The Elevate Collection Podcast

From Classroom to Comedy: Kelly Kellz on Faith, Family & Fearless Authenticity

• Alexandria Reed & Jordan Hawkins • Season 2 • Episode 1

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Comedian, actress, and entrepreneur Kelly Kellz joins Alexandria & Jordan for a soul-filling conversation on calling, confidence, and building a legacy with laughter. A Milwaukee native and former teacher, Kelly shares how she walked out on faith, scaled her career with her husband-manager, and uses comedy as a tool for healing and empowerment. We go deep on supportive partnerships, being authentically yourself in rooms that want “cookie-cutter,” and what it means to build legacy for our kids.

We also talk about Kelly’s new film Toxic FriendZ (now streaming on Amazon Prime & Tubi) and her show/podcast work, plus the moment she knew she’d “made it.” If you need a reminder that bigger is possible, this one’s it.

In this episode:

  • Leaving the classroom for the stage—on purpose and with faith
  • Silent leadership & why support is real leadership in partnership
  • Thick-girl confidence & rejecting “cookie-cutter” beauty standards
  • Turning comedy into ministry: laughs as medicine
  • Legacy for our kids and building “trust babies”
  • Producing a feature film and shifting behind the camera
  • The power of curating connection experiences vs. “networking”

About Kelly Kellz (highlights):

  • APCA “Comedian of the Year” (2024), national touring comic. ImprovBeacons
  • Former K-12 teacher from Milwaukee; transitioned to full-time comedy. Essence
  • Stars in and executive produced Toxic FriendZ (streaming on Amazon Prime & Tubi). IMDbInstagram+1
  • Massive social footprint (Facebook ~1.5M followers). Facebook+1

Resources & connects:

Sponsor/Partnership inquiries: Kelly is seeking aligned management, podcast sponsors, and brand collaborations.

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Remember: Your influence is just the beginning. Your legacy is the destination.

See you soon, where influence meets legacy.

SPEAKER_03

Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of the Elevate Collection podcast. And y'all, I know I always say it, but you are in for such a treat. We have the ever so talented, beautiful, funny, just amazing human being, Kelly Kells in the podcast.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. I'm looking like this girl is talented. Talking about me. Give me some. Give me some heart.

SPEAKER_00

Is there more? Actually, let me get into it. Kelly Kells is a powerhouse comedian, actress, entrepreneur who's been lighting up stages across the country with her unapologetic humor. And boy, did we see it last time? Come on. I'm with magnetic energy. From BET to Deaf Comedy Jam, sold-out tours in your very own comedy school. She's built a brand rooted in faith, family, and fearless authenticity. A true trailblazer in entertainment, Kelly uses laughter as a tool for healing and empowerment on stages and beyond.

SPEAKER_01

That sounds so good. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_00

What? Can we do this?

SPEAKER_03

We're clocking it right now.

SPEAKER_01

There it is. Beautiful. Thank you, ladies.

SPEAKER_03

We are so excited to talk about how you even got there, though. So we started an education.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. You were a teacher now. Imagine that.

SPEAKER_03

Can you walk us through how to like tell us the journey to get to that bio?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, um, well, to be completely honest, that bio has been like my personality my entire life. Middle school, high school, college, and in the classroom. And then just one day you realize, like, you know what? It's another career field that can support all of that energy at one with a higher, with a higher wage bracket. Hey, come on, guys. And and you get to be yourself and you get to create. And at the same time, I'm continuously teaching. You know, now I'm teaching the world. I'm teaching women how to love themselves. I'm teaching people how to be fearless without being like so direct. A lot of people don't like directness. And I'm just like doing it, but in a friendly way, and then you inspire. So I become a teacher because I'm thinking I'm gonna change the world one kid at a time. Coming from the inner city, I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 53206. Well, this neighborhood is an underserved neighborhood. So I'm like, I'm gonna change. I'm gonna go to college. And first of all, let's be very clear. I was a communications major. I thought I was gonna be on the radio, like, good morning. Welcome to V103. This tracks. You get what I'm saying? God didn't want that for me. I could not find a job in radio. So I got an alternative license in teaching. Here I am, and I'm like, I'm great with kids. But I'm making them laugh. I'm more like a guidance counselor. I was more like helping you trying to find direction. I'm like, I don't want to grade papers. And that's how I knew it was time for me to go. Because I started teaching and grading the kids depending on how I felt about them. Like, you know what? I like you. Hey. See, that would be my problem. That's what I'm saying. And I see the potential in you because I see a lot of myself and students. That's that's what makes teaching easy. Because when you get to see yourself and the kids, you're like, okay, I love you. I get it. That's a little ADHD. It may not be diagnosed. I have a little bit of like a touch of. Oh no, we're a lot of it. Okay, cool. I just didn't want to feel like I was. It don't matter.

