The Wright Turn

Terrah, a Native New Yorker, has enjoyed a rich and multi faceted career in the entertainment industry having worked  as an actress, director, producer,, singer/ songwriter,  screenwriter, and Manager. On-camera a few of her TV  Recurring/Guest Star credits include: STUCK WITH YOU,  DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, BOSCH, GAMES PEOPLE PLAY,  9-1-1 and more.  

She is co-Creator-Executive Producer-Writer, and star of  THE WRIGHT TURN”, streaming now on Tubi TV, and co Director-Producer-Co-Stars in EXTRACTION. Terrah’s stage  credits range from Broadway to Regional Theatre.  

Behind the camera, Terrah made her directorial debut with  the feature film !FLIP THE SCRIPT,” and is currently  directing the television show AFTER MIDNIGHT. She  recently completed directing a pilot for the new sitcom,  SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS, and is scheduled to direct  the Rom/ Com feature film, MY PERFECT LIFE... ONCE I  CHANGE YOU!  

She was one of the lead singers in the RCA recording group  “ALTITUDE”, and is an ASCAP songwriter. This mother of  three, is also the CEO/Founder of Royal One 
Entertainment, and Reclaim Haven, a wellness platform for  women. 

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Was that was up this is the produce podcast. My name is Rodney. I am the host and creator of this show. With me today. I have two incredible beautiful women in the studio. Y'all want to show some love for him right now? I have Mr. Bennett Smith, actor, director, producer. Oh, she has an incredible TV show right now airing or to be the right turn. Make sure you guys go check it out. We're going to talk about some of those things and a lot more. Also in studio with me, Carla early. We was we just had a great time last month, right? And she is an actor. She is a dancer, director, producer. Everything you can imagine these two women are handling their business. These are two black women that rock and they kill in the in the entertainment industry. So without further ado, you all show some love for the sisters Well, thank you guys for coming in. So what's up? What's up? What you know, how was it? You know, you have to drive over in the studio today. How are you feeling to drive? Like coming into you're gonna be jump on the bus. Yeah, you know, it's blessings and annoying all at the same time. As you got a car so you're thankful. Yes. You know, you're in traffic. So when people tell us to get there early in the morning, yeah, you got to prep your mind for the fact that. Okay, we're gonna be sitting, sitting a little whoosah. Yes. You know, it was fun with I mean, this is what it is. Okay, well, let's talk man, you know. Trying to say let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk. Okay, let's talk. Did I did I sound like I was trying too hard to be new. Let me let it be a little bit more natural. Let's talk. Let's talk about your sister's best? I don't know. I don't know. Well, let's talk because you have an incredible show out right now, which is called the right turn. Airing right now. Hey, y'all see that? Sex with the ex? Live from the show. All right. So share with us what's what's up with this show? And how did it come about? Well, the CO creator and myself test catcher Tori had decided well, she was actually entering a short script in this director's competition. And because they only had more like Millennials involved, and but the network that the winner was going to have this stuff presented on was more of our demographics. So tested, said Well, let me throw my hat in the ring. So she came up with this concept for this woman who's 50 and trying to read read the redesign her life. I at that time had stopped acting because I was more producing, directing and managing my kids and had a management company. I told her, I said, you know, I'm kind of wanting to get back into acting. So let me jump in and play the lead. So before she even got a chance to submit the project, the whole whatever they were doing, fold it. Yes. So the project just sat on the shelf. And then we said, You know what, let's turn it into something. And it started out being this one little 1520 minute piece, it turned into this eight episode 15 minute long series, that we shot eight full episodes. You only have fun to be right now your reason. But there's eight full episodes of 50 minute long, eight full episodes. You guys say that? So there's four now for the conflict. Yeah, yeah. I can only imagine what that's about, but continues on. You gotta keep that? Well, yeah, you know, and, you know, and doing something new like this, and the industry is forever changing. You know, one minute you can sell your things easily. And then the next minute, it's, you know, there's adverts and fast channels. So trying to navigate those waters and naturally figure out what's the best place to put this what's the best thing to do? Instead of throwing everything out at once we put out for you know, kind of get test the waters, you know, see the audience and then, you know, get them kind of dangling going west 5678 already been asked. Yeah, call me. Okay. You could tell me I won't tell you by Carla. Carla, who's a friend came aboard as a producer on it. And it was one of those things we were talking earlier about, you know, the industry and auditioning. Yeah, and really grabbing hold of your career, you know, and figuring out how to do it so that you're not beholden to whatever they decide is happening this week. That may not be you right? And so it was one of those pick up the phone things you know, hey, I'm calling my friend. Hey, you want to play you want to play you want to play Tisha Campbell? Christopher? Yeah, okay. Matt to come out to play and that's what happened. Wonderful set. Just I mean, the whole set Yes, cool, because it's everybody that everybody admiring what everybody else does. You know what I mean? Yeah, because Everybody sees it. Everybody on this project? Yeah, I saw I was like, Man, y'all got some, you know, all y'all heavy hitters walking around on set, and I love it. Yeah, ya know? So is there anything without unveiling too much about the show? Because they have to watch it on to be that like a carrot that we can throw out to the audience who's listening who haven't seen it yet? What's one big carrot we could throw out about the show? I think one of the things that's going to be universal is falling in love and not being able to walk away when you want to walk away, even though you know, you should walk away. You know, and that's what the no sex with the X t shirt because there's a line that you know, I was with this guy since since college. Yeah. And we've had two kids and life tickets turn. And you know, just when, you know, just when you wait, a lot of people find themselves in it, just when you find that you've gotten yourself together finally. You know, come back, you know, you know what I mean? Because it's always been this was the love of your life. It's that thing where you go, do I continue with this person? Or do I continue on the path I was going? So I think that's one of the universal topics. Yeah, finding yourself, you know, finding yourself and loving yourself. So that that kind of helps your, your the clarity of the road that you go, you know, that you go on, is something that's huge. In this in the show. Yeah. Especially women, you know, because as you turn certain age, you know, with number one, the industry that we're in, it puts us out, we get put out to pasture, basically, you know, trying to shift that a little bit now. But think about it, you know, it's first it's being a woman, and then it's being a woman of color, right? So we're in an industry love us hardly at all right? You know, I heard on Viola talking and she was Viola Davis saying, you know that she has a incredible body of work. But she doesn't even get paid a piece of what her her counter Caucasian actresses are getting. Yeah, you know. And so you add that and so now as women as a whole, we don't get paid with the men are you getting but as black women, and then you just keep going down the totem pole. So you have to figure out a way to create for yourself, you know what I mean? And and also, you're not just sitting here waiting for the phone to ring, please. Somebody had me Please somebody like that. That's huge. Because it's yeah, it's the in the maturity process. Yeah. You know, in the maturity process. We've all done that already. Yeah. So now it's time to take hold of your of your life. And that's on both sides. That's, that's us. That's