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Hello, and welcome to Missing the Shift podcast. I'm so
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glad that you decided to join me for today's episode.
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My name is Weyberdet Junior and I've missed the shift
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a bunch of times in my life, and one is
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missing the shift. In the past, I spent time on
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the NASCAR circuit, as I discussed some in Sunday's introduction episode,
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and in a NASCAR race, if a driver misses a shift, well,
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it can cause them to get way behind in the race,
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maybe have engine problems, getting a wreck or worse. And
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this missing the shift doesn't just affect them, but it
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could possibly affect those around them as well as their crew. Well,
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this is similar to what happens in life. We think
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we're going in the right direction and everything might be great,
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and then all of a sudden, we missed the shift
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with a bad decision and it throws us to completely
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off track and makes our lives go in a direction
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that we never thought it would. Well, this podcast will
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look at stories from people that have missed the shift
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in life and how they got back into the race.
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Make sure you follow this podcast on all social media
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platforms at Missing the Shift or email me with maybe
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a shift that you've missed and you want to be
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a guest on the show at info at moonlessmedia dot com.
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Today I'm joined by my special guest and good friend,
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Tanya Price.
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Tanya Welcome, Thank you, thank you for having.
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Me, absolutely so. Tania is an actress producer as well
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as the owner of Queen Tut Productions and Senior Vice
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President of Ascended Studios Motion Pictures Corporation. Tanya is a
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multi award winning international film producer, actress and published model,
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and an international actress and model in Nigeria. In twenty
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twenty three, Tany was proudly appointed Delta State Girl Child Ambassador,
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And we'll get you to expand on that a little
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bit later. I got to ask about that again. And
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Tanya's been published in over twenty magazines and is grace
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the cover of several of those magazines. She's based in
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the United States but loves to travel, and every time
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I text her she's traveling internationally or somewhere, her passport's
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always ready. In twenty twenty three, she set her own
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travel record by visiting twelve countries in one year, but
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anywhere with a beach is always her favorite. Tanya again
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welcome to the show. How are you?
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Thank you?
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I'm so good, good good, and so Tanya, You've done
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a lot of things in your life in the entertainment industry,
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from acting to producing to now owning your own production
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company and the senior vice president of another, and so
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what would you attribute to your success so far in
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the industry?
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Patience?
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Absolutely, yes, I'm three years in and your sees. I
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love it.
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It's a long time in the making to you know,
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have those accolades and get to where I am.
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But definitely patients. A lot of hard work and patience.
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Oh absolutely. And so tell us a little bit because
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you know, you just formed your production company, Queen Tuck
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correct correct, All right, yeah, tell us about that. So
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you have your own production company and you're the senior
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vice president of another production company, and I know I've
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been hunting you down trying to get you to help
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my production company. So how do you balance all of it?
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You know, I just do. I drive in the chaos.
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I love it.
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It's in the periods where it's not chaotic that I
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start to get anxiety, Like if I'm not busy, that's
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just my personality.
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But it's it's been fun yeah.
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I remember one time I text you and that was
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just recently and you was your exact response back to me,
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I need a project, like you said, Yeah, do you
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have a project? Because I am going stir crazy now.
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Yeah I do. I love to be.
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Busy absolutely and going a little off topic, and I know,
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you know, we kind of talked a little bit beforehand,
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but tell me about the project I Love You. Now,
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that was a project that we had at our film
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festival and I don't know that there was a dry
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eye in the in the theater, and so tell us
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about that a little bit. You know, about the I
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Love You project.
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That was such an amazing project to be a part of.
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I'm so grateful that I was cast in that to
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be a part of it and to learn about this organization,
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and it was kind of a topic I hadn't really
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known much about. I mean, I've heard the term sextortion,
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but I didn't know what that meant really and how
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it was affecting so many teens and has been like,
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oh my god, crazy the amount of sextortion that goes on.
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And so it was the company Rescue One Rescue.
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That funded the project, and it just talks about the
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dangers of sex stortion, which is when a predator meets
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somebody young online and gets them to send pictures and
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then exhorts them for money. And so what's happened is
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a lot of teens get caught in this and then
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the predator asks for money, the teens can't pay it,
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and there's been a huge rise in the amount of
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suicides that have taken place because of sextortion. So that's
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where this organization came in and did this video kind
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of as a tool for parents and teens to watch
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to kind of open that conversation, so parents can have
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that conversation with their teens that, look, this happens and
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with AI now it makes it so easy for them
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to create a fake account on a fake person and
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a fake persona and have these conversations and it seems
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so realistic to these teams and they.
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Have no idea.
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Yeah, I know, I get those spam texts like maybe
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once or twice a week where it's hey, I had
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this number stored in my phone and who am I
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talking to? And I'm just like after seeing that, I'm
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just like, Eh, just delete it real quick, right, Yeah,
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Not that I was, Yeah, not that I was chatting
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in the past, but like it makes you really think
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because that movie, we will certainly put a link to
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it on the website if that's okay. But yeah, parents
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definitely need to see that because it was certainly, yeah,
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touching and scary short film for sure.
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Yeah, it's one of.
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Those topics you don't want to talk about and think
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that these things happen, but you can't be naive, like
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you need to educate your children and be educated yourself
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that these dangers are out there.
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You know, so right, absolutely lutunately, But yeah.
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I love that they just came out with a trailer
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this past week, even though we released it, you know.
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Earlier this year.
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The organization just posted a trailer and the link on
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their website.
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So yeah, yeah, we'll post a link to that. And
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so of course this podcast is about missing the shift
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and I love it because Tanya thought that was about
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missing a shift and I'm like, no, it's actually about
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it's actually about mistakes. And so you know what what
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advice because you're kind of like me, you know, you
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learn from your mistakes, you develop from them, and you
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know there's there's rarely a time where you want to
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change your past because you think, Okay, if I change it,
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you know, I don't know where I would be today,
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and so how do you Yeah, so what advice would
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you give, Like what's one of the biggest things that
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you've missed the shift on or one of the biggest
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mistakes and how'd you overcome it?
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And yeah, so I think you said it so well
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about you can't really dwell on if you've made mistakes or.
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You know, living thinking that you've missed the shift. In
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my opinion, because.
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Every mistake that I've made, and I've made so many
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mistakes along the way, has shaped me to who I
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am today, and if I wouldn't have made those mistakes,
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I wouldn't be who I am, and I wouldn't be
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the person I am or where I am today. I
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think as far as acting, I mean, I feel like
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I'm just hitting my peak and I'm pretty old. I
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feel like that's something that I could have done a
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lot earlier and pursued earlier in life. But because my
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priorities were different and I had young children at home,
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I kind of pushed that aside, and so I wasn't
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pursuing my passion like I wanted to. But I can't
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feel like that was a mistake or I'd be further
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in my career if I would have, you know, jumped
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on that ship earlier because I enjoyed being a mother
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and being home and so like every every decision I've
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made and where I am today, even though for me
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it's been a slow journey, I'm very grateful for you know,
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and I have turned down a lot of great roles
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and amazing roles along the way, but I don't I
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don't regret those or live you know, thinking like, oh
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I missed the shift because I don't know, I just
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I wouldn't be the person I am today, if.
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That makes sense.
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So right, that's kind of a.
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Hard question because I feel like I more embrace the mistakes,
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not really mistakes, but embrace, like the decisions that I've
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made and then.
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I've Yeah, your advice is you're gonna make mistakes and
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just learn and go with them.
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Yeah, and you do, and you have to do you know,
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be okay, knowing you're human.
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You make mistakes.
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Everybody makes mistakes, right, but just learn from them, you know,
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take take you know, that experience and grow from it
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and become better from it.
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And then such as shapes who you are.
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I love it. And so with all the traveling that
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you do, how do you maintain or attribute success in
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your personal life? Because you know, I just saw that
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you celebrated your twenty seventh wedding anniversary, and so how
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do you attribute, you know, success to that. I mean,
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that's rare in the entertainment industry to even see that,
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you know, because of all the stresses and traveling and
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all of that. So how do you, you know, attribute
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that success.
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I attribute it to the support I have at home,
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not just my immediate family, but my extended family. And
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it's just kind of been like it takes a village
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because everybody has helped and it's just been a journey
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for all of us. And like I said, when I
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could have pursued things more than I then I could
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have pursued things more earlier on, I chose not to
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because I wanted to be home and be there for
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my kids. But I think now, because my kids are
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grown and two of them aren't even at home anymore.
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My baby is going to be eighteen in December, that
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now I feel I can do all this traveling. And
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I do travel a lot, but I don't have little
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ones at home, so I feel like, you know, my
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time raising them was, you know, my time that I
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needed then, and now it's a different time in my life.
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And it's like I can live more for me now
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because it's not necessarily for my children because I'm not
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a taxi anymore. I'm not like the pta mom and
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a soccer mom, you know, like those things. I'm not
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needed like I was because my children aren't grown. So
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now I can. I feel like I'm doing something for
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myself and I don't feel guilty. So I think just
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the balance and the timing has been good. But my
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family has always supported my journey. And even though it
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is time away from home, like I said, I don't
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have the kids that need me at home like they did,
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so I don't really feel guilty. And I have, you know,
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the support of when I travel and they see, like,
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you know, my whole life, I've done things for them
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that it's like now they're supporting, like, you know, you
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go and do this and let us support you.
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So it's like reverse rules.
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But definitely I didn't have the family to support then
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I couldn't do what I.
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What I do.
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You see some of the ones now, I mean that
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started when they were younger, kind of left the industry.
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I mean, who was it. Gwyneth Paltrow left the industry
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for a little while to raise her kids and just
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now came back when they got older. So absolutely, yeah, yeah,
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just timing and support. Yeah, awesome. And so let's talk
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about your film. You just did your award winning film, Revelations.
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It was a feature film that you and your production
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company collaborated with R. M D and his production company
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in Nigeria, and so it's an international collaboration with Nollywood.
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Tell us about that process, tell us how that even
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came about.
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is Nigerian Hollywood, so it's a term used. It kind
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of encompasses all filming in Africa. They say Nollywood filming
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because that's kind of the hub, the you know, the
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lovingly by R and D, which is easier for people
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to pronounce. We met on a set in twenty twenty one.
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just remained good friends and we just knew we wanted
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to work together again.
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do a project together.
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wanted to do his first US production.
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his first US production.
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it just made it easier for filming than trying to
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run like finances through a company overseas, and so to
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do it here in taxes and legally and all the paper,
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it just made things easy. So I opened Queen Toup
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Productions in preparation for that film.
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So that's kind of how that.
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Was burst awesome. And so tell us about the film.
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I mean, it's won multiple awards. You just got back
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what two three weeks from Nigeria for the for the
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Red Carpet premiere, and I know when you were over
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there you were whiskeying I mean radio and television, and
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so tell us about that. I mean that had to
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be pretty cool.
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Oh, it is so fun. I love Nigeria. Like I
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tell you, my heart is in Nigeria. Every time I go,
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I feel so welcomed and loved, and just the people
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that are so amazing, and the food and just.
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Everything about it. I absolutely love.
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The media tour was so fun. You know, every day
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we were doing TV or radio or podcasts, whatever does
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they're promoting our film.
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Then we released nationwide in theaters throughout Nigeria and Ghana.
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Awesome. And so what's next for the film. Is it,
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or can you say that? Or is that kind of secret?
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I wish I had an answer because I don't really
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even know.
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then we're in talks. We have distributors who are in
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talks with different streaming platforms and so we're just seeing
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what our best offer will be and we'll push it
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to streaming.
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So hopefully soon it will be available. I don't know what.
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Platform yet, but hopefully soon it'll be available for streaming
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so people here can see it. Because that's the hard
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thing is we filmed it here in New Job. Well,
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we filmed a portion of it in Lagos, Nigeria, but
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the majority was filmed here. So all of the actors
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and everybody who was a part of it, you know,
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my cast and crew, they haven't been able to see.
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It in the US.
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So right, oh okay.
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So so anxiously awaiting. And we filmed it a year
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and a half ago.
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So yeah, yeah, you will text me every day like
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can I see this? I'm like, I don't know, I
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don't know.
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It's I mean, as you know, filming is such a
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long process between you know, pre production, production post like
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it can be years, and people don't realize the amount
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of time that goes into these projects and you know,
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from beginning to end.
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Oh absolutely, yeah.
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No. I think my first one, the first script I
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ever wrote three years ago is now yeah, on the
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desk of some production companies and stuff like that, and
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somebody asked me, they're like, three years ago you wrote that,
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and I'm like you just yeah, you don't understand. Sometimes
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that's how long it takes.
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Yeah, I have a Halloween movie that just released this week.
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We filmed that three or four years ago, it's just
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been released.
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Yeah, So sometimes it's a long process, but soon it's
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it's going to be soon.
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Yeah. Sometimes I wonder how Hallmark and all those gac
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they do it. You know, they film a Christmas movie
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in June and then it's out in December. It's just
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like when was it written? You know, how in the
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world do you all do it? But you know they've
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got it down pat So yeah, but big feature films
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of course, absolutely. Well that's great. So we understand. Well,
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I understand you also have a few other collaborations that
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you're filming Utah and Nigeria. Can you share what's next
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to what's coming or is that secret?
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No, you can't, I will share with you.
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So we filmed a Pentecostal church film here in Utah,
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an African Pentecostal church film in Utah, which is so
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random to do here in Utah, but it was so
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beautiful and so fun. We filmed that in June and
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that actually will be releasing probably in the next few months.
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Yeah. So that one because.
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It's made for this church's website for fellowshipping and outreach.
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So since it's going to their church platform and not
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like a theatrical release or streaming, then it's a quicker process,
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but that will be coming out soon. It's called The
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Present Help and it's such a cute, faith based family film,
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you know, just one of those like feel good, excited.
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I've seen a couple edits and I'm really happy with it.
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So we filmed that.
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And then we filmed a portion of another film. This
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one's going to be a another Nollywood feature film. It's
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called Lost in Legos, and we filmed all the Utah
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scenes in June as well, and then we will finish
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dressed to the film in Lagos, Nigeria in twenty twenty six.
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Awesome. And is that going to be released in twenty
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six or twenty seven, twenty.
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Six, twenty six, Yeah, yeah.
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And you're also I forgot to ask that earlier. You're
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also a music video producer too.
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I have done music videos.
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Yes, yeah, I love that story of the music video
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and so yeah, so if you're not familiar, Yes, there
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was a music song that was written for Revelations. It's
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an award winning song and yeah, Tanya put together the
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music video and what a day, right, Yeah, it's crazy.
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Alex Boyer and I we were on a news, a
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morning news show, and then after the show. He it
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was like, we should do a music video like okays
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like today.
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So I made some phone.
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Calls and literally within hours we had you know the
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leather you've seen the video.
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Oh yeah, that's a great video.
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Absolutely, four wheelers, the truck, like everything just came together
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and we filmed it that day and we had our
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movie premiere that night.
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So it wasn't even a full day. But it's such
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a good video.
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It is a great video. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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African Cowboy, It's it's a beautiful song. I loved it.
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That's awesome, all right, And so what advice would you
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give someone starting or looking to start their career in
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the entertainment industry today? Because I know when I started
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three years ago, so my story was kind of I
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I just started after the death of my father, was
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writing and next thing, you know where I am today.
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And I will tell you one of the biggest things
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that is the lack of response. And I'm sure they
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get overwhelmed, But like, what advice would you give, because like,
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that's one of the biggest things that I've heard is
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nobody responds. And some actors and actresses just can't, you know,
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they can't they don't understand that, And so what advice
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would you give someone starting out, especially if they're not
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hearing from anybody.
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Well, first of all, you don't ever give up and
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just know that you're not going to get responses.
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But that's part of the industry.
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Like I am a casting director as well, Like I
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do all my own casting and I don't always email
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back every person who submits. I don't have time to
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send hundreds of emails where I just don't. So if
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you hear from me, great, If you don't, it's just
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the business. I try, honestly, I try to be good
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at responding, but I'm guilty of it too. So you
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just have to know that's part of the industry. But
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people ask me all the time how do I get started?
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And my advice.
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Is this, you need to have a good headshot first
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and foremost, get a good headshot, and you need to
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have some.
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Sort of demo real or show real.
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Because when I pull when I put out these casting calls,
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I get people all the time.
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Oh, I want to be a part of it. I
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want to be a part of it. Okay, great, what
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have you done?
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Well?
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If they don't have anything they've done, make a real.
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It doesn't have to be like a paid project you've
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been a part of. Do a monologue record it, make
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a real and so put together something. Because if people
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can't see your potential talent or your talent, then you're
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already not going to be a candidate. You know, people
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all the time will send me, you know, like I
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want to be a part of this, or will you
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cast me in this?
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Well, you've got to show me what you've done.
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So I think a lot of people, if they don't
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have a reel with you know, actual commercials or TV
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or movie that they've done, they don't realize they can
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put together a real that can be just as impactful.
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But we have to see what you can do.
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So I always tell people, get a good headshot, get
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a good real because no casting director is even going
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to look at you just by you sending an email.
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Because the amount of submissions.
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We get, like we don't you know, I don't have
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time to sit and fish and like just show me
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what you can do, you know what I mean.
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Oh yeah, there's one of the things that was one
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of the things that I could kick myself about because
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like I did think about acting when I was about
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four years ago. I mean it's been a you know,
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every kid wants to act or you know or yeah
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and so, and all the commercials that we did back
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in the day on radio and television that I did
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for the automobile industry when I did them for my
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father's dealership and mine can't be found because they were
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in the eighties and nineties and so they are in
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the nineties, sorry, not eighties, nineties, and so they can't
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be found. And we did some pretty crazy things, like
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when Survivor came out, I literally we put a truck
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in the woods and I was jumping in and out
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of the back of the truck, acting like a Survivor.
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And I remember it because I said, the tribe is
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spoken on the competition and oh, I can't find any
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of it, Like, we can't find any of it.
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And I tried, yeah, recreate that, Like if you wanted
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to put together real and you had a good concept,
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go record it. Like we just need to see that
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you can act. We need to see you know, your
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presence on camera. So I always tell people like, if
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you don't have a headshout and you don't have a
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real don't even bother submitting.
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I know, that sounds cold.
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But none, that's true. Yeah, absolutely, you have to.
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Yeah, And I see a lot of people, you know,
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there's some websites that I follow, you know, local casting.
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Sometimes people will post that they're.
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Doing like demo real material filming that day, Like they
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set up scenes and scenarios and they have characters and
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they create content for these reels. So if you're serious
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about acting, then be serious and put together a real get.
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A good headshot.
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And when I say a good headshot, like, don't use
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crazy filters, don't use a picture from twenty years ago.
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Because so many times, like.
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I see pictures in casting calls and then you see
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this person in real life and you're.
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Like yeah, yeah, like yeah yeah.
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So a lot of times you'll see in casting calls
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it'll say like send your headshot, send a recent picture
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or a snapshot, like they want you headshot and what
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do you look like today this minute?
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You know?
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Right, yeah, absolutely, yeah, And I might you know one
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thing too that popped in my mind that I would
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give advice to, because you know, we have people reach
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out to me too as far as productions, and they'll
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put like one or two lines and that's it, and
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then another thing too, is when you when you throw
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in like just a link to something, I mean, there's
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too many viruses that get you know, you have to
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craft and email it actually doesn't scare somebody into thinking
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it's a virus. And as soon as I click on that,
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because I've had one, yeah, they sent me and they said,
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you know, here's here's you know so and so, and
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it's just a link, and I'm like, I'm not clicking
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on it, you know, no and so yeah.
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Yeah, like put your headshots, put your and.
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Like I know a lot of people, especially when they're
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just starting, they don't have an IMDb account. But like
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if you have a link, like an IMDb link, that's
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helpful and you can put your reels on IMDb so
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you don't have all of these links to click on that.
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It's just like in one spot because that's kind of
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like a resume of all your projects and you can
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even list you know, your.
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War I mean, you know how IMDb.
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Yeah, that's always a good and people can create free accounts,
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you know, just you have to put effort into building yourself.
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Up and yeah, absolutely want.
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To pursue it. Then you have to put in the work.
519
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Yeah, absolutely great, advice. So how are you giving back? Like,
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how do you give back? So is there any charity
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out there that you give back to or you you know,
522
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we've had some people on the show during season one
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that they you know, we're teaching at the local theater
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or whatever. So how does ton you give back?
525
00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:25.720
So I am involved with a lot of different community organizations.
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00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:28.680
One in particular that I absolutely love. It's called Young
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Caring for Our Young and it's with my husband works
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for the Young Automotive dealership and so this organization, we
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get together and we do pantry packs for the schools,
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which are you know, children they go to school and
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they can eat meals, but like when they go home
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on the weekends, they don't have food to get through
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the weekend. So they can grab these like pantry packs,
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you know, from their school. So it's actually like a
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backpack that the school gives them to take home all
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the mills for the weekend to get them through. So
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we get together and we put together these. We do
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00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:04.640
a project in Mexico, We've done it for years and
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we go and you know, do school supplies and backpacks
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for underprivileged children there. So I have been very involved
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with young, caring for our young and that foundation, and
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then you know, through my church we do a lot
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of service. I have been involved in another organization for
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oh my goodness, it was a good like volunteered a
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good fifteen years of my life. Now with my my
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business and what I'm doing now.
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I haven't been as involved.
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But it's called Utah Share where we go and we
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help families who have lost children and we go to
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the hospital and do hand and foot molds and well
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dress their baby and provide keepsakes and so being a
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part of that organization. But giving back has always been
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something that I've been very passionate about because I feel
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like if you're blessed in this life and you're not,
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you know.
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Giving back and helping other people, then shame on you.
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Like our responsibility you know, to get back into help.
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And so any chance, you know, I get, I just
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the like a couple of days ago, my business partner
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that I filmed lost in Legos with and Ever Present
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help message me and he said, I'm doing a project
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in Africa.
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It was with school children. How can you help.
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I'm like, great, let me jump on board, let me help.
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And so any any time I can you know, whether
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it be financially if I can, or you know, with
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my time.
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Then I'll always you know, jump in and help where
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I can.
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That's awesome. Now is that where the Delta State Girl
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Child Ambassador came in or is that something.
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00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:46.119
Different that that was fun? Yeah, I was brought to Nigeria.
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It was one of my trips in twenty twenty three
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and was made Delta Girls State Child Ambassador And that
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was just kind of like.
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What was fun? They presented me with an.
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Award and just being like a role model for for
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teenagers and helping shape their lives and just being an
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advocate of like making good decisions, and it was it
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was so beautiful and so amazing to go and be
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a part of that.
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And so that's awesome.
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Yeah, it was amazing. And so anything any last pieces
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of advice you want to give out there, or tell
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people where they can find you or how they can
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find you, or I know, we'll put some links up
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on our website, but anything else you want to add.
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Don't give up on your dreams and you can find me.
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00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:44.720
I'm actually quite easy to find Instagram, tout Price or
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Queen Tout Productions, Facebook, TikTok.
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00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:54.160
Not good on Twitter for sure. Yeah, yeah, that's one.
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I'm out there.
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Now. I got to ask you, where did the Queen
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Tut come from? Where?
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I'm glad you asked, because.
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I was, Yeah, where did that come from? I've always
597
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:08.559
wondered that when I saw that. Yeah, yeah, I.
598
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.559
Always feel like people think I'm a self proclaimed queen,
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like I am the Queen.
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No, not at all.
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00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.559
So when I when I was born, my older brother
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was two years old and he couldn't say tanya. He
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00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:25.079
would say Tut tut, and so then it's shortened to tut.
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00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:30.680
So since I was born, my name's been Tut so family, friends, everybody,
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00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:33.480
that's what they call me, like my nieces and nephews.
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00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.480
Nobody calls me. It's just Tut tut. And then I
607
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:36.799
don't know.
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00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:39.240
Where Queen Tut came from, probably because there's King Tuck.
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You know, my name was Tut, so that was just
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you know something. So I've always been just Queen Tut.
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But it wasn't like a self proclaimed like I gave
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myself that title.
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00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:51.720
Yeah no, I didn't think that. I knew it had
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to come from somewhere, and I just was like i'd
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been needed to ask you before and even when you
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were down during the festival, and I was just like
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I forgotten. I was just like I was, yeah, I
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was going to just ask you where it came from.
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It's cute that my older brother. It was just he
620
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:10.960
couldn't say my name and it was just so. And
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then when I opened up my production company, I couldn't
622
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.079
think of a good name. So it was just like, well,
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Queen tut that's my name.
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00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.039
So yeah, and there's so many production companies out there
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that you never never know.
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There wasn't, so I embraced that name just because it's
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cute and it came from my older brother, and it's just,
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you know, something that like lovingly friends and family have
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00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:35.799
called me.
