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CELEBRATING 10 SEASONS OF EXCELLENCE WITH THE CAST OF SISTAS 🌟
Ten seasons, double digits, and over 220 episodes of pure television history! We are sitting down with the incredible stars of one of the longest running shows on cable to celebrate a massive milestone and talk about the journey to the top.
The one and only KJ SMITH returns to the platform to share her evolution from the early days to becoming a leading lady and a new mom. She gets real about the pressures women face in entertainment and how she is proving that you truly can have it all marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. KJ opens up about the importance of having a supportive partner and why this current moment feels like the most pivotal time in her life.
We also welcome the talented JORDAN COLEMAN to the family! Known for her work in All American and Rebel Moon, Jordan dives into her role as the chaotic and bratty Cheyenne Barnes. She discusses overcoming imposter syndrome and the joy of playing a character so different from her real self.
Plus, the legendary MIGNON joins the conversation to reflect on her journey as Danny since season one. Reaching 10 seasons in this industry is a rarity, and these women are officially UNICORNS in the business. From the early vision of Tyler Perry to the impact of Black excellence during NAACP week, this is a conversation you do not want to miss.
TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS ⏰
0:00 Celebrating 10 Seasons and 220 Episodes
1:15 KJ Smith Returns to the Show
2:45 Balancing Motherhood and Career
4:30 The Vision of Tyler Perry
6:00 Meeting Jordan Coleman aka Cheyenne
7:45 Mignon on 10 Seasons of Excellence
9:00 Black Excellence and NAACP Week
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Yo, let me tell you something about this
0:02
show right here. Heather B.
0:03
>> Talk to me, homie.
0:04
>> First of all, congratulations. This is a
0:07
record-breaking show right now.
0:09
>> Yeah.
0:10
>> 10 seasons.
0:11
>> 10, homie.
0:12
>> 10 whole seasons.
0:13
>> Double digits.
0:14
>> How many episodes per season?
0:16
>> 22.
0:17
>> So, if you multiply 22 * 10, how many
0:20
episodes is that?
0:20
>> Smoking weed in high school. I can't
0:22
believe that. That's at least 220
0:26
EPISODES.
0:26
>> PERIOD. I knew that part. But that's not
0:28
even including the reunion shows,
0:30
>> the 100 episode
0:33
specials and everything in between. You
0:35
see them all the time during Essence and
0:37
they're hosting amazing events and
0:39
showing up anytime there's women events.
0:41
You will see one of these ladies there
0:44
spearheading and then all of their
0:45
outside projects as well. It's been
0:47
amazing.
0:47
>> It's been amazing. and one of the uh the
0:49
star uh who carries so much charisma
0:52
around her. Uh whenever she steps into a
0:55
room, it lights up. You know, somebody
0:58
has a presence. You just got to look
1:00
around and tap in to her frequency. I
1:02
remember when she first came on this
1:04
show, Heather B, she was by herself in a
1:06
sweatuit. She was like, "Look, I'm in
1:08
here to put in work."
1:11
>> I think I had black forces.
1:13
>> Black Forces, too. She was like, "I'm
1:14
here to put in work." The one and only
1:17
KJ Smith is here.
1:20
>> I'm so happy to be here still.
1:23
>> Good to see you.
1:25
>> Oh man, I love you too.
1:27
>> I love it.
1:27
>> I've been listen since those days you
1:30
are already your momentum was already
1:32
building. But uh since those days to see
1:34
all that you've accomplished
1:37
>> um the roles you step in this cast, you
1:40
know, beautiful, amazing, just different
1:42
variations of who we are
1:44
>> as black folks, as women, you know,
1:46
consistently throughout these decades.
1:49
>> KJ, welcome back to the show. How you
1:51
feeling today? How you feeling?
1:52
>> I feel great. I feel great. I feel like
1:55
every time I come here, y'all just put
1:57
fire in my back to just keep going. It
2:00
really is. This is an interesting time
2:01
in our business and our industry right
2:03
now
2:04
>> and for to have you all support for you
2:07
all to because people have to understand
2:09
you have to want to speak to us
2:12
>> for for this to be created, right? And
2:14
so the fact that you all still want to
2:17
speak to us. You still want to hear our
2:19
story. You still want to share our
2:22
platform on your platform is is really
2:25
incredible. So I feel great. I feel
2:27
great. I'm a mom now. Mom. Yeah. He
2:29
wasn't a mom when we met.
2:31
>> Yeah. Every time y'all something else is
2:33
about to happen cuz every time like when
2:35
I first came then I got married then I
2:37
everything life is happening. So this is
2:39
this is probably the the pivotal moment
2:41
right here.
2:41
>> I love it. Speak to that though because
2:43
women often have been told in
2:45
entertainment that you can't have it
2:46
all.
2:47
>> You can't get married. You can't have a
2:49
kid and be a star.
2:51
>> But you're here to say that you can.
2:52
>> You absolutely can. And I I believed
2:54
that for many years. I believed what the
2:57
people said. Um, and it wasn't until I
2:59
met my partner that I challenged that
3:01
because even in meeting him, I was like,
3:02
"Oh, maybe I'll have to take a back seat
3:05
so that, you know, we can be a unit."
3:08
And he was like, "No."
3:11
>> He was like, "Are you crazy?" He was
3:13
like, "No, this is this is
3:15
>> manifesttor when you're with someone who
3:18
believes in you and you love each
3:19
other." And so I, you know, I'm I'm
3:22
blessed to have my partner, Scott Black.
3:24
Hey, baby.
3:26
What's Is he from Oakland? Is he from
3:28
Oakland?
3:28
>> He's from Miami.
3:29
>> He's from Miami. Sound like Oakland.
3:31
>> Why you want everybody to be from
3:32
Oakland, bro?
3:33
>> Telling them you can't stop working.
3:35
That's a Oakland trait right there. Get
3:37
out there. Get the money. You know,
3:38
right?
3:39
>> Oh, you talking about the pimps from
3:40
Oakland.
3:41
>> I didn't use that word.
3:44
>> That's what you talking about.
3:44
>> That's what I'm talking about. But no,
3:45
that's beautiful to hear, right? And we
3:48
we one of the thing Tyler, for example,
3:50
Tyler Perry, first time I ever sat with
3:52
him,
3:53
>> um it he was still doing the off
3:55
Broadway plays and I was working at MTV
3:59
>> and I was like, "Yo, y'all we got to sit
4:01
next to this dude. This is the guy you
4:03
got to if we interview him today, 20
4:05
years from now, can you imagine what
4:07
that interview is going to be valued
4:09
at?" People didn't get it,
4:10
>> right? They did not get it. You know,
4:13
you got to be in the marquee before they
4:15
they sign on, right? Um, I ended up
4:17
joining the interview anyway and was
4:19
able to hear about his story, uh, and
4:21
what it took for him to become the mogul
4:23
that he is today. And, and for that
4:25
reason, I think Heather and I are on
4:27
purpose now where this is all we want to
4:29
utilize our platform for. Absolutely.
4:31
You know, just to uplift, um, to bring
4:34
attention, to empower folks. So, you
4:36
allow us to do that. 10 seasons, man.
