June 24, 2020 • 34 mins
Meagan Good is a very popular film and television actress, she began starring in commercials at age four and has filmed more than 60 national television ads plus movies and television shows. Making the transition from child star to adult is not easy to do. You've seen her in Think like a Man and Think Like a Man Too, The Intruder," and "Shazam!." Up next, she will star in Sony's "Monster Hunter," which will be released in 2020. She was recently seen on OWN's new series, "Girlfriends Check-in." She wrote a game-changing relationship book with her husband, entitled The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love. She is a philanthropist, started The Greater Good Foundation with her sister, and an entrepreneur with Good Girl Wraps by Meagan Good. They are the multi-functional hair accessory you have been looking for to complete your out & about, workout, or bedtime look. An elastic-free design with ties allows the wearer to personalize the fit of the wrap to their own head, maximizing comfort. Meagan's light-weight satin wrap is great for keeping locks, twists, braids, and an array of natural hairstyles beautiful and healthy throughout your day, working out, or while you sleep. Satin is known to reduce hair breakage by locking in moisture and allowing you to feel cool on hot days and warm on cool days. She is on the show to discuss her acting career, “Will there be a Shazam 2?,” her new Good Girl Wrap, and the powerful relationship book she wrote with her husband. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Meagan Good.
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and how to live a balanced life. My next guest
is a very very popular film and television actress. You've
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seen here in movies like Thinking Like a Man, Think
Like a Man Too, The Intruder and Shazam of next year,
Starr and Sony's Monster Hunter, which will be released hopefully
this year and when the pandemic years. So every thing's
kind of odd, but this movie Monster Harner's Everybody's waiting
to see that movie that she's starting in. She was
recently seen on owns new series of Girlfriends check in.
(02:09):
I checked it out myself. She wrote a game chamming
relationship book with her husband entitled The Weight At Powerful
Practice for finding the Love of your Life and the
Life you Love, which I love that title. She's a philanthropist,
started the Greater the Greater Good Foundation with her sister
and an entrepreneur. Were Good Girl raps a boy making good.
They're a multi multifunctional hair accessory that could be warm
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when you're out and about, work out a bedtime. Look,
I am going to buy that for my daughter. Please,
working with money, making conversations making good. Uh, it's so
funny to make. And I saw the raps right, and
so because I was, I said, my daughter was upsjested.
(02:52):
I said, I said, that name is christ Christie. How
to get out here? I gotta show your something. I
gotta show you something simple. You know, she's twined two
senior in college. I think I finally found something because
she comes down here with these things on her hair. Megan,
I'll be like, I'll just be staring on this is
not We do have money, baby, we do have a
little money. You can do better than that. And so
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I showed her this and she said, uh, Dad, she
picked out like three different options that we're gonna buy it.
Just tell us about the whole concert. I'm just letting
you know as a man, I saw it, our dad,
I saw it. I fell in love when my daughter
picked out three of them, and I think they're just beautiful.
You can we can you know when you go to
the store. She can wear them. When she goes to
the gym, she can work out in him. She can,
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thank God, she can go to sleep and wake up.
And I'm not terrified when she comes into the kitchen.
Well I don't know what she got on her head, Megan,
but at least when she comes to the kitchen now
with your your half your hair wrap, I'll be excited
and thankful that she's my daughter. I gotta tell you
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the truth. Now I'll be struggling with the head wrap
that I don't know. You know, we, like I said,
we had a little success making in that life. But
the good Year rap that you have produced all my
favorites now okay, oh yeah, yeah, I was like super
excited to create them because you know, um from one
of my stylists, Um, I have two Nfia Oliver and
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carry and we created the Goddess locks the dreadlocks look together. Um.
And so what happened was I was wearing the style
so much and I was going to the gym gym
and trying to work out, and everything I did my
hair was flipping my face and then I'd be trying
to wash my face and I couldn't sleep comfortably and
images like the whole thing. And so we developed this
rap and it literally was like a lifesaver. And then
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the more I mean, we're at workout videos, people would
ask like, well, where did you get that? And what
is that? And I was like, you know what, I
just need to create a line and make them available
and also just make it so people can choose their
different styles and look better fits like you know, how
they want wanted to be. So that's really how it
came about. And uh and it did really really well.
The first day we sold out on the collection and
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congratulations from the second collection, thank you, And so we're
getting ready to start the third collection now. And the
cool thing is like, you know, I'm able to see
people's input like oh, I would really like to see
more of this kind of color, that kind of color,
more printed whatever, so that's that's the full thing is
like every collection, I really take people input into account
and try to create something that all women feel good
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and comfortable with and even some men are able to
wear them as well. So I saw that, I saw
some photos, you know, and of course you know if
you have dreadlocks and things like that, and you know,
they definitely will be perfect for that. And I thought
that were just all I know is that when I
saw it, I immediately liked it and I felt this
was a natural, comfortable look. It could be jazz. So
you can wear them out, you know, to a restaurant,
you can wear you know, you we out to if
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you depending on the look that you buy, I want
to feel well, you can go out to a party
with I'm wearing it. So I really felt comfortable with
the look, and I just I was excited about you
coming on my shoulder discuss it, and because as an entrepreneur, no,
we all have great ideas, and so how you know,
you talked about the journey about it, you know, because
it was just your idea. What made it real though,
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what made it like, okay, well let's do this. Because
a lot of people stopped at the idea because they
don't think nobody's gonna buy it, or nobody's gonna even
want to show them how to produce it, right. I mean,
I was already working um with another company. I was
creating a line of flannels because you know, I'm an
eighties baby, so in the nineties, you know, and flannels
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was always like a stable part of your outfit. So
I was already creating a flannel line with my sister,
and where the money that we were raising through the
flannel line was going to our foundations, and so I
already had the relationship. And what I realized is, you know,
once I was wearing my wrap, if people just kept
asking for a year, the question never stopped and people
were always interested. So I was like, all right, it's
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been a consistent thing. People are into it. I think
they'll buy it. Let's just you know, give it a
run and we'll see what happens. And um, and people
really took to other really well. So I was like, okay, well,
let's you know, create even more. And so it's it's been.
It's been really great. Because I know, as a woman,
whether you have dread twists, bread, big curly hair that
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you don't want to wash and style every day or
whatever it is. Like, I know for a fact that
this is the product that I would use and I
wish I had earlier, And that made me feel confident
that somebody's going to get some great use out of this.
