April 26, 2021 โข 34 mins
On this episode of ๐๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ธ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ช, Dawn talks with producer, director, and actress ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น ๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐ about Season 5 of Bounce TV's hit Black soap opera, ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ด & ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด. Dive in as Vanessa talks her role as โLady Ellaโ, how "hurt people, hurt people" and how sheโs found success with her 33-year long marriage.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
the Vitamin D Podcast and I wa I'm Dawn Day
and I'm the host. Um. Now, if this is your
first time tuning in, welcome, Thank you for deciding to
live your life on purpose and for purpose. And also
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I'm gonna tell you now, Vitamin D is a pun
off of my name. You know how you get vitamin
D from the sun, right, Well, my name is Dawn.
So I'm here to shed light into your life. You know,
one of the principles that you know I talk about
on each episode on Vitamin D It's all about how
you are your greatest asset. Catch it. You are your
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greatest asset. So all that means is just like a
checking or any type of account that you have. You
put things in, you take things out, you take allocation
of your life, and you see what you have, uh
and the value of it. Well, I'm here to tell
you that your life is your greatest asset. You are
your greatest asset because everything is an extension of you.
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So with Vitamin D, that's what it's about and understanding
how you are your greatest asset. It's all about shedding
light and and this is the thing we think of life.
We give joy and happiness. Yes, it is all that
and more. But the key to realize and what we
talk about shedding lights is that it's going to unveil
the good and the not so good. I usually say
the bad, but I should just say that not so
(01:26):
good or the other side. Because when you talk about
living your best life on purpose and for a purpose,
you need to see a three sixty of you angle.
I mean, think about it. Could you imagine moving through
life and only be able to see what's in front
of you while that's the vision in the direction you're going,
There's a definitely a benefit having peripheral vision. There's definitely
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a benefit to do a pivot, to do a turnaround.
And that's what we gotta do. We gotta make sure
we see our lives through all angles. So this is
your first time, Thank you, welcome. This is what it's
about because I want you to be great and I
want you to to to live every day your life excited.
Huh So if you can't tell, I'm so excited, I
(02:08):
am uber excited, especially about this episode. Um, I have
the one and the only Mrs Vanessa Bell Callaway and
she's joining on this episode to talk about her role
as Lady Ella and bounced TV's hit series Saints and Sentators.
It's on season five, and we delve into a few things.
(02:30):
If you can't tell already this this series has to
be sucked in. You know, I talked to both of
her kids on the show that was Jasmine Berg. You know,
she portrays the character of doctor um Christie Johnson, and
then I had talked to Trade Cheney, who portrays the
role as Kendrack. Okay, it's so much. Okay, I'd like
to refer to Saints and Senators as um or as
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they have referred to it as Jasinburg as a black
soap opera. So that's just a soap opera with a
little bit more f life. You're gonna be sick none
as your seats. You're gonna be sucking on your fingers.
So anyway, I talked to Vanessa Belle Callaway about her
character as Lady Ella, and one of the things that
I found was interesting because you're on the fence as
to whether or not she's a good or bad person,
(03:15):
and what she stood out and what's something that she
said is that hurt people hurt people, and we unpack
on who Lady Ella is, what we can really see
and what we can expect to see, what's going to
happen in season five. And then also, you know Mrs Callaway,
she's been married for over thirty plus years and the
thing that's so amazing is that she unveils and unpacks
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a few things when it comes down to maintaining a
happy and healthy marriage. Okay, how you can miss out
on your potential life partner if you get caught up
sweating the small stuff? Right, always gets real. But when
I walked away, more than anything that stood up to me,
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it's just the importance of love. It's what we all want.
And um, there's nothing but loving inspiration that's coming from
this woman. So let me hush my mouth buckle up,
because now it's time to dive in for your dose
a vitamin day, right with me and get excited Midwestern house. Hello,
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Hello there, Mrs Callaway. How are you? I'm well? Thank you?
How are you? I'm doing amazing? I'm talking to you,
aren't you sweet? So? How are you doing today? I
am doing great, the beautiful day here in Atlanta. I'm
so excited to have you now I talked to two
of your kids on the show. I've talked to uh
(04:50):
Dr Christie A K A. Jasmine and Kendrick A K. Trey. Yeah,
and um, I'm trying to figure do I feel about
Lady Ella. So we're gonna the Saints and Sinners is
definitely like a drama that has me wound up from
(05:12):
left to right, front to back. But first, before I
make my judgment and before I dive in, tell me
about your character Lady Ella. Well, you know, she's involved
a great deal over the years. When he first met
Lady Ella, she was married to Master Johnson and he died,
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so she became a widow and kind of took over
the church. You know, the church has always been a
soft spot for her because it was, you know, her
husband's church. She has a soft spot. Yeah, she got
she got a couple, couple and her father was a pastor.
And then of course when her mother was introduced in
season two, that was a whole dynamic where you saw her.
(05:55):
You know, her mother was the only person who kind
of can make her feel like a little girl, make
her feel in sufficient and insignificant, you know, and un unaccomplished.
You know, her mother could just look at her and
it just melts her. So you know, of course, what
we see Lenel in the world, her world around citeer,
she's she bullies people. Basically, she's a bully. Um. She's mean.
(06:18):
She's a very self centered, self serving. She's hurt, sharts people,
and she doesn't care. So her mother and her you know, now,
they're kinda divide it and they fight a lot. So
she takes a lot, but she's very protecting her children.
Now when it comes when it comes to her babies,
don't mess with her baby, she will cut you. So
(06:40):
she's evolved a lot, you know. But she's you know,
hurt people, hurt people, you know. Um, and this season
you're gonna really see, uh, she gotta meets her match.
She kind of gets she gets hurt, hurt, she puts
out to other people. You're like, you know, don't put
off with same date, right, Hello, you keep messing with
(07:03):
that fire, You're gonna get burned, right And she gets burned.
But you you learned a lot about a lady bird
and her in the relationship, and you understand more about them.
I'll just leave it at that. Can't spoiler Lerner can't
take you what happens. And that's what I saw because
you know, a minute there, you know, you want to
look at Lady Ellen. It's like, well, where are your heart?
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Where's your heart? But it's the very same thing. And
you know, and that's what I like to talk about
on the Vitamin D podcast because you know it's a
pun off of my name. You get vitamin D from
the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
And so not only are we shud a light what's
going on with saints and centators, but also what's going
on with Lady Ella. And you made something that was
(07:45):
so poignant. You said, hurt people, hurt people. And what
I've realized and what I saw with this bridge and
you know I had to tap into a Donnie mcclarkin
for this one. You know, a saint ain't nothing but
a center who fell down and got back up. And
so just the I supposed of just saints and sent us.
