In this special live episode of The Latest with Loren Lorosa, recorded at Howard University, Loren sits down with Marsai Martin — award-winning actress, producer, and Hollywood’s youngest executive producer — for a powerful conversation on creativity, culture, and purpose. Best known for her breakout role on Black-ish and her groundbreaking work behind the camera, Marsai opens up about navigating fame at a young age, understanding her identity, and the importance of representation in media.
She discusses the art of building a trustworthy team, embracing the journey rather than rushing success, and the unique responsibility of being a young Black creator in Hollywood. Marsai and Loren dive into the realities of leadership, self-awareness, brand building, and how to stay grounded while making history in the entertainment industry. The episode wraps with Marsai offering candid advice to emerging creatives on self-marketing, staying authentic, and carving out their own lane in an evolving cultural and digital landscape.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren l Rosa and this
is the latest with Lauren le Rosa. This is your
Delli dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and
all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So today I am bringing you guys, live and direct
into a conversation that I'm pretty sure will shake the
room in a very positive, motivational way. I got to
sit down with marse Martin at Howard University during the
HBCU First Look Film Festival. I was honored to be
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in conversation with her and also literally got honored as
one of their like you know, nominated Innovators in the
Content Creator Space, which was an award that's voted on
by the students that are involved in the program. So
that meant a lot to me. But it also just
meant a lot to me to be in conversation with
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Marseille because I feel like, even though Marseille Martin is
so much younger than me, watching her career has literally
shown me what happened like what happens when you're a
multi hyphen it who is you know, very secure and
what it is that you do it. Maybe some days
you're not, but you're secure in the fact that you
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do good work. And we had a very in depth
conversation just about what her journey has been like just
trying to make sure she get all her props and
all her just do, but doing really good work in
the film space, creating you know, hits, blockbuster hits like Little,
the movie Little which starts Regina King and herself, Marseille Martin. Yeah,
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and just what that looks like and doing it with family.
Y'all know how I feel about stuff like that. So
I want to, you know, kick off the conversation right here.
Little background. The HBCU First Look Film Festival is an innovative,
annual HBCU initiative that focuses on diversity and inclusion and opportunities.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And they bring together.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
HBCU students with HBCU graduates who are creators and leaders
in film, television, and various broadcast industries. So this, you know,
Film Festival is a part of a larger organization that
is making sure HBCU students have all of the opportunities
that they deserve the outlets to you know, put their
represent and do them, but also the people in the
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real conversations to understand what they're walking into.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So let's take a listen to the conversation right now.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
All right, So we're gonna get ready to have this
amazing fireside chat. And I'm excited because the moderator of
the fire side chat is somebody who I like in
real life because she's just a dope human being.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We got to know during her.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Time on TMZ, but now she is a bona fide
household name in her own right with a podcast and
she is the heartbeat of the breakfast club.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Can y'all show some love to my girl laurd.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Louilsa and she stay fly and she went to Delaware
State russ up, you got your Mary J.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Blige bouto on today.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I see I see you, come on, y'all, sir Lawn
and said well love.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And joining her is our ambassador for the HBCU First
Look Film Festival this year. She is a multi hyphened creative,
Hollywood's youngest executive producer. Y'all fell in love with her
own Blackish and you liked her in Little and G
twenty and she's just.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Doing the thing, a ball of happiness. She is a
wonderful person. Come on, shows her love from us, say Martin, Hey.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lord, it's all yours baby. You got it from here,
I said.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The lifetime navigating worlds that are well beyond her age.
We met her in the Milestone TV series Blackish. This Plano,
Texas native held her own as the whip smart elementary
school age Diane Johnson in a TV family opposite Season
Masters Anthony Anderson, Tracy Ellis Ross, Jennifer Lewis and Lawrence Fishburn.
At only fourteen. In twenty nineteen, she set the Guinness
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World Record as the youngest Hollywood executive producer for the
MeV Little signed a first look deal with Universal Pictures
and became the youngest person to achieved this with any
studio still in her teens. Forbes thirty for thirty named
her to the list. She's been celebrated with Time one hundred,
Next A, Refinery twenty nine's twenty nine Powerhouse Honors. She
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is an eleven time and DOUBACP Image Award winner who
executive produced via her Genius Productions, the skating themed Saturdays,
a TV series for Disney.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
As an actress, she portrayed first daughter to Viola Davis's
black female potus in the Action Pact G twenty and
has voiced multiple projects, including the popular Paul Patrol for
Paving the way for the next generation of storytellers, producers
and entrepreneurs and leading with Purpose is why Marseille Martin
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is Cafe Moca's twenty twenty five Salute Them Awards Bridging
the Gap, Honoree.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I know that's right, Marseille. When do you sleep?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm sorry that was like thirty things, and I know
you got like a thousand more accomplishments.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
When do you sleep?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And when do I sleep? Yes, when I'm done with this,
you know, a quick little thirty minute power app gotcha.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, I mean, I'm honored to be here in conversation
with you. We met some time ago at the Breakfast
Club and even before that, we've always been a fan
of your work ethic. But just how you understood the
business so early, so young, and I know that you
know I met Mom backstage. I know that has a
lot to do with you have great people around you,
So let's get right on into it, right, So you
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embarked on your career at a really young age. And
we talk about you know, in the business and being
able to do all these things, but what were some
of the opportunities or challenges that came with the opportunities
of being in the spotlight so young?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I mean, I will put it in perspective that I
started when I was five.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So the.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Complications that we had going from I mean Dallas to
la and then going from Huntington Beach to like Burbank,
which is a two hour drive going back and forth
from the studio. I mean, it was just a lot
of sacrifice that came here to it, as it is
for anybody who has a passion, and I believe. I mean,
there's things in the little details that like a lot
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of people don't even think of, such as like you know,
who's doing your hair?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You know, how's your hair going? Look, a lot of
people don't know how to do black people's hair.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
And then when you know, we're able to fix that
with the amazing Roxy Lindsay, who.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is such a like like.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
A perfectionist when it comes to black women here of course,
but I mean there's just there's so many things that
you can talk about and you know, relate to when
it comes to just what it was like growing up
in that space. But I feel like, just as a whole,
the things that you don't even think about, such as
just your childhood just switching, you know, just shifting from
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with me being a little girl from Dallas, Texas, going
from a public school that I was at for many
years and then going to homeschool, you know, such as that,
and just like the different shifts that puts on a
perfect person and what it takes on. So I feel
like it was a lot of changes that happened. But
I think with me being an old soul and always
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around I'm not going to say, oh, grown people all
the time. I used to be around my aunties and
I was like eight years old and they were telling
me about they divorced stories and stuff, and I'm like, exactly, girl,
like this is what you have to do. So going
from that to then going on a set that you know,
it's legend that I also saw as like my aunties,
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like Jennifer Luiz, like, it was basically.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The same thing.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
So I think it's just being able to kind of
change my mindset at such a young age and not
really thinking about how crazy the shift is from someone
else who meets the I, but just you know, having fun,
trying to find the fun and everything that I do.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That I think that was the most important thing.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You talk about the shift. I can't imagine at such
a young age what that feeling was like. But do
you remember when you were like, oh, things are different
for me than the kids that I started going to
school with, Like when you kind of realize like, okay,
I'm a celebrity, these things are happening.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
I will say when I went from my public school
in Dallas, Texas, where I was with the same people
for many, many years, and then moved to Huntington Beach
where it was just a bunch of white kids.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I went to like a YMCA, and I.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Had like it's like white, very like out there, jolly yes,
and most of and sometimes sometimes I would be you know,
absent because I would have to work. So when I
come back, I was like I was working, and you know,
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I was a middle school kid talking about I had
to work, like you know, I was at work. So
that's when I kind of realized the shift in how
different I was from just other kids. And you know,
it was it was different at the time, but I
was there was something in me that was very vocal
about being like talking to my parents and me and
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like listen, y'all, this this ain't gonna work. I was like,
this is not gonna work. I need to find something else.