So congratulations again. You know, when I look at you,
when I look at your career, like when I was
managing Steve Harvard when we started together back in two thousand,
(07:35):
the first time I really got to see you and
introduce myself to you was the movie You Got Served,
And uh, that's way you know, it's way back then,
way back then. Just to talk about your your body
of work, because you begin starting in commercial at the
age of four, and I've done over sixty thousand, sixty
sixty national TV commercial in an untold number of films
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and television shows. I just only missed a small my
of your success. In fact, I didn't even mention any
of the television series that you've started very successful on.
So how what has helped you to make that transition
from a child star to an adult star, because that's
a hard make sometimes because you're so cute to qute see,
(08:17):
and when you become an adult people don't buy the
cute cute see, or you don't mature correctly, or you
don't have the support system. What has helped you, megan? Um?
I think you know. The first thing was like prayer.
You know, when I was nineteen, I was I was struggling.
I still looked fifteen sixteen, And it was the first
time in my life I was like, Okay, I'm seeing
people around me getting work and I'm not getting work.
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So the first time I prayed, I was like, all right, God,
is this what I'm supposed to be doing. And here's
the thing. I'm gonna just put it on the altar
and say, I want what you want for me more
than what I think I want for myself. One more time.
Now there's like in church, and I say that one
more time. Come on later, I want what you want
for me more than what I think I want for myself.
There you go. Um. And so I was the first
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time I had gotten confirmation that this is the business
that I should be in. But that's it's bigger than
than you know, being able to do something that I
love and I'm passionate about. It's bigger than being in
an industry. People consider you celebrity or whatever it is.
It's bigger than all that. It's really about using the
platform that God has given you as an ability to
as an opportunity to build the kingdom, and to really
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be used in whatever way He wants to use me.
So once I got that confirmation, that gave me the
confidence to know that, like, okay, so I'm gonna be
okay because this is bigger than me anyways. And I
just kept trucking along and trying to make smart decisions
um and and you know, show however I could like okay,
I'm becoming a woman now and trying to watch that
that balance because you know, at that time, there was
(09:44):
all the men's magazines and I did a bunch of them,
but I made Yeah, when I did it, it it was
like okay, so no baby, when you did them, we're
talking about the king magazines and all those type of
magazines and were were but they said a bad message
or the incorrect message of who your or what your
(10:04):
brand or who you represented. Don't you think? No, I don't,
because I think at that time that is who I was,
you know. And my thing is like I've you know,
I've I've come under fire a lot about saying like,
as a Christian, I don't mind being sexy, and I
own that part of myself. I love that part of myself.
Um and what I realized, you know, my my journey
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has been unique to you know, I didn't grow up
in the church, but my mother was always read your Bible,
get to know God, have a relationship, not a religion
with Him. And so as I pursued a relationship with God,
I got saved when I was twelve. I got three
baptized when I was nineteen on my own. So at
that time and I was doing the King magazines, a
Black Man or whatever it was, and I was three,
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my feeling was like, I'm gonna own who I am
and be comfortable with who I am. But what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna go into a place that
some would consider dark and I'm gonna spread light. So
if you look at each one of those interviews, not
only did I not wear you know, lingerie or bathing suits,
or do any backshots or anything that was too suggested
that item feel comfortable in my spirit about, but I
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also every single interview I talked about God. I talked
about my relationship with that I talked about being a Christians.
I talked about there's a there's a way to still
be comfortable with your sexuality without overtly, you know, doing
things that are really about look at me, look at
me versus I love me. I embraced me, And so
for me, it was it was walking a line of
like what feels right in my spirit that I'm not
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lying to myself. I'm being honest, like whatever God places
in my spirit, I'm owning that. But I'm also not
conforming to what people say a Christians should be because
I know my heart and I know who I am
at the core, and God knows me and we talk.
So at the end of the day, I can do
religious and I can do what people think I should
do and who they think I should be, or I
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can own who I am and every season and allow
me and allow Him to guide me. And so that's
what I did. And so I think my my journey
has definitely been an interesting one, but I've always been
with God do all of it. That's beautiful, and that's beautiful,
and I'm glad you're saying that. That's why I'm kind
of like being quiet. Let you say your conversation because
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people need to hear without interruption, the message you're trying
to deliver. And that's important because of the fact that
you know, we we we we have preconceived notions of
who people are just how they look or just how
they dress. And that's what you're saying, Okay, I embrace
who I am, but that doesn't mean I can't embrace
my love of God or the respect that I had
for him. And if you want to read something differently,
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but whilere you looking at that photo, read the article.
How about that, read the story, opened the book, okay,
and and go through, go through the messages. I'm trying
to tell the consistent values I'm trying to say. And
I think for young people that that's important because especially
with social media today, we can get caught up and
likes and getting caught up and and trying to we
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look in a certain way and pose a certain way
in order to grow our and base. And you're saying that, honestly, honestly,
what yourself is the key to that. That's what you're saying, Like, yeah, transparency.
What people are gonna respond to is you not trying
to be anybody else, but being yourself. The honest people
who are gonna like you, dig you, that are going
to be your tribe and support you, are going to
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support the truest version of you. So I'm comfortable with
knowing that at ten years old, I was doing off
Broadway shows with drag Queens, and I'm still a Christian.
So the way I see the world, the way I
perceived drag Queens, the way I perceive a lot of
things may be different than some other Christians, but I
know that God allowed me to have that experience and
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the mindset that I have. When we talk about what's
appropriate or with modest, well, my different my version of
modest is gonna be different than yours based on my upbringing.
So as long as I own that and I lean
into like God, what do you say as it pertains
to me, that's the only thing I have to do.
And I try to encourage other people, especially young people
to do that as well, because they think that if
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you don't fit into a and box, you can't. You
have to choose to do that box. And having a
relationship without or not having a relationship with do you
have a podcast because you have a partner? Come tell
you some girl, you I'm tell you, you know, I
like to believe I recognize talent. Okay, you got you
got the acting down path, but your motivational skill and
your own point about what young people need to hear
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and old people need to get people in general, male
and female, everybody, because your your conversation is welcoming to everybody.
And if you have thought about doing a podcast, start
if you have thought, because I feel that your message
and then you know it needs to be heard if
you just just think about it, like you said, if
you never, I'm sure you've heard this before, just like
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the wraps. You know, people kept telling you, girl, I
need that, I need it. I need that when McDonald's
come along. You know something, um excuse me. You need
to be worldwide on your own platform or your message
won't be interrupted and you can share and get other
like minded people who look like or don't look like you,
and be able to you know, this is about love,
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your message about love. It is so clean. When I
hear you talk, Megan, it's amazing. It's just like it's
like drinking a good cold glass of water on a
hot sunny day. Oh it feels good, Oh it feels good.