I don't see these as bad people, no, No, I
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mean they're just regular people trying, you know, trying to
make it. And what I love about the show is
the church is a backdrop because you know, so often
we want to do church shows, and you want to
everybody to be church eat well. I mean, you know,
just as you go church, don't mean that you what
you said or the person. It just means that you
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person striving. You are person striving to do the best
you can and and we need the guidance of the
Lord to help us find those things in ourselves to
make us the better person. So these are just regular
people who are attached to a church like so many
of us, but in their everyday walk some of them
are trying to really find a better way to do
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their walks, and some are just trying to survive, and
some really don't give it an you know. So we're
just regular peoples, yeah, just trying to you know, I
tell people all the time, we are just these spiritual
beings having this human experience. And there's this communication of
you know, I don't really I don't subscribe to religion,
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but my faith and God, in my relationship with God
is there. But the foundation of coming up in Detroit,
you know, I grew up in a Baptist church. That's
the family. But to really elevating the sense to say hey,
can you see me? And I'm not gonna spoil it,
but honey, I was touching my pearls at the end
(09:30):
of the season one premiere. I'm not season one season
five premiere because it's like, while Lady Ella, I see
how she's pulling the strings with Dr Christie, her daughter Christie,
just the manipulation. She gets out of prison and you
already and then it's like, we're going season five premiere
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and it's like, look what your mama has done to you. Yeah,
she's a manipulated now that that on that So let
me ask you this one thing that you said about
what your character, Lady Alex. You said she loves her babies.
How was she able to understand or even to grasp
(10:11):
the idea of love when you look at her relationship
with her mother. Well, sometimes you want to be everything
that you didn't have to when you were a mother,
you know, so when you you can step into what
you feel you were missing, you sometimes overcomplsate to give it,
to give it to other people. So Lady Ella knows
(10:34):
what she was missing. And and also you know, you
gotta remember Kendrick got here. That was her love chob
with with rats and I can't is that a HOMEI
lover frand or fall all of them. That's the thing
about Rex and Lady Ella. They you know, it's like
they know they hate they love each other, and they
(10:54):
hate each other, and they they're the only ones who
can do that dance. They do the same Dan and
sometime he leaves, sometime I leave, and it's like you
can't live with him and you can't live without him,
and you're gonna see that. You'll see them again this season.
They get they do this. But in the end, they came.
They just came out. They just came out. He got
(11:16):
that mound and he just be sitting in the ear. Yeah. Yeah,
but you know, like mine, think alike. They have like mine,
birds of a feather flock together. It was an episode
four or episode was in season three or season four.
I was season three and he told Lady Ellen, he said,
(11:38):
you're evil matches mine, he's and he was trying to
let him know, you just you just like me. Ellen.
You try to act like you're not like me. But
Juke and I directed that episode, and I didn't know
that scene now. I directed that episode and I it
was a scene when we were having dinner and because
he we were kind of starting to date a little
bit then, and he was trying to seduce me and
(12:02):
he let me know he thought, he said, you're evil
matches mind. So is she scared of him? Oh? No,
He's the only one that you know, in a strange
way that she really knows and she trusts him because
she knows who he really is. Come on, wait a minute,
I felt that. Yeah. No, so she knows him, you know,
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and she knows what he's capable of, and she knows
that he's always gonna come to her rescue and he
always does, even when he said when he swears he's
through with her, that's the first person she calls to
save her is Rex, and he always does. So she's
scared of him. I had to jump up on a
couple of reasons because, uh Rex, just like how when
(12:49):
you can be blended in so many categories. It's the flexibility.
It's like you never know what you're gonna get with
him on a different day. Right. But the thing that
you said was keen to me is that, yeah, she
doesn't fear him because she sees him. And it makes
me think of when you think about fear over all,
it's false evidence appearing real. And I tell people all
the time even when you talk about being your best
(13:12):
self and stepping into something. If I see you, what
can you do to me? I know which angle that
you're coming to me. When I lived in New York,
that was one thing that I felt like I really
got my gangster card up, because just walking around New
York taught me a sense to see. I'm walking down
the street one I see you, how you doing? And
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I think in life and we're come in that disposition
and just to have something head on. Fear ain't got
nothing on me because I see you bull yeah yeah.
So my thing is this, why does she have to
keep Rex around? Because he knows where all her body
(13:53):
is buried. He got most stuff on her, just like
you know him. He know her. And now they say
you keep your in your friends close, with your enemies closer,
you know. And then there's a sickness with them. They
can't they have to have each other. They don't. They
don't want each other the you know, the way other
(14:14):
people want to each other. And Lady Ella plays with him,
She messes with them all the time. She just streams
them along for a little thing. Honey, I said, Mrs Kyla,
Way is holding where you came in there with your money,
you thought off REXI to forgot what's going on. And
it's just so interesting that they say, like a man
(14:36):
away to a woman's heart is through her ears, and
a way to a man's heart is through their eyes.
And I see how you guys are doing this dance
that you're you're you're saying with one another. So when
we talk about Lady Ella and what I'll give it
too much, where is this going? And ultimately what does
(14:57):
she want? You know the it really wants to be loved.
That's really her biggest problem. She keep pushing everybody away.
He really wants to be loved, and she she wants
that love of a father, and you know that kind
of love, the love of a mother. You know, when
you see the dynamics between her and her mother, you know,
she just wants to be loved. And like we said,
(15:21):
her people hurt people, so she is pushing people away
because she's hurt. But she gets she kind of gets her.
She meets her match this season and she's hurt. So
the hurt that she's inflicted on other people she gets
one't even better and it crushes her because of the
person that the hurts coming from that inflicted the pain.
(15:44):
Say that mus just say that the person inflicted the pain.
It hurts even more because of who it is and
what she thought it was going to bring to her life.
On that expectation, she thought that this person was going
to help change her life and just like if things
she gets played. So wait a minute, Okay, you can't
(16:07):
tell us what. I can't tell you what. I can't
think what. Keep watching because those episodes are coming up
and the other episodes that you're gonna really need to see.
And I'm like, I can't remember the episode it is.
Is this scene with a Lady Bird and Lady Ella
and it's Donald Frisco, who plays my mother. Does a
beautiful job in the scene. It's a beautiful scene, and
(16:28):
you really will find out a lot about Lady Bird
and Lady Ella and why they are the way they are.
It's gonna all reveal. It's it's gonna reveal a whole
new side of things, and it's gonna give you a
whole different understanding of these characters. That's all I can say.
I came at the premiere of season five and I
(16:51):
thought I got something because I'm looking at Lady Bird,
And I'm like, it's just people in the church, this
whole having to put on, you know, trying to hold
up to a sudden standard whether and it's just like,
let God do that work, and why don't you just
do you and just be human exactly exactly. So it's
so interesting that And I'm just wondering how you pull
(17:14):
this in with your character. You've been married for over
thirty years, understanding and no one would love looks like,
knowing the ups and downs, the roller coasters, the twists
and turns. How did you use I guess what you
knew to either put or to take away from Lady Allen,
(17:34):
because she's kind of like the opposite of what you
would say who you are in your marriage. Yeah, she
doesn't like me, not like me. That's why I'm playing her.