what we're doing. But then within the show, yeah, that's what's the less that's just the list. But you gotta, you have to go see. And what I heard are some very powerful principles about taking basically taking control of your life, no longer like, allowing any exterior circumstances to keep you from making what happened, what you want to happen in your life. Loving yourself, loving yourself, loving yourself, these principles apply to men and women. Yeah. Because I can be honest. And I will say, the past 10 years of my life, I will say, I really have started to love myself. And look in the mirror of light, dog, you got it going on. But I struggled for years, and most of us were in the industry that that is full of rejection. So you know, we're not tall enough. We're not dark enough. We're not light enough. We're not white enough. We're not black enough. I mean, I go through that, you know, so it's a lot. It's a lot of rejection. So if you don't love yourself, man, you're it's gonna weigh you down. It's good. This industry could weigh you down. So you it's important. It's vital that you are talking about doing things on your own. Yes. How you, you know, we have to produce, we have to get in that in those positions to tell our stories. Yes. That's the only way it's going. I think, you know, besides even the industry, I think, just life in general. Yeah. Because there's so many people, I think, during the COVID situation that people started to realize, because they were home working at home and they didn't have to go in every day. It shifted a lot. And so many people that they have, of course, there are those who just, I just like to go to work. I like to be in that space. Yeah, but I'm in office. But I think the majority of people that I've talked to initially had read pushback on, I kind of worked from home and then by the time they were working at home, they're like, I gotta go back. Can I just go back twice a week? Yeah, because that's how we live, right? We don't have to go sit someplace on a regular basis because not at all we do what we love to do. And you find as you get older that that becomes more important than showing up for somebody else on their time. They tell you when to take vacation. They tell you when you have lunch, they tell you you know they tell you all these things, and that's it's like well, you know, I'm gonna take vacation right now it's Friday. I'm taking off today. I'm not Getting up in the morning. Yeah, unless I choose to come to a podcast? Do I have to be in charge, which I appreciate? I think overall, it's more than just the industry. It's about a self realization and self growth. Yeah. Because as you grow as an individual and you realize who you are, you want less of the things that don't serve as your time on this planet. Because it turns out to be really, really, really small, very small, you know, all of a sudden, we're in May here, and she had just started and then when, but since we had made my sock Christmas shopping that home. You need the offering plate to pass around the plate. Christmas from Christmas, donate in a minute. Yeah, you know, what you said is so powerful, because I don't even remember when I graduated from college, I walked into the company, I started working with Dave one. I don't belong here. You want to talk about having a sinking feeling? And like, oh, I can't let the next 40 years of my life be this right. And it was a scary feeling. Because I spent most of my life trying to fulfill other people's expectations of who I should be. You know, I grew up in the Midwest, it's like a place I grew up in, you know, talk about going to the arts, you talk about getting a good job. Good job. It's got to be but you know, the right way the right thing for you. Yeah. Right for You, because You do your best not doing somebody else's best. Right. You know, I mean, that's it. And I find that most people don't so many people, because this is one of the things we really want to talk about our workshops. Yes. And in the workshops, you know, I used to do these things where I would just go around and ask people, if you could do one thing, and you had the chance to have to do it specifically every day, what would that be? And I'm talking to principals and lawyers, and and none of them knew. And it wasn't what they were doing. And well, I don't know, I said, What are you passionate about? I don't know. That was like, wow, but they had great jobs. But that wasn't their passion. And I think that, you know, if you can, once you find that thing that your passion is, then that job becomes less fulfilling. And it's like, oh, I can't be here. Like when y'all let me ask, you have, you know, gone under the beautiful thing about doing? You know, what you love to do? Because, you know, in that thing feels like a job though? Because, there I've been doing this for a very long time and very multiple facets, right. So it went from being a teenager, Oh, I love doing this. This is you know, to my, you know, late 20s Yes, then, you know, I started having family. So then it became okay, I still love doing this, but I gotta pay the bills now. Yeah. And I got to take care of these kids. And then it came to like, in between jobs that used to be like, Oh, it's great, because now I can just go off and do it now. It's like, okay, what am I gonna do in between right now? I have to I have to make something else happen. So I don't feel like I am overwhelmed with financial insecurity. Yes. Right. emotional insecurity, all these things that start to chip away at you. So and that and you're right, it happens in in every industry that that stages to all those things happen in stages, because there's nothing wrong. I've had to do. I've had to attempt it. I said, I have to do jobs. And then I reverted back to I've attempted she gets fired. I quit. You don't belong there. I know. I have the funniest jobs on the planet. We might have to talk about. Because I am you know, I have people cracking up at my job stories, because I because I knew I had a passion. Yes. And I knew wherever I was, was only temporary. Yeah, it was temporary. And I did not care. You know, I'm the receptionist and the phone's ringing too much I just turned down the ring off the mic because I couldn't take it anymore. I'm done. I'm not gonna listen to these phones ring all day long right as the receptionist so I'm that person and I realized at one point I said you know what? The same effort it takes you for me now this is a personal thing. Yeah, everyone is so different. You know, my sister we grew up in the same household and her thing is she wants to have that job security every I understand I want to have security too, but I cannot do a job No, I can't do that type. So I have to I have to will something else yeah, I'm not have to be wired. Yeah, you know where you can be okay with it. And I'm just not. So it's nothing wrong with it. It's okay if you're okay with it. It's okay if you're not okay with it. You got to move. Bernie Mac boys. Move Yeah, so that's, you know, the arts has been all I've ever done. We outside of some attempt set of jobs. And well, my first job spoiled me so badly because I was working with my aunt at a brokerage firm and that was in college. And I will come and pat pat Quinn, he had this thing for me anyway, but whatever. Anyway, so I will come in My good friend and I will come in after school. It's about one o'clock right after right about lunchtime, and he would fish all the time. So this time I was eating meat and he would, I would come in, sit down at my desk, you have grilled fish, he would grow fresh fish in the oven baked potato. And I would sit there first and eat. Oh, man. And then I'd wash my hands and I do a little broken. It'd be like two o'clock and I'm done at five. And every week he gave me a raise. I don't really know. I think we all want that nine to five. It wasn't even it was a two to two to those hours. Two to five words with with lunch. Oh, so we don't do lunch at all the job? Actually want me to work? Yeah, amen. Yeah. So that but anyway, you know, I think that um, for us, as creatives, you know, I've known color for you. Okay. Well, I'll put it to you like this. We have probably two. So that means we were 30 something. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, well over 30 years. Oh, man, that's a beautiful. But anyway, and you know, and life has a way of aligning you when things are ready to be aligned, you know, in the consciousness of where you are. And, and we were kind of just brought together to now be a catalyst for each other. Yes. You know, and really, you know, showing up, that's how I met you showing up on her set. It's just saying, hey, what do you need? Yeah, I will be there to help out. And that's what we do. That's why it's so important. Because not just for, you know, the My girl is here, but I know that she's got my eye as well. So that we have each other's eye. You know, we have seen a visual eye, but we have each other. And that's the alignment. So and again, it takes a team to do it by yourself. I mean, it's great to know how to do everything. Because then you know, what's the but to have to do every day, it's fun when you can call say you want to play? Yeah. And that's what we do you want to play hecky I want to play and it's not always for monetary value. Because the joy of meeting you guys. Yes, it turned into you know, it always turns into some and I was very happy to meet these two. Because you know what I mean? Yeah, because we met you and your fabulous son and your cast is so wonderful. And well you guys, you know, glue, you know, kept us together, you know, direct and guided us. That was such an amazing experience. Oh, did I say I miss seeing everybody and that's what I hate about doing the project is that you build the super connection and you're like a divorce. Yeah, you gotta go What do you mean, you gotta work over there a little heartbreaking sometimes. Yeah. But this is the beauty of why we do what we do. Absolutely. I mean, look at you got your your podcast. This is great. I think it's fabulous. Yeah, we can come on and share what we do with what you do. Man I appreciate you all coming in 13 countries are going to hear your voice to where we go What's up India you know different Ethiopia. I got listeners all over the world. Beautiful. You know, just worked hard to build that but yeah, back to you all. This ain't about me. Me enough. Yeah about them too. Yeah, well, you know what y'all hear that? It's about y'all about Yeah, absolutely. That's I mean for me yeah. As a as a kid that that was my whole thing. doing live stuff I love doing live because I you know, tariffs cheers stuck over there. I'll get you want me to bring another chair around. My sweater stuck rolling. When we're done. It's just like live theater if you need to step up. But yeah, laughter I love doing it because I love giving to The audience and knowing that the audience and it's not just like this, whatever it was, it's with any audience. Yeah, we know that we're going to entertain you, we know that for the next two hours or hour, if it's if it's a show or you know, a half hour sitcom, whatever it is, you're not gonna be thinking about your bills and your problems. And, you know, it's that downtime, and that we get to, to bring something else to you another consciousness of what's going on. And that's what the arts has done for me. You know, it, it basically saved my life. Wow. Yeah. Did I feel you there as a coach, Jim Valvano, he died years ago, cancer, but he's coached NC State won a national championship before he passed away. But he was given a speech in the early 90s. And he said, three things you should do every day, you should bring yourself be able to bring yourself to the point of crying, laughing. And I forgot what the third one is. laugh, cry, think, oh, thinking something's gonna really prompt you to really think about something every single day. So you have a full life if you can do that every single day. So let me ask you this. What's your understanding of his from his perspective? Yeah, is the crying sad crying or happy? equally happy, sad? Cry? Yeah. And that freed me, you know, because as like, a lot of time and men are told never to cry. And now I am super free like I can, my son can be sitting with me, he'll see me cry. I say, Man, I'm hurt. Or something that, you know, made me laugh. In the series, one of the things you know, we cover women's stuff. We also talk about men's and what do you do the things we did with all of the, I would say probably 90 ish percent of the actors. We sat them down, and we said, what is something that you've always wanted to do in this business that this industry never kind of, because you might be too dark? You can never play or too light, or too old or young? Or, you know, like, one of the young ladies is Indian. She was saying that, you know, I never get to do anything sexy or fun. I'm always a doctor now. And when we went to her, she was on Scandal, like a doctor or receptionist. So yeah, when we went to her we needed a doctor. Yeah. Never. Never. Yeah, there's a twist in her character. That no one you know, cuz she told us something she's always wanted to do. Yeah. And we incorporated that in the writing of her character. So like, Christopher Duncan from Jamie Foxx show. Yeah, he's, um, he. I love I love him too. Yeah. He said, You know, I've kind of wanted to do this, as you know, and talk about how people with mental illness and black men especially so his character is a detective who has a bar. So how it it it expands is that you know, he has a men's group that's coming where they talk about the issues, the guy who plays my brother, he wanted to talk about mental issue. His character has mental issue issues. Oh, wow. mental issue issues can be an issue. So we cover everything from molestation to sex trafficking, and all of those stories are based on somebody's real story. Yeah, yeah. And this is so because we want to you know, homelessness, everything that's real, you know, I mean, I didn't you know, they a lot of projects, African American, especially the where we like to and not just African American, I would say where we'd like to have to fabricate situation. Yeah. You know, where, you know, it's the mother sleeping with the brother team with him to fabricate the drama. Yeah. And that's it. There's another drama in life that we could pull from so why don't so the story in there and I won't give it away. But the girl who was molested, molested? That's, that's the woman who when I go to Italy to visit her. That's her daughter's real story. Yeah, so it's a lot of that stuff in there. Yeah, it was real stories. We don't know. You don't know which character is telling them? Yeah. But it's based on all the real stories of somebody that's in the cast or somebody that we know. All right. And yeah, so you once again this even adds more reason why people should be watching. TURN ON TO BE Yeah. What would you say is one of the most most challenging issues you dealt with with producing this show? Ooh, I would say you know, I don't know the most because if they will, obviously it's independent filmmaker. Yeah. How about the fact that we got to call the independent film there it is. Okay. Every challenge was a challenge. So that's that's all I can say is independent independent project making the bigger it got you know, because it started out like I said, being this small thing and then you get to your camera. You get Christopher Duggan you get Isabella Hoffman you get on. William cat. Sherman Augustus was back on strange. Yes. So you get all these people and you go okay, we gotta turn listen to something semi decent, at least, you know, independently and even though we did the best we could Well, it looks amazing. Yeah. I've watched the first couple episodes. Yeah. High quality. It looks good shot. Yeah, I saw the work. Yeah. I love the intro. To all of the schmierer Yeah. That's so dope. Yeah. So it's kind of like my that's what somebody said. You kind of like the black, the new black Mary Tyler Moore. It was pretty cool. Yeah. The beautiful thing is that this that this show was not a black show. It goes across the board. Yes. of diversity. Yeah. And I just want to say that because even though the the it's written from the eyes of a black woman, and actually a white woman, white woman, story. And she's the star, if you look at all the the diversity in the characters, and then you hear the stories, what resonates is that we all have common. We all have common issues. Yes. Right. Between What 40 to 80? Is the is the Well, no, I demographics actually, from when we were testing, it was 32 to like, 60 Oh, that's a nice range. But the cats range from 11. No, nine to 86. I love that. So you know, these demographic? Yeah. And every buddy in every demographic, with issues? Yes. It's like, it's not like, well, she had the same experience, but hers was either harder or less than, yes, it was the same. You know, and but you have to watch it to, to know what we talking about. But that's what life brings. These are, these are life situations. And that's