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#Host2Host- Journey OR Destination? Ft. TalentedOnes CEO Justin Sheppard aka "Jay Shep"
6 Plays2 years ago
From college media classes to rising media mogul- Justin Sheppard joins me on the podcast!
Justin aka "Jay Shep" is a Houston-based creator and founder of his media brand- TalentedOnes Media! He interviews people of many talents including (but not limited to) Artists, CEO's, and Creatives! Like an article written about him says: "Sheppard's capability to diversify his content shows that he's a forced to be reckoned with in the media world. Sheppard reveals plans to venture even further into a short film, documentaries and concept photography." Stay plugged in to his future endeavors! Thank you for joining me!
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Introduction and Background
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Hello, welcome or welcome back to the Feel Your Feelings podcast.
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I'm your host, Victoria Macanjola.
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And today I am joined by Justin Shepard.
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Justin is a Houston-based content creator.
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He's the creator of Talented Ones.
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And we are both graduates of Sam Houston State University.
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And we're both currently grad students.
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So it's great to see you and catch up with you.
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We're actually doing this and making this happen.
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So I'm super excited to have you today.
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How are you feeling?
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I'm good.
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I'm good.
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I'm good.
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I'm super blessed.
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I've had a great day.
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Now we're doing this.
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We've been talking about this for a minute.
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A minute.
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Yeah, and having this conversation.
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I've been all over the place, but I'm glad to finally get a chance to kind of sit down, have this conversation.
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And just talk, you know, just talk experiences, talk life and just, you know, give the fans something to maybe, you know, something that can be on their mind and their ears that it can appease.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, me too.
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And this is the host to host series.
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And this is a series where I talk to fellow podcasters, podcast hosts, media personalities like yourself, Justin, and to give people a sense of how they can get to where you are.
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So I think it's super fascinating and I'm excited to hear from you.
Personal Themes: Consistency and Patience
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So first and foremost, I'm curious to know in this current season that you're in, what's one word that sticks with you and how are you prioritizing it?
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um consistency consistency is probably the word that sticks out to me the most that's right now that's just big on myself and uh for my team as well um just for everybody out there um i go by jay shep on camera um a lot of a lot of things what talents was media out here in houston we've been doing stuff for a minute we've known stuff for a while but um
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We've just been really trying to figure out the business.
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We've had a lot of ups and a lot of downs.
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And I wouldn't even call them downs.
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I call them lessons, you know, lessons of blessings and things of that nature.
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So pretty much we've just been learning over the years and over the times.
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And we're starting to see a lot of things starting to come together in a lot of different areas.
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This year has been a big year for us so far, and we're continuing to make it a big year.
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So I would just say consistency.
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That would be my main word right now for what I've been thinking about.
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That's awesome.
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For me, I would say my one word is patience.
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And I'm still learning how to prioritize it.
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But one of the main things that I try to do is by being still.
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So you know how like in the Bible, how God says to be still and let me do my thing.
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That's kind of what I've been trying to do in this season is not to put too many things.
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expectations or rush into things the way I want to do them, but kind of let go and step back and let God take the wheel, Jesus take the wheel, right?
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And do what he does.
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And really, it's kind of led me to all of these different places and things that I wouldn't think that I would have been doing at
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the moment just having this conversation with you right now is like kind of full circle it's like we took classes together like and now we're like we're both kind of we're hosting things and and getting out of our comfort zone so it's really cool thing to see you know we're definitely in our bag you know so we're in me and my father's called we're in our duffel bag right now it's a duffel bag i like that yeah we're in our duffel bag right now it's the season it's a season of growth it's a season of um
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I think it's the season of when you put in a lot of work, you know, you just talked about God too.
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When you put in a lot of work and I think you pray for, you know, these opportunities and things, but God just doesn't give you what you putting in the work before.
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Cause you know, the same prayer without works is just wishful thinking.
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So when you put in your 10,000 hours, you know, you start eventually getting the situations where you start reaping the benefits of the work you put in.
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Exactly.
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I love that.
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And that leads me to something else I was curious to ask you about, which is what does staying ready so you don't have to get ready mean to you?
Staying Ready: Insights from Sports and Life
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Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.
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That just means that's kind of like what I said about the 10,000 hours.
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You put in the hours like I played sports growing up.
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I even played football my freshman year at Sam Houston.
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And the one thing you always have to do is when you're in the gym and you're working out or you're working towards anything in life,
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You always like that.
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Just like if you don't put in the work, how can you be ready for that moment?
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You know what I'm saying?
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You never know when the opportunity is going to come.
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So it's like you just always ready.
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So whenever the time comes and the opportunity moves, you just have to jump on it.
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So that's what I would I would think about.
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Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.
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Totally.
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Totally.
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I think.
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With anything we do, it's important to stay ready.
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I didn't think I would be going back to school at this time.
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I know we're both in grad school right now.
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You're at Texas Southern and I'm taking online classes right now.
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But staying ready, I think me putting myself in the mindset of being ready
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an eternal student.
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So like, I always know that I have something more to learn.
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Like even after graduating from grad school, I still kind of felt like there's more for me to learn.
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This isn't it, like this isn't the end of the road.
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I still want to keep learning and moving.
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So I think for me, it's just staying ready mentally and keeping my mind open to new possibilities.
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So yeah, I like it.
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So do you have a favorite interview that you've done so far?
Memorable Interviews and Challenges
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A favorite interview.
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I do, actually.
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I think it's the one that you would probably like, but it's the one that I'm also the maddest about, too, which is the Beverly Johnson interview that we had earlier this year.