But I wouldn't want to be her. No, No, I
wouldn't want to be that lady from the all the
tea in China. That's a that's probably a lonely place.
(17:56):
She ain't got little friends on the show. That's my show.
I ain't, I know for no girl friends. Come on,
I don't go out to dinner with nobody. I don't
go to hear no music. Uh Keith his character sings,
you know myles, he's a singer. He's singing at the
little club. I don't never go hear him saying I
don't do nothing. So she's lonely. But there's a price
(18:19):
to pay for when you are not not a nice
person to people and you don't you know, did bring
people into York environment and share and loving and kinds.
It's a price to pay. So I wouldn't want to
be hurt. But yes, I've been married for thirty three
years to September, thank you. And and there's a lot
(18:42):
of work, you know, you gotta put the work in.
So what advice would you give lady Ella about finding
love and marriage and just finding a good man. You
can't be a self selfish person. That's a lady selfish.
She's self serving, And you can't expect somebody to uh
(19:04):
want to come into that environment unless they are some
type of crooking person too who is self serving and
selfish and they gotta plan because they're trying to get
some money. Then it loves not real because they're using
you and you're using them, right, so that you first
of all, you gotta you gotta love yourself and you
gotta stop hurting yourself because the way you treat yourself
(19:26):
is how you're gonna treat somebody else. What you're saying.
Hold on. One thing I talked about on the Vitamin
D podcast is how you are your greatest asset. And
that's just realizing when we talk about money, you know
what you put into your account and what you take
out of your account. And let's face it, life is
ups and downs. But it's about finding that balance so
that you can adjust. Because then everything that's an extension
(19:49):
of you, Like you said, your relationship, how your hygiene, is,
your career, your faith is all of a temperature check
as to where you are. So interesting. N d r
Re has said it in a song. She said love
is not about how much you can take, but how
much you can get. Stat's a Sewan. Folks ain't getting
(20:13):
married how they used to. Now I'm a millennia, I'm
in my thirties. I think to myself, well, what is it?
You know people said that marriage people stepped in into
it for love, But is it unfair to say that
probably then, or you know, years prior, it was a
business exchange. Because I may have stayed through your BS
(20:37):
because I don't have a job. I have to think
about the livelihood of my family. But when you talk
about millennials nowadays, we are ambition. We're going after our dreams.
So if I'm not here for the b S, I
can survive without you. What are your thoughts? Well, I mean,
you know, everybody has the right to feel and do
what they needed their lives. But I'll say this was
(21:00):
there's no relationship that's not gonna have a challenging moment
or two or compromise. So if if you said, oh,
I don't need you because I got my home on that,
and that's cool, But is that what you want? Do
you want to be by yourself? Do you want not
to have children? You want not to have a family.
A lot of people want that. So that's what you want,
that's good. But if you want a union, that's mean something,
(21:22):
especially down the road, if you wanted to use this
to produce children, Yeah, that's gonna b s you gonna
put up with, you know, But guess what, there's a
being se gonna put up with about you too. That's right.
You know, you gotta bring more to the table than
just an appetite. You know, how are you building? Are
you guys trying to build together? Because yeah, there's gonna
be some stuff that goes down and not what level
(21:45):
of degree of being you know, I can't speak on that.
Every about every spirit is different. But if you think
every day it's gonna be lovey dovey and you you
you know, rubbing feet together every night, No, and any't
like that. Love changes and you've got to know be
able to change with the love. And that doesn't mean
that's a bad thing. Love changes doesn't mean it's a
(22:05):
bad thing. It just means that as you grow, love
needs different things to you. It provides different things, It
feels a different way, and you grow with that and
if you don't sometimes and that's what breaks people up.
People change doesn't mean that it's a bad change. But
the person that you met at thirty or whatever and
(22:26):
you get married, this is gonna be the person you're
gonna be with twenty years from that and you won't either.
And if you are, then something that's not right, something
that happened. If you're that same person he married, you know,
then there was some growth that you missed, you know,
So it's gonna be changed and that's okay. And so
when people say, oh, I don't need I don't need
to devolved. And I got myself and I got my
(22:48):
whole money and I got my own money too, and
I'm married to like, I'll make my own money. I
make my whole living. But it's better to share it.
And it's more fun to a plan together, you know.
It's more fun to uh be with you know, the
the love of my life for me then not. So
(23:09):
when other things occur, you deal with it. You just
kind of chalking up is what it is and keep
it moving. So if I well, and I'm like, I
had to put up any bs in my marriage and
it would be pretty cut and dry. But yeah, I
don't like him sometime to get on my nerves, and
sometimes you probably don't like me, you know, and sometimes
(23:29):
I get on his nerves. But we love each other
all the time. So how did you or when did
you know that about your whose the moment I looked
at him, I knew we went on one day that
we've never been apart the moment, I just knew, especially
after that first day, what happened. It just it was
just a feeling. It was the conversation. It was just
(23:52):
and the we went on one day. We never broke up,
We never almost broke up. And a year and eight
months later we were married. It just was going that way,
and it just it was obvious to him, it was
obvious to me. So we didn't fight it. And yeah,
I was twenty nine and he was twenty six when
we met. Yes, and by the time we got married,
(24:15):
I was thirty one and he was twenty eight. We
didn't fight it. See, that's the thing. We didn't fight it.