And that's when I moved into homeschool, and then my
mom became my teacher, and then we had some amazing,
amazing tutors on the Blackish set that helped me out
so much, and I then eventually I had the same
tutor up until I was finished with school. So at
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the end it was very helpful, you know, but that
was definitely the shift of like, wow, this is different.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So growing up in the industry and growing up around
the arts, you said something important, Like you said you
were able to go to your parents and say this
is not working for me, like I need to change
schools because whatever just wasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
On point for you to do what you need to do.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, as a creative and a lot of you know,
the students and the people here are probably creators of businesses,
and they're young and they're figuring things out. What would
be your message to them about being able to say, hey,
this is not working for me, so that they're their
best selves when they're showing up and trying to create
their projects and do different things because you did at
a very young age.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, I think it starts with.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Understanding the question behind the question of like, Okay, this
isn't working.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Why isn't it working? What are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Tell me what the perfect scenario is? How do we
get to that point?
Speaker 8 (10:53):
And I think even at that age, it was trying
to understand myself before saying what I had to say
to everybody else outside of.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That, which I definitely had to learn.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
You know, just growing up, because I was a person
that would say something and then someone would ask me
why and I was.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Like, hmmm, I don't know. So I think to be
able to.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Understand where it's coming from the feelings that are rooted
into it, it's helped me so much, whether I'm learning
with journaling or even like I'll do these voice memo
diaries of just me talking just it can be like
the most crazy ramble or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Is there like a diary or like what talk us
through that it's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Like a voice memo.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
I would I mean, I guess you can call it
a diary, but it's just a brain dump of things
that I have on my mind because I mean it
could be very overwhelming at times. So and then you'll
have all these questions and I'm like, Okay, how do
we how do we come to the solution? Yes, and
just go from layer to layer to later to layer,
because it's truly like an onion, you know, just trying
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to figure out what is the core, the core situation
which has helped me, which has helped me so much.
So I think that would be my advice to people
is to learn yourself. Constantly, learn yourself, don't rush your process,
don't rush into making a decision. I think it just
it definitely helps in the long run and just your
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growth as a whole.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Deciding to get behind the camera for you and you know,
creating projects and producing. Was that something that you were
always doing or was that something that you know one
day you were like, rememb what is this?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I want to try it?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
How did that come about?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
When I created little with my family? That was that
was honestly the peak of everything was being able to
actually see something that me and my parents created in
our living room turn into something that we go to
Atlanta and we're filming for three months, saying you are
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just really seeing your dreams come to reality, which was
very surreal for me. And if you've watched a little before,
there's one scene in particular where it's literally when Jordan
wakes up and she has these big old clothes on,
she got this huge hair, and she's just now waking up.
She's trying to look for her glasses and then she
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tries to see herself in the mirror and she just shook.
And even I think that was one of the first
scenes that we shot, and I was like, wow, I
cannot believe. I just remember me and my mom going
band for band on, like what she was gonna wear,
what she's looking like, what is she saying? And then
me actually doing that with a whole production everybody's saying
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like doing it for takes on takes and.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It just was so special.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
And then to have that and then to realize like, oh,
I could do this.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Over and over and over again, like this is fun.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
That's how Genius Productions came about. And I could do
it for other people, not just for me to feel this,
but for other young black girls who want to be
in front and behind the camera other black boys who
want to pursue anything, anything that they want. It's like
I understood what that energy was, yes, and how much
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I want to share that with other people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What are things that you so when you're doing Little
you mom, your family, your home, you're figuring it out
and then you're on set, right What were some things
that you were realizing that you had been learning all
along the way that helped you a lot at that
time that somebody right here right now could be like
hyper focusing on because it'll get them to a point
where they could go out and do a production with
friends next month, the next week. What are some of
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those like core things that you were like, let me
see what she did there. God, I didn't even know
that this was preparing me.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Ooh oh, that's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Mom said use your resources.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh look my mom is right here.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
She's like, yeah, right here.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
To front, y'all, Mom is right hand to front.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
The fad is skill of me? Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I mean, like my mom was saying, definitely using your resources.
I think connection is everything. The reason even why a
Little came about is because of Kenya Bears and Will
Packard and of course Kenya created Blackish. Yes, so we
had the idea, but it wouldn't have been able to
come to fruition the way it did without the team
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behind it. And it's genuine people who want to see
you win, you know, it's not just there were in
it for the money, or they were in it because
I'm a prodigy or you know, or whatever the whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Story you make in your head. Yes, but it's I
mean I was nine, I was nine when that that
conversation started, you know, so.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
A lot of people can see that in different ways.
You know, they can see it and you know, go
with some kind of story that it's not true or
I'm just the phase or whatever. But they saw a
girl with a passion, with an idea and wanted to
follow suit with it, you know. And I think that
is the most important thing, is just following your heart
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with people who want to protect it, you know, because
that's not I mean, that's not around a lot you know,
we were that. Yeah, people absolutely, just genuine good people
who you just want to be around, you know, you
never want to be around no fake people, of course,
but I think it's just important to just curate your team,
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find your team, find your energy that you want to
be around, and just create your plans and go from there.
We had a plan, yes, and I think that was
that was important. So I think that was one thing
is using your resources. Another thing my mom says a
lot is what's for you, what's for you, and what's
for you won't miss you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I read every time.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
And I say it here because there was a minute
where I, I mean, I was just on Blackish for
like it was what nine.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Years of my life almost said.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
And I feel like I was starting to as an
actor become stagnant or like, you know, as a whole,
I'm growing up in front of everybody's eyes as Diane,
not as Marseille, you know. So I think as a whole,
I had to sit back and it was more of
a complicated experience to find myself because of it, and
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little in creating my production company and also turning into
the person I truly want to be, which is an
overall creator. I'm just a creator at heart. I just
like having fun, building businesses and stuff. That's just really
just what I want to do, you know. And I
just I think as a whole, that's what I wanted
to be and what I was destined to be. And
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I realized, like, you know, as long as I follow
my path, as long as I trust in God, as
long as I don't stress about it, no pressure, just
do what is at hand. And then if I know
that God is not going to put anything in my
heart and my mind and my gut that it's not
supposed to be, it's not supposed to be there. You know,
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it's everything that I think, everything that I feel. It's like, Okay,
this is this is here for a reason. I'm feeling
this way for a reason.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So when everything came about, I was just like, wow,
this is just really God's journey.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
And even though I created Little at nine, I didn't
film me until I was thirteen. I didn't get the
record until I was fourteen. You know, I didn't create
my production company until I was fourteen fifteen. I didn't
start actually selling stuff until I was sixteen seventeen. You know,
I didn't start getting the recognition for it until I
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was eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
So I think to be able to trust the plan, yeah,
trust the process, find joy in the process is what's
the most important thing, because then you realize, like, wow,
this is perfect timing and what's the rush?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know, I think that when you say it, it's
sometimes it's easier to say it than to live it
or feel it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
When you're in it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And I know, like, how many of you guys are
creators here? Raise your hand, creators college everybody? Right, yeah,
thank you for raising your hands, everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes. So I think a lot of times, especially when you're.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Creative and you live with what you love so much, right, Like,
it's like your passion, the journey, it has its twists
and turns, and it may feel like, oh when does
the light hit? But what she is talking about is
kind of being so committed to like what you're experiencing
that you're not worried about the end. And I know
that's hard for us. But there's a message in what
she just says. So I hope you guys felt that
message as well too. End in the resources thing, a
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lot of you guys are here, your creators are in college.
