Let's Talk With Qunetta Davis

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What's good? What's good, people? Welcome to

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another episode of Not Just Music Podcast. I'm

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your host, Quincy Murdoch. We have a very special

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guest right here. Just a woman of many traits.

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Just, we welcome you. She's an author with a

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book titled Target at Birth, which is on Amazon.

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She's an actor, she's a mother, she's a survivor,

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and many more things. Everybody welcome Q, I

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call her Q, Q Davis to the show. How are you?

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Hey, I'm fine, I'm fine. Good to be here. Appreciate

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you, appreciate you. So, where are you originally

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from? I'm originally from Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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Okay, okay. How was it growing up there? You

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know, it's a lot of history in South Carolina,

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period. So how was it growing up there around

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your time, your era? I must say, I had fun growing

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up. I had fun growing up on the outside of things.

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But Orangeburg, it wasn't like it is now. It

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wasn't too rough back then. Like poverty, of

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course, yeah. That was the main thing. But as

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far as the... prime rate and everything we have

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none of that not too much that i heard of okay

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okay so um as a child you know uh just growing

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up how was your life you got any siblings any

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siblings yeah i got siblings i have uh two brothers

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one is deceased and i have two sisters one sister's

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older than me and one's younger than me okay

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so how how was it growing up a little bit of

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detail Me and my siblings, although we lived

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in the same house and, you know, prayed by the

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same rules, we were really distant. We were together,

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but we had a lot of distance between us. The

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only way we would talk to, you know, stick together,

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be together, love each other, is my father. He

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was big on that. But when it came to my mother,

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that was another different story. We just kind

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of grew up doing our own thing. I think the only

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way people actually knew we were siblings because

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we lived in the same house. But at school, when

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we crossed paths, we barely said anything to

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each other. We just it was it was weird to me.

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OK, OK, OK. So I read you actually were you're

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in the medical field, right? Yes. So where did

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your passion start with? like for helping people

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did that start early on in life um when did that

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start very young for one i stuck up under my

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grandmother all the time they would always do

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this do that do this do that even i didn't want

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to do it but um sometimes i did but um my mother

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also was in the medical field she never was certified

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for it but you know back then they could go work

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in these homes and she started taking me to work

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with her while she was you know taking care uh

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disabled kids or whatever that was much more

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older than me and um some days she would leave

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and i was left there at the job so i just it

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was kind of self -taught i don't know i guess

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i just had the heart like you know uh maybe i

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should get into this and do the right thing with

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it so i've been in it since 18 and i'm 44 now

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wow wow that's that's amazing because you know

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Finding that discovery, like, at a young age,

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you know, helping people is always a good thing,

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man, in the world we live in now. You know, so

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that's always a blessing to have somebody that

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really want to help the world, help people. You

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know what I'm saying? So I did my research, you

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know, and I discovered your book, Target at Birth.

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And it came from, like, basically childhood experiences

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for what I know. If you could go into some of

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the details, like what motivated you, your story

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to write this book? It was healing. I wanted

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healing. I think I had weighed all my options

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with even asking for counseling and, you know,

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growing up in the community we grew up in, we

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were taught that, you know, there's only a certain

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race that goes to counseling to get therapy.

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I was never taught that reaching out for help

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or going to see somebody or talk to somebody

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was healthy for your mental. So as I got older

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and became a mom and started raising my kids

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on my own and raising them differently and seeing

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things for what it really was, I just felt like,

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OK, maybe if I write it out, I'll feel better.

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Because it's not like I didn't reach out and

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ask for counseling, like maybe we should go to

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counseling to mend our relationship. I was turned

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down a few times. And that was like the end of

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it. So I just decided that the only closure that

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I may ever get is by writing a book. Yeah, and

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I agree because, you know, I've been through

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situations and as an artist, you know, like I've

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done a movie, Quincy Murdoch, the movie, and

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I've always learned that your story is not just

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your story. You know what I'm saying? Your story

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is to help somebody else. So I'm a bit firm believing

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you should never be ashamed to tell your story

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because it can help you for one and it can help

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somebody else out there that might feel like

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there's no hope. Like you said, you know, in

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the black culture, we're taught, you know, don't

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go get help or just push it to the side, push

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your feelings to the side. Or, you know, if it's

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family, family stick together no matter what,

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even if they do you wrong. And that's the narrative

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we got to change. The black culture, I feel,

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you know, so it's good to you to expose things,

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you know, that happen. And then I had a lot of

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friends that was going through so much trauma

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and they had started opening up to me about different

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things. None was too much like what I had experienced,

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but I felt their pain in so many different ways.

