AT&T Dream In Black (Ft. Robyn Dixon)

Charlamagne Tha God interviews entrepreneur and reality TV star Robyn Dixon.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The planet. I go by the name of Charlemagne and God.
Here with a T and T Black Future Makers presented
by a T N T dreaming Black and we're talking
with black creators who are shaping the now, the new,
and the next for coaches Black the business over here.
I'm here with the amazing Robin Dixon. Robin, what's happening?
What's up? Charlemagne? It is going to be here with you.

(00:23):
I'm happy to have you here. You've got five seconds
to tell your story. What's the first line? In that
five seconds? My life went from a fairy tale to
my worst nightmare and now I'm living my wildest dreams.
What are the misconceptions about the work you do? The
misconception is that it's easy. You don't think they can
hop in front of a microphone and just talk. They think, oh,
I got a crazy lifestyle, I got a crazy family.

(00:45):
We can get in front of TV. You know, being
on the podcast, being on reality TV is very intrusive.
You gotta be able to take the good with the
bad and that bad it's hard. Do you see yourself
is paving the way for other young black town I
absolutely do see myself paying the way because just getting
out there and doing it with podcasting. I've never even
been on a podcast before, especially never hosted one, and

(01:07):
so for me just to say, you know what, I'm
gonna give it a try, and here we are. Recently,
Shady has been very successful. We're still growing. I think
that shows that anybody, if you have an idea, a dream,
you can go for it. What failure? Are you most
proud of? Going dead? Broke? Having negative money in my
bank account? I mean, I'll be honest. Our lives started
off this fairy tales. You know, my husband played in

(01:28):
the NBA. I lived a beautiful life for like nine
years or so easy. But going broke, I'm so proud
of that because that has totally made me who the
woman I am today. And I'm proud to share that
with people. The fact that I can share that with
people and share my story it helps other people. So
you know, there's so many good things that have come
from going broke. For more real talk from creatives who

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