Ep 98: From Scrubs to the Spotlight: My Hustle Story - The Round Table Podcast

In this episode, we sit down with Brooke as she opens up about balancing two worlds working as a nurse while stepping into the spotlight with being in Fetty new music video. She shares what it takes to chase your passion while handling real-life responsibilities, the grind behind the scenes, and how she stays focused through it all. It’s a real conversation about hustle, discipline, and going after what you want without losing who you are.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Yo, what it do, y'all? It's the voice of the coach, and I'm back at it again. You know where I'm at, man. I'm the home of the fresh. Hush boutique, 50 East Palisade Avenue, Inglewood, New Jersey, man. Cause, you know, come it's springtime. Come get right with us. You know what I mean? I'm rocking out of it. As you see, from foot to head, you know what I mean? That's what we do. But anyway, I got a guest with me today that is she's on fire right now. But not just on fire in a way of just being explosive, creative, but also very active. Welcome to the Round Table Podcast. Miss Brooke herself. And uh Miss Brooke herself is the leading lady, and Fetty watched new video. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

I know, it's crazy. Like, you know, crazy experience.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Right. He's fresh home.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Welcome home again.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

You know what I mean? Shout out to Fetty. You know what I mean? That whole family over there. Good to see you home, brother, doing your thing. But I got the leading lady with me today. It's about you.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

What's up, y'all? It's your girl Simbrook, leading lady in white roses. Fetty rocks new video. Um, thanks for having me. This is a vibe, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

I appreciate you. It's all love. You know what I'm saying? Um, it was only right. We, you know, we locked in, you know, it was only right. You know what I'm saying? Jersey's on. It's a blessing. You know what I mean? You and you got a story though.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Listen, crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 1:46

For the listeners that don't know, just give us a small detail of how you got that role before we get into the um, so it it really kind of just landed in my lap. Um, so I've known um his sister for years, years, yeah. She used to do hair for me. She did my hair once, you know. And um, she linked me one day and was just like, yo, I got something coming up. I want to talk to you about it. So I'm like, all right. So um we chopped it up. She let me know the video was the very next day.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

She said she was on 24-hour notice.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Right, right, right. So I had to get it together, you feel me? Um, and I was like, all right, cool. So I say, you know, I'm off the next day because I'm a nurse, I work 12s and 312s or whatever. Yeah, I was like, you know, I'm off the next day. You know, I haven't seen them in a long, long, long time. So let's get it.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Plus, you're both from Patterson.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

From Patterson, New Jersey, Patterson zone.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

So that's dope right there, you know what I mean? Um, keeping it everything in the home team, huh? How was that? Was that your very first ever no, no, no?

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Videos? So I used to do videos back in the day. Okay. Yeah, before I became a nurse, um, I was in the video vexing night. Yeah, I did a few videos. Okay. Um, and then you know, once you start nursing, I'm 312 get you. You kind of like, all right, let me focus on one thing. But modeling and acting, video victims in life, it's always had my heart, the entertainment industry. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

Okay. But you didn't become a slave to it because you knew what it was about.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

That was the reason of basically kind of creating, making sure you had your own security.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Being a nurse.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Exactly. I admire that. You gotta have plan, I don't say plan A and plan B. I say plan A part one, plan A, part two. They both got a hit.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

I like that.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

They both got a hit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

Drinking three steps ahead of the game because you already know what it can be like. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

I mean, but behind all the glitz and the glamour, it's a lot of bullshit. So I admire the fact that you was able to say, you know what, I'm gonna have a career and kind of let this be my hobby, though. But still also merge the two together, which you don't on your social media, which is dope because it's giving the younger generation, younger ladies watching, saying, yo, listen, you can do both.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

And that's that's the message I wanted people to see. Yeah, for sure. Because it's hard trying to balance a professional life and you know, that entertainment industry, and especially in the healthcare industry, it's a thin line. It's a very thin line. So feel me. I wanted to show, you know, people you can navigate. You can navigate both. You just gotta know how you're moving.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

Right. And it takes a clear mind and definitely takes dedication and a persistence, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

I gotta ask you this, but where did the whole growing up for you? Let's go, but let's go back to the younger brook.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Woof.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

You know what I mean? Life, you know what I mean? Growing up in Patterson, did you always want to be a nurse? Did you always want to be in the medical field?

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Um, funny enough, my first dream was to be a flight attendant.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Okay. I think you look good in that though.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Right? I think a Delta outfit would fit in real nice.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Um listen, I'm gonna leave that alone, but anyway.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

Um, but then you know, growing up, like my mom and my aunts, they were all CNAs, and I used to hear them talk about the patients and how they loved it. They would cook stuff and bring to the patients like crazy. So I saw how much they had passion for, and it really intrigued me sitting down and listening to them. And I was like, you know what? I think I want to do that same thing. I want to help people. I want to show them that, you know, it doesn't have to be somebody that's passing you pills or washing you. You can have a conversation. Right. Because a lot of people in the hospital for long periods of time, you're the only person that they get to interact with. So why not make it positive?

SPEAKER_02 5:15

It makes sense, though, but it also stems back, it had to be from your upbringing, having that that love to deal with other people. Because everybody don't want to deal with everybody. Let's be clear. I'm here for 12 hours, I'm getting in, I'm getting out. I'm not even got time to play with, you know what I mean? But you walked into it with the passion. And I think that's the difference. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 5:33

I grew up with it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

You know what I mean? But you also didn't have to go that route, though.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

You know what I mean? So, what kind of really say I'm gonna stay on Brooks gonna stay on this path for the game?

SPEAKER_00 5:43

It was it was really in my heart. Like, I just always love helping people. Um, people don't notice I'm a little bit of a nerd. I like science. It's not um, I'm always looking into like what's next, how can you help people? I like the holistic route of things. Okay, you know, I'm not one of the nurses that push meds, meds, meds. I'm gonna tell you when you go home, you need to be drinking this, cut that, cut that, do that. So it was just like I have a passion for it. Like, I didn't, I never wanted to be one of those people that just like, oh, I'm just gonna get a job just because it's gonna give me a check. I'm like, I want to be able to make an impact on people. Right. And I know with my personality and my heart, like I'm really gonna be all in when it comes to helping my patients, and you know?