Don't it. Oh my god, you go, oh, I feel
good and that's what. Then you're talking so clean, there's
no stuttering, there's no there's no pause about no revelation. Well,
(15:28):
let me think about it. It's just like I said, well,
do you think that was against your bread? No? No,
it was not you. You did not like you didn't
like hesitate, Rachal. I know who I am, and that
is important when people get caught up, get caught up
in decipher bullying, get caught up and should I look
this way? Should A dressed this way? And you're saying
God defines you, believe in him, believe in yourself and
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don't don't. Let's they say, um, veer left or rock
and that's what you're saying, beautiful, beautiful, And think it's
important that we that we have a relationship with God
where we hear from Him for ourselves. I want to
be in a position where someone comes up to me
and they say I have a word from God. I
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can say, yes, I received that, my spirit agrees, or
no you don't. I don't. I don't feel your spirit
that's for me is not from God. And then have
that type of confidence. I feel like that's how in
true God we have to be. And when you're in that,
when you're that in tune, it doesn't matter that some
people are not going to understand you because they're coming
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E R. Dot Ai. I want to get to the book.
The wait I read the book. I want to ask
a couple of questions. That's some fervord lines I want
to run by. But I gotta talk about Shazam. Okay
one um, you made an appearance in that, but it's
one of my favorite movies. In fact, when you when
you finally make an appearance and other adult versions of
the kids making the appearance, it's one of my favorite
(19:00):
parts of the movie. But one of my one of
my was endearing parts is how you were able to
be an adult but you maintain that childlike quality in
your acting performance. Uh that was I mean I smiled
every time I see it, and I go wow, you know,
you know, you know, people are talented, but certain things
(19:20):
that you can show goes. That's an extra gear of
talent that she has. Talk about that whole what I'm
talking about. And Shazam is a very popular superhero. You know.
He says, Shazam is a little fitting your ball and
he becomes this adult superhero care character were a long way.
You know, there's these kids at this foster home and
you play your your childlike characters. Was one of these kids.
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And you eventually in the in the movie at the
end said shas Am, and you became an adult version
of your childlike character, but you still had those childlike
characters characteristics talking talking to us about that maintaining that
little reaching its side and hold holding onto that little
baby man. Well, baby Megan has always in there, you know. Um.
(20:05):
And I think, you know, it might come as more
of a shock to people just because you know, again,
like through my twenties, I was kind of like that
sexy girls. People don't realize oftentimes that there there's there
are a lot of different gears and that you know
sometimes like for me through my twenties, that was kind
of one gear. Was like, yeah, that's the side of me,
you know, but there's so much more. And so the
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cool thing about Shazam was like I have started my
I had started my workout journey like maybe barely two
years before that, because I told Devon, I said, they
really want to be a superhero like I want to
do like DC or Marvel. And he was like, that's great, honey,
what are you doing to meet got halfway and I said,
what in my mind? You I had my glass of
wine in my hand. I'm watching my Scandal or something.
(20:48):
He said, what are you going to meet? Go halfway?
And I was like, wow, you're right safe without working dead, Okay.
So I said my little self to the gym. I
got a trainer, I changed my eating habits, I cut
back on my wine, and I started working out like
five times a week for about a year and a half.
And then I got this audition for Shazam. I didn't
even know what it was. I had no idea it
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was a superhero movie. I was just going in there
and being a seven year old and then I get
the call that I got the part, and I was like, so,
what is it. They're like Shazamn. I was like, oh,
Kazam was like shocked back in the day. They're like, no,
shazamne and I looked it up and I was like, wait,
what these superhero movies? And I like, I kid you not.
I bust out crying. I was like in the middle
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of a strip mall. I was like said yeah. Years.
I was like on crying outside of like a nutrition store,
like ran in and told like the lady behind the
count was like I just got a movie, and she's like, oh, forgot.
I mean, it's like and it was crazy because it
was the perfect thing for me, because you know this
type of superhero where where we actually our children that
hasn't been done and it's a it's a very fresh
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take and it's something that I can do. I've been
doing little kid voices like my whole life. People just
don't always see that side of me. So it was
like the perfect purfect super earp for me, in perfect
kind of blessing from God and also a testimony, a
testament for like meeting God half way in him saying Okay,
here you go do the work and I and I
provide the way and the opportunity, and you people, you'll
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be ready for the opportunity. You know. I'm gonna just
tell you that I've seen Soxam at least six times.
I'm just a guy. I've seen that ending probably about
ten times because it's just so cute and when you
and all the characters recognize that they go to adulthood
and when you for somehow it works so perfectly for
you and you just you gotta downpay congratulations. I just
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want to just tell you that just congratulated. It's it's
it's believable. It's very cute. It makes me smile even
when I'm talking to you about right now. I'm smiling
because it's just one of my favorite parts of the movie.
And I can't wait to Sxam too, because I know
that character is gonna be fleshed out a little bit
more and we'll see it a lot earlier than the
movie instead of the end of the movie. And I
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don't feel i'm giving away the movie. If anybody has
not seen it, maybe you'll watch it now, because when
you get to that part of the movie, you'll be smiling,
just like ri Shan McDonald. I want to make a tan.
I want to give a transition to you, to you,
you and your husband on the cover of the book
to Wait. First of all, compliments to both of you guys.
Very attractive couple. Y'all look fantastic. It's called The Way,
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a powerful practice for finding the love of your life
and the life you love. Why did you write this
book with him? Um? It's interesting because the short version is,
you know, when Devone and I got together, Um, I
just came out of a kind of a verbally abusive
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relationship and it wasn't just the other person. It was
both of us. We were not good for each other.
But I literally said, Lord, what am I supposed to
be doing? And he told me three things. He said,
get out of that relationship. I need you to be sulibant.
And Devon is your husband, and I said divine. And
I was like wait, and I'm like, what am I
supposed to do? And God was just like nothing, just
(23:58):
work on yourself. So from that point forward, I worked
on becoming celibant. I wasn't you know, successful immediately, but
ultimately I was. And about a few months into it,
about five months into getting that revelation, I told a
friend of mine that Divan was my husband and she said, oh, girl,
she's you know he's a preacher, right. I said no,
and I said, well, I thought would have scared me away,
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but I know what God told me, so it's okay.