SPEAKER_00

Safe company.

SPEAKER_01

So just being able to leave the class when my husband really, he said, let's do it. I was doing comedy and teaching, and I found myself happening, taking more days off to do comedy. And I was like, I'm out of here. And I left in the middle of the school year, like February. But I'm a proud member of Delta Sigma Theater Sorority Incorporated. Yeah, thank you. And the Deltas run the district. Deltas like run education in Milwaukee. So they were like, leave, you're good. We got you. You know, we support you. And that's exactly what I did. And I never looked back. Yeah, that was it. Just literally walked out on faith. I believed it. I never second guessed. I have a really strong support system. My husband is fire. He likes go, be great, be you. The world needs you. When he says things like the world needs me, I'm like, I'm gonna have to give you some tonight. And he said, listen. Listen, the way you loving on me, I'm gonna have to love on you back. And he is, he's not the type of person who wants to be in the front. He's gonna fall back and be like, and I'm just gone. And I'm just gone.

SPEAKER_03

People don't realize that that is actually silent leadership. And I think it's like it's a real leadership that that is something that is so beautiful. I think a lot of people may look at I think a man in that space sometimes and be like, oh, he's just in the backseat. No, no, no, no. He is leading me in this way. And I think that is a grace that people don't understand when it comes to true like leadership within like a unit, within a marriage, within any dynamic, but specifically within a marriage.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. That's important. You want to have somebody who supports you wholeheartedly. He supports me to the fact that even when I don't feel like I can't, he likes it's already done. Just go get it. I'm like, man, where you come from? And we built this from the bottom, right? He's a welder. He's a welder and he's my manager. And we've tried to give myself away on so many occasions to different management companies, but they just couldn't meet me where I was. And he had to come back in. And he's like, it's okay until the time is right, we're gonna do this. And that's what we've been doing. We figure it out. People love us in the industry because we figure it out. We're good to people. He's a um, he won't manage anyone, but he will guide them as much as he can because I'm his project. But he wants to see everybody successful. So that's why we kind of like, we're making it because we're good people on top of my talent, but I'm a good person. You get what I'm saying? I'm always like this, like, yeah, take from me because I already know the overflow. I get the overflow. I receive the overflow all the time. Don't get me started.

SPEAKER_00

That's really how the Elevate Collection came to be because we truly believe that we elevate by elevating others. If you move forward with good intentions, you can't fail.

SPEAKER_01

You can't lose.

SPEAKER_00

I'm like, who are you? What do you do, and what can we do to like help help elevate you? Because I know good and well. If I put all my energy into pouring into other people and help them when it succeeds, it's gonna come back. I don't even have to worry about it. I even have to question it.

SPEAKER_03

From the same person. I think people think that you we get so tied to this attachment of where I pour, where I give has to come from that location. That's gonna come sprout out and harvest somewhere else.

SPEAKER_01

It'll hit you hard too, because you're not gonna expect it. It's gonna be in a place where you were like, I was content and happy. And they're like, no, let's move you, let's elevate you bigger, bigger, bigger. And and that's the great thing about bigger is that you never know how big it's gonna be. That's why, how dare you put a limit on it. You can't even imagine the things that's gonna happen to you. Because we'll stop. We'll stop thinking about it. Like, oh, this is good enough. This house, this car. No, God, like, no, I'm gonna give you bigger. These kids, no, God gonna give you bigger. What the who how you gonna touch them? Education, whatever it is. It's gonna be like mind blowing. And that's where I'm at. I want God to blow my mind.

SPEAKER_03

That's because you're his favorite.

SPEAKER_01

Come on, his favorite.

SPEAKER_03

We're just like being God's favorite is just next level, and I'm just I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_01

I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_03

We remind ourselves of God about us.