SPEAKER_02 6:25

Yo, that's dope because a lot of women, you know, in that field at your age are looking at it as a job. No, the older generation takes it because I've seen it. I I dabbled, I played in the high, you know. Let me be clear, I worked in a high school for a little while. I saw the love that the nurses showed to these patients, you know what I mean? And crucial times and moments and relationships, how people, family members, you become almost an extended family.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

And you gotta have patience to deal with patience. You know what I'm saying? Because it's some of you got some family coming in, why this, why that?

SPEAKER_00 6:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

And you still gotta, okay, so keep it professional.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

I've been a patient, I've been the family member, and I've also been the nurse. Well, I am the nurse. So I understand all three sides. I understand the family. They don't care that the nurse is busy, they have other patients. You want your family member taken care of. I've also been the patient where I'm like, yo, my nurse taking forever. I've been a family member where I'm like, I don't care what you got going on. I want my family member taken care of. But at the end of the day, having all three of those experiences, I'm able to navigate it better.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

So shout out to that though, you know what I mean? Um I gotta ask you this though. Did you really ever think about getting into the did what made you decide to say the industry? Um that's two different worlds.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Yeah, so hold on, night and day.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

Because the industry is a nightlife. You know what I mean? You up all night. Yeah, you know what I mean? Let's be clear.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Um, so really it started. I was a dancer.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Let's take it back actually, about first grade, second grade. I always wanted to do modeling pageants and stuff. That was always my thing. Even when I lived in Jamaica, went to school in Jamaica, we had modeling pageants.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

So I was like, What year was that? You was in Jamaica?

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Uh 2003 to 2005.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Yeah. Um family. Family migrated there, and then we lived there for two years and then we moved back. All right. Um, but yeah, I just like, I just always love being behind the camera, being behind the lens. I also love making people laugh. Yeah. So it just came natural. Like growing up, I'm like, all right. Um, I love taking pictures, I love music. All right, cool. How do I merge these together? And as you get older, you like, oh, I could do a video. One person asked me to do a video shoot. Like, all right, cool. They couldn't put it out though, because I was underage. But it was just the experience. It was the experience. You feel me? I was like, oh, I really like this. Um, and then I started dancing when I was 15. Okay. And that was that that's what really broke me into the industry. I was like, oh wow, this is crazy. You get glammed up at night, the music, the strobe lights, all eyes are on you. You feel me? You entertaining people like it's a it's a rush. It's like a little adrenaline rush. Like, yeah. So um, I ended up liking it.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

So that becomes your alter ego.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Yeah, Brooke is my alter ego, funny enough.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

I don't put my real name out there because obviously two, two different worlds, right? But Brooke was given to me by a club I worked at. Okay. My original first dancer name was Yummy. I went to an upscale club. They was like, nah, we can't do yummy. So I was like, well, what can I help me out here? Yeah. And he was like, um, Tiffany or Brooke? And I was like, uh, no offense to no Tiffany's, but I was like, Tiffany for me, it's like a little old washed-up porn stuff. I'm like, I was like, nah, I don't really want to do that.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Like the old washed-up porn stuff.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

It is not like the average, you feel me?

SPEAKER_02 9:45

The ebony, I was like, Yeah, it's the typical, it's the easy way out.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

Yeah, so I said, Brooke. Um, and I just stuck with it.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

It kind of, yo, honestly, it fits you though.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

Thank you. Thank you. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 9:57

And I respect the fact that you're even honest about it to let the people know because I think it's important that people see everything, every aspect, and not just get caught up in the the good life. Because I'm quite sure being young, it was amazing, but it was also like old.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Listen, my third day dancing, 15 years old. Mind you, I'm getting picked on in school and everything, which is one thing. Side note my high school bullies followed me on Instagram, bending my DMs. I know you see me watching. I know you're watching me, and I know it sucks.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

But anyway, how much does that drive you though?

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Huh?

SPEAKER_02 10:32

That you love that shit.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

I love it. Like, you gotta watch me on TV now. That sucks.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

You gotta pay homage.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Yeah, but um, yeah, so my third day dancing, I made what? $786. I still remember to this day. I was 15 years old. So I'm going to school, people talking. At one point, I just stopped talking to everybody because in my head, I'm like, I'm about to go get this bag at night. I don't really care what y'all saying. On top of that, we're wearing uniform now, so I'm like, you feel me? So, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

Listen, it it had to start somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

I gotta ask you this though. How was your family about that? How did you keep you know what? Let's start with this. How did you keep that on the low?

SPEAKER_00 11:13

So, what happened was um when I was 15, I had my first job. I was working in a hair salon, I held an app in Patterson. Okay. I was just sweep, clean the stuff, you know, whatever, whatever. Um, and then at 16, I got two full-time, two part-time jobs, and I'm still in high school, and I was trying to balance it. And I realized I'm trying to balance two full-time jobs, two part-time jobs, and my grades are slipping. And I'm thinking about the fact that I go and dance one night a week and I'm making my two weeks, sometimes four weeks' salary, because they weren't paying nothing back in the day. $10, $10 an hour, something like that. Um, so I had to make a decision. I'm like, yo, I know I want to go to nursing school. Moms don't got the bread, so I'm gonna have to give up something here. So I was like, I quit the two part-time jobs and I just danced, saved my money, didn't nursing school.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

So you knew from the start, like, okay, you had you kind of already at that age for a 15-year-old to have you kind of navigating your future already.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

You know what I'm saying? That also goes to show a lot about your character though.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

I'm a Virgo. If you know Virgos, I don't know if you ever knew a Virgo. That we we plan. We we we 10 years ahead of everybody out here.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

My best friend is a Virgo.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Oh, see, we good people. What's your sign?

