker 1: have as an actor. I think, well, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the times, the right project has to find you.
Speaker 1: In order for you to find you, you have to
Speaker 1: continue to go out and be fearless and put yourself
Speaker 1: in front of people that are going to see that gift.
Speaker 1: You know, I did my first independent um. I did
Speaker 1: a film with Lawrence tap you know, a movie called
Speaker 1: Love Come Down in two thousand, which was I think
Speaker 1: probably um again. It was something that that came to
Speaker 1: me and I think really suited who I was, right, right, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm saying. You know, when you come
Speaker 1: in for these auditions for these sitcoms or these dramas,
Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to be something that sometimes we've
Speaker 1: already you know, you're you're you know you're you are
Speaker 1: still are a very popular singer. Okay, let's go and
Speaker 1: get that straight. So when you at the time you
Speaker 1: even more prominent, you singer walking and even go okay
Speaker 1: this Jebrea Cox Okay, wow, okay, and so you can
Speaker 1: you so you you're you're somewhat um um and all
Speaker 1: of the fact that you're in a room and you're
Speaker 1: trying to audition for a funny role. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, You're trying to be a friend of a
Speaker 1: family member or a friend of the twins at the time,
Speaker 1: because that's what Sister Sister was about. And so so
Speaker 1: it means that you but like you said, when you
Speaker 1: have the role you had with Lawrence Tay, they brought
Speaker 1: that to you. So they had a sense of this
Speaker 1: is who I want to play this role. This is
Speaker 1: the person he is, the value already to the natural
Speaker 1: skills I want to look, I want the tone, I
Speaker 1: want all those things that are those values. And so
Speaker 1: so then that carries you over into Broadway, which is
Speaker 1: even more wow. You know. Yea happen big, big, big
Speaker 1: shoes to fail when it comes to, you know, taking
Speaker 1: on a role that's already been established. Um. But you
Speaker 1: know again, I think it's it's really about how fearless
Speaker 1: can you be? You know, and in shedding the persona
Speaker 1: that people see and that people have gotten used to
Speaker 1: and stepping into something completely different. I had gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where I was very bored with a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that were happening, and Broadway seemed to
Speaker 1: have a lot more compelling storylines and more compelling, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just a way of telling the story. I
Speaker 1: was able to sing and act and dance and live
Speaker 1: and be live and live as well. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's what I took away when I was watching you,
Speaker 1: was like, you're in your moment, you know, because you
Speaker 1: know it's a you know, there's a former stand up comic,
Speaker 1: I know, going in front of a live audience. You know,
Speaker 1: you it's there's a high level of you know, you
Speaker 1: can't plan it. There's a lot of you can't nothing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like it's like you're walking that type what's happen? Right,
Speaker 1: and and and every audience and every show people right
Speaker 1: might laugh at something that that the previous audience didn't
Speaker 1: find the humor or, and then they might they might cry,
Speaker 1: or they might get your standard ovation, or they might applaud.
Speaker 1: It's something to react to it, and that's that that
Speaker 1: that's that's what you got out of the whole live world,
Speaker 1: that whole Broadway world. Correct. Oh yeah, yeah. There was
Speaker 1: no no chance to retake anything. We do anything when
Speaker 1: you're live. As soon as you know that downbeat happens.
Speaker 1: You're pretty much often running and you gotta you know,
Speaker 1: know all your lines, know your marks, you know, and
Speaker 1: and be in it and and be able to deliver
Speaker 1: in front of the audience that's paid, you know, over
Speaker 1: a hundred dollars for a sei. You've got to make
Speaker 1: sure that you deliver. You know. That's awesome. Now you
Speaker 1: have a you have a movie project coming up on
Speaker 1: BT and called Influence. It starts one of my good
Speaker 1: Anthony Hamilton's and Kim tell us a little bit about that. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I know we're gonna we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: Age Healthcare Foundation and all that, but I want to
Speaker 1: just talk about your brain is amazing and the fact
Speaker 1: that I got you on my show. I al would
Speaker 1: like to talk about the evolution of that journey. When
Speaker 1: you're talking about people with careers, Your careers are amazingly
Speaker 1: long and it's not going anywhere. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: the upcoming movie on b T. Well, this movie is
Speaker 1: called Influence, and it's about a family of lawyers who
Speaker 1: take on this case of superstar celebrity who's accused of murder.
Speaker 1: And I play Savannah, who's accused of murdering her husband.