what life brings. You know, it's, it's also empowering women to not to be afraid of speaking their truth. Yeah. And empowers men to start talking about, because you know, what, it is safe to start on talking. Because, you know, what's, what would they say they say, a man uses 25,000 words a day, and a woman uses 50,000. I never heard this. Ratio is huge. So I used to joke, a lot of us, and they say, Oh, by the time you get home, you've already used your words. And then you know why they buy kids? Anybody want to talk to you? You like? Well, I gotta. That's just like, I'm done. I've been doing this work all day, I will talk to us. So that's something we were just talking. You have to break this cycle? Yes. You have to interrupt that that that thinking yes, that thought that that's the way it is? Because that's how dad didn't that's how grandpa did it. Because you've taken on the belief systems of other people. Are those belief systems working for you and in your relationships? And they're not? They're not? And that's also one of the reasons why we're doing these wellness retreats because I'm a licensed therapeutic counselor, let's talk about so yes. Right. As on the counseling side, you know, I went back to school, and that's also something that I have a passion for service, I have a passion for service. I feel you know, and I've worked with, with kids, teens, adults, it doesn't matter. Because basically, if the issues are not taken care of, in the adolescence or teenage stage, they're gonna pop back up again, not back up into 20s. They're gonna pop back up in your 30s and your 40s. Because there's a time that that you're just doing Yeah, and you're not paying attention. You just doing and that's, that's, that's a human thing. Yeah. 20s and in the in the 30s, as well, I'm talking about the the being rocketed into that, that fourth dimension, it doesn't happen in your 30s or 40s. It just doesn't and I can say it now that I've gotten past me it did for me, and I think I think where I was because I became super aware of myself. Yeah. And I started to pay attention to the correlation between my thought word and deed, thought thoughts, words and deeds and my attractions. So watch, right? And right. And so when I started to look at that and start it, and that's how I raised my kids, I said, you know, all you have to look at how many times you are the common denominator and you can see what you need to fix. And so for me, you know, where one of the things that I did was I started to what I didn't one of my first workshops because I didn't I didn't go get a license and and that that messed with me for a while. I was like you need to go get your license. And I remember I was doing my workshop at first. But that's what it was in my head. Yeah, that's what we're taught. Yeah. So I was doing I was working, I was working on my PowerPoint for workshop. And I remember sitting there going, okay, you know, these people gonna be like, What is she when she got to share, but she got the chair and I went to sleep and 4am My TV was on and I woke up and I looked at the TV because I heard my PowerPoint on the TV. I kept hearing slides that I just written down. So I got up and I was looking at and I was like, oh, there was a gentleman on there who was addressing an audience at Stanford University. Yeah, now we know. Yeah. And he was doing like a TEDx thing. But he had four of the same slides that I had just written down. And it was a confirmation. Your lessons what you've moved through what you've taught yourself? Is your license is your school. Yeah, teach them from what you've learned. Yeah. And I put in that at that point, I had put myself through my own program, yes. to re what I call mine is redesign your life, redesign your blueprint, rewrite your script. And I put myself through my own program, because I needed some shifts to happen in my life. Yes. And and within 90 days, those shifts were like just dropping and dropping. Now, that doesn't mean the other stuff didn't pop in periodically. But I had tools now on how to manage that. So that was my, that was my aha, no, you you know what you're doing? Yes. Because you've helped so many people you didn't even know you were helping. All right. You know what I mean? Right. And so now we're together. Yeah, my company is called reclaim Haven. And my company is inner peace. Right? And so now we reclaim I can never say it reclaim inner peace Haven. Reclaim inner peace. Hey, so reclaim your inner peace. Hey, Haven. Yeah. So we're getting ready to start doing some wonderful retreats. I think the first set are going to be for women, but saluting men, we just you know, as we're launching them, we're going to talk to people. We can we you know we can I get it. Oh, absolutely. I've done some work. And it's doing your inside work. Yeah. And it's the it's that work that is uncomfortable. Yeah, it's really uncomfortable. But when you get to the other side of it, it's just so freeing, because now you're not, you don't have this thing on your shoulder. Have. You know, it's like you've worked through it. Yeah. So now you get back to not having to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. You can be comfortable being uncomfortable. Yes. Which can be uncomfortable sometimes. The other interesting thing about it is that once people think that once they do the work that it does that everything goes away. Yeah, never leaves. We learn to manage it. Yes. And it doesn't hang around long. And I use I use the movie. Beautiful Mind. You remember that? Where, you know, I was tell people I say you know and beautiful mind the character was schizophrenic. And we talked a little bit about this. But we all have elements of different people who operate our emotions. You know, that old child of me who told me I wasn't good enough or wasn't cute enough or wasn't tall enough? It wasn't. They all pop in at certain points. And they continue to do that over the journey because someone will remind you or say something that'll trigger that old stuff. Yeah. And it's what we do. The tools that their response, their response. And once you learn that said I can beautiful mind when he realized that these people that were talking to him never got older, he got old, and they were still you know, 1215 1220 and then you realize, no, I just can't operate. I can't associate with you anymore. You know, and that's the same thing with the Oh, Tara. You're not cute enough. Oh, you're not you're too skinny. Oh, you're too fat. It's like, oh, I don't I don't talk to you anymore. I'm sorry. You can go have a seat. Yeah. Are they in the corner? I'm gonna do the adult me who understands better. Big, big me need to protect little me. Right? I get to let little me know that. No, we were okay. We're good. We're good. You got to take time? Because we I don't know anybody who escaped having stuff. Yeah, in this life. Oh, what do you have the best parents on the earth life You can't escape? You can't escape it. We all need to walk through to you know, be on fire. Yeah. And then to have to figure out, you know, is is this solution working for you. And when you really get to being a solution based person, then you realize that you don't just have you don't have problems anymore. You just have situations, right? Because if a situation has a solution, and you know to do the work to get to the solution, and you got to go back into that mode, when you slip back into the other behavior that that Tara was talking about, then it then you have problems again, and then you start feeling overwhelmed and all those old things that all that that old tape Yes. starts to play again and we can delete that to re tape over it. So the first event you're having, is that going to be la He or was it gonna be it's gonna be be able to attend virtually if people wanted to attend the virtual? Or yet yeah, this is a little more intimate. So yeah, I think, um, to do it virtually takes away the intimacy and the privacy I feel you. That's why we here right now. Yeah, I'd like to see and touch people. Absolutely. However though, you know, there may be you know, not this one yes one Yeah. And it may be in the future even if it's not all on or workshops, workshop workshops gonna do workshops and things like that that people can be a part of, you know, and it may be you know, even down the line if we're doing a retreat that if there's a guest speaker that we just want people can jump on and just hear that portion of it. Yeah, you know, we don't know we haven't gotten that far yet only because we're really fine tuning just