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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the all new one O four one, the Vibe
Baton Ruges R. And being back in the day Jams.
Take two, It's the all new one O four one,
the Vibe Baton Rouges R And being back in the
day Jams.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Miss Monique.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So I got some special visitors today, just popped up
in the radio station and Hey, I'm not saying everybody
should do that, but for a good cause, I let
people in. I got a set of twins in the
studio with me right now. They attend Southern University, and
they actually came up and asked me could I come
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to Southern for them to well for twin number one
to interview me. I said, you know what, I'll let
you interview me at Southern if you first interview me
on my show.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Please, ladies, tell everyone your names.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hi, Hi Maximini.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hold on, I can't hear you say that again. Hi everyone.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
My name is Taylor mcglory. Hi everyone, my name is
Taylor mcglory. I'm a senior mass communication major from Atlanta, Georgia. Okay,
Hi everyone, my name is Nicole mcglory. I'm a junior
studying Disability studies in Counseling.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, all right, So ms mass comm she's the one
that wants to get the interview, So let's do it.
Let's start this interview. What is it that you want
to talk about?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
All right?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Miss Money?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So the transition from Detroit all the way to Hattiesbury, Mississippi,
what was that like?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I'm born and raised Flint, Michigan. Moved to Flint, Michigan,
went to Detroit to go to Specks Tower School of
Broadcast Arts. After I graduated, the teacher was like, you know,
if you think you're gonna be on air in the
first year that you get out of school, you may
as well walk up out of here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm Meanto proving people wrong. I did just that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I got my first on air position and had his
birth Mississippi. I stayed there two and a half years,
left with a forty six year at night, which is
really big in ratings. Left with a baby, my son aj.
We moved to Augusta, Georgia. From Augusta, Georgia, we stayed
there for about twelve years and I'm still on the
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radio in Augusta, Georgia too.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
At power one oh seven.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Left Augusta, Georgia, got my first management position at in Albany, Georgia,
and I stayed there for twenty seven months. That was
the longest twenty seven months of my life. From Albany, Georgia,
I went to Montgomery, Alabama, where I became the program
director as well as the afternoon personality. From there, I
went to Columbia, South Carolina, where I got another program
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director's position and also did afternoons. And then from there
I landed myself here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One year later,
program director of this station one on four to one
to five, one hundred point one, The Beat in Columbia,
South Carolina, one oh five point five, The Beat and
the Flow one oh two point nine in flor in
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South Carolina, and still doing afternoons in Savannah and Power
in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Wow, you're really like the voice of the South. Like
this one needs some name. Voice travels everywhere throughout seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Five that part that part right there.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, all iHeart radio stations, So yeah, I enjoy what
I do.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So are you're here in bat en Ridge? What has
that been like for you?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Honestly not not anything different from where I came from.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Outside of the amazing food.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I've gained a little bit on way, so I'm trying
to lose this way that I done gained plus the
baby fat and my son's twenty one. But I'm enjoying it.
I mean, the people are great, most of the people.
And I do run across some anyway, but that's a
whole other subject. But otherwise I adapt well anywhere. And
that's one thing I can tell you. If you are
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looking for jobs in radio or TV things like that,
sometimes you may have to move. So me taking that
jump from Detroit, Michigan to Hattisburg, Mississippi, some people would
be like, you moved all the way from Detroit to Mississippi. Yeah,
but I moved for my first on air position. And
when I tell you, I wasn't making nothing, but that
first year I hustled.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I made.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I tripled my salary, the salary that I ain't even
gonna tell you what the salary was there because you'd
be like, why, But I tripled it because of the hosting,
the things that I did extra outside of my normal job.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So what does that hustle look like for someone who's
in their senior year of college. You went in there
less than eleven months and you got your first on
air personality that what does that hustle look like for you?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The hustle, first of all, is to build relationships. The
world revolves around relationships. The more relationships that you gather
and you you make and you keep great relationships, those
can take you far. You know, a lot of people
say it's not what you know, was who you know?
