The Spirited Actor - Dr. Ian Smith

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transition to
a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Thomas.
I audition every rapper from Biggie's Balls to Tupac, and

(00:24):
I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Ye from The
Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons, to name a few. I
also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel

(00:45):
I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for

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meditation of the day. There are three types of people
in the world. Those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened Anonymous?
Since Inside the Black Box with Emmy Award winning Joe

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Morton and Myself has premiered on Crackical TV, I have
gotten the most amazing responses. I've gotten beautiful texts and
d m s about people who have watched the show
and have been inspired and and just feel good about
where they are in their career as actors, who have

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gotten jewels and learn tips from not only myself but
also Joe our guests. And then there have been some
people who have not reached out at all that are
my family and friends. Now I make no comparison. I

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don't get mad about it, but I think that people
should allow people to dream freely, and I think that
people should support other people's dreams. And if the process
is happening to slow for you and you decide to
get off of my dream, that's okay, It's my dream.

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I should stay on it. However, we should all be
encouraged and inspired and support everyone on their journey, because
me supporting you up list me and it does the
same for you. But don't get in the way and
try to block or judge or criticize someone else's journey.

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Towards their dreams. That's not fair and that's not right.
So today I will applaud everyone who steps up to
the plate and is courageous and fearless in approaching their dreams.
Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone to

(03:21):
look out for my new show, Inside the Black Box.
I'll be co hosting with the great Joe Morton. Will
be on Crackle Network real soon. I'll keep you posted.
Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore.
I am beyond excited, you guys, because this is the
first doctor that we've had on the podcast. I'm excited

(03:46):
because this is the first time we can talk about health, wellness,
food for actors. Do you need stamina to be an actor?
And so to have a professional be able to guide
us through this and no other than TV personality, Oh
my god, physician, best selling author, put your hands together

(04:07):
for Dr Ian Smith having thank you so much. This
is really why I'm excited, because it's so important before
we get there, because I feel like your books and
your current book is going to help them. We're gonna
talk about that, but I want to start here because

(04:27):
my son, nine years ago, he was kipt by a
car and it was the most extensive time in my
life that I've ever been in a hospital and in
rehab and one of the things and I lived in
the hospital, so I got to know a lot of
doctors and nurses. And one of the things that I
found really interesting is that a lot of the doctors
and nurses that I talked to became doctors and nurses

(04:50):
because a family member was ill and they helped them
or something happened and they said, I'll never you know,
maybe they lost a parent to something and I'm gonna
be hell. See, how did you choose medicine or did
medicine choose you? Wow, this is a great question. I
have me to ask this question so long. I'm glad
you asked, like an old time question. Just um. You know.

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I come from a small town in Connecticut called dan Very, Connecticut,
and I grew up with a single mom. Didn't know
my dad. I have a twin brother, and it was
just the three of us and my extended family. You know,
back in the day your grandparents and aunts and uncles
were family were very close. But I remember as a
young boy, two things happened that influenced me. One was

(05:33):
that I had a pediatrician, and this pediatrician was a
white guy. But I remember how comfortable I felt going
to see him, and even though our visit was probably
fifteen minutes, but he was always nice and I felt
like I could trust him. And typically didn't trust strangers,
but I felt like I could trust this guy. And
I liked the idea that he was able to understand

(05:56):
things about my body that I was curious about. He
seemed to have all the answers, and he was confident,
you know, and he was just so and so. And
then at the end of every visit, I would get
a pretzel stick. That's the only time I got a
pretzel sticks. At the end of the visit, I said, Wow,
how cool would it be to be just like him
when I grew up. That's the first influence. The second
influence was I was in my grandparents bedroom and I

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was reading an Ebony magazine article, and the Ebony magazine
article was about the black neurosurgeons in the country. And
the gist of the article was that there were not
a lot of black neurosurgeons and that there was this
great paucity of black neurosurgeons. And believe it or not.
Ben Carson was in that article, like you know, yes,
that's when I first heard his name. But anyway, so

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reading that article on top of my already kind of
proclivity towards science, and I was very curious. Kid, I
just said, Wow, I'm going to be a neurosurgeon when
I grow up. I was nine, and so my whole
life at that point, I knew I was going to
be a doctor. There was no question that was going
to be a doctor. And everyone who knew me would say, oh, yeah, Ian,
he's gonna be a doctor. It was just kind of
in my blood in a way. And that's that instinct