This is the best place for you to find your director,
your head of photography, your publicists, your social media person
like link up with your people, not just from home
coming all the fun things, but link up with them
for real. And I know Howard is the home with that,
so I know y'all doing that, but yeah, she dropping
some gems up here. You talked about Blackish, right, yeah,
and having to find yourself out of your character because
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that show was so impactful. Did you know going into
and people probably ask you this all the time, the
impact that it would have culturally, and did you understand
it while it was happening.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Absolutely not. I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
I was just having fun. I was being Diane. It
was it was just fun and ad libing. Even the
June teenth episode where we were talking about we built
this and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I just liked the music. I didn't really I didn't know.
I really didn't know.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
I was learning what Juneteenth meant and the story behind
it while we were filming, and I think that was
such a special moment as a whole, for not even
just the audience, but as us. I mean, we grew
up on the show and there's so many stories and
concepts that even at home we would just talk about.
We would look at the script before the table read
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and be like, what does this mean? Like, you know,
how does this reflect you know, my family? Is it
something that we're gonna go through eventually, and it was
just so important and it felt like it felt like school.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It felt like school as a whole you were learning
something new.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
I think that, Yeah, I think Blackish was just such
a pivotal moment for us as as just young adults
just trying to figure.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Out our way.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Even when Diane had so many things happened to her
during these seasons, I was doing.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The same thing.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
When Diane got her cycle, it was like a month
or two I got my first, when I was telling
everybody Gods, it was like true, true family dynamics on
that show. Yes, And it was just so important, so special.
Even the hair episode. I would talk to Tracy about
it in the trailer before getting into it. It was
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truly like an educational experience for me and something that
I just truly will never forget.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you feel like as a creator the responsibility that
has put on black creators right? So like with that show,
for every young person, you guys saw them something. But
to see a young black woman going through getting her cycle,
learning about Juneteenth, there's another black girl here that watched
that and she learned with you?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Is she felt seen right? That responsibility?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Do you take that into everything you do because of
black Ish or was that something that you were doing
head on, like you knew early on, Like I want
to make sure that like the girls who see me
understand this at a young age.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Absolutely, I think now it's deeper. It's deeper than that,
you know.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
I think now being behind the camera, I want people
to not just as an actress like there might be
you know, an amazing actress that happens to be like
an amazing black women that see that and are excited
about it. But now I'm like, Okay, where are the
black writers, Where are the black dps? Where are the
black I mean anything black wardrobe?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You know, where are the props?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:43):
So anything that I do at this point forward, I
want every detail to reflect who we are, right you know.
So anybody who from any position, any role, you can
see that and be like, that's what I want to do,
That's where I want to be.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
That's the caliber that I want to hit, you know.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
And I think that is the most important thing is
paying attention to the little details, and not just with acting,
but even with the festival work that I do with
say Summer Cookout or the other businesses that we're trying
to build.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's always it's always learning.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I'm constantly learning, and I want to learn with other
people who are genuine, like we said, just good people
who just want to make good content, like good real
stuff that we want to put out there. I think
that's just the most important thing. Me and me and
my family will go still band for a band about
like this is what needs to be out there.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
How do we make it?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
How do we build it? How do we start it?
And I think that's just the start of It's that's
step one. We got any people here that want to
make some good content, Yes, out I will say something
about I will say something about the resources part. This
is the best place truly to connect, not just with
your fellow students.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
But we just had Ryan Coogo last night. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
You have your legions here that are willing to talk
to you, willing to have the conversation.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Don't be afraid to have the conversation. We do not bite.
We can have the conversation as well.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Like the team that is that we want to cure
and want to build, it starts here.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's what it is. It starts here. And I want
to see you guys' work.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
I want like, I want to see it out there,
any part of social media, any like in real life,
like promote your stuff, yes, don't don't promote your stuff,
you know, don't be embarrased. Yes, sometimes it does come
with embarrassment to get your stuff done.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You know what I mean. You can't be you.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
You gotta be comfortable with being uncomfortable and that and
that's just it. You know, don't be afraid because it's
already going to be a no if you don't. If
you don't do it, it's a it's already a O.
So go for it. Strive to be your best. And
now i'll see you want to say, hopefully that's your meetings.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Where we want to take some questions from the audience.
So yes, hands in there, any questions? First hand I
saw was over here. So when you ask your question,
you got to introduce yourself, your major, what you do,
and then your question. I'll be but I'm gonna go
to this side in the white with the headphones right here.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Hi.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
My name is Timia Anderson. I'm a sophomore film a
TV major, cheminology minor from Mephicinness. I attend Howard, And
my question for you would be, what do you say
to keep yourself going when you're not getting the results
you want? Like maybe, like you know, work is moving slow,
you just start getting what you want, or you feel
like you're not doing enough. For example, I do photography
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around campus and I have I do it every so often,
but I also feel like I could be doing more
than I am. And I'm not really sure if it's
just like me or if it's just like just myself,
or if it's something more I could be doing. So
what would you say you say to yourself, like to
keep yourself like stable?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Yeah, I would say, I say trust the timing A
lot of the time. That goes for what I was
saying in the beginning of what's the question behind the question,
Like why are you feeling this way? Why do you
feel like you should be doing more if you already
given your one hundred percent? Like is it comparing? Is
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it you know, overthinking? Is it stress? Is it pressure?
Is it the pressure of school but also wanting to
do something different? It's it's those questions that you only
yourself can ask, you know, and then you go from there.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
But I think that you know emotions are emotions. Sometimes
I be crying, It's true, I cry and be like damn,
you know. Sometimes it just be like that, but not
for long. I don't let it do that. I don't.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
I don't sit in no sadness for long, no sadness.
I'm like, all right, I feel this way when we go,
get my ass back up and do what I have
to do. And that's just it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You know. Sometimes you just have to find a new plan.
Sometimes you have to pivot.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Sometimes you have to lean on your connections and being
like this is how I feel.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
How do we figure this out together?
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Because nine times out of ten, you're never alone in
how you're feeling, you know, like how do I get
out of this funk? You know, most of the time
it's just the person on your left that you're like like,
this is what I need help with, or hey, help
me find this person so I can learn how to
be a better whatever, a better photographer, a better whatever,
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like as like, knowledge is key, you know. So I say,
it's so many different things. But what do I tell myself?
I let myself feel what I have to feel in
the moment, whatever that is. If it's anger, I'll go
on my voicemail and be like this stop it, be like,
all right, we're cool. You know what I got to write?
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What's the plan? What's the vibes? How do I get
out of this? Let you feel what you have to feel.
That's step one, and then you go from there. Then
then you find what that next thing is, you know, because.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
The good comes with the bad. That's just that's just
what it is.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
You're gonna have those stagnant moments and that's okay, but
trust the timing.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Absolutely. Yeah, We're gonna take some more questions. I'll go
straight to the back with the green and the white.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
With the yes. She like, do I know green and white? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Girl, you put that outfit on the day.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
My name is Brishet.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I am a junior. I'm a film major at Buois
State University.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yep, oh my good.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
Okay, And my question to you is when you think
about your legacy, do you see yourself as part of
a movement of young black creatives or as someone building
her own land entirely?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Girl, she came with the outfit the question.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Right, she said, this is what I gotta say it.
I feel.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Let them lead.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You won't do it?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
The one did you do it. I know I have
my peers, I know I have my people around me.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
But ever since I was little, I knew that I
was creating a lane for myself that is just outside of.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
What other people are doing, and that's okay.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
When I learned that was when I realized there was
nobody next to me that I can that I can
completely relate to because I was doing things are still
doing things at an age where nobody could even fathom
where to start.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So I see my legacy being my own path and
I take that head on like.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
And I think this comes from me being I don't
know who into astrology, but I'm a triple LEO. I
stand on like you know I stand on business. I
put my all into myself. I'm confident in myself. I
know what I have to do as well as I
know it's only me that can get myself there, and
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I know what I'm capable of that is.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Different from all these other people out here.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
You can see it in my resume, you can see
it in my work, you can see it in the
conversations I have with people. You can see me in
business because I don't play about that. I come from
a family that doesn't play about that, and that's just
that I get. I stay out the way and I
do my work, which is different, and that's it. So
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I think as a whole, I'm just I'm just in
a path of my own and that comes from with
a whole different responsibility than anything else that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
But I take it head on and that's just that's
just the Yes, go.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Well, last one? Okay, last one?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I want to say, you got to pick the last one?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I feel so much pressure.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's like I got the auks right now or y'all
wasn't really feeling my music? So giving it to you?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
What?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Stressful? Ait it? Oh? No? Do we got?
