Mo Brown Suga
Appearances
Mick Unplugged
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Mo eats a lot of fruits. I eat a lot of greens, kale.
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I eat collard greens too.
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I eat collard greens. I love a lot of kale. I love things that give me energy. Beets are good for your hemoglobin levels. You know, you have to keep like people have to understand your iron levels and your vitamin D levels. They keep you thriving. They keep you like aware and alert. Be 12, you know, things like that that will give you energy when you don't think about it.
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When you don't eat well, you're sluggish. You can't think. You can't produce the right work. So I make sure that I, you know, blueberries in the morning. I make sure I have a lot of tea. Tea is very soothing, but tea is also a detoxifier. And sometimes we don't understand, like, you know, when you're stressed out, you have skin breakouts and things like that. And so all those things flush it out.
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And when your body is healthy, health is well. If you don't have health, you can't do anything.
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You ain't had the right, well, beats are beats. Like you had the right kind. You know what? You're absolutely right. It took me a while. Now I just eat it because, you know, it's more about discipline. You know, like I love flavorful stuff. I cook. Okay. But I also know that if I don't do this, it's going to affect my health. Reason being is unfortunately I am healing myself from fibroids and
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And, you know, when we hemorrhage a lot, when you lose a lot of blood, you lose your vital vitamins and things that, you know, just everything. And so I said, okay, do you love yourself enough to do this? You know, those are really the questions. And well, the things that you have to say, I don't want to say the questions, the things that you have to say to yourself.
Mick Unplugged
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Like a lot of times we invest more of our efforts, our energy and information into other people more than we would put it into ourselves. And I had to stop that. Because if I'm no good to myself, I'm no good to anybody else or anything else. So I really had to crack down and say, you're going to eat these beets.
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And you're going to put it with some vinegar and salt and pepper and garlic and some onions. You're going to put it in the salad. You're going to have it on the side. You're going to make it with your strawberries or your smoothies so that you don't really taste it. So I try to make sure I put it with other things so that you can't really taste it.
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Mix it with some salt and pepper and garlic.
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Mo Brown Sugar's Bodega.
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Thank you so much. I'm really receiving what you're saying because it was definitely a challenge to get the show done, especially working through the pandemic. And there were some people that wanted me to put the masks in it and stuff like that. And I said, well, I had to really say, I want this to be a timeless piece of work. I don't really want to date this.
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So I wanted it to be something that can go for a lot of years within this decade, I guess. And gentrification, the reason why it was so important to put it in was because when we first started filming, I can't remember which episode it was, but when we got to the bodega, we set up everything.
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And just as we were about to get the first shot in, somebody comes in and they say, we have to shut the shoot down. And I'm like, Well, why? What's happening? And they were closing the bodega because they were the neighborhood was being turned into something else. And it was quite devastating. I had all of my cast and crew there.
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And, you know, everyone really did try to go down to another street to get another bodega for us to film in that day. But it just wasn't. I said, you know, I'm going to make an executive decision. We're going to reschedule this. We're going to find a new bodega. But to experience being shut down. And I went back the next week and it was gone, like completely gone. And I was like, wow.
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And the crowd goes wild.
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And now they're high rise buildings. So I said, this is real. This is real life. This is happening. And the only way for us to shift this or change this or have awareness is for me to talk about it. And so I was really glad that my friend Jen was all for it. The wonderful, we'll say the wonderful white girl in the story. That is my girl. She was like, yeah, let's do it. We live here now.
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I was like, Jen!
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I was really grateful to do that. And we have such a melting pot here in New York, you know? And so it was just important to tell what's happening in Brooklyn.
Mick Unplugged
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Hi, that was amazing. Thank you.
Mick Unplugged
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I really appreciate it. And I'm receiving it and I won't get teary eyed. So, you know, I'll just I'll look away.
Mick Unplugged
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How did I begin? Well, as a little girl, I would always listen to the radio. I would listen to just Angie Martinez, which was on a hip hop station. I would also listen to Quiet Storm at night. And I loved, loved the mystery behind the voice. So it's so interesting that I'm in front of the camera now doing both, but I really, really love to be the mystery behind the voice.
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So I just, I said, if I could, I guess the word is evoke emotion without people even seeing me, then I thought this can be powerful. If I have these feelings just off of someone's voice, maybe I can do that and be the same. So I told Chris Mercado, my mentor at the time, I said, I really, really want to do voiceovers. And he was like, all right, let's see what you do with this one.
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And it was Foxy Brown's album release. And I remember the first time he put me in the booth, I said, Foxy Brown's back! Just like that, with a new album. And I was like, he said, yes, how'd you nail it on the first go? And I just said, I just went for it. I just did it. And from then on, I got a check that said $300. And I was like, that thing was 30 seconds. I was like, what?
Mick Unplugged
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This was like 2005, 2006. And once I saw that check, I was like, she's in. And then I just kept going. And then I did, Chris Brown had one coming out. And there was one more, Rihanna, when she had Good Girl Gone Bad. And so once I started, then I signed up with a voiceover agency online. I signed up with a voiceover agency.
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I saw all of the things, all of the opportunities, all of the possibilities. You can do voicemails. You can do trailers. You can do documentaries. When I saw the widespread of things that I could do, I said, whoa. And it just took off from there.
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Yes. I would love to.
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No, I would love to. Yeah. So when, when you just see all of the things that you can do and cartoons. Yeah. Like that, it was just like, this is it. I can touch all ages, all stages. Because people always ask you, oh, what's your specific genre or age range or whatever that is? And you're like, I don't really want to stick to just one. I want to touch everyone as much as I can.
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And so once I saw that voiceovers would let me do that, I went for it.
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Let me sip my mango juice. Hold on.
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St. Mary. Highgate, Slington. That is the countryside.
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Like, they still are having issues with, like, water and pipes and, you know... It's still giving country, but yeah, St. Mary, Jamaica.
Mick Unplugged
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Aki and saltfish. Okay. Do you know Aki and saltfish?
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Yes, I love Aki and saltfish with peppers and scotch bonnet pepper with dumpling. Mm-hmm.
Mick Unplugged
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Oh my gosh. Energetic. A lot of people ask me like, do you drink? Do you do this? Do you do that? I'm like, I literally was born energetic. So I feel fiery. I feel passionate. How does it feel to be Mo? It feels... Joyful. I know how to, even in situations that are like really, really sad, I have the ability to bounce back and find the good in things.
Mick Unplugged
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Yes. I love plantain too. That plantain is my favorite.
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Yeah. Well, I can saw fishes, you know, and plants and that's my favorite. But being that I had to change my diet due to, you know, the fibroids, I had to cut meat. I had to cut oxtail, all of those good things. I was like, oh, I still cook it and make it for my people, but I can't eat it anymore. So I just enjoy the smells, but I can make a mean red snapper.
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Stuffed with, some people don't like okra, but stuffed with okra and peppers and rice and cabbage and plants.
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Oh, wow. Okay. Wow. Ah.
Mick Unplugged
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Like what's your favorite part of New York? You know what? That might have to be something that I, I look into now because I used to. So before the pandemic, New York was very different. So now, you know, there's a lot of new restaurants. There's a lot of new man-made parks. There's a lot of newness in New York. So although I've been here a long time, I feel like I'm relearning my own city. Yeah.
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Yes.
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Okay, yes. I love Ditmas Park.
Mick Unplugged
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Oh, everybody hangs out in Brooklyn. No, Brooklyn is lit. I must say that. Ditmas Park, I choose that now that I'm thinking about it. I choose that area because, well, well, y'all don't want to tell everybody that. That's the But it's best of both worlds. You have houses and trees and it's very suburban. And then you can walk down the street and go get all the food that you want.
Mick Unplugged
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You got Caribbean, you got Mexican, you got pizza, you have all of that when you hit Flatbush Avenue. So I like the melting pot of, you know, Brooklyn.
Mick Unplugged
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She wanted to go to Queens. I mean, shout out to Queens.
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I can say this without hesitation. So I toured with Melvin Van Peebles. Do you know Melvin Van Peebles?
Mick Unplugged
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It was such an adventurous time. We did Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. We toured with that. And I played a prostitute. And I was the dirtiest hoe, honey. Oh, my God. It was amazing.
Mick Unplugged
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It was so fun. It was like your, you know, your curiosity. Like I remember one, one show, my dad came and the director was like, Mo, you were the dirtiest. We were sucking your finger and everything. I said, Hey, I was nervous. I was just going right in. But it was Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death with Melvin Van Peebles with the Classical Theater of Harlem. And it was amazing.
Mick Unplugged
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It took place in the 1970s. And I learned a lot about the music, the life. I did learn a lot about... I'll say this, you know, you have to learn about the streets and stuff like that, which my parents protected us from all of that. So in learning how they function and how they made money, it was amazing. Okay. And would I do it again? Yes.
Mick Unplugged
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Well, we are in the process of a Mo Brown's Bodega tour right now with the film festivals. So we just did the American Black Film Festival. We just won the Queen City Film Festival for Best Series. Another festival by the name of Revolution Me, which is an industry city of Brooklyn, which is a hotspot. So... oh my gosh, there's another one.
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But, oh, the women's, imagine this Women's International Film Festival that was at this Dine-In Cinemas. It's this theater that has a bar. Like I cannot do anything that is less than after these experiences. Okay. Like they had us in these comfortable seats that go back. They were serving drinks and food while you're watching. And I'm just like, Oh my God, this is a dream.
Mick Unplugged
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So I'm actually in the midst of hitting the film festival circuit with Mo Brown's Bodega while we are in the writer's room pre-production for season three.
Mick Unplugged
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And, you know, and living, noticing that a lot of people aren't really like that. I really don't take that for granted. So it feels joyful. It feels energetic. It feels fun. And what is the word? Wanderist. Like wanderlust.
Mick Unplugged
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Yeah. We're in season three. I'm just like, wow. And to see the support and the amount of people that want to be a part of it is really nice. You know, I stood by it and I believed in myself and I believed in my team and I didn't give up on us.
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My Instagram, at Mo Brown Sugar. I'm on YouTube as well. And you can go to mobrownsbodega.com, mobrownsugar.com, and sugarproductions.com. But I'm very active on my Instagram. And yes, people talk smack about Facebook, but I am active on my Facebook too.
Mick Unplugged
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Oh my gosh, you're not on Facebook?
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Like, I'm sorry? The only people that say they're not on Facebook is like the 19-year-olds. They're like, that's for old people. I'll be like, what? Facebook owns everything, okay? Meta this.
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Love you too. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I really appreciate it.
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Wander and wander.
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I can say to spark, to spark energy, to show people that they can do anything that they put their mind to. And that was from when I was a little girl. You know, my family was always supportive in the arts and just, they always said, you can be whatever you want to be. You can do whatever you want to do. And so when you have that instilled in you, you're like, okay, I'm just going to go for it.
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So my why, I wanted to spark. I wanted to bring energy to the world. I wanted to, like I said, show people that they can do anything and be anything. And my family's Caribbean. So to come from another country, and I will say this, a lot of Caribbeans, mostly growing up, they were nurses and in the medical field.
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So to be able to do all of this to this capacity is something that my ancestors, their wildest dreams. It's like, whoa, like it's not just the saying when people say that. So yes, I hope I answered that.
Mick Unplugged
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Oh my gosh. Energetic. A lot of people ask me like, do you drink? Do you do this? Do you do that? I'm like, I literally was born energetic. So I feel fiery. I feel passionate.
Mick Unplugged
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So I did tell this story on a show recently, but you know, want to share it, share it. So I was actually in elementary school. I think I was in the third or fourth grade and we were in African dance and they were giving like purple belts, like it was karate and, you know, stuff like that.
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So I received a purple belt, which was, you know, great dancers or whatever that, what is it, award was for the dance. And the drummer just started, you know, playing. And it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then he started going, da, da, da, da. So I'm dancing and all of a sudden I feel goosebumps.
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And all of a sudden the crowd is like, woo! Woo! And I'm like, oh my gosh. Like I literally feel, I could feel the energy of the people. And I started seeing their excitement. I started, because before, you know, everybody was touching and the seats and the chairs. And once I started dancing, I saw the energy of the crowd. I saw the excitement. I saw the...
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what I could do, the ability that God gave me to wake people up. And so from then I knew that this was something that I just couldn't leave. And it was something that could wake up this world and I had purpose.
Mick Unplugged
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Well, I'll say, ooh, that is a really good question because I did start at a young age. So we'll say I went to Professional Performing Arts High School, which is in the city on 48th Street. To give a little context of the school, it's the same school that Alicia Keys went to. So when she was graduating, that's when I was coming in. So we were in Alvin Ailey and, you know, we were doing ballet.
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We were performing at Lincoln Center. These were like huge places that when you're young, you don't really realize. The amazingness of it. And, you know, now I do, being that I just mentioned that my family comes from Jamaica, the islands, and, you know, there wasn't much opportunity, you know, then.
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But in high school, starting in Alvin Ailey and seeing my potential and seeing the things that I can do, I was like, I'm going to go for this. I'm going to go get me an agent. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to go to college. Right. I went for communication studies in theater.