(07:03):
of knowing and trusting that right, because that guided you
through and at that time, because there weren't if they're
talking about there not a lot of black neural surgeons
where there are a lot of black doctors at that
time that could mentor you no, you know, in fact,
I had no mentors um, which is, you know, I

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grew up in a very I come from a blue
collar background, but the demographics of my town minority. We
were minorities for real, and so I didn't see black executives,
black doctors, those things. I just didn't see that, but
I saw it on TV. I saw it in magazines
like Ebony and Jet at the time. So I'm glad

(07:45):
that I was worldly enough to think beyond what the
familiar of my confines, and so it allowed me, even
though I didn't see them in person, allowed me to
think I could still be that I taught my kids
to stay. You guys are so lucky to have grown
up with there have been a black president. Like when
I was a kid. You look at the history books

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there it was never a black vice president or president thing.
So it's a little kid consciously or subconsciously, you don't
think that's something you can achieve and attain. You guys,
that we're seeing black people in all No, we still
needn't have more. You're seeing black people with all different
high level positions, which is very inspirational. And their dad,

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you know what I mean, like to be able to
say that my dad is a doctor, you know, or
be addressed. I think that one of the things and
being a parent that we can't give our children I
have a granddaughter, is the fact that it's not about
the time. You know, people say, oh, it took you
eighteen years with this show Inside the black box. I

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don't care. It's that's not what the lesson I want
my children and my grandchild to walk away with. When
you invest faith, perseverance, passion, commitment, and at nine year
years old, something said, oh yeah, you're gonna be a doctor.
Yeah no, we understand there's not a lot of African
Americans in that field, but you're gonna be groundbreaking in
that which is you know, I feel like I could

(09:11):
drop the mic on that for me. Yeah, well, you know,
I think that sometimes. You know, it's a process, and
you have to embrace the process, right, and a lot
of time when we achieve things, it's taking so long
to get there. But if you allow yourself to be
consumed by focusing on the length of time and the
actual struggle, it takes away from you actually enjoying the

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present and the moment of where you are and then
where you can go. I'm not saying don't forget the history,
because that's that's part of your DNA, right, this is
what happened, But but you also have to be able
to pivot, turn and move and go forward and not
stay over here. My mother is a person who stays
over here. And I say with my MoMA, tap, mom,
you gotta let that stuff go, like, Okay, it was wrong,
but this is where we are now. Go celebrate where

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we are now. I think that we, particularly African Americans,
who have been so oppressed and so many injustice against us,
that while we need to remember and talk and you know,
think about what's happened to give us context of where
we are, we also can't lose focus that here we
are now. Now we've got to do our thing, you
know what I mean? Right, do you feel like, because
that's a really great point, do you feel like the

(10:19):
generation like my great grandparents were sharecroppers, so I feel
like I didn't know them, but I knew my grandparents
and my parents and they have that mentality and it's
like looking for the empowerment in it. Because the other
thing is, don't don't you feel that we are traumatized?
And just recently, right within what maybe ten years, have

(10:42):
we given ourselves permission to go to therapy. I know
I started going and with my my sons. So it's
like a great point. I think that our generation, you
and me, our generation is a bridge generation, which means
that I think that my mother's generation and my grandparents
generation were totally different than how the young kids are now.
And you and I are in the middle ofvel right,

(11:04):
because we grew up under our parents, right, so we
some of that stuff got inside of us. But we
also turned and look at the young kids and we say, wow,
this is so exciting. These young kids are fearless, They're
willing to stand up, they think out of the box,
they're not afraid to admit things. I always say to people.
People look at me and they say, dr Ian, how

(11:24):
many careers do you have? And I say as many
as I want? Because IMPOSED believe right, life is finite.
Life is finite. And so if I have let's say
eighty years the same, I want more, but let's add
eighty years. Jeezus, do I want to do the same
thing for sixty my eighty years? Oh? I want to
try different things. Right. However, our parents generation, it was

(11:45):
very formulated. Find a good job with benefits, work until
you retire at sixty five. Then you get this. Watching
the Social Security kids these days are like, I'm gonna
work here for more than five years, forget about And
people criticize them, and I don't eize them. They look
at life differently it's okay. They don't have to want

(12:09):
to become career people in one thing. And so you
and I are a bridge, I think between these two
very different generations. I love that. I'm gonna I'm gonna
marinate on that after the show because that gives me
an understanding with my older relatives who are so stuck
and and I'm trying to move. But yeah, speaking of

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forward thinking, we had never seen doctors glamorized other than
TV grays and that and me, right right you are
when you joined the team of the doctors, Like, what
was that transition for you? Because that's what I felt like.
That was the first time I felt like, you know what,
I'm really going to watch this show because it's like
my doctor, my own personal doctor. Yeah. You know, it's interesting.