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And they will always say, you know, you so strong,

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you know, we got to call you. I got to call you.

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I got some friends to this day that be like,

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you know, you the go to person. And they never

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knew my story. So they kept asking, where did

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my strength come from? And it was a lot of them

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didn't even know I was releasing the book. OK,

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OK, OK. So, you know, anytime you tell them the

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truth, because I've always said when you tell

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the truth, it sparks, you know, good or bad.

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What are some of the consequences of you telling

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your truth? Phone calls. Cyberbullying, creating

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hundreds of fake accounts to curse me out, calling

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me out my name, getting other people to go on

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my page, say things to me, threats. I got all

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of that. Have you received any love, support

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from it? I did, secretly. You know, it's crazy

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because, you know, it kind of hurt, but, you

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know, I got over it. You know, I got a lot of

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support from my family, but that was secret.

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It wasn't out too loud. Some of them had the

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courage to say it out loud, but some of them

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just didn't. And that's when I had to look at

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the situation like, you know, there's still somebody

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being protected and it ain't me. Right, right,

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right. OK, so you are, you know, you are out

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there. And I also realize, Reg, you act, you

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know. we've talked behind the scenes you know

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about some projects uh where when did that love

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for acting come was that after you wrote the

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book or have you always wanted to act as a child

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when did that love come about as a child i always

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wanted to be um i think when i was growing up

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i wanted to have my own talk show okay for many

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reasons one It's because at a very, very tender

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age, I didn't I felt like I didn't have a voice.

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Why say something? Ain't nobody going to believe

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me. And I just kept looking at talk shows with

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my grandmother as we was getting older. And I

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see that people go on there and just be telling

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stuff. They get to let it out. So I wanted to

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be a talk show host. Crazy. And I was into music.

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My little brother supported me a lot. My dad

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won an education over doing things like that.

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My mom. Never paid much attention one way or

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another. And my other siblings, like I said,

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we didn't even have that open line of communication

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for them to be, you know, like, oh, yeah, you're

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going to do it. You're going to do it. But my

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little brother did. So he supported me. You know,

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I made a lot of promises to him. And I guess

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now I guess I didn't get what I wanted as a kid.

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I came into it another way. Sadly that my story

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brought me into the industry. That story. Hey,

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and sometimes the trials and tribulations are

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the blessings, man. You know what I'm saying?

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That's, you know, it's a gift and a curse, you

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know, at the end of the day, God going to give

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us battles, but look what he did. You know, he

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gave you those battles to put into a story, you

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know? So being a black woman and being in the

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industry, you know, and being, you know, You're

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a nice looking woman. What challenges do you

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face in this industry? Like, do a lot of people

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try to take advantage of that? Like, you know,

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because you're a woman, you know, good and bad.

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I haven't had any. The sad part, I must say,

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the sad part is I haven't had too many, not many

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males try to take advantage of it. It was females.

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And when I say females, it's because they learn

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my story carefully. Right? And if they're a little

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bit older than me, then they learn what my triggers

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was, what I needed. I guess they feel like they

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could probably make me feel like, oh, I could

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feel that boy. So they took me under their wings

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and I looked up to them and I felt like I was

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re -victimized all over again. But you live and

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you learn. I was going to ask you, like, do you

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think the things that you went through as a child,

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like, The situations where you were taken advantage

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of, does that give you an edge in the industry,

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the entertainment? Like, I'm not going to be

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violated in no way. You know, it makes you a

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stronger woman and you don't stand. Oh, absolutely.

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Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah.

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Yeah. Is that, you know, growing up giving me,

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I'm traumatized, but trusting people. Yeah. So

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if I trust you, I trust you. And it takes me

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a while to get there. I give anybody a chance.

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But when I start seeing you move in certain ways

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and certain things start triggering me, I know

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sons. Do you have kids? Yes, I have three sons.

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Do you try to protect them from what you've been

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through? How does that make you as a mother knowing

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the situations you've been through? What do you

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take from that and instilling it to your sons

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and teaching them to be grown men? If I'm being

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honest, I beat myself up a lot because I try

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to protect my sons from any and everything. They

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were late doing everything. And what I mean,

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couldn't have company spend the night over. Couldn't

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spend the night at people's house. There were

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only one friend that I trusted with that, and

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it took me a while to do that. I just was so

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overprotective. Like, no, you can't go this place.