I do believe it is what you know as well.
But knowing people and having people that you have great
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relationships with can really really place you in some amazing positions.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So yeah, so it's not what you know who you know?
So who are these people you have known early on
in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So for me, like, I'm not saying that, No, I
am saying I'm a really likable person.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I really am.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So I am one that like, I don't think there's
not one of my managers that I couldn't go back
and work for. I'm not into burning bridges. People know
that I want to grow. When I've been working for
this company, I heard since two thousand and two, every
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manager on the side of my genre of music, they
know mis Monique wants to grow. As long as there's
a position higher than mine. They know because I convey this,
So you have to make sure people know what you want.
You know what I'm saying because I know some of
my not coworkers, but people that are in the same
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like program directors within my company, some of them don't
really talk to that many people. They don't really build
a lot of relationships, and they wonder why they've been
at the same position, same job for the last past
fifteen twenty years. You not out here building no relationships,
so people just don't know you want to grow. But listen,
when this job came up in Baton Rouge, I got
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the call. They didn't tell me where it was, but
they were like, we know, we know you would go listen,
you tell me. Does it snow? They said no, Now
that was a lie because last year it's snow.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Kind of tick me off.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But they know mis Monique wants to grow as long
as it will.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I guess money is definitely a factor.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I know it'll put me in touch with more people,
you know, more people to impact their lives. Because one
thing also is outside of the real relationships, you have
to have that community mindset and want to give back
to the community.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So that's really important.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
For me too, Like, like, I'm on this platform, so
why not give back? So it's a blessing for God,
so why not bless other people? So that's really important
to me too. I'm gonna get out there in the community.
I Am going to work these streets.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So from networking to growth, you are a program director
and slash air personality.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, what is the end goal?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Is?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What's that big job you want?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I know what's the next city next? So I don't
really know the next city because you never know. I
could be here forever, but you never never know. But
there's so many more. You can be an executive vice
president of programming. You can be a senior vice president
of programming. I can be the president of iHeartMedia. You
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never know, so if you really don't know. So I
don't never really set out to actually have a certain role.
It's just really the impact and the growth. So if
I depended on where that next that that next step
is where the growth will happen. As long as I'm
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able to impact some lives, entertain some people, I'm happy.
And you know the way technology is going now, you
know I could probably do like I'm doing right now.
I'm doing Augusta, Florence, Savannah, and Columbia, South Carolina, all from.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Right here in this studio. So you never don't you
never know.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
We never know what next state might be on that list.
Right so you have made an emphasis on empowering the
community and that impact.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
What is that impact looking like for you? Right now?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Right now, we're doing some amazing things since I've been
here a whole year, and I'm still doing events too
in South Carolina and Georgia. In two weeks, I'll be
back in Georgia for Radiothon and we based We raised
thousands and thousands of dollars for the local hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
Next week we have the annual Steve Harvey Turkey Giveaway
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where we'll be giving away one hundred and four turkeys
to this community. In Columbia, South Carolina, we have a
Christmas Drive of Christmas giveaway coming up in December that
I'll have to be back for as well. So I'm
and also, hold on, let me tell you something else
I do. Since you brought up your film thing. I'm
also a playwright. Our write and produced stage plays, have
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written and produced fourteen, all of them raise awareness and
give back to the community. Breast cancer awareness, domestic violence awareness,
teen violence awareness. Those are just a few of the
subjects that I've touched on. So I'm gonna figure out
a way to give back to the community somehow.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love that. I love that. I love that.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Some you are program director. What does the your every
day look like for you?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, So first of all, before before y'all walked up
in here, I was doing program director duty. So I
was sending push notifications for all five stations that I'm on.
And that's you know, like if you download the free
iHeartRadio app, you look at the app, you listen to
the station like while you're on there. It's if if
if you're listening to me during the time that I
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schedule the push notification, then you'll get the alert that
I'm sending, like listen to me for my infotainment report.