And I said and I said, and you know, um,
she said, you know that he's celibate, right And I said, well,
I'm celiban too. She said no, girl, he's for real selebant.
And wait, yes, so because he was preaching, he had
been celibant for years. Um. And she was like yeah,
you and you you're few muth girl, yeah whatever, you know. Anyways,
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and so um, when Divine and I got together, it
was like you know, it was we were sublevant for
that for our our year together before we got married.
And it was the best experience of my life because
I got to know him the way that it's like
I got to know him in like four months, the
way it took me to get to know someone in
four years. And that because there was no it was
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intimacy in terms of like emotion and spiritually, but there
was no physical intimacy. It that way. So really all
I had to do was besides, do I like you
as a human being? Do I enjoy being with you?
Do I want to spend a lifetime with you? Are you?
Are you about the same thing as in life? Are
we going to the same place? We complement each other
in their purpose? So all that stuff was so clear
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because there was no distractions. That the reason we ended
up writing the book is because people kept asking us
about it, and you know, we would tell me the
story whatever, and they were like, we really would love
to have a book about this. So men were like,
I guess we just will write a book not to
be preachy, And I tell people to do, but to
tell them what our experience was and just just to
be transparent about that and if it helps someone and
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bless you someone great, you know, And well I wasn't
even helping a lot of people. There's two things I
want to bring out about the book. The way. It's
doubt about sex, but it begins with sex. It's a
book about relationships. And one of my favorite lines in
the book is this, um, the way the way you
stop is okay, in your book, the way you stop
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stop picking and choosing which parts of the Bible you
will follow. I read that and I just bought out laughing,
because not only do is does that line apply to me,
but so many people we go, we'll do this. It's
too much work to do everything. So I'm gonna follow
this over here. But as you say, you can't part
time follow God. Yeah that's what you're saying, right, Yeah, yeah,
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I mean I think that's the biggest thing is that
I think we do tend to pick and choose, and
especially as it pertains to sex, because we feel like, well,
you lord, you have to understand this part you gave us.
You know, you don't want to do it, you know,
all the Christians and things is doing it now? Come
on right? You know, just like when I when I
first left my virginity, I you know, I said I'll
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wait till I'm gonna get married. I lost my virginity
at nineteen, and it was later than most of my friends.
But it was also like I was like, well, this
is my first love. I'm gonna marry himself. You know,
it's my husband anyways. And it wasn't um but I realized,
you know, I lived my life like every times where
I felt bad and I would like repent and I
would not have sex for months, and then you know,
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and it just I realized that I was really picking
and choosing and giving myself license instead of saying, let
me just try to do the hardest thing that there
is to do in terms of the commandments, and let's
see how that goes. And what I realized is the
once I conquered that and I found that discipline within
myself for the laid gratification and to not pick and choose,
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it gave me the freedom and the power to have
more self control over so many areas. I hated working out,
and you know, it was never gonna happen because of
the discipline I learned from the weight is why I
was able to work out, which ultimately resulted in Shazam
and ultimately resulted in me about to be thirty nine.
I'm in the best shape of my life because my
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lifestyle changed because of my discipline, change because of the way.
So it's not just relationships, it's it's across the board
to change my live because because you guys got were married, correct,
And I have to say I have to say, like
I said, I'm a fan of yours. I have to
say that period between and now, I have to say,
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it's been the most the best part of your career.
I don't want to be sounded insulty. I'm talking about
the movies, the films, the projects, your your brand, your
your your ability, your luck. You glow. You know, when
you're with your husband, you glow. And that comes back
to discipline and honesty with yourself. And that is my
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That is one of the takeaways that I had with
the book to Wait. And if you don't mind, it's
it's because it's on my shelf at my home because
I gave it to my daughter. She read it. And
I have a home in Houston and Atlanta have it
to keep it in my Atlanta home. Uh. Is it
still available to be bought the book? Yeah, yeah, the
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Amazon and just anywhere if you if you feel a
little surge in book sales, because Roushan McDonald's gonna do this.
I have an eighty thousand fans fan Club email newsletter
I sent out every Friday at nine am. I'm gonna
put this book in my news letter. Okay. And because
I feel that there's so many inconsistencies I've had in
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my life and one of the things that doing money
making conversations has allowed me to. You know, I made
a lot of people famous, I made a lot of
corporations money in my life. But what I've what I've
done is found with Sean McDonald and I just talking
to you on this during this interview. It's just so
fulfilling to me because of the fact that you got it. Megan,
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you you you you clearly are comfortable with yourself. You
clearly are happy with yourself, and you're a beautiful person.
That's that's a that's awesome. Congratulations. Wow, that blessed me. Thanks,
thank you, thank you for that. You know, I have
to be honest because of the fact that and I
try to do this show and and and expose people
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be uh, when I dropped the whole idea of money
making conversations. You know, we may talk about your career
when you talk about this when the people come on
the show, but I always want to pull back the
curtain so people can just talk. And I ought to
play no music. I have no ambush questions. I just
wanted to just really talk. And this is gonna be
well received in my platform, this interview, and you're just special.
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I just wanted to keep winning. And uh, and I'd
like to get your husband Voune on the show to
talk about it. Like I have something that call a
power couples. I bring power couples on my show together
so they can talk. And uh, that's a very popular
series I have with money making conversations. But more importantly,
you know, you know you you made me happy. We're
gonna do exam to you're coming back and that you're
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standing in shape, so you're gonna be ready for that.
The girl girl raps. We know we sold that in
certain things right now, but we're gonna get that up
and running because guess what I'm gonna put that in
my newsletter. That means sold. That's a good thing, making sold,
that's a good thing. You the good creat the good
foundation that you started with your sister that's doing great things,
and the and the weight is a blessing that I
want to put back that put out there in my
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platform to the world of my followers are female and
they need to hear the word. And the word is
being delivered by you and your husband. And it's a
written word. And guess what the Bible is written word,
not saying as the Bible, but the reflections of the
reflections of what you're talking about. I got it from
the words, and that's important that people need to read
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and also share. And I want to thank you for
calling my show making Yeah. I want to thank you
for even thinking to have me and wanting to have me,
and thank you for affirming me as well import into
me as well, because it seems like a small thing
to say the things that you said, but it's not.
And I really appreciate it and I really received it,
and I thank you for having you were my hands.