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00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.279
Yeah, because when I first started, I actually mine was
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00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:44.400
mine was called Infinity Infinity Media, and I had I
632
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:48.079
had a woman who Jackie Smith, she's an actress out
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00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:51.000
of Florida, and she came and she said, there's just
634
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.880
they'll never find you because there's just so many infinities
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00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:57.359
and so she yeah, she's like, you never sleep though,
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00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:59.720
so you never see the you know, the sun and
637
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.279
moon just run together for you because you're always writing
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00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:04.759
you're always up and stuff, and so she's like, you
639
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.079
should call it moonless and I'm like, okay, and I'll
640
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.319
always give her accolades because it was her thought. But yeah,
641
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.440
you're right, and you've got to come up with something, right,
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00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:15.160
You got to come up with something that's not.
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00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.279
You know, yeah, it's it's a regional Yeah, glad you asked.
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00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.960
Yeah, it's kind of like with films. Get you know,
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you go in there. When I think of a title,
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00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:27.400
the first thing I do is look at IMDb and
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see if there's one out there, because the worst thing
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00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.839
he wants to be a film that's number five and
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00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:37.160
you know so and going up against Julia Roberts or
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00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.720
somebody like that, no one there, film's always going to be. Yeah,
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00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.119
So I like that. I love that. That's original, that's
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00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:44.799
where it came from. That's where the best one is.
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00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:48.359
Absolutely Well, Tan, you thank you so much for coming
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on the show today. Yeah, I appreciate it. And yeah,
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any filming coming up soon, well.
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00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:01.279
Lost and Legos. But I have a couple months just
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00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.960
to enjoy and I'm just getting ready to travel to
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00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.559
another film festival here. You know me, I don't stay
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00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:09.400
put very long.
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00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:12.880
Yeah, and you know, I almost reached out to you
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00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.079
about another one, but you're going to be gone, so
662
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.440
well yeah, so but.
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00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:19.719
Anyway, ya, I have to be busy.
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00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:21.960
Like yeah, I know, I was thinking that when you
665
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said I'm gonna be down for two months. I'm like, no, no, no,
666
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:28.440
she's not. So yeah, I'm sure.
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00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.480
I'll find something. Like if something pops up, then it's like,
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00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.239
get fine there because I do. I like to stay
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busy and I love doing what I'm doing. And as
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long as I am giving given opportunities to continue doing
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what I'm doing and what I love, then I gotta
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take it.
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Awesome.
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00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.119
I got to enjoy it. I can.
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00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:54.280
You are not get out of here anyway. Yeah, well, Tanya,
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00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.480
thank you so much for being on the show. I
677
00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:59.039
appreciate it and we'll talk soon.
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Okay.
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Listen, you should have the pot that you know and
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the proper.
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For me at missing the shift on all so should
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media platforms. And if you like this podcast, we'll tell.
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Your friends about it.
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And what of mouth is the best way to help
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a new podcast grow, especially with us being a lead.
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We chat with any that you may missing it
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About it.
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Hello, and welcome to Missing the Shift podcast. I'm so
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glad that you decided to join me for today's episode.
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My name is Weyberdet Junior and I've missed the shift
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a bunch of times in my life, and one is
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missing the shift. In the past, I spent time on
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the NASCAR circuit, as I discussed some in Sunday's introduction episode,
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and in a NASCAR race, if a driver misses a shift, well,
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it can cause them to get way behind in the race,
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maybe have engine problems, getting a wreck or worse. And
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this missing the shift doesn't just affect them, but it
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could possibly affect those around them as well as their crew. Well,
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this is similar to what happens in life. We think
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we're going in the right direction and everything might be great,
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and then all of a sudden, we missed the shift
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with a bad decision and it throws us to completely
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off track and makes our lives go in a direction
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that we never thought it would. Well, this podcast will
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look at stories from people that have missed the shift
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in life and how they got back into the race.
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Make sure you follow this podcast on all social media
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platforms at Missing the Shift or email me with maybe
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a shift that you've missed and you want to be
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a guest on the show at info at moonlessmedia dot com.
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Today I'm joined by my special guest and good friend,
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Tanya Price.
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Tanya Welcome, Thank you, thank you for having.
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Me, absolutely so. Tania is an actress producer as well
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as the owner of Queen Tut Productions and Senior Vice
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President of Ascended Studios Motion Pictures Corporation. Tanya is a
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multi award winning international film producer, actress and published model,
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and an international actress and model in Nigeria. In twenty
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twenty three, Tany was proudly appointed Delta State Girl Child Ambassador,
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And we'll get you to expand on that a little
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bit later. I got to ask about that again. And
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Tanya's been published in over twenty magazines and is grace
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the cover of several of those magazines. She's based in
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the United States but loves to travel, and every time
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I text her she's traveling internationally or somewhere, her passport's
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always ready. In twenty twenty three, she set her own
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travel record by visiting twelve countries in one year, but
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anywhere with a beach is always her favorite. Tanya again
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welcome to the show. How are you?
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Thank you?
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I'm so good, good good, and so Tanya, You've done
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a lot of things in your life in the entertainment industry,
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from acting to producing to now owning your own production
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company and the senior vice president of another, and so
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what would you attribute to your success so far in
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the industry?
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love it.
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have those accolades and get to where I am.
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correct correct, All right, yeah, tell us about that. So
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you have your own production company and you're the senior
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vice president of another production company, and I know I've
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been hunting you down trying to get you to help
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my production company. So how do you balance all of it?
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just my personality.
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I remember one time I text you and that was
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just recently and you was your exact response back to me,
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I need a project, like you said, Yeah, do you
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have a project? Because I am going stir crazy now.
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you know, we kind of talked a little bit beforehand,
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but tell me about the project I Love You. Now,
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that was a project that we had at our film
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festival and I don't know that there was a dry
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eye in the in the theater, and so tell us
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about that a little bit. You know, about the I
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Love You project.
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be a part of it and to learn about this organization,
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and it was kind of a topic I hadn't really
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known much about. I mean, I've heard the term sextortion,
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but I didn't know what that meant really and how
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it was affecting so many teens and has been like,
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oh my god, crazy the amount of sextortion that goes on.
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dangers of sex stortion, which is when a predator meets
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somebody young online and gets them to send pictures and
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then exhorts them for money. And so what's happened is
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a lot of teens get caught in this and then
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the predator asks for money, the teens can't pay it,
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suicides that have taken place because of sextortion. So that's
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where this organization came in and did this video kind
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of as a tool for parents and teens to watch
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to kind of open that conversation, so parents can have
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that conversation with their teens that, look, this happens and
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with AI now it makes it so easy for them
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a fake persona and have these conversations and it seems
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so realistic to these teams and they.
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this number stored in my phone and who am I
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talking to? And I'm just like after seeing that, I'm
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just like, Eh, just delete it real quick, right, Yeah,
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Not that I was, Yeah, not that I was chatting
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in the past, but like it makes you really think
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because that movie, we will certainly put a link to
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it on the website if that's okay. But yeah, parents
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definitely need to see that because it was certainly, yeah,
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touching and scary short film for sure.
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that these things happen, but you can't be naive, like
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that these dangers are out there.
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I love that they just came out with a trailer
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this past week, even though we released it, you know.
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missing a shift and I'm like, no, it's actually about
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it's actually about mistakes. And so you know what what
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advice because you're kind of like me, you know, you
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learn from your mistakes, you develop from them, and you
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know there's there's rarely a time where you want to
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mistakes and how'd you overcome it?
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about you can't really dwell on if you've made mistakes or.
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mistakes along the way, has shaped me to who I
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the person I am or where I am today. I
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feel like that's something that I could have done a
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lot earlier and pursued earlier in life. But because my
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priorities were different and I had young children at home,
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pursuing my passion like I wanted to. But I can't
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feel like that was a mistake or I'd be further
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in my career if I would have, you know, jumped
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on that ship earlier because I enjoyed being a mother
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and being home and so like every every decision I've
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it's been a slow journey, I'm very grateful for you know,
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and I have turned down a lot of great roles
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and amazing roles along the way, but I don't I
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don't regret those or live you know, thinking like, oh
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not really mistakes, but embrace, like the decisions that I've
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just learn and go with them.
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be okay, knowing you're human.
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take take you know, that experience and grow from it
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and become better from it.
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I love it. And so with all the traveling that
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you do, how do you maintain or attribute success in
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your personal life? Because you know, I just saw that
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you celebrated your twenty seventh wedding anniversary, and so how
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do you attribute, you know, success to that. I mean,
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that's rare in the entertainment industry to even see that,
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you know, because of all the stresses and traveling and
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all of that. So how do you, you know, attribute
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not just my immediate family, but my extended family. And
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it's just kind of been like it takes a village
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because everybody has helped and it's just been a journey
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for all of us. And like I said, when I
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have pursued things more earlier on, I chose not to
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because I wanted to be home and be there for
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my kids. But I think now, because my kids are
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now I feel I can do all this traveling. And
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a taxi anymore. I'm not like the pta mom and
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a soccer mom, you know, like those things. I'm not
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needed like I was because my children aren't grown. So
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now I can. I feel like I'm doing something for
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myself and I don't feel guilty. So I think just
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the balance and the timing has been good. But my
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family has always supported my journey. And even though it
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so I don't really feel guilty. And I have, you know,
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the support of when I travel and they see, like,
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that it's like now they're supporting, like, you know, you
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go and do this and let us support you.
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just timing and support. Yeah, awesome. And so let's talk
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about your film. You just did your award winning film, Revelations.
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lovingly by R and D, which is easier for people
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Red Carpet premiere, and I know when you were over
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that are so amazing, and the food and just.
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So hopefully soon it will be available. I don't know what.
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Platform yet, but hopefully soon it'll be available for streaming
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so people here can see it. Because that's the hard
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thing is we filmed it here in New Job. Well,
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we filmed a portion of it in Lagos, Nigeria, but
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the majority was filmed here. So all of the actors
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and everybody who was a part of it, you know,
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my cast and crew, they haven't been able to see.
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It in the US.
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So right, oh okay.
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So so anxiously awaiting. And we filmed it a year
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and a half ago.
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So yeah, yeah, you will text me every day like
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can I see this? I'm like, I don't know, I
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don't know.
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It's I mean, as you know, filming is such a
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long process between you know, pre production, production post like
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it can be years, and people don't realize the amount
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of time that goes into these projects and you know,
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from beginning to end.
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Oh absolutely, yeah.
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No. I think my first one, the first script I
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ever wrote three years ago is now yeah, on the
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desk of some production companies and stuff like that, and
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somebody asked me, they're like, three years ago you wrote that,
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and I'm like you just yeah, you don't understand. Sometimes
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that's how long it takes.
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Yeah, I have a Halloween movie that just released this week.
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We filmed that three or four years ago, it's just
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been released.
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Yeah, So sometimes it's a long process, but soon it's
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it's going to be soon.
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Yeah. Sometimes I wonder how Hallmark and all those gac
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they do it. You know, they film a Christmas movie
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in June and then it's out in December. It's just
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like when was it written? You know, how in the
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world do you all do it? But you know they've
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got it down pat So yeah, but big feature films
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of course, absolutely. Well that's great. So we understand. Well,
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I understand you also have a few other collaborations that
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you're filming Utah and Nigeria. Can you share what's next
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to what's coming or is that secret?
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No, you can't, I will share with you.
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So we filmed a Pentecostal church film here in Utah,
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an African Pentecostal church film in Utah, which is so
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random to do here in Utah, but it was so
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beautiful and so fun. We filmed that in June and
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that actually will be releasing probably in the next few months.
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Yeah. So that one because.
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It's made for this church's website for fellowshipping and outreach.
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So since it's going to their church platform and not
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like a theatrical release or streaming, then it's a quicker process,
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but that will be coming out soon. It's called The
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Present Help and it's such a cute, faith based family film,
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you know, just one of those like feel good, excited.
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I've seen a couple edits and I'm really happy with it.
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So we filmed that.
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And then we filmed a portion of another film. This
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one's going to be a another Nollywood feature film. It's
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called Lost in Legos, and we filmed all the Utah
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scenes in June as well, and then we will finish
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dressed to the film in Lagos, Nigeria in twenty twenty six.
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Awesome. And is that going to be released in twenty
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six or twenty seven, twenty.
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Six, twenty six, Yeah, yeah.
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And you're also I forgot to ask that earlier. You're
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also a music video producer too.
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I have done music videos.
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Yes, yeah, I love that story of the music video
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and so yeah, so if you're not familiar, Yes, there
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was a music song that was written for Revelations. It's
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an award winning song and yeah, Tanya put together the
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music video and what a day, right, Yeah, it's crazy.
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Yeah.
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Alex Boyer and I we were on a news, a
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morning news show, and then after the show. He it
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was like, we should do a music video like okays
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like today.
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So I made some phone.
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Calls and literally within hours we had you know the
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leather you've seen the video.