4:38
They looking richer, too. Have the beat.
4:40
>> Let's get it.
4:41
>> All right. Who else we got in the room?
4:42
>> Let them know
4:43
>> who else you got in the room. KJ, do the
4:45
honors. Just want you to do the room
4:46
first.
4:46
>> Oh, yes. Okay.
4:48
>> We got some new faces in here.
4:50
>> We got some new faces. Okay. All right.
4:52
>> New faces. Sister.
4:55
>> Hi, SISTER.
5:00
>> NO, we literally fight over her.
5:02
>> Yeah, literally. This is Jordan Coleman.
5:04
>> Jordan, what up, Jordan?
5:05
>> The baby of the family. I'll let her
5:07
I'll let her do it.
5:08
>> Yeah. I'm I'm Jordan Coleman coming in
5:10
as Cheyenne Barnes. Mhm.
5:12
>> Um the chaotic little sister that is
5:14
here to torment her for a while. It's
5:16
been fun.
5:18
>> But we we know you from All American,
5:21
right? Karen Grimes is my cousin.
5:23
>> Oh, really? That's very I know. I've got
5:26
a lot of E40. I got a lot of cousins.
5:30
A royal bloodline, right? But you you're
5:32
used to working with an ensemble of
5:34
people on a on a cast, right?
5:36
>> Yeah. I feel like I've worked on so many
5:38
different types. I mean, even from I was
5:40
doing like Zack Snider, Rebel Moon, and
5:42
I'm in Alien and makeup and it's so fun.
5:45
And even this character, Cheyenne, I
5:47
mean, I'm nothing like her. She's
5:49
prissy. She's bratty,
5:51
>> reckless.
5:53
>> Keep going. It just keeps going. But
5:55
it's so much fun to tap into roles that
5:57
I almost feel like I have no business
5:59
doing. It's a little bit of imposttor
6:01
syndrome, but when I take myself out of
6:02
it and I'm like, but they still have a
6:04
story to tell,
6:05
>> it is so much fun and it's so rewarding.
6:07
Wow, man. Welcome to the show, Jordan
6:09
Coleman. We got We got Mike Muse and
6:11
Tracy G over in New York, too. Guys,
6:14
y'all want to chime in? Y'all want to
6:15
say hi to anybody? You know,
6:18
>> what's up?
6:20
>> So good to see you guys.
6:21
>> What's up, everybody? So good to see you
6:23
guys. Always a pleasure. Pleasure. All
6:25
right, got to let KJ finish introducing
6:27
everybody.
6:27
>> Okay, I just wanted to make sure they
6:30
got mentioned. Go ahead, KJ.
6:31
>> This woman to my left needs no
6:33
introduction. No,
6:35
>> she goes by one name and one name only.
6:38
Period.
6:38
>> Okay. This is Minion.
6:41
>> Minion. Happy belated birthday, too.
6:44
>> Yes. Yes. Yes.
6:45
>> Yeah. I'm Minion. I play Danny. Been
6:47
here since season one.
6:49
>> You know, tearing [ __ ] up. But can I say
6:51
[ __ ] I'm so sorry.
6:52
>> That's all right. They'll kick us off.
6:55
>> [ __ ]
7:00
>> All the churchy people going to be like,
7:01
"Wow, man. Why? What happened? It's
7:04
early and I haven't had coffee or food.
7:06
Um, somebody got food over there, too.
7:08
>> That's mine.
7:10
>> We got it. We got it.
7:12
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, happy to be back. It was
7:14
fun seeing you guys in New York what a
7:16
couple years ago. See you guys out here
7:18
again. It's a good way to kick off this
7:19
NAACP week. Black excellence week and
7:23
round out of Black History Month,
7:25
>> all of the things
7:26
>> and women history month coming up in
7:28
March 1st. Let's go. Let's go. Sunday.
7:32
Sunday. Oh, yeah. March 1st is Wow.
7:33
>> March 1st is Sunday.
7:34
>> Yeah.
7:35
>> Okay.
7:36
>> 26 is in a rush.
7:37
>> Yes.
7:38
>> Yes.
7:38
>> You know, to do anything for 10 seasons
7:41
in entertainment is a rarity. Like
7:43
you're a unicorn, you know? It's like we
7:45
don't things don't last
7:47
>> three, four season. Y'all got like
7:48
football careers, right? You only get
7:50
the average is like three seasons or
7:52
something like that. Two to three
7:53
seasons.
7:54
>> Um how does that make you feel? I mean,
7:56
do you feel luck? Because this people
7:57
aren't here no more, right? it. I'm I'm
8:00
imagining that's an emotional strain,
8:03
too. Like certain actors and actresses
8:04
you get to know and unfortunately
8:06
they're not in the next season. How do
8:08
one cope with that?
8:10
>> Um I I don't know how to explain it. I
8:14
think I'm just at a place in life in
8:16
general where I'm learning you can't be
8:19
too attached to anything. It's so funny
8:21
because Crystal and I were talking about
8:22
this yesterday,
8:24
>> how this industry was everything and
8:28
then you as things come out and as Cat
8:32
the way Cat Williams started off 2024,
8:34
wasn't it? 2024. Sheesh.
8:36
>> It's just we're we're in an age of truth
8:39
and
8:40
>> the truth is is like everything's in
8:43
life for a season and you just start to
8:45
realize what really matters. And I'm
8:48
just like I'm grateful to be here. I
8:51
know that I was created to be a
8:52
storyteller, but I realize it's so much
8:54
bigger than me. It's it's purpose driven
8:57
and I'm not attached to the idea of this
9:01
level of fame or status or awards or any
9:04
of that. Like being here is great, but
9:07
you know, to quote this show that I was
9:10
watching on Netflix, it was about um it
9:12
was about Andrew Garfield, I believe,
9:15
that president who was killed in three
9:16
months. M
9:17
>> so the first he made a black man the uh
9:20
treasurer of the United States
9:22
>> and you know the character was saying
9:25
you know I was born into slavery and you
9:27
know there's white men who would want to
9:29
see me dead. I'm not quoting it well but
9:32
he said and I worked so hard to get here
9:34
just to sign my name on a piece of paper
9:36
and now these white men who had me
9:38
enslaved every time they use a dollar a
9:40
black man's signature is going to be on
9:42
it.
9:43
>> But that wasn't the thing that got me.
9:45
He said after that, he said, "It's not
9:47
everything, but it's something."
9:50
>> And that's just where I'm at right now.
9:52
It's like, "This isn't everything. It
9:53
just isn't, but it's something."
9:56
>> Gosh,
9:58
right there.
10:02
>> God. My gosh.
10:03
>> You said you didn't have any coffee yet.
10:06
>> He floored the room, right?
10:07
>> Nothing else to say.
10:08
>> Yeah. What are you going to say? How you
10:09
going to follow that up?
10:10
>> Round it up.
10:11
>> All right. Okay. So, we got
10:13
>> Yes. And to my right
10:16
>> again needs no introduction. We know her
10:19
from all her many talents. This
10:21
literally my friend can sing, dance, do
10:24
a podcast, make you a meal, dress, style
10:28
you, do hair.