Speaker 1: Um and so different. So yeah, it's really a suspense,
Speaker 1: a thriller. And that was the reason why I signed
Speaker 1: on to do it was because I had never done
Speaker 1: anything like that before. I always loved that feels like
Speaker 1: that if there sultry and there too, you know, you're you,
Speaker 1: you look good. Yeah. Yeah. I think that this role
Speaker 1: will will will explore a very different side of me,
Speaker 1: a side that I've never had to even exploit doing music.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of the times, you know, women
Speaker 1: have to you know, be sort of you know, scantily clad,
Speaker 1: and I've I've always been able to you know, be
Speaker 1: measured by the by the weight of of my talent,
Speaker 1: right and my voice. Yeah, so um yeah, I really
Speaker 1: pride myself in that because I think the standard are
Speaker 1: you know, the standards have been lowered, you know, over
Speaker 1: the years. Um And when you think about these triple
Speaker 1: threats like the Gyan Carrols, the Dorothy Dandrids, Lena Horn,
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Speaker 1: had to do that. They had all they needed was there,
Speaker 1: you know, their talent, you know. So um so back
Speaker 1: to influence, it's it's it's something that I've never done before,
Speaker 1: and it was really um fun to explore a different
Speaker 1: side uh of acting, which is really dramatic and doing
Speaker 1: a lot of suspense and thriller type stuff. Well, I
Speaker 1: like the word thriller tied to your name. You know,
Speaker 1: that suspense, that drama because you know the reason I
Speaker 1: say that because you know, you have the different shows
Speaker 1: and they're like you know, like their dramas and that's
Speaker 1: the their sitcoms and things like that, and they tend
Speaker 1: to be over the top and so so here and
Speaker 1: you and this this role, these roles, and I have
Speaker 1: to say they're usually white actors, and actors usually get
Speaker 1: these type of roles. In those particular roles where they
Speaker 1: allowed the character to play out. We played the sinister
Speaker 1: role that you know, look the evil but good looking uh,
Speaker 1: the pause and ivy type characters. That had to be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. That really when they when the
Speaker 1: when the opportunity that came to you, you had to
Speaker 1: jump forward right Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was they had um, they had really um you know,
Speaker 1: they were really trying someone to do it. And I
Speaker 1: read the script and I and I thought it was
Speaker 1: just something very different, you know, I had just finished
Speaker 1: coming off of the Bodyguard musical and I had spent
Speaker 1: eighteen months doing that show across the country, which was great,
Speaker 1: was exhilarating, and there was a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of great music in the show, you know, Whitney Houston's music,
Speaker 1: I mean, which is really a big task. So it
Speaker 1: was nice to kind of just settle back and sink
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Speaker 1: seventh is a very lucky numb so I wish you
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Speaker 1: McDonald's a fan, longtime fan. I'm just so happy I
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Speaker 1: and director. She has been honored with three a CP
Speaker 1: Image Awards for work on The Steve Harvey Show. Not
Speaker 1: only has she starred in several independent features, but she's
Speaker 1: also produced over sixteen projects under her independent production company,
Speaker 1: Nina Holiday Entertainment, with her producing partner cast Seekers Beatles.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversation, both of them, Terry
Speaker 1: Jay Vonn and cast Seekers Beatles. But you know we're great.
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you because of the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, in this business you have to have I
Speaker 1: would tell people multiple levels of income options, you know,
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Speaker 1: that the path that you're it could be cut off
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Speaker 1: going in a different direction. So what do you do
Speaker 1: when somebody says that, Well, you you you study your craft,
Speaker 1: you understand your craft, and also you surround yourself with
Speaker 1: individuals who have like minded of mentality about what you're
Speaker 1: trying to do with your life. And that's what you
Speaker 1: guys to have done, right Cash in Tear J definitely, UM.