So that's one of the things. Also, music, the program
director is the person that schedules the music. However, with
Iheartmedium and a lot of the stations, most of the
music is already programmed into the station, so I mean
into the log So basically it's kind of like, you know,
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I'm still making sure everything flows correctly, or adding in
music that I want to add in, and then.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
What else.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's so many, like creating promotions, Like right here I
have I've laid out my twenty twenty six events calendar.
So these are all my events that I'll be doing
in twenty twenty six. Just some of them, like the
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one O four one, the Vibe Toy Drive, Well that's
next month, Steve Harvey Turkey Drive, Easter, Halloween cuts for kids,
breast cancer awareness, things like that. So putting those things together,
creating promos, producing promos, sending liners to the other talent
that aren't in the market for them to say on
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the air, managing other employees, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
So from three to seven, these are important times for
families and folks are in their cars driving, sitting in
six o'clock traffic. What are we most likely to hear
from you during?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So three o'clock I got my infotainment rapport, Four o'clock
I got my topic of the day. Five o'clock, we're
gonna play some music. I'm gonna talk a little mess
a little bit. And then six o'clock I got my
info tainment rewind and throughout those hours I'm gonna do
giveaway and just play some really great music on this
particular station, one on four one the Vibe. I'm playing
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old school and new school R and B and the
It's the music that y'all probably was born off of.
But in my mind, my station's in Georgia, in South Carolina,
I'm playing hip hop in R and B. So yeah,
I'm on that period, you know all of that. But see,
but when I'm here on one O four one the Vibe,
I'm a little laid back, you know what I'm saying.
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I'm like, yes, here's some Anita Baker, but then I'm
about to turn up with with Sexy Red and in
Augusta and South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, I loved that. I love that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So what is your biggest takeaway while having this position
from the year you have had it here?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The biggest takeaway is that's a really good question.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Honestly, it's I ain't gonna say everything is the same,
like each position is the same.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But for the most.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Part it kind of is like I've been doing this
so long, like I'm still learning different things from different people.
So the takeaway is, now I got a whole another manager,
and I'm learning different things from him. So the takeaway
would be to be learning from him and just learning
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how some people do different things, like some of the
people that's also in this building. So I'll go to
like Jeremy out there and ask him how he will
fill out this local promo inventory. So I'm learning different
things from from this particular building here in bat and Ruge.
So it's all good because I'm like, I mean, I
believe you know that I'm good at what I do,
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but I strive to be so much better.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That is so great that you're so open and ready
to learn and either or well really willing to learn
because you.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Know other folks.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And then I have an amazing female boss who's out
of New Orleans. And when I tell you, she uplifts me.
She puts me like in endors, you know, in rooms
where you know, I'm like, okay, I'm supposed to be here,
you know what I'm saying. So yeah, and then she
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teaches me and allows me to make a mistake and
helps me with it and you know, you know, help
me to make it better so the mistakes won't happen again.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I mean, I'm still learning.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So what quote unquote mistakes have you like grown and
like triumph over those mistakes?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I think so again. Here in Baton Rouge, in
this iHeartMedia office, they're doing things a little different from
the markets in Georgia and South Carolina that I work at.
So it's a juggle sometimes between the too, because here
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they might not require me to do like some of this.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well no, there they may not require me to.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Do some clerical things like rules and stuff like that,
and then here they're like, oh, make sure you got
these rules. And then sometimes I'm like, oh, shoot, I
forgot to do the rules because I'm not doing the
rules like that. Down here, I have somebody else there
that's doing the rules because they have somebody in the
prom they got a promotions director there. But here it's
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like I'm like the program director, the promotions director. So
it's I'm doing all of this, and sometimes I kind
of forget.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Okay, m's monique in bad and Ruge.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You gotta have these rules, you gotta put that in
promo sque you gotta do this, you gotta do that.