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Oh yeah, that's a great video.
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Absolutely, four wheelers, the truck, like everything just came together
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and we filmed it that day and we had our
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movie premiere that night.
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So it wasn't even a full day. But it's such
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a good video.
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It is a great video. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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African Cowboy, It's it's a beautiful song. I loved it.
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That's awesome, all right, And so what advice would you
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give someone starting or looking to start their career in
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the entertainment industry today? Because I know when I started
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three years ago, so my story was kind of I
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I just started after the death of my father, was
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writing and next thing, you know where I am today.
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And I will tell you one of the biggest things
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that is the lack of response. And I'm sure they
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get overwhelmed, But like, what advice would you give, because like,
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that's one of the biggest things that I've heard is
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nobody responds. And some actors and actresses just can't, you know,
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they can't they don't understand that, And so what advice
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would you give someone starting out, especially if they're not
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hearing from anybody.
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Well, first of all, you don't ever give up and
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just know that you're not going to get responses.
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But that's part of the industry.
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Like I am a casting director as well, Like I
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do all my own casting and I don't always email
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back every person who submits. I don't have time to
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send hundreds of emails where I just don't. So if
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you hear from me, great, If you don't, it's just
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the business. I try, honestly, I try to be good
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at responding, but I'm guilty of it too. So you
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just have to know that's part of the industry. But
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people ask me all the time how do I get started?
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And my advice.
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Is this, you need to have a good headshot first
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and foremost, get a good headshot, and you need to
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have some.
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Sort of demo real or show real.
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Because when I pull when I put out these casting calls,
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I get people all the time.
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Oh, I want to be a part of it. I
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want to be a part of it. Okay, great, what
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have you done?
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Well?
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If they don't have anything they've done, make a real.
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It doesn't have to be like a paid project you've
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been a part of. Do a monologue record it, make
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a real and so put together something. Because if people
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can't see your potential talent or your talent, then you're
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already not going to be a candidate. You know, people
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all the time will send me, you know, like I
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want to be a part of this, or will you
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cast me in this?
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Well, you've got to show me what you've done.
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So I think a lot of people, if they don't
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have a reel with you know, actual commercials or TV
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or movie that they've done, they don't realize they can
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put together a real that can be just as impactful.
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But we have to see what you can do.
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So I always tell people, get a good headshot, get
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a good real because no casting director is even going
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to look at you just by you sending an email.
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Because the amount of submissions.
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We get, like we don't you know, I don't have
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time to sit and fish and like just show me
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what you can do, you know what I mean.
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Oh yeah, there's one of the things that was one
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of the things that I could kick myself about because
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like I did think about acting when I was about
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four years ago. I mean it's been a you know,
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every kid wants to act or you know or yeah
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and so, and all the commercials that we did back
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in the day on radio and television that I did
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for the automobile industry when I did them for my
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father's dealership and mine can't be found because they were
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in the eighties and nineties and so they are in
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the nineties, sorry, not eighties, nineties, and so they can't
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be found. And we did some pretty crazy things, like
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when Survivor came out, I literally we put a truck
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in the woods and I was jumping in and out
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of the back of the truck, acting like a Survivor.
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And I remember it because I said, the tribe is
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spoken on the competition and oh, I can't find any
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of it, Like, we can't find any of it.
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And I tried, yeah, recreate that, Like if you wanted
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to put together real and you had a good concept,
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go record it. Like we just need to see that
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you can act. We need to see you know, your
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presence on camera. So I always tell people like, if
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you don't have a headshout and you don't have a
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real don't even bother submitting.
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I know, that sounds cold.
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But none, that's true. Yeah, absolutely, you have to.
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Yeah, And I see a lot of people, you know,
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there's some websites that I follow, you know, local casting.
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Sometimes people will post that they're.
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Doing like demo real material filming that day, Like they
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set up scenes and scenarios and they have characters and
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they create content for these reels. So if you're serious
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about acting, then be serious and put together a real get.
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A good headshot.
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And when I say a good headshot, like, don't use
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crazy filters, don't use a picture from twenty years ago.
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Because so many times, like.
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I see pictures in casting calls and then you see
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this person in real life and you're.
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Like yeah, yeah, like yeah yeah.
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So a lot of times you'll see in casting calls
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it'll say like send your headshot, send a recent picture
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or a snapshot, like they want you headshot and what
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do you look like today this minute?
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You know?
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Right, yeah, absolutely, yeah, And I might you know one
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thing too that popped in my mind that I would
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give advice to, because you know, we have people reach
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out to me too as far as productions, and they'll
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put like one or two lines and that's it, and
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then another thing too, is when you when you throw
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in like just a link to something, I mean, there's
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too many viruses that get you know, you have to
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craft and email it actually doesn't scare somebody into thinking
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it's a virus. And as soon as I click on that,
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because I've had one, yeah, they sent me and they said,
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you know, here's here's you know so and so, and
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it's just a link, and I'm like, I'm not clicking
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on it, you know, no and so yeah.
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Yeah, like put your headshots, put your and.
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Like I know a lot of people, especially when they're
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just starting, they don't have an IMDb account. But like
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if you have a link, like an IMDb link, that's
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helpful and you can put your reels on IMDb so
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you don't have all of these links to click on that.
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It's just like in one spot because that's kind of
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like a resume of all your projects and you can
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even list you know, your.
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War I mean, you know how IMDb.
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Yeah, that's always a good and people can create free accounts,
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you know, just you have to put effort into building yourself.
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Up and yeah, absolutely want.
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To pursue it. Then you have to put in the work.
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Yeah, absolutely great, advice. So how are you giving back? Like,
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how do you give back? So is there any charity
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out there that you give back to or you you know,
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we've had some people on the show during season one
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that they you know, we're teaching at the local theater
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or whatever. So how does ton you give back?
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So I am involved with a lot of different community organizations.
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One in particular that I absolutely love. It's called Young
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Caring for Our Young and it's with my husband works
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for the Young Automotive dealership and so this organization, we
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get together and we do pantry packs for the schools,
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which are you know, children they go to school and
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they can eat meals, but like when they go home
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on the weekends, they don't have food to get through
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the weekend. So they can grab these like pantry packs,
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you know, from their school. So it's actually like a
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backpack that the school gives them to take home all
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the mills for the weekend to get them through. So
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we get together and we put together these. We do
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a project in Mexico, We've done it for years and
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we go and you know, do school supplies and backpacks
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for underprivileged children there. So I have been very involved
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with young, caring for our young and that foundation, and
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then you know, through my church we do a lot
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of service. I have been involved in another organization for
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oh my goodness, it was a good like volunteered a
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good fifteen years of my life. Now with my my
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business and what I'm doing now.