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Yeah.
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But that's the one I'm the most mad about because it's not because of her.
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She's an amazing woman.
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She's an icon.
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She's a legendary, a trailblazer.
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She's everything and such a nice, nice lady.
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Amazing sit-down interview.
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We had about 12 to 13 minutes with her.
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But the reason why I said it's the madness is because my SD card fried.
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But when there's a wheel, there's a way.
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I still got the SD card.
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We're going to get that footage back from it.
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from my lips.
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Yeah, it just cost a pretty penny to get back.
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But nah, I would say that's probably my favorite interview because it's the full circle moment of like how the business even came about it.
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Like that interview was sprung on to me.
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It wasn't like I knew who that Beverly Johnson was or I knew the stakes of the situation.
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It was a situation where, um,
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There was a conference going on in Atlanta by a lady named Miss Diana Richardson Phillips.
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Yeah.
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No, Phillips.
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I'm going to get her last name right, Phillips.
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She invited talented ones out there to do interviews for that weekend for her Women in Business conference.
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And she had Beverly Johnson as her keynote speaker.
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And so we were able to kind of position ourselves into a way.
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I think we were just supposed to do red carpet interviews with her.
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And, like, we were able to position ourselves into her room that she had before she was getting ready to go into, like, before she was going to be the keynote speaker.
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So, like, the dudes, like, people were just letting us know, hey, you know, we're going to bring Beverly back.
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She won't be in this room.
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You know, we're going to bring Beverly back.
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She won't be in this room.
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And I'm just like, all right, cool.
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Because I understand what this is.
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And we're going to be in the room already set up.
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So whenever she gets in there and we got in there and I don't think we were necessarily supposed to get that 12 minute sit down.
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But I asked her a couple of questions.
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She answered them gracefully.
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And then she gave us a stamp of approval, not just like in person, but like even I heard back from Diana.
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She was like, yeah, you know, Beverly said that y'all are really, she loved y'all professionalism and how y'all carried y'allself and ran y'all business and did your thing.
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So which gave me the confidence to know, okay, cool.
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First of all, we negotiated to get out here.
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The opportunity kind of came to us and we capitalized on the opportunity when we got there on that part, you know what I'm saying?
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Of course,
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The job didn't get finished like how we wanted to, but everything happens in due time.
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Yeah.
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I was literally just thinking that, like, I know you said, like, we weren't really supposed to, like, get in there and do the interview, but everything does happen for a reason.
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So, I mean, and the fact that she gave you guys such positive feedback afterwards had to have, like, felt good for you guys as well.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Because my biggest thing was it was a different lane than who I've normally talked to.
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Like, we have credits beforehand.
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Like, we've talked to, like, big actors.
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The most notable one, I think, recently was Vanessa Bell Calloway.
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For those who watch Coming to America and things of that nature, you know, Vanessa Bell Calloway was the lady that's the queen to be.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So, like...
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We've talked to people off of Insecure, Rap Shit, people who've hosted on Nike, athletes, people that have signed to Warner and Def Jam and everything.
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We've talked to a lot of people, but to have a first of her kind,
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really the first black woman to be on the cover of Bo Magazine.
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When I did my history and my research on it, I was like, yo, this is a truly amazing sit down we get to have right here.
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And, you know, for us being young, talented on this media, I'm 26 years old owning this media company.
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My God brother came with me.
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26 too.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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And so, like, my God brother, he's 25.
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I got to text his mom, like, yo, your son is filming for, like, Beverly Johnson right now.
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You know, this is...
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I don't know what's happening, but something's happening here.
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So, like, we're going to keep going and we're going to keep on this grind.
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So, yeah, that's what I would say to them.
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That was my favorite moment so far because over the years, that was a full circle moment.
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That's wonderful.
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And I'm curious to know, like, how were you able to establish
Building Trustworthy Teams
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a team?
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Because like you're, like you said, 26, you're a CEO of your own media company.
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How did you go about getting a team set up around you that, number one, you could trust and people that you work well with?
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I think the thing is, first of all, it's trial and error because you can't work with everybody.
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You can't work with all your peers.
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You can't work with just anybody.
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Don't work with people you don't like.
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I don't believe in that rule.
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The big thing for us was just mainly like over the years, like it just happened organically.
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Started off with my line brother, Kelechi, who almost acted as a manager up front, but now he's the COO of our whole operation.
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But he was just sending me like people to interview, that people he knew.
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He was just setting up interviews.
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And I would go interview and knock them out of the park.
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And they was getting thousands of views in college.
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So I'm just like, oh, bro, you might have something going on here.
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And he just asked me, he wanted to keep doing that.
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He fell into the dream of it.
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And I was like, okay, cool.
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And he studied under some big-time artist managers, too, that were really doing well in Houston.
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So he teached it upon himself to do the work for the craft.
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So I got him, got my godbrother, who was a film major at Concordia.
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Um...
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And he believed in the dream.
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That's literally like my little brother in the sense of real life.
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We were both only children.
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Got my co-host, Uncle Ed.
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Oh, well, his name is Mason.
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Let me shout out to Mason.
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My co-host on our podcast, when I first started, it was a radio show.
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When we added that part to the business, Uncle Lex,
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He's now the president of the company.
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He has a background in sales.
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So like all these people just came over time.
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So it's just a blessing to be honest with you.
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That's amazing.
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That's amazing.
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And that's something that I've strived to have is a team of people that not only do I like working with, but people that I trust and we all work together well, like a well-oiled machine.
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Okay, so you're studying at TSU.
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What are you studying?
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Are you studying business or?