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I also did broadcasting and media, but when they told me that I had to do like extra credits, I was like, okay, so we're going to roll with what we have. And everything is just going to, you know, come with. It was very funny now that I think about it. So starting off in, you know, hardcore training in high school led me to really take myself seriously in college.
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So in college I was, you know, performing, doing all this amazing things, hosting, hosting the sorority and fraternity events. They're huge. Wow. OK, so when you start to host big crowds like that and you start to see your skill set, you're like, OK, I'm going to I'm going to take this serious. And by the time I was really, really into it, we'll say 2007, the stock market crashed.
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And when that happened. Broadway plays were shutting down. Plays couldn't go up for productions. All kinds of things were happening. And I was like, well, you just spent like a decade of your life doing all of this. Are you about to let it go? And so I decided to write a short film with a friend of mine. And we said, you know what? Let's put it in the LA Real Film Festival.
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Let's see what we can do. We put it in the film festival and we won. I won for best director. So I was like, I got something going on here. And so from 2009, I just kept producing work. I just kept working, saving money, doing everything that I could. And actually I was working, however,
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I can say to spark, to spark energy, to show people that they can do anything that they put their mind to. And that was from when I was a little girl.
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When sugar productions first came into fruition, I took a jar, a spaghetti jar, and I filled it each day where I would take my change and I would put my pennies in there. Before you knew it, I had $44 in pennies. And I took that $44 in pennies and I took my sugar production seal and I went to the bank and I said, can you guys open up this bank account for me, please? Can I do this for 40 pennies?
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And they say, you sure can. And so I opened my sugar productions company with those $44 in pennies. And I said, anything is possible. And I took that and I ran with it and I produced anything that I could. Music videos, films, you name it. We did short films, full feature films, like anything and everything. If I felt it and I saw a way to make money, I was going to do it. So yes.
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So we'll, we'll bring it back in and say the serious route of when I was like, okay, we're going to do this is when the stock market crashed and I wanted to create opportunities for people.
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Well, if it's in you, then there's a way. So just like how you would believe in other people, just like how you would push other people, you have to do that for yourself.
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Well, if it's in you, then there's a way. So just like how you would believe in other people, just like how you would push other people, you have to do that for yourself. A lot of people don't understand that. They don't understand the power of talking to yourself. They don't understand the power of... I know a lot of people say, oh, mirror work doesn't work for me or whatever, but...
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It really, really does. Looking in your own eyeballs, you know, writing things down. Manifestation and meeting God, where your goals and dreams, they do line up, you know? So I want you to ask me one more time because I want to make sure that I am getting your answer or if I didn't give it.
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Write it down. Because sometimes when things are in your brain, it's cloudy, it's foggy. Once you get it out, you can start to say, okay, I have five things on this sheet. What do I need to do to complete one? Then when you have one written down, what will I need for that? Then you do that with the next.
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So it's about organization and breaking things down and what you need and what you can do and what's possible. And not being afraid to ask for help. So many people are afraid to ask for help. Man, if you don't ask somebody to help you, you know, like when you look at buildings, when you look at so many things, none of it is done alone.
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So people shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. So writing things down, organizing things and asking for help.
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Yeah.
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I had a mentor. Well, he's still active in my life. I have a mentor. His name is Chris Mercado, and he was my radio mentor and voiceover mentor. And so he worked at 107.5 WBLS. He showed up. A lot of times, that's the first step, showing up, being present. Sometimes people don't understand that just by someone being there matters. So I say Chris Mercado, he showed up.
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He was willing to share knowledge. You know, sometimes people hold on to things for dear life and it's like, no, you're supposed to pass the baton. Pass the baton. So showing up, giving knowledge. That was what Chris Mercado gave me. Not being afraid to share opportunities. There's enough for everyone to go around. We are in a big world.
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You know, there's so much that we can share and give and create and do. Let's see, what else did Chris Mercado do? I mean, I also did a lot of research on the people that I really loved and admired and was inspired by. For example, Queen Latifah.
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I love Queen Latifah, everything that she stands for, everything that she does, even her course correction of the things that she has, you know, done wrong in her life and sharing that because sharing those stories actually help people and show them that, you know, we can make mistakes, but we can also fix them. You know, you are not your mistakes. You know, I also love Candy Burris.
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Do you guys know Candy Burris? Candy Burris is a beast of a business woman. Okay. Yes. So those are three people that I really used in my life to stay focused. And on top of that, I eat well. Because when you eat well, you can focus and you don't get brain fog.