SPEAKER_01

God don't play about us. God don't play about God, don't play about me. I be on stage going crazy, and I'm a comedian. Yeah, boom. After I'm going crazy on the stage, like, yeah, have the crowd at an upward and then I'm hit him, boom. Let me let me pour a life into you all, and let me tell you why I'm this and you can be that. God is. People be sitting there and now this is the highlight for me. Forget that I just did 45 minutes of non-stop blah, blah, in your face. Now let me tell you why I am who I am. And now that's the piece. I feel like the aha, I got a moment. I feel like that's what I'm meant to do. Comedy is good, but it's just a gateway to something else.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, we had an episode. I love this because this is just so beautiful. We had an episode with Coach Darr, and she's she's a great, she's just amazing. But she says something so powerful where it says, like your purpose and that calling doesn't change. It's just the arena you're doing it in. And that is that just gave me chills, y'all.

SPEAKER_01

Listen, about too, you hear me when I say my ass man.

SPEAKER_03

Because that's real. So real. I'm going to cry. It's insane though. Like me and Jordan talk about this all the time, like the different backgrounds that we come from. It's amazing because we're we're doing the same thing that we've always done and showing up for people, serving people, taking care of people, pouring into people, trying to elevate people, but we've done it in different arenas. And so you, your arena's just different. It was the classroom at one point.

SPEAKER_01

At one point, yeah, that was it. And then and now it's stages. It's stages, it's airplanes, it's airplanes, it's airplanes, it's grocery stores. That's what I'm telling you. The stage is always set for who you are. I'm going to be this way with or without an audience. And that's why I know God is real because I'm not acting, I'm not pretending. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I think that's something that so many people get lost in, right? Is that we feel like we need to put on for the people. But what we've realized more than anything over these past two years is we've been literally driving the plane while building it, is that you win with authenticity. And that's why we resonate with you so much from the moment you walked in the door last night. And boy. Boy, did we have a time? Didn't we have a time last night?

SPEAKER_02

I got a war wound. I don't know who I'm not. I had so much fun. Oh my god! I don't know how I got this. It don't matter. From the fan. The cowboy Carter scratch. I got this from Cowboy Carter.

SPEAKER_01

I got this cowboy. Yeah. The energy was amazing in that room last night. So kudos to you ladies for selecting people who had the right intentions who came in. And even though you guys were doing it to network, it didn't feel like they feel like we knew each other. It felt like we were connecting, reconnecting. And that, you can't beat that. You can't match that. People telling you, I'm having some rooms. I'm in some rooms. I'm like, why am I here? I understand who they are, but why am I here? Because it's fake. The energy, people think they're better. Nobody, everybody came in on an even playing field. That's the best. That's the best. You don't even know who they are. Like, who, oh, you a Montai billionaire. Say less. Say less, thank you, right? Or you're whoever, but you're still dope. And that's what it was. I believe in the word.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, we use it because it's it's jargon, you know, for professionals, right? But we don't really believe in the word networking. We we call them connection experiences. We just love to curate connections, curate rooms for people like, you know what? I think their energy would be amazing together. I think they could build something amazing together. You know what? I think she could elevate this person and vice versa. And that's our thought process behind so much of what we do is how can we make each other better? It's just so beautiful because I didn't think our conversation was gonna go this way. That's the Kiki episode. I think we kiki last night.

SPEAKER_01

I think this is what people need. Like this energy, I'm telling you, can't pay for it. Can't pay for this. So I'm I'm telling you, I was talking about I had an hour drive. And when I said we were ranting and raving about you all, not for nothing, the energy and the connections are they're done. I feel like Jordan, Alex, what's up?

SPEAKER_00

Say love here, spend the night back. Wait, I do want to kick you a little bit because my favorite Kellyn Kills motivational quote. It's one time for the thick girls. One time for the thick girls, because we are here, baby.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, in all shapes and sizes, and you guys would be amazed the women that come to me. I'm like, she's like, I'm thick, I'm thick. I'm like, yeah, you are a little baby. They so tiny. You like all not fit. You're not. You just but you're thick, you're thick, yeah. So I love that. Women love that.

SPEAKER_00

I love it, and you just don't realize like how powerful it is. I feel like so many women, and especially in the industry that we're in, right? We're in the entertainment industry, we're in sports and entertainment. Like, there is a vision in people's mind of how we're supposed to look. And is your success tied to your appearance? But like to be able to come into a room and be authentically you and be like, yeah, you know what? I am a thick girl and I'm gonna have a time tonight. I'm a thick girl, I'm a beautiful girl, I'm smart.