Opposed to there, I got somebody in Georgia and South
Carolina doing that stuff. So sometimes that, you know, I
kind of forget things, and that, you know, is another
one of I won't say weaknesses, but something that, yeah,
it's never ending. That I just have to be more
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organized and write everything down, put everything in my calendar,
you know, And I don't always, so I'm gonna write
it down. So like I wrote down, I gotta be
here at nine am at Stuart Hall ninety nine thirty.
See you said nine but okay, okay, nine thirty. It
is cause don't have me coming there early.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But so.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now the thing is that I gotta make sure that
I put this on my calendar. I wrote it on
this sticky notes. You say, I got sticky notes everywhere. Yes, yes,
but I have to put it in my calendar because
I got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So you're really on air talent a mother? How do
you balance the two?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Like, oh, my son, let me tell you my son,
aj who's a senior at Savannah State. Before I moved,
before he left to go to college. Every time I
took a new position, I would sit down with him
and ask him, first, you want to move to Augusta,
You want to move to Montgomery and he always was like,
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all right, let's do it. You know, I like new stuff.
And he's the only child. Oh yeah, so he's like, okay,
let's go all right whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, and every I think, every city I think.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
He was like, okay, well, every city I think. The
only city Montgomery. He was in the high school. He
was in junior high, and he was hitting a little
rough patch in junior high and I was like, oh jeez.
But for the most part, it's been good. It's all
coming full circle because once he graduates from Savannah State
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in May, he's about now. He grew up in Augusta, Georgia.
That was the longest I was there, like sixteen years
of his life. He is now going to pursue a
doctorate program in Augusta, Georgia at Augusta University.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And it's crazy. He grew up there and now.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
He's gonna come back there.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So I'm like, oh, so home, yeah, because that's considered
home to him, right because he grew up there.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So yeah, So that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
So do you ever miss your home Detroit? Like you're
in a dirty South now?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No. So I'm originally from Flint, and if you know
anything about Flint, Michigan or Detroit.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's a little rough there.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what I'm saying where I lived. When I
lived there, it was rough. Now granted now I'm much
more successful than I was then, it probably wouldn't be
as rough for me there, but it's still it's a
little rough. And plus I don't want to I don't
want to live where there's snow. I don't like being cold,
so I don't miss it. My family, my friends, we
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all get together, we go on cruises. My mom lives
in Georgia. My mom follows me everywhere I go. My mom,
my brother, all of them moved to Augusta and I left,
but they all were doing very well. They visit me here,
I visit them, and yeah, life is good.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
That is amazing. And really Augusta's like home home.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No no, no.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, with the school in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I was there in Augusta for eleven twelve years. But no,
it's not my home. I mean, that's that's the longest
I've ever worked in a radio station because I've been
working there, been on air at the same radio station
for twenty years, since AJ was one years old.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, but I mean, that's that my people.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But now they all right, no, no, I ain't you know,
I ain't gonna forget where I came from.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Originally.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I love all the cities I was at, even Old
Stank in Albany, listen, m.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But anyway, but it was just hard.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
All many was hard for me because it was my
first program director's position and I had six men.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
All of them were my employees.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So I used to always joke and say I got
seven kids because they drove me crazy. But they made
me a much better program director. So I ain't tripping. Yeah, yeah,
it's a long interview, like twenty minutes. Would this one'll
be going on the air. I don't have to cut this,
baby Dow, I'm gonna need some time. Yeah, but anything else,
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So what are you playing? What?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What? What do you want to do?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
What do I want to do? Honestly, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, it's understandable whatever God.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Puts the front in me right at this point, right,
But like my goal, like I do want to have
my own like daytime television show.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, you could be starting off with something like that,
with like a podcast or something.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's the thing. Whatever, I know Jesus listen.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Peopleould be like, why you ain't got a podcast because
I'm on the radio already.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I mean, I mean, kudos to them. Everybody want to
mic listen. Everybody think they are celebrity, a.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Superstar, and I'm not knocking them for it, but I
have some substance like what do you what are you
bringing to the audience?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
You got other than a microphone and headphones.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And somebody that got some good camera lighting. So heah
m m, yeah, I know you'll figure it out. Keep
building a relationships though. So when y'all graduate, where y'all going, Well,
you you're graduating first?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Where I'm going going.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Back to Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No, y'all done with atl Yes right now?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I plan to attend Temple University and go and tough
film to get my master's in film.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's that's where my head is at right now.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's a food.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So that's my ultimate goal from writing. I'm gonna get
into film. Right now. I'm in a class and I'm
taking Juliard in New York, but it's online so I
do it every Wednesday. And but that's for It's a
writing class for me to be a better uh screenwriter,
so I write. I'm doing good with the plays, but
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I want to write for film. So yeah, keep in
touch with me. You never know, we'll work together one day. Yeah,
because that's my You know, radio, I love radio, is
paying all my bills?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I would? I would. I don't want to ever choose.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
But writing your passion, yes, but this is my passion too.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You can have multiple passions.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
You know what Mariah the scientists said, is it a
crime to love exactly people out of time?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So I like exactly. We can love everybody right exactly.
