In The Passenger Seat with Alethea Crimmins
From the front seat of her car, Alethea has motivated millions—reaching hearts around the world and even catching the attention of icons like Rihanna, Kesha, Madonna, and Viola Davis. Now, she’s bringing that same energy, wisdom, and unshakable confidence to the podcast realm—inviting special guests to ride along and share their own journeys of resilience, purpose, and self-discovery.
No scripts, no filters—just raw, powerful conversations filled with gems, laughter, and the kind of motivation that makes you sit up a little straighter. You never know who will be in the passenger seat next, but one thing’s for sure: every ride is a step toward something greater.
So buckle up, tune in, and let’s take this journey together. 🎙️🚗✨
In The Passenger Seat with Alethea Crimmins
Breaking Chains: Freshie's Journey to Self-Awareness
What happens when you finally decide your peace is non-negotiable? Freshie—rapper, filmmaker, athlete, and community builder—joins me to share her remarkable journey of rebirth and self-discovery.
From the opening moments, Freshie's magnetic energy and wisdom fill the conversation as she dives deep into what it means to protect your peace at all costs. "What other people think about you is not your business," she declares, setting the tone for a raw discussion about reclaiming personal power. Her song "My Peace" emerged from a painful breakup that left her feeling diminished, yet became the anthem of her transformation: "You can't steal my peace, you can't steal my soul."
The conversation takes powerful turns as Freshie vulnerably shares her mental health struggles, including moments where she contemplated ending her life, and how reaching out saved her. "I'm not okay," she admitted to someone after her most recent low point—a statement that demonstrates remarkable courage. Her employers responded by giving her time off, showing what true support looks like when we're brave enough to speak our truth.
Perhaps most compelling is Freshie's discussion of what had to die inside her to make room for rebirth: "People pleasing," she answers without hesitation. She explains how, as a natural giver who leads with love, she often found herself manipulated and gaslit by those who took advantage of her generous spirit. The transformation came when she started heeding her intuition and observing people's actions rather than their words.
Beyond personal growth, Freshie shares her passion for community building through initiatives like The League Atlanta and We Outside ATL, creating spaces for authentic connection beyond typical nightlife scenes. She approaches her artistry without limitation, identifying as "an artist who happens to be in the LGBT community" rather than allowing herself to be boxed in.
Ready to reclaim your power and protect your peace? Listen now and remember Freshy's parting wisdom: "Your greatest strength and your greatest weapon will always be your self-awareness. Your peace is your own to own."
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YA' Welcome
Yeah, shine like glitter, let the lightning light get bigger and in the sky, high like a winner, big and bright like a diamond. I'm a shiner and I'm a shiner. You're welcome. Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to In the Passenger Seat with your Positivity Queen. It's your girl, alethea Crimmins. What is good? What is going on? Have you missed me? Because I have missed you. Okay, let me tell you.
Speaker 1:I'm excited about this segment because we have a very special guest and I am excited to introduce them. But let me just tell you this right now I need you to be unapologetic about who you are. It doesn't matter what anybody says about you, it doesn't matter what they think about you, because what other people think about you is not your, what, it ain't your business. So just be you, just love yourself for who you are. And if you have a skill, if you have a talent, if you want to put yourself out there, put yourself out there and don't be scared to do so. Do not let fear be in the driver's seat of your life. Take control of your life, take your power back. Do what you need to do for you because, honey, you have been waiting for you to show up. So show up and when you do, do it loud, do it loud. Shake the table, baby. Shake the table. Be unstoppable. Let them know you are. You understand me? Yes, okay, so baby, let's get into my next guest.
Speaker 1:This person is unapologetically who they are. They do not ask permission to speak truth at all. She snatches the mic and she makes it truth. It's all about peace, purpose and positivity. And if you don't know who she is, then by the end of this show you will. But let me just give you a clip just to show you exactly what I'm talking about. Run that clip. Show you exactly what I'm talking about. Run that clip, baby. My soul, my spirit, is free. Now. That's something I own. You can't steal my thunder.
Speaker 2:You can't bear my storm. I'm in tune with peace now. That's all that I want. Stay trying me, stay eyeing me, stay picking bones. But I'm wrong. In your reality, Timers are the essence and I know where I'm trying to be. The word integrity been hitting different.
Speaker 1:And we are going to welcome to the show a rapper, singer, filmmaker, an athlete, an advocate, a walking force, field of purpose and power, and probably one of the realest voices in the game right now. You heard me Argue with your mama. Don't argue with me. The realest voices in the game right now. I'm talking about the one, the only, yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up with you, what's up with you.
Speaker 1:I am good. How are you Welcome to In the Past and Precinct? I'm so glad to have you here.
Speaker 2:Yes, ma'am, I'm so excited to be here as well. I'm always speaking that positive energy, so I made it another day.
Speaker 1:I'm happy to be alive and I'm excited to share more of my story with the rest of the world. Yes, I love it, I love it, I love it. So listen, let me just break the ice right quick. What is the loudest thing about you? Like? What is loud is it? Is it your volume? Is it your music? Is it is it? Is it your music? Is it your mouth? Is it your blonde hair? What speaks loudest?
