December 2, 2025 • 8 mins
This hour of the episode features a thoughtful conversation with actor and life coach AJ Johnson, who joins the show to talk mental wellness, resilience after setbacks, and building identity beyond Hollywood’s spotlight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the deal. He will show your twenty twenty
five editions. If you're going to be in Cleveland, Ohio,
I will be there this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Happy
big congratulations to my line brother Ted again senior. He
has led his academy to a championship football championship.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I guess I'll fly in early and go to his
state championship. It's wonderful even though it's cold, and he's
making me do it, so I'm going to. I don't
understand what Steven asman. I know he's frad I get it.
I understand. I don't understand what he does. I don't
understand why he does the things he does. I don't
want to say to what end. First off, to be clear,
(00:39):
I don't know who. First off, if Steven A. Smith
really believes he has a chance to be president, like
a chance to get the denomination, he's not going to
get it from Republicans, and he's made so many enemies
under the Democratic sid Aluma.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean, they might use him the way the Republicans
normally do because he's starting to take the shape of
the kind of shoe booty people that you say tend
to turn that way. I watched him as he screamed
and yelled during that video, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Talking about this.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, and I saw, wait a second, he's dressed different,
his hair looks different. He's just started to take shape
of a shoe booty dude.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And you know what I mean, Like just like he
got mad at Mark Mark Kelly and come to find
out that those Democratic lawmakers had probably been briefed on
what we're hearing about right now. Let me tell you something.
The one thing I know about a drunk is they't
gonna use weapons when the ain't got to. And Pete
Heads makes it as a drunk. That's why he is
he is. Let me tell you something, that's why morality
(01:39):
and qualifications. You would not let a drunk dude get
behind the wheel of a car or do with that.
There's some jobs you can't have, right, But you make
him the secretary of war, the secretary defense called the
secretary of war. Here's how you know something's wrong because
Donald Trump himself said, Pete said he didn't do it.
But if you know Pete said, you know he didn't
(01:59):
do it. He didn't really know anything about I wouldn't
have ordered the second stripe, Donald Trump can throw him
on the Christy Nam's going, CAS's mattail with the eyes
of an eagle. He's going the other bride, who is
the other Bondi's going. I don't understand how Bondi was
involved in the first as the back of dibacle for
the Florida situation. She's in charge of this one too.
(02:21):
For the first time, it feels like this thing is
starting to fracture.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I did see something this morning where they were talking
about how no one in the White House even likes
Pete Heggsmith at all and his days are numbered obviously alleged,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, nobody likes Caspatail either. Do you know that we
moved for years, decades in our for our entirety of
their existence, the United States was number one and passports
we were the number one passport in the world, the
number one that we are now twelve about to say,
blazers ahead of us and travelers almost across every sector.
(03:00):
We're seeing some level of erosion. Ye all right, I
say this openly and honestly. I had the biggest question
or till she left me for being rings and baby boy,
and if you have a naked dude in the cookie
cooking eggs. I never want to see you again. I'm ashamed.
(03:21):
And now from niggadives being reason life coach.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You tell me that every time I see you, that
is going and I think I'm a little offended. I
don't know why, but I am.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, but I think once I, once I saw that
you were so easily swayed by like a dude cooking
breakfast decade, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Listen, I mean we should take a pole, like how
many women would not be swayed about to say that?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't say take a pole where we're We're in
Atlanta now, so it doesn't care. Let's be careful, right,
you are a life coach.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yea, amongst many other things.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But yeah, yeah, but you could do a retrospective on
acting and all that kind of stuff. But this is
a new endeavor, at least from our perspective. It's the
first time we've ever known you to be involved in
that aspect of your career.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Right, Well, I don't know. I mean, I've actually been
doing it in a long time and I've had a
number of clients probably for over ten years. But I
will say this A lot of people probably do not
know because I'm very very specific and respectful of people's confidentiality.
And let's face it, you know, when you're working on
yourself and challenges in your life, if not necessarily, it's
(04:36):
something that the Hollywood community or anybody really wants to promote.
So I've been kind of quiet about it, but I've
been on other shows. You know. I had to deal
with Oprah on own a few years back, and I
did Lindsay willhand with Oprah personally a while back in
New York.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
How did that go? Whether the love Bug Lindsay Lohan
or the other one?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Like it? It was otherwise and she wasn't ready to
do the work, but I love her still. We're still
in touch with some gay friends. It was just steal
us a lot to come out of rehab and have
cameras in your face and you're trying to get your
life together and your family together. So you know, it
was a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But what I find interesting about what you do is
like I don't know what it is. It's like almost
like a chiropractice, Like when do you know that you've
actually achieved with the stated like the treatment protocol? When
do you know that you've had success.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Because somebody tells me what their goals are, and we
mutually designed the formula to get to the goal, and
then we have measuring six throughout what sometimes thirty days,
two months, six months, whatever it is, and then we
get to the goal. So that's how I guarantee the result.
It's not always just mental. It's physicult, sometimes it's financial,
sometimes it's family. We're covering so many different elements of
(05:54):
life that everybody's got different issues.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
No, I can believe that because I think that one
of the things I do appreciate about what's going on
is that now we're making reaching out for help mentally. Besides,
and we think we can pray everything away, but reaching
out for help to see black people that are accessing
some level of help is I think refreshing. Now. You know,
I don't know what life coaches actually do, but I
(06:19):
know that you're going to be a person that people go, Okay,
I'll respect her because I think she has an authenticity
to her.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Thank you, guys, you know I love you. You're my family.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Thank you for the be good.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Thank you baby.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right down's time for what you need to know with
the one and only Sybil Wilkes.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know. Minnesota
Governor Tim Walls and US Senator Amy Klobacha are firing
back following President Trump's claim that Somali refugees are completely
taking over the state of Minnesota. Well said in a
Sunday morning interview on NBC's Meet Suppressed that Trump's insults
are a badge of honor. The President said on Truth Socials,
(07:01):
hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking
over the once great state of Minnesota, while also calling
Walts a derogatory term. Clobachar said in a Sunday interview
on CNN State of the Union that President Trump was
attempting to stoke division. Senator Mark Wayne Mullett said President
Trump will not send troops to Venezuela amid tensions between
(07:23):
the two nations. The Oklahoma Republican made the comment during
an interview on CNN's State of the Union. It comes
just days after the President said the US could very
soon take action against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land,
expanding operations that have so far been focused on the
Caribbean Sea. White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett said he'd
(07:44):
be very happy to serve if fixed as the next
chair of the Federal Reserve. It comes after Bloomberg News
reported he emerged as a front runner for the spot
during a recent interview Treasury Secretary Stott Vessant's chare. He
thinks there's a very good chance the President will make
it announcement before Christmas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who
(08:04):
is requesting a pardon from his country's President Isaac Herzog,
netnya who is currently standing trial in his country for bribery, fraud,
and breach of trust. In a letter to Herzog, President
Trump expressed that he respects the independence of the Israeli
justice system and its requirements, but said the case against
Netanyahu is a political, unjustified prosecution. To subscribe to my
(08:27):
free daily newsletter, please visit Sibilwilkes dot com for all
the news twenty four to seven vote tonewswe dot com.
I'm Sybil Wilkes, be informed, d M powered. Thank you
so much, Sybil. Hey okay, I was.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
More of the fully funded dlhuge shows coming up directly.
It's the d L Huge Show,
It is the deal. He will show your twenty twenty
five editions. If you're going to be in Cleveland, Ohio,
I will be there this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Happy
big congratulations to my line brother Ted again senior. He
has led his academy to a championship football championship.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I guess I'll fly in early and go to his
state championship. It's wonderful even though it's cold, and he's
making me do it, so I'm going to. I don't
understand what Steven asman. I know he's frad I get it.
I understand. I don't understand what he does. I don't
understand why he does the things he does. I don't
want to say to what end. First off, to be clear,
(00:39):
I don't know who. First off, if Steven A. Smith
really believes he has a chance to be president, like
a chance to get the denomination, he's not going to
get it from Republicans, and he's made so many enemies
under the Democratic sid Aluma.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean, they might use him the way the Republicans
normally do because he's starting to take the shape of
the kind of shoe booty people that you say tend
to turn that way. I watched him as he screamed
and yelled during that video, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Talking about this.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, and I saw, wait a second, he's dressed different,
his hair looks different. He's just started to take shape
of a shoe booty dude.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And you know what I mean, Like just like he
got mad at Mark Mark Kelly and come to find
out that those Democratic lawmakers had probably been briefed on
what we're hearing about right now. Let me tell you something.
The one thing I know about a drunk is they't
gonna use weapons when the ain't got to. And Pete
Heads makes it as a drunk. That's why he is
he is. Let me tell you something, that's why morality
(01:39):
and qualifications. You would not let a drunk dude get
behind the wheel of a car or do with that.
There's some jobs you can't have, right, But you make
him the secretary of war, the secretary defense called the
secretary of war. Here's how you know something's wrong because
Donald Trump himself said, Pete said he didn't do it.
But if you know Pete said, you know he didn't
(01:59):
do it. He didn't really know anything about I wouldn't
have ordered the second stripe, Donald Trump can throw him
on the Christy Nam's going, CAS's mattail with the eyes
of an eagle. He's going the other bride, who is
the other Bondi's going. I don't understand how Bondi was
involved in the first as the back of dibacle for
the Florida situation. She's in charge of this one too.
(02:21):
For the first time, it feels like this thing is
starting to fracture.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I did see something this morning where they were talking
about how no one in the White House even likes
Pete Heggsmith at all and his days are numbered obviously alleged,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, nobody likes Caspatail either. Do you know that we
moved for years, decades in our for our entirety of
their existence, the United States was number one and passports
we were the number one passport in the world, the
number one that we are now twelve about to say,
blazers ahead of us and travelers almost across every sector.
(03:00):
We're seeing some level of erosion. Ye all right, I
say this openly and honestly. I had the biggest question
or till she left me for being rings and baby boy,
and if you have a naked dude in the cookie
cooking eggs. I never want to see you again. I'm ashamed.
(03:21):
And now from niggadives being reason life coach.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You tell me that every time I see you, that
is going and I think I'm a little offended. I
don't know why, but I am.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, but I think once I, once I saw that
you were so easily swayed by like a dude cooking
breakfast decade, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Listen, I mean we should take a pole, like how
many women would not be swayed about to say that?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't say take a pole where we're We're in
Atlanta now, so it doesn't care. Let's be careful, right,
you are a life coach.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yea, amongst many other things.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But yeah, yeah, but you could do a retrospective on
acting and all that kind of stuff. But this is
a new endeavor, at least from our perspective. It's the
first time we've ever known you to be involved in
that aspect of your career.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Right, Well, I don't know. I mean, I've actually been
doing it in a long time and I've had a
number of clients probably for over ten years. But I
will say this A lot of people probably do not
know because I'm very very specific and respectful of people's confidentiality.
And let's face it, you know, when you're working on
yourself and challenges in your life, if not necessarily, it's
(04:36):
something that the Hollywood community or anybody really wants to promote.
So I've been kind of quiet about it, but I've
been on other shows. You know. I had to deal
with Oprah on own a few years back, and I
did Lindsay willhand with Oprah personally a while back in
New York.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
How did that go? Whether the love Bug Lindsay Lohan
or the other one?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Like it? It was otherwise and she wasn't ready to
do the work, but I love her still. We're still
in touch with some gay friends. It was just steal
us a lot to come out of rehab and have
cameras in your face and you're trying to get your
life together and your family together. So you know, it
was a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But what I find interesting about what you do is
like I don't know what it is. It's like almost
like a chiropractice, Like when do you know that you've
actually achieved with the stated like the treatment protocol? When
do you know that you've had success.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Because somebody tells me what their goals are, and we
mutually designed the formula to get to the goal, and
then we have measuring six throughout what sometimes thirty days,
two months, six months, whatever it is, and then we
get to the goal. So that's how I guarantee the result.
It's not always just mental. It's physicult, sometimes it's financial,
sometimes it's family. We're covering so many different elements of
(05:54):
life that everybody's got different issues.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
No, I can believe that because I think that one
of the things I do appreciate about what's going on
is that now we're making reaching out for help mentally. Besides,
and we think we can pray everything away, but reaching
out for help to see black people that are accessing
some level of help is I think refreshing. Now. You know,
I don't know what life coaches actually do, but I
(06:19):
know that you're going to be a person that people go, Okay,
I'll respect her because I think she has an authenticity
to her.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Thank you, guys, you know I love you. You're my family.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Thank you for the be good.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Thank you baby.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right down's time for what you need to know with
the one and only Sybil Wilkes.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know. Minnesota
Governor Tim Walls and US Senator Amy Klobacha are firing
back following President Trump's claim that Somali refugees are completely
taking over the state of Minnesota. Well said in a
Sunday morning interview on NBC's Meet Suppressed that Trump's insults
are a badge of honor. The President said on Truth Socials,
(07:01):
hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking
over the once great state of Minnesota, while also calling
Walts a derogatory term. Clobachar said in a Sunday interview
on CNN State of the Union that President Trump was
attempting to stoke division. Senator Mark Wayne Mullett said President
Trump will not send troops to Venezuela amid tensions between
(07:23):
the two nations. The Oklahoma Republican made the comment during
an interview on CNN's State of the Union. It comes
just days after the President said the US could very
soon take action against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land,
expanding operations that have so far been focused on the
Caribbean Sea. White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett said he'd
(07:44):
be very happy to serve if fixed as the next
chair of the Federal Reserve. It comes after Bloomberg News
reported he emerged as a front runner for the spot
during a recent interview Treasury Secretary Stott Vessant's chare. He
thinks there's a very good chance the President will make
it announcement before Christmas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who
(08:04):
is requesting a pardon from his country's President Isaac Herzog,
netnya who is currently standing trial in his country for bribery, fraud,
and breach of trust. In a letter to Herzog, President
Trump expressed that he respects the independence of the Israeli
justice system and its requirements, but said the case against
Netanyahu is a political, unjustified prosecution. To subscribe to my
(08:27):
free daily newsletter, please visit Sibilwilkes dot com for all
the news twenty four to seven vote tonewswe dot com.
I'm Sybil Wilkes, be informed, d M powered. Thank you
so much, Sybil. Hey okay, I was.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
More of the fully funded dlhuge shows coming up directly.
It's the d L Huge Show,
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