making the first retreat something that's very special for our attendees. Yeah, love it. Yes. Is it? It's gonna happen this year. 23. Yes. To play right. Now. We have one going up. Can we can talk about where yeah, you can we have Utah, Utah. Beautiful. And then we're thinking about wanting to Cabo? Yeah, yeah. We scouted out to place here, we found two places that are incredible for the experience of what the workshop is going to be. So it's all got to tie in, to, you know, the theme of the workshop and where we are and the work that's getting ready to happen. And also to be able to just learn how to relax people do not know how to have fun, and have fun. Yeah, everything becomes so serious and I and I get it life, you know, life can start making you look that way feel that way. But when when it's all just always like that. It's like yo, chill. That's where the fun person you know, I used to be extremely well now I'm back to my silly. So silly. Oh, great. I lost it. I had lost but you do like, Yeah, I'll say 20 to 30. To lost it. Yeah. And serious. Let me ask you this in your 20s or 30s. Was that when you were fathering mostly during your parents? Yes. There is an element of what happens to us because we're all parenting is overwhelming. It's no joke. It's overwhelming with one. Yeah. When you have multiple, you know, the one that starts out being like, Oh, okay. But when you find either find a rhythm with it, you're and you're on your way out of it. You start to like, crave that old side, because that's what, you know, soon as my kids started becoming a close at 18 I got sillier and sillier. Yeah, and crazier and crazier. And I'm back to being silly and crazy, because that's what that's what that's what our retreats that's why they're so great. Because we're gonna have you dealing fun with your inner child love. Because when you can do that, yes. This whole life doesn't feel so overwhelming and taxing on your body. Because you know how to just kind of go in and have a good time. Every day should be spent having some something doing something fun. And you're like, everything you do should be fun, but you have to do it on purpose. Right? And that's the thing, right? You have to bring it here. Yes. And know that I'm doing this on purpose. And then when you start doing that, then you start doing everything on purpose. Even you know, even the things that you you consciously didn't say, I'm gonna do that. Because your rhythm starts, you liked the result of what's happened. You like the peace that you have? So the same situations that come up, because life is still overwhelming? It can be overwhelmingly good. Yeah. And overwhelmingly with not so good. And so when it when the two mix together, it just still looks like I'm overwhelmed. Ya know what I mean? So now you get to learn how to hold on to your peace in those moments, and really take those moments to say, Oh, wow, that flower really smelled good. Well, I just took a look. And we were doing the scouting Utah we drove Yeah, so the two of us driving and doing car karaoke because that's when we do a road trip karaoke. All right, road trip karaoke, and but but looking at, you know, she'd be driving be like, Oh, my God, look over there. I'd be driving like, curled up behind you, you know, just zooming in on those moments. So we want those things to happen on your way to have a consciousness that this is what you're getting ready to do. So then when you walk out of your house, you're prepared here knowing that you're getting ready to do something and you're walking in that presence, you're walking in that light so it's a very that's where the confidence and the and the all of that you have all because you have ready you're prepared. And life is really what I've learned for myself life isn't that isn't there's not about that thing that we're trying to achieve. It's really the things on the thing. If you can find a way every day to stop chasing that, yeah, and just really make sure that this day is a day of something that makes me feel good. Yeah, that thing happens. Yes. Because when we live in the vibration of joy and excitement on that level of vibrational level, then all the things that match their vibration seems to find their way to us. Yes. You know, saying, yeah, so so if you if you let's focus on the outcome of getting this, as opposed to the outcome of this gotta be a good day for me. Yeah. Right. You know, when people say, Oh, it's like, one thing went wrong, everything went wrong. You know, that these gifts by Yeah, because your consciousness is in the wrong Yeah, living in the things are going wrong, so that you're going to keep finding all those things. Same thing with joy. Yeah, we live in the joy of the day and really fine, you know, doing our projects. You know, I had to do a lot of work. Yeah. When she knows when, when it was time to release the right turn. Because of all of my old stuff. People are gonna hate me. They're gonna think I'm not gonna look at it like this. And I just wonder just sit and cut. Yeah, right. Right. Because nobody thinking about you like that period. Yeah. Got their own. Fighting through a move ahead, this whole conversation up here. The two sides of the brain. Most people, most people, they may say something, and then they move on. Yeah. And not that entrenched in your life and what happens to your life unless something happens to your life? And that's a beautiful thing about doing your personal work. Yes. When that situation shows back up, and it will Yeah. Oh, well, now you know that that oh, that's that old tape. So even though you might have a moment of it's just a moment as opposed to a lot of a two year or five year or 10 year, another decade went by and you're still feeling this. And surrounding yourself with people who are like minded. You know, I started to when I started to look at the people in my life. And some people I'm working with, you know, I just go Yeah, yeah, this will be the last time Yeah. Because when you evolve to a certain place, and it should feel like I could pick up the phone and not ever have judgment. Yes. And show you that I'm falling today. And that's that, that we lose ourselves. No, I'm just checking something. But anyway, so that was that? Yeah. No, I was like to make sure you know, since I'm doing every camera, everything right. You know, you never want to lose good moments. It may be like audio is getting caught, but I want to make sure. Yeah. Cuz there's something about when you see the person saying, oh, yeah, yeah, it's very. It's very important to me. Yeah. Well, we could we could go on we go back to it. That was done. Yeah. Alright. So basically, what I've heard is really about enjoying the journey. Yep. Yeah. Being present. Yes. In the moment, every single moment of life. Yeah. You know, because people asked me long time ago this like, what's your endgame with, you know, in the entertainment industry? I was I don't have one. I don't guess when I die. I was like, I was like, but I'll say, I'm gonna keep doing this. For the rest of my life. I love it. I was like, I found something that I don't live to retire from. Hmm. I can't even imagine retiring. I mean, yeah, and that's probably what Yeah, to me. Yeah. Vacation. Yeah, that's my, you know, it's your vacation could be. Yeah, three months if you want it to be. Exactly. Yes. Right. Absolutely. You come back to exactly. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, my end game was like, hey, when I'm out. My card is punched. Yeah, and my bed is ready. Yeah, exactly. That's what I say. When my bed is ready, then then I'll go sleep in the new Bay. I'm enjoying my life for you. Yeah, it's been years and it lights me to depression. And I remember because I talked about it in the book that I wrote that I didn't even know I was depressed until I sat on the couch and had a conversation with myself and was seconds away from taking my life I got I got the keys to my car. Yeah, they weren't it was in a garage was standing right outside the car was the way to turn it off. So I was just like that dark I didn't know I was at that state of hopelessness is is really powerful. And you know what started you know, what really helped me too is like, strong woman. You know, because when she came home I was like, Baby I'm broken. And I just went through something and she's I noticed a difficult time right now baby. That's why I just tried to to obviously there was heard me and you talk about given a man a safe space to finally say, Yeah, I've been through something and not feel like oh man she got same week and whatever. I tell Well, my son or daughter at the time, they were younger, younger teenagers. And I was like, I don't want to hide nothing from that's so important and have those conversations, though. That's what's happening. And it's alarming the ratio of young people that are taking their lives. And I'm talking about people that appear to really have good lives. Yeah, but no tools to manage their life. Yes. So then you you go to the old tape that you're doing all this stuff, and you still ain't gonna be nothing. Right. And so what's the use? Yes. And then here you are making another decision based on a lie per minute session up permanent Yeah. temporary situation. And that's just so heartbreaking. You know, and I've been there. Especially, I mean, I'm not just saying in this business, but this business like reads a lot. Oh, yeah. Because you know, that the idea of this, this carrot that's dangled, because it looks so glamorous, and you don't even get a piece of that you just in your head with self worth less? Yes. You know, and that's why just finding the joy that suppose every day, what's your joy for today? Yeah, that's it. And then everything that you do, you know, you got to find it in everything that you do, yes, not just at the top of the day. And you know, because I meditate, I'm a big meditator, I meditate. But through the day, there will be times that I don't know where I'll be. In my office, I have a meditation when so when I swear on my chair, it's behind me. And they will be I'll get off of a call. And I'll just, I'll just close and just swirl around, unconsciously saying, Okay, in this moment, of me, starting to feel overwhelmed, I need to bring it, I need to channel it back. I need to reel myself back in because I have some tools to do it. So not have to use the tools. You know, I mean, that's the other thing. People get tools and then put the tools down and think that life is just gonna go sweat so hard to most people don't want to do the work is hard. No, it is it's really reprogramming and reconditioning and we become very comfortable with our way of doing something. Yeah, the comfortable part of it is like, Yeah, but now I gotta do all this. It's just easier for me. And it's also, you know, I was just telling a friend of mine about a short film that I created Road, whatever, and directed all this stuff. And it won all these, she said, some important everything is, but it talks about, you know, the chemical things that happen in our body that we don't realize that there's a chemical is charged when like, you know, you're driving along, and all of a sudden, you looks like you're about to get into an accident. Do you? Do you know, there's a release of a chemical that happens in your body from the fear and the trauma? No. And so our bodies? Yeah, they don't. But it's but it's a chemical thing. It's a chemical that happens. It's a React, and I and so this whole short film talks about why we continue to attract and want more of that, like you've noticed, anybody who's been like in an abusive situation, will find themselves in abusive situation again, find themselves in an abusive situation again, and you'd be like, What is going right? Why do you keep picking with someone else's? Like, I will never do that? Yeah. There's energy because I grew up in that, that I had started to do the research for myself to figure out why was I was finding myself attracted to that type of life. Yes. Because what as a child, that's all I knew. So it became an adrenaline thing that was happening to me. So my body, just when that when that adrenaline thing started to happen, I would crave that behavior and you crave you attract what you crave. You know, so I had to do the work. That's why I said redesigned that blueprint. Yes, I had to redesign my blueprint. So I'm not finding myself just only aligning with people who fed that, that that that chemical, yeah. And it becomes an addiction. It becomes an addiction. Yes. And that's, that's what addictive behavior. And I think I believe that everybody has something exactly addictive, whether you know it or not. And I'm not talking about just the obvious substance abuse, or you know, I'm talking about just just in the way that you think and how you operate. Even even when you say, hey, I want to do something different, but you're still operating with yourself. But you're operating still with the same people that operate that way because it's it feels good. And that's another chemical thing. Feeling good. Those endorphins, though. That's the feel good. And you want to stay you want to stay. What you know is what exactly it's what your body craves, and the fear, which is that's another chemical release, the fear of change, honestly, being fearful, constantly being fearful, because am I not going to feel good? Yeah. Because when you're uncomfortable, you don't feel good, initially, right? And that's it. But when you work through it, you feel great. Because now you've gone through another journey, and you've aligned yourself. You've evolved as a person as a human being you evolved. I remember one of my I guess addictions was self talk negative self. Yeah, absolutely. And I to this day I combat that with my affirmations and stuff every day you because I realized it you know if I don't address it it's going to come back on me. So I had to fight that every day the rest of my life and I'm good with it I change the word fight Yeah, okay. Yeah change the word fight. Don't you're not fighting it you're you're redirecting redirecting it is making a decision that no I'm not doing it that when I'm doing this way, fighting is means that it's making a challenge challenging for me. It's no longer challenging. Once you made the decision, it no longer became Chelsea me do karaoke. Yeah. No, I can't say you can sing. You can sing. You just said you hold a note a little bit. That's about it. But that's all you need to buy songs on. Time and in fact, yes. In fact. And that's what it's about having fun. So we don't feel there's no judgment in us having fun. And that's what I love. See, that's what I love about what I do. Yes. Because I don't self judge in that area anymore. It's like being a mom, being a friend being a being a wife being a fiance being a grandmother. Yeah. Being You know, a producer being when it comes to that other hat with my eyes closed. And it's just, it's so much it's so much fun. Yeah, it's just all so much fun. You know, one of the things that you don't easy Yeah, well, you didn't easy you asked in with these Tokico. One of the things I realize is that when you really go in and jump in and commit, everybody goes with you. They no longer are judging, watching you jump then going with you because you're so doggone infectious, that they're not paying attention to the fact that you can see all they're seeing is the joy because everybody wants to jump in. But let's go I've never even heard that because I was involved with the infection. That's what I was telling the young people when I'm either directing them and say, whatever you commit to, is what we go with. So when the audience feels you Yes, they no longer are watching you. They are involved with you. When you commit half behind, they're watching you suffer. They're watching you torture yourself. They're seeing all of that so when you can go in and go, Okay, I'm gonna crash and burn. Y'all come with you. With me. Who she crashing Oh my god. Poor baby. She's suffering. Yeah, y'all saw me I go hard. You go. We went home. We walked in. And I think we jumped behind you and stuff I'm actually going to do that again because I want to set I let you know when you please do have to come? Because I have a good time when the karaoke you gotta you gotta go. You gotta go. Yeah, he's the he's the host with the most. Y'all crazy. Man, y'all making me feel all good. I want to in this conversation. We still got more time. We can keep going if you want to. I don't know. Your show. This my show. But your show today, y'all my guests. I know. But you tell us what you want. Okay, put like this week, we talked about that show. We talked about the workshop, which is extremely important. Yes, yes. And it's gonna happen to 2023 is yesterday's reclaim inner peace Haven reclaim, right. We have a phone number that I'm going to, I'm going to tell you what it is. Yeah. Well, Tara gets that number. We'll keep talking. Absolutely. And it's going to be in 2023. And we're going to be reaching out to letting everybody know that it's happening on all the social media platforms. And yeah, now, I do have