SPEAKER_01

You know, I have God all on me. How can I lose? So why would I go into a room and let anyone shrink me based upon their, you know, the way they perceive life? But that's the crazy thing about it. So many people are trying to look like a cookie cutter. Man, we have to look different. We have that's that creates character. I would be mad as ever if I walked into a room and somebody looked just like me. I'm like, girl, what are you doing here? Who sent you? You're an AI, you're a clone. Girl, don't come up on me like that. No. That's an industry plant. That's an industry plant. Let me tell you, you don't hear a funny story. Probably like seven, eight years ago, a real close friend of mine, we met up and he said, He's he lives in LA. It's a different look. He said, Kelly, you may have to lose some weight. He said, You pretty in the face, but you may have to lose some weight if you if you're trying to get, you know, all the things you want. I was like, oh, okay. So I sat there and, you know, we ate and everything. Then when we left, I deleted his number. I never have to talk to you again because you tried to distract me. You tried to throw me off, buddy. No, I'm good. I'm good. It's I have a demographic that I serve. I'm not trying to, I'm not for everybody. None of us will be. That's okay. And it's okay, but the people that I'm for, they want me to be thick. Thick. Thick, stupid, dumb, dumb thing.

SPEAKER_02

Just walk in the room with floody everywhere.

SPEAKER_00

That's how beautiful it is just to be. Yeah. What you want and show up and I uh and feel good and confident. And I tell you one thing, and just so everybody knows, because who knows in this little era? We went to Beyonce last year. What are they talking about?

SPEAKER_03

It wasn't Magic City, it was Beyonce. Could have been there, but no. I know could have had a late sack and probably waited out traffic. But we did what we did.

SPEAKER_00

Sweet like looked the part. Everyone showed up authentically as themselves. Like, not a single person was worried or scared what anybody thought, and everybody felt good, and we took pictures and we danced and we laughed and we cried like true.

SPEAKER_01

Listen, I have to give this video to you girls. I seen y'all hugging. I don't know if y'all got it, but I seen girls hugging, and I recorded, and it just made my heart so happy. So I'm gonna airdrop that to y'all. Y'all were hugging like we did this. It was just, I don't know what y'all were connecting on, but it was fire. I felt I'm like, look at this girl.

SPEAKER_03

They're great. I feel like we have these moments often where we just I think honestly, in that moment, if I could pinpoint or have to name the emotion, I think it was just gratitude. So much gratitude. Gratitude. Yeah. I think it was gratitude to be able to build something beautiful, to be able to be in this room with like amazing people, to be able to almost give it as a gift of and I don't I don't wanna say like this is I don't want to say this to make it something like, oh my god, we did that. I mean we did that, but like we did that, but the words that we kept hearing was like it feels like such a safe space, and that is a gift to be able to give someone, and I'm so proud of that.

SPEAKER_01

And it was a a level of the gift, you get what I'm saying? Like a lot of us would not have experienced that type of emotion if it wasn't for you ladies, that type of Beyonce experience because even though we Beyonce was the highlight, we had already created so many highlights before that. We like, okay, cool. If we Beyonce never come off, I'm okay in this tweet. Which we still want. We still the one, the the W was there. We came in like we boots on the ground. We I mean, we just had a time. So yeah, y'all did that. Y'all did that. Everybody was happy. I could have hugged y'all up. I think I hugged y'all probably like 50 times. Every time I seen y'all, I just wanna let you know I'm grateful. Grateful is the word.

SPEAKER_00

So grateful for you. And I I want to know what yours is too. But last night might be a new like mama made up, I'm mama I made up moment for me. Yeah. Like a moment where you just take a look around, you're like, this is it. Like, this is what we've been working for, this is everything. Like, I just stood at the top and like watched everybody singing and dancing and laughing and hugging and crying and having a good time, and I was just like, wow.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So Kelly, tell us yours. Have you had your like mama I made up moment yet? Has there been a moment that just like made you be like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

For sure. It just happened this past May for my 15th year anniversary. Normally I have um Mother's Day show, because I started coming Mother's Day 15 years ago. And I have it in Milwaukee, where I'm from, where I'm safe, where the people love me. I'm the people's champ. I have my own day. I've been proclamated in the city, in the state, right? They love me. Here I am, right? But this year I decided to do it in Atlanta, where I know people love me, but you're kind of like stepping out on faith. You're building a new platform. Now you don't have the support of people who know who you are. You have people who truly like, hey, we've learned you, and we want to bring you to this place of comfortability in the city. Man, when I tell you we sold out the comedy show, it was beautiful. People were crying when I walked out. They were like, I love you, Yuri. I mean, they just were, and there's not a family member in sight. I mean, my mom and all those people, they were back in the VIP. I couldn't even see them. So these are fans. These are people who believe in my mission, who support me, who spent their money on me. I mean, I was like, you couldn't tell me I went at the band stadium. Do you understand what I'm saying? Wow. That's the feeling. And so last night when Beyonce walked out, I was like, I need this. I need this. I need that bend. We're manifest. It's done. Done. It is done. It is done. Oh my god. And guess what? Y'all have to make sure that everybody is in one, two, four, okay? Because one plus one is two, and two plus two is four.