Speaker 9 (31:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What if this is the last question?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
What if we just go? Okay, let's do Miss girl
in the White.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm sorry, y'all, I hold it for your queen. I
was gonna be like better dance.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
See how did that boom? Everybody? Handshake?
Speaker 10 (31:42):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
First of all, thank y'all both for being here. Thank
you for picking me to a question. My name is
Selma So I'm a fourth year computer science major theater
arts minor from Oakland, California.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Yes, yes, I felt, yes, Yes, it's West Coast Baby
contend you.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
Yes, And my question is kind of about being like
a multi hyphenated creative. I'm an actress, dancer, model, singer, creative, director,
et cetera, et cetera, and I find it hard sometimes
to market myself when it's like there's so many different
things I'm interested in, so many different things I do,
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so many different just lanes I want to go to.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So my question is for the multi hyphenic creatives, how
can we.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
Figure out ways to put it together as like a
full package that can be like presented and marketed.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Hmmm, well, I mean it starts with you. I mean
you're the only person who can market yourself truthfully.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
You know your brand? What is your brand? That is
something that.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Is a full day of just sitting with yourself and
thinking about you know. That's that's where the little details
come in, Like when are you gonna pull out your
dancing skills.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
When you're gonna pull out your singing? When are you
gonna do that? Is all you? No one can actually
do that for you, you.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Know, that is something that every person that you see
has kind of curated that for themselves. I think one
of my favorite multi hyphen stars is Tianna Taylor, you know,
which is someone who styles herself, creates her own content,
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has her own production company, the conversations that she has
with people, conversations that she has on her own, you know.
So those are things that you have to do to
just market yourself. You're the only person who can do that,
and that is.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
A beautiful thing to do, all of it. So my
my advice would be to have fun.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
Don't think too hard on it, just have fun with it,
because that's one of the best things to do is
just put yourself out there and have fun. I mean,
Halloween just passed, Like, what's a un neat thing that
you could do for Halloween?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I mean Thanksgiving it is coming up. What's a unique
thing you can do.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
With your family, like who are the fan of the friends,
the connections that you have.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
They can go on campus.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
And start your own series or start your own whatever,
like as a creative director to where you're able to.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Sprout all of that. But have fun with it.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
That's one of the best things I could say is
don't think too hard on it. It might be something
to even have fun with just for a day, you know,
And that's what I would say. You know, just find
ways to mark yourself and start and start there. You know,
I can't tell you how to market yourself because.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Only you know you.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, there's only one you show us why. There's only
one you, period. That's your asset in the room. Girl,
You're welcome, And I tell you to real quick before
you go. Sometimes too, like when you can do a
bunch of things, there's like one thing that is like
super prevalent that people just like run to you naturally about.
Don't fight that either, lean into that and then allow
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yourself to like bring everything else into yeah, as it
makes sense. Like think about your favorite like story that
you go to for I don't know, your favorite makeup product.
Once you go get that product, you just happen to
find everything else. So if you are strong there and
that's out there, the people gonna find the rest of
the stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Just be ready, have it all together, have your looks
all the things.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
And I will say this for everybody in the room,
even with the questions that I got, you don't need
to have it all figured out right now.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
No, I know.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
Sometimes people will look at tiktoks of us in our
twenty somethings thrive and strive and whatever and being like,
oh my.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Gosh, I need to be like them. We don't have
it all figured out either, we don't. This is just
our job, just like you have your job, girl. That's it.
That's just it. So you don't need to have it
figured out out right now.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
Just create your path, create the story you want to tell,
and take it day by day because your twenties is
where you can actually make the most mistakes and come
back from it, you know. And that's just it, you know,
Just like, keep going, keep pushing, keep thriving the best
that you can do. Not put any pressure on yourself
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at all. Y'all are still in school, y'all are still
focusing on other things and other problems. Just take it
day by day and it'll all fall in the place later.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, and ladies, before we brend it up.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
I got a question from mom Carol, because a bunch
of the students keep asking me, come on, stand up,
Mama cairol I put it on the spot.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
A bunch of the students keep asking me and say
what ut, Mom, Carol. Bnch of the students have asked
me this.
Speaker 12 (36:37):
And you know, I have parents who don't see arts
and entertainment as a viable career, and they want me
to become a doctor or a lawyer, one of these things.
How did you have the unction to support your daughter
through this career path? And what advice would you give
the students about talking to their parents about them taking
the journey in arts and entertainment?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Hello, everybody.
Speaker 13 (37:00):
I come from a family of artists, so it was
really easy for me to spot early that that would
probably be what her journey was. But if I did
have parents that didn't get it, or if I was
a parent that didn't get it, you got to understand
that the choices that I make for me are my choices,
(37:20):
and this is not a carbon copy of myself. And
God didn't give me a baby to just pour into
what I what I want her to be. I can
desire her to do all sorts of things, but she's
a blank piece of paper and all I can do
is try to make sure that I give her all
the tools that are necessary. I make sure she's fed
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and clothed and saying, and God does the rest. I
knew from a baby that this is the kid that
I had, so I just it was funny trying to
get people to see what I saw because everybody they're like,
everybody thinks their baby is you know, everybody's baby can
do I was like, nah, everybody's baby can't do it.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
This baby could do.
Speaker 13 (38:01):
But you know, and then they saw what came to fruition,
and then they're.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Like, oh I knew.
Speaker 13 (38:04):
Remember when I told you no, girl, I'm like, yeah, okay,
but I mean, just tried your best to give your
parents grace because that's what was put under them, you know,
like that that seems like that they want stability. You
have to hear what's behind that push. They may not
get it because they were told that same thing. You know,
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like the only viable way to do anything is are
these four careers, you know, and there's the artist, the
starving artists. That's the actual title. So yeah, most artists
are starving, you know. So they it's coming from a
place of concern and love and if you give them
that grace, they may never understand it. But you gotta
do what you got to do for you and try
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to stay in that mindset and know that there's the
community of people that support you even if they don't
get it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Do You just got to find your folks that do
that'll hold.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
You up and I will I will say that also
comes with time. They sometimes they just need to see it.
Sometimes they just need to see it because I mean
it is people just be like that sometimes. But also too,
even this past year, I've the conversations I have with
my parents are very different. They look different now because
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I realize that they're humans too. They don't, like mom said,
they don't have it all figured out. This is the
first time that they have a twenty one year old
or a twenty something year old. So, like my mom said,
to be able to give your parents that grace, but
also too, they might be a part of the group
that just needs to see it to believe it.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
And that's okay. So keep moving forward.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
And it's not saying that you can't do this or whatever,
because that can feel like projection at times. But just
follow your path and switch your mindset about it. It's
all about mindset.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Now, we see where you get it from though, right, yes, yep,
full of love?
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Can y'all give Lord and mant say a round of o'clock,
Come on, get up on your feet and show them
somewhere love.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I told y'all, I told you guys, at this conversation
with Marseille Martin.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I mean, come on, let's think about it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Like Marseille Martin is, you know, Blackish little She is
literally the girl. She's so good at what she does
and as you guys were able to hear today, there
is intention and purpose.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
And hard work and effort behind.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Everything she does. As always, I'm Laurena Rosa. This is
the latest with Laura Rosa, and y'all could be anywhere
with anybody, having these conversations and hearing from some of
your favorite celebrities firsthand.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
But y'all choose to be with me every single episode, and.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Men do I appreciate y'all for that, My Lowriders. I
will see you guys in my next episode.