I love it all. I can't. I refuse to choose.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm doing well with balancing both of them, so no complaints. Yeah,
all right, So you want to wrap this interview.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Up or yes, you can do the cussing. I mean it's.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Okay, okay, Well, thank you ladies for coming in. I
appreciate you coming. Please introduce yourselves again and your school. Hi.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, hello again.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I'm Taylor mcglorry, a senior mass communication major from Southern University. Hi.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh god, I can cut that out. I can edit
that up.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Why are you laughing? Okay? Hi everyone.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
My name is Nicole mcglory, a junior majoring disability studies
and counseling.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And I'm from Well, I'll go to Southern.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
University, right, And so what are you planning to do
with you graduate?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I plan to go to OT School for Occupational Therapy
at Baylor University.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, Oh that's what's up you. She's got a much
harder career ahead, cause the the the living, the life
is her fast being.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wait a minute, well, thank y'all so much for coming
and I appreciate it and I cannot wait to speak
at Southern on Thursday. Lisom let me tell you this,
you gonna need some relationships
It's the all new one O four one, the Vibe
Baton Ruges R. And being back in the day Jams.
Take two, It's the all new one O four one,
the Vibe Baton Rouges R And being back in the
day Jams.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Miss Monique.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So I got some special visitors today, just popped up
in the radio station and Hey, I'm not saying everybody
should do that, but for a good cause, I let
people in. I got a set of twins in the
studio with me right now. They attend Southern University, and
they actually came up and asked me could I come
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to Southern for them to well for twin number one
to interview me. I said, you know what, I'll let
you interview me at Southern if you first interview me
on my show.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Please, ladies, tell everyone your names.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hi, Hi Maximini.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Hold on, I can't hear you say that again. Hi everyone.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
My name is Taylor mcglory. Hi everyone, my name is
Taylor mcglory. I'm a senior mass communication major from Atlanta, Georgia. Okay,
Hi everyone, my name is Nicole mcglory. I'm a junior
studying Disability studies in Counseling.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, all right, So ms mass comm she's the one
that wants to get the interview, So let's do it.
Let's start this interview. What is it that you want
to talk about?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
All right?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Miss Money?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So the transition from Detroit all the way to Hattiesbury, Mississippi,
what was that like?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I'm born and raised Flint, Michigan. Moved to Flint, Michigan,
went to Detroit to go to Specks Tower School of
Broadcast Arts. After I graduated, the teacher was like, you know,
if you think you're gonna be on air in the
first year that you get out of school, you may
as well walk up out of here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm Meanto proving people wrong. I did just that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I got my first on air position and had his
birth Mississippi. I stayed there two and a half years,
left with a forty six year at night, which is
really big in ratings. Left with a baby, my son aj.