Speaker 2:Honestly, it's my whole aura. I'm not going to lie to you, because people that are around me they say it's my spirit, my energy, whether I'm hosting. But when you're a superstar and you've got so many things that's added to you that you're able to give to the world, you have so many different attractions. So the way I'm able to pour into people, that just shown up as my authentic self and I'm just happy that I can just be once, 100% myself and be able to give so many people so much positive energy at every single part of life.
Speaker 1:But wait we, we, we gonna run, run, run that back because because I need people to hear it you have to speak that off over yourself, like you don't wait on nobody to tell you who you are, because when you know who you are, can't nobody tell you who you are.
Speaker 2:so we said, she said when you were superstar period yep, yep, when you, when you can do as many great things that I can do and you can't do it the way I can do it, only I can do it the way I do it okay, because often imitated, but never what duplicated period there's only one me.
Speaker 1:There's only one me, and if you google me, you'll find out baby listen, I there was a time in my life and I like and I I love that I have hit the time in my life where if people do not know who I am, or people have any question about me, I just I can now say with a good heart, google me yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And the funny thing is look, I'm doing a one single a month challenge right now and my song that's dropping in june one of my lines is my favorite line is to google me. You might have lived one good life for real, but to me it feels like I'm living two or three. Oh bars, baby. But like, if you really Google me, my government name and my stage name, baby, them receipts be for themselves. So when I say superstar, I stand in that 100%.
Speaker 1:Baby, we got receipts, always keep receipts, because them haters gonna do their job. Them haters gonna do what haters do. Haters gonna do they job. Them haters gonna do what haters do. Let them do their job. But know that everything I say, I have receipts to back them up period.
Speaker 2:Yep, you sound like a Sagittarius, I'm a Sag, I am a Gemini so I don't know love hate what you gotta say about us. What you gotta say about us. So I don't know. Love hate.
Speaker 1:What y'all say about us. What y'all say about us.
Speaker 2:Jim and I. I think we Y'all a little spicy, but it works in y'all favor sometimes, but when y'all mad, mad. I'm going to leave y'all where y'all be at.
Speaker 1:But that's if I'm staying on your good side.
Speaker 1:Because I was waiting on you to come. For me it'd be like gemini, not, not, not, not, not too much, leave it alone. So let me, let me ask you something. So the song that we just heard you said you cannot steal my peace, you can't take my peace, you can't steal my soul. Like what brought on that message? Because a lot of times it's like people do try to take your piece, people do try to diminish you and take something that they didn't give you, yeah, yeah. So what? What brought this song?
Speaker 2:on. To keep it short and simple, I was going through a very troubling breakup, I would say, and it was just so heavy that I felt like a lot of the energy that's around me was kind of like like pushing me down and I felt so low. I had low self-esteem, but in my mind I'm like my peace, I know how I am, I know my light, I know what I give people. I don't feel that around me at all right now, all I feel is so low and I feel so negative and I feel so heavy, I feel so small, I feel so dark and I'm like you can't steal my peace, you can't steal my soul. My soul is what makes me me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:And I wrote that song and I immediately felt a release as soon as, because the first thing I wrote was the chorus and it was because you can't steal my peace, you can't steal my soul. And I wrote that song, probably within 20 minutes, but it was because I was aligned with it. This is exactly what I'm supposed to be saying. The rest of the world needs to hear this as well. And still, to this day, I call it a daily affirmation. I listen to it every morning. I a daily affirmation. I listen to it every morning. I listen to it when I feel like somebody's trying to bring me some negativity or whatever. At the end of the day, this smile, this soul, this energy, you can't steal that from me. That is what makes me who I am. So the message that I've been telling the rest of the world is your peace is your own to own. Can't nobody take that away from them. You don't even give people the permission to have it. That but that part.
Speaker 1:People only do what you allow them to do. So why are you allowing them to take something that they didn't give you? Yep, they didn't. They did not give it to you, so therefore, they cannot take it away. So stop allowing them to take your peace. Stop allowing them to take your joy. Stop allowing them to take your joy. Stop allowing them to take all these things from you.
Speaker 2:If you can add to it, you can stay. If you're taken away from it, you gots to go.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry and that goes in every aspect of life, in any type of relationship, friendship, situation, ship, any type of ship, it falls in there Because if you're not helping me flow, then you're making me sink.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. You're just a weight that I'm carrying on for no reason. And the end of the song is I'm in tune with peace. Now, that's all that I want. So leave me alone, just leave me alone, and that's all that I want. So leave me alone, just leave me alone and that's how it.
Speaker 1:Don't it feel good like when you actually have that peace? Oh yeah to where you can, to where you can finally tell people I don't need you, like I don't, like I'm good right here, like I'm good, like I don't need you. I may want you in my life, but the person that I've grown to be, I'm going to need you, and it sounds like that's what rebirth is. It sounds like that's you coming into your self.
Speaker 2:It sounds like you burned that old script, that old version of who you were and you wrote a new one, absolutely and most people knew me before for having a mohawk and it's this whole other thing. I had a mohawk for almost 10 years, I want to say. But like, when I came into writing my album, I had wrote so many other songs but I'm like this isn't the message that I'm supposed to be putting out. But I cut my hair off, I got the waves.