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My hands are put together, my borrowing forward and a
blessed state and a preprayer like state because we will
talk again in the future. Be safe during these pandemic times.
Tell your husband high and anytime you want to promote
I might have them reach out and if they can
get some art work or something like that. I just
want to put anything tack out there, especially about your
wraps and all this stuff. We were staying close with
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my staff to make sure that anytime you're releasing the
thing in the movie and the sitcom, anything you do
in television or as an entrepreneur, all with your foundation,
bring it to me so I can promote it. It's
not about a charge of the money with my social media.
I just want to spread love and let everybody know
that you can win, and you win it through relationships.
And that's what you're preaching, young lady. Keep on preaching.
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is a very very popular film and television actress. You've
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seen here in movies like Thinking Like a Man, Think
Like a Man Too, The Intruder and Shazam of next year,
Starr and Sony's Monster Hunter, which will be released hopefully
this year and when the pandemic years. So every thing's
kind of odd, but this movie Monster Harner's Everybody's waiting
to see that movie that she's starting in. She was
recently seen on owns new series of Girlfriends check in.
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I checked it out myself. She wrote a game chamming
relationship book with her husband entitled The Weight At Powerful
Practice for finding the Love of your Life and the
Life you Love, which I love that title. She's a philanthropist,
started the Greater the Greater Good Foundation with her sister
and an entrepreneur. Were Good Girl raps a boy making good.
They're a multi multifunctional hair accessory that could be warm
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when you're out and about, work out a bedtime. Look,
I am going to buy that for my daughter. Please,
working with money, making conversations making good. Uh, it's so
funny to make. And I saw the raps right, and
so because I was, I said, my daughter was upsjested.
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I said, I said, that name is christ Christie. How
to get out here? I gotta show your something. I
gotta show you something simple. You know, she's twined two
senior in college. I think I finally found something because
she comes down here with these things on her hair. Megan,
I'll be like, I'll just be staring on this is
not We do have money, baby, we do have a
little money. You can do better than that. And so
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I showed her this and she said, uh, Dad, she
picked out like three different options that we're gonna buy it.
Just tell us about the whole concert. I'm just letting
you know as a man, I saw it, our dad,
I saw it. I fell in love when my daughter
picked out three of them, and I think they're just beautiful.
You can we can you know when you go to
the store. She can wear them. When she goes to
the gym, she can work out in him. She can,
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thank God, she can go to sleep and wake up.
And I'm not terrified when she comes into the kitchen.
Well I don't know what she got on her head, Megan,
but at least when she comes to the kitchen now
with your your half your hair wrap, I'll be excited
and thankful that she's my daughter. I gotta tell you
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the truth. Now I'll be struggling with the head wrap
that I don't know. You know, we, like I said,
we had a little success making in that life. But
the good Year rap that you have produced all my
favorites now okay, oh yeah, yeah, I was like super
excited to create them because you know, um from one
of my stylists, Um, I have two Nfia Oliver and
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carry and we created the Goddess locks the dreadlocks look together. Um.
And so what happened was I was wearing the style
so much and I was going to the gym gym
and trying to work out, and everything I did my
hair was flipping my face and then I'd be trying
to wash my face and I couldn't sleep comfortably and
images like the whole thing. And so we developed this
rap and it literally was like a lifesaver. And then
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the more I mean, we're at workout videos, people would
ask like, well, where did you get that? And what
is that? And I was like, you know what, I
just need to create a line and make them available
and also just make it so people can choose their
different styles and look better fits like you know, how
they want wanted to be. So that's really how it
came about. And uh and it did really really well.
The first day we sold out on the collection and
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congratulations from the second collection, thank you, And so we're
getting ready to start the third collection now. And the
cool thing is like, you know, I'm able to see
people's input like oh, I would really like to see
more of this kind of color, that kind of color,
more printed whatever, so that's that's the full thing is
like every collection, I really take people input into account
and try to create something that all women feel good
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and comfortable with and even some men are able to
wear them as well. So I saw that, I saw
some photos, you know, and of course you know if
you have dreadlocks and things like that, and you know,
they definitely will be perfect for that. And I thought
that were just all I know is that when I
saw it, I immediately liked it and I felt this
was a natural, comfortable look. It could be jazz. So
you can wear them out, you know, to a restaurant,
you can wear you know, you we out to if
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you depending on the look that you buy, I want
to feel well, you can go out to a party
with I'm wearing it. So I really felt comfortable with
the look, and I just I was excited about you
coming on my shoulder discuss it, and because as an entrepreneur, no,
we all have great ideas, and so how you know,
you talked about the journey about it, you know, because
it was just your idea. What made it real though,
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what made it like, okay, well let's do this. Because
a lot of people stopped at the idea because they
don't think nobody's gonna buy it, or nobody's gonna even
want to show them how to produce it, right. I mean,
I was already working um with another company. I was
creating a line of flannels because you know, I'm an
eighties baby, so in the nineties, you know, and flannels
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was always like a stable part of your outfit. So
I was already creating a flannel line with my sister,
and where the money that we were raising through the
flannel line was going to our foundations, and so I
already had the relationship. And what I realized is, you know,
once I was wearing my wrap, if people just kept
asking for a year, the question never stopped and people
were always interested. So I was like, all right, it's
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been a consistent thing. People are into it. I think
they'll buy it. Let's just you know, give it a
run and we'll see what happens. And um, and people
really took to other really well. So I was like, okay, well,
let's you know, create even more. And so it's it's been.
It's been really great. Because I know, as a woman,
whether you have dread twists, bread, big curly hair that
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you don't want to wash and style every day or
whatever it is. Like, I know for a fact that
this is the product that I would use and I
wish I had earlier, And that made me feel confident
that somebody's going to get some great use out of this.
So congratulations again. You know, when I look at you,
when I look at your career, like when I was
managing Steve Harvard when we started together back in two thousand,
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the first time I really got to see you and
introduce myself to you was the movie You Got Served,
And uh, that's way you know, it's way back then,
way back then. Just to talk about your your body
of work, because you begin starting in commercial at the
age of four, and I've done over sixty thousand, sixty
sixty national TV commercial in an untold number of films
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and television shows. I just only missed a small my
of your success. In fact, I didn't even mention any
of the television series that you've started very successful on.
So how what has helped you to make that transition
from a child star to an adult star, because that's
a hard make sometimes because you're so cute to qute see,
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and when you become an adult people don't buy the
cute cute see, or you don't mature correctly, or you
don't have the support system. What has helped you, megan? Um?