You know. He wasn't like, oh, but if I get married,
I came running to no more tail, you know. And
I wasn't like, oh, is there somebody better out here
for me? Uh, because see, guy, I'll send you your
husband and you let him go, or you get him
rindy and give them to another woman. I've seen that
(24:37):
happen a lot. What you mean, because because we didn't
take enough time with him, or or he wasn't tall enough,
or he had a one one kirk you didn't like,
or something that was probably when you look back years later,
was really irrelevant, and you don't you know, Yeah, he's nice,
He's a really nice guy. Let's focus on that. He's
(24:59):
a really nice guy. Yeah, he's got a good job,
and let's focus on that. But he just think I
like him taller, or he's his skin tell ain't my
favorite color, or you know, I don't know he's he's
a little heavier than I normally like my man to be,
or what little pie cool things like that women get
real picky about. Now he's mean and he beat you
and he's has no ambitions. Was the reason is, shoot,
(25:23):
you leave somebody, you know. But when it's some little
things and it's like I don't like twee dresses, Okay,
well we work on that, you know, little things like that,
it's like you when I'm at my husband, I made
a list of one to ten before you met him, No,
after I met him, when I was taking him and
I put his qualities out and it was one to
(25:45):
ten and there was my three things that I was like,
he does this, he does that. And when I looked
at that list, I said, is this a deal breaker
for us? It was like, no, it's not. You'll be
You'll be fine. So because I didn't ask him, what
if he did a list for me, I didn't want
to know because I didn't want to know if this
three things might have been one thing that I appreciate
(26:07):
that you said, and it's something that really set out
to me. I studied improv over at the Groundings Theater
and we you know, step into the whole notion of
a yes and and it's about receiving what's coming that
way and then that and is the addition for me
and that whole moving forward. And one of the key
(26:28):
things that you kept saying with yourself is that even
in your relationship and heck, if somebody has just studied
your background of the work, is that you have consistently
to keep moving forward. And I feel like oftentimes in
life that's where we get stuck at because when as
you say, oh you got on my nerves, Oh I
don't like the way you said this, and what you're
(26:48):
wearing or how your hair looked this way, and just
whatever reason to dismiss somebody. But rather than using those
additive qualities and just moving forward. So I gotta ask you,
what's the next for you, Mrs Kyla Warren. Well, um,
there's a lot going on. For me. It's I've been
very blessed. So thank you Jesus first for that. Um.
(27:09):
Right now, I'm directing a TV movie for TV one,
a Christmas movie. UM. It's a lovely stories, it's a
love story. It's called Someday at Christmas. It's gonna come
on Christmas two. So I'm literally in Atlanta directing that.
I have one week left, a wrap on next week.
And I'm also recurring on b ET Games People Play,
(27:34):
And I'm recurring on b She sacrificed their new show
that's starring Paula Patton, so I'm starring on that. I
was just fitting wrapped up seasons before Shameless, the show
time that the eleven season, the last season I was
on since season one, So just wrapped that and it
finished just airing. And I also just played um keenan
uh mother on the on his new show you know
(27:58):
from Tops and from night Life. I just played his mother.
I just aired last week. Um, and um in a
couple of movies out now. I mean, it's I'm busy.
It's really great. You've got a couple of things then
I'm waiting to hear about. But right now, just trying
to finish this movie up so that you guys can
enjoy this beautiful love story Christmas love story and um,
(28:21):
finishing up sacrifice. So I gotta go back to New
Orleans and do that, and then we're gonna wait and
see if we get picked the first season six or
Seaton Centers. Hey, I'll live in the speaking how you
own a kind of lifestyle, So I'm speaking life. It's
already common, I hope. So I wouldn't mind doing the
season six. Well, I'm telling you now, you know, I
(28:42):
just posted up on Steve HARVFM about the season five premiere,
and everybody was going up talking about all the drama,
all the pros. Haul. I'm sitting on the edge of
my seat front and let me just say thank you
for sharing your body of work. Thank you for being
bold and unapologetic with your dreams. Thank you for being
an inspiration to show that you can be a boss
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in your career and still have a relationship and a
beautiful family. And you are just the sweetest little like
just adorable because I just love you. Your energy is
infectious and you're just shining so bright and so positive. Um,
what we need to hear, what your millennial crew needs
(29:24):
to hear. I have daughters your age. I'm sure you're
here in that group. But this beautiful meeting you and
you're such a light, such a bright light to this
world into what you're contributing. So thank you, thank you serious, seriously,
thank you well, thank you. Um this is my dream,
so thank you for being a part of it, and
(29:44):
thank you for unapologetically going after your dreams. Hi know,
before you get out of here, this is one thing
that I asked for people to do. Like I said,
vitamin D is a multi vitamin for your mind. So
just a dose of inspiration and that you can leave,
whether about love, relationship, life, something that you live by,
(30:05):
a quote, a song, whatever, however, just to make the
people feel good. Well, this is something I I live
by and I tell people all the time. Stay ready,
to be ready. And what that means is whatever you
need to fix, fix it. If you don't like your attitude,
you don't throw your hair looks, your teethneed fixed, you
want to lose that ten pounds, do whatever it is
(30:25):
you need to do. Because when that moment comes, you
don't have time to get ready. So however you look
on Friday, you're gonna look that way on Monday. It's
not gonna matter. Magically change over the weekend and whatever
energy you are, it's gonna that's the energy you're giving.
So stay ready to be ready because when that door opens,
you gotta kick it down. Whatever your dream is, whatever
(30:45):
you're doing, but you gotta be ready. Catch it. You
heard it right here in the industry from the one
and only Mrs Vanessa Bell. Callaway, Thank you, queen, Thank
you up. Stay ready? Did you catch it? You know,
I've heard folks say often times that if you stay ready,
(31:07):
you ain't gotta get ready. That's the truth. And catch this.
You're gonna have to stay ready because you're gonna consistently
keep going. And you know you're gonna keep going because
every day that you have breath in your lungs and
you don't stop until that breath is gone. So I
don't care what you're going through. Understand you're gonna have
to keep on keeping harm. But I hope you enjoyed
(31:28):
that conversation because I sure did. If you haven't checked
out Saints and Centers, that you were probably on the
edge of your seats about to check it out. Because
this are real people. These are real folk that's just
trying to make it through life. And that's each and
every one of us. It doesn't matter what's your background.
I mean, look at them. They come from a line
of folks in the church, and you see what's going on.
So I hope we am coming to this and stopping
(31:50):
the whole notion of trying to judge people, trying to
hold people that are at a different standards, and stop
putting so much pressures on people to do because at
the end of the day, it's all about loving who
you are and walking authentically in who you are, and
also understanding that even though with Lady Ella right, she
comes with the circumstances of all her disadvantages that she
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looks at, and she still is able to be a
mother to her children because sometimes we operate and what
we don't have so that we can get to what
we do want. And I want you to keep in mind.
Let that I've said that before and I'll say it again.
Your location is not your destination. But also keep in
mind that how you do anything, it's how you'll do everything.
You have the power to create the new narrative on
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your line. Okay, And and just like Vanessa Belle Callaway said,
there is a narrative that's going to unfold with Lady Ella,
her boat is about to get roped, buckle up. And
then also she talks about all of her countless other projects.
So I'm sure you'll want to dive in and you
want to check that out. Okay, I hope you enjoyed
(32:53):
this episode. I am so excited about this journey that
um I'm on. So make sure that you check out
Saints and Centers on Bounce TV Sunday Nights Central. Okay,
don't say I didn't tell you. All right, Well, I
want to say thank you for joining me on this
journey of my dreams. This is Vitamin D. This is
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for choosing you, thank you for loving on you, and
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I'm gonna tell you now, Vitamin D is a pun
off of my name. You know how you get vitamin
D from the sun, right, Well, my name is Dawn.