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No, I'm actually studying professional communication, digital media.
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So I'm studying, yeah, I'm studying the craft.
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Like I have a goal to go down.
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I'm trying to,
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I have a goal to be one of the best or most, I don't even want to say most known.
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I really want to go down as one of the best on-air talents of all time.
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Like I really have this goal.
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Like I've studied, I studied the greats all the time.
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Stephen A. Smith, Stuart Scott, Chris Berman, Sway in the Morning, Big Boys Neighborhood, Angie Martinez, Oprah, Dan Rather.
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Love Angie Martinez.
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Yes.
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Dan Rather, Michael Strahan, and like, who else could I say?
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Like, I'm a student.
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Even like the podcasters, like a Joe Budden now and things of that nature.
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Like, I'm a true student of the craft.
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And not just on a just so serious side, but even on the entertainment side, too, because you need both.
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Like, yo, I really study these guys and women and to really try to project myself on a level of like, yo, this is what you're striving for.
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Not just the money aspect or the fame aspect, but really just –
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I want to be in that tier, you know what I'm saying?
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That top tier.
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I'm 26, you know what I'm saying?
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We're both young, we're both 26.
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The thing of like, I'm trying to think about what, what am I going to be at 36, 46?
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You
Studies and Negotiation Skills
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know, these people are going at an extremely long time in the industry.
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You know, how can I have that long lasting tenure of being an on-air host or being just on air in whatever facet, so.
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I love that.
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I'm also like you, a constant learner and I try to, I love watching interviews and I really, for me, I strive to be a better speaker, like in the way that I carry myself, in the way that I talk, in the way I speak to people and have conversations with people.
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So like Oprah Winfrey with Meghan Markle, she's a great speaker.
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I'm reading a book right now by Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon, Shannon Lee.
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And just he talks about self-help, like when you help yourself, like you're helping other people and just wanting to carry myself in a way that is like true.
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I love his book and I highly recommend it.
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It's called Be Water, My Friend.
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But I also agree with you about.
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looking at looking in the mirror and like actually turning those skills towards myself because in the end they will end up leaving a bigger impact than than I can even imagine um so yeah I love that and I'm studying uh by the way I'm studying design business and technology so a little different a little different than mass comm before so with design business what does that like entail
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So, okay, so with design, so for me, I want to focus more on the business side.
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We can choose to specialize in any one of the three, but it's really a creative, a creator's academy to
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to kind of blend all three aspects of them.
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So with design, learning how to create graphics on like Adobe Illustrator, with business, I had a class yesterday about negotiation, whether that's negotiating a product or a deal that a good price for a product.
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And then technology, of course,
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But for me, I'm really just curious and open minded.
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I want to learn about all of those things because I think that they are our future in a minuscule sense, not minuscule, but like buying my first car.
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Like I want to know how to negotiate.
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I want to know how to have those skills to be able to do that effectively and not let like either my gender or my race actually hinder me from doing any of those things.
Journey over Destination: Intangible Impacts
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I had a really important question for you because you asked this question to all of your guests I noticed I think you know what it is you know what it is and this question is which one is more important to you the journey or the destination yeah that's funny Jay Shep it's funny my answer changes a lot
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But I think as of recently, I've been thinking maybe because I've been more on a spiritual journey.
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I feel like the answer is the journey always.
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My journey is going to always be more than the destination because you have to appreciate the road you're on to know where you're trying to go.
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So you can't just skip that.
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You can't skip the process.
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And these are memories that you're making for a lifetime.
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You look back at it, you're not going to look at it back like, ooh, it was so important to buy this car or to get these clothes or to get this house or to get this condo.
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The important thing was like, man, bro, me and my partners, we really created a beautiful thing that the world has that's intangible, that can speak to people, that inspires people.
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When people come up to me and now they literally will say like,
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you know, that question or those words that you just told me, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, they'll be like, you know, they always make journey jokes or like, you know, tell me about that process or tell me about things.
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And I started to get that more often now.
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People embodying that system, that lifestyle, the ideology that came to my head when I was young and putting it out there.
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I didn't create nothing, but I'm just saying like,
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just putting it out there enough to where it's affecting other people.
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That's a beautiful thing.
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That's an intangible object.
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That's the process.
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That's the journey.
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That's the thing that I feel like is more important than
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the destination because to be honest with you, the real destination that I have, of course I have goals, but my only destination is heaven.
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I always tell people that now, my destination is heaven, so I'm just really a vessel on this earth to do God's work.
00:19:27
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And then, you know, that's really, that's like my thing, you know, so pretty much.
00:19:34
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I'm just here.
00:19:35
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I got goals while I'm here on this earth.
00:19:37
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I'm trying to leave a legacy.
00:19:38
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I'm trying to do some things.
00:19:39
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I want to have a lot of fun.
00:19:40
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I want to live it over my friends and my peers and just kind of keep this business and this grind going.
00:19:46
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And of course, I'm a business-heavy guy, but the only destination truly for me is heaven.
00:19:52
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Am I doing God's work?
00:19:53
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Am I doing the due diligence?
00:19:55
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So that's my big thing.
00:19:57
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That's amazing.
00:19:58
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And I know you have some merchandise with the journey greater than destination on it.
00:20:03
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So I want one.
00:20:05
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So I'm gonna have to, you know, find out about how I can get one.
00:20:08
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How can people purchase your merch?
00:20:12
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We have a website, www.talented1, like the number one, NES.com.
00:20:18
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If you go there, all of our merchandise is there.
00:20:21
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It's hot as I don't know what in Houston, Texas right now.
00:20:24
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We have our hoodies on a discount right now for $28 just because it's hot.
00:20:29
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It's the summer, so it's like, yo, we're trying to get these away, but when that winter comes up, we have something special.
00:20:35
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Of course, the prices and things might go up for the OG hoodies again, but like
00:20:40
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We have something special for the ladies this winter.
00:20:44
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I'm not going to say exactly what it is, but we have a whole capsule of Disney's and they just women because we have a lot of women that support us at events.
00:20:54
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They buy our merchandise, but we just want to do something clothing wise specifically for the ladies that just to make people feel special and stuff like that.
00:21:06
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And it's comfortable season two.
00:21:08
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So that can give you a hint like what it could be.
00:21:11
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You know what I'm saying?
00:21:12
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You know, it's cozy vibes.
00:21:14
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We want everybody to feel warm and snuggled.
00:21:16
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So we got something special going on there.
00:21:19
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Guys, we're not leaving you out as well.
00:21:20
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We got some stuff for y'all too.
00:21:22
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But this combo right now, this part ain't for y'all.
00:21:25
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This was...
00:21:28
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This is for y'all guys.
00:21:29
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We take care of y'all all the time.
00:21:32
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I love that.
00:21:33
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And I want my t-shirt.
00:21:34
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I want my t-shirt.
00:21:35
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Because I know it's hot right now in Texas, but it's going to start getting colder.
00:21:39
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So I would definitely love a hoodie.
00:21:41
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If you want to send me one, we can set that up.
00:21:45
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Who are some of your dream guests for Talented Ones?
Dream Guests and Interview Aspirations
00:21:50
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And also, oh, go ahead.
00:21:53
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No, go ahead.
00:21:54
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No, go ahead.
00:21:54
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Go ahead.
00:21:55
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I was going to ask, on top of that, do you have like a dream role in the future?
00:22:01
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You know, because being a media personality, we wear many hats as like a host, producer, creator.
00:22:10
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Are there any dream roles that you have down the line that you aspire to do one day, maybe outside of media or in the media?
00:22:21
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To answer the first question, the first guest that comes off of my mind is like a dream guest of mine is Jamie Foxx.
00:22:28
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You know what I'm saying?
00:22:30
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Yes.
00:22:30
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I was thinking of him earlier, his sit down with Denzel and how he did like, I forgot, Actors on Actors.
00:22:39
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Yes, that one.
00:22:40
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He did like the lip.
00:22:44
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He's amazing.
00:22:46
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Amazing.
00:22:46
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Yeah, Jamie Foxx, I really like
00:22:50
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I'm trying to manifest that.
00:22:51
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I know I have some people that are around him in LA.
00:22:55
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And he's from Texas.
00:22:57
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He's from Texas.
00:22:58
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He's from good old Terrell, Texas.
00:23:00
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Yes, shout out.
00:23:02
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Texas Boy Connection interview.
00:23:05
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My whole personality will be on Front Street that day.
00:23:07
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As a shit?
00:23:11
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Yeah, I would be ecstatic.
00:23:13
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But Jamie Foxx for sure would be my... Jamie Foxx
00:23:19
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Denzel, I think Michael B. Jordan, but Michael B. Jordan in a different aspect because Michael B. Jordan is like, he's a little more serious.
00:23:28
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He's not a non-comedian.
00:23:30
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He is.
00:23:30
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I've noticed in his interviews, he is very reserved and just kind of like, like he ponders a lot.
00:23:38
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And I'm just like, I feel like his personality is a bit more loose or more wilder than how he comes across.
00:23:46
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in interviews?
00:23:47
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I think there's a thing of comfortability.
00:23:49
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Like we're in a game of strangers.
00:23:51
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So you don't really know who you're going to get when you're doing an interview.
00:23:55
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You don't know if you get a troll trying to come provoke you and say some wild stuff, or you don't know that like, he knows the fact that if I say something crazy, it's going to be a headline.
00:24:04
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So like, you know, it's a little more reserved, but I would do that interview and I would approach it in a way of not like I, Abra, I know you, but more of like a,
00:24:15
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If you're going to be in this deep pocket vibe, like you want to be Mr. Mysterious, okay, we're going to have a deep introspective conversation.
00:24:22
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But if you are on a lighthearted mood, like you're having a good day, you're jolly, you're going to do the jolly way.
00:24:27
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We're going to figure that.
00:24:30
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I would specifically want that interview for the boxing match of the interview.
00:24:35
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Like the vibe that we perfect.
00:24:37
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Let's see what's really going on here.
00:24:39
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But I do have some women as well.
00:24:42
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Mary J. Blige, that just came to my head.
00:24:45
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Okay.
00:24:46
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She's so chill.
00:24:49
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Alicia Keys.
00:24:52
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That would be such a high vibrational conversation.
00:24:55
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Excuse me.
00:24:56
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She's such a high vibrational energetic being.
00:25:03
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She has a dope spirit about herself.
00:25:06
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A new person.
00:25:08
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Two new people I have on my list now.
00:25:10
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Well, three.
00:25:11
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I got Coco Jones.
00:25:15
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She has a very vibrant personality.
00:25:17
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Brent Byers.
00:25:19
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Brent's the opposite, but he acts like he doesn't want to talk, but he's got a lot of personality in there.
00:25:25
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You can tell in his older music, but he kind of chilled out because his character and who he's perceiving himself as is more chill now.
00:25:33
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But I would try to get the other type of energy, the more energetic side out of it on the interview side.
00:25:40
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And then the last one,
00:25:41
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is an artist out of LA.
00:25:43
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It's probably, I don't want to say, he's definitely not the smallest person here and who I've said, but he got Raymond nominated last year and I almost met him last year.
00:25:52
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The artist named Blast out of LA.
00:25:54
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Blast.
00:25:55
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I haven't heard of him.
00:25:59
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R&B, Smooth.
00:26:01
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He's like the new West Coast Nate dog.
00:26:04
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Like, you know the song 21 Questions by 50 Cent?
00:26:09
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So that chorus.
00:26:09
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Yes, yeah.
00:26:11
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Okay, so that chorus was sang by Nate Dogg.
00:26:13
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But Blast is like the parsley on songs nowadays for a lot of artists.
00:26:20
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Not even just hip-hop, just in general.
00:26:22
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And I'm like, yo, I really got onto the music of 2020.
00:26:25
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And I'm like, I'm trying to make this interview happen.
00:26:27
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So Blast, if you ever hear this, man, I know some people out in L.A.
00:26:31
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I'm out there a lot.
00:26:33
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All my people I just said, let's work.
00:26:36
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You saw that?
00:26:36
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He's shooting a shot.
00:26:37
Speaker
You see that?
00:26:38
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That's how you do it.
00:26:39
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I heard you like kind of singing Victoria, not singing, humming Victoria Monet earlier.
00:26:45
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So, I mean, what about her?
00:26:47
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I'm really getting into her.
00:26:49
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I'm listening to her new album, Jaguar, but her song with Leon, is it Leon Thomas?
00:26:56
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Love that song.
00:26:57
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I have several songs of hers on my playlist.
00:27:00
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I think she would also be super chill to talk to.
00:27:02
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Not just because we have the same name, but.
00:27:06
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I see what you're doing.
00:27:07
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All right.
00:27:09
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If you did there.
00:27:10
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Yeah.
00:27:11
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With her, I would have to do a little more research.
00:27:14
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Like, I know her music, but, like, the other people I've, like, I named, I've studied already.
00:27:21
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I've already, like, wrote down notes, like, of these people.
00:27:26
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So with her, I would have to study a little more because you never want to go into anything ill-prepared.
00:27:31
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Yeah.
00:27:32
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She's having a moment right now, which is kind of funny to me because she was more on the writer's side beforehand, and now she's getting her moment
00:27:39
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in the stardom lane.
00:27:40
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And I think that's just due to diligence and consistency in the game.
00:27:44
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Like we talked about earlier, consistency is a big key.
00:27:48
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And the one thing I've noticed about when you're interviewing entertainers, from whatever is acting, whether it's artists, whether it's musicians, that creative thing doesn't just hit because you have talent.
00:28:03
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It hits because of timing.
00:28:04
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And I think it's her time right now.
00:28:06
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I think the world is starting to appreciate what she has going on.
00:28:09
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And she's gotten the right people and the right vibes and the right-esque around her now to push her to the next level.
00:28:17
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So I would love to sit down and interview her as well.
00:28:20
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I just want to interview everybody, man.
00:28:22
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I just love this.
00:28:24
Speaker
I love this.
00:28:25
Speaker
Will my whole heart assist?
00:28:27
Speaker
Heart assist.
00:28:28
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Hardnesses are the hardest.
00:28:30
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I know what you mean.
00:28:32
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I know what you mean.
00:28:34
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Okay.
00:28:34
Speaker
So we're going to go back to that dream role question.
00:28:36
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What, what's one of your dream roles?
Aspirations in Scriptwriting and Directing
00:28:40
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Dream roles.
00:28:41
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And I'm assuming it's like occupations, but under whatever, you know, in our lane of what we do.
00:28:48
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Right.
00:28:49
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Right.
00:28:49
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Right.
00:28:49
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Maybe, maybe,
00:28:52
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not a position, but I guess maybe something you wanted to do as a kid that was like a dream.
00:28:58
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Is that still a dream role for you or has it shifted over time?
00:29:02
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It's crazy because like, this is going to sound so cliche, but like what I'm doing now is kind of what I wanted to do as a kid.
00:29:10
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Okay.
00:29:11
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And so I always knew I kind of wanted to be in this role, but outside of this, there's definitely a few things I would want to do.
00:29:19
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One thing is,
00:29:20
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I'm working on right now is like, I'm perfecting my script writing.
00:29:24
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Um, I'm perfect writing, directing, uh, script writing, uh, TV, curating shows and movies.
00:29:34
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That's something that's, um, big that I really want to get into.
00:29:38
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And it's not all just being in front of the camera, just the process behind the scenes, curating the story, directing, um, writing, producing, um,
00:29:50
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If I got to get in front of a camera, I got the personality.
00:29:52
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I'll get out my little... I don't think I have a shell, but I'll throw the whole J-Shift vibes out there.
00:30:00
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I'll put my little one-two on camera.
00:30:02
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We all have shells.
00:30:03
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We all have shells.
00:30:05
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Even the most extroverted artist, that's kind of like a shell of theirs.
00:30:09
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You notice the really, really big artists, big-name artists, they're like some of the shyest people.
00:30:14
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You notice that?
00:30:16
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Yeah, well, it's an on-and-off switch.
00:30:18
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I have my...
00:30:19
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I have a Justin Shepard switch and I have a J Shepard switch.
00:30:23
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And sometimes, and my biggest thing sometimes is like, Mason will tell you this all day.
00:30:29
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Mason's our lead production.
00:30:31
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That's also like myself, like my little brother.
00:30:33
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He'll come to me sometimes like, yo, I need you to turn off Justin.