Speaker 2:Look, I completely switched it up. Instead of wearing dark clothes, I was wearing lighter clothes, like I felt like a weight was like literally lifted off of me, and so when it came back and pushing the Reborn tour, it was me kind of reintroducing myself as a person, a human person, but also as an artist. My sound is so unique. I don't sound like anybody else in the industry and I love that and I want to keep it that way. And even when it came down to my piece, even though the words of the song are really deep for real, for real I put it over the Af afro pop beat.
Speaker 2:so you can still feel good, you can still bop with it. Now it's an uplifting. Now it's an uplifting self-motivational song for you and it's an affirmation, and it's repetitive because I want it to stick.
Speaker 2:I want you to understand one heart, one mind, peace over all things. Like every single thing in that message was something I needed to tell myself, but I knew that that's true, because the world needs to hear stuff like that. And so, yes, I'm 100% and freshy 2.0, if you want to say, or 5.0, I feel like a thousand point. Oh, because I'm really here for real and there's no, there's no, there's no altering me, no more. I understand my purpose in life, I understand my peace, and that's the only message that I'm willing to talk about for real.
Speaker 1:I love how passionate you are when you speak. I love how passionate you are when you talk about everything that you've been through, like everything that you've overcome. What had to die inside of you to make room for this freshie 2.0, what had to die people pleasing oh, that's the simplest.
Speaker 2:That's the simplest. That's the simplest way I can say it. I can elaborate, but really it was people pleasing, because when you're such a giver and when you lead with love, all of the time people feel obligated to that or people manipulate you or gaslight you into believing things that aren't real things. But you're going to take their word for it, because I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt every single time. But then when I start realizing like I just got to literally pay attention to my intuition the moment I started doing that I saw everything a whole lot different and I was like dang man. This whole time I thought you had my back, but really you was playing in my face and I can see, because the games that you were playing originally don't work no more, and now you're trying to figure out a different way. But now you're showing me more of your hands. So it's just I've been, I've just been honestly sitting back, watching, observing, letting life happen, and people have shown themselves to me.
Speaker 1:So I had to stop people from leaving. People always show you who they are and the issue is we don't believe them the first time. Yep, people always show us who they are, but we think that maybe if we love them enough or if we love them through it, then we can change them. People don't change unless they want to.
Speaker 2:yes, yes, yes, potential is a dangerous word, because that person may not ever see it themselves like we, we, we can't make them change like they, they they have to want to.
Speaker 1:And I think that, for us, we fall in love with, with, we want them to be instead of who they are. We, we fall in love with their potential and not we see, standing right in front of us and it'll be flag after, flag after, and it's like I know that that's, that's all right, we know, we know that's how we are. Especially, I've noticed because, like I, I am part of the LGBTQ family and I noticed that we often do that a lot, like we will see past them because our community is so small and we just want that love, like we just want somebody to be with us that we will look past a whole lot of things. Stop looking past, stop settling just because somebody is there. Yeah, stop settling just because they're there, yep.
Speaker 1:And I love how you are a like advocate for mental health. Yes, ma'am, you are a huge advocate for mental health. Yes, you are a huge advocate for mental health. But I also know that when someone is that, there was a dark moment where you almost walked away from it all oh yeah, I've had a few of them tell us about that um'm going to piggyback off real quick of what you said.
Speaker 2:With the LGBT community. I think that a lot of us get passes too, because we all know that at some point we probably had experience and trauma in childhood. So we make excuses for people like, hey, I'm willing to work through things with you because I know how hard it was to try to work through this, that and the third. So we give excuses after excuses. Now my main thing is like that's fine, but what is your respect level for me? How do you speak to me? How do you pour into me? How are you? How are you communicating with me? I could deal with everything else, but how are you impacting me?
Speaker 1:so this baby, listen you, what is your respect level for me? Bitch like what? Yeah, what is your respect? How are you going to respect me?
Speaker 2:I, a lot of people do, do not ask that question, yep yep and I and I had to learn that the hard way, because my parents have been together for over 40 years and even though my childhood, from being LGBT, wasn't the easiest, they always provided like as what they could have provided for me at the time a very loving household. My family is very loving. So I've never been spoken to in a toxic way a day of my life. So when I deal with somebody that's calling me out of my name and talking down on my character and speaking about how I was raised and just stuff that I knew wasn't true but I felt like it was, I blamed myself for it. I felt like, oh, I've never been spoken to this way. Maybe there is something that I'm doing wrong that I need to fix in this situation. But that's when I started losing myself more and more and more, because I knew I wasn't doing anything wrong. But it was just your respect level for me and now that I've seen that once, I don't ever have to go through that again. So to answer your question, too, about my mental health and my journey and things like that, when I was a kid, you know I used to, you know I used to clap, you know, out of release, and there was multiple times where I've tried to commit suicide.
