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Feb 23, 2021
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that's called parenting
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yo come on let's celebrate today
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i can't believe it we got her on the
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airways with us let's celebrate today
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come on come on crazy you want to chime
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in on who we got on the airwaves
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listen man i have loved this woman
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and her sister for so damn long there
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are
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not enough years for me to count there
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are enough not enough
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chose for me to even lay it out and for
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so many different reasons
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um beginning obviously in the small
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screen having
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my favorite blessing as a kid which was
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a television and
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really for the very first time seeing my
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natural hair not on my scalp but on
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her and her sister's scalp and being
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like
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whoa is that my potential hey now
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so i started just following her journey
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through television when she was young
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and then walking all the way up through
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her acting career
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and opportunity just becoming bigger and
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better but then
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when this woman took the best turn
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going into lifestyle and really
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pouring not only into women but the
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multi-dimensional
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woman you know the working woman but
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also the mom
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the one who cares about not only her
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health but her
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family's health and the the health of
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her relationships her friendships
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that's when i was just like wow i have
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really grown up with this woman and what
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a blessing
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what an honor tia mallory
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[Applause]
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wow that was
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wow such a beautiful
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inspiring introduction thank you thank
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you so much i
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i really appreciate that that was
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beautiful
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from the heart heather you want to jump
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in have to be here too heather you want
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to say what up to tia well i want to add
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to you
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what's up girl i want to add to that as
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well
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like just just for me sway and tracy g
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and citizens
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you know all of those things tracy added
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on on top of being a wife
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and a mom and having that balance and
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then being a woman of faith
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is incredible you know because they're
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like making me like teary-eyed over here
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oh my gosh thank you well it's real
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we we're not we're not pulling this out
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the sky
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it's just it's just real it's fact it's
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a honey so
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to be able to to have the career that
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you have
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while maintaining your relationship with
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your husband and while
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raising your children and and being
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there for your family
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all while maintaining dignity and and
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having your faith
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is not an easy thing to do man you gotta
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juggle that
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and for real and make decisions based on
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your faith in your family so
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kudos to you for that as well sis real
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rap
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oh man thank you guys so much you know i
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have to give credit to
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my parents you know my mom and dad they
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are incredible you know they're they're
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i'm an army brat so you know they were
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in the army and
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you know they they taught me about
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you know character um you know
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being kind and you know work ethics
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but one thing that i really appreciate
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about my mom and my dad is
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they always told me to not allow this
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business to really define who you are
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um you know continue to be you know
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um you know authentic and true to who
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you are don't always you know try to
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follow trends
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um and all that kind of stuff but you
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know they taught me about you know
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character and real values and integrity
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so i have to give you know credit to my
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parents
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absolutely i love that wow you got so
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much to talk about
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like i know
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i'm trying to sort through this in my
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own head so let me just
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i'll start heather you pick up tracy you
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jump in db if you got something too
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let me hit you with a couple of things
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okay okay