SPEAKER_03

Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, one, two, four. Which ones do we want to do? Four.

SPEAKER_03

That equals eight. I'm sorry, I just had a moment. Because it means abundance, prosperity, and success. And that's what we want to manifest. I love the legacy. This is amazing, though, which leads me into our next thing with that with eight eight eight. Is so obviously the podcast is where influence meets legacy. Yeah. And so we know your mom, of course, too. And outside of being a mother and you know, being having education be a part of your journey and your story, you have this incredible audience. You have this influence. You're already using it to make an impact. But what does legacy look like for Kelly Kells?

SPEAKER_01

For me, it looks like people can mention my name and be inspired. My child can walk into a room and say that she's Savannah Davis, and people know that she comes from an amazing background. She's able to run a corporate room or make the corporate room laugh. And that people will be able to just be authentically them.

SPEAKER_03

It does.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It makes perfect sense.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We were talking, I was actually talking to Laren. Um, I don't know if it was last night, Laren. Hey Laren, shout out to Content Creator Agency. Um, we love them so much. But one of the reasons that even at the at the Beyonce show, like I get emotional. He wasn't even even on social media, I remember sending you a video of like blue coming out and all of that. To me, I get so emotional watching it. And like last night watching it one, having my daughter there was just like my God. But watching it and like having her daughter come out, daughters come out, got me so emotional and just in tears because you just cry at like that. And like you know, as a parent, too, and yet child what her child walks out and she just looks at her and she's like, she is doing this because I did. And that it's just building, it's like setting the stage, or like, what it? I think it was Scott Garber that said it. Like, I want to climb the ladder up so I can throw it back down. And I think that's such a beautiful, like, visual representation of what legacy is, and it's what you're doing for your daughter of like, I'm baby, I'm here. Like, I climbed it just so I can throw it right back down because now I made it easier for you.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, much easier. And that's that's the thing. I mean, and I have, I'm, I'm truly living in it. Um, my daughter, I feel like sometimes I have to scale back because I want her just to be her because I walk into the room and then with any event or program, and she's in club sports. And so she is now telling everybody, hey, my mother's a famous comedian. She's a and usually usually be me coming like I'm a comedian. I don't have to say it anymore. My daughter is setting a tone. And now the people are like, okay, now I see Savannah is getting like all these perks and things like that, and we're not mad at that. That's why I'm working hard. So she doesn't have to work that hard. Her children, and it'll be seamless. And we're gonna have those trust babies, and we're gonna we're gonna leave that behind. That is not a bad thing. If it's gonna start with me, it's gonna start with me, but it won't end here. Because Savannah is learning everything. And you know, they're third, she's 13. So she's at this point like, Mom, she can help me dress, she can help me do all these things, so she's a part of the building of who I am.

SPEAKER_00

You know what's so beautiful about it is there will never be a day that Savannah won't be able to say, my mom worked for it. Yeah, my mom worked hard for it. Yeah, and we talk about it with the sacrifices all the time. Like, there are a lot of late nights, there's a lot of weekends, we're gone. We miss parties, we miss the things. And you know, a lot of people are questioning, like, oh, your mother's like you should be home with your kids. You should. I want my daughter, I want my son to know that you can do anything. There are no barriers, there is no ceiling. And I want you to like be able to wake up and say, My mama did it. She did it. And she didn't miss a dance competition.

SPEAKER_01

She was there when I needed her. And the great thing about it in in my situation, of I did have the survivor's remorse thing, or like leaving my daughter behind, I would get on a plane and just cry, like, oh my god, she needs me.

SPEAKER_03

We still have these moments.

SPEAKER_01

Oh God, she needs me. But when you have a support system, thank you, God, for a support system. They fill in a gap and that love is real, right? And iPhones and all these things. We're not in the 1900s or anything like that. This is 2025. Okay, we are women, and we're showing these boys and girls that you can have a family and a career. You can, you can have both. And both of them thrive, right? Who says you can't have it all? Right. Who says you can't have it? We can. You can. And our kids are gonna be great, and they're gonna learn the routine of us. My daughter is so independent. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. I don't worry about her. I worry about my husband. Savannah, make sure your daddy ate. Right? And she likes that is good. Dad stopped and got us some. Good. Do whatever you have to do. Whatever you guys, they have their routine, and then when I come back, I'm sure I interrupt. But that's fine. I'm there. We can have it all. And we're gonna have it.