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren l Rosa and this
is the latest with Lauren le Rosa. This is your
Delli dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and
all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So today I am bringing you guys, live and direct
into a conversation that I'm pretty sure will shake the
room in a very positive, motivational way. I got to
sit down with marse Martin at Howard University during the
HBCU First Look Film Festival. I was honored to be
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in conversation with her and also literally got honored as
one of their like you know, nominated Innovators in the
Content Creator Space, which was an award that's voted on
by the students that are involved in the program. So
that meant a lot to me. But it also just
meant a lot to me to be in conversation with
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Marseille because I feel like, even though Marseille Martin is
so much younger than me, watching her career has literally
shown me what happened like what happens when you're a
multi hyphen it who is you know, very secure and
what it is that you do it. Maybe some days
you're not, but you're secure in the fact that you
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do good work. And we had a very in depth
conversation just about what her journey has been like just
trying to make sure she get all her props and
all her just do, but doing really good work in
the film space, creating you know, hits, blockbuster hits like Little,
the movie Little which starts Regina King and herself, Marseille Martin. Yeah,
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and just what that looks like and doing it with family.
Y'all know how I feel about stuff like that. So
I want to, you know, kick off the conversation right here.
Little background. The HBCU First Look Film Festival is an innovative,
annual HBCU initiative that focuses on diversity and inclusion and opportunities.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And they bring together.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
HBCU students with HBCU graduates who are creators and leaders
in film, television, and various broadcast industries. So this, you know,
Film Festival is a part of a larger organization that
is making sure HBCU students have all of the opportunities
that they deserve the outlets to you know, put their
represent and do them, but also the people in the
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real conversations to understand what they're walking into.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So let's take a listen to the conversation right now.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
All right, So we're gonna get ready to have this
amazing fireside chat. And I'm excited because the moderator of
the fire side chat is somebody who I like in
real life because she's just a dope human being.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We got to know during her.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Time on TMZ, but now she is a bona fide
household name in her own right with a podcast and
she is the heartbeat of the breakfast club.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Can y'all show some love to my girl laurd.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Louilsa and she stay fly and she went to Delaware
State russ up, you got your Mary J.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Blige bouto on today.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I see I see you, come on, y'all, sir Lawn
and said well love.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And joining her is our ambassador for the HBCU First
Look Film Festival this year. She is a multi hyphened creative,
Hollywood's youngest executive producer. Y'all fell in love with her
own Blackish and you liked her in Little and G
twenty and she's just.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Doing the thing, a ball of happiness. She is a
wonderful person. Come on, shows her love from us, say Martin, Hey.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lord, it's all yours baby. You got it from here,
I said.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
The lifetime navigating worlds that are well beyond her age.
We met her in the Milestone TV series Blackish. This Plano,
Texas native held her own as the whip smart elementary
school age Diane Johnson in a TV family opposite Season
Masters Anthony Anderson, Tracy Ellis Ross, Jennifer Lewis and Lawrence Fishburn.
At only fourteen. In twenty nineteen, she set the Guinness
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World Record as the youngest Hollywood executive producer for the
MeV Little signed a first look deal with Universal Pictures
and became the youngest person to achieved this with any
studio still in her teens. Forbes thirty for thirty named
her to the list. She's been celebrated with Time one hundred,
Next A, Refinery twenty nine's twenty nine Powerhouse Honors. She
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is an eleven time and DOUBACP Image Award winner who
executive produced via her Genius Productions, the skating themed Saturdays,
a TV series for Disney.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
As an actress, she portrayed first daughter to Viola Davis's
black female potus in the Action Pact G twenty and
has voiced multiple projects, including the popular Paul Patrol for
Paving the way for the next generation of storytellers, producers
and entrepreneurs and leading with Purpose is why Marseille Martin
(05:07):
is Cafe Moca's twenty twenty five Salute Them Awards Bridging
the Gap, Honoree.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I know that's right, Marseille. When do you sleep?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm sorry that was like thirty things, and I know
you got like a thousand more accomplishments.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
When do you sleep?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And when do I sleep? Yes, when I'm done with this,
you know, a quick little thirty minute power app gotcha.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, I mean, I'm honored to be here in conversation
with you. We met some time ago at the Breakfast
Club and even before that, we've always been a fan
of your work ethic. But just how you understood the
business so early, so young, and I know that you
know I met Mom backstage. I know that has a
lot to do with you have great people around you,
So let's get right on into it, right, So you
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embarked on your career at a really young age. And
we talk about you know, in the business and being
able to do all these things, but what were some
of the opportunities or challenges that came with the opportunities
of being in the spotlight so young?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I mean, I will put it in perspective that I
started when I was five.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So the.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Complications that we had going from I mean Dallas to
la and then going from Huntington Beach to like Burbank,
which is a two hour drive going back and forth
from the studio. I mean, it was just a lot
of sacrifice that came here to it, as it is
for anybody who has a passion, and I believe. I mean,
there's things in the little details that like a lot
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of people don't even think of, such as like you know,
who's doing your hair?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You know, how's your hair going? Look, a lot of
people don't know how to do black people's hair.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
And then when you know, we're able to fix that
with the amazing Roxy Lindsay, who.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Is such a like like.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
A perfectionist when it comes to black women here of course,
but I mean there's just there's so many things that
you can talk about and you know, relate to when
it comes to just what it was like growing up
in that space. But I feel like, just as a whole,
the things that you don't even think about, such as
just your childhood just switching, you know, just shifting from
(07:15):
with me being a little girl from Dallas, Texas, going
from a public school that I was at for many
years and then going to homeschool, you know, such as that,
and just like the different shifts that puts on a
perfect person and what it takes on. So I feel
like it was a lot of changes that happened. But
I think with me being an old soul and always
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around I'm not going to say, oh, grown people all
the time. I used to be around my aunties and
I was like eight years old and they were telling
me about they divorced stories and stuff, and I'm like, exactly, girl,
like this is what you have to do. So going
from that to then going on a set that you know,
it's legend that I also saw as like my aunties,
(08:02):
like Jennifer Luiz, like, it was basically.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The same thing.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
So I think it's just being able to kind of
change my mindset at such a young age and not
really thinking about how crazy the shift is from someone
else who meets the I, but just you know, having fun,
trying to find the fun and everything that I do.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That I think that was the most important thing.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You talk about the shift. I can't imagine at such
a young age what that feeling was like. But do
you remember when you were like, oh, things are different
for me than the kids that I started going to
school with, Like when you kind of realize like, okay,
I'm a celebrity, these things are happening.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
I will say when I went from my public school
in Dallas, Texas, where I was with the same people
for many, many years, and then moved to Huntington Beach
where it was just a bunch of white kids.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I went to like a YMCA, and I.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Had like it's like white, very like out there, jolly yes,
and most of and sometimes sometimes I would be you know,
absent because I would have to work. So when I
come back, I was like I was working, and you know,
(09:16):
I was a middle school kid talking about I had
to work, like you know, I was at work. So
that's when I kind of realized the shift in how
different I was from just other kids. And you know,
it was it was different at the time, but I
was there was something in me that was very vocal
about being like talking to my parents and me and
(09:37):
like listen, y'all, this this ain't gonna work. I was like,
this is not gonna work. I need to find something else.