SPEAKER_02 12:26

I'm a Libra.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Libra, oh, we get along. It takes a while for y'all to blow up, but when y'all blow, it's crazy. Crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Yeah, you're right. You're right about that. But my my 35, 37-year-old friendship with my man is a Virgo.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Mm-hmm. We're loyal to the core. Loyal to the core, clean heart. Um, I ain't gonna speak for 100% of us, obviously. But you feel me, for the most part, clean heart, hardworking. We have to plan things out.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

When we can't plan something, it's it's yeah, it's it kind of derails the situation because that's how he is, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 12:57

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

At that young age, you're navigating your life, really. You know what I'm saying? And I know growing up in Patterson at the time, you know what I'm saying? You're going to school, you navigate. You already knew at 15, like, yo, I'm going to be bigger than Patterson.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

Mm-hmm. Yeah. You grow up and especially being in school, I saw the girls that dropped out, you know, got pregnant, and they hanging out, and they, it's just, it just dropped out. You now, now you're behind. But I've I grew up seeing all of those things and seeing people just, oh, instead of they want to go to class, they're going to sell drugs. So I'm like, I don't want my life to be like that. And it doesn't have to be because we all got the same 24 hours. Everybody has the same 24 hours, seven days a week. It depends on what you want to do with it. I knew watching my mom be a CNA, she was a CNA from 1983. Two jobs. And she had me and my brother. And I was like, I always said, three months after I graduate nursing school, I'm gonna tell my mother to retire, and I want her to manage my bank account. She could save a dollar out of a penny. So I had my goal, like, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna graduate, I'm gonna retire my mother, and I'm gonna have her help me with my finances. That way I can focus on really the entertainment industry. Because I knew I wanted to go into it at some point, but I knew I had to have a career first. Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

And then which, excuse me, makes sense because the average 15-year-old is just thinking about next year. Next year, next year, you know what I mean? And as time keeps progressing, when you get 16, if you're in school, you're thinking about maybe I might want to go to college because you want to get out of your neighborhood.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

And sometimes you do a lot of shit that our parents are telling us to do. Right. So you don't really know what to do at that point. You know what I'm saying? But you had a vision of being bigger than Patterson and also wanting to see what your mother went through. If you don't mind me asking, was your pops around?

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Um, no. So when we moved back from Jamaica in 05, we left from down there. You feel me? So single mom, two kids. So I grew up in Patterson, um, and then we moved to Jamaica. And when we moved back from Patterson, I lived in um Haldon. Okay. So, but Haldon literally is border Patterson.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Tina can.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

One step over, one step over.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Exactly. So my mom did what she could do, you know, provide a good life for us. But I knew I wanted to take it a step further.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

I'm like, I want my mom to have a certain type of lifestyle. I want to live a certain type of lifestyle, and I'm very calculative.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

So I was like, How did your brother feel about it? Um, you know, I'm a brother. I got an older sister, you know what I'm saying? I've been through the now, you know what I mean? You hear little bullshit. Nobody wants that.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Now that I think about it, I think I don't, I don't think I ever had a conversation with my brother. I think he just found out like I must have been venting and I said it to him. Now I'm thinking about it, bro. You never said nothing to me. Wait a minute. I had a conversation, I must have vented to him saying it, but he never he never reacted to it. So now I don't really know. I'm gonna have to ask him how you feel about it, bro.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

Like, you gotta let me know, you gotta let me know the answer to that because that's interesting. Cause now you're thinking about like, wow, bro. And yo, you know what, bro, just probably said that's sis doing what she does.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

But he also knows me very well.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

That's what I'm saying. Sis doing what she does. It's it's a plan.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

It's steps, you know what I mean? It's it's chests, not checkers, you know what I'm saying? Um, um, let me ask you this. If you could do anything outside of that, those two things. What would Brooke do?

SPEAKER_00 16:26

So my wow. Um I always said, like, once I was financially stable and I'm old enough where my life is plateaued. Like, there's no more hype. Uh uh, if I have kids, they grow and whatever, whatever. I want to open a women's and children's home to help like single mothers with children. Um, I went to the whole plan because I'm gonna do it. No, I'm gonna do it. But to open a women's and children's shelter, because I watched my mom and other single mothers growing up, and it's hard. The hardest thing for you to be able to do something with your life as a mother is to try to figure out who you can trust with your kids. So your life is at standstill until you can figure out who can I trust with my kids so that I can go do this. Right. So yeah, to open a women's and children's shelter to just help the community for all.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

I kind of knew you was gonna say something in that rim because you're so passionate about giving.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

And you always go back to what you saw from your mother growing up, raising you and your brothers and your aunties. So I I just had to ask you that because that's also life after. Like you, like you just told them, and she just told on herself, she's already giving you pre-calculated situations, you know what I'm saying? Um, how was your girlfriends receiving the fact that at a young age you decided to go into this?

SPEAKER_00 17:39

You know, I know you had a bestie that so shout out to Cheryl and Najira. Those were my two Rada Daz, my best friends. Um, to this day I'm still cool with them.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

That's dope.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

Um, they used to come to the club with me for real. They were all my friends, they were older than me. So they was really actually old enough to get a strip club. Okay. I was 15. Technically, I wasn't supposed to be there.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

They never ID'd me though. But anyway, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

Um, they used to come with me and they used to hold the money for me. Like I would collect my money on stage or whatever, and I give it to them. And yeah, so they was cool with it. They knew what I was doing, and we always had each other's back.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

Because you know, get the side eye, it gets shasty. It you know, the name calling, the disrespect.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

See, there's a difference, and and Cardi said it too. You dance. I'm not selling, you feel me? I'm not selling my body, right? I'm not doing any activities. I was a beast on a pole. So I didn't have to talk to anybody.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

But we're gonna say this with that lifestyle, you know, selling is going on. Oh, yeah, so they automatically just assume that you're gonna, you know what I mean? Let's just be clear, it's the reality of the game. You know what I mean? People gonna assume, even men gonna assume, yo, because you, yo, what's up? What are we doing tonight? No, we're not doing nothing. I'm out of here.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Navigating a dating life that that was hard.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

That was the next question.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a boyfriend at the time.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Um younger or older?