We moved to Augusta, Georgia. From Augusta, Georgia, we stayed
there for about twelve years and I'm still on the
(02:09):
radio in Augusta, Georgia too.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
At power one oh seven.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Left Augusta, Georgia, got my first management position at in Albany, Georgia,
and I stayed there for twenty seven months. That was
the longest twenty seven months of my life. From Albany, Georgia,
I went to Montgomery, Alabama, where I became the program
director as well as the afternoon personality. From there, I
went to Columbia, South Carolina, where I got another program
(02:34):
director's position and also did afternoons. And then from there
I landed myself here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One year later,
program director of this station one on four to one
to five, one hundred point one, The Beat in Columbia,
South Carolina, one oh five point five, The Beat and
the Flow one oh two point nine in flor in
(02:55):
South Carolina, and still doing afternoons in Savannah and Power
in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Wow, you're really like the voice of the South. Like
this one needs some name. Voice travels everywhere throughout seventy.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Five that part that part right there.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, all iHeart radio stations, So yeah, I enjoy what
I do.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So are you're here in bat en Ridge? What has
that been like for you?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Honestly not not anything different from where I came from.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Outside of the amazing food.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I've gained a little bit on way, so I'm trying
to lose this way that I done gained plus the
baby fat and my son's twenty one. But I'm enjoying it.
I mean, the people are great, most of the people.
And I do run across some anyway, but that's a
whole other subject. But otherwise I adapt well anywhere. And
that's one thing I can tell you. If you are
(03:53):
looking for jobs in radio or TV things like that,
sometimes you may have to move. So me taking that
jump from Detroit, Michigan to Hattisburg, Mississippi, some people would
be like, you moved all the way from Detroit to Mississippi. Yeah,
but I moved for my first on air position. And
when I tell you, I wasn't making nothing, but that
first year I hustled.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I made.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I tripled my salary, the salary that I ain't even
gonna tell you what the salary was there because you'd
be like, why, But I tripled it because of the hosting,
the things that I did extra outside of my normal job.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So what does that hustle look like for someone who's
in their senior year of college. You went in there
less than eleven months and you got your first on
air personality that what does that hustle look like for you?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The hustle, first of all, is to build relationships. The
world revolves around relationships. The more relationships that you gather
and you you make and you keep great relationships, those
can take you far. You know, a lot of people
say it's not what you know, was who you know?
I do believe it is what you know as well.
But knowing people and having people that you have great
(05:01):
relationships with can really really place you in some amazing positions.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So yeah, so it's not what you know who you know?
So who are these people you have known early on
in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So for me, like, I'm not saying that, No, I
am saying I'm a really likable person.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I really am.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So I am one that like, I don't think there's
not one of my managers that I couldn't go back
and work for. I'm not into burning bridges. People know
that I want to grow. When I've been working for
this company, I heard since two thousand and two, every
(05:43):
manager on the side of my genre of music, they
know mis Monique wants to grow. As long as there's
a position higher than mine. They know because I convey this,
So you have to make sure people know what you want.
You know what I'm saying because I know some of
my not coworkers, but people that are in the same
(06:05):
like program directors within my company, some of them don't
really talk to that many people. They don't really build
a lot of relationships, and they wonder why they've been
at the same position, same job for the last past
fifteen twenty years. You not out here building no relationships,
so people just don't know you want to grow. But listen,
when this job came up in Baton Rouge, I got
(06:26):
the call. They didn't tell me where it was, but
they were like, we know, we know you would go listen,
you tell me. Does it snow? They said no, Now
that was a lie because last year it's snow.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Kind of tick me off.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But they know mis Monique wants to grow as long
as it will.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You know, I guess money is definitely a factor.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I know it'll put me in touch with more people,
you know, more people to impact their lives. Because one
thing also is outside of the real relationships, you have
to have that community mindset and want to give back
to the community.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So that's really important.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
For me too, Like, like, I'm on this platform, so
why not give back? So it's a blessing for God,
so why not bless other people? So that's really important
to me too. I'm gonna get out there in the community.
I Am going to work these streets.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So from networking to growth, you are a program director
and slash air personality.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, