Crystal
Appearances
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Coming up on Keep It Positive, Sweetie. Speaking of performances, you just did the Usher tribute at the BET Awards this year. Phenomenal. The way you crawled up on that stage, I said, only a tall girl could do that. Because I'd have been like... And you did it so gracefully.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I love how they do that now, where adults can enjoy it too, but the kids have no idea what they're laughing at.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Yes, yeah. I'm like, this is kind of deep, because I'm crying in the club. No, seriously, it is.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Beyonce had even quoted that movie in a recent interview, and I was like, wow. Wow, you're so like me. I'm sitting. Yeah, literally.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
What's your favorite movie? I'm curious. The Devil Wears Prada.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I can watch that movie any day. If I'm sad, I can watch it and quote it word for word. I love that movie. Oh my gosh. And they're coming out with a part two. Hello. You want to be in that? I do want to be in that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
With top-charting hits like I See You and Here We Go, along with the wildly popular role of Hilary Banks on Bel-Air, Coco seems to only be scratching the surface. I am so excited she's here to chat about her personal life, professional evolution, and work-life balance, and her love life. Well, at least I hope so. Coco, thank you so much for being here. I am a huge fan of all your work.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
That's iconic. I love Meryl Streep. Oh my gosh, she's good. Anne Hathaway. It's just a beautiful movie. Wow. That's fire. I love that. Yes. Now, you love cartoons. Is there any cartoon that you would love to play? It's given Disney Princess already.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
It's going to happen. I can already see that. It's written already. I can see that. I love it. So you're grown, you're running your businesses. I love talking about financial literacy and you said your mom taught you a lot of things. What are some things that you can give young women who are also like growing up and we have so many entrepreneurs now.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
at a very young age, what are some tips that you could give them to say, hey, these things you need to watch out for financially? Watch out for.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Are you parched? Drink some more water, honey, because you're dehydrated.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Love yourself in this area. Yes, that is hysterical. So I'm an artist as well. I love music. Mm-hmm. So I would love to talk to you about your creative process. Because you said you speak from your real life experiences and we feel it. We can feel it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I love you on Bel Air. I love your music. And then you were like a childhood actor as well. How has that evolution been going from being a childhood actor to now like being a grown woman doing your thing?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I feel like, I think me and Big Wes were talking about this, about how people can write songs for you and then the artist gets in the booth and they have a hard time singing it because they can't really relate to it. But we feel it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
So what is your creative process when you're starting to create music or is there like a thought and you just call someone like, hey, we got to get in the booth so we can do this?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Listen, I love the live performances. It's that studio process that is draining.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
A lot of actors are like that. They can't watch their work. But for me, it's like watching film.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I'm like, oh, I should have taken longer to be there. I should have did something different there.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I love you. I love your, you are so funny. It's a crumb. I love that. Speaking of performances, you just did the Usher tribute at the BET Awards this year. Phenomenal. The way you crawled up on that stage, I said, only a tall girl could do that. Because I would have been like... And you did it so gracefully.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Because I was like, I would have looked crazy trying to get up on that stage.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
do that yeah like they'll never know they'll never know oh but it was amazing yeah that's the performer in you like we definitely the show must go on the show must go on as i climb down mount everest towards usher That is hilarious. That was so dope. I love Usher. He's also from Tennessee. Is he?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
No, he was born in Chattanooga. What? Yeah, Chattanooga, yeah. Wow, I did not know that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
When is your birthday? January 4th. Okay, because he's a Libra, too. So if you were a Libra, I'd be able to say it all my life.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Yes, yes. That's awesome. I thought that was so dope, especially with all the women doing it.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I thought it was amazing, too. Yeah. You talked about therapy. Mm-hmm. And I know in this industry, it can have such a strain on our mental.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
At what point can you pinpoint some things that you were like, you know, I need to talk to somebody? Because you've been doing this for a very long time. And it's also a lot of pressure from a childhood actor being famous all these years. And we've seen it happen. You've maintained and done so well for yourself. Thank you. Yeah, no, seriously, I'm proud of you for that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
When was the point where you were like, I need to talk to somebody?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
That's good. So when you were a kid, who was handling everything? Was it your parents handling everything? It was my mom, yeah.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Are you more hands-on now as an adult? Oh, absolutely.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Yeah, and you believe them. Yes. Yeah, that is so true. Our mind is so powerful. Yes. There's things that we can literally forget that happen until you start talking to someone.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
You're like, wait, what? I lived through that?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
That happened? And I've been holding on to this? Girl.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
True. That is so true. That's good. You talk about we've all been in situationships. How is it dating as Coco Jones? Like, you are this big figure now. Like, I know for me, like, I find it hard to, like, I always want to keep everything private and low-key and, like, protect that. And, like, we're not hiding, but if you see us, you see us, but I'm not going to put it out there.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
How is that for you in this time? I agree with that. Yeah.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Baby, I want to take these lashes off, wipe this makeup off, put my scarf on and my bonnet and be all right.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
They used to make fun of me because I would not leave the house. And they're like, Crystal, who's going to be your door dash?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I was like, well, I don't even go to the door for him, so no. I'm serious.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
It is. Yeah, I like that. That's good because, yeah, I wasn't leaving the house. My friend's like, you need to put yourself in positions and in places to meet the type of man you want to be. Exactly. Because then you have to look at like, well, I keep meeting all these type of guys, but where are you going? Girl, you at the club. Exactly. Nothing good comes of the club. Well, one thing. What?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I met somebody in the club. Yeah. Are y'all still together? Yeah. Okay, something good comes to the club every once in a while.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
But it's so funny because that was the, his, both of our initial thoughts were like, Who gonna really take this seriously when we're in the club?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Like they don't know how to take, yeah. And his mom was like, he said his mom used to tell him like, whatever you meet in the club, leave it there. Oh my gosh. And I was like, the next morning I woke up and I was like, I hope he doesn't think because of where he met me that that's how I am. And he like, he said, he said, I thought the same thing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
He said, but then I talked to you one time and I was like, no, she's different. And then got to know me and he was like, okay, yeah, she's, she's real. I was, I mean, it was during the Olympics. I was out having fun.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I love that. You literally stole your mom's face. Like, y'all look, I was like, oh my goodness.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I actually had another friend who met her husband in the club. Girl, you're going to have everybody going to the club now. Going to the club. Looking for love. Love in the club. That's what she said.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
But no, you do have to put yourself in spaces where you want to be for sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. I love it. Coco, is there anything you have coming up that we need to know on the horizon? Well, my debut album will be out at the top of the year.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Okay. I'm coming to see you on tour. I cannot wait. I love to put on a good show. I love it. You do put on a good show. I can't wait.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I'm excited for you. Thank you so much. Yes. You are such a, oh my gosh, just a joy and a light.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I really enjoyed talking to you. Yes. Coco Jones, everybody. My conversation with Coco was so much fun. And one of the things that she shared that really stuck with me was being authentically her. She said that when she was doing music, a lot of times her voice did not match what she was singing, but she was really going through those things.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
When those two came together and she was authentically Coco, that's when it all came together. So that was my main takeaway. Thank you all so much for spending time with me today. Coco Jones came through with all the love, laughs, positivity, and it was so needed. You guys can follow me on all platforms at Love Krista Renee, and you can also follow our show at Keep It Positive, Sweetie.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Like, that is me. That is funny. No, when I saw you all during Grammy week this year, I was like, wow. I was like, spitting image, literally.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
That is so funny. As you're growing up and evolving in this industry, you've become a role model, but you're still so young. What does that feel like? Do you feel like I'm not there yet or do you feel like, okay, I can take on this role as a role model? I mean, humbly, I feel like I don't really know nothing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Yeah. Speaking of sisterhood, I'm a sister. I'm Tyler Perry's sister. But also a big sister in real life. And you as well. You portray a big sister on TV. How has that been? I love you and Ashley's relationship. I love... And I also love how they... At a young age, she's going through trying to figure out her sexuality. She likes men or women or boys or girls.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
And I love how you're so supportive of her. How has it been playing big sister and then being on such an iconic show as Bel Air? Because we both grew up watching Fresh Prince, and now you're on the spinoff. How does it feel and playing that role as a big sister?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
So it just feels like an honor to be able to do that. I love that saying. Now, being in the industry and having sister circles, have you been able to find your own sister circle within the industry? Because we get flack for not being, you know what I'm saying, girls' girls.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Can get a little shady. Very shady. How's your experience been? Because there are some good girls in the industry.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
But I also have some girls that like I really, really feel get me. Yeah, that's beautiful. You did start this industry at a very young age. What were some of the pressures? I know you said you were the one always looking up to the older girls because you were the youngest. What are some of the pressures that you dealt with?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
And then even some of those things that kind of broke your trust where you had to be more guarded?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
What were some of the experiences that happened that made you guard yourself?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Yeah, for sure. You talk about being put in a box. At what point were you like, I'm breaking out of this box. I'm going to be fully me and I'm going to do this thing.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
We have a new age gap. But the things that you talk about, I'm like, girl, me too.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Oh, honey. Well, if nobody, I know the numbers prove that everybody feels it, but I feel it. Yes. Thank you.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I appreciate that. I listen, like I love, here we go. I see you just won a Grammy for that. How was that? I don't even know. It was like, I don't even know.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Hello. Yeah. You have been working towards this for a very long time.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Still crazy. It's at my mama's house.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I'm like, girl, I can't look at that.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
That's awesome. In the middle of all this, there's so much happening. Do you ever find yourself having a hard time balancing your work life and your personal life?
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
That's real. Tasha Cobbs said something that was so profound to me. She said that rest is trust. Okay. She ate. No, ate. I was like, okay.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Go to sleep. Yes, because there's so much power in no. And I'm 42, so I'm going to do it. Oh, period. I'm 42. You look great. Thank you. I love that for you. Thank you. But I was such a people pleaser. Yes. And a yes, yes. Like you, okay, this is the one event. If I don't go to this, I'm going to miss something. And it's so funny.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
This is like a joke, but, um, bad boys for the latest bad boys came out and, um, Jacob, the guy who played Will's son, fine. But, um, Alicia Keys, I got invited to this event during BET award weekend and I ended up getting like this migraine. I was like, I just, I'm so tired. I can't go. Woke up the next morning and Jacob was there. I said, I should've got up. But I was so tired.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I'm Chris Renee Hazlitt, and this is Keep It Positive, Sweetie, a safe space to heal, laugh, grow, and love. Today's show is brought to you by BET, and I'm discussing sisterhood and much more with Grammy Award-winning and one of the stars of Bel-Air, Coco Jones. At only 26 years old, Coco Jones has mastered so much in the entertainment industry.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I was literally fighting for my life. But there's moments like that where I was like, I had to listen to my body. But then you wake up and you're like,
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I love that. For self-care, when you do have time, what are the things that Coco Jones likes to do to take care of herself? Yes.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
I look crazy. I'll put it in the chat.
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
Breaking Out Of The Box w/Coco Jones
Cause that's like that 90 minutes or however long you get it. That's where I literally put my phone down. Don't answer anything.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I'm doing fantastic. So definitely can't complain. Um, okay, John. So here's my question for you. I'm a 27 year old female and my partner is 30 and I am obviously having conversations with him moving forward in marriage, having children, um, But the biggest thing I have going on for myself right now is how do I make my partner feel respected and fulfilled in our relationship?
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Yes. So we are in a time where everything in our day-to-day will be good and we have... a conversation that will come up or some sort of disagreement slash argument. And it really just like, like really escalates to, you know, zero to a hundred and, And it just leaves me kind of feeling in turmoil.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
And in those conversations, you know, my partner, I just feel like he keeps referencing that he doesn't feel heard. He doesn't feel respected in the way that I communicate. And so I think just because I keep hearing those words of not being heard, not feeling respected, I don't really know where to turn. And, you know, what
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
to work on, you know, because those conversations are always coming up in a time of a flare up, quote unquote to say.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I do. And everything he does from work to how he treats people. I mean, I feel that I rave about him.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
To be... upfront and to just speak very black and white. And if I want something to just blatantly say it. And that's just how his brain works. And I feel that, you know, I maybe try to protect myself to protect him. And so I try to say it and, you know, advancing neutral party type of way. And we just, you know, dance around in conversation all the time.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I'm a little nervous that he'll be upset with me, even though my brain knows that he won't be. There's just something that it's just, I have such a hard time just letting it out.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
No. I mean, it's this internal... And I've noticed that ever since he's pointed that out, that I do that in a lot of areas in my life.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
What do you mean by hide from him?
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I would just say there's just some anxiety there. I know, that's what I'm asking.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Yeah, I think you definitely hit the nail on the head for sure.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I think over time, maybe that when we've been pushed into those conversations and moments of zero to 100, that it's either like, do I need to leave and do we need to take a break? So I feel that over time, because those conversations have alluded to that.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
From both. I would say majority myself. And I feel that I've put myself in this place.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Fortress and hide. I shut down in conversations.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I definitely wouldn't say to that degree. Like even in those conversations, we both try to have respect for one another and to never raise your voice and things like that.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
I always grew, I grew up that way. And it was a very, unless you're spoken to, you know, you don't really say what you need to say. Yeah. So, yeah, I think I've just, I've always grown up with, especially, you know, from my father, that was his big, you know, unless you're spoken to, your opinion doesn't really matter.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Yeah, that's definitely where I'm at right now.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Yeah. That's, it's funny you say that too, because that's something that I hear, you know, from him of like, you know, I feel that you've built up this brick wall and you know, how are you supposed to let me in? And like you said, even in the bedroom, so many different areas, um, that he's, This person is showing up and this person is every day like, let me be there for you.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Let me be there for you. And I just cannot. Let me rephrase that because I can. I need to let those walls down because you are right. And it is impacting my life in so many other ways.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Yeah. It's very true. And I work with... you know, I'm my boss's right-hand gal. Um, and that is a topic that we have talked about of, you know, I feel like we work together 24 seven, but I don't really let you know. He has no idea who you are. Victoria is.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
Yeah, I could not agree more. And I think, you know, again, that we are in this period of our relationship of... And, you know, he wants to so badly propose and he's talked about it and he just needs the utmost confidence in myself. And I feel that I do as well. And because, you know, we've both gone through families of... divorce and all of these things.
The Dr. John Delony Show
I’m Having An Affair With My Friend’s Wife
And so if we can have those hard conversations and put in the work now to give our future children a childhood and, you know, all of those healthy kind of relationships, like 100%, this has just been so helpful. And if this can get me there, like, I don't know, the best phone call ever.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Never Too Late to Clean Up a Financial Mess
Hey there. Hi. So my question for you is I'm a single mom of three. Um, I do have a mortgage and then I have $25,000 cash in the bank. I have $6,000 of 0% interest debt, and I have a car loan that I owe $25,000 on. Um, my annual income is $90,000. And so I'm just, trying to figure out, you know, I feel safer having that cash sitting in the bank, right? Because I'm a single mom of three kids.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Never Too Late to Clean Up a Financial Mess
And if I were to lose my job or, you know, something happened, that's kind of my safety net. So I'm just trying to figure out, should I put some or all of those funds towards paying off the debt that I have or leave it sit in the bank?