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first of all congratulations my sister's
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sister
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um um thank you you know came
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to netflix it becoming the most streamed
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show
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crazy yep from the 90s
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does that does that mean new paychecks
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or is just
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new recognition you know um i would say
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a little bit of both
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you know there so there there's some
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paychecks there of course it's not like
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you know crazy but you know we get
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residuals because of that which is
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amazing
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because it's it's kind of like you know
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starting all over again
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which is awesome and you know what was
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even crazier was
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how i had three shows actually in the
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top 10 trending at one time
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i had a little sister i had the game
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and i had family reunions it was it was
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insane so
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you know i'm very i'm very grateful for
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that you know
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recurrence of sister sister and the game
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of course because
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you know it was years ago that i've done
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those the family reunion is new
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but that was surreal to me i was like
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whoa
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this is crazy that yeah that's kind of
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like what drake does with the billboard
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charts
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with his singles right
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and then family uh family reunion uh was
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the uh netflix most watched family
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series and and
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then the family show and then you got a
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season two i saw you do the dance
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on your instagram you was you know
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i saw you i saw you doing your debbie
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allen on the instagram
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to your shoulders peace talk is getting
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me in trouble y'all tick-tock
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mainly because you know i really don't
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take myself seriously i love to dance
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and i love to have fun
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and that video i had done that in
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between um
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takes um on family reunion but yeah
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season two is dropping
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very soon um you know we've been working
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um on and off uh because of you know the
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pandemic for a year
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on on this season um and it usually
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doesn't take us that long to complete
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but when i tell you that these story
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lines are so incredibly moving there's
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there's one
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um where we actually go through
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uh some in you know incredible
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you know african american which is black
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leaders
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from martin luther king to tina turner
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to maya angelou
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you know and it's all about just
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educating and
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inspiring and bringing awareness to you
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know
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um culture our beautiful amazing culture
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when it comes to the african-american
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community and then also we have an
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amazing storyline i'm so impressed with
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how they how they did this
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talking about you know death when it
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comes to your family and
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and your children like how do you convey
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that how do you
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you know talk about you know such a such
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a topic
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and there's music involved with that
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episode so i think people are really
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going to be
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be happy and inspired with the second
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season um
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that's a beautiful show um i love isaiah
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i love
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talia jackson yeah they're incredible
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these actors
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these young actors jordan james all
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these folks are really incredible and
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and i'm thinking
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too because you're talking about the the
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story lines
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yeah you wrote a you wrote i read i read
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the essay you wrote for l state of black
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beauty project
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yes which was incredible i had no idea
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that
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you know when i used to watch sister
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sister all the different shows that you
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appeared on that
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behind the scenes that this dynamic of
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beauty standards was going on for
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such young kids it appealed to me when i
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wrote you
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wrote when i read the story how you
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spoke about hair discrimination you
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faced as a kid
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in your journey to love your curls and
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the face of hollywood prejudice
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and i thought of my own daughter who's