SPEAKER_00

Shout out to the supportive partners, though, because they don't get enough credit. Like none of us can do what we do without our partner. And it says more about a man to stand behind a strong woman than it does to feel like you're in competition with them.

SPEAKER_01

And yes, what in my industry? It is very rare for a woman to have a stable relationship. People tell me all the time, like Kelly, hold on to him. Like they don't have to, first of all, you don't have to tell me to hold on to my man. I got it. I got it. Thank you. But because it's a competitive and it's a very um jealous thing. Um I mean, come on, when you're beautiful and then you in the spotlight, it takes a strong man to do that. He can't have a jealous bone in his body because it'll alter who you are. And who wants to shrink when they're in the the rise of their career, the rise of their the the elevation of their life? Who wants who would like to shrink? My husband was like, go do it. I'm like, I'm so tired. Get up.

SPEAKER_00

He's like, get up, handle your business.

SPEAKER_01

Handle your business. You got this.

SPEAKER_00

I'm like And hand you a cup of coffee. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's a whole love language for me. See, I don't drink coffee, but he will fry me a little egg. A little egg. I'm like, oh, I'm eating healthy. I'm gonna be healthy. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03

Travel for sports illustrator. Now I'm eating healthy. I'm now a fitness influencer. Can I have one product today? I did. I mean it's lucky we would eat a meal sometimes. We do get that hey do you eat today?

SPEAKER_01

You know what? Let me eat. Let me go ahead and handle that before I get sick.

SPEAKER_00

All right, so we've got Kelly Gills at the Bins.

SPEAKER_01

We got Kelly Gills at the Benz.

SPEAKER_00

Let's talk about some other goals coming up.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, right now, so I just executive produced my first film. Come on.

SPEAKER_02

Toxic Friends.

SPEAKER_01

Toxic Friends. And it is come on, you better. See it on Amazon Prime. Come on. Thank you. We'll drop them links. Thank you so much. But also, too, we also too to be picked it up. So that's a great thing. To be picked it up too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, to be picked it up.

SPEAKER_01

I'm like, hey, you have a place for your art to live. And then to know that I actually started it and I have the whole production behind. I learned a lot behind the cameras. Lights, sound. I want it to be hands-on because you're going to continuously grow. And I don't always want to be in front of the camera. The big bucks are behind the camera. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Big bucks are behind the camera.

SPEAKER_01

Big bucks are behind the camera, right? So that is going on. And then the podcast, right? I love a good podcast, especially when it's safe, open, free. This is a free flowing energy in here. This is fire, okay? It's not dark and gloomy, so it sets the tone for who it is. And I have through thinking the end of podcasts, right? Where I allow people to basically tell me where they began and where they are now. And it's important for people to know because some you do realize that people think that influencers, celebrities just arrived.

SPEAKER_03

Just got there.

SPEAKER_01

Just got there, and then that backstory. I love the backstory. And then, of course, we talk about all current events and their, you know, perspective on them, but that's going on. And I just started a web series because I have like 1.5 million followers on Facebook. And I'm like, I need these people to see me. On the book. On the book, even though I am a content creator, like I do skits and sketches, these are like intentional. These are storylines. It's called Everyone Loves Kelly. Duh.

SPEAKER_02

Clearly, obviously. Clearly, everyone loves Kelly. Obviously, our people.