a question about the right turn. What do you want to know? Is? Is this the first of like, maybe we're planning on doing more? Yeah, that sounds great. to have you on it? Absolutely. Because we call up all our friends. I would love to hear that. When you will be on TV. With a friend of ours, you become part of our family. And you're such a wonderful actor and a pleasure to work with and a pleasure. It's also very important to listen to, but also the energy and I don't know the number because we have a number for reclaim. Oh no, I don't know what it's well. So what it is we're on a new app called printer for new printer app and Oh, no wonder your contact says I was like, that's like printers a new and a printer. What it is it's well it shouldn't say that that's for the right term for it. afford 404 know, the right turns number is 424-404-1980. You text that number. And then whenever anything's happening, the updates, it'll come, it'll send you an instant message. I'm gonna need you to say that number again and further right? All of our all of our challenged listeners. The right turn phone number is text, this number 424-404-1980. Yeah, that number, whenever we start doing the new updates of what's happening, we will be, you will be in our database, and it will send you out reminders and things that are happening when you can buy a no sex with the X t shirts, all of that stuff you can get on that. And so we have one, so we have one for reclaimed inner peace Haven, okay, and that number is 323-863-8639. Can you give it to us one more area code 323-863-8639. And that is for reclaim inner peace Haven. And that all the information for the workshops, the information for the retreats, on everything that we do the same thing we do will be able to send you out reminders and group texts. And this is also a really wonderful app, I'm going to help my friend. She's my new friend, you know, a brother, who started this app, and it really is a way for you to own all of your data. Yeah, and all of your people because one of my clients chef Babette, she had a chef but then you know, chef, I don't know her personally, I G he's also in the series haven't gotten to college and episode three. She's too bad. But anyway. Yeah. So first, they stole her IG. We got that back then it's completely stolen Facebook. Yeah, almost like 100,000 on Facebook. Yeah. And then we can get them back. A lot of people have had this situation with foreigner, it you Oh, no, you can't own all your content. Oh, wow. Yeah. So if you're doing multiple things, you can you can, you know, I'm not taking away from any. If you were, if you're doing an E, vitamin, you can do everything for me. You can sell your tickets for me. You can tell by your workshops, you know, all of this. How's it spelled? p r e n u E R? Yeah, I think that's what it is. Yeah. And it's on Apple. And well, no, you just that Apple Store or the Android store? Right, right. Some of the Android users? I don't know, I don't know too many. But there are some you could go to Android to some of y'all who haven't come over to the Apple site. But the you know, we're supporting businesses. We support this business, we support this business. So we have we have and this is an easier way for us to start building our database. And you know, and our, our followers and clientele and all that. So we're very excited. I'm definitely downloading. Yeah. Especially if you do more than one thing. You can put it all under there and put it all Yeah. And if you need to contact me and I'm with the creator of the app, and then you talk you through because there's so much on there that you can do that you might need your tutorial. asked me if I know all I don't ask me if I ever will. I won't even ask me Don't even talk about technical technical lead challenge freakin frat. Now I got another question. Right? Say if somebody is like, wants to help finance the project? Yes. Is there a way like, even like with the upcoming workshop, if they could make a donation? Is there a Cash App of sale or anything? You can? I think we got to put that out there. I think that, yeah, text us at that number and tell you exactly what to do. Because we want you to be able to come to somebody want to be safe and everything we want, I want to pay for some money to attend. Exactly. Because we want to be able to offer you know, maybe someone could sponsors, Angel Angel. Angel, right. Yeah. So angels. I know you're out there, you're out there. Which is changing the world because all of our projects, just so you know. Yeah. We do projects with purpose. Yes. Although they're very commercial. They have to they have to service something. Yes. You know, everything. So with that said, you know, between the right turn, the other projects that we're working on, we got a new project coming up. Can we talk about this new project that will say can we go ahead and call this avoid that we're working on boy, yeah, we don't want to talk too much about that. Right, but that's coming up. It's coming up. I'm actually getting ready to co produce direct and choreograph a show and the working title is singing seeing it from the heart I think they're gonna keep that title. But it opens July 21 Here in the Los Angeles area. So I'll give you I'll let you yeah so I'm getting ready to record a new project a new film and I'm producing right now television series which I saw your son come through the break dance how'd you do that he wasn't quite right for Oh wow. But yeah, I saw him and then Jesse come through but I you know, it's and I encourage you to reach back you know what we do what we do if he was right, he would have bypassed all that yeah, he was a little bit too young Yeah, but it's always good to you never know never know. Never know never know who's sitting in the room and all they do Yeah, so just because they might be sitting in the room in this lane. It doesn't mean that they don't do all these lanes that's why I'm like you know, you better be nice. You better be nice and be professionals. Santa Claus is Coming in at our key the thing that I like to do most is go back and grab the young lady who was helping us a Neha Yes, she she I just met her literally. And she said you know, I really want to learn about casting I said we'll come she helped me on this project that I'm working on. And now I got her her own project that I'm guiding him after this. I'm gonna meet her because I can't do that project. So I'm gonna guide you you're gonna have the credit I'm not trying to be a casting director. She is wow you know, but she also has a credit from the shelf and she's got the credit on the place she got her credit from there so within a couple of months she's gonna have three brand new credits actually for because she's going to cast to Phil's point we reach back and pull people with us what's the point otherwise it's just to say this world is by I mean me I mean I live my life like this in my hand, I just let it kind of go I enjoy some of it. But I let it go to because I like to empower other people is too short life is so short one time he said you will never see a U haul fall in a horse never never never once funny you're taking them you can't take your wit you know you may see a family in the you know what it is? Normally members as soon as they hit the Jack Jack is that and they fight over fight don't matter don't matter like man one of my friends said he wanted the All he wanted was the hamper and they will fight nobody the clothes have to close him. Why are you taking the hampers? I guess a hamper isn't that serious? Some people some people say God bless you Yeah, just enjoy important to you how you can you know I don't that kind of time I can't get that time back. So I don't have that time that time even for that energy right you know what I mean? There's just certain energies that I just I don't have it anymore because I can't get that time is important and I and I like to make everything count yes to the best of my ability she's having a joyous day every night just giving me so much chills me I just I'm like excited like it's just from sitting down talking to y'all man I just keep going it's like do lessons like we sit on the couch you know we just chillin enjoying ourselves for those who are listening or either watch and this is how we really are when we talk to you know this is genuine conversation taking place yes that's what happened we got real relationships people that's it that's it no absolutely I just talked about well if you didn't do this and didn't do that and you have those yes sir friends that's