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22 now
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and when she was growing up and the
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environment she was in
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you know she went to campbell hall so
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you know this you know this route to you
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you know you know that route
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those glues in the valley and i remember
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her coming home
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and we were having conversations about
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her hair um
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at five and six years old and so
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what was that like for you as a kid and
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i think people still get surprised that
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that kind of discrimination happened
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let me let me tell you that
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discrimination is still happening you
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know i had done a movie
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uh i would say two years ago and
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you know there was this amazing
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beautiful actress that had walked in
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the hair and makeup trailer and she was
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just a day player and she had
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a beautiful throw like i mean it was
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gorgeous
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just all in its natural beauty
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and you know i'm i'm you know about to
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go on set so i go on set
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and then she kind of follows me in like
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maybe 45 minutes later and they
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tucked her hair in it was like gone
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her her beautiful fro and i said what
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happened like what what
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what what happened to your hair what
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what are they doing you know i wasn't a
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producer on this movie
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um and hence that's i i you know i'm
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gonna be producing three movies with
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lifetime which i'm so excited about
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and of course there will be none of this
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type of you know treatment
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um and that's one of the main reasons
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why i i am doing what i'm doing
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um you know but anyway they had pulled
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their hair back because again
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they said that it was too distracting um
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and you know this is coming from people
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who just don't understand this is coming
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from people who don't
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understand our culture and that's why
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it's so important i think that's why
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it's so beautiful
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with what we're doing over at um family
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reunion you know we have a predominantly
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african-american
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um uh writer staff and you know
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producers who get the culture
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who understand the culture that no it's
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not about pulling back
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our beautiful curls and hiding you know
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our kinks and our coils
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it's about celebrating it and you know
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as as a child of course you know again i
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i understand what your daughter you know
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is going through and that's exactly what
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i went through you know as i got older
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you didn't see you know uh
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curls and uh you know are beautiful like
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i was saying kingston coils that we have
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been celebrated as much thank god as
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they are today we have a community
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you know right now especially on social
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media where we're like no
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it's okay to be you you know celebrate
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you and celebrate
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you know who you are and celebrate your
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blackness but it wasn't
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always like that whenever i would see
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beauty depicted
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you know especially on television or in
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magazines it was
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i'm just keeping it real it was you know
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blonde
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straight hair um and so
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as we got older on sister sister
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you know we thought okay well maybe if
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we would straighten our hair then that
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there would be some sort of acceptance
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um and you know that was a challenge but
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i will say this you know my mother is
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incredible
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that's when she started to throw when
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she was when she started to see that
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insecurity
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with you know my sister and myself she
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started to
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throw those jet magazines and those
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essence magazines right in front of our
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face
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and say no look this is beautiful this
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is amazing and you know
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shout out to jet and shout out to
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essence you know for again
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um allowing us to have some sort of
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platform
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or outlet to see our worth and our value
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absolutely that representation man and
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that's exactly
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my daughter's 22 now to you so she she's
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yeah she's more yeah she's more prideful
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than journey of truth
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she's a hell of an activist with a