SPEAKER_03

Obviously.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so that's going on. Traveling around the world, I have a lipstick line. Okay, K. Yeah. Ladies, I would have brought you some, but let me tell you something. When the tariffs went up, I don't know what happened, but black businesses started popping. Them lipsticks sold out in lip lines. I'm like, hold on. Because the United States is still shipping. Yeah, so don't worry. When I get to the back, we should have some in probably a week. Well, let me know because I'm gonna be like Oh, you have to. Yeah, well, what happened was how I got there. If this I could tell a story. Please. Um, Maybelline, like my first time, Maybelline, somebody like a brand reaching out to me, like, hey, we want you to wear lipsticks, or we want to send you some lipsticks and all this. And I was like, Yeah, that's cool. But my team was like, Yeah, that's cool. But if they want you to wear your lip, their lipstick, how about we create your own? And you push your own brand. I was like, what? Oh, I got a lipstick, let's do it. And that's exactly what happened. And I just pushed it, and everyone loves it. It's called okay, Cat. Ah, yeah. And that's that's the energy I give, and that's what I want people to feel. It's a it's a very upbeat lip line. You want to feel good, and then you want to be like when people see you, like I see you. That's Kelly. Yeah. So that's going on. Yeah. And you know, I hate to sometimes you feel overwhelmed with all the things that's going on because it'd be so much and you don't celebrate it. But I'm celebrating everything these days. Like, uh, a new thousand followers, I'm gonna celebrate them people. They're new to me, they don't know me. Um, but like, look at God. Look at you hear what I'm saying? Look at God. That's why I want to celebrate all the things I have and don't worry about none of the things that I don't. I can't even worry about that. I don't even know how it feels. So that's what I'm doing right now. Yeah, I'm focusing on me, man. I'm focusing on me. I have a super dope PR team now. I have my team is building. When your team builds, it's like a load is off your show, because that's not nothing you have to worry about anymore. That's right, it's essential. Now you can just do you. You can just be all that you can be. Now, of course, you're gonna still help, you know, support and elevate other people, but when your team around you, like, thank you. I'm gonna take this jacket off, let me get relaxed, and now let me focus on whatever it is I want to do.

SPEAKER_03

That's exactly what it is. So speaking of focusing, all the things, hyping you up, okay, KK, all the things. What song do you have them repeat when you need to remind yourself you or her?

SPEAKER_01

We talking, we don't say I just played it on the way here. Shout out to Maverick Music. Um, yeah, Maverick Music, um, wait on you right now. That's not your song, is it? It's not it.

SPEAKER_03

My one is Jyra. I'm telling you. And then when she goes, when she starts the if he dresses the lit. I can, I can't, because I'll cry I literally cry almost every time.

SPEAKER_01

On the way here. What? Please God, because all my tears is doing is just watering what's next is for my harvest. For this harvest. For this harvest, and I know I'm in a harvest season.

SPEAKER_04

Chills again. I'm in a harvest season. Come on.

SPEAKER_01

Then uh Maverick music again. Maverick does it. Maverick does it because they're they're worship, yeah, right? And I'm a worshiper. I like to worship. Okay, I know I'm a praise and worshiper. You put me in a praise and worship setting, I can do that for hours. I can sit and focus on God for hours because it's a safe place. But God's problem is a good one too. So people think I'm listening to Glow Rilla getting ready for a show. No, no, no, no. I'm listening to that because I understand that God, you're the reason here. Now I'm gonna come out to Glow Rilla. No, I'm like, they both on our claim. I listen, I'm coming out to Glow Rilla. You know what I mean? I'm turning up because Glow Rilla, my girl, you know what I mean? But I need that like foundation. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Firm foundation. Yeah, firm foundation. On a firm foundation.

SPEAKER_01

Psalm 14.

SPEAKER_03

See, don't even get me started on that one.

SPEAKER_02

He's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm done. Like, I can't. Yes, that is a thing. Drop the mic.

SPEAKER_01

This is a surrender. That's a surrender. That's perfect. It is perfect.

SPEAKER_00

It is so good. We recently got to go to church with one of our professional athletes. We were in town, and you know, we do a lot of things, right? We we do workout classes with them. You know, we meet them where they're at. We meet we meet our people where they're at. We we'll go to a bar, we'll come celebrate your game, but he asked us to go to church with them. Yeah, and that that's intimate, y'all. Yeah, that's special. No one has ever asked us to do that. We sat next to him in church, and that was the sermon that day. And all three of us had been going through particularly hard situations, all different, but still hard. And all three of us heard the message different. But the message that day that God will deliver you up and put your feet on solid ground and make a path. And what my favorite part of the message was is that God isn't gonna deliver you from the problem. God's not gonna pay the bill, God's gonna change your mindset around the problem.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely, absolutely. And once your mindset changed, it's like, oh, and that's why I said I'm I'm in a mindset change to say the least. I remember just being, if I can be transparent, moving, right? Everything's moving, but stuck. Yeah, low energy. I'm like, don't want to get up. Didn't even know. Black women don't like to say we're depressed. It's like a thing. We don't want to say it, but that's what it was. It was a form of depression. But I still was moving. I'm still on the planes, I'm still doing shows, I'm still pouring into other people, but my cup was dry. And now, I'm sorry, now it seemed like my cup is overflowing. To the point I just almost it scares me because I got this peace that surpasses all understanding.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my god, I can't just talking about this. You said how can life be this good? I'm looking for the other two to draw. You said it yesterday. Was it yesterday or was it before? It doesn't feel like be able to be this good.