And that's when I moved into homeschool, and then my
mom became my teacher, and then we had some amazing,
amazing tutors on the Blackish set that helped me out
so much, and I then eventually I had the same
tutor up until I was finished with school. So at
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the end it was very helpful, you know, but that
was definitely the shift of like, wow, this is different.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So growing up in the industry and growing up around
the arts, you said something important, Like you said you
were able to go to your parents and say this
is not working for me, like I need to change
schools because whatever just wasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
On point for you to do what you need to do.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, as a creative and a lot of you know,
the students and the people here are probably creators of businesses,
and they're young and they're figuring things out. What would
be your message to them about being able to say, hey,
this is not working for me, so that they're their
best selves when they're showing up and trying to create
their projects and do different things because you did at
a very young age.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, I think it starts with.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Understanding the question behind the question of like, Okay, this
isn't working.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Why isn't it working? What are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Tell me what the perfect scenario is? How do we
get to that point?
Speaker 8 (10:53):
And I think even at that age, it was trying
to understand myself before saying what I had to say
to everybody else outside of.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That, which I definitely had to learn.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
You know, just growing up, because I was a person
that would say something and then someone would ask me
why and I was.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Like, hmmm, I don't know. So I think to be
able to.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Understand where it's coming from the feelings that are rooted
into it, it's helped me so much, whether I'm learning
with journaling or even like I'll do these voice memo
diaries of just me talking just it can be like
the most crazy ramble or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Is there like a diary or like what talk us
through that it's.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Like a voice memo.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
I would I mean, I guess you can call it
a diary, but it's just a brain dump of things
that I have on my mind because I mean it
could be very overwhelming at times. So and then you'll
have all these questions and I'm like, Okay, how do
we how do we come to the solution? Yes, and
just go from layer to layer to later to layer,
because it's truly like an onion, you know, just trying
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to figure out what is the core, the core situation
which has helped me, which has helped me so much.
So I think that would be my advice to people
is to learn yourself. Constantly, learn yourself, don't rush your process,
don't rush into making a decision. I think it just
it definitely helps in the long run and just your
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growth as a whole.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Deciding to get behind the camera for you and you know,
creating projects and producing. Was that something that you were
always doing or was that something that you know one
day you were like, rememb what is this?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I want to try it?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
How did that come about?
Speaker 8 (12:44):
When I created little with my family? That was that
was honestly the peak of everything was being able to
actually see something that me and my parents created in
our living room turn into something that we go to
Atlanta and we're filming for three months, saying you are
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just really seeing your dreams come to reality, which was
very surreal for me. And if you've watched a little before,
there's one scene in particular where it's literally when Jordan
wakes up and she has these big old clothes on,
she got this huge hair, and she's just now waking up.
She's trying to look for her glasses and then she
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tries to see herself in the mirror and she just shook.
And even I think that was one of the first
scenes that we shot, and I was like, wow, I
cannot believe. I just remember me and my mom going
band for band on, like what she was gonna wear,
what she's looking like, what is she saying? And then
me actually doing that with a whole production everybody's saying
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like doing it for takes on takes and.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It just was so special.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
And then to have that and then to realize like, oh,
I could do this.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Over and over and over again, like this is fun.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
That's how Genius Productions came about. And I could do
it for other people, not just for me to feel this,
but for other young black girls who want to be
in front and behind the camera other black boys who
want to pursue anything, anything that they want. It's like
I understood what that energy was, yes, and how much
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I want to share that with other people.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What are things that you so when you're doing Little
you mom, your family, your home, you're figuring it out
and then you're on set, right What were some things
that you were realizing that you had been learning all
along the way that helped you a lot at that
time that somebody right here right now could be like
hyper focusing on because it'll get them to a point
where they could go out and do a production with
friends next month, the next week. What are some of
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those like core things that you were like, let me
see what she did there. God, I didn't even know
that this was preparing me.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Ooh oh, that's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Mom said use your resources.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh look my mom is right here.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
She's like, yeah, right here.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
To front, y'all, Mom is right hand to front.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
The fad is skill of me? Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I mean, like my mom was saying, definitely using your resources.
I think connection is everything. The reason even why a
Little came about is because of Kenya Bears and Will
Packard and of course Kenya created Blackish. Yes, so we
had the idea, but it wouldn't have been able to
come to fruition the way it did without the team
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behind it. And it's genuine people who want to see
you win, you know, it's not just there were in
it for the money, or they were in it because
I'm a prodigy or you know, or whatever the whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Story you make in your head. Yes, but it's I
mean I was nine, I was nine when that that
conversation started, you know, so.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
A lot of people can see that in different ways.
You know, they can see it and you know, go
with some kind of story that it's not true or
I'm just the phase or whatever. But they saw a
girl with a passion, with an idea and wanted to
follow suit with it, you know. And I think that
is the most important thing, is just following your heart
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with people who want to protect it, you know, because
that's not I mean, that's not around a lot you know,
we were that. Yeah, people absolutely, just genuine good people
who you just want to be around, you know, you
never want to be around no fake people, of course,
but I think it's just important to just curate your team,
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find your team, find your energy that you want to
be around, and just create your plans and go from there.
We had a plan, yes, and I think that was
that was important. So I think that was one thing
is using your resources. Another thing my mom says a
lot is what's for you, what's for you, and what's
for you won't miss you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I read every time.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
And I say it here because there was a minute
where I, I mean, I was just on Blackish for
like it was what nine.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Years of my life almost said.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
And I feel like I was starting to as an
actor become stagnant or like, you know, as a whole,
I'm growing up in front of everybody's eyes as Diane,
not as Marseille, you know. So I think as a whole,
I had to sit back and it was more of
a complicated experience to find myself because of it, and
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little in creating my production company and also turning into
the person I truly want to be, which is an
overall creator. I'm just a creator at heart. I just
like having fun, building businesses and stuff. That's just really
just what I want to do, you know. And I
just I think as a whole, that's what I wanted
to be and what I was destined to be. And
(17:48):
I realized, like, you know, as long as I follow
my path, as long as I trust in God, as
long as I don't stress about it, no pressure, just
do what is at hand. And then if I know
that God is not going to put anything in my
heart and my mind and my gut that it's not
supposed to be, it's not supposed to be there. You know,
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it's everything that I think, everything that I feel. It's like, Okay,
this is this is here for a reason. I'm feeling
this way for a reason.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
So when everything came about, I was just like, wow,
this is just really God's journey.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
And even though I created Little at nine, I didn't
film me until I was thirteen. I didn't get the
record until I was fourteen. You know, I didn't create
my production company until I was fourteen fifteen. I didn't
start actually selling stuff until I was sixteen seventeen. You know,
I didn't start getting the recognition for it until I
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was eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
So I think to be able to trust the plan, yeah,
trust the process, find joy in the process is what's
the most important thing, because then you realize, like, wow,
this is perfect timing and what's the rush?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know, I think that when you say it, it's
sometimes it's easier to say it than to live it
or feel it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
When you're in it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And I know, like, how many of you guys are
creators here? Raise your hand, creators college everybody? Right, yeah,
thank you for raising your hands, everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes. So I think a lot of times, especially when you're.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Creative and you live with what you love so much, right, Like,
it's like your passion, the journey, it has its twists
and turns, and it may feel like, oh when does
the light hit? But what she is talking about is
kind of being so committed to like what you're experiencing
that you're not worried about the end. And I know
that's hard for us. But there's a message in what
she just says. So I hope you guys felt that
message as well too. End in the resources thing, a
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lot of you guys are here, your creators are in college.
This is the best place for you to find your director,
your head of photography, your publicists, your social media person
like link up with your people, not just from home
coming all the fun things, but link up with them
for real. And I know Howard is the home with that,
so I know y'all doing that, but yeah, she dropping
some gems up here. You talked about Blackish, right, yeah,
and having to find yourself out of your character because
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that show was so impactful. Did you know going into
and people probably ask you this all the time, the
impact that it would have culturally, and did you understand
it while it was happening.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Absolutely not. I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 8 (20:12):
I was just having fun. I was being Diane. It
was it was just fun and ad libing. Even the
June teenth episode where we were talking about we built
this and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I just liked the music. I didn't really I didn't know.