So I'm here to shed light into your life. You know,
one of the principles that you know I talk about
on each episode on Vitamin D It's all about how
you are your greatest asset. Catch it. You are your
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greatest asset. So all that means is just like a
checking or any type of account that you have. You
put things in, you take things out, you take allocation
of your life, and you see what you have, uh
and the value of it. Well, I'm here to tell
you that your life is your greatest asset. You are
your greatest asset because everything is an extension of you.
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So with Vitamin D, that's what it's about and understanding
how you are your greatest asset. It's all about shedding
light and and this is the thing we think of life.
We give joy and happiness. Yes, it is all that
and more. But the key to realize and what we
talk about shedding lights is that it's going to unveil
the good and the not so good. I usually say
the bad, but I should just say that not so
(01:26):
good or the other side. Because when you talk about
living your best life on purpose and for a purpose,
you need to see a three sixty of you angle.
I mean, think about it. Could you imagine moving through
life and only be able to see what's in front
of you while that's the vision in the direction you're going,
There's a definitely a benefit having peripheral vision. There's definitely
(01:46):
a benefit to do a pivot, to do a turnaround.
And that's what we gotta do. We gotta make sure
we see our lives through all angles. So this is
your first time, Thank you, welcome. This is what it's
about because I want you to be great and I
want you to to to live every day your life excited.
Huh So if you can't tell, I'm so excited, I
(02:08):
am uber excited, especially about this episode. Um, I have
the one and the only Mrs Vanessa Bell Callaway and
she's joining on this episode to talk about her role
as Lady Ella and bounced TV's hit series Saints and Sentators.
It's on season five, and we delve into a few things.
(02:30):
If you can't tell already this this series has to
be sucked in. You know, I talked to both of
her kids on the show that was Jasmine Berg. You know,
she portrays the character of doctor um Christie Johnson, and
then I had talked to Trade Cheney, who portrays the
role as Kendrack. Okay, it's so much. Okay, I'd like
to refer to Saints and Senators as um or as
(02:52):
they have referred to it as Jasinburg as a black
soap opera. So that's just a soap opera with a
little bit more f life. You're gonna be sick none
as your seats. You're gonna be sucking on your fingers.
So anyway, I talked to Vanessa Belle Callaway about her
character as Lady Ella, and one of the things that
I found was interesting because you're on the fence as
to whether or not she's a good or bad person,
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and what she stood out and what's something that she
said is that hurt people hurt people, and we unpack
on who Lady Ella is, what we can really see
and what we can expect to see, what's going to
happen in season five. And then also, you know Mrs Callaway,
she's been married for over thirty plus years and the
thing that's so amazing is that she unveils and unpacks
(03:38):
a few things when it comes down to maintaining a
happy and healthy marriage. Okay, how you can miss out
on your potential life partner if you get caught up
sweating the small stuff? Right, always gets real. But when
I walked away, more than anything that stood up to me,
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it's just the importance of love. It's what we all want.
And um, there's nothing but loving inspiration that's coming from
this woman. So let me hush my mouth buckle up,
because now it's time to dive in for your dose
a vitamin day, right with me and get excited Midwestern house. Hello,
(04:28):
Hello there, Mrs Callaway. How are you? I'm well? Thank you?
How are you? I'm doing amazing? I'm talking to you,
aren't you sweet? So? How are you doing today? I
am doing great, the beautiful day here in Atlanta. I'm
so excited to have you now I talked to two
of your kids on the show. I've talked to uh
(04:50):
Dr Christie A K A. Jasmine and Kendrick A K. Trey. Yeah,
and um, I'm trying to figure do I feel about
Lady Ella. So we're gonna the Saints and Sinners is
definitely like a drama that has me wound up from
(05:12):
left to right, front to back. But first, before I
make my judgment and before I dive in, tell me
about your character Lady Ella. Well, you know, she's involved
a great deal over the years. When he first met
Lady Ella, she was married to Master Johnson and he died,
(05:32):
so she became a widow and kind of took over
the church. You know, the church has always been a
soft spot for her because it was, you know, her
husband's church. She has a soft spot. Yeah, she got
she got a couple, couple and her father was a pastor.
And then of course when her mother was introduced in
season two, that was a whole dynamic where you saw her.
(05:55):
You know, her mother was the only person who kind
of can make her feel like a little girl, make
her feel in sufficient and insignificant, you know, and un unaccomplished.
You know, her mother could just look at her and
it just melts her. So you know, of course, what
we see Lenel in the world, her world around citeer,
she's she bullies people. Basically, she's a bully. Um. She's mean.
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She's a very self centered, self serving. She's hurt, sharts people,
and she doesn't care. So her mother and her you know, now,
they're kinda divide it and they fight a lot. So
she takes a lot, but she's very protecting her children.
Now when it comes when it comes to her babies,
don't mess with her baby, she will cut you. So
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she's evolved a lot, you know. But she's you know,
hurt people, hurt people, you know. Um, and this season
you're gonna really see, uh, she gotta meets her match.
She kind of gets she gets hurt, hurt, she puts
out to other people. You're like, you know, don't put
off with same date, right, Hello, you keep messing with
(07:03):
that fire, You're gonna get burned, right And she gets burned.
But you you learned a lot about a lady bird
and her in the relationship, and you understand more about them.
I'll just leave it at that. Can't spoiler Lerner can't
take you what happens. And that's what I saw because
you know, a minute there, you know, you want to
look at Lady Ellen. It's like, well, where are your heart?
(07:24):
Where's your heart? But it's the very same thing. And
you know, and that's what I like to talk about
on the Vitamin D podcast because you know it's a
pun off of my name. You get vitamin D from
the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
And so not only are we shud a light what's
going on with saints and centators, but also what's going
on with Lady Ella. And you made something that was
(07:45):
so poignant. You said, hurt people, hurt people. And what
I've realized and what I saw with this bridge and
you know I had to tap into a Donnie mcclarkin
for this one. You know, a saint ain't nothing but
a center who fell down and got back up. And
so just the I supposed of just saints and sent us.
I don't see these as bad people, no, No, I
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mean they're just regular people trying, you know, trying to
make it. And what I love about the show is
the church is a backdrop because you know, so often
we want to do church shows, and you want to
everybody to be church eat well. I mean, you know,
just as you go church, don't mean that you what
you said or the person. It just means that you
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person striving. You are person striving to do the best
you can and and we need the guidance of the
Lord to help us find those things in ourselves to
make us the better person. So these are just regular
people who are attached to a church like so many
of us, but in their everyday walk some of them
are trying to really find a better way to do
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their walks, and some are just trying to survive, and
some really don't give it an you know. So we're
just regular peoples, yeah, just trying to you know, I
tell people all the time, we are just these spiritual
beings having this human experience. And there's this communication of
you know, I don't really I don't subscribe to religion,
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but my faith and God, in my relationship with God
is there. But the foundation of coming up in Detroit,
you know, I grew up in a Baptist church. That's
the family. But to really elevating the sense to say hey,
can you see me? And I'm not gonna spoil it,
but honey, I was touching my pearls at the end
(09:30):
of the season one premiere. I'm not season one season
five premiere because it's like, while Lady Ella, I see
how she's pulling the strings with Dr Christie, her daughter Christie,
just the manipulation. She gets out of prison and you
already and then it's like, we're going season five premiere
(09:50):
and it's like, look what your mama has done to you. Yeah,
she's a manipulated now that that on that So let
me ask you this one thing that you said about
what your character, Lady Alex. You said she loves her babies.