SPEAKER_00 19:03

He was older.

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

He was older. Um, and he had an issue with it, but I always told him, like, yo, you can pop up whenever you want. You never gonna see me in the back room nowhere. You're gonna see me on the stage, you're gonna see me sitting at the bar, or I'm changing my outfit. It's one of them three things.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

So what you think was his biggest fear?

SPEAKER_00 19:21

I think that, of course. That the you for me, the fear of like, shit.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

So the m you know, the money, you know what I mean? Yeah.

unknown 19:28

No.

SPEAKER_00 19:29

But I knew my plan was bigger. So for me, it it wasn't worth me selling my body for a couple hundred dollars when I know I'm saving to go to nursing school. I'm about to have a couple bands. Like, I'm it's not worth it. And my reputation is everything to me.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

That's what's up. As a man, I'm gonna play devil, I'm gonna play him right now.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

All right.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

A little bit wiser though, you know what I mean? Young at the time, you know what I mean? It's like, yo, I think it's more of a little bit. If I know my lady, I gotta trust my lady, number one. If we got that understanding and that bond, that's number two. Now if she's telling me to come down, I gotta support it. But I'm worried about my niggas.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Um he didn't really care because I was an inside girl. No one, no one back then would have ever thought that I was a dancer. I didn't give that outside. I was literally brook at night. At 7 p.m. when I clock in, pay my house fee, I'm brook. When I leave at 3, I go back to being me. Yeah. So he knew that about me. So literally, his only worry was just the club. I wasn't in the streets.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Right.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

I wasn't roaming. Like, I was I was in a relationship. I respected it, but he had to respect. You can't give me the bread to go to nursing school. I gotta get it. So it's either you're gonna trust me or it's not gonna work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:55

Most men couldn't really, most brothers really might not have been ready for that. You know what I'm saying? And you can't be mad at that. You know what I'm saying? Because you gotta ask yourself, you know what I mean, what about if he was a stripper?

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

You already know how that goes on the flip side. Yeah. And we, let's be clear, y'all a little bit more strong-wielded than us, brothers. You know what I'm saying? Let's just be yours, let's be honest.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

It's true.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

We'll take some wasn't in a heartbeat.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 21:22

Listen.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Y'all like it. It's like, eh. Brothers like, man, listen, man.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Cause y'all not emotionally attached. We get emotionally attached. Y'all don't.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Exactly. Yeah. And then go home like yo was popping. Everything is good. So you gotta under you, which I ain't gonna say you gotta, because I know you understood that part. You know what I mean? I think that would have been the biggest fear at the time whenever you were doing it, because I ain't gonna say now, because I'm way more mature than what I probably was back then, was worried about my team knowing, like, damn, bro, you girl on that pool, give it up. And then, cause I just know the thirst baskets that I had around me. Like, yo, let me go see it.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

You know what I'm saying? Just out of, let me go see it. You know what I'm saying? How long was nursing school for you? Let me ask you this before we get to that. Was you in nursing school and still dancing?

SPEAKER_00 22:07

No. So I worked in mysterious ways. A month before I started nursing school, I had a car accident. So I wasn't in it. Somebody totaled my car while it was parked. So that was a whole big thing. I had to call out of work, but the club, it was in an upscale gentleman's club. They were upset about it. I had to call out, and funny enough, they only had one other girl on the schedule. So I was one of two. So they fired me that same day. Even though I sent them the picture, whatever, whatever of the car, they fired me, and I just never went back. I started nursing school the next month, and that was it. Yeah. I feel like God was like, you said you was only gonna do it until and ended it.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

It's crazy how one situation that you think is like, oh, was a situation that was like, oh.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

You'll be like, okay, Lord, I see you now. I didn't see you then, yeah. But I definitely see you right now and I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Because if that wouldn't have happened, you think you would have had an extended career?

SPEAKER_00 23:07

Probably. Okay. Probably. Now knowing me, it would have just been a hustle, just make money.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Um at some point you had to say, I gotta get into school. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Oh, yeah, that was my priority, hands down. But I also know getting out of work at three in the morning and I gotta be at class for seven, that wasn't gonna work.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

That's why I had to ask you that. Which some people do juggle.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

I juggled, but I did bartending.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

But it was like once in a blue.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

So it's not as intense.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

No.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

Because you're not putting on a whole performance, you kind of on just I can chill for a minute, and it might be a slow night.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

It's never really no slow night in that type of world because you gotta perform. You're a performer.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Whether it's 10 people, 30 people, one person, I gotta perform.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Exactly. So now, don't get me wrong, the Bart in the life, it has its own little shisty ways because now, now is not what you know. It's not if you're a beast on a pole, none of that. It's who you know. The promoters, they little shisty. Some of them. You gotta, you, you gotta, you gotta be a favorite to get on a schedule. For me, again, knowing I was in nursing school, I wasn't with it. I'm like, you want me in order for me to get on the schedule, you can have that.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

It goes back to the griminess that goes on behind the scenes or just trying to you striving to elevate and they want to get on some fuck boy shit. Let's call it what it is.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I feel like that's what that's what kind of messed up the industry a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

Kind of now. That's that's killed, that killed the industry.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

Yeah, it's like even when I look at Atlanta, because I used to live in Atlanta. Okay. So my first year and a half of college was in Atlanta. Shout out to CAU and Georgia State. Okay. Love them. What year was this? 2014.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Yeah. Um, they I don't see that promoter stuff going on down there. And if you know, Atlanta's the biggest, that's the, that's the, that's the, the, what do you call that? The epicenter for the strip club. The dance. That is it. Like, that's you dance while you were down there? Yeah, but I was a little scary. I ain't gonna lie. Atlanta's a different beast. You gotta be naked. Like, as soon as a couple dollars hit the floor, you gotta strip naked. Okay. So them girls down there, that's not like a just, oh, I'm just gonna get a couple dollars. That's a hustle. You W-2'd for it. No, not to W2, 1099. 1099, you can claim taxes, all of that. So it's it's it's different.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

It's a different, okay. Thank thanks for putting that out there, because I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