I really didn't know.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
I was learning what Juneteenth meant and the story behind
it while we were filming, and I think that was
such a special moment as a whole, for not even
just the audience, but as us. I mean, we grew
up on the show and there's so many stories and
concepts that even at home we would just talk about.
We would look at the script before the table read
(20:45):
and be like, what does this mean? Like, you know,
how does this reflect you know, my family? Is it
something that we're gonna go through eventually, and it was
just so important and it felt like it felt like school.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It felt like school as a whole you were learning
something new.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
I think that, Yeah, I think Blackish was just such
a pivotal moment for us as as just young adults
just trying to figure.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Out our way.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Even when Diane had so many things happened to her
during these seasons, I was doing.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The same thing.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
When Diane got her cycle, it was like a month
or two I got my first, when I was telling
everybody Gods, it was like true, true family dynamics on
that show. Yes, And it was just so important, so special.
Even the hair episode. I would talk to Tracy about
it in the trailer before getting into it. It was
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truly like an educational experience for me and something that
I just truly will never forget.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you feel like as a creator the responsibility that
has put on black creators right? So like with that show,
for every young person, you guys saw them something. But
to see a young black woman going through getting her cycle,
learning about Juneteenth, there's another black girl here that watched
that and she learned with you?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Is she felt seen right? That responsibility?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Do you take that into everything you do because of
black Ish or was that something that you were doing
head on, like you knew early on, Like I want
to make sure that like the girls who see me
understand this at a young age.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Absolutely, I think now it's deeper. It's deeper than that,
you know.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
I think now being behind the camera, I want people
to not just as an actress like there might be
you know, an amazing actress that happens to be like
an amazing black women that see that and are excited
about it. But now I'm like, Okay, where are the
black writers, Where are the black dps? Where are the
black I mean anything black wardrobe?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
You know, where are the props?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:43):
So anything that I do at this point forward, I
want every detail to reflect who we are, right you know.
So anybody who from any position, any role, you can
see that and be like, that's what I want to do,
That's where I want to be.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
That's the caliber that I want to hit, you know.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
And I think that is the most important thing is
paying attention to the little details, and not just with acting,
but even with the festival work that I do with
say Summer Cookout or the other businesses that we're trying
to build.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's always it's always learning.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I'm constantly learning, and I want to learn with other
people who are genuine, like we said, just good people
who just want to make good content, like good real
stuff that we want to put out there. I think
that's just the most important thing. Me and me and
my family will go still band for a band about
like this is what needs to be out there.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
How do we make it?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
How do we build it? How do we start it?
And I think that's just the start of It's that's
step one. We got any people here that want to
make some good content, Yes, out I will say something
about I will say something about the resources part. This
is the best place truly to connect, not just with
your fellow students.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
But we just had Ryan Coogo last night. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
You have your legions here that are willing to talk
to you, willing to have the conversation.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Don't be afraid to have the conversation. We do not bite.
We can have the conversation as well.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Like the team that is that we want to cure
and want to build, it starts here.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's what it is. It starts here. And I want
to see you guys' work.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
I want like, I want to see it out there,
any part of social media, any like in real life,
like promote your stuff, yes, don't don't promote your stuff,
you know, don't be embarrased. Yes, sometimes it does come
with embarrassment to get your stuff done.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
You know what I mean. You can't be you.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
You gotta be comfortable with being uncomfortable and that and
that's just it. You know, don't be afraid because it's
already going to be a no if you don't. If
you don't do it, it's a it's already a O.
So go for it. Strive to be your best. And
now i'll see you want to say, hopefully that's your meetings.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Where we want to take some questions from the audience.
So yes, hands in there, any questions? First hand I
saw was over here. So when you ask your question,
you got to introduce yourself, your major, what you do,
and then your question. I'll be but I'm gonna go
to this side in the white with the headphones right here.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Hi.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
My name is Timia Anderson. I'm a sophomore film a
TV major, cheminology minor from Mephicinness. I attend Howard, And
my question for you would be, what do you say
to keep yourself going when you're not getting the results
you want? Like maybe, like you know, work is moving slow,
you just start getting what you want, or you feel
like you're not doing enough. For example, I do photography
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around campus and I have I do it every so often,
but I also feel like I could be doing more
than I am. And I'm not really sure if it's
just like me or if it's just like just myself,
or if it's something more I could be doing. So
what would you say you say to yourself, like to
keep yourself like stable?
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Yeah, I would say, I say trust the timing A
lot of the time. That goes for what I was
saying in the beginning of what's the question behind the question,
Like why are you feeling this way? Why do you
feel like you should be doing more if you already
given your one hundred percent? Like is it comparing? Is
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it you know, overthinking? Is it stress? Is it pressure?
Is it the pressure of school but also wanting to
do something different? It's it's those questions that you only
yourself can ask, you know, and then you go from there.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
But I think that you know emotions are emotions. Sometimes
I be crying, It's true, I cry and be like damn,
you know. Sometimes it just be like that, but not
for long. I don't let it do that. I don't.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
I don't sit in no sadness for long, no sadness.
I'm like, all right, I feel this way when we go,
get my ass back up and do what I have
to do. And that's just it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You know. Sometimes you just have to find a new plan.
Sometimes you have to pivot.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Sometimes you have to lean on your connections and being
like this is how I feel.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
How do we figure this out together?
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Because nine times out of ten, you're never alone in
how you're feeling, you know, like how do I get
out of this funk? You know, most of the time
it's just the person on your left that you're like like,
this is what I need help with, or hey, help
me find this person so I can learn how to
be a better whatever, a better photographer, a better whatever,
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like as like, knowledge is key, you know. So I say,
it's so many different things. But what do I tell myself?
I let myself feel what I have to feel in
the moment, whatever that is. If it's anger, I'll go
on my voicemail and be like this stop it, be like,
all right, we're cool. You know what I got to write?
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What's the plan? What's the vibes? How do I get
out of this? Let you feel what you have to feel.
That's step one, and then you go from there. Then
then you find what that next thing is, you know, because.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
The good comes with the bad. That's just that's just
what it is.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
You're gonna have those stagnant moments and that's okay, but
trust the timing.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Absolutely. Yeah, We're gonna take some more questions. I'll go
straight to the back with the green and the white.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
With the yes. She like, do I know green and white? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Girl, you put that outfit on the day.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
My name is Brishet.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I am a junior. I'm a film major at Buois
State University.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yep, oh my good.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
Okay, And my question to you is when you think
about your legacy, do you see yourself as part of
a movement of young black creatives or as someone building
her own land entirely?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Girl, she came with the outfit the question.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Right, she said, this is what I gotta say it.
I feel.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Let them lead.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You won't do it?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
The one did you do it. I know I have
my peers, I know I have my people around me.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
But ever since I was little, I knew that I
was creating a lane for myself that is just outside of.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
What other people are doing, and that's okay.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
When I learned that was when I realized there was
nobody next to me that I can that I can
completely relate to because I was doing things are still
doing things at an age where nobody could even fathom
where to start.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So I see my legacy being my own path and
I take that head on like.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
And I think this comes from me being I don't
know who into astrology, but I'm a triple LEO. I
stand on like you know I stand on business. I
put my all into myself. I'm confident in myself. I
know what I have to do as well as I
know it's only me that can get myself there, and
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I know what I'm capable of that is.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Different from all these other people out here.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
You can see it in my resume, you can see
it in my work, you can see it in the
conversations I have with people. You can see me in
business because I don't play about that. I come from
a family that doesn't play about that, and that's just
that I get. I stay out the way and I
do my work, which is different, and that's it. So
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I think as a whole, I'm just I'm just in
a path of my own and that comes from with
a whole different responsibility than anything else that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
But I take it head on and that's just that's
just the Yes, go.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Well, last one? Okay, last one?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I want to say, you got to pick the last one?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I feel so much pressure.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's like I got the auks right now or y'all
wasn't really feeling my music? So giving it to you?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
What?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Stressful? Ait it? Oh? No? Do we got?
Speaker 9 (31:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What if this is the last question?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
What if we just go? Okay, let's do Miss girl
in the White.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm sorry, y'all, I hold it for your queen. I
was gonna be like better dance.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
See how did that boom? Everybody? Handshake?
Speaker 10 (31:42):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
First of all, thank y'all both for being here. Thank
you for picking me to a question. My name is
Selma So I'm a fourth year computer science major theater
arts minor from Oakland, California.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Yes, yes, I felt, yes, Yes, it's West Coast Baby
contend you.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
Yes, And my question is kind of about being like
a multi hyphenated creative. I'm an actress, dancer, model, singer, creative, director,
et cetera, et cetera, and I find it hard sometimes
to market myself when it's like there's so many different
things I'm interested in, so many different things I do,
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so many different just lanes I want to go to.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So my question is for the multi hyphenic creatives, how
can we.
Speaker 9 (32:30):
Figure out ways to put it together as like a
full package that can be like presented and marketed.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Hmmm, well, I mean it starts with you. I mean
you're the only person who can market yourself truthfully.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
You know your brand? What is your brand? That is
something that.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Is a full day of just sitting with yourself and
thinking about you know. That's that's where the little details
come in, Like when are you gonna pull out your
dancing skills.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
When you're gonna pull out your singing? When are you
gonna do that? Is all you? No one can actually
do that for you, you.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Know, that is something that every person that you see
has kind of curated that for themselves. I think one
of my favorite multi hyphen stars is Tianna Taylor, you know,
which is someone who styles herself, creates her own content,
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has her own production company, the conversations that she has
with people, conversations that she has on her own, you know.
So those are things that you have to do to
just market yourself. You're the only person who can do that,
and that is.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
A beautiful thing to do, all of it. So my
my advice would be to have fun.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
Don't think too hard on it, just have fun with it,
because that's one of the best things to do is
just put yourself out there and have fun. I mean,
Halloween just passed, Like, what's a un neat thing that
you could do for Halloween?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I mean Thanksgiving it is coming up. What's a unique
thing you can do.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
With your family, like who are the fan of the friends,
the connections that you have.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
They can go on campus.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
And start your own series or start your own whatever,
like as a creative director to where you're able to.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Sprout all of that. But have fun with it.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
That's one of the best things I could say is
don't think too hard on it. It might be something
to even have fun with just for a day, you know,
And that's what I would say. You know, just find
ways to mark yourself and start and start there. You know,
I can't tell you how to market yourself because.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Only you know you.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, there's only one you show us why. There's only
one you, period. That's your asset in the room. Girl,
You're welcome, And I tell you to real quick before
you go. Sometimes too, like when you can do a
bunch of things, there's like one thing that is like
super prevalent that people just like run to you naturally about.
Don't fight that either, lean into that and then allow
(34:57):
yourself to like bring everything else into yeah, as it
makes sense. Like think about your favorite like story that
you go to for I don't know, your favorite makeup product.
Once you go get that product, you just happen to
find everything else. So if you are strong there and
that's out there, the people gonna find the rest of
the stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Just be ready, have it all together, have your looks
all the things.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
And I will say this for everybody in the room,
even with the questions that I got, you don't need
to have it all figured out right now.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
No, I know.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
Sometimes people will look at tiktoks of us in our
twenty somethings thrive and strive and whatever and being like,
oh my.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Gosh, I need to be like them. We don't have
it all figured out either, we don't. This is just
our job, just like you have your job, girl. That's it.
That's just it. So you don't need to have it
figured out out right now.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
Just create your path, create the story you want to tell,
and take it day by day because your twenties is
where you can actually make the most mistakes and come
back from it, you know. And that's just it, you know,
Just like, keep going, keep pushing, keep thriving the best
that you can do. Not put any pressure on yourself
(36:07):
at all. Y'all are still in school, y'all are still
focusing on other things and other problems. Just take it
day by day and it'll all fall in the place later.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah, and ladies, before we brend it up.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
I got a question from mom Carol, because a bunch
of the students keep asking me, come on, stand up,
Mama cairol I put it on the spot.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
A bunch of the students keep asking me and say
what ut, Mom, Carol. Bnch of the students have asked
me this.
Speaker 12 (36:37):
And you know, I have parents who don't see arts
and entertainment as a viable career, and they want me
to become a doctor or a lawyer, one of these things.
How did you have the unction to support your daughter
through this career path? And what advice would you give
the students about talking to their parents about them taking
the journey in arts and entertainment?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Hello, everybody.
Speaker 13 (37:00):
I come from a family of artists, so it was
really easy for me to spot early that that would
probably be what her journey was. But if I did
have parents that didn't get it, or if I was
a parent that didn't get it, you got to understand
that the choices that I make for me are my choices,
(37:20):
and this is not a carbon copy of myself. And
God didn't give me a baby to just pour into
what I what I want her to be. I can
desire her to do all sorts of things, but she's
a blank piece of paper and all I can do
is try to make sure that I give her all
the tools that are necessary. I make sure she's fed
(37:41):
and clothed and saying, and God does the rest. I
knew from a baby that this is the kid that
I had, so I just it was funny trying to
get people to see what I saw because everybody they're like,
everybody thinks their baby is you know, everybody's baby can
do I was like, nah, everybody's baby can't do it.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
This baby could do.
Speaker 13 (38:01):
But you know, and then they saw what came to fruition,
and then they're.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Like, oh I knew.
Speaker 13 (38:04):
Remember when I told you no, girl, I'm like, yeah, okay,
but I mean, just tried your best to give your
parents grace because that's what was put under them, you know,
like that that seems like that they want stability. You
have to hear what's behind that push. They may not
get it because they were told that same thing. You know,
(38:28):
like the only viable way to do anything is are
these four careers, you know, and there's the artist, the
starving artists. That's the actual title. So yeah, most artists
are starving, you know. So they it's coming from a
place of concern and love and if you give them
that grace, they may never understand it. But you gotta
do what you got to do for you and try
(38:49):
to stay in that mindset and know that there's the
community of people that support you even if they don't
get it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Do You just got to find your folks that do
that'll hold.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
You up and I will I will say that also
comes with time. They sometimes they just need to see it.
Sometimes they just need to see it because I mean
it is people just be like that sometimes. But also too,
even this past year, I've the conversations I have with
my parents are very different. They look different now because
(39:20):
I realize that they're humans too. They don't, like mom said,
they don't have it all figured out. This is the
first time that they have a twenty one year old
or a twenty something year old. So, like my mom said,
to be able to give your parents that grace, but
also too, they might be a part of the group
that just needs to see it to believe it.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
And that's okay. So keep moving forward.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
And it's not saying that you can't do this or whatever,
because that can feel like projection at times. But just
follow your path and switch your mindset about it. It's
all about mindset.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Now, we see where you get it from though, right, yes, yep,
full of love?
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Can y'all give Lord and mant say a round of o'clock,
Come on, get up on your feet and show them
somewhere love.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I told y'all, I told you guys, at this conversation
with Marseille Martin.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I mean, come on, let's think about it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Like Marseille Martin is, you know, Blackish little She is
literally the girl. She's so good at what she does
and as you guys were able to hear today, there
is intention and purpose.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
And hard work and effort behind.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Everything she does. As always, I'm Laurena Rosa. This is
the latest with Laura Rosa, and y'all could be anywhere
with anybody, having these conversations and hearing from some of
your favorite celebrities firsthand.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
But y'all choose to be with me every single episode, and.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Men do I appreciate y'all for that, My Lowriders. I
will see you guys in my next episode.
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Loren LoRosa
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