How was she able to understand or even to grasp
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the idea of love when you look at her relationship
with her mother. Well, sometimes you want to be everything
that you didn't have to when you were a mother,
you know, so when you you can step into what
you feel you were missing, you sometimes overcomplsate to give it,
to give it to other people. So Lady Ella knows
(10:34):
what she was missing. And and also you know, you
gotta remember Kendrick got here. That was her love chob
with with rats and I can't is that a HOMEI
lover frand or fall all of them. That's the thing
about Rex and Lady Ella. They you know, it's like
they know they hate they love each other, and they
(10:54):
hate each other, and they they're the only ones who
can do that dance. They do the same Dan and
sometime he leaves, sometime I leave, and it's like you
can't live with him and you can't live without him,
and you're gonna see that. You'll see them again this season.
They get they do this. But in the end, they came.
They just came out. They just came out. He got
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that mound and he just be sitting in the ear. Yeah. Yeah,
but you know, like mine, think alike. They have like mine,
birds of a feather flock together. It was an episode
four or episode was in season three or season four.
I was season three and he told Lady Ellen, he said,
(11:38):
you're evil matches mine, he's and he was trying to
let him know, you just you just like me. Ellen.
You try to act like you're not like me. But
Juke and I directed that episode, and I didn't know
that scene now. I directed that episode and I it
was a scene when we were having dinner and because
he we were kind of starting to date a little
bit then, and he was trying to seduce me and
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he let me know he thought, he said, you're evil
matches mind. So is she scared of him? Oh? No,
He's the only one that you know, in a strange
way that she really knows and she trusts him because
she knows who he really is. Come on, wait a minute,
I felt that. Yeah. No, so she knows him, you know,
(12:25):
and she knows what he's capable of, and she knows
that he's always gonna come to her rescue and he
always does, even when he said when he swears he's
through with her, that's the first person she calls to
save her is Rex, and he always does. So she's
scared of him. I had to jump up on a
couple of reasons because, uh Rex, just like how when
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you can be blended in so many categories. It's the flexibility.
It's like you never know what you're gonna get with
him on a different day. Right. But the thing that
you said was keen to me is that, yeah, she
doesn't fear him because she sees him. And it makes
me think of when you think about fear over all,
it's false evidence appearing real. And I tell people all
the time even when you talk about being your best
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self and stepping into something. If I see you, what
can you do to me? I know which angle that
you're coming to me. When I lived in New York,
that was one thing that I felt like I really
got my gangster card up, because just walking around New
York taught me a sense to see. I'm walking down
the street one I see you, how you doing? And
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I think in life and we're come in that disposition
and just to have something head on. Fear ain't got
nothing on me because I see you bull yeah yeah.
So my thing is this, why does she have to
keep Rex around? Because he knows where all her body
(13:53):
is buried. He got most stuff on her, just like
you know him. He know her. And now they say
you keep your in your friends close, with your enemies closer,
you know. And then there's a sickness with them. They
can't they have to have each other. They don't. They
don't want each other the you know, the way other
(14:14):
people want to each other. And Lady Ella plays with him,
She messes with them all the time. She just streams
them along for a little thing. Honey, I said, Mrs Kyla,
Way is holding where you came in there with your money,
you thought off REXI to forgot what's going on. And
it's just so interesting that they say, like a man
(14:36):
away to a woman's heart is through her ears, and
a way to a man's heart is through their eyes.
And I see how you guys are doing this dance
that you're you're you're saying with one another. So when
we talk about Lady Ella and what I'll give it
too much, where is this going? And ultimately what does
(14:57):
she want? You know the it really wants to be loved.
That's really her biggest problem. She keep pushing everybody away.
He really wants to be loved, and she she wants
that love of a father, and you know that kind
of love, the love of a mother. You know, when
you see the dynamics between her and her mother, you know,
she just wants to be loved. And like we said,
(15:21):
her people hurt people, so she is pushing people away
because she's hurt. But she gets she kind of gets her.
She meets her match this season and she's hurt. So
the hurt that she's inflicted on other people she gets
one't even better and it crushes her because of the
person that the hurts coming from that inflicted the pain.
(15:44):
Say that mus just say that the person inflicted the pain.
It hurts even more because of who it is and
what she thought it was going to bring to her life.
On that expectation, she thought that this person was going
to help change her life and just like if things
she gets played. So wait a minute, Okay, you can't
(16:07):
tell us what. I can't tell you what. I can't
think what. Keep watching because those episodes are coming up
and the other episodes that you're gonna really need to see.
And I'm like, I can't remember the episode it is.
Is this scene with a Lady Bird and Lady Ella
and it's Donald Frisco, who plays my mother. Does a
beautiful job in the scene. It's a beautiful scene, and
(16:28):
you really will find out a lot about Lady Bird
and Lady Ella and why they are the way they are.
It's gonna all reveal. It's it's gonna reveal a whole
new side of things, and it's gonna give you a
whole different understanding of these characters. That's all I can say.
I came at the premiere of season five and I
(16:51):
thought I got something because I'm looking at Lady Bird,
And I'm like, it's just people in the church, this
whole having to put on, you know, trying to hold
up to a sudden standard whether and it's just like,
let God do that work, and why don't you just
do you and just be human exactly exactly. So it's
so interesting that And I'm just wondering how you pull
(17:14):
this in with your character. You've been married for over
thirty years, understanding and no one would love looks like,
knowing the ups and downs, the roller coasters, the twists
and turns. How did you use I guess what you
knew to either put or to take away from Lady Allen,
(17:34):
because she's kind of like the opposite of what you
would say who you are in your marriage. Yeah, she
doesn't like me, not like me. That's why I'm playing her.
But I wouldn't want to be her. No, No, I
wouldn't want to be that lady from the all the
tea in China. That's a that's probably a lonely place.
(17:56):
She ain't got little friends on the show. That's my show.
I ain't, I know for no girl friends. Come on,
I don't go out to dinner with nobody. I don't
go to hear no music. Uh Keith his character sings,
you know myles, he's a singer. He's singing at the
little club. I don't never go hear him saying I
don't do nothing. So she's lonely. But there's a price
(18:19):
to pay for when you are not not a nice
person to people and you don't you know, did bring
people into York environment and share and loving and kinds.