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little little harriet tubman in there
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cicely tyson and tia mourinho she got
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everything in here now
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so you know um that's awesome yeah but
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thank you for sharing that because
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kids shouldn't have to go through that
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and i think folks probably watched it
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all your entire
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your entire lives they didn't understand
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as kids that you guys were kids
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in a you know professional kids and that
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you you had to develop too
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i'm i'm really happy for you um for
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for all that you're doing uh absolutely
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tia's maori quick fix is already up to
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about eight hundred and seventeen
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thousand followers on the youtube
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channel man if you ain't watch that
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go ahead and watch it get you a quick
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fix what are some of the dilemmas like
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the craziest
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the craziest dilemmas people hit you
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with that that you ain't that you
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weren't able to fix
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oh that you mean like with my quick fix
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channel like some sort of dilemmas
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you know what's really cool actually in
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all of the three years
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because we've we've had this channel for
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three years now and actually we're
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almost at three million
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uh followers um across um all platforms
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which is
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incredible so we've created this
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wonderful
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you know community but one of the main
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reasons why i decided to do this channel
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was again everything that i do as you
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know
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um you guys you guys have known me for a
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long time is to inspire and
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is to encourage and so i realized that
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you know being a mom
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and being a working mom it's hard you
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know there's a lot that you were talking
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about earlier
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it's a lot to juggle so i'm all about
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just
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trying to you know get
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delicious meals on the table for your
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family
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so that it's not overwhelming and that
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it's quick and that it's easy
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um you know some of the things that i
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like to do especially on that channel
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is you know talk about you know some
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sheet pan dinners which is
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you know it's easy you just kind of like
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putting all of your ingredients on a
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sheet pan throwing it in the oven and
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boom you have a well-balanced meal
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um but you know i also use that platform
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um
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for inspirational talks um you know i've
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talked about
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you know growing up in this in this
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business being a child star i've talked
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about being you know
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black in this business um and that's
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also
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you know amazing i've talked about and
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i've been very open about
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endometriosis um you know um
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on on my channel as well so it's it's
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just a great
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outlet that i've created where people
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can really see who i
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am as a person of course you know i love
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to act but that's kind of focused on
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character
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um but this tmore's quick fix it's all
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me
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it's you know i i share marriage tips
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and advice
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um on there you know my husband um you
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know make some cameos on there
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and then i show my kids you know just
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the dynamic again
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everything is about to inspire because
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life is hard
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and you know when i became a mother i
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knew that i needed some sort of
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community to go to and
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you know it to get advice it really
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takes a village so
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and you created that and i commend you
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for that and i commend corey too because
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i know what it's like
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to go shopping and have to sit around
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the dressing room while your wife
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[Music]
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that's what corey be looking like when
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he come on the show like uh hi
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y'all yeah
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that's my boyfriend is so funny he is
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he's so chill y'all but but he's
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he's my biggest supporter like my
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husband is my biggest fan
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and i and sway you know this we talked
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about this
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you know and he's my biggest fan and my
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biggest supporter and i'm so
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grateful that you know i have have that