But yeah, like you don't see all that down there, and they strip clubs, it's huge. But when you come up north, you see not all promoters, some promoters, they grimy, and then you wonder why the owners, you know, that they have good nights, they having bad nights, they're not having consistency. What I've noticed, the clubs that don't have promoters, unless they're promoters already established and they're good peoples, the clubs end up going down.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Because of the fuckery.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

That's crazy. You know what I mean? Sometimes thinking with the wrong head can kill the whole empire.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, I think brothers, and I'm gonna say this respectfully, they look at it like, okay, I can get another woman. I can get another girl. I don't want to call y'all girls like y'all little kids, but that's how they you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

I can get another girl. But you're not gonna get that girl. You're not gonna get Brooke. That was me. That's the difference.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

And then you got those that fear that and fall into that. And that's where the I'm gonna bring this up. The drug game comes in. Cause I know they're trying to feed y'all all types of.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

Listen, I got offered, I got offered every drug you could think of. I said, no. Never, ever, ever. I've smoked weed. That was it years ago.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

That's a wicked situation to be in when you're striving to do something.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Because what do I need it for? Alcohol, weed, that's as far as it's gonna go. I'm a beast on a pole. I don't, I don't, what do I need that to do? I don't need 24 hours of energy. I need 12 hours, I need six hours, make my whatever, whatever my goal, and that's it.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

Do you feel like it's a mind game?

SPEAKER_00 26:59

What?

SPEAKER_02 26:59

Like the you know, them pushing that on you, like to, you know, if you well, if you do this, you know, baby, just you thought you're gonna be, you know what I mean? All that selling you a story to make it feel like this is the way out. You know what I mean? Instead of knowing that, oh, I'm a beast. Like you said, I'm a beast. I don't need that to entice me to go to the next level.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Yeah. Um, I feel like that that's the oldest trick of time, though. Because that's not just in the strip club industry, that goes way back.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

That even goes with dating.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

It goes way back. It goes with dating right now with niggas. Yeah, you know what I mean? But that's when you don't have a mind of your own. Well, you know, sometimes they I can't be influenced to do nothing.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Because you strong will though. A lot of a lot of women are not, they just striving to find a way and feel like you know what, if I can skip a couple steps, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll take those steps.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

I've had opportunities. Come on, especially living in Atlanta. I've had those opportunities, but I turned it down because why? I'm gonna sell my soul and then what? How am I looking myself in the mirror?

SPEAKER_02 27:53

Then you gotta double back and find your soul to reboot again, and all that time has been wasted.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 28:00

And I look at my mom like your mother, your mother did it from the dirt.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Yeah, so I mean, yo, yo, you did it from the dirt too, because at the end of the day, you didn't take the suck around. You didn't sell yourself. You kept it what it was. You know what I mean? I admire that, and I'm glad that you're telling the audience this so they can understand it's okay to grind.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

The hard way is is solid. Right.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Just don't get caught up.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

Oh, that that show, um, Lisa Ray, Players Club. She said, make the money, don't let the money make you. I live by it. Shout out to Lisa Ray, love you.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

People don't realize I live by it. How real that is, especially you know that personally, and that stays with you. That's crazy because that's that's ancient. That movie's ancient, but it still resonates to this moment right now. You know what I'm saying? And a lot of these young women think it's just yo, listen, man. Stick to your script.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

I stuck to my script and look at the opportunity that I got. I didn't have to sell my soul for it. Somebody remembered, like, yo, she a good vibe, she a good person. Never no drama, never no mix-up. I'ma use her. And look what happened. Stay true to yourself, stay always stay true to yourself.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

I really gotta let I really want the audience to understand as they watch this episode that you're talking to a young lady that just had a dream. That was it. And and she really executed it. Now, as far as the extras that came with it, that's just the blessings of God.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Even now, yeah. Yeah, listen, I pray every day. And one day I'ma I'm gonna let the prayer be known that I prayed. Just like they got Sierra's prayer, I got Brooks prayer. I pray that every morning going to work, I pray every morning when I wake up before I even brush my teeth, breath hot and everything. I'll say that prayer, and everything has always came true. Whether it took a year, a week, five years, it always comes true. And I'll tell you a snip of my prayer. I always said, Lord, allow me to um please let my enemies be my footstool. And it's always happened throughout my life. Like, look, can you imagine you used to bully me back in the day, and now I'm with your favorite rapper? Now I'm on screen with your favorite rapper. You gotta watch me every time you see that video. You can't get a hold of me. You can't even get a hold of me to say sorry.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

You laughed at me though. You bullied me, you talked crazy to me, you made you you tried to make me feel less than who I was and look at life.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Like the song Fetty, Fetty has a song on the album that says I remember, and I remember he said um he remembered growing up feeling so insecure. Because when you've grown up, even for me, life life is different. If you don't have the the newest kicks and the long ponytail and all that stuff, you not it. But if you keep your mind and your heart clean and you you stay true to yourself, you're gonna get to where God wants you to go.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

All the time, especially if you're walking with him. Because, you know, I listened to somebody the other day and they said some real shit. You know, people think it's sometimes not always God, though. Because the devil can play the game for you to sell your soul in the long run. You know what I'm saying? So I'm glad that you understand that it's God and you're moving with him because it can't be God if you're not moving with God. That's let's be clear. You can't just be like, oh, it's God, and you're not even praying, you're not keeping you not giving him the time and the energy. You just don't think no, it's it's it's the other side bringing you closer and closer and letting you believe the illusion. So I'm glad that you're letting everybody know that your relationship with God.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

No, God is first. Sure.

SPEAKER_02 31:37

Yeah, praise God for that.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

I will party, I cuss, I do your relationship with God, which is your relationship. That's your personal relationship. However, you talk to God, that's how you talk to him. It don't have to be what the church says. And you don't have to have, you don't have to go to church to have a relationship with God. That's too. Because for a long time I didn't go to church because I always saw nonsense in every church I've ever been to growing up, because my mom was a church woman. Always nonsense. I grew up like, mm-mm. The next time I'm going to a church, it gotta be, I gotta know what it is that I'm looking for from that church. What is it that I want to receive from sitting in that building?

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Right.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

What is it? And leave. I don't want nobody asking me, do I have kids? Am I married? What do I do? None of that's your business. I came for the word, I want to hear the word, I want to smile, I want to go home. Let me drop my ties, let me go home. We don't need to have an interaction.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

And that's real, baby.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

That's when it gets messy. People in your business.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

I've always felt like at this point, I am church. Church is within yourself. And when I walk into a church that I'm not a part of, the first thing I say, Lord, give me what's for me today. It could be the first line of what the pastor said, and I can get out of it. Yeah. Because you'll feel it.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

You'll know what it's for you.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

You know what I mean? Or you can sit there through the whole service and hear the end, like, okay, I need to get to the whole service.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

You know what I'm saying? So I get it, and I'm glad that you are letting the culture know that listen, God is first. I walk with him, I talk with him, he's my provider, he's your comforter, he's your rock. That's a beautiful thing. But let's talk about your all ego a little bit. Because when you talk about it, see, they go that smile. You know what I'm saying? They go, let's talk about Brooke. You know what I mean? The alter ego. I got I got a few questions for Brooke.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Go ahead. Hill me with him. Go ahead, go ahead. What you got?

SPEAKER_02 33:21

What drives Brooke?

SPEAKER_00 33:23

What drives Brooke? Hate. Hate. I love, I love to see somebody like, oh, she thinks she what she thinks because she a nurse. Yes. What she thinks because she's pretty. She she yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

I'm not supposed to.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Yeah, exactly. I love it. It's like, I'm gonna do everything you said or you think or you don't want me to do. And I'm gonna do the hell out of that shit.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

Yeah, that's one thing you definitely take from you. You very, you want them to, you're gonna put it in their face.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

You're gonna be loud with it. It's it's a when I say it's a beautiful feeling, like it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

I know, because your face, I mean we talk about it, we light up.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

You know what? Because my my real me is that 15-year-old girl, 14, 15, 16-year-old girl that got picked on, that got bullied. That didn't, I used to wear high waters at school before I knew. You know how long it took me to figure out what high waters was? I used to wear high waters at school. I didn't have the fancy everything, da-da-da. And then I met Brooke in the nighttime on a pole. When all your makeup is done, you glam, you that girl, all eyes on you. The men are love you, they throwing their money at you, they compliment you. It's just like it's a different feeling. So, Brooke, Brooke loves like, yeah, like, like, yeah. Yeah, I'm her. That's what's up. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

We turn Brooks off. We turn Brooke off. Um, what's her biggest turn off?

SPEAKER_00 34:46

Someone that doesn't have drive. You gotta have your own drive, have your own motivation. Um we we grown. Okay. Well, the people at least I'm around. We grown. I shouldn't have to tell you, yo, you need to do this, that, and the third, this, that and the third. Nah. Have your own hustle. Have your own heart. I don't want to be around nobody like, oh, I think I wanna do this. Do it. What are you asking me for? I'm not God. Do it. Pray about it, do it. I'll support you. I always tell my friends, I'll support you in anything it is that you want to do. Whatever decision it is. You ask my opinion, I give it to you. But I'm gonna tell you, whichever which route you go, as long as it's not harmful to you, whatever. Right, I support you.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

That's real.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Don't come around with me with no motivation. Don't, I'm not with it.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

Unmotivated people can't.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Yeah, don't come to me and say you've been doing music for 17 years and ain't busting, you don't have a job too. Don't come around me with that.

unknown 35:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

But you know, that comes, I think that comes with the lifestyle.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

No. If you didn't do, if you've been doing music for that long and you don't have a job and it's not paying you, now you're being deludo.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

Yeah, but some people get caught up in the illusion that I can't, you're not supposed to have a job because I'm this artist.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

You're not the artist, but you need the job right now. You're not exactly. I like people that are realistic. Come around me with being realistic. Bill's gonna come whether you got the money, you don't got the money. So you need to be having some money while you're trying to chase this dream.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

Exactly. Because at the end of the day, that might that that'll fund that dream. Exactly. Without you out here looking crazy while you're doing the dream.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

I call those dreams nightmares. I told, I told somebody. World chore, you laughing. My man was I was talking to a young, you know, brother last week, and he was like, yo, bro, I just want to. I said, yo, every time we get together, you just keep telling me you just want it. I want to. I don't want to hear that. He said, champ, playboy. I don't want to hear that. What's holding you back? You, yourself. He was like, yo, I just feel like I'm not where I need to be. I said, what you need to do is go home and figure it out, then come back outside. And he, you know what? He said to me, yo, that was the realest shit that everybody told me. Because yo, bro, I'm not gonna tell you to chase something that's illusion right now. You're having a nightmare. You're in a nightmare, you're not even dreaming right now. You don't even, it's just like this. You drunk right now.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

I always say to people, like, who told you you can't do it? Who told you you can't do it?

SPEAKER_02 37:04

Sometimes the people that's closes next to them.

SPEAKER_00 37:07

And then you need to get away from people for a minute. That's what nursing school was for me. I had two years where I was just down. I was in my books. I was it was just me. Books, bartend once a week until I quit bartending. But books, that's it. Books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books, books. And I had a relationship at the time. And even him, that was set aside. Like there was a time and point where I wasn't getting my hair done, nothing. I go, I get my hair washed, corn roll, boom. I'm going to school. Because guess what? I'm in my grind right now. This is about to unlock six figures for me. I don't have no time for nobody to be in my ear. Oh, I'm tired of I'm telling them, oh, I'm tired, you know, I'm studying, I really want to go to sleep. I need somebody to be like, no, you're gonna you're gonna finish your study and then go to sleep.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

Oh, you like the battery, you like somebody to add a little extra battery.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

If if I need it, which is rare.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

But it's good, but it's good to have that though. Let's be clear. Keep going. Babe, I see you tired. You need something, you need to be able to do it. Now it's different.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

You have your motivation and you get tired versus you have no motivation. Sometimes when you motivated, you grinding, you do get a little tired, tired.