I think you know. The first thing was like prayer.
You know, when I was nineteen, I was I was struggling.
I still looked fifteen sixteen, And it was the first
time in my life I was like, Okay, I'm seeing
people around me getting work and I'm not getting work.
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So the first time I prayed, I was like, all right, God,
is this what I'm supposed to be doing. And here's
the thing. I'm gonna just put it on the altar
and say, I want what you want for me more
than what I think I want for myself. One more time.
Now there's like in church, and I say that one
more time. Come on later, I want what you want
for me more than what I think I want for myself.
There you go. Um. And so I was the first
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time I had gotten confirmation that this is the business
that I should be in. But that's it's bigger than
than you know, being able to do something that I
love and I'm passionate about. It's bigger than being in
an industry. People consider you celebrity or whatever it is.
It's bigger than all that. It's really about using the
platform that God has given you as an ability to
as an opportunity to build the kingdom, and to really
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be used in whatever way He wants to use me.
So once I got that confirmation, that gave me the
confidence to know that, like, okay, so I'm gonna be
okay because this is bigger than me anyways. And I
just kept trucking along and trying to make smart decisions
um and and you know, show however I could like okay,
I'm becoming a woman now and trying to watch that
that balance because you know, at that time, there was
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all the men's magazines and I did a bunch of them,
but I made Yeah, when I did it, it it was
like okay, so no baby, when you did them, we're
talking about the king magazines and all those type of
magazines and were were but they said a bad message
or the incorrect message of who your or what your
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brand or who you represented. Don't you think? No, I don't,
because I think at that time that is who I was,
you know. And my thing is like I've you know,
I've I've come under fire a lot about saying like,
as a Christian, I don't mind being sexy, and I
own that part of myself. I love that part of myself.
Um and what I realized, you know, my my journey
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has been unique to you know, I didn't grow up
in the church, but my mother was always read your Bible,
get to know God, have a relationship, not a religion
with Him. And so as I pursued a relationship with God,
I got saved when I was twelve. I got three
baptized when I was nineteen on my own. So at
that time and I was doing the King magazines, a
Black Man or whatever it was, and I was three,
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my feeling was like, I'm gonna own who I am
and be comfortable with who I am. But what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna go into a place that
some would consider dark and I'm gonna spread light. So
if you look at each one of those interviews, not
only did I not wear you know, lingerie or bathing suits,
or do any backshots or anything that was too suggested
that item feel comfortable in my spirit about, but I
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also every single interview I talked about God. I talked
about my relationship with that I talked about being a Christians.
I talked about there's a there's a way to still
be comfortable with your sexuality without overtly, you know, doing
things that are really about look at me, look at
me versus I love me. I embraced me, And so
for me, it was it was walking a line of
like what feels right in my spirit that I'm not
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lying to myself. I'm being honest, like whatever God places
in my spirit, I'm owning that. But I'm also not
conforming to what people say a Christians should be because
I know my heart and I know who I am
at the core, and God knows me and we talk.
So at the end of the day, I can do
religious and I can do what people think I should
do and who they think I should be, or I
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can own who I am and every season and allow
me and allow Him to guide me. And so that's
what I did. And so I think my my journey
has definitely been an interesting one, but I've always been
with God do all of it. That's beautiful, and that's beautiful,
and I'm glad you're saying that. That's why I'm kind
of like being quiet. Let you say your conversation because
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people need to hear without interruption, the message you're trying
to deliver. And that's important because of the fact that
you know, we we we we have preconceived notions of
who people are just how they look or just how
they dress. And that's what you're saying, Okay, I embrace
who I am, but that doesn't mean I can't embrace
my love of God or the respect that I had
for him. And if you want to read something differently,
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but whilere you looking at that photo, read the article.
How about that, read the story, opened the book, okay,
and and go through, go through the messages. I'm trying
to tell the consistent values I'm trying to say. And
I think for young people that that's important because especially
with social media today, we can get caught up and
likes and getting caught up and and trying to we
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look in a certain way and pose a certain way
in order to grow our and base. And you're saying that, honestly, honestly,
what yourself is the key to that. That's what you're saying, Like, yeah, transparency.
What people are gonna respond to is you not trying
to be anybody else, but being yourself. The honest people
who are gonna like you, dig you, that are going
to be your tribe and support you, are going to
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support the truest version of you. So I'm comfortable with
knowing that at ten years old, I was doing off
Broadway shows with drag Queens, and I'm still a Christian.
So the way I see the world, the way I
perceived drag Queens, the way I perceive a lot of
things may be different than some other Christians, but I
know that God allowed me to have that experience and
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the mindset that I have. When we talk about what's
appropriate or with modest, well, my different my version of
modest is gonna be different than yours based on my upbringing.
So as long as I own that and I lean
into like God, what do you say as it pertains
to me, that's the only thing I have to do.
And I try to encourage other people, especially young people
to do that as well, because they think that if
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you don't fit into a and box, you can't. You
have to choose to do that box. And having a
relationship without or not having a relationship with do you
have a podcast because you have a partner? Come tell
you some girl, you I'm tell you, you know, I
like to believe I recognize talent. Okay, you got you
got the acting down path, but your motivational skill and
your own point about what young people need to hear
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and old people need to get people in general, male
and female, everybody, because your your conversation is welcoming to everybody.
And if you have thought about doing a podcast, start
if you have thought, because I feel that your message
and then you know it needs to be heard if
you just just think about it, like you said, if
you never, I'm sure you've heard this before, just like
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the wraps. You know, people kept telling you, girl, I
need that, I need it. I need that when McDonald's
come along. You know something, um excuse me. You need
to be worldwide on your own platform or your message
won't be interrupted and you can share and get other
like minded people who look like or don't look like you,
and be able to you know, this is about love,
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your message about love. It is so clean. When I
hear you talk, Megan, it's amazing. It's just like it's
like drinking a good cold glass of water on a
hot sunny day. Oh it feels good, Oh it feels good.
Don't it. Oh my god, you go, oh, I feel
good and that's what. Then you're talking so clean, there's
no stuttering, there's no there's no pause about no revelation. Well,
(15:28):
let me think about it. It's just like I said, well,
do you think that was against your bread? No? No,
it was not you. You did not like you didn't
like hesitate, Rachal. I know who I am, and that
is important when people get caught up, get caught up
in decipher bullying, get caught up and should I look
this way? Should A dressed this way? And you're saying
God defines you, believe in him, believe in yourself and
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don't don't. Let's they say, um, veer left or rock
and that's what you're saying, beautiful, beautiful, And think it's
important that we that we have a relationship with God
where we hear from Him for ourselves. I want to
be in a position where someone comes up to me
and they say I have a word from God. I
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can say, yes, I received that, my spirit agrees, or
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E R. Dot Ai. I want to get to the book.