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union that
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whatever i'm doing even if my husband is
15:30
rolling his eyes he's like tia
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i'm going to be there i'm going to
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support you and vice versa you know
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i've seen the my roles
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oh man have you seen tia's cooking like
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anything she's posted
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yeah of course i i've seen all of that
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yeah of course man
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super fans super super fans every of
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everything y'all
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you know like as i said earlier just
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being able to watch and i when the last
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time tia was in the studio with us
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like her brother as well i don't think
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we we talked about her brother uh
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shortly but i don't think he gets enough
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love either
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you know like that's just my opinion
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he's super talented man
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and i think that he deserves a look as
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well
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oh man i really appreciate that you know
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he um he
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is a guest star uh on family reunion
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this
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this this season the second season um he
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was so much fun
16:28
and you know he is he's he's incredible
16:31
taj tash you know
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all both of my brothers are incredible
16:34
xavier you know he's in the he's on the
16:36
music scene
16:37
um you know and he's getting his music
16:39
together he lives in tennessee now he's
16:41
married
16:42
um and his girls out there but taj
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he he was the first one on the scene a
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lot of people don't know that i mean tar
16:50
started off in you know full house we
16:52
came out
16:52
to la my sister and myself to pursue in
16:55
a career but
16:56
to pursue a career but tosh was the
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first one that made it
17:00
um because you know he was on full house
17:01
and he's just a natural talent he can
17:03
dance
17:04
he can sing you know he's that triple
17:06
threat but he
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but but besides that y'all my brother is
17:11
is an incredible human being he's one of
17:13
my favorite people on this earth he's
17:15
such a good
17:17
good person so um i appreciate you
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giving him
17:20
you know of course shout out to him
17:23
i definitely think he gets overlooked a
17:25
lot and i just wanted to bring that up
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again today thank you what's up hey hey
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tia
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um my mother worked in the medical field
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for about 35 years
17:35
right wow yeah and she
17:39
self-made woman you know worked her way
17:41
up put herself to school
17:43
i was there as a little infant because i
17:45
was too young to go to child care
17:47
um and she used to always she used to
17:50
always tell us fortify
17:51
your body you need to fortify your body
17:54
with d3s with vitamin c's with you know
17:58
vitamin b vitamin d vitamin d d3 you
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know all of these different things and
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you know and then when i started
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becoming of age and uh and i became more
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conscious of it and why you're supposed
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to do that
18:09
i realized there was a plenty of like
18:11
there's a lot of different varieties of
18:12
supplements and detox
18:14
programs out there for people to choose
18:16
from now you decided to co-found your
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own company
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answer right yes i did
18:24
okay and so i thought wow i told my
18:26
mother hey you know the girl from sister
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sister
18:29
she started her own company so what are
18:32
some of the tips you can give for people
18:34
researching the best supplemental
18:36
uh tailored supplements for their health
18:39
what would you recommend to folks you
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know
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i mean especially in um you know
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what we're going through right now with
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the environment that we're in right now
18:49
i definitely think that a multivitamin
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is the most important thing
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mainly because you know we all
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we're we're busy you know what i mean
18:58
we're running around um whether that's
19:01
from job to job or just
19:02
you know being a mother uh you know
19:04
raising your kids
19:06
you know etc you know we're not getting
19:09
the proper nutrients
19:11
that we need on a daily basis that's
19:13
that's a fact
19:14
um and so when you have a multivitamin
19:18
it's basically taking care of all of
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those minerals
19:22
that you know you may not be getting or
19:25
supplements that you're getting in your
19:26
diet
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um so there's you know b12 there is the
19:30
vitamin c
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vitamin d is so important and and i want
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to put a spotlight on this we actually
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um with answer it was very important for
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me to come out
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with an isolated supplement just vitamin
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d we just launched it
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um a few weeks ago in a gummy which is
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so delicious but especially in the
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african-american community
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vitamin d seems to be very low but it is
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a powerful powerful supplement
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and it helps with immunity um
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of course we are living in you know the
20:05
covered world
20:06
right now and there are links to um
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you know vitamin d having high dosages
20:12
of vitamin d in your system and covid
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you know that
20:16
there's um you can handle um you know i
20:20
guess code with the virus
20:21
you know better of course i'm not a
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doctor you know make sure you you do
20:24
your research on that
20:26
but there has been some research that
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you know vitamin d
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is really really important for immunity
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to just fight off free radicals
20:33
um boost your immune system vitamin c is
20:36
also really important for
20:37
for that um for immunity
20:40
um and we we launched also
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a uh gummy a vitamin c gummy and you
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know
20:48
b12 is really important um for energy
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uh and so i would i would you know focus
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on
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you know uh vitamin c vitamin d