SPEAKER_02 38:08

You're human.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

And you should your circle should be the circle to be like, oh, you tired, but push through, you got this.

SPEAKER_02 38:14

Or take a minute, breathe. Because sometimes you get too tired. Now we not really moving in the place that we made to move because we're not clear headed. And that's something I learned from my pop. He's like, yo, it's good to be busy, but son, take a minute and sit and sit and listen to yourself. Because you get so busy that you're not listening to yourself. You might just say, you know what, chill for a minute. Like the situation with the car.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Yeah, yeah. God was like, have a seat. You got something coming up. Have a seat.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Come on.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

And I'm honestly grateful. I'm grateful that accident happened, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

But you weren't grateful that day, though.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

No, no, I was sick. I had just I just got that car. That car was seven months old. Brand new off the line.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

We at the time we don't realize the situation, but the situation was for the longevity.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

What's what's next for Brooke?

SPEAKER_00 39:05

What's next? I have a lot of things.

SPEAKER_02 39:06

And you can sprinkle. You don't have to give us, you know what I mean? Because I know. And some things I yeah, you know what I mean? I don't want you to, you know what I mean? But what's in a general sense?

SPEAKER_00 39:14

There's some things I can't say. But um I'm gonna be teaching um professionals that you can merge the two. You can merge the two, being professional and being in the entertainment industry, or just simply chasing your dreams, how to go about it. So I'm planning an event in the summertime, I think in July or August, um, where I'm just gonna have professionals come to come together, network, and connect each other. So I'm gonna have like my doctors, the attorneys, real estate agents, my tax guy. I'm gonna have a bunch of people in the room that way we can feed each other and learn and learn how to navigate just life.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

Okay, that's what's up.

SPEAKER_00 39:56

You can ask any questions you want. No questions, a dumb question. You can get connections right there on the spot because everybody has a business, everybody has something going on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

That's dope because I think right now we gotta continue to keep touching each other respectfully. I don't want anybody, you know what I mean? Right. I'm not the pores guy, but we gotta know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, we gotta continue, especially us as a black community. We gotta be able to give people something to say, you know what? Damn, she did it.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

My event is really for minorities because nobody likes to give the game. People gatekeep. I'm not a gatekeeper. I'm not a gatekeeper, I'm very much an open book. I'll tell you about any chapter in my life you want to know and how I did it. I'm not gonna gatekeep because my blessing is different from yours.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

That's a fact.

SPEAKER_00 40:45

Just because I'm shining doesn't dim your light.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Exactly. That's that. And I want to bring you into my light so we can shine together.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

Yeah, yeah. Let me just let me show you how to turn this up. Do it this way.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

There's not a lot of people doing that in Jersey. You know what I mean? Jersey, so I'm gonna ask you this. You feel like Jersey's a little so I feel like it's a little separated in its own way.

SPEAKER_00 41:04

Yeah, we want to, we yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:06

Nobody kind of wants to just throw it all the time. You know what I mean? That's why I strive to have my platform to yo, come here, I see what you're doing. I want to give you your flowers.

SPEAKER_01 41:17

I'll be the flower.

SPEAKER_02 41:19

You know what I'm saying? I'll be the I listen, I I want to give you that. You know what I mean? Because you deserve that. I don't care about if you're younger, older. Listen, what you're doing is amazing, but I feel like a lot of Jersey, we don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 41:30

You know what? I always feel like it's always your hometown, regardless where you're from. Jersey, I can I can see that though. But I feel like it's just it's always your hometown. Because when you go to other places, people show you love.

SPEAKER_02 41:43

That's a fact. Respect that.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

People want to see you doing good, they don't want to see you doing better than them, especially people that you grew up with. Because it's like, oh, who shall I meet? Who shall meet think he is? Like, I know him when he was doing X, Y, and Z. That's what it's always gonna be when you're in your hometown. That's why I do believe in moving out. However, I don't know. Jersey, Jersey got a special place in my heart. We I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

We need you here.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

We need you here, you know what I mean? You you are the princess of you are the princess of Jersey.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Yeah. Whoa, I'll take it. I'll take it. Listen, I love Jersey.

SPEAKER_02 42:18

Um that's where we're gonna name this episode of the city.

SPEAKER_00 42:20

All the little girls that were, I like that. All the little girls that have the dream. You wanna be a nurse, you want to be a doctor, you want to be an attorney, whatever it is that you want to do. Little girls that, you know, started in a strip club, you had a hard life, you know. I want to be that person you can call on and be like, yo, I have this, this, and this going on. How do I do this? Or can I do this? I want to be that person you can come to, like that big sister.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

That's what's up.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

Nobody not nobody teaches you anything in the entertainment industry. You gotta learn. But it's the same way with nursing. The OGs and nursing, nurses really do eat their young. And I don't want to be that person. What?

SPEAKER_02 42:58

Listen, though.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

OGs will watch you running around, running around, around, they'll never tell you a shortcut. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

I never have my nurses. Never would tell them. Truthfully, I wouldn't think that.

SPEAKER_00 43:08

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

Why is that though? Let's touch on that for a second. Why is that? You're in that field. Why is that?

SPEAKER_00 43:14

People just which which field?

SPEAKER_02 43:17

Well, you know what? With the nurses. You know what? Actually, both. Well, we already know with the with the with the nightlife.

SPEAKER_00 43:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

They scared because they want you to take their bags. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 43:27

It's the same thing with the OGs.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

But they you solidified in the hospital, you're solidified.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

So what it is is that um if you come in as a new nurse and they teach you all the shortcuts, it took them 35 years to learn what they're gonna try to, what they're gonna teach you right there. Now you're gonna be better than them. You're gonna be worth more to them. You're gonna be worth more to the hospital than they are.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

And they're getting older. So they don't want you to, you feel me? So take face five.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

It's the same situation in both worlds.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

People want you to do good, they don't want you to do better than them.

SPEAKER_02 43:58

That's a fact. And I feel like every Everybody's watching you. Some people watch you too fail. But I told somebody the other day, I said, listen, I'm not as scared, I'm not scared to fail in front of anybody.