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I have a lot of friends who are very successful
and that just happens, not be because I'm special or
we're better thannybody, but you know, when you kind of
are in a certain orbit, you meet people. Okay, and
the one thing that we share in common of other things,
but the one thing that's really interesting is that people
don't understand that we struggle and that we have so

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many fights that they don't see to belong to be there.
Like it's a struggle for dr Ian. Everyone says, dr Ian,
oh Man, this guy is rich and he's on TV
and has twenties some books and all these things, but
they don't realize that almost every day I gotta fight
with somebody, right, because you just see the finished product

(13:40):
of me looking great on TV and speaking very well,
and but behind the scenes, I'm arguing with my editor
who only wants to publish my nonfiction best selling diet
books and not my fiction, which is one of my passions.
I'm arguing with my publicist who says, you know, well,
let's not go on this show because it doesn't have

(14:01):
that big of a ratings. And I'm like, but no,
but black people watched this show. I want to be
on this show. So we are constantly in the battle
behind the scenes. And when we come on the camera
and we look happy and everybody is great. So, you know,
going to the Doctors wasn't something that it was like
all of a sudden, someone just kind of, you know,
anointed me and said voir la. There was a lot

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of work to get to be on the Doctors and
to be on that platform and to our earlier point, Tracy,
the fact that it took so long, Right, that it
took so long, given what I had accomplished in my career.
Had someone not black had all those accomplishments, they would
have been on that show from the very beginning. You know,

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I celebrate that it happened and did the best that
I could. And let me tell you something else, Tracy,
it wasn't important for me that I was on the Doctors.
I've been on Today's Show, I've been on the Biggest
Reporter for NBC News. What was important for me to
be on that show was I was hoping that's somebody
out there who looks like us. Right, We'll get that
screen and say, Wow, I'm proud of that guy, and

(15:08):
he makes me believe that I can achieve and my
people are good and successful. That's what it's all about.
It's about really putting an image out there so people
are empowered and feel like I can do that too,
even with all the naysayers, for all the challenges I
may be facing. Well, the thing that I've enjoyed was
that was one of the biggest points for me. Visually.

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We don't see that, you know, that's really the platform
of inside the black boxes, to put more of your
faces out there so our kids can be inspired and encouraged.
You know, I can be a doctor too. But I
thought that timing wise, right, Oprah had just started going
into I believe her show, like the intro was spirit right,

(15:51):
because I was at HBO at that time and I
was trying to bring in ian Ian le van zand
but she was too spiritual, right. But I felt like, Wow,
we're going into spirituality on TV. That's a shocker. And
then to have doctors actually come on and talk about
you know, every day, you know, from fungus to whatever,

(16:13):
and it be palable enough for me to understand. I thought,
this is a brilliant idea because you know, more than anyone,
people are terrified to go to doctors and men have
issues themselves. So to bring it into the privacy of
my home and not have to like share or maybe
I've experienced this or whatever, That's what it did for

(16:34):
me and you being that anchor, it was just like, oh, man, like, yes,
I'm gonna tell you something real crazy that really ties
into all this. You're not gonna believe this. When I
was a young reporter at NBC, news in New York
long time ago. I went to the head of the
station and pitched a show like The Doctors. And I

(16:58):
said to him, I could do this show. And he said,
no way, no one's gonna watch it, blah blah blah
blah blah, and so totally crushed the idea. I was
a young guy, had no resources. I didn't know where
to how to pitch stories to other places. I didn't.
And then ten years later they developed the show The Doctors.
Someone else developed the show and it worked, and OZ

(17:21):
came on. So I had the show before OZ, before
The Doctors, I had And And the moral to that
story for those who are watching and listening is when
you get a rejection or a no, never let anyone
else's opinion damper your enthusiasm for your idea. You have

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to fight for your idea and hold onto it because
it's like paintings. Hundred people see a hundred different things
in the painting. You may think it's wonderful. Someone else says,
I don't get it, but but you have to hold
on to what's yours. And and I was too young
maybe and not mature enough to realize, hey, okay, he
said no but there are two other places I could

(18:02):
possibly go to, and I didn't do it. I also
was a reporter, so I had a real job and
making money and stuff like that. So but looking back
at it, maybe if I had gone to some other
people and said, hey, here's my idea for his TV show,
who knows, I could have been the first one to
do it. But it didn't happen. But that, you know,
you know what I'm excited about. I'm excited about what's
happening now. That's what I'm excited about because I'm like,

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that's just one of the many ideas festering and brewing
in your head. So I'm like, that's a real loss
to them, because when you know dr Ian Smith Productions, Wow,
I feel sorry for y'all, you know what you mean,
because and I know what that feels like, and I
know how what it feels like to go to friends,

(18:44):
and I know what it's like when you've never asked
something of anyone and then they're like now and then
it's like rah rah roan and crickets. So you know
that could be discouraging. Well, it's interesting. I know you
want to talk about health, but so now my novel
I write novels, which people like you write novels. Yes,
I write fiction. I wrote my fourth novel last year

(19:06):
and the last two books are part of a series
called the Ashkane Series. Um and it's a black detective,
private detective based in Chicago. It just got option to
become a TV show. And yeah, so b ET Plus
and b Et have optioned it. We've already done the
pilot script, so I'll be an EP. But I tell

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you this to say that after that experience at NBC
and when I came up with ideas that were I
would say against the grain, not according to my type cast,
I'm fearless about it. And so yeah, I wanted to
write these novels. I wrote them. I wanted to be
a TV show. We're gonna make it happen. And you know,
people have to just believe that they can do stuff,

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even if other people, you know, are saying, I don't know,
I don't know. You gotta believe it. And my girlfriend,
first of all, congratulations, because that's huge, that's huge. You
know this, it's excited, it is too. And and this
is the thing, like, it's so great that you're the
writer too, because your stories, right, everybody has to tap

(20:09):
it to you. They have to maintain the integrity. You're
the writer. So now the fun part of visualizing these
characters and oh man, the casting, like having conversations about
who would like that's fun, that's cool. I mean, you know,
obviously TV writing is different than writing books, and you know,

(20:30):
the shows are never exactly how the books are. But
the idea is as a creator, the idea that you
had a story in your head, you yourself, you created,
you created this world, and that someone else says, wow,
that's interesting, that's entertaining. That to me is the greatest feeling.
I mean, you know, it's just awesome. It's as a

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cast team director, we are at the embryo stages of
a TV project film with anything right, and to be
at that point of like giving a list to the
director and then you know, reading the script and hearing
sides over and over. So when we get to the
premier there are no words because we were there from

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the beginning when it was just black and white pages
those words, and you know, so I'm so excited. I'm
so glad that you took the fuel of that, know,
and just you know, and I agree with you I'm
they say hyphernated, right, We're multi hyphened, right. And so
my older relatives, why can't you just have one job

(21:38):
and sit out? And it's like, well, first of all,
I don't have a job. I go to fund every
day I wake up, I go to fund. So like
that's the difference right there, and you know, it's almost
like making you feel I remember this writer, a very
famous writer years ago, said to me. I said I
wanted to write a book for actors, and he said, Tase,

(22:00):
you should just stay in one thing and be good
at that one thing, because you know your master of
all these ideas. Man. When I first came to New York,
I had a company called The Jokes On You In
nine seven, I played practical jokes on people with my
actor friends, got hired and got day when I first
got here. So I was like, you really think I

(22:21):
would have a nine to five? Like that's what she thinks. No,
I was like you. I was six years old in
the playground of Saint Dominics, and I said I want
to work with actors, and my girlfriend said, I want
to be a millionaire. I said, I don't know what
that means, but I like the way it sounds. So
I'm gonna be that too. So I get it. I

(22:42):
love it. I'm glad that you again to be your child.
And with this, all of this, this is like watching
us having a black president. Um. The flip side and
you may know this two is that your kids see
you very differently. Like my kids, they're just of the

(23:03):
age where they're starting to recognize. Now granted I've shielded
them very much. They're never on social media. You don't
see anything my kids because I want them to have
their own lives and be anonymous. But they're just of
the age to start realized, oh wait, Dad can get
us floor seats here, or you know, he can get it.
I went to a Tie the Creative Concept the other day, right,