It's a price to pay. So I wouldn't want to
be hurt. But yes, I've been married for thirty three
years to September, thank you. And and there's a lot
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of work, you know, you gotta put the work in.
So what advice would you give lady Ella about finding
love and marriage and just finding a good man. You
can't be a self selfish person. That's a lady selfish.
She's self serving, And you can't expect somebody to uh
(19:04):
want to come into that environment unless they are some
type of crooking person too who is self serving and
selfish and they gotta plan because they're trying to get
some money. Then it loves not real because they're using
you and you're using them, right, so that you first
of all, you gotta you gotta love yourself and you
gotta stop hurting yourself because the way you treat yourself
(19:26):
is how you're gonna treat somebody else. What you're saying.
Hold on. One thing I talked about on the Vitamin
D podcast is how you are your greatest asset. And
that's just realizing when we talk about money, you know
what you put into your account and what you take
out of your account. And let's face it, life is
ups and downs. But it's about finding that balance so
that you can adjust. Because then everything that's an extension
(19:49):
of you, Like you said, your relationship, how your hygiene, is,
your career, your faith is all of a temperature check
as to where you are. So interesting. N d r
Re has said it in a song. She said love
is not about how much you can take, but how
much you can get. Stat's a Sewan. Folks ain't getting
(20:13):
married how they used to. Now I'm a millennia, I'm
in my thirties. I think to myself, well, what is it?
You know people said that marriage people stepped in into
it for love, But is it unfair to say that
probably then, or you know, years prior, it was a
business exchange. Because I may have stayed through your BS
(20:37):
because I don't have a job. I have to think
about the livelihood of my family. But when you talk
about millennials nowadays, we are ambition. We're going after our dreams.
So if I'm not here for the b S, I
can survive without you. What are your thoughts? Well, I mean,
you know, everybody has the right to feel and do
what they needed their lives. But I'll say this was
(21:00):
there's no relationship that's not gonna have a challenging moment
or two or compromise. So if if you said, oh,
I don't need you because I got my home on that,
and that's cool, But is that what you want? Do
you want to be by yourself? Do you want not
to have children? You want not to have a family.
A lot of people want that. So that's what you want,
that's good. But if you want a union, that's mean something,
(21:22):
especially down the road, if you wanted to use this
to produce children, Yeah, that's gonna b s you gonna
put up with, you know, But guess what, there's a
being se gonna put up with about you too. That's right.
You know, you gotta bring more to the table than
just an appetite. You know, how are you building? Are
you guys trying to build together? Because yeah, there's gonna
be some stuff that goes down and not what level
(21:45):
of degree of being you know, I can't speak on that.
Every about every spirit is different. But if you think
every day it's gonna be lovey dovey and you you
you know, rubbing feet together every night, No, and any't
like that. Love changes and you've got to know be
able to change with the love. And that doesn't mean
that's a bad thing. Love changes doesn't mean it's a
(22:05):
bad thing. It just means that as you grow, love
needs different things to you. It provides different things, It
feels a different way, and you grow with that and
if you don't sometimes and that's what breaks people up.
People change doesn't mean that it's a bad change. But
the person that you met at thirty or whatever and
(22:26):
you get married, this is gonna be the person you're
gonna be with twenty years from that and you won't either.
And if you are, then something that's not right, something
that happened. If you're that same person he married, you know,
then there was some growth that you missed, you know,
So it's gonna be changed and that's okay. And so
when people say, oh, I don't need I don't need
to devolved. And I got myself and I got my
(22:48):
whole money and I got my own money too, and
I'm married to like, I'll make my own money. I
make my whole living. But it's better to share it.
And it's more fun to a plan together, you know.
It's more fun to uh be with you know, the
the love of my life for me then not. So
(23:09):
when other things occur, you deal with it. You just
kind of chalking up is what it is and keep
it moving. So if I well, and I'm like, I
had to put up any bs in my marriage and
it would be pretty cut and dry. But yeah, I
don't like him sometime to get on my nerves, and
sometimes you probably don't like me, you know, and sometimes
(23:29):
I get on his nerves. But we love each other
all the time. So how did you or when did
you know that about your whose the moment I looked
at him, I knew we went on one day that
we've never been apart the moment, I just knew, especially
after that first day, what happened. It just it was
just a feeling. It was the conversation. It was just
(23:52):
and the we went on one day. We never broke up,
We never almost broke up. And a year and eight
months later we were married. It just was going that way,
and it just it was obvious to him, it was
obvious to me. So we didn't fight it. And yeah,
I was twenty nine and he was twenty six when
we met. Yes, and by the time we got married,
(24:15):
I was thirty one and he was twenty eight. We
didn't fight it. See, that's the thing. We didn't fight it.
You know. He wasn't like, oh, but if I get married,
I came running to no more tail, you know. And
I wasn't like, oh, is there somebody better out here
for me? Uh, because see, guy, I'll send you your
husband and you let him go, or you get him
rindy and give them to another woman. I've seen that
(24:37):
happen a lot. What you mean, because because we didn't
take enough time with him, or or he wasn't tall enough,
or he had a one one kirk you didn't like,
or something that was probably when you look back years later,
was really irrelevant, and you don't you know, Yeah, he's nice,
He's a really nice guy. Let's focus on that. He's
(24:59):
a really nice guy. Yeah, he's got a good job,
and let's focus on that. But he just think I
like him taller, or he's his skin tell ain't my
favorite color, or you know, I don't know he's he's
a little heavier than I normally like my man to be,
or what little pie cool things like that women get
real picky about. Now he's mean and he beat you
and he's has no ambitions. Was the reason is, shoot,
(25:23):
you leave somebody, you know. But when it's some little
things and it's like I don't like twee dresses, Okay,
well we work on that, you know, little things like that,
it's like you when I'm at my husband, I made
a list of one to ten before you met him, No,
after I met him, when I was taking him and
I put his qualities out and it was one to
(25:45):
ten and there was my three things that I was like,
he does this, he does that. And when I looked
at that list, I said, is this a deal breaker
for us? It was like, no, it's not. You'll be
You'll be fine. So because I didn't ask him, what
if he did a list for me, I didn't want
to know because I didn't want to know if this
three things might have been one thing that I appreciate
(26:07):
that you said, and it's something that really set out
to me. I studied improv over at the Groundings Theater
and we you know, step into the whole notion of
a yes and and it's about receiving what's coming that
way and then that and is the addition for me
and that whole moving forward. And one of the key
(26:28):
things that you kept saying with yourself is that even
in your relationship and heck, if somebody has just studied
your background of the work, is that you have consistently
to keep moving forward. And I feel like oftentimes in
life that's where we get stuck at because when as
you say, oh you got on my nerves, Oh I
don't like the way you said this, and what you're
(26:48):
wearing or how your hair looked this way, and just
whatever reason to dismiss somebody. But rather than using those
additive qualities and just moving forward. So I gotta ask you,
what's the next for you, Mrs Kyla Warren. Well, um,
there's a lot going on. For me. It's I've been
very blessed. So thank you Jesus first for that. Um.