Speaker 2:As a kid and even down to being an adult of five years ago, I tried to do it. Up until last month I tried to do it. But the difference is, each time I knew that I didn't really want to, I was just tired. I was tired of trying. I always felt like a burden, it was just like things weren't making sense. But the last time, like five years ago or so, I really didn't want to go. So then this time, when I got to that one 2%, I literally sat, sat for a second and I called somebody from like 10 years ago, somebody's mama, and I'm like I'm not okay. And she brung me out of it. She knew exactly what to do, whatever, but it's just like.
Speaker 2:And then I went to work the next day and I literally couldn't make it to work. I'm like I'm not OK. They sent me home and I've been out of work for a month. I still have my job, but they're like take care of you.
Speaker 2:And so, thankfully, like me, knowing my lessons of it, I'm exhausted, things aren't making sense, too much stuff is piling up on me. I'm overwhelmed and stressed out. I have too much anxiety, I've elevated high blood pressure. All of this stuff is just starting to crash on me. I'm not okay, and for people to be able to receive that and be like I'm showing up for you, I'm pouring back into you. I don't know what got you so low or feeling so low in your life, but everybody started pouring back in and that is part of the community that I've created for myself, as well as my impact on people's lives in real life, like people genuinely value me as a person and so I'm very strong going. I don't mind being vulnerable about my truth, because I know that there's other people that think I don't go through the things that I actually go through if I'm able to accomplish these things and inspire you people.
Speaker 2:my life is just as hard sometimes as y'all's lives are, and I think that connection is what helped me last on social media since 2006 up to now and still have a fan base and still connecting with people, so just being my authentic self and again advocating for mental health, because a lot of people go through it but they don't want to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1:The two things that I want to say that I heard you say several times, and that people need to know it that it is okay, it's okay not to be okay, it's okay to tell people I'm not okay, like it's. It's okay to tell yourself I'm not okay, and know what those signs are and know what to do in those I'm not okay Moments, yep, and I just want to thank you that you chose to stay, because staying was a choice. You could have easily went the other way, yep, but you chose to stay, like you chose yourself. So I just want to thank you for choosing you and for still being here, because then we wouldn't have everything that we have from you.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:So I just wanted you to know that and to know that I personally just thank you for choosing you and choosing to stay around, and not just me. Like you've helped millions of other people with your story, know their worth, know their value and know that they, too, can choose themselves. So Thank you, kudos, for that. Thank you, kudos for that. Thank you for that. So people love to focus on negative, they focus on drama, they focus on fallouts, they focus on divorce. What's one thing that you wish that people would talk about more? Like how, how, how do you think that we can shift that? What, what can we talk about more?
Speaker 2:um, I think, people's successes and what they're actually doing. Too many times I see people do interviews and they could be 45 minutes long to an hour and they spend 30 to 45 minutes talking about drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, and then they wrap it up with what's next or what can people expect from you, and I feel like we shouldn't do that. It should actually be reversed. Or, you know, maybe don't even talk about the drama part, but I know drama sells in a sense. But like when you have somebody like me that's doing so much or has done so much for the community, that's actively still pursuing so many different other dreams and aspirations in their lives, it's like we should be talking more about that.
Speaker 2:Because when I go back home and I go to these schools and I go to these other places as an athlete, I'm highly like people. People are. They want my attention, they want to say how much I inspired them, they want to tell me about I didn't know that I could do this, but seeing you do this now I'm inspired to do it or just me going and chasing after my music career. It's just so many other things that I wish people focused more on, like for me, my accomplishments and my impact versus like stuff that happened years ago, like I'm not talking about no more.
Speaker 1:it's like they won't let go of my past for me and I just I don't like that but can, can I just say, say this people love to bring up your past as if your past defines who you are absolutely, as as if your past is going to make you. You know that you were meant to become your. Your past built you into this, right, absolutely, your past built you into this and you you have had like I've read your resume like you have done a. You have lived a million and one jobs Like you. You have lived a million and one lives Like how do you stay grounded in all of this?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll say that music has always been like my, my passion and my outlet. So even when I was, you know, a dual sport collegiate athlete, I had all of my equipment there. I had all my film equipment there. That's when I started making movies, was in Charlotte and then leaving from a collegiate platform to being more on the professional side and training with the Olympic bobsled team, I had all of my equipment up there. I was making remixes, I was just writing, perfecting my craft, I was vlogging, I was doing all of that stuff. So for me, my release has always been, even though I might be doing stuff by myself or I might be alone, I'm never alone Because I'm always connecting back with my fans. I'm always doing something for me. So that part, and then again, being my authentic self, I don't like accepting roles, gigs, jobs. I don't like doing something that's going to take me out of who I am If it doesn't align with me.
Speaker 2:I will say no, I will decline it. I'm not trying to disrespect you, but for me that doesn't align with my brand and I don't want to be a part of something like this. Honestly, self-awareness A lot of people don't have self-awareness. I know the things that are going to make me uncomfortable. I know the things that I don't want to do. I'm going to say I don't want to do and I, you know what I mean and I'm going to say I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1:So how did you become? Because, you're right, a lot of people are not self aware. So what brought you to this level, to where you were at one point here, but now, like you're here and you know that, you know that you know who you are to where you can say I self-aware of who I am?