(23:26):
so my son, my son says, Dad, hey, can you
get his tickets to Tie of the Creator. I'm like,
how many you need? So we took like five kids
the Tie of the Creator because my friends owned the stadium.
But so my kids are just realizing that actually that
is kind of cool in some ways, you know what
I mean, He's not all you know what I mean?
And that and that like will go someplace and someone

(23:46):
will have my book and they were like, oh, my goodness,
I love this book. And so they're not realizing when
Dad's saying he's working and writing on his computer that
this is. So it's actually a fun time in my
life because my kids who by the door, as you
can imagine, finally realizing that I am something. I'm a
little something, you know. I mean, I'm not just this

(24:08):
dishes all the time, you know. So wait to you,
this is gonna be a pivotal moment. Wait until you
hear them tell one of their friends something you told them.
That's gonna floor you. I was like, because my daughter
would be like, you know, my mother, she's so positive,
she has this right. And one day I passed her
room and she's like, you have to stay positive things

(24:29):
and I was like, what what like? So they do listen,
they listen in their own way, but that was just
I was like, oh, that is my child. Dr Ian Smith,
our interview is up, No, it is, this is. This
has been the one of the best interviews I've ever had.

(24:51):
This is I'm gonna play this back so that I
can hear this. You left so many gyms, but but
you do have three minutes. Yeah, I just want to
say that next time we talk, we will talk about
nutrition because I really want to talk to your audience
about why nutrition and sleep are extremely important for people
in the industry because we worked very weird hours, long hours,

(25:13):
and people sometimes think that well, they got the adrenaline
going and they can just keep going, and you know
you're doing damage to your body. So next time we
have a conversation, I'd like to talk about that. I
want to encourage people to pick up my new book
is called Plant Power. It's a four week program to
teach people how to be more plant based without giving
up all the meat and the chicken and the seafood.

(25:34):
You can still have it, but we want to have
more plant based foods and the way to lose weight,
lawyer cholesterol and just feel better. So check out plant Power.
And lastly, my instagram if you have questions you want
to hit me up is at Dr Ian Smith's boll
The Doctor Out. I a and Smith and I feel
so bad and talk about my because you gave my
part too. Are you kidding me? This was just the
war bupt back for there company questions about the book,

(26:01):
And I also want to challenge and I wanted you
on the phone for this dr Ian Smith. I want
to challenge all of these people on my team to
plant power. That's what I want to do. But let's
do that for week, you guys, and then show dr
Ian like our transition. Talk to him about how we're feeling.

(26:21):
So I give to all of them a book and
they're doing it. You have been a magnificent, oh my god,
outstanding guests. I just want everybody to please put your
hands together for dr Ian Smith, who can be anybody, anything, anywhere. Amen. Thright,

(26:45):
you welcome back to the Spirited Actor podcast with me
Tracy Moore. Get excited because you know we're doing class
in session and I'm really excited for you guys to
meet one of my Spirited Actor alumni and this is
her first time here. So excited. Georgina, where are you?

(27:09):
I'm here, Hi, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you.
Oh man, I'm I'm very happy for you to be here.
I love your monologue. You're so so, so talented. Um
and she also supported us on Inside the Black Box
on Cracker TV streaming now subscribing. Um, So tell everybody

(27:33):
your name and the title of your piece, and then
when you're ready, let's just go right into it. All right.
My name is Georgina Morijo, and I'll be performing a
monologue from Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morson. No, you really stupid.
I'm telling you about being pregnant and alone. I'm telling
you about having a son and being clueless. I'm telling

(27:55):
you about not having the answers they never had. I'm
and probably not I will. You ain't the only one
and tough ship to drop out of school. He had
no family to fall back on. I would get shipless.
But something in me knew I was gonna survive. And

(28:17):
now because nothing was promised to me, or because I
can see the light at the end of the tunnel,
no ship like that. But something in me I knew
what I was made of. I was gonna survive because
I had to. So I walked up, hiding my pregnant

(28:38):
belly so I can get me a job, and I
got it the same day and working the line ever since,
surviving ever since. It ain't been no easy work all
the time. But whatever it is, doing it, it's keeping
me here. So I can be patient. When there's a

(28:59):
plane headed towards a treat, because even if it crashed,
I don't think God die. M I think I get
scarred maybe, but I wouldn't die. I'll take the train
next time. I keep moving. You could pretend you ain't
me ineffective about the same things. But we both got

(29:21):
the battle scars. But it's impatient. May work for you
in the short term, but in the long term it's
gonna kill Thank you. Wow wow wow wow. Such a powerful,
powerful peace and it's so engaging. It's one of the pieces. Honestly,

(29:46):
when I first heard it, I did not want it
to end. I thought maybe she was doing a pregnant pause.
But it was the end. So that's a great thing.
I'm totally one thousand pers said engaged in. So one
of the things that I wanted to to share with
the audience is who are you speaking to and why?