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I haven't been as involved.
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But it's called Utah Share where we go and we
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help families who have lost children and we go to
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the hospital and do hand and foot molds and well
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dress their baby and provide keepsakes and so being a
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part of that organization. But giving back has always been
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something that I've been very passionate about because I feel
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like if you're blessed in this life and you're not,
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you know.
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Giving back and helping other people, then shame on you.
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Like our responsibility you know, to get back into help.
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And so any chance, you know, I get, I just
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the like a couple of days ago, my business partner
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that I filmed lost in Legos with and Ever Present
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help message me and he said, I'm doing a project
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in Africa.
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It was with school children. How can you help.
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I'm like, great, let me jump on board, let me help.
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And so any any time I can you know, whether
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it be financially if I can, or you know, with
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my time.
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Then I'll always you know, jump in and help where
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I can.
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That's awesome. Now is that where the Delta State Girl
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Child Ambassador came in or is that something.
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Different that that was fun? Yeah, I was brought to Nigeria.
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It was one of my trips in twenty twenty three
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and was made Delta Girls State Child Ambassador And that
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was just kind of like.
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What was fun? They presented me with an.
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Award and just being like a role model for for
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teenagers and helping shape their lives and just being an
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advocate of like making good decisions, and it was it
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was so beautiful and so amazing to go and be
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a part of that.
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And so that's awesome.
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Yeah, it was amazing. And so anything any last pieces
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of advice you want to give out there, or tell
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people where they can find you or how they can
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find you, or I know, we'll put some links up
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on our website, but anything else you want to add.
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Don't give up on your dreams and you can find me.
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00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:44.720
I'm actually quite easy to find Instagram, tout Price or
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Queen Tout Productions, Facebook, TikTok.
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Not good on Twitter for sure. Yeah, yeah, that's one.
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I'm out there.
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Now. I got to ask you, where did the Queen
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Tut come from? Where?
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I'm glad you asked, because.
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I was, Yeah, where did that come from? I've always
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wondered that when I saw that. Yeah, yeah, I.
598
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.559
Always feel like people think I'm a self proclaimed queen,
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like I am the Queen.
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No, not at all.
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00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.559
So when I when I was born, my older brother
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00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:21.759
was two years old and he couldn't say tanya. He
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00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:25.079
would say Tut tut, and so then it's shortened to tut.
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So since I was born, my name's been Tut so family, friends, everybody,
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00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:33.480
that's what they call me, like my nieces and nephews.
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00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.480
Nobody calls me. It's just Tut tut. And then I
607
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don't know.
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00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:39.240
Where Queen Tut came from, probably because there's King Tuck.
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You know, my name was Tut, so that was just
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you know something. So I've always been just Queen Tut.
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But it wasn't like a self proclaimed like I gave
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myself that title.
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Yeah no, I didn't think that. I knew it had
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to come from somewhere, and I just was like i'd
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been needed to ask you before and even when you
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were down during the festival, and I was just like
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I forgotten. I was just like I was, yeah, I
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was going to just ask you where it came from.
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It's cute that my older brother. It was just he
620
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couldn't say my name and it was just so. And
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then when I opened up my production company, I couldn't
622
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think of a good name. So it was just like, well,
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Queen tut that's my name.
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00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.039
So yeah, and there's so many production companies out there
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that you never never know.
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There wasn't, so I embraced that name just because it's
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cute and it came from my older brother, and it's just,
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you know, something that like lovingly friends and family have
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00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:35.799
called me.
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Yeah, because when I first started, I actually mine was
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mine was called Infinity Infinity Media, and I had I
632
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:48.079
had a woman who Jackie Smith, she's an actress out
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of Florida, and she came and she said, there's just
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00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.880
they'll never find you because there's just so many infinities
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and so she yeah, she's like, you never sleep though,
636
00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:59.720
so you never see the you know, the sun and
637
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.279
moon just run together for you because you're always writing
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00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:04.759
you're always up and stuff, and so she's like, you
639
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.079
should call it moonless and I'm like, okay, and I'll
640
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.319
always give her accolades because it was her thought. But yeah,
641
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.440
you're right, and you've got to come up with something, right,
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You got to come up with something that's not.
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00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.279
You know, yeah, it's it's a regional Yeah, glad you asked.
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00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.960
Yeah, it's kind of like with films. Get you know,
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you go in there. When I think of a title,
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00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:27.400
the first thing I do is look at IMDb and
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00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:29.960
see if there's one out there, because the worst thing
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00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.839
he wants to be a film that's number five and
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00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:37.160
you know so and going up against Julia Roberts or
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00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.720
somebody like that, no one there, film's always going to be. Yeah,
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So I like that. I love that. That's original, that's
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00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:44.799
where it came from. That's where the best one is.
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00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:48.359
Absolutely Well, Tan, you thank you so much for coming
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on the show today. Yeah, I appreciate it. And yeah,
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any filming coming up soon, well.
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Lost and Legos. But I have a couple months just
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00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.960
to enjoy and I'm just getting ready to travel to
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00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.559
another film festival here. You know me, I don't stay
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00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:09.400
put very long.
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00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:12.880
Yeah, and you know, I almost reached out to you
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00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.079
about another one, but you're going to be gone, so
662
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.440
well yeah, so but.
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00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:19.719
Anyway, ya, I have to be busy.
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Like yeah, I know, I was thinking that when you
665
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said I'm gonna be down for two months. I'm like, no, no, no,
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00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:28.440
she's not. So yeah, I'm sure.
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I'll find something. Like if something pops up, then it's like,
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00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.239
get fine there because I do. I like to stay
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busy and I love doing what I'm doing. And as
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long as I am giving given opportunities to continue doing
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what I'm doing and what I love, then I gotta
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take it.
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Awesome.
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I got to enjoy it. I can.
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You are not get out of here anyway. Yeah, well, Tanya,
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thank you so much for being on the show. I
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00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:59.039
appreciate it and we'll talk soon.
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Okay.
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Listen, you should have the pot that you know and
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the proper.
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For me at missing the shift on all so should
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media platforms. And if you like this podcast, we'll tell.
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Your friends about it.
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