Speaker 2:self-reflection and it's because if something happens with me, or after this, honestly after our um interview, I'm gonna self-reflect on this interview. I take every moment as like, what did I just process? What can I take from this? How do I feel about myself, my presentation? Is there something I could have said better? But you know what I'm saying. I always take the gratitude and always being appreciative of every single opportunity, but I really, after every single interaction with a person, a place, a thing, I self-reflect. And so how did I feel in this moment, how did this moment make me feel when this person spoke to me this way? How did it make me feel and how did I react to it?
Speaker 2:The only way that I can learn is by self-reflection. So now that I'm self-reflecting and I know how I feel, I'm more self-aware. I don't like when you speak to me this way. I've seen how you interact with other people. If that's how you're going to interact with me, I cannot work with you. So I'm safety, I'm I'm protecting myself because I know the world won't protect me the same way I can protect me, because they're going to automatically assume that they know me better than I know myself. But if you gotta speak to me, then you can't speak for me and I can't speak for me.
Speaker 1:You better speak. You better protect your peace at all costs. Baby, I hope this is an episode that y'all should have your pen and paper, because baby pressure is dropping knowledge. And I'm just sitting here like yep, yep, yep, yep, like if y'all not taking notes, cause, baby, you are dropping some gems.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it is very beautiful to see, it is very beautiful to hear, and again, how passionate you are about you and it like you don't get that very often, like people are still trying to navigate and find themselves and it seems like you are so confident in who you are right now. Yes, I am, and I love that, and I heard that you said that you have that you play a huge role in your community. You have let me get, get my list honey fresher than had 10 million and one jobs and fresher than listen okaybt. You have founded at the league atlanta. Like you are turning community into a movement. Yes, yes, like what, what just made you say, yep, I'm, I'm just gonna build a league, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do what, what, what made you say this is what I want to do? So?
Speaker 2:one. I'm a, I have one, I have a philanthropy mindset. So I love to give and I love to like show up and I like people, I like to give, I like to help, and so I'm also from the country I'm from the carolinas, I have sports, I have a back, I have a background in being outside for real. So when I moved to Atlanta it was like all right, it's cool. Like there's a lot of nightclub scenes, there's a lot of like people getting drunk and you know, paying for sex and stuff like that. But like I want to go fishing, I want to do bonfires, I want to do stuff outside, and so I wanted to create my we Outside ATL page and I wanted to start doing run groups. I wanted to start doing a whole bunch of things because I know how to teach people the right formats to run, because I ran track and stuff like that. I used to work at a job. We did gate analysis and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So my idea for the we Outside ATL platform was for recreational purposes and so part of that was doing pickup basketball games and I wanted to do tournaments and stuff like that. So when my other co-founders reached out to me and was just like, hey, let's just put together the league Atlanta. I'm like bet, boom, I'm in it, let's do it like. This is already something that was along with what I wanted to do anyway, so let's rock with it.
Speaker 2:And from there it was just like all right now, how can we expand this to other places, do other chapters and do this, that and the third, and even I'm really busy, and so are my other people as well on the team, so it's like we have to like put a pause back on it, but hopefully more awareness that we bring to the league and the purpose of the league, we can get more sponsors, we get more hands on deck, so we can actually make it to the more official level that we want to have it.
Speaker 2:Because from Atlanta to Vegas and then we're looking at somebody in Texas wanting to have their own little chapter, so it's like it could blow up very quickly. But I wanted to tie it along with like pride as well. So like, whenever we have our yearly prize and stuff like that, we wanted to have a basketball tournament at the end of that too. So like, yeah, y'all can come out here and party and have a good time too, but you can also go play in a basketball game and think about it like their homecoming games or like you know. Just that's how I saw.
Speaker 2:I envisioned it originally with and then also they align with us too, and this is the the league atlanta yes, and the we outside atl. That's my uh non-profit organization that I just do recreational activities, so I co-partner with that, or I we cross promote with my league Atlanta as well.
Speaker 1:Okay, so right now if you are in the Atlanta, it don't even matter where you are. I need you to write this down the at the league, atlanta. I need you to go show support, follow them right now, do your due diligence right now, and I need you to go follow we outside. Yeah, lgbt, go out and do your part. Support is free facts. It's free facts. It's not gonna take anything from you, it's not gonna hurt you. Listen, go out, do what you have to do and support it may just bless you. Let's talk about your music. If you can choose your favorite song that you made, what? What would that be? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Your your favorite song that you made.
Speaker 2:Pick your top three, and why man, it's hard when you come from a party. I've made, I've made I know that right now online. If you look it up, you only see my two albums and then the single releases that I've been doing. Um, but I've had hundreds and thousands of songs already. I've been making 2006, so, okay, it's just, that's hard but so, so.