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b12 iron is also really important
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i mean your supplements are important in
21:04
general but especially in today's
21:06
you know times right now i would you
21:08
know definitely focus on those and make
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sure that you're
21:10
you're getting those zinc is really
21:12
important again
21:14
um for your immunity and just energy you
21:16
know what i mean to help you get
21:18
throughout your day
21:19
but i also want to say that it's really
21:21
important for us to you know
21:22
start taking care of ourselves now not
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you don't have to wait
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until you're you know 40 50 or 60 years
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old to
21:30
to become aware of your health and your
21:32
wellness you know it's it's
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it starts now it's about prevention um
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and so that you know that's been my goal
21:40
with answer is just to
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bring awareness um and
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and you know help encourage people to
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you know take charge of their health and
21:50
their wellness and and to reach your
21:51
potential that
21:52
everybody has some sort of underlying
21:54
condition that you know
21:55
we're going through mindless
21:56
endometriosis among some other things
21:59
but to me i want people to understand
22:00
that that's not a death thing you know
22:02
what i mean you are
22:03
in control of your health and no one
22:05
else can take care of you
22:07
better than you and that's why the
22:08
supplement is called if you see it it's
22:10
called answer
22:11
but we have a tagline you are the answer
22:14
it starts with you
22:15
you know don't depend on anyone else to
22:18
take care of you and that goes with not
22:20
even just your your health that goes
22:21
with everything your goals your
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inspirations what you want to do in life
22:24
it starts with you starts with you tia
22:27
maori is here we're talking about an
22:28
answer they got
22:29
14 day detox heart beats with the ets
22:32
powder they got hair skin nails dummy
22:34
they got women's multivitamin gummies
22:36
they got apple cider vinegar gummy
22:40
soon to come the newly introduced uh
22:43
corey hardwick uh and suede
22:46
male multivitamin gummy they're gonna do
22:49
one for
22:50
you know what you got the answers they
22:52
got y'all yellow heaven i'm telling you
22:54
tracy report about it
22:57
okay i saw that ali we got everything
23:00
you need you guys we got everything you
23:02
need
23:04
so corey is a huge fan of the men's
23:06
multi
23:07
as soon as as soon as he runs out he's
23:09
like yo can you give me some more that
23:11
can you give us more of that oh my god
23:12
we got you covered we got the kids
23:14
gummies we got the whole family
23:16
um but yeah okay cool tracer you want to
23:20
ask the final question
23:21
yeah tia if you wouldn't mind sharing
23:24
because we're so used to seeing you
23:26
obviously on television and
23:27
entertainment those type of roles
23:29
but what personal development did you
23:32
have to really take on
23:34
with feeling comfortable in this
23:36
position as a co-founder
23:39
you know i'll tell you what made me feel
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comfortable
23:43
vulnerability and i know that's kind of
23:44
like a weird answer but
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my point is is that i was you know i
23:49
started answer because of my own
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personal
23:52
journey with my wellness um i was
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diagnosed with endometriosis
23:57
in my mid-20s i was you know and and i'm
24:00
starting to see more people talk about
24:01
it which is
24:01
amazing but when i was diagnosed with it
24:04
it was not talked about i didn't even
24:05
know what it was i was like in the what
24:07
like what what
24:08
what is that um but my point is is that
24:12
you know once i was diagnosed with that
24:15
and then
24:15
there was a possibility that i couldn't
24:17
have kids and after several surgeries
24:20
and very painful
24:21
experiences you know my doctor was like
24:23
look you need to change
24:25
your your lifestyle you need to you know
24:28
change what you're eating
24:29
and all of that so basically i did that
24:32
i started to take my supplements i
24:33
started to eat well
24:35
um i started to meditate i started to
24:37
exercise i started to take charge of my
24:39
health and my wellness
24:41
and then my point with vulnerability is
24:44
i didn't want to keep all of this
24:45
information to myself
24:47
because i saw a huge shift in my health
24:49
i was able to have children
24:51
um my i had migraines i was suffering
24:53
with migraines and eczema all of that
24:55
went away and my endometriosis has been
24:58
suppressed
24:58
thank god um so i wanted to
25:02
you know inspire um and to share my
25:05
my story but again at first i was like
25:08
oh god like i don't
25:09
you know you don't want to you know you
25:12
don't want to
25:12
shout out to the mountaintops and say
25:15
hey guys
25:17
you know i there's a possibility i can't
25:19
have kids one day
25:20
and so i kind of kept it quiet for a
25:23
minute and then i said you know what
25:25
no i don't want to do that i i want to
25:28
be vulnerable and open up
25:29
and share my story and once i started to
25:32
share my story you know i came out with
25:33
a book um called
25:34
whole new you um which is um
25:38
a cookbook and i talk about you know
25:40
wellness and health and how food can be
25:42
medicine
25:43
i started to see that i was inspiring so
25:47
many people i mean there are
25:48
people who have brought me to tears
25:49
saying see you helped me properly
25:51
diagnose myself
25:52
tia now i know what i have i went to my
25:55
doctors and i fought
25:56
for my proper diagnosis and so with that
26:00
said
26:00
i wanted to again inspire and uplift
26:04
and share my story but also when i was
26:07
on this journey i didn't see
26:08
representation meaning when i was on
26:10
this health and wellness journey i would
26:11
you know read books and i would
26:13
do my research and i'm like
26:16
why why are these supplements so
26:18
unattainable why are they not tangible
26:20
why are they so damn expensive like like
26:22
health and wellness should be inclusive
26:25
not exclusive it should be
26:26
tangible for everyone so anyway my point
26:28
is i don't want to run
26:30
run you know along with this but my
26:32
point is is i saw that there was a need
26:35
and i said you know what let's do it
26:37
let's go and i knew that i had already a
26:39
built-in audience that i could talk to
26:41
i had a platform you know on social
26:44
media i knew that there would be people
26:45
that were listening
26:47
and so i just said pass to mike you know
26:49
what i mean give it to me let me just go
26:50
ahead
26:51
and you know start this journey i've
26:53
always wanted to be an entrepreneur too
26:56
um because i've always felt like i had
26:57
so much to say as a young girl
27:00
i've never been shy about you know
27:03
expressing my
27:04
my feelings and my emotions and this is
27:06
one way that you can
27:07
when you are an entrepreneur because you
27:09
are front and center
27:11
um and it's been an incredible amazing
27:14
journey you guys i'm so proud of what
27:18
we're doing we're continuing to grow
27:20
and it was all about again
27:24
starting the dialogue and the
27:25
conversation with women that weren't
27:27
included which
27:28
women of color and diversity and so
27:30
that's what i'm really really passionate
27:32
about is just continuing on that
27:34
dialogue
27:34
i love it man maori give a big round of
27:37
applause
27:38
we celebrating you we're celebrating you
27:41
this this you know this is black history
27:43
we're celebrating you
27:45
in black history okay and your story
27:48
that needs to be told over and over tell
27:50
my brother corey i said i'll miss him
27:52
i will you know he loves you he told him
27:54
that i was doing your show
27:56
and he was like yes here tell him i said
27:59
hi
27:59
he loves you
28:03
we appreciate your support every time
28:06
every time you got you stuck with me now
28:08
come on i'm trying to get them free
28:10
free vitamins too
28:13
you you need
28:18
okay because you need to answer
28:19
ambassadors that's what tracy heather
28:20
and i are here for
28:21
hello come on i'm gonna send you guys
28:25
some okay i'll see you guys
28:27
just the the whole the whole line
28:30
and uh yeah just let me know what you
28:32
guys think
28:33
okay i'll reach out we'll reach out
28:35
we'll make it happen and until you
28:37
continue success tell the family we said
28:39
hi i know you gotta go
28:41
all right tia mallory ladies and
28:42
gentlemen all right you too mama
28:45
a big round of applause
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