00:30:36
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I need you to turn off J Shepard.
00:30:38
Speaker
Which means like Justin is chill, reserved.
00:30:42
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I'm not a quiet, quiet, quiet guy, but I can be to myself and
00:30:47
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just really relax and J Shep is not loud, but J Shep is the outside character.
00:30:54
Speaker
So like if someone were to see me at college, you know, so we went to the same university, it used to throw people off because I was the guy throwing parties on the weekend.
00:31:04
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And then like people would come around me during the week and they'd be like, oh, you like real like quiet and chill.
00:31:09
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And I'm like, no, that's like my normal self.
00:31:12
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That's like, yeah, like I'm off the clock.
00:31:17
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I'm off the clock.
00:31:18
Speaker
You know, I've already thrown you this function and I've already been in the mix or whatever on the weekend.
00:31:24
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Yeah.
00:31:25
Speaker
Like I'm in everybody's face then I'm turned and like, I make sure everybody has a good time.
00:31:29
Speaker
Cause you know, we're, it's a business too at that, that we was doing back in the gap.
00:31:33
Speaker
But just in general, like, yo, I'm on campus.
00:31:36
Speaker
I'm going to class.
00:31:36
Speaker
Like what, how turned do you want me to be?
00:31:38
Speaker
Like, I'm trying to make an A. Like, I'm not, you know, I'm in my personal mode.
00:31:45
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Totally.
00:31:46
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Totally.
00:31:46
Speaker
And I feel like that's the Justin that I remember was the very introverted to himself.
00:31:54
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Definitely not flashy from what I remember.
00:31:57
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So when you say parties on the weekend, I don't know about that, Justin.
00:32:01
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But I think... I was in class.
00:32:04
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I'm studious.
00:32:06
Speaker
I'm studious.
00:32:09
Speaker
I'm trying to focus here.
00:32:11
Speaker
It's funny, though, because I feel like
00:32:14
Speaker
At our major, a lot of people didn't get to see that because, I don't know, I would, like, take note of who I would see at Stuff We Would Throw.
00:32:23
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Like, me and my friends had a group called BPG Entertainment at St.
00:32:26
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Houston.
00:32:27
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We were, like, throwing events, stuff like that.
00:32:29
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And it wasn't, like, a small group.
00:32:30
Speaker
Like, we was throwing, like, stuff at the fairgrounds that had, like, 600, 700 people from different universities.
00:32:38
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But then I would take note of who I would see from my classes there.
00:32:42
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Because then like the next time I'm in class, like I wouldn't want you to talk about it, nor was I ashamed.
00:32:48
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I was just kind of like, I'm a different.
00:32:51
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Yeah.
00:32:52
Speaker
I'm in a different mode right now.
00:32:53
Speaker
Like I'm studying.
00:32:55
Speaker
It's a different vibe.
00:32:56
Speaker
I'm in a different bag right now.
00:32:59
Speaker
I would definitely say like, yeah, for me as a kid, I didn't see myself doing good.
00:33:05
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In this aspect, I think I had... I've said this before to another guest, but like the three A's.
00:33:12
Speaker
So either an actress is what I want to be, an actress, an athlete, or an author.
00:33:21
Speaker
But I was definitely super shy.
00:33:23
Speaker
So I'm like, doing a podcast by myself would not have been my first choice.
00:33:28
Speaker
I definitely would have been an athlete.
00:33:32
Speaker
So I think I've kind of surprised myself, too.
00:33:38
Speaker
Let me, hold on.
00:33:39
Speaker
You know what's crazy?
00:33:40
Speaker
I'm going to say this here.
00:33:42
Speaker
That's really funny.
00:33:43
Speaker
I just thought about this.
00:33:44
Speaker
You know a lot of people, this used to throw me off in comedy.
00:33:50
Speaker
You know, a lot of people were shy trying to do this thing that we're doing.
00:33:58
Speaker
And I understand the duality part.
00:34:03
Speaker
I nip.
00:34:04
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It used to throw me off really bad.
00:34:07
Speaker
I won't ever say I was shy in class or I wasn't shy.
00:34:10
Speaker
But like, you ever realize like, how can you be shy and want to be on camera?
00:34:16
Speaker
Do you ever think about that now?
00:34:18
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:20
Speaker
Of course, of course.
00:34:21
Speaker
Like we have classmates now that are currently on television, local television as anchors and news reporters.
00:34:29
Speaker
And just seeing like, remembering them how, I guess we were in class and now seeing them on TV being confident and- They didn't talk.
00:34:40
Speaker
Right, right, right.
00:34:46
Speaker
People can surprise you.
00:34:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:49
Speaker
That shit like messed me up.
00:34:51
Speaker
I'll be like, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:34:55
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Literally.
00:34:57
Speaker
Like, yo, I'm like, you wasn't even a talker.
00:35:01
Speaker
Like, I remember having to like, a professor would say something to everybody to be quiet.
00:35:06
Speaker
I almost seem like a class clown now.
00:35:07
Speaker
Cause I'm just like, I guess I'll talk.
00:35:10
Speaker
And like, now people on the news and I'm like,
00:35:14
Speaker
You ain't even say a word, but I'm happy for you because you're doing good.
00:35:18
Speaker
Yeah, totally.
00:35:19
Speaker
Totally.
00:35:19
Speaker
Like even, even in my classes now, online classes as a grad student, I've noticed like my personality has shifted like big time since undergrad.
00:35:30
Speaker
Like I'm speaking up in class.
00:35:32
Speaker
I was like the first one to raise my hand in class for, for like a business simulation yesterday.