Speaker 1:So, right right right now, with, with this, with, with with this new album, what, what would be your, your favorite, and why?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna say my piece for sure, because I feel like that's a song that I, that heals the world, to be honest with you, that one just has a world impact, that it feels good, it has more of a meaning to it and it isn't a daily affirmation. So I would say purposefully that that would be probably like my favorite song off the album. Um, I would say purposefully that that would be probably my favorite song off the album. I would say that, ooh, this is hard. My next song would be my For Granite song, which is kind of like a free verse but that basically just talks about how people take life and people take people for granted and all of the life lessons that I've learned, especially living here in atlanta and kind of like laying it all out there and a lot of grown straight men be looking listening to like yep, yep, so, just like, so.
Speaker 1:So let me, let me hit, hit you with these. So I'm gonna throw you out some situations and then you tell me which one of your songs would match that situation.
Speaker 2:I like this game.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, Okay. So you walk into Pride like the stage is yours. What song you playing?
Speaker 2:I would play let's Fly off my album because it has like a jersey club mix too, but it's really like like you and your friends are outside for a good time, y'all to pay your rent. So we're gonna have, we're gonna have fun, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna tip you out while you're working. We all we're here to get lit, so not not not see y'all know, what that means when they do yeah, that's what. Yeah, you got us a love to the dancers man okay.
Speaker 1:so when I I already know what, what this answer is. When somebody tries to disturb your peace, what Stone are you, hey Siri?
Speaker 2:Hey, alexa, play my piece, my freshie, asap. Put it on max volume, okay.
Speaker 1:The world don't see you, but you see you. What is the self-love soundtrack?
Speaker 2:Self-love soundtrack. Oh, so on my album I got a song called Remember Me. It's actually the last song that's on there, and what people don't know about me as a writer is some of my things have different meanings to it. So Remember Me is like I talk about some of my accolades and how, like I made my own lane for real and I know that. But the industry is going to remember who I am regardless, like if you've ever met me in your life, even one time, there's no way you're gonna forget who I am. But then the other side of the meaning to it is too. Let's say that you in a club and you having a good night and you lock eyes with somebody for the first time in your life, but then y'all are connected.
Speaker 2:For the rest of the night y'all are dancing, having a good time, and it may lead to one night stand, it may not, or whatever, but that one experience with that person, but that one experience with that person that y'all connected to for the first time, like you saw that person and you were locked in and that's going's go the opposite way.
Speaker 1:Breakup tears, but you still fine as hell. What is the post? Breakup bop. What is that breakup?
Speaker 2:bop, uh-huh. So I got a song called broken silence. That's on my first album, that's also on my Instagram as well and I would say that one. But that's like it's not really a bop in the sense of like you upbeat with it. It's gonna be more so. Like dang, I really love this person for real, like heartbreak breaks you down for real, for real type thing. But you know that you're the cat, so you know somebody else can love you better. But I would say probably that song repeat what you, what you said you you know that what?
Speaker 2:but you know, somebody else can love me better, uh-uh you.
Speaker 1:You said you know that you the catch, you, yeah, you, you know that you the catch, okay, you. You the catch period manifesting the next level of your life. What is that theme song?
Speaker 2:my song is dropping in june, which is probably gonna be next week. Um, it's called. It's talking about slash gotta go, but really it breaks down like I heard y'all talking about really what you'd be talking about. I'll be making moves out here. That's never what you talk about. It's going to be called Talking About Gotta go and it comes out. I'm going to say next week. It's done, I'm just waiting for the master to come out. I'm waiting for the master version of the audio.
Speaker 1:Listen. When that comes out, tag me so I can share, because I need to manifest some things in my life and other people may too. Yeah, so let let that come out, let let that be known all over the world. Okay, yeah, that will be known. Do you label yourself as an lgbt artist? Are you just?
Speaker 2:an artist, just an artist I'm an artist that happens to be in the lgbt community that part, that part that, yes, I love it I, I, I do not like boxes. I hate boxes, I don't. I refuse to go in one. I say this all the time too. It's like no, I'm not just that you know I'm not, no, not, not, not, not.
Speaker 1:With all the millions and millions of jobs that that's that you have. Baby you you is is no, no box can hold freshie at at all at no time period. Okay, yeah, when I, when I was in college, when I was in college, I had wanted to do creative writing but within like the first week or so of me being in college.
Speaker 2:When I was in college, I had wanted to do creative writing, but within like the first week or so of me being in school or whatever, or in the class, they were teaching me like the greats or whatever, but the entire time they're teaching me about people who thought outside the box. So I'm like, why are you teaching me the box if we're talking about the greatest people thought outside the box and I dropped the class, like you should be helping me make whatever greatness I have in my mind better versus telling me how to follow somebody else's footsteps and so I make when I say I paid my own way.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, you're not writing this shit down. Yeah, when I say I literally have paid my own way from day one. I wasn't taught any of this stuff. I self-taught myself or trial and error. I started shooting films without a lick of knowledge of shooting films.
Speaker 1:Do you have any films?
Speaker 2:out now. Yes, I just recently shot a short film called that Night and I premiered it at the Limelight Theater here in Atlanta on a 200-inch screen, but it's going into film festivals before I put it out online. So the whole purpose of me shooting just a short itself is to put it in film festivals so I can get more executive producers and more networks actually looking at my stuff, and then I'm gonna throw it back on youtube for all my fans. What is this about? Um, it's a short films.