10:30
>> She does it. Oh, this is my friend
10:33
Crystal Renee Hazley.
10:37
>> Family.
10:39
>> I feel like every time I come back here,
10:40
I'm with family.
10:42
>> A thank you. Last time I came in, Sway
10:43
was blessed in a song that I had did
10:45
like in 2012.
10:48
>> Wow. Yeah. But no, always happy to be
10:51
here.
10:51
>> You you you maintain a certain demeanor
10:54
about you. Your energy is always level
10:56
and balanced. Anytime I've seen you, but
10:58
every time we've seen each other's
10:59
cameras and lights, but I
11:01
>> I know that Heather and you have a
11:02
relationship as well, and she confirms
11:05
it. You know, how how do you keep
11:06
balance in all of this?
11:08
>> Oh, man. Grace of God. I feel like right
11:10
now I was my assistant. We were in the
11:12
car headed to the airport yesterday and
11:15
he was going over the schedule and it's
11:16
just like everything's moving and it's
11:18
so much happening. He goes and another
11:20
thing I was like what?
11:22
>> It was just like that moment where I
11:23
just felt like everything was like
11:25
caving in. And in those moments we just
11:27
take a beat, we breathe and just
11:29
remember this is what we prayed for.
11:31
>> And um I remember like earlier Ammani
11:34
who does Culture Con, she always asked
11:36
me like how do you handle all this on
11:38
your plate? And I told her honestly, I
11:40
said, "We course it out just like you
11:42
would any other meal." I was like,
11:43
"Don't try to take to bite off more than
11:45
you can chew." And I said, "But always
11:46
remember this is what you prayed for."
11:47
And with enlarged territory comes
11:49
discipline
11:50
>> is how you manage it. So I literally I
11:53
do everything in excellence, not
11:54
perfection.
11:55
>> That was something I had to overcome
11:57
because I was trying to be excellent at
11:59
everything. And God's like, "That's not
12:00
what I want from you. I mean, I don't
12:01
want you to be per perfect with
12:02
everything. Just pursue excellence and
12:04
everything's going to be okay and just
12:06
keep me at the forefront." So with God
12:08
and just really remembering this is what
12:10
I prayed for. So every time I feel like
12:12
it's getting heavy and I'm a little off
12:14
off my balance, um I just remember this
12:16
is what you asked for. So go get it.
12:18
>> We say that a lot
12:19
>> for real.
12:20
>> Yeah, we do.
12:21
>> My gosh.
12:23
>> Okay, man. Okay, Crystal, I see you.
12:26
Come on.
12:27
>> Play our other song. Do it now.
12:30
>> I'm coming to see you soon. I'm about to
12:31
drop something. You got some new I got
12:33
some new music.
12:34
>> Come to us first. I I'll be very
12:35
disappointed. my first stop for sure.
12:37
>> I'm going to make a diss record. Okay,
12:39
we got last but not least.
12:41
>> Okay, last but certainly not least,
12:44
she's an author, an inspiration to women
12:48
everywhere, a Pelaton
12:52
officionado.
12:55
>> She's a former makeup artist back in the
12:58
day.
12:59
>> Back in the day. But I just witnessed
13:01
her do her makeup
13:02
>> in a moving van. in a moving van in like
13:06
15 minutes
13:06
>> and lashes.
13:07
>> And lashes.
13:08
>> What?
13:09
>> I was like, you about to do that right
13:10
now?
13:11
>> No. Now, let's be clear. She's naturally
13:13
beautiful.
13:13
>> Yes.
13:14
>> But, but that was magic. Like, it was
13:17
>> It needs to be studied.
13:18
>> Yes. It needs to be studied. This is the
13:20
amazing, the incredible, the
13:22
incomparable. Tune.
13:23
>> Hi. Listen, you know when your Apple
13:26
decides to do an update spontaneously on
13:29
its own and that alarm clock doesn't go
13:30
off? Uh, so the ladies got to see my my
13:33
makeup skills come back in action this
13:35
morning, but we made it. We're here. Uh,
13:37
my name is Tundday. I play Madison Truit
13:40
on the show. I am new to Sisters this
13:42
season.
13:43
>> Uh, and KJ, you said, did you mean to
13:46
say manifesttor? Did you mean to say
13:47
that? Okay. Cuz I've never heard that
13:49
before, but I'm taking that.
13:52
>> I'm in this moment, this season of my
13:55
I've been in this season of my life
13:57
where I am manning it faster. Like if
14:00
you see it, you can believe it. I I I
14:02
call myself a professional pivoter. Uh
14:05
the queen of the pivot. I was a makeup
14:06
artist for many years. It was my dream
14:08
job.
14:09
>> And then I had this dream that I wanted
14:10
to be on a bike teaching classes. And
14:12
then without knowing what Pelaton was, I
14:15
had this vision of you're going to teach
14:18
fitness classes one day and it's going
14:20
to change your life and it's going to
14:21
impact the lives of millions of people.
14:23
Fast forward, I start teaching for
14:24
Pelaton where I'm able to touch millions
14:27
of people by virtue of a bike every
14:28
single day.
14:29
>> Then I say, "You know what? People used
14:31
to tease you and pick on you and call
14:32
you names and call you ugly. Uh, you're
14:35
not ugly. You're beautiful. And you're
14:36
going to show other dark-kinned girls
14:37
like you that they're beautiful, too."
14:38
Uh, fast forward, I'm the 2026 SPORTS
14:41
ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT WINNER OF THE YEAR.
14:48
and and then now now I'm manifesting the
14:50
next vision which was to be a part of
14:53
this beautiful ensemble. So every single
14:55
day I wake up I I'm I'm so blessed and
14:57
so grateful for this season that I'm in.
15:01
>> Wow day you better. I got Pelaton. I got
15:04
TO SWITCH UP.
15:05
>> YOU NEVER TAKEN MY CLASS.
15:06
>> I DIDN'T KNOW.
15:07
>> WHOSE class do you take? You take the
15:10
Nobody's class uh the young lady that
15:12
used to work on the Brooklyn Nets.
15:14
Ali love because I used to I used to be
15:17
a season ticket owner so I was just and
15:20
she's dope.
15:21
>> She's dope. Well played. Well played.
15:24
>> Well played pull that name from. Yo like
15:27
it's closed on your pelon. Me and Tracy
15:30
we're looking at each other like wow you
15:32
lying. She just got here.
15:36
>> Yo.
15:37
>> So he doesn't ride his bike. He's not on
15:38
his bike
15:40
in New York. In fairness to sway, a
15:44
treadmill. My Pelaton tread also is
15:47
where I dry my clothes.
15:49
>> Okay, we got to change that. This is not
15:51
the end. This is not your I use it.
15:54
>> I just, you know, when I'm hangrying
15:56
stuff, I'm like, there's so much room.
15:59
>> Well, hopefully this has motivated you
16:01
to get back on.