(27:09):
Right now, I'm directing a TV movie for TV one,
a Christmas movie. UM. It's a lovely stories, it's a
love story. It's called Someday at Christmas. It's gonna come
on Christmas two. So I'm literally in Atlanta directing that.
I have one week left, a wrap on next week.
And I'm also recurring on b ET Games People Play,
(27:34):
And I'm recurring on b She sacrificed their new show
that's starring Paula Patton, so I'm starring on that. I
was just fitting wrapped up seasons before Shameless, the show
time that the eleven season, the last season I was
on since season one, So just wrapped that and it
finished just airing. And I also just played um keenan
uh mother on the on his new show you know
(27:58):
from Tops and from night Life. I just played his mother.
I just aired last week. Um, and um in a
couple of movies out now. I mean, it's I'm busy.
It's really great. You've got a couple of things then
I'm waiting to hear about. But right now, just trying
to finish this movie up so that you guys can
enjoy this beautiful love story Christmas love story and um,
(28:21):
finishing up sacrifice. So I gotta go back to New
Orleans and do that, and then we're gonna wait and
see if we get picked the first season six or
Seaton Centers. Hey, I'll live in the speaking how you
own a kind of lifestyle, So I'm speaking life. It's
already common, I hope. So I wouldn't mind doing the
season six. Well, I'm telling you now, you know, I
(28:42):
just posted up on Steve HARVFM about the season five premiere,
and everybody was going up talking about all the drama,
all the pros. Haul. I'm sitting on the edge of
my seat front and let me just say thank you
for sharing your body of work. Thank you for being
bold and unapologetic with your dreams. Thank you for being
an inspiration to show that you can be a boss
(29:04):
in your career and still have a relationship and a
beautiful family. And you are just the sweetest little like
just adorable because I just love you. Your energy is
infectious and you're just shining so bright and so positive. Um,
what we need to hear, what your millennial crew needs
(29:24):
to hear. I have daughters your age. I'm sure you're
here in that group. But this beautiful meeting you and
you're such a light, such a bright light to this
world into what you're contributing. So thank you, thank you serious, seriously,
thank you well, thank you. Um this is my dream,
so thank you for being a part of it, and
(29:44):
thank you for unapologetically going after your dreams. Hi know,
before you get out of here, this is one thing
that I asked for people to do. Like I said,
vitamin D is a multi vitamin for your mind. So
just a dose of inspiration and that you can leave,
whether about love, relationship, life, something that you live by,
(30:05):
a quote, a song, whatever, however, just to make the
people feel good. Well, this is something I I live
by and I tell people all the time. Stay ready,
to be ready. And what that means is whatever you
need to fix, fix it. If you don't like your attitude,
you don't throw your hair looks, your teethneed fixed, you
want to lose that ten pounds, do whatever it is
(30:25):
you need to do. Because when that moment comes, you
don't have time to get ready. So however you look
on Friday, you're gonna look that way on Monday. It's
not gonna matter. Magically change over the weekend and whatever
energy you are, it's gonna that's the energy you're giving.
So stay ready to be ready because when that door opens,
you gotta kick it down. Whatever your dream is, whatever
(30:45):
you're doing, but you gotta be ready. Catch it. You
heard it right here in the industry from the one
and only Mrs Vanessa Bell. Callaway, Thank you, queen, Thank
you up. Stay ready? Did you catch it? You know,
I've heard folks say often times that if you stay ready,
(31:07):
you ain't gotta get ready. That's the truth. And catch this.
You're gonna have to stay ready because you're gonna consistently
keep going. And you know you're gonna keep going because
every day that you have breath in your lungs and
you don't stop until that breath is gone. So I
don't care what you're going through. Understand you're gonna have
to keep on keeping harm. But I hope you enjoyed
(31:28):
that conversation because I sure did. If you haven't checked
out Saints and Centers, that you were probably on the
edge of your seats about to check it out. Because
this are real people. These are real folk that's just
trying to make it through life. And that's each and
every one of us. It doesn't matter what's your background.
I mean, look at them. They come from a line
of folks in the church, and you see what's going on.
So I hope we am coming to this and stopping
(31:50):
the whole notion of trying to judge people, trying to
hold people that are at a different standards, and stop
putting so much pressures on people to do because at
the end of the day, it's all about loving who
you are and walking authentically in who you are, and
also understanding that even though with Lady Ella right, she
comes with the circumstances of all her disadvantages that she
(32:11):
looks at, and she still is able to be a
mother to her children because sometimes we operate and what
we don't have so that we can get to what
we do want. And I want you to keep in mind.
Let that I've said that before and I'll say it again.
Your location is not your destination. But also keep in
mind that how you do anything, it's how you'll do everything.
You have the power to create the new narrative on
(32:33):
your line. Okay, And and just like Vanessa Belle Callaway said,
there is a narrative that's going to unfold with Lady Ella,
her boat is about to get roped, buckle up. And
then also she talks about all of her countless other projects.
So I'm sure you'll want to dive in and you
want to check that out. Okay, I hope you enjoyed
(32:53):
this episode. I am so excited about this journey that
um I'm on. So make sure that you check out
Saints and Centers on Bounce TV Sunday Nights Central. Okay,
don't say I didn't tell you. All right, Well, I
want to say thank you for joining me on this
journey of my dreams. This is Vitamin D. This is
(33:13):
what it is about. Come on, somebody, we'll set a
light on things because we gotta live life on purpose
and for a purpose. Huh. We gotta live while we're
still alive. Huh. So check out these other episodes, and
if you feel compelled that perhaps you'd like to be
a guest, or if you'd like to submit a letter
because you need some advice, email me Vitamin D at
(33:37):
dawn day Speaks dot com. My assistant Jeremiah, he's gonna
dive in there and he's gonna pull it out and
then we're gonna read them on there and then we're
gonna have a verbal relation, just simple of conversation. Also,
have you checked out my YouTube channel. Yes, Vitamin D
is on YouTube search at dawn Day Speaks and you
can see now a live representation of the conversations that
(33:59):
we have going on. And then also in the meantime,
if you need some extra Vitamin D in your life,
feel free to follow me on a social media at
Dawn Day Speaks. Okay, Greater is coming you hear me,
I said, Greater is coming. See I expect exceedingly and
abundantly because I live a yes and type of lifestyle.
(34:19):
All Right, I'm getting out of here. Um, thank you
for choosing you, thank you for loving on you, and
I want you to always remember you are your greatest
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