Speaker 1:I can't tell you too much, but it's basically like okay, okay, I was, I was being nosy okay, two two, two, two girls are dating.
Speaker 2:They haven't had the best life or whatever they come across um a good opportunity, but it ends up being a lot more, uh, traumatic than they they anticipated. So that's the shortest way I can give it to you um, but that trailer is out on my youtube and on my instagram. So if you want to go to freshy productions and type in that night trailer and pop up, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:well, now we have come to one of my favorite segments of the show show Ask Alethea where you send me your questions and I answer them live on my show. If you have an Ask Alethea question, feel free to DM me or email us at pimpingpositivity at gmailcom.
Speaker 1:So, and I always let my guests answer first and then I answer the ask Alethea question is and this is a kind of juicy one, okay, all right. So, alethea, everything in my relationship is amazing. They support me, show up, loves me, but sexually they, it's just not there. I'll try to ignore it, I'll try to focus on everything else, but the spark is missing and I don't know what to do. Am I asking for too much? Am I being selfish? I'm going to let you hit double first.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I think everything is situational right. Me personally, I've attempted to be with somebody where I didn't necessarily enjoy the sexual you know parts. But is the person that you're with somebody that you can teach to, or is their ego too big that they won't learn Like?
Speaker 1:is it just a lack?
Speaker 2:of experience, or is it just a oh, I don't, I'm just not going to do what you're asking me to do. So I think those are are determining factors, because I personally couldn't be with somebody. I couldn't teach how to please me. I can't do that. You might not know originally, but if you can learn and I can work with you. But if it's not that, then I can't rock with it.
Speaker 1:Listen, teach me how. Because baby show, show me, because Jill Scott said it best show me, show me, show me, show me, because sometimes we don't know. Yeah, we don't know.
Speaker 1:But let me just say this your pleasure is not a luxury, it's a requirement, like I, like I it, it is a required like it. Pleasure is a requirement, at least for me, and I don't think that you're selfish for wanting to be turned on or satisfied like it's not being selfish. And if they can't love you, if they can love you emotionally, but if your body is not, then we gotta disconnect going on, because I am what they call. They feel sexual. If you got me here, baby, the panties are coming off, but one has to correlate with the with with with the other. So, like you, you can, you can have me here, but but but I also need you to have me here, like I need you to have me here, like you deserve love and pleasure and it ain't going to get worse it's going to get worse than it is going to get better without being able to teach them what you need.
Speaker 1:We can have joy and orgasms. We can have them both Joy and orgasms. Intimacy and intimacy we can have them because it's people think that intimacy is just sex. Yes, but there's so much more to it than that. Don't shrink your needs to fit someone else's comfort. Yep. Never shrink your needs to fit someone else's comfort, because, yep, never shrink your needs to fit someone else's comfort because we are not in a one-size-fit-all relationship, mm-mm. And just like you said, like, teach me, show me Because the like saying is with us, with, like lesbians that women know how to please women. That's not always the case, because sometimes, like they don't know, like you don't know how to please me, like that, show me sis. Like, let me know how, how you like to be maneuvered. So yeah, so, so that I can do it right.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, yep. I've never, I've never. Anybody that had the best intentions for me was never offended by me telling them that they did something I didn't like a bit. They're more so of like okay, and then like well, how do you like it then? Or how do you, how do you want me to do this? Or what's what's your style? Like well, how do you like it then? Or how do you, how do you want me to do this? Or what's what's your style? What do you prefer versus like I'm not doing that?
Speaker 1:what like what? No, well, well then I mean, hey, I'm gonna text you later on, I mean, you can go ahead, so so, so, so. So you're saying that you are open to learn wait me.
Speaker 2:I don't say I think. I think I've been.
Speaker 1:It's a 10 out of 10 over here, so I don't really know, this is one of the reasons why I'm selling it right now. So oh, oh, 10 out of 10, would recommend you, you, you, keep all that over there in atlanta, keep, keep this.
Speaker 2:Women, women in atl, y'all better watch yourselves, because freshly is a 10 out of 10 all the rumors, out of all the rumors that I've had in my life, not a damn one of them said anything about me being terrible and there you have it, folks, and there you, you heard it from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1:So so you, you ain't got a word about hearing it from nobody else, because you heard it from freshly herself. That you ain't got a word about her being bad in in bed, and and that's why she ain't doing nothing right now, because because y'all be tying your souls to her and we don't need no soul ties. Okay, that's not you snatching souls so that energy was heavy.
Speaker 2:Go ahead. Energy gotta get up off me. Oh, I need a moment to rehabilitate myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they be going crazy baby get, get me off the show, because we don't I had one person.
Speaker 2:She was driving around with the strap in her car waiting for me to finish wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1:Say it again. Say it one more again, please. Oh, in the name, say it again. My producer took his earpiece and threw it on the floor wait, I can't make this shit up.
Speaker 2:Wait what happened? I was hosting a party, she put, so I bought a new, you know, for every person, because I feel like everybody's sides are different. So for her she had it on, and so she put it in her car and her backpack and was waiting for me to finish hosting at the club so that we could, yeah, see, this is like you.
Speaker 1:You, you ain't even got to worry about bringing yours. I got it. You ain't got to, you ain't got to bring nothing, you just bring yourself and I got the rest. So I'm riding around with a strap in my coat. I am riding around strapped, in real life.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yep, she wanted it, wanted, it right then, and there yeah yeah, you ain't never got to worry about me taking no trips to ATL at all, because you stay over there. You stay, ladies, I am the catch, I am the catch Y'all on that note because, because I know, I know that right now it the the million dollar question is where can we find you?
Speaker 2:y'all can find me on all platforms, at Freshie Official, and I have this energy in real life too this podcast just went real quick baby oh my gosh. I was not expecting it to go here, but we're here now. I'm single, I'm single, I'm looking for my next life. I'm single and she's single. If you like it, then you should have put a ring on it.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh Okay.
Speaker 2:She's single and ready to to mingle. So what y'all gonna do? I ain't mingling, though I'm. I'm the one I'm gonna speak to the one, so y'all can switch out shots, but I'm not. I don't date multiple people. I'm I'm exclusive, so oh so?
Speaker 1:so she's not speaking to the masses, she is speaking to the one. So, okay, wait, wait. So what I need you to do right now is and I'm going to not laugh, okay, because this is a very serious moment this is a very serious moment I need you to put on your best freshie and give a message to the one.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to tell you why the one may be walking right now. I know, and then the one's going to understand exactly what I'm going to say, because what I've learned is, if you give people too much, they will act like somebody that they're not to get what they want.
Speaker 1:So I don't want to say you see my teeth, can I turn and show them?
Speaker 2:So if you know that you can love me, good, by all means shoot the shot. But if you just here for the attention, it's not going to me. I'm sorry. I'm gonna call it out every single time at freshie.
Speaker 1:can you, can you, can you put that to the bottom of the screen at freshie official everywhere? So shoot, shoot your shots. Baller, baby, we baller and see what happens. I mean, I mean I'm not going to tell you that it will happen, I'm just saying because the one is out there, I don't know where you're at, just have and you might want to bring your own.
Speaker 2:I'll take care of that. I'll take care of that for you, baby, don't worry about that. Wait, so did I just officially get vows by you on national television? It wasn't very.
Speaker 1:See now people gonna be in my, in my dms, talk about me, me I told you, I'm an influencer.
Speaker 2:I inspire a lot of people well, baby you are.
Speaker 1:You are inspiring people in more ways than one Baby. Let me tell you something you have poured out your soul, your light, your power, your everything and so much more than we wasn't expecting. Thank you so much for just showing us what true rebirth looks like. Before we go, I want you to finish this sentence for me.
Speaker 2:I'm no longer shrinking because I'm worth more than what I've been through because I'm worth more than what I've been through.
Speaker 1:I am no longer shrinking because I'm worth more than what I've been through, and so are you. At the close of every episode, I have something that's called Pass it On, so you can pass on a message to my next guest or just anybody who is watching that may need a little uplifting. What do you want to pass on? What message do you want to pass on?
Speaker 2:your greatest strength and your greatest weapon will always be your self-awareness. On top of that self-awareness, your peace is your own, to own. I will continue to say that until my last breath. Don't let nobody take that away from you. Don't let nobody steal your shine. Don't let nobody dim your light. Don't nobody steal your soul. Everything about you that makes you who you are is worth living, so protect it at all costs protect that peace.
Speaker 1:Baby, at all costs. Baby, this is the energy that I was expecting on this show and I got that and so much more. Baby y'all, please go out there and follow at freshly official today. Right now, stream the music. Where can we find your music?
Speaker 2:my music's all over the place. Uh, freshie is what you can find me on all platforms apple music, spotify, youtube music, all of that good stuff. Um, there are two freshies now. There's me with the blonde hair and there's a guy with the green hair. If you see green hair and that other type of music is not me, but yeah, my soul tree Bob. You won't tell us me with the, with the, with the, with the blind, but yeah, I'm everywhere.
Speaker 1:Stream freshly on all music platforms with the blonde hair blonde hair gang. Watch the film and the film is called that night.
Speaker 2:The short film that night supports the movement called that Night the short film that Night.
Speaker 1:Support the movement. Go to the platforms, support the movement and remember that your peace is yours, period, your peace is yours. Guard it like you guard your edges on a human day. Guard it like like you guard your edges. Okay.
Speaker 2:Guard your piece like that so they lighters guard it like they they guard their lighters and that's that's.
Speaker 1:That's a, that's a if you know, know, guard it like you. Guard that lighter If you know you know. Okay, yeah, man, thank you so much for being in the passenger seat with me. Thank you, girl Alethea Cremins, now listen. I hope that you come back.
Speaker 2:I hope that this is not your last time. I come back whenever you want me to.
Speaker 1:So, as you go out there and be great in their face, know that your peace is yours. Protect your peace at all costs. If they didn't give it to you, they can't take it away. You go out there and continue being happy. It's like I know you can be. Let your light shine like the sun, be ultra violent, honey, and, as always, you have a good day on purpose.