16:02
>> No, absolutely. You're living when I get
16:04
back on my Pelaton and renew my
16:07
subscription. I'm definitely
16:09
>> I got one you can buy. I got you. Let me
16:11
ask you this. You you're also a
16:12
motivational speaker. Um is there a
16:15
topic that you tend to lean on
16:18
>> where you excel and and what what does
16:20
it take to be that you found to become a
16:22
motivational speaker? You you could
16:24
attract an audience that want to hear
16:26
what it is you want to say and keep
16:28
their attention.
16:29
>> The truth.
16:30
>> Yeah. The truth. I think that even let's
16:32
take example. For example, when I
16:33
started working for Pelaton, I was
16:34
trying to cast too wide of a net. And a
16:37
lot of times when you try to attract
16:38
everybody, you attract nobody because
16:39
nobody's able to relate to you. Nobody's
16:41
able to see themselves in you. It wasn't
16:42
until I stopped trying to do what I saw
16:45
my teammates doing to win and I just
16:48
started
16:49
>> trusting that who I am was enough and
16:51
that's when I started winning. In terms
16:52
of like what I speak to, a lot of times
16:54
it's uh women's groups, but oftent times
16:59
one of the biggest moments of pivot for
17:02
me within my success, my career at
17:03
Pelaton was just after George Floyd was
17:06
murdered. And I always say like I hope
17:09
that we never as a nation I hope we
17:11
never forget
17:13
the heaviness of that moment and what
17:16
that felt like
17:17
>> because it's so easy for it to be lost
17:20
on us.
17:21
>> Um after that moment I'll rewind and say
17:24
when I first got to Pelaton before I
17:26
started I scrubbed my Instagram. I
17:28
cleansed of any that showed I was black.
17:31
Okay?
17:31
>> Right? because I knew that the audience
17:33
that I was serving, the majority of the
17:35
audience that I was serving didn't look
17:36
like me. And again, I was trying to cast
17:38
a wide net. And so, anything that showed
17:40
that I was in support of black
17:43
essentially,
17:44
>> I archived. It's not a moment that I'm
17:46
proud of, but it's what I did.
17:48
>> Um,
17:50
>> when after George Floyd was murdered, I
17:52
remember I got on on Instagram and
17:55
without thinking, I just started
17:56
talking. I started talking about how
17:58
fearful I was for my nephew if my nephew
18:01
wanted to go out for a run. I talked
18:02
about how I was fearful for my brother.
18:05
I talked about how if you flinch when
18:07
you see my brother walking behind you,
18:09
like, let's talk about that because it's
18:12
it's fear that continues to be passed on
18:17
that
18:18
>> evolves into hate. It's fear. It's fear
18:20
and then it becomes hate.
18:22
>> And so I got on Instagram, I posted this
18:24
video. Had I known the video was going
18:27
to go viral, I probably would have put
18:29
eyebrows on Sway.
18:31
Um, but it was this moment where there
18:34
was just no looking back. There was no
18:35
hiding who I was. And so I remember my
18:38
boss came to me and she said, "Would you
18:39
lead a solidarity ride?"
18:41
>> Wow.
18:41
>> And she didn't know what that meant at
18:43
that time. To be honest, I don't think I
18:44
knew what that meant at that time.
18:47
>> Just to give you context, you go I live
18:49
in New York. I go to watch Beyonce when
18:51
she comes to town. Emma, she holds
18:53
22,000 people.
18:55
When I got there that morning, mind you,
18:58
everybody's masked up. We usually have
19:00
hundreds of of production people in the
19:01
room. There was one person, like audio
19:03
person and one visual person. It was co.
19:06
And so I looked down at the live
19:09
leaderboard and I'm thinking to myself,
19:13
everybody's going to log out because I'm
19:14
just going to be too real. I'm be too
19:15
honest. I'm be too real. I'm be too
19:17
honest. I look down and there's 22,000
19:19
souls live in that moment.
19:21
>> Millions of people have now taken that
19:22
class to date. But in that moment, there
19:24
were 22,000 people writing with me. And
19:27
as I'm talking, I think to myself,
19:29
they're just going to start leaving.
19:30
They're going to start leaving. But I
19:31
don't care because what I'm saying is
19:32
carried on the back of love. And if it's
19:33
carried on the back of love, it can't be
19:34
wrong.
19:35
>> And so I just kept talking, sharing my
19:38
lived experience as a black woman.
19:40
Stories of myself, stories of my
19:41
brother, stories that my teammates had
19:42
had given me permission to share.
19:46
>> I logged out from that ride until this
19:51
day to to this day.
19:54
I'll be in a Zoom meeting with another
19:57
brand and someone will say, "Hey,
20:00
Tunday, can you stay one one one moment
20:02
longer?" And they'll look at me and
20:04
they'll say, "Tunday, I took your Black
20:08
Lives Matter ride." I found the term I
20:11
didn't want to take that class, but my
20:13
wife made me take it. Matter of fact, I
20:14
actually didn't really take it. I
20:15
watched it. I found the term Black Lives
20:19
Matter incredibly offensive,
20:22
but after watching that ride, I see you.
20:27
I stand with you.
20:29
>> Wow.
20:29
>> Black Lives Matter.
20:31
>> And so, a lot of the conversations that
20:32
I that I that I have to answer your
20:34
questions, it's just about living, being
20:36
your authentic self.
20:37
>> I think the beauty of uncertainty is
20:39
infinite possibility. Like when you lean
20:42
into
20:43
>> the gut, like when you lean,
20:45
>> let me just say that one more time. The
20:47
beauty of uncertainty is infinite
20:51
possibility. When we don't know what's
20:53
next, it's heavy and it is so scary. But
20:56
the gift in not knowing what's next is
20:59
that anything can be next. When you
21:01
think you know what's the uh option is
21:03
and what's coming then the option the
21:05
what's coming in is limited to what you
21:06
believe is coming in. But when you have
21:08
absolutely no clue. Yes, it's
21:11
uncomfortable and nobody likes to be
21:13
there, but anything can be on its way.
21:16
We would have never imagined this.
21:18
>> Wow.
21:19
>> But it's here.
21:21
>> And I were talking about that yesterday,
21:22
too.
21:23
>> Sometimes your hope is the evidence.
21:26
>> That's the only evidence you have
21:27
sometimes is the hope.
21:28
>> Are y'all like this on set?
21:30
>> Yes.
21:30
>> Oh, okay.
21:31
>> We're not like this on set because we're
21:33
working.
21:34
>> We're like in real life. in our down
21:36
time
21:36
>> in the sprinter on the way
21:37
>> in the sprinter.
21:38
>> In the sprinter we're talking about now,
21:42
right?
21:43
>> Um, congratulations.
21:45
>> Congrats.
21:46
>> Welcome to that freedom.
21:48
>> I know that's
21:51
amazing. We got the cast of sisters
21:53
here. Season 10
21:56
>> 888742
21:57
3345. Let's set it off, man. Shave for
22:00
five. Come on. Hey,
22:02
>> man. And I feel like I've been on
22:03
Pelaton up in here. He be Thank you,
22:06
Tonday. I appreciate that.
22:08
>> Got you fired up.
22:09
>> Got me fired up, man. We got him here.
22:11
Season 10 sisters, they are here.
22:13
Heather B. Heather B, I'm going to let
22:15
you take this over being that you're a
22:17
cast member.