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No, you can't go that place. City bus, no, that's

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out of the question. My friend's mom was going

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to bring me home. No, I don't care. I don't trust

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it. So I kind of sheltered them so much. Sound

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like my mama. Yeah. Okay. Um, so with the, the

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entertainment and basically like, you know, the

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field that you in the healthcare field and working,

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um, how do you juggle your personal life with,

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with father? Is it difficult? Is it easy at this

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point? For somebody out there that's dealing

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with a lot, I don't know if you're a single parent

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or a single mother, but doing a whole lot, what

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encouragement would you give them? I will say

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I keep going. I say that nothing is scheduled.

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I know how to take my days off ahead of time.

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plan on being in something or trying to get into

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a movie i look at the dates i start lining the

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dates up and then i go to my manager and i had

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those days taken off and i juggle it and it had

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been too bad for me on my days off i try to do

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most of my stuff but you know in some days i

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work 16 hours should get right off in the next

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morning i gotta be somewhere right so uh i know

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this story and I want to see if you want to speak

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on it. I know one traumatized experience you've

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had doing a movie. What are some bad experiences

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that you've had and how have you recovered and

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how did you deal with those experiences in the

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industry or what you do? If you can speak on

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it, the ones you can speak on. you know when

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somebody take advantage of you when you see it

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you see it you see it but you really not um you

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push back because you got so many other people

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that's involved in it you don't want to let them

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down so you try your best to just go through

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it get through the moment and then double back

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on it so that's what you do okay okay okay and

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what what experience what what advice would you

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give like a young lady out there um you know

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that's wanting to be something to be somebody,

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what encouragement would you give them in any

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situations they may be in to uplift them? What

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would you tell them, the young ladies out there?

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I would say that if you're a woman, especially

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a woman coming into this industry, make sure

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you always have a paper trail of everything.

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Do more emails and texts than phone calls because

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you don't have any proof of that phone call other

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than it's on a piece of paper saying that you

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was on the phone with that person. So that's

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a big, big, big deal. Try to cut the conversations

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on the phone short. Do everything through email,

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text message, or message. I'm not a big let's

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talk on the phone type of person because if anything

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goes left, I need to know that I'm protected.

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See, that's a gem right there, you know, and

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people tend to take. business serious when you're

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not, like when it's through email, when it's

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business, you know what I'm saying? When it start

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getting personal, you calling the phone, like

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that's when business messes up. That's what I've

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learned from experience. So you always want to

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keep it professional, especially if you a lady,

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you know, especially too. Yeah, because I had,

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one experience I did have was with a male producer

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and I wasn't the only one that had this experience.

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It was the worst experience of my life. And that

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was one of the things. trying to get too close

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to your character. As a producer, stay in your

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lane. Know that you have to keep it professional.

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But when you're getting to wanting to text them

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and inviting them to your house and let's do

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this this weekend and that weekend, that's when

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you've already crossed the line. That's how things

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get a little shaky. And when it gets like that,

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I remove myself from the situation. I'm not going

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to sit around and let it go on for too long.

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I'm like, you know, when you know it ain't right,

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you know it's just not right. So you got to just

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know to think like, hey, is the producer supposed

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to be doing this and doing that? No. This is

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a business. You hired me for a job. So let's

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just keep it at that. Not saying that me and

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a group of ladies that's on a production can't

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go out and go out to eat before we wrap or, you

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know, we didn't have a successful filming day.

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That's not a problem. But when you are a male

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producer and you're, you know, you invited half

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of the cast down to your house for weekends.

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And you're doing all of this, all this backstabbing

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and texting on the side and, you know, making

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accusations and silly jokes on the Zoom call

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while we're supposed to be reading and studying

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our lines. That's when it becomes a problem for

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me. That messes up people like you with good

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intentions that's ready to work. It messes their

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trust up when they do meet, you know, good people,

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genuine people. I know I had my experience with

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my production, you know, similar to what you

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was going through. I won't go into detail, but

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it's like one person can mess, try to mess up

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a production. And it's good to have one thing

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I've always pride myself on is doing good business,

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great business. That's important for all my people

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out there. If you ever get into a situation,

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do good business because your name is everything.

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And one thing I've always tried to do is be a

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stand up guy, you know, and respect. everybody

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i work with so if anything was to come up they

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would know that's not q light that's not he he

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wouldn't do that you know i'm saying so when

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you agree like you know like you say your name

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is everything yeah yeah because it's been times

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i done drove you know to atlanta different places

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and hours and hours away and i'm gonna be honest

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i done bust my butt paid bills Then did this

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and did that. Now all I got is my gas money and

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hotel money and money to eat. I can't do nothing

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extra but go on to this set. And guess what?