SPEAKER_00 44:08

Neither. Neither.

SPEAKER_02 44:11

You're gonna fail.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

You're gonna have bumps in the road. You know what I mean? I got seven kids, five baby mothers. Not bad. I'm not saying that's not that's not a fail. That's not a failure, but I'm just saying I navigated through that.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

You know what I'm saying? I got a great relationship with my kids.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

And kids are a blessing.

SPEAKER_02 44:29

Right. I have a great relationship with them. So you might outside looking like, yo, yeah, it was. Somebody else would look and be like, Yep, I I looked at it and was like, nigga, what the hell?

SPEAKER_00 44:37

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 44:38

How do you but I'm navigating, I made it. Like I said, and I'm blessed and I'm grateful that I had that rapport with my kids still to this second. So it's like, yo, you just continue to keep going and don't let anything, you know what I'm saying, stop you from doing what you do.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

Right.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

Um, I play a word game with my guests before I get out of here. And um, you know, this one's gonna be a little I'm gonna start off with one word for for Brooke is gonna be patience.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

It's patience to you.

SPEAKER_00 45:18

Patience is being okay with waiting on God. It's being okay with sometimes not knowing where you're going, walking blind. You don't know if you're going left, walking by faith. Exactly. You don't know where you're going, but you okay to be like, listen, I'ma just I'ma just do and I'ma live in today. I'ma be patient. When it's my time, it's gonna be my time. And to be okay with being happy for others when it's their time. Just be patient. Your time will come. Have faith in it.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

And the reason why I said patience for you, because I know your journey, it took patience.

SPEAKER_00 45:56

Patience to take care of patience.

SPEAKER_02 45:59

I said that earlier. We're gonna put that on the shirt. Yeah, um, yeah, I got another word for you. Fatty Wap.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

Fatty Wap. Yeah, nah. I can't hit that note like he did. Um, what does Fetty Wap mean to me?

SPEAKER_02 46:20

That opportunity.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

That opportunity was really a turning point for me. Like just like he said, he thought people forgot about him. I was nursing for so long, I wasn't really posting on social media. My heart was always with entertainment, right? But I know you also have to be realistic and work. So to have an opportunity like that, um and to share that moment with him because coming home after three years, you feel me, you out of the spotlight for so long, and to come out and get all that love and for me to be able to witness it, it meant it meant a lot. And I've known them for so many years. Even Fetty, me and Fetty were way back as well. Um it was just it's just great to see, like, I'm really happy for him. Like he grew so much, he grew so much. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

That's dope. You know why I say it's dope because the height of level that he was on before that small, unfortunate situation to come back and to still get that same amount of love. And yo, I ain't I'm not gonna front, riding down Route A to see the billboard. Yeah, yo, I respect that because it's like, yo, I got my city behind me. Yeah, you know what I mean? But also you got the city behind you.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:33

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 47:34

I always show love.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

You know what I mean? Because at the end of the day, what you, you know, I mean, that was a gamble for your career too, because they could have gone left.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 47:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

We don't know how the industry's dirty. So it everybody, you know what I mean? It could have just, it wouldn't, it couldn't have been received the way it has, but blessings is being received, and you're reaping the benefits of that blessing. So that's why I had to ask you that because I believe it was a blessing for both parties.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

Yeah, and I I did tell it was his sister that reached out. So I did tell his sister and him, you know, thank you, and I appreciate you guys so much for the opportunity because they could have chosen, they could have called other people.

SPEAKER_02 48:12

They could have one of the they remembered me. They could have gone, called the agency up, yeah, just go get one of the the normal faces.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

But they no, she did, but you feel me. She she said after seeing, you know, some people, she felt like I would be a better fit. And I was like, all right, I appreciate it. So Fetty Watt means to me, um people remember patience, too. And patience, and patience, she out key that word. I'm just grateful.

SPEAKER_02 48:40

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 48:41

It was to have patience, it was that time, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 48:45

Um I got one more word for you.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

Shout out to Unicorn, it's time, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 48:50

Yo, shout out to Unicorn, it's time. Um your mother.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Your mother. Oh, you want me to get the crime on the podcast? We can't do that, we ain't got no time for that. Listen, but my mom means to me um strength, resilience, um, to never give up, to be true to yourself. Um, because fun fact, she wanted a model growing up, and when she got my father, she told him he said it was for horse. She never chased her modeling career. So for me to now be on TV and be on YouTube, I'm with literally Fetty Wap. Like, that's crazy. It's just like mom, I'm I'm staying true. RIP to her, she passed in 2020, but I'm still holding, you know, holding true to myself with it. Doing exactly what she wanted me to do. She did not want me to quit nursing, so mom, I'm still employed, but I'm chasing my dreams and you know, being patient with the patience. Being patient. She always told me to stay true to myself, don't sell myself short. And um, don't worry about what other people say. Do what feels good to you. So, yeah, love you, mom.

SPEAKER_02 50:03

Love you, mom. We appreciate you. And thank you, mom, for this beautiful rose right here.

SPEAKER_00 50:08

Mommy did her thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

Yes, she did. Yes, she did, you know what I mean. Listen, before we get out of here, let the people know where they can find you at. You mean any bookings, hosting, yeah, anything that let the people know where they can um, you know, get in contact.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

You can follow me at underscore slimbrook. You can email me at bookslimbrook at gmail.com. I do hosting podcasts, I do brand ambassador, I do everything.

SPEAKER_02 50:34

And listen, you heard it first. I'm a girl Brooke in the building, Patterson's own. This is dedication, this is hard work, this is perseverance, this is patience. Yeah, you know what I mean? This is love. I'm the voice of the culture. You know where we at. We in the hush, the home of the fleet.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

And yo, we see you on the next one. And yo, don't forget, reach out to my girl, tap in for real. Tap in. It's bigger than just what you see. It's a brand. You know what I mean? Get involved, get invested. Love is love. Your boy, the voice. I'm out of here. I'll see y'all. That's it.