22:20
>> Yeah, we all seen Heather on set, right?
22:23
>> No, it was the best time. And I always
22:25
say that every time. I'm blessed to see
22:27
you all. Nice to meet you, Tun Day. Nice
22:29
to meet you as well. Beautiful.
22:31
Beautiful. And I've been watching uh
22:33
season 10 and just to me kind of like
22:37
watching these dynamics that happen in a
22:40
family, the sibling thing that's
22:42
happening, you know, loss.
22:44
>> Yes.
22:45
>> You know, and and I think that's
22:46
something
22:47
>> that we all have to deal with in a way
22:49
and that we hate dealing with it. Um I I
22:52
share here with my team and SW. I lost
22:54
my parents 18 months apart
22:57
>> and you know this was before co just out
23:00
of nowhere. My parents were young, 62
23:02
and 65. I lost them 18 months apart. And
23:05
I think people don't realize that you
23:09
you you go through this grieving
23:10
process. At least for me, you went
23:12
through this grieving process. And then
23:14
God allowed me to find a way to move
23:18
while mourning.
23:20
>> And I didn't know that I needed that
23:23
space because you just sitting in grief
23:25
and that's like paralysis almost, right?
23:28
And then I felt uncomfortable to try to
23:31
go on with my life. But then there's
23:33
work and there's this and all the things
23:34
y'all been sharing with us, my marriage,
23:36
all the stuff. And you got to find a way
23:38
to move,
23:39
>> you know, but you realize you're still
23:41
mourning.
23:42
>> And I'm watching this season and all the
23:44
things that happen because there's a
23:45
mourning when you physically lose
23:47
someone, you know, to to death and
23:49
transitioning, but then your friend
23:51
moves like your best friend moves away
23:52
to start their life. And I'm watching
23:54
each of y'all deal, you know, more so
23:57
your character, your character and your
23:59
character, Crystal Mardan and uh KJ um
24:03
lo death and then um losing a friend and
24:07
just if you can share personally to
24:10
someone that's listening right now, you
24:12
know, um how you have dealt with that.
24:15
>> Oh my god. I I recently had a situation.
24:17
I'm going to I'm going to try not to
24:18
cry, but um just just, you know, I'm I'm
24:21
in my 40s. All my friends are in
24:23
unemployed. I mean, with the exception
24:25
of this amazing cast, you know.
24:27
>> Yeah.
24:28
>> And they're 20. So,
24:31
>> um, but of course, cuz we're 20 25,
24:34
right?
24:36
>> Um, but, uh, my my best friend was
24:39
recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
24:42
>> Uh, my best friend, we've been friends
24:44
for over 25 years. And um I recently
24:46
went to Florida to she had to have a s a
24:50
procedure and um yeah I'm going to try
24:53
to make it quick so I'm not going to get
24:54
too technical. I I wouldn't know the
24:56
words anyway but she had a procedural
24:58
try to try to remove
25:00
>> um what needed to be removed and then we
25:03
were back in the hospital 48 hours later
25:07
because she had a rupture. And
25:09
>> you know this is the woman we've been
25:11
through everything together
25:14
>> everything. everything from high school,
25:18
everything. And you know, in that
25:20
moment, I'm in the hospital room with
25:22
her. She is it it was terrifying. I I
25:24
tell her to this day, that was one of
25:26
the scariest moments. And and I had a
25:27
tumultuous labor. That was a scary
25:29
moment for me cuz I was experiencing it.
25:32
But seeing her and and being outside and
25:36
looking from my point of view and seeing
25:41
the pain and the discomfort and the
25:44
agony and she was fainting. She wasn't
25:46
getting adequate care in the emergency
25:49
room.
25:49
>> And y'all dealing with that too. You
25:51
dealt with that past two seasons,
25:53
>> literally. And I I just wish this show
25:56
will plan out in your lives or playing
25:58
out in the script.
25:59
>> It is playing out in the script. So, so
26:02
in season nine,
26:05
>> we dealt with uh a child labor and and
26:09
the health care provider, the doctor not
26:12
caring about the woman's needs. I had
26:16
when I had my labor, I used a um I I I
26:21
won't go into too much detail, but I had
26:23
a traumatic experience and I had to r
26:26
get rushed to the hospital, have an
26:28
emergency C-section because of my
26:30
healthcare worker. Um
26:32
>> and so that that was very I I still, if
26:35
I'm being honest with everyone, to your
26:37
authentic point, I still haven't
26:38
processed it.
26:40
>> Um I don't even talk about it in therapy
26:42
because I'm just I'm not there. There's
26:43
so many other things that I can talk
26:44
about.
26:45
>> Yeah.
26:46
>> So, so, um, but seeing my best friend go
26:50
through this and and being on the
26:52
outside looking in and we we're covering
26:56
these topics on the show and and it it's
26:58
so interesting because when we first
27:00
started, I was like, I would never be in
27:03
these situations. I would never.
27:04
>> Yeah.
27:05
>> And it it's happening. It's playing out
27:08
in real time.
27:10
>> It's playing out in real time. I I I
27:13
know people, you know, who are Andy
27:16
>> now
27:18
>> and I'm like, "Oh, I I have to do your
27:21
story justice because I'm like, I'm
27:23
outspoken and I would confront a
27:25
situation if you know I felt um offended
27:29
or something like that doesn't mean this
27:31
person would." And so it it's been very
27:34
interesting. But but to answer your
27:36
question,
27:37
>> it's been very
27:40
eyeopening. Yeah.
27:41
>> To to see mortality,
27:44
>> to see the mortality of my best friends,
27:48
>> to see the mortality of myself.
27:50
>> Yeah.
27:51
>> And and to look death in the face, you
27:54
know, with myself and with my best
27:56
friend. Um and um you know, Jessica, we
27:59
love you. I know this is a platform, but
28:02
>> we're praying for you.
28:03
>> Yeah. Absolutely.
28:04
>> And she It's so funny cuz she decided to
28:07
share her story today. This is her first
28:08
day sharing the story. So that's why I
28:10
feel comfortable saying it. She like
28:11
just recently posted it on her social
28:14
media accounts.
28:15
>> Okay.
28:15
>> But um
28:16
>> praying for Jessica.
28:17
>> This is happening. Our stories are
28:19
happening. So for us to have 10 seasons
28:22
is so impactful because there are people
28:25
>> who are contacting me and they're like,
28:27
I'm on season 3 and I'm going through
28:28
what you guys went through in season 3.
28:30
Now,
28:31
>> maybe because where I am in age, you you
28:33
now you're experiencing these things
28:34
that like you said, you I never thought
28:36
I would be here, you know, but then
28:38
there's we've been celebrating women. We
28:40
still got to get up every day and be
28:42
women and go to work and deal with this
28:44
and make business decisions and all of
28:45
these things. And I'm just wondering
28:47
from a personal level, we see all the
28:49
glitz and glam, but how do you cope? How
28:52
do you deal with it? How do you leave
28:53
that outside and then come on set and
28:55
boom and be the messy sister and be the
28:58
friend who's dealing with domestic
28:59
violence and too scared to talk and be
29:01
the attorney and be the balance that you
29:03
have in your relationship and studying
29:05
and you know and be this new business
29:07
owner. It it I was just personally
29:09
curious and so thank you for I would
29:13
like to add that this
29:16
>> what we do for a living is is put it in
29:19
our art. We're artists. And people
29:21
forget that with actors. Oh, he's just
29:24
an actor. No, no, no. We're artists.