my girl. I don't even talk to them no more. No, you can't give me some solid advice is going to help me learn this lesson and grow from this then I'm talking to the wrong person maybe better helped me be better yes because I go into everything knowing that if it came to me it's something I'm supposed to do or learn Yeah, and if all and when all you have to say is well if I were you I would blah blah blah blah. No, you're not me and you don't you know I'm here now but you don't know from whence I came. And you don't know where I'm going? Right. Tell him Carla. Carla. I hope everybody is listening to this you know, I was like now I wouldn't kept you on for a little while but I do appreciate you all you know blessing my platform with your presence. Oh, beautiful women outside think we cute? Oh amazingly beautiful. But most importantly inside there you go. I love being around John. You know that's a difference. There's some pretty people in outside I'd be like oh, you can keep walking? Yeah. Oh needed on it. Hey, I understand. No y'all y'all BOTH Yeah, let me ask you a question cuz you're very handsome. Man. How do you navigate and then we're gonna leave on your How do you navigate this industry with the with the cutie pie since you talk about the cutie pie. Oh, oh, okay, now, Hey, I didn't know I was getting this question. Okay. I will Do I work really hard to show respect to every single person that I work with? I even like, if I get a script, and I know that it might be a love scene or whatever, I talked to my wife about it. I made sure you know, like, hey, this was happening. This is the character. But this is what's happening. How do you feel? You know, make sure she's okay. She might, she's told me in the past, hey, I'm good. She's watched some of the stuff I've done in the past. She's like, I love that. I won't watch it again. But I did like it. I kind of watch and like kissing too many times. But I do respect the fact that you take the time, and even my scene partner. Yeah, I let them know. I'm like, when I we got saying, I'm gonna hate Let's talk. This is just outside of intimacy coordinator, whoever I just want them to know. I'm a, I'm a professional. I respect women. So I give them the utmost respect. I respect my wife. I'm not gonna do anything to compromise them, myself or her. I'm not gonna embarrass myself. He eats the world. Yes, yeah. Talking about that was Morris Chestnut. Yeah. And what he does to maintain, he says, You know, I have a conversation. And I think part of the thing is, you know, if you don't respect that person enough to sit down and talk, and that's where being open Yes, you know, and then you build that, that foundation, that's a trust that you know, you can go, oh, you miss my baby, we already talked about he's cool. I know where he is with it. I'm good with it. And we moving on? You know, and sometimes it's just a conversation that the other person needs to say here. Yeah, they might be in their feelings on the other end until the conversation happens. And then that's the key that puts them in. It's like, Oh, that's right. That's my bed. He came to me. You know what I mean, she came to me, whatever, you know, it's so liberating like one, one actress, Patrice Fisher, a good friend of mine. She was in sites and centers and thanks, X Chronicles back in the day she was she was the lead on that. Okay. Yeah, it was, yeah, that was steamy. I could do that. I had to pay her husband. A couple. And, you know, when I met her, because I already knew who she was, I was like, hey, Patrice. Can we talk for a second sidebar? And she just busted out laughing? And she but she respected the fact that I was that concerned about her. And even like, I'm making sure like, whatever is done, can we talk it through the make sure that we know that you know what the intention is? Are we good friends now very good friends, that you that you bring that up, because I just want people to know that. The people that think that all it is is glitz and glamour, do this and that this is our job, this is work. And the work happens, not just what you see on camera, the work happens way before it gets to the camera to the stage, whatever platform it is. And it continues after whether it's promotion, whether it's you know, there's there's a lot of work that has to be done after it's in the can per se, you know what I mean? So, being professional in this industry is everything. Meaning that you got to do your work. If you want to act if you want to sing if you want to dance, whatever you is that you want to do, you got to study Yes, you got to just to say I want to do it, and then to go see a tick tock video, which I got nothing against. However, it's like, you know, the level of, of things that you want to do find out what the people that are in those projects had to do before they got there. Right. You know, I mean, that's the work. Yes. And there's a lot of work that, you know, you see people you mentioned, Ansel, yeah, there's a lot of stuff to do. So did before he was thins out? Yes, it did. And for those in the industry that know, you know, and watch him or come across him, whatever, we know that what the work, but the the public doesn't, you know, and that's why I love that he keeps it real and talks about the things that matter to him, you know, and giving back is one of the I think this is one industry and I know we were wrapping it up, but I think this is we have a two parter. Yeah. I think that this is one industry that people think that it's just I'm gonna do that. Yeah. Yeah, like so. The level of work that we put in, and so many bandmembers girls, I'm gonna do commercials, I'm gonna do commercials. And then she couldn't get an agent she couldn't get well, I don't understand. I said, because this was this was time I put in for people to pay attention to it's time that you get put in before you get an agent, right? That's I'm saying this and all of that. So people don't understand. It just looks so glamorous. And then the level of hours that you spent on sets and the level of times and play so, you know, it's not you know, nobody thinks about that when you're going into the courtroom. I just got to be a lawyer. Yeah. And I'm going to handle your case, right? Yeah. After and I'm going to open up your heart. No, see, where's the heart? Yeah, that's why this is a real professional. Respect. It drives me crazy. I know. But we just keep doing what we're doing and supporting one another, wrapping our arms respecting each other. Right? And just saying, You know what, Rodney next time I do something, I got you next time. Yes, I'm I got to next what we do. And then this way we make it easier for us. We should not have to be at a certain point in my career. I shouldn't have to be auditioning. That I agree. Yeah, I hear that. That Yeah. And that's why no one auditioned on the right turn. Because it was more about you knew they could do it. And it was relationships. Yeah. And there was some people I didn't know at all like Susan Celexa. She ever acted. But she we were sitting down at coffee. I met him in a dance class they call it took me to, she plays my assistant, one of the the little older white lady office. Yeah. And we were sitting down just having coffee, getting to know one another. She said, she's a lawyer. She said, You know, I've always wanted to kind of act but you know, I was told to go to law school. I said, Okay, I'll make your dream come true. I'm gonna give you a small role and she was so delightful. She said, I just kept her in. So many people the little little boy who you haven't seen yet know You might have no you haven't seen him yet. He's nine years old. He goes, he goes on the set. And I was actually we were looking at a location and his father worked there. Yes. So his father said, Well, if you need a young little boy and I said no, we don't and we mean testing. We walked away and we go, we do we do. And I went back and little boy was on he was so professional. You made my dream come true. I've wanted this all of my life and that's nine years all the best day of my life All right, you know everything and you never know what type of actor he's gonna be 20 years from now because of the experience and the experience Yes. So what that said got your dreams while you're doing that make sure you finding passion and enjoyment and everything you do every single day and find that inner peace find that inner flame and how to claim it your inner peace and you will have a haven that's right within yourself. 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