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I'm not getting paid for this. So when I say

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I'm going to do something, I show up and I actually

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do it. That's one thing. Nobody can never say

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that, oh, we got her to come this and that place.

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And she never showed up. She never responded.

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That's not me. I'm always on point with everything

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I say because I want this. You know, so I show

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that I want it. Right. So speaking of the book,

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have you thought about this is a little idea,

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making a movie out of your life, like a little

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reality series or something like that, you know,

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turn it into that? Absolutely. Yeah, that's,

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you know, that is a thing. That's that's something

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that I went through when I first wrote the book.

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I've had people to try to. you know, manipulate

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me into letting them do it. And you're a one

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man army. I know you cannot pull this off. I've

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had somebody put it on their website and I was

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contacted saying that your book is on this company

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website. They said books to films coming soon.

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Men and ladies started emailing each other and

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she was like, but I pay all of my authors a million

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dollars. I was like, but I don't know you and

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you don't know me. Please remove my book from

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your website. So I went through all kind of crazy

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stuff when I first released the book. But you

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got to think about it. I looked like a bait because

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of what I went through. And it's a lot of things

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in that book that I talk about. Well, I didn't

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speak up and you might think, oh, she was old

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enough to speak up. But you never know what somebody

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is dealing with mentally and why they didn't

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speak up. You know, there's reasons why we don't

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speak up. There's reasons why people, you know,

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they say, how could you try to kill yourself?

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Well, suicide. Who would do that? Who would do

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that? You don't know unless you're in that dark

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space. That's deep. That's deep, man. Wow. Because

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I'm sure a lot of people can relate to what's

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in this book. You know what I'm saying? A lot

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of people can relate. Yeah, I would love to see

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a film or something visual because, you know,

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just adding visuals to anything with words, it'll

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take it up an extra notch, you know, because

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people love to see things like movement, movies,

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all that. Other than that, what are some other

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things you've got going on in the book that you

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want people to know about or you got coming up?

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I think I'm going to get into modeling a little

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bit. As a matter of fact, when I get off this

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car, I got to call somebody back who wants me

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to start modeling with them. So I'm not sure

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about that just yet, but that's one of the things

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I'm thinking about. I just want to pursue my

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acting career and just promote. That's it. And

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I love supporting other people. So whether it's

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in front of the camera or behind the camera,

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that's just, I just love it. Right. And I, and

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I witnessed that firsthand. You are a standup

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lady and I respect, You, I respect you because

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you told your story. I can relate to telling

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your story. You know, never your voice is everything.

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Like you say, you have a voice and the enemy

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wants us to be quiet when we speak in the truth.

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You know, but we can't let the enemy, you know,

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scare us. We still got to speak the truth and

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speak life into us. And when we speak life into

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us, we speak in life into everybody else. That's

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like us. It's going through what we're going

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through in the world. So I encourage you to keep

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doing that. Before we check out, any last things

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you want to say to the viewers, the people that

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we didn't cover? The floor is yours. And I just

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want to say that when, you know, I had a lot

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of people come at me as if I hated the characters

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in the book in real life, like if I hated them.

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And is this one of the reasons why? How could

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I do this? How could I do that? This thing comes

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from a place of hate. You get what I'm saying?

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I didn't just plan to write a book. I just woke

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up and I started writing out my feelings and

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it happens to be a book. I just happen to be

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the author of my own story right now versus somebody

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in the family saying, why Cornetta never come

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around? Why we never see her? And you come up

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with all these stories. No, I gave them the blueprint

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to why things are this way. And it doesn't mean

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that I don't love my family because I still love

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my family wholeheartedly. Nothing's changed.

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But this is just me and my story. And I just

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happen to be the one who told it. Right. Right.

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So where can they find a book? You know, the

00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:06.079
name of the title again, where can they find

00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:09.680
a book? The name of the book is targeted at birth

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by Cornetta Davis and it's on Amazon. OK, OK.

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Well, if that's it, man, I appreciate you taking

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this time to sit down with me. I look forward

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to working with you in the future. More than

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just this podcast. We're doing some things, you

00:24:26.859 --> 00:24:29.119
know, we're talking about. We're going to keep

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it rolling. Um, I have more success, more blessings

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to you, you know, covering over you as you speak

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your truth, because we all know the enemy and

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the devil is mad when you, when you real and

00:24:40.549 --> 00:24:43.549
you tell the truth, but, uh, we gonna keep pushing

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and you're not going to stop. So yeah, people,

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thanks again for tuning in to another episode

00:24:48.549 --> 00:24:50.769
of not just music podcast, your boy, quite smart

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out cue. I got the other cue on y 'all be blessed.