29:26
This is the arts.
29:28
>> Our job is to tell stories.
29:30
>> Stories.
29:31
>> So when situations and circumstances
29:34
happen for me in my personal life,
29:36
>> I I save it for the screen.
29:39
>> Um I I save it for the screen. And
29:41
that's and that's another reason why a
29:43
lot of a lot of topics I just don't even
29:45
address in therapy because until after
29:48
we finish shooting because I I need this
29:51
I I need the these emotions this all
29:54
this I'm it's baldled up and it's right
29:57
here
29:58
>> and you know and that's why in acting
30:01
you have to be able to process you have
30:03
to let it go after. So, so we we finish
30:06
shooting on Friday. I'm I'm knocking on
30:08
the door of my therapist on Monday
30:11
because I have to process it and then I
30:14
have to let it go. But I store it so
30:16
that I can use it in my art.
30:18
>> Wow. I love it. Oh man, we're talking to
30:20
the cast of sisters. Wednesday nights
30:23
900 p.m. Eastern on BET. That's tonight.
30:26
That's tonight. Wednesdays 9:00 p.m.
30:28
Eastern. 10 10 seasons.
30:31
and we just having conversations with
30:33
this these amazing individuals here. We
30:36
you know we haven't even talked about
30:37
the show much but you know uh but we're
30:40
learning about the show through you who
30:41
you guys are as thespians. I'm I'mma
30:44
take it to u New York cuz I see Tracy on
30:46
the edge of her seat out there going
30:49
>> No, absolutely. These are my type of
30:51
women and seriously KJ thank you so much
30:54
for sharing especially on behalf of your
30:56
sister of Jessica. We're sending all of
30:58
our love to her and this is sacred work
31:01
that you guys are doing within the arts.
31:04
You know, sisters is like a mirror and
31:07
in some ways like a a manual of sorts
31:10
for women and also for those who love
31:12
women. Um Crystal Tundday, you both said
31:16
different things that both resonated
31:18
with me and so I kind of wanted to put
31:20
it together into a question. Um,
31:22
Crystal, when you were talking about how
31:23
your gratitude can be tethered back to
31:27
the realization that you're living
31:28
within an answered prayer and then
31:31
Tundday, you're a fellow uh pivot
31:34
princess like myself. We speak the same
31:36
language of fitness. I love movement so
31:39
dearly. But on the pivot and then the
31:42
prayer, I I would love for both of you
31:44
to speak about
31:46
when gratitude and let's say
31:48
restlessness can be experienced at the
31:51
same time almost where it's like your
31:55
loyalty to your past self becomes a
31:58
betrayal to your present self.
32:02
>> Like have you ever realized that the
32:04
life that you prayed for doesn't fully
32:06
fit who you're becoming? When do you
32:09
know to pivot
32:11
and then when do you know to stay
32:13
centered crystal and vice versa?
32:16
>> That's good. That's good.
32:18
>> Oh, that was good. You said a betrayal
32:22
to your past
32:24
>> to your present self.
32:26
>> Your present self because you're holding
32:28
on to your past self. That was put
32:31
That's a bar. Um
32:33
>> a bar.
32:34
>> Wow. Um yeah, I think I'm going to
32:37
rewind. And I'll take it back to when I
32:38
was in the cosmetic world. So, I was in
32:40
the makeup world for 16 years. I moved
32:41
from Houston, Texas to LA to be to
32:45
follow my dream.
32:46
>> I always say I love that job until I
32:48
didn't.
32:49
>> I love that job until I hated it.
32:52
>> And for me, it was, you know, I'd worked
32:54
my way up within the cosmetic world.
32:56
People would have killed for that job.
32:58
Matter of fact, when I left, I think
32:59
they they might have gone to bat for it.
33:00
Right.
33:02
All that to say, I will never forget the
33:05
day I went to the restroom and I was in
33:06
there for 15 minutes doing nothing. I
33:09
was in the restroom. I was in the stall
33:10
doing nothing. I just needed time by
33:11
myself
33:12
>> and I looked at myself in the mirror. I
33:14
splashed water on my face. I always say
33:17
my little eyelash dangled off. But I
33:20
looked at myself in the mirror and I
33:21
said, "Tunday,
33:23
do you love this job or do you love the
33:25
title?"
33:26
>> Tunday, do you love this job or do you
33:28
love the respect?
33:31
And for me, I realized that I was
33:33
holding what I was holding on to was
33:34
just ego. And I think ego sometimes can
33:36
be a good thing. Like ego can it get it
33:38
gets a bad rap all the time. Sometimes
33:40
it can help propel you. But in this
33:41
situation, ego was holding me back. I
33:43
knew that the relationship was done.
33:46
>> But I looked at the time that I invested
33:49
in the relationship. I looked at the
33:51
work that I'd invested in the
33:53
relationship. And we can be talking
33:54
about cosmetics or we can be talking
33:55
about anything that uh friendship uh
33:58
manship.
34:01
>> You know when you are done you know when
34:04
you have outstayed the welcome
34:07
>> it is fear that holds us back. I always
34:10
say don't allow fear to steer. Don't
34:12
allow fear to hold you hostage. When
34:14
it's time, you know it's time. But
34:16
oftentimes we hold on to should have,
34:18
could have, would have, how come, what
34:21
wasn't, and we we hold on to the time
34:24
that we've put into the time that we've
34:27
been there. Does that make sense? We
34:28
hold on to the time that we put into the
34:29
time that we're there. And so for me,
34:31
it's like I I think we know. I think you
34:33
always know, you know, when it's time to
34:34
pivot. You know, when it's time to
34:36
change. It's not knowing that that's
34:38
difficult. It's moving that is
34:40
difficult. I'm looking at Heather
34:42
because you talked about movement
34:43
earlier, like It's moving. It's making
34:45
the conscious choice to say goodbye. And
34:49
I'm listening
34:52
ways that decision has paid off.
34:56
What I've learned from the pivot is that
35:00
nothing is lost. like
35:02
>> the skills I learned in the cosmetic
35:04
world, not just how to beat my own face
35:06
and save a coin, like like I use that
35:09
skill still, but what I learned in the
35:12
cosmetic world as a as a as a trainer, I
35:15
learned how to connect with people.
35:17
>> I learned how to relate. I learned how
35:19
to hear people.
35:20
>> I learned how to get on a stage and
35:22
speak.
35:23
>> I took that with me into the work that I
35:26
do with Pelaton.
35:28
>> I took what I I take what I do at
35:30
Pelaton. took that into what I what it
35:33
took to write my book. I took what I
35:34
learned in the cosmetic world. I took
35:36
that into what it took to write my book.
35:38
>> And then now in this space, like I'm on
35:40
live TV every single day again by virtue
35:44
of a bike. Like talk about uh uh uh um
35:49
being agile and and and being reactive.