The wait I read the book. I want to ask
a couple of questions. That's some fervord lines I want
to run by. But I gotta talk about Shazam. Okay
one um, you made an appearance in that, but it's
one of my favorite movies. In fact, when you when
you finally make an appearance and other adult versions of
the kids making the appearance, it's one of my favorite
(19:00):
parts of the movie. But one of my one of
my was endearing parts is how you were able to
be an adult but you maintain that childlike quality in
your acting performance. Uh that was I mean I smiled
every time I see it, and I go wow, you know,
you know, you know, people are talented, but certain things
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that you can show goes. That's an extra gear of
talent that she has. Talk about that whole what I'm
talking about. And Shazam is a very popular superhero. You know.
He says, Shazam is a little fitting your ball and
he becomes this adult superhero care character were a long way.
You know, there's these kids at this foster home and
you play your your childlike characters. Was one of these kids.
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And you eventually in the in the movie at the
end said shas Am, and you became an adult version
of your childlike character, but you still had those childlike
characters characteristics talking talking to us about that maintaining that
little reaching its side and hold holding onto that little
baby man. Well, baby Megan has always in there, you know. Um.
(20:05):
And I think, you know, it might come as more
of a shock to people just because you know, again,
like through my twenties, I was kind of like that
sexy girls. People don't realize oftentimes that there there's there
are a lot of different gears and that you know
sometimes like for me through my twenties, that was kind
of one gear. Was like, yeah, that's the side of me,
you know, but there's so much more. And so the
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cool thing about Shazam was like I have started my
I had started my workout journey like maybe barely two
years before that, because I told Devon, I said, they
really want to be a superhero like I want to
do like DC or Marvel. And he was like, that's great, honey,
what are you doing to meet got halfway and I said,
what in my mind? You I had my glass of
wine in my hand. I'm watching my Scandal or something.
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He said, what are you going to meet? Go halfway?
And I was like, wow, you're right safe without working dead, Okay.
So I said my little self to the gym. I
got a trainer, I changed my eating habits, I cut
back on my wine, and I started working out like
five times a week for about a year and a half.
And then I got this audition for Shazam. I didn't
even know what it was. I had no idea it
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was a superhero movie. I was just going in there
and being a seven year old and then I get
the call that I got the part, and I was like, so,
what is it. They're like Shazamn. I was like, oh,
Kazam was like shocked back in the day. They're like, no,
shazamne and I looked it up and I was like, wait,
what these superhero movies? And I like, I kid you not.
I bust out crying. I was like in the middle
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of a strip mall. I was like said yeah. Years.
I was like on crying outside of like a nutrition store,
like ran in and told like the lady behind the
count was like I just got a movie, and she's like, oh, forgot.
I mean, it's like and it was crazy because it
was the perfect thing for me, because you know this
type of superhero where where we actually our children that
hasn't been done and it's a it's a very fresh
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take and it's something that I can do. I've been
doing little kid voices like my whole life. People just
don't always see that side of me. So it was
like the perfect purfect super earp for me, in perfect
kind of blessing from God and also a testimony, a
testament for like meeting God half way in him saying Okay,
here you go do the work and I and I
provide the way and the opportunity, and you people, you'll
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be ready for the opportunity. You know. I'm gonna just
tell you that I've seen Soxam at least six times.
I'm just a guy. I've seen that ending probably about
ten times because it's just so cute and when you
and all the characters recognize that they go to adulthood
and when you for somehow it works so perfectly for
you and you just you gotta downpay congratulations. I just
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want to just tell you that just congratulated. It's it's
it's believable. It's very cute. It makes me smile even
when I'm talking to you about right now. I'm smiling
because it's just one of my favorite parts of the movie.
And I can't wait to Sxam too, because I know
that character is gonna be fleshed out a little bit
more and we'll see it a lot earlier than the
movie instead of the end of the movie. And I
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don't feel i'm giving away the movie. If anybody has
not seen it, maybe you'll watch it now, because when
you get to that part of the movie, you'll be smiling,
just like ri Shan McDonald. I want to make a tan.
I want to give a transition to you, to you,
you and your husband on the cover of the book
to Wait. First of all, compliments to both of you guys.
Very attractive couple. Y'all look fantastic. It's called The Way,
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a powerful practice for finding the love of your life
and the life you love. Why did you write this
book with him? Um? It's interesting because the short version is,
you know, when Devone and I got together, Um, I
just came out of a kind of a verbally abusive
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relationship and it wasn't just the other person. It was
both of us. We were not good for each other.
But I literally said, Lord, what am I supposed to
be doing? And he told me three things. He said,
get out of that relationship. I need you to be sulibant.
And Devon is your husband, and I said divine. And
I was like wait, and I'm like, what am I
supposed to do? And God was just like nothing, just
(23:58):
work on yourself. So from that point forward, I worked
on becoming celibant. I wasn't you know, successful immediately, but
ultimately I was. And about a few months into it,
about five months into getting that revelation, I told a
friend of mine that Divan was my husband and she said, oh, girl,
she's you know he's a preacher, right. I said no,
and I said, well, I thought would have scared me away,
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but I know what God told me, so it's okay.
And I said and I said, and you know, um,
she said, you know that he's celibate, right And I said, well,
I'm celiban too. She said no, girl, he's for real selebant.
And wait, yes, so because he was preaching, he had
been celibant for years. Um. And she was like yeah,
you and you you're few muth girl, yeah whatever, you know. Anyways,
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and so um, when Divine and I got together, it
was like you know, it was we were sublevant for
that for our our year together before we got married.
And it was the best experience of my life because
I got to know him the way that it's like
I got to know him in like four months, the
way it took me to get to know someone in
four years. And that because there was no it was
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intimacy in terms of like emotion and spiritually, but there
was no physical intimacy. It that way. So really all
I had to do was besides, do I like you
as a human being? Do I enjoy being with you?
Do I want to spend a lifetime with you? Are you?