(30:10):
Um I crafted for myself being too. I love one
simically my mother. I'm speaking to my mother and I'm
telling her I want her to live. She's in a
bad place in her life, and my goal, my objective
is I want you to continue persevering and I want
you to live. I got that. So these are the
notes that I would give you, because there are levels

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of desperation there's levels of pleading, and I would start
lower because your presence is very powerful. You don't have
to push. It really does come off right there, okay
and strong. I would take steps because it's like you're
convincing her to live. So one part could be, you know,

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the urgency of how time is sure. The other part
could be the fact that you need her and your
daughter needs her. Give it a little breathing space. Maybe
you have to think about what my next approach is
gonna be, but it gives it some versatility. How does
it make you feel when you felt accomplished or you

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felt like empowered? I get that feeling towards the end
because it's like the first time I'm really speaking up
to her, really telling her how I feel. It makes
me feel that there's hope before there was any. Yeah,
there's hope. You see me, You hear me, So give
her that hope because it sounds like your life was

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dragged over the hot coals, but you made it to
the other side unscathed. You might have some you know,
marks on you, you might have got a little burn,
but you'd empoerish. So yes, life can be extremely challenging,
but you know what you can also get through that
and you can survive it because one thing I wrote

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down is that you are not a victim. You're so
there's a different and you with victim and your mom
is a victim right now, and you're a survivor talking
to a victim, trying to make her a survivor, which
she can be because you're a product of her. She
needs to see herself in you, and that's a part
of what you gotta You know, you're almost shaking her

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to get her to see that. That's how you know
she's going to survive. And then your darkest, loneliest times
where you thought this is it. You woke up next day,
you gotta raise. You woke up the next day and
they offer they paid all your babysitting. Something happened that
filled your soul where you said, how can you go
another day? And then it got better and better and

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better and better. So you have to infuse that in
your mom, but let her see it in you, right,
so then at the end she's like, right, oh my god,
thank you daughter, or she's moving in that direction of that.
That would be very helpful because I mean, you look

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at you. If you covered your stomach, hiding your pregnancy
so that you could get a job, knowing if they
saw you pregnant how many months they might not want
you for that long. And then once you were in
you figured out a way somehow to convince them to
keep you. Your work did because they kept you on
knowing you were four or five months pregnant when you
got there. You know what I mean, So take that

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in Okay, thank you? Yeah, yeah, I feel like it resonated.
Something resonated, So run with that. I look forward to
seeing how you make those of guests. I can't wait
to show you. I will okay for Georgina, thank you,
Thank you, Georgina, and we will be right back with

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the Spirited Actual podcast. I'm going to give you virtual
wealth because they won't let me touch and now it's
time to give love. One of my biggest takeaways in
this experience of recording ten episodes of Inside the Black Box,
the promotion, the press, my takeaway has been time. Time

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is so valuable as you grow wiser in age, right,
because I realized every single day how much I want
to be here for my children and for my granddaughter,
and how I would love to see her graduate from college,
like my mom saw my daughter graduate from Howard h

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You and so it's important that we understand how valuable
time is. And if someone is wasting your time and
you don't want your time to be wasted, then you
need to you need to detach yourself in some way
from that situation because time is something that you'll never

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get back. And when you cherish time and you are
grateful for time, I want to believe that you get
more of it. So when my girlfriend asked me the
other day, are things going to change about your life?
And I said absolutely, I'm going to get a private chef.
I'm going to get a full time housekeeper and she
said Reilly, And I said yes, because someone else cooking,

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I could hang out more with Riah and cleaning up
every day. I could spend more time with Miles and radiance.
I've learned as I get wiser than time is the
most valuable valuable asset that we all have. Don't allow
anyone to take your time that doesn't appreciate love and respect,

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don't forget to look out for us. On our new show,
Inside the Black Box, my co host will be Joe
the Legend Morton. It's going to be. The Spirited Actor
Podcast on Steroids will be streaming on the Crackle network.
I'll keep you posted. Thank you for joining us on
the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. I look

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forward to our net Experiened podcast. Thank you,