35:51
And then I take that into the acting
35:54
world as well, like listening, reacting
35:57
to the person that I'm in the scene
35:58
with. Like
35:59
>> when you are able to realize that when
36:02
you let go, you are never fully letting
36:05
go and you will still take with. I think
36:08
that that's when acceptance um allows
36:10
you to know that it's not you're not
36:12
really betraying anybody if you take
36:16
what was useful with you.
36:19
>> A lot of man this morning.
36:22
>> Amen.
36:23
>> Swear you love being around all these
36:25
women. Shut up.
36:27
>> I loving it y'all. on my best behavior.
36:29
>> He is joy. He is.
36:30
>> Oh my gosh. But it's just so much
36:33
powerful so many powerful words.
36:35
>> Yeah.
36:36
>> Um coming out of this conversation, you
36:38
know. Uh I want to let uh
36:40
>> Mike
36:40
>> Mike Mike jump in to Mike Muse because
36:43
he wore a green jacket.
36:45
>> Quart as a movement.
36:48
>> You already know KJ. You already know
36:50
KJ.
36:51
>> It's good to see you all again and what
36:53
a beautiful conversation we're having
36:55
from beginning to end. And I love how it
36:57
just started and because you said the
36:58
idea that you know we have to want to
37:00
talk with you and I think that's just a
37:02
lesson to be had and the idea that more
37:05
should want right and and it's an honor
37:07
to speak with you women. You guys are
37:08
all so dynamic and as I was sitting here
37:10
listening to the conversation with Tracy
37:12
G and the conversation with Heather B is
37:13
almost as like we're listening in on
37:15
this sisterhood moment, right? And I
37:18
often think about how it seemed so
37:20
needed for for women and black women in
37:22
particular to see themselves represented
37:24
on the screen amongst all of you and to
37:26
share your stories. Right. I felt so it
37:29
was so heartfelt the conversation we've
37:30
been having. But I'm just curious
37:33
>> for men to observe and and to watch and
37:36
and to tune in. What would you want men
37:38
to take away um in watching this story
37:42
lines and story arcs of these dynamic
37:44
black women?
37:47
You wanted to Jordan, you want to handle
37:49
that one? You got it.
37:50
>> My goodness. Okay.
37:54
>> Well, you know, I think it's funny
37:55
because a lot of time when men say,
37:57
"Yeah, I watch the show like, "Yeah, my
37:59
my my wife puts it on and I'll be I'll
38:01
be watching from the corner." But, you
38:03
know, they have sisters, they have
38:06
mothers, they have wives. And if it
38:08
wasn't for women, they wouldn't know how
38:11
to take care of us, how to provide for
38:12
us, what to know, what's going on with
38:14
us once a month. You know what happens
38:16
when you're carrying a child? They don't
38:18
have to deal with them, but the men that
38:20
appreciate our stories and can
38:22
understand them and want to be better so
38:24
that we can have partnerships with them
38:26
is absolutely amazing. And the stories
38:29
that we're telling, they don't just
38:31
resonate with women. We see that you
38:33
don't get 10 season 10 seasons just
38:35
because you're resonating with one
38:36
gender. We're resonating with millions
38:38
of different types of people all over
38:40
the world and men are in that. Um, I
38:44
just want to say thank you honestly
38:46
because obviously we're telling stories
38:49
that they comprehend that they want to
38:52
know more about and I I feel very
38:54
grateful for that. I just want I just
38:56
hope that that continues and we'll do
38:58
our jobs to keep, you know, telling
39:00
those stories with as much truth as
39:01
possible.
39:02
>> Well, it's working for me. I'm finding
39:04
out a whole lot.
39:05
>> Yeah.
39:07
>> Um, man, let's give these amazing people
39:09
a round of applause. Aminan, thank you.
39:12
Appreciate you, Jordan. Thank you, Tun
39:15
Day. Thank you. And Heather B. We got to
39:17
say thank you to Crystal.
39:20
>> Our sister and KJ. Come on. We've been
39:22
riding for years now. Still here.
39:26
>> And we want to we we this is
39:28
>> We don't want to short change this
39:30
moment. Minan, Tundday, Crystal, KJ,
39:33
Jordan, we want to do this big. And I'm
39:36
glad that your people are here as well.
39:37
Season 11. Please come back. Su and I
39:40
were just talking about, have we had
39:42
enough time? We want to open up the big
39:44
studio, the garage series downstairs and
39:46
bring in a live audience and just really
39:49
do it big.
39:50
>> We want to do this big for y'all. So, we
39:52
want to say this in front of y'all, in
39:54
front of everybody here, your team.
39:56
>> Please come back for season 11 or
39:58
whenever. And we want to invite our
40:00
subscribers to come and really celebrate
40:02
you all. Like, thank y'all for waking up
40:04
at Old Dog 30 to be here.
40:06
>> Does it have to be at uh
40:07
>> No, no, no. It could be at at like 5,
40:09
whatever time y'all want.
40:11
>> Yeah. Y'all could just come and show up,
40:14
dress to the nines, and just let us
40:15
really celebrate y'all the right way.
40:17
Seriously. But congrats and
40:19
congratulations to you all. Thank you
40:21
for being amazing on our platform. We
40:23
appreciate you and you would even want
40:25
to come speak with us.
40:26
>> Oh man.
40:27
>> Okay.
40:28
We woke up for you guys. That's the only
40:32
time for you.
40:32
>> You woke up for this. Okay. All right.
40:35
>> For sure. Yo, let's give them a big
40:37
round of applause. Also, we want to
40:39
thank
40:40
>> the all tied up tied up atu
40:43
>> atu.org. My brother Aman who comes from
40:46
North All those young people, right?
40:48
Come in the room, y'all. Come in the
40:49
room.
40:50
>> Yeah, they were amazing.
40:50
>> They work in media. They're They're up
40:52
and coming. They're all in high school.
40:54
I grew up years old.
40:56
>> Yeah, they all grew. They all from
40:57
Oakland where I went to high school. And
40:59
yeah, that's David right there. Say what
41:01
up to David Leilani, Ammani.
41:06
Future cardiologists and scientists
41:09
better get on the mic. Get on the mic. I
41:11
want to say engineers.
41:13
>> Batana.
41:14
>> Batana. Yes. Yes. Arman right here.
41:16
>> Let them know your future. Bratana. Say
41:18
real quick.
41:20
>> I'm going into neurobiology with a
41:22
premed track and hopefully I go into
41:24
anesthesiology OR NEUROLOGY.
41:26
>> WOW.
41:27
>> DAVID, tell them yours too. Let them
41:29
know. Man,
41:29
>> I want to major in aerospace
41:31
engineering.
41:32
>> Okay. Leani. Wow. She's incredible, too.
41:34
>> I want to major in cardiology.
41:37
>> Okay,
41:38
>> I want to major in either theatrics or
41:40
communication.
41:41
>> And it's Amari, right? Amari, right?
41:44
Okay. Miss Mimi,
41:46
>> Mrs. Mimi. Hello.
41:48
>> Hi, ladies.
41:50
>> You too.