Are you about the same thing as in life? Are
we going to the same place? We complement each other
in their purpose? So all that stuff was so clear
(25:22):
because there was no distractions. That the reason we ended
up writing the book is because people kept asking us
about it, and you know, we would tell me the
story whatever, and they were like, we really would love
to have a book about this. So men were like,
I guess we just will write a book not to
be preachy, And I tell people to do, but to
tell them what our experience was and just just to
be transparent about that and if it helps someone and
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bless you someone great, you know, And well I wasn't
even helping a lot of people. There's two things I
want to bring out about the book. The way. It's
doubt about sex, but it begins with sex. It's a
book about relationships. And one of my favorite lines in
the book is this, um, the way the way you
stop is okay, in your book, the way you stop
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stop picking and choosing which parts of the Bible you
will follow. I read that and I just bought out laughing,
because not only do is does that line apply to me,
but so many people we go, we'll do this. It's
too much work to do everything. So I'm gonna follow
this over here. But as you say, you can't part
time follow God. Yeah that's what you're saying, right, Yeah, yeah,
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I mean I think that's the biggest thing is that
I think we do tend to pick and choose, and
especially as it pertains to sex, because we feel like, well,
you lord, you have to understand this part you gave us.
You know, you don't want to do it, you know,
all the Christians and things is doing it now? Come
on right? You know, just like when I when I
first left my virginity, I you know, I said I'll
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wait till I'm gonna get married. I lost my virginity
at nineteen, and it was later than most of my friends.
But it was also like I was like, well, this
is my first love. I'm gonna marry himself. You know,
it's my husband anyways. And it wasn't um but I realized,
you know, I lived my life like every times where
I felt bad and I would like repent and I
would not have sex for months, and then you know,
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and it just I realized that I was really picking
and choosing and giving myself license instead of saying, let
me just try to do the hardest thing that there
is to do in terms of the commandments, and let's
see how that goes. And what I realized is the
once I conquered that and I found that discipline within
myself for the laid gratification and to not pick and choose,
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it gave me the freedom and the power to have
more self control over so many areas. I hated working out,
and you know, it was never gonna happen because of
the discipline I learned from the weight is why I
was able to work out, which ultimately resulted in Shazam
and ultimately resulted in me about to be thirty nine.
I'm in the best shape of my life because my
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lifestyle changed because of my discipline, change because of the way.
So it's not just relationships, it's it's across the board
to change my live because because you guys got were married, correct,
And I have to say I have to say, like
I said, I'm a fan of yours. I have to
say that period between and now, I have to say,
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it's been the most the best part of your career.
I don't want to be sounded insulty. I'm talking about
the movies, the films, the projects, your your brand, your
your your ability, your luck. You glow. You know, when
you're with your husband, you glow. And that comes back
to discipline and honesty with yourself. And that is my
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That is one of the takeaways that I had with
the book to Wait. And if you don't mind, it's
it's because it's on my shelf at my home because
I gave it to my daughter. She read it. And
I have a home in Houston and Atlanta have it
to keep it in my Atlanta home. Uh. Is it
still available to be bought the book? Yeah, yeah, the
(28:58):
Amazon and just anywhere if you if you feel a
little surge in book sales, because Roushan McDonald's gonna do this.
I have an eighty thousand fans fan Club email newsletter
I sent out every Friday at nine am. I'm gonna
put this book in my news letter. Okay. And because
I feel that there's so many inconsistencies I've had in
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my life and one of the things that doing money
making conversations has allowed me to. You know, I made
a lot of people famous, I made a lot of
corporations money in my life. But what I've what I've
done is found with Sean McDonald and I just talking
to you on this during this interview. It's just so
fulfilling to me because of the fact that you got it. Megan,
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you you you you clearly are comfortable with yourself. You
clearly are happy with yourself, and you're a beautiful person.
That's that's a that's awesome. Congratulations. Wow, that blessed me. Thanks,
thank you, thank you for that. You know, I have
to be honest because of the fact that and I
try to do this show and and and expose people
(30:05):
be uh, when I dropped the whole idea of money
making conversations. You know, we may talk about your career
when you talk about this when the people come on
the show, but I always want to pull back the
curtain so people can just talk. And I ought to
play no music. I have no ambush questions. I just
wanted to just really talk. And this is gonna be
well received in my platform, this interview, and you're just special.
(30:26):
I just wanted to keep winning. And uh, and I'd
like to get your husband Voune on the show to
talk about it. Like I have something that call a
power couples. I bring power couples on my show together
so they can talk. And uh, that's a very popular
series I have with money making conversations. But more importantly,
you know, you know you you made me happy. We're
gonna do exam to you're coming back and that you're
(30:48):
standing in shape, so you're gonna be ready for that.
The girl girl raps. We know we sold that in
certain things right now, but we're gonna get that up
and running because guess what I'm gonna put that in
my newsletter. That means sold. That's a good thing, making sold,
that's a good thing. You the good creat the good
foundation that you started with your sister that's doing great things,
and the and the weight is a blessing that I
want to put back that put out there in my
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platform to the world of my followers are female and
they need to hear the word. And the word is
being delivered by you and your husband. And it's a
written word. And guess what the Bible is written word,
not saying as the Bible, but the reflections of the
reflections of what you're talking about. I got it from
the words, and that's important that people need to read
(31:29):
and also share. And I want to thank you for
calling my show making Yeah. I want to thank you
for even thinking to have me and wanting to have me,
and thank you for affirming me as well import into
me as well, because it seems like a small thing
to say the things that you said, but it's not.
And I really appreciate it and I really received it,
and I thank you for having you were my hands.
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My hands are put together, my borrowing forward and a
blessed state and a preprayer like state because we will
talk again in the future. Be safe during these pandemic times.
Tell your husband high and anytime you want to promote
I might have them reach out and if they can
get some art work or something like that. I just
want to put anything tack out there, especially about your
wraps and all this stuff. We were staying close with
(32:12):
my staff to make sure that anytime you're releasing the
thing in the movie and the sitcom, anything you do
in television or as an entrepreneur, all with your foundation,
bring it to me so I can promote it. It's
not about a charge of the money with my social media.
I just want to spread love and let everybody know
that you can win, and you win it through relationships.
And that's what you're preaching, young lady. Keep on preaching.
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Thank you, Thank you, than to play gre We've been
preaching on this show Money Making Conversation. We safe out there, Okay,
we talked soon, all right, Thanky, alrighty. If we hear
more episodes of Money Making Conversations, go to Money Making
Conversations dot com. M Rashan McDonald, I'm your host in
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