00:35:38
Speaker
I surprised myself.
00:35:39
Speaker
Like I was like, girl, because like,
00:35:44
Speaker
undergrad me would have been more like, I'm gonna let other people speak.
00:35:48
Speaker
And then I'm gonna say something.
00:35:49
Speaker
But like actually saying something first is like, that's, that's a big deal because it's like, not only am I here, like I'm here to participate.
00:35:56
Speaker
I'm not just here to take this class.
00:35:58
Speaker
I'm here to like be all in both feet.
00:36:02
Speaker
So yeah, I can understand that.
00:36:06
Speaker
I actually, I have another question for you.
00:36:08
Speaker
This is your show, but I do have a question for you though.
00:36:12
Speaker
Um,
00:36:14
Speaker
Do you have a thing where... How do I put this?
00:36:20
Speaker
Okay, so I have a thing where when I'm in a small room and there's like 10 to 15 people in there, I would actually get nervous.
00:36:29
Speaker
But if I'm in a big crowd and a big stage, I don't have any nerves
Comfort in Public Speaking
00:36:34
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at all.
00:36:34
Speaker
And I feel like that's so bad.
00:36:37
Speaker
Like, I'd rather talk to 500 to 1,000 people than...
00:36:43
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to talk to like 15 and have to stand up and talk to 15 people.
00:36:51
Speaker
So you're saying, am I more comfortable talking to a smaller group of people than like a big group?
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:57
Speaker
I would say yes.
00:37:01
Speaker
Yes, because a smaller group of people, the stakes are less high.
00:37:05
Speaker
However, does does through mass communications count like through social media, through a reel or through Instagram?
00:37:12
Speaker
Because I've noticed like creating content on social media, it can get over a thousand views.
00:37:19
Speaker
And technically, that's like me talking to a lot of people.
00:37:22
Speaker
I just haven't seen them in person.
00:37:52
Speaker
A mental block?
00:37:53
Speaker
Because some people that do TED Talks, you know, they say like, oh man, like I didn't even know I could do that.
00:37:58
Speaker
No, I was capable of that until they did it.
00:38:02
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I think for me, I would have to psych myself out.
00:38:05
Speaker
And think of one person that I want to talk to in a crowd and just pretend like I'm talking to that person.
00:38:13
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You know how some people say like pretend people are like not looking at you or pretend there's no one there.
00:38:19
Speaker
People are wearing their underwear or something.
00:38:22
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You know, it would have to be something like that.
00:38:25
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But I think I could do it.
00:38:26
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I just, I don't know right now.
00:38:31
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So I have a thing where it's interesting.
00:38:34
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So I say that because I had a class yesterday, and everyone had to stand up and say an introduction to themselves.
00:38:42
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And for the first time in a long time, I got up there, and it wasn't stuttering, but I was just like, I was like, yo, I feel like I didn't do my intro well.
00:38:56
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Like, I just felt like I wasn't.
00:39:01
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I can't picture that.
00:39:02
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I just can't picture it for some reason.
00:39:05
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I couldn't either.
00:39:05
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And it fucked me up.
00:39:06
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It messed me up.
00:39:08
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You know, I'm in class.
00:39:10
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It messed me up for an hour.
00:39:11
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Like I was sitting there.
00:39:12
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I put notes on my phone.
00:39:13
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Like, no, this is something we need to go back to the drawing board on.
00:39:16
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Because what is this?
00:39:17
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Who the fuck?
00:39:18
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Nigga, I thought we was past this point.
00:39:22
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We was supposed to be... We usually did a big stage.
00:39:26
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Not too long.
00:39:26
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We were in front of people.
00:39:28
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Easy.
00:39:29
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Do you feel like our biggest critics can be ourselves, though?
00:39:34
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So you may have felt like you didn't do a good job in that moment, but some people probably aren't even thinking about it like that.
00:39:41
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They may have been like, his shoes are untied.
00:39:44
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And that could have been the only thing that they remember, not like how you spoke.
00:39:48
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We were so hard on ourselves.
00:39:49
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And that's one thing that I...
00:39:51
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have had to learn through this podcast, through the process of becoming a content creator, was like to not be so hard on myself, the way I speak, the way I present myself in front of the camera, the intros that I do, like, oh my gosh, I have cringed so many times at some of my intros, like forgetting, I think I forgot to say the person's book, the author's book, the name of his book.
00:40:11
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I don't know why, but just giving myself grace, you know?
00:40:17
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Because when you give yourself grace, it kind of takes that pressure off.
00:40:21
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Like, I'm human.
00:40:22
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Like, I'm growing from this.
00:40:24
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I'm 26.
00:40:25
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Like, I'm still learning.
00:40:28
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Right?
00:40:29
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So that's something that I try to do to make things easier.
00:40:33
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For sure.
00:40:36
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I think, how do I put this?
00:40:38
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Yeah, I'm definitely my biggest critic.
00:40:40
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I'm for sure my biggest critic.
00:40:41
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But I think that's my biggest concern.
00:40:43
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blessing too i think because i view myself as like if you're going to be one of the ones you need to work like you wanted the ones which means you have to there's room for all it's room for error and there's room for change and improvements but you have to always make sure that you you dot your i's and cross your t's and if you mess up that's okay but get back in the gym and figure it out that's what that does yesterday
00:41:07
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Because it's funny because like I just did a whole, like we had that DJ battle festival, TO Fest 2.
00:41:13
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Huge success.
00:41:14
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Yeah, how did that go?
00:41:15
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Oh my gosh.
00:41:16
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Amazing.