Speaker 1: You know, you know me for a very long time
Speaker 1: when I was you know, I got my big break
Speaker 1: on the Steve Harvey Show. And I say big break
Speaker 1: because I had been studying and auditioning for a while
Speaker 1: before I ever landed that role. But that is definitely
Speaker 1: the role that UM catapulted and made people know who
Speaker 1: I was. UM. So, you know, just spending all those
Speaker 1: years being an actress, you know, showing up, auditioning and basically,
Speaker 1: you know, you do your side of the job, which
Speaker 1: is to do the work, to study the craft, to
Speaker 1: know with the character and all that, but you are
Speaker 1: not in control if somebody hired you or hot and
Speaker 1: you know that's cool. When I was in my twenties
Speaker 1: and early thirties. But at some point I felt and
Speaker 1: I knew that I could not leave my employment in
Speaker 1: the hands of other people. Um. And you know this,
Speaker 1: this is very subjective. So you know, I've always been
Speaker 1: business minded, and you know, when we were on the
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Show, John, I would always like hang around,
Speaker 1: ask questions. I talked to you guys about money a
Speaker 1: lot about investing. UM. I was always trying to well,
Speaker 1: can I write a script? Can I do this? So
Speaker 1: I was always trying to take control in some kind
Speaker 1: of way. And thank god I met my soulmate in business, um,
Speaker 1: miss prolific writer. Prolific writer. Yes, yes, And I gotta
Speaker 1: just drug her into this side of the business because
Speaker 1: you know, cast it off as a novelist novel but
Speaker 1: they were so fantastic. I was like, oh, these be
Speaker 1: turned into the TV shows like okay. And we kind
Speaker 1: of been together ever since, just trying to carve out
Speaker 1: our own niche make our own way. And we've been,
Speaker 1: you know, rocking and rolling together for over fourteen years now,
Speaker 1: from something like that like fourteen thing, it's been about fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really had one kid, We really had one kid
Speaker 1: between us, and now now we have five. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: we have five, and now we have four husbands between us.
Speaker 1: Start off with and then you know I'm sick. Now,
Speaker 1: Ay told you I'm sick. You gotta be laughing over here.
Speaker 1: You gotta stop stop stop stop, Okay, okay, let me,
Speaker 1: you need to shut up. Ferry, Jake, now, Cash, I'll
Speaker 1: be quiet. Let's talk about you know, you know, it's
Speaker 1: always I would tell you those she says, there's always
Speaker 1: that unknown person that's out there just grinding. You did
Speaker 1: so many Hoodie awards with me, you know, and and
Speaker 1: from reduction standpoint, and you was always he was always there,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was always cool whenever from
Speaker 1: a person to under standpoint, talk about your your your
Speaker 1: your your your ability to your talents as a writer.
Speaker 1: Before I get back to me this funny, ladies, I
Speaker 1: am a natural storyteller. Well, I have to say, honestly,
Speaker 1: watching you, um you have, You've been such an inspiration.
Speaker 1: I would tell Terry all the time when we would
Speaker 1: come back from the Neighborhood Awards. I'm like, man that
Speaker 1: Shawn like he just makes things happen. And I remember
Speaker 1: having a specific conversation with you because I'm an artist.
Speaker 1: I'm a storyteller to my heart. UM, and I have
Speaker 1: over the years and learned to become a businesswoman. Deal Saner,
Speaker 1: I need a date for meals on TV one on Sunday,
Speaker 1: December eight at seven pm Eastern, sixth Central, followed by
Speaker 1: an our car Encore presentation at nine pm at eighth Central.
Speaker 1: UH now eastern and eight Central. Um, Dear Santa, I
Speaker 1: need a date expound. So that is a project. I've
Speaker 1: been really blessed because I have really great relationship in
Speaker 1: this business. Um, and not just you and Steve, I
Speaker 1: have other great relations Reagan, Presure Reagan. This Parenthood World
Speaker 1: Films is actually the production company for that movie. And um,
Speaker 1: I I that is my I have four Christmas movies
Speaker 1: airing this Christmas. Cass has written three of them. She
Speaker 1: did not write this one, Dear Santa. Probably them. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you wrote two of them. Okay, yeah, she wrote two
Speaker 1: of them. You have four movies. You have four Christmas
Speaker 1: movies airing, but I don't have information on one of
Speaker 1: them for this interview. So well I can fill you
Speaker 1: in so and I'll do them in order of the
Speaker 1: sold immediate sold. You gonna be pat It's gonna be
Speaker 1: all Terry J all time, all the time, as it
Speaker 1: should be. So here we go. So on November on
Speaker 1: the ET, Uh, I gotta get all these things together. Um,
Speaker 1: Christmas Bells will air and that's the one I did
Speaker 1: with John Amos and Jane Hubert, uh, Dominique Perry and
Speaker 1: Raven Goodwin. And that airs on the t November. On
Speaker 1: November thirty, air Hip Hop Holiday, which is a Nina
Speaker 1: holiday production that Cass did right, and that is um
Speaker 1: airing on BT at eight o'clock on November thirty, and
Speaker 1: that stars Windy Rachel Robinson, Toronto Jones, Andre Spliller. And
Speaker 1: then on December seven airs Oh my god, okay, Christmas
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