41:51
>> I miss.
41:52
>> Come on. Radio voice.
41:53
>> Go ahead. Arman.
41:54
>> Arman. Pleasure to meet you.
41:57
>> What do y'all think he does for a
41:58
living?
41:59
>> Right.
42:01
For sure. What do you think I do?
42:03
>> Radio run the country.
42:05
>> Okay. Okay. I'll take it. I'll take it.
42:07
>> In our mind, inspiration to get in
42:10
radio. Oh, go ahead. Tell them the
42:11
story. So,
42:13
>> so Sway has been my inspiration, my
42:15
motivation to get into radio. So, we're
42:17
both from Oakland and he's been doing
42:19
this since summer. He's been doing this
42:20
since Summerjam. So, I've been watching
42:22
him and because of Sway and Cameo and
42:25
Sway and Tech dancing Pier 39 break
42:28
dancing,
42:28
>> he used the inspiration for me to get
42:30
into radio. But I said, "You know what?
42:32
I want to do the quiet storm."
42:33
>> So I've been quiet
42:36
and you know, so so I I said, "You know
42:39
what? After radio, I want to do more."
42:41
So I decided to give back to the
42:42
community. So my wife and I decided to
42:44
start this wonderful program where we
42:46
teach kids to learn their voice. We use
42:49
podcasting to help these kids empower
42:52
their voice. And we empower them. So, we
42:54
have two young ladies that would love to
42:56
ask you a couple of questions if you
42:57
don't mind
42:59
>> because they first of all, they mamas
43:01
watch the show.
43:05
>> We going to do that now? You want to do
43:06
it now? Let's do it now. Okay. Yeah, go
43:08
ahead. Yeah, let's do it now. Y'all part
43:09
of the show.
43:10
>> Yes.
43:12
>> Good morning, ladies. Tanya, we're in
43:14
the AT Academy Girls Podcast. And so in
43:18
your guys' show, you deal a lot with
43:20
relationships, either through
43:21
friendships or actual romantic
43:23
interests, and also through your guys'
43:25
life experiences. What are some ways
43:27
that you differentiate through a
43:28
complicated relationship and a toxic
43:30
one?
43:32
>> Wait, how old are you?
43:33
>> I am 17.
43:35
>> Wow.
43:37
A neuroscience one. That's
43:39
>> turn the TV off.
43:43
>> It's a It's about how you feel
43:44
afterwards.
43:46
It's about um asking yourself
43:49
um whether or not that person has your
43:53
best interest as heart at heart.
43:55
>> Uh do you have theirs? You look at how
43:57
they've shown up for you. You look at
43:59
how you've shown up for them because
44:00
it's possible for both of y'all to be
44:02
toxic. You know what I'm saying? Like
44:04
>> um and it also depends on dynamic. It's
44:06
possible to be, you know, really healthy
44:08
with one dynamic, but this person just
44:11
brings out the worst in you. So, how do
44:13
you feel afterwards? Are you proud of
44:14
yourself afterwards? Do you Does this
44:17
person bring out the best in you? Do
44:18
they bring out the worst in you? For
44:20
better or for worse, is it your fault or
44:22
theirs? It's obviously not their fault.
44:24
You take responsibility. Blame is a ego
44:27
pursuit. It's really not about whose
44:28
fault is what, but you got to take
44:31
responsibility and ownership. What do I
44:34
become when I'm around them? And you
44:36
know, there's this, I'm sure you know
44:38
it, there was a study at Harvard that
44:40
was done
44:42
saying that you become the five people
44:44
you spend the most time with.
44:46
>> Do you want to become them?
44:48
>> Are they where you're headed?
44:49
>> About
44:51
to be a cook.
44:57
>> That's crazy. I don't even like cooking
44:58
like that.
44:59
>> Response.
45:01
>> Leilani, you got one?
45:02
>> Hello everyone. My name is Leilani. Um I
45:05
am 17 as well. I have a question
45:09
specifically tied to KJ. Um ma'am
45:12
>> as I know that you are married and have
45:14
a kid but the um character and role that
45:17
you play in the show
45:18
>> you are more so vulnerable for
45:20
relationships. So what is it like
45:22
portraying both sides of
45:25
>> I get to learn more about myself and I
45:29
get to learn more Thank you for that
45:31
question first. My gosh,
45:32
>> that was amazing. By the way,
45:36
>> um I get to learn. I have the
45:38
opportunity to
45:40
expand my knowledge for women in that
45:44
position. It helps me with my empathy.
45:48
It helps me
45:50
to want to understand all women, all
45:52
people actually. And so it's very
45:56
interesting because portraying someone
45:58
who's single when I when I first got the
46:01
role, I was very much in her situation.
46:06
>> Not with a married man.
46:07
>> Right.
46:08
>> Okay. That make that clear for the
46:10
record.
46:11
>> All right. Day kind of turned away when
46:13
you said that. Everybody spread out.
46:19
>> But but wanting love and not knowing my
46:23
worth and
46:24
>> you know trying to make it happen at all
46:27
costs being thinking it was complicated
46:29
when it was really toxic.
46:31
>> And then when I found my partner and I
46:34
saw the differences,
46:37
it challenged me. They challenged me to
46:42
understand and have empathy for my
46:46
former self as well
46:49
>> and understand that that wasn't who I
46:52
was.
46:55
It was how I was behaving because I
46:58
didn't know any better.
47:00
>> So now I feel like I have to know it
47:03
all. I have to be informed about all of
47:06
it because then I can make a better
47:07
choice. If I know that
47:11
having high selfworth, I will attract
47:13
someone who also has high selfworth,
47:15
then I'm going to focus on having
47:17
selfworth, right?
47:18
>> Instead of the outward
47:20
>> of of trying because at first when I got
47:21
the role, I'm like, "Oh, she wears Louis
47:23
Vuitton." And you know, I was wearing
47:24
black forces. Crystal was styling the
47:27
illusions.
47:28
>> Okay. So, you know, let's be clear. I
47:31
didn't understand her lifestyle,
47:36
>> but I didn't understand her lifestyle at
47:38
all,
47:38
>> right?
47:39
>> And now I understand her and now I
47:41
understand more women in general. I
47:43
understand all of our characters. I
47:45
understand I can break them down, break
47:47
them down to the my level of
47:49
understanding. And um but that was a
47:52
great question. I hope I answered it. Of
47:54
>> course, thank you.
47:55
>> At you, give them a big round of
47:56
applause. They're doing great work.
47:57
>> Y'all are so great. This is Mimi. How
47:59
can people who are tuned in if they want
48:01
to have their kids or they want to
48:03
donate, how can they
48:05
>> donate? We're going to start with that.
48:06
Yeah, we we're always looking for
48:08
mentorship, internships, donations, any
48:11
help we can get. Atuacademy.org.
48:16
>> atuacademy.org.
48:18
>> We will remember that. Thank you all for
48:20
coming. All you got at salute to y'all.
48:23
Hey, y'all represent the town well. I'm
48:26
proud to be a member. Yay!
48:28
>> Town business all up in here. Give it up
48:30
for these sisters, the cast of sisters.
48:32
Thank you very much.
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