00:41:17
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200 plus people.
00:41:18
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And you were on stage from the picture that I saw.
00:41:22
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Yeah, I was on stage.
00:41:24
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I did the intro and the outro because I still got to run the business of what's going on.
00:41:28
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So like I can't, I didn't want to MC it because I have to run the business of what's going on.
00:41:34
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Yeah.
00:41:35
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But there's a lot of talking moments and there's a comfortability I had on stage.
00:41:41
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And it was easy.
00:41:42
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That was like the easiest thing ever.
00:41:45
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And I think one thing that people don't understand is like, yo, when you're on a stage like that, it's like a theater stage and the lights is hot, but you can't see anybody.
00:41:52
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So I'm just listening.
00:41:54
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I can't see you.
00:41:55
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I'm just looking out to an abyss of black.
00:41:59
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Not to mention most of the people that are black.
00:42:00
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So it's just a abyss of black people in black.
00:42:04
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I'm like, cool.
00:42:05
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So I can see y'all.
00:42:07
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I'm just listening for reactions.
00:42:08
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That's my thing.
00:42:09
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I listen for audience engagement.
00:42:11
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So this is where being a teacher helped me out.
00:42:14
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So I do a thing called call and response.
00:42:17
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So it was like, all right, make some noise for the last detective.
00:42:21
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Oh, that was kind of quiet.
00:42:22
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I make some noise.
00:42:24
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All right, cool.
00:42:24
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All right, babe.
00:42:25
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I'm just getting you, it's just engagement.
00:42:28
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I can hear it.
00:42:29
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I understand it.
00:42:30
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I can go back.
00:42:31
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Now I can go talk my intro.
00:42:33
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I can do this.
00:42:34
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I remember one time I had a period match with some girl in the audience.
00:42:39
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She said, period.
00:42:40
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I said, say it one more time, period.
00:42:42
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And then I was like, okay.
00:42:45
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And stuff like that.
00:42:47
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And so, like, but it was comfortable.
00:42:50
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It was mad, mad easy.
00:42:51
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But, see, that's what I was saying.
00:42:53
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I was, like, in front of, like, 200-something people.
00:42:56
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And I was, like, that was, to me, easy.
00:43:01
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I don't know what happened yesterday in front of 15.
00:43:05
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And, like I said, I wasn't, like, stumbling over myself.
00:43:07
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I feel like I could have did this better.
00:43:10
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Like you said, we are a harsh crew, so you are correct.
00:43:13
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For sure, for sure.
00:43:14
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Affirmations also helped me out too, which are like, there's an app called I Am.
00:43:20
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So I am amazing.
00:43:23
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I am a great speaker.
00:43:24
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I am a powerful creator.
00:43:28
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Things like that, that you can apply to your own situation that can kind of help you think something different than your reality and turn it into your reality.
Speed Round Q&A
00:43:41
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But I want to do a quick speed round with you.
00:43:43
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So with these questions, there's just quick answers.
00:43:46
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One sentence, one word.
00:43:47
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Are you ready?
00:43:49
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Let's go.
00:43:50
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Let's go.
00:43:51
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What's the last song that you listened to?
00:43:56
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Strike by a little yachty.
00:43:59
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Wait, say that again.
00:44:00
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Strike by a little yachty.
00:44:04
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Don't know what that song is, but okay.
00:44:07
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Finish the sentence.
00:44:08
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I truly believe that.
00:44:10
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God is amazing.
00:44:13
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I agree.
00:44:14
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I agree.
00:44:15
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My favorite book is.
00:44:23
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My favorite book is The Richest Man in Babylon.
00:44:28
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That is on my to read list.
00:44:31
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I have heard of it like several times, even in other books.
00:44:35
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The author is saying they read that book.
00:44:36
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So I want to read that book.
00:44:39
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In two words, I would tell my younger self to.
00:44:42
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Have fun.
00:44:50
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You just hit little Vicky with that one.
00:44:52
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And last question for you is right now I feel.
00:44:58
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At peace.
00:45:02
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Love that.
00:45:02
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Love that.
00:45:04
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Thank you so much, Justin, a.k.a.
00:45:06
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J. Shep, for joining me.
00:45:07
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It is so good to see you again, talk to you again, and kind of meet you again, like meet the new version of you because we are constantly changing as people, as creators, as students.
00:45:21
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We're not the same people that we were when we graduated in 2019.
00:45:25
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So it's good to catch up with you.
00:45:28
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And thank you so much for being a guest on my podcast.
00:45:30
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Where can people find you?
Conclusion and Gratitude
00:45:33
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Yo, so first of all, thank you so much for having me on your show.
00:45:35
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This is a great platform, amazing interview.
00:45:39
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I'm looking forward to seeing everything that comes your way in the future.
00:45:43
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energy, manifestation, all those things.
00:45:48
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Where people can find me is on social media at King underscore J-Shep.
00:45:53
Speaker
J-Shep is spelled J-A-Y-S-H-E-P.
00:45:56
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So go follow me there.
00:45:57
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Make sure y'all are following on my business page as well, Talented Ones Media at underscore Talented Ones Media underscore.
00:46:05
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And, you know, follow us there.
00:46:06
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You can catch our journey as we try to get to our destinations.
00:46:10
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And so, and last but not least, make sure you go to our website, www.talented1nes.com.
00:46:17
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Awesome, awesome.
00:46:21
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And it's all about that journey, y'all.
00:46:23
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And don't forget to be a kind person today, y'all.
00:46:26
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You feel me?
00:46:27
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Bye.
00:46:27
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Bye.