SPEAKER_03

Caleb's not sick of me in my tearing up with all this makeup.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I'm so happy. I'm the yeah, my my my daughter's great. Cause you know, when God can't get you, he's attacking your children. So my daughter's great, my husband's great, I'm great. Yeah. I'm the best I've ever been. Okay. With the least I've ever had, if that makes any sense. No, it does. I've had more and I've been happy. Then God has got me through this transition period, and I'm like, God, I trust you.

SPEAKER_03

The pruning and this like pressing and this crushing that has happened over the last several years, even the last like month, that has been such a beautiful thing. Speaking of map, what what is it? We're Claire Audience. That's what it is, right? Yeah, and everything like I it's lyrics and music, and that's I feel like that's how I think God communicates with me. One, I feel like it's always through music, but there is a Maverick City song called Refiner. Okay. And one of my favorite pieces of it, and that's in you saying this is so beautiful because I feel like we have been in this refining process, right? And the whole song about refiner is, you know, it traces back to like, you know, the whole story of like Shadrach. I always want to say it the wrong way, but I know Shadrach me checking a bit ago, but the story, you know, of like going through the fiery furnace, right? And like the fire is not meant to hurt you. This fire, this opposition, the stress, the pressing, it's not meant to hurt us. It's not meant to do anything else but refine us the same way gold is refined, same way diamonds are made through that pressure, through the refining, through the fire. And I'm so grateful that we get to experience that. And I'm so grateful for you that you get to see that in your own life. I'm grateful that you get to see that, Jordan, in your own life. I'm grateful that you get to witness me seeing that in my own life of this refining and being able to be grateful for that refining process. And so now that you are in this beautiful place of abundance, how can our community, our network, our space, us, anyone under the sound of our voices elevate you and move your needle forward? What is your big ask?

SPEAKER_01

Uh, my big ask is that I truly find a management agencies or whoever, whomever, to say they know my personality, they know my talent, they know the energy I bring, and they place me in a place where I thrive, right? Where I'm happy and comfortable, where I can see people for who they are, and they can see me and we can work together. I want a successful, healthy, collaborative relationship with people. Even if it's a partnership, right? I'm okay with partnership. I don't have to have like, here's your 20%. No, we can be 50-50. Because guess what? If I win, you win. You win, I win. And that's it. Just having people to support and push me to the next level. I have the podcast. Um, I want the sponsorships to come on. I want those type of things because I've been working hard for that. And I know it's coming. I know it's coming, but those are things I want. I want the investors. Investors. We want the investors.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, let's point. Let's we need to give steps here now. So here's the ask. How can people get in contact with your team to make that happen? Of course, we'll double down on this and make sure everything is in like the show notes, but tell us how can they connect you?

SPEAKER_01

Connect on Kelly Kales. Um, you can visit me on KellyKales.com where all my social medias are connected as one. Um, if you want to email me at KellyKales to at Gmail, that's a great way to have the team find out whatever it is you want to do. If it's product placement, if whatever, we're open to those things. If you want to be a guest, we're open to those things. On Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, KellyKales22, all things are popping. And I respond back. I'm not an AI. So I take those and I respond back. So yeah, that's what I need. That's what I need. And it's happening. It's in full motion. Those are yours. Like we're just reclaiming it. Reclaiming it. Come on.

SPEAKER_00

We are so glad to have you. Guys, I'm gonna be updating the elevate the frequency playlist with all new Maverick City songs so that you can elevate your frequency at home too. Kelly, thank you so much for coming into our world. I know that this is just the beginning. Thank you for elevating our frequency, bringing your bright shining aura, and we cannot wait to follow your journey as you absolutely take over the stage. That is the world.

SPEAKER_01

You so much. And let me say this before I go. I thought it was gonna be a key key, but this is what I needed. I felt safe enough to just release and let go with you ladies. And I pray that whatever it is that we're collectively going through, that God take it and put it in a sea of far, far away. We can't get to it. We can't pick it back up. And what we do pick up is gonna be a renewed strength, a renewed faith, a renewed energy, a renewed relationship. And God is gonna blow our minds. Amen.

SPEAKER_00

In Jesus' name.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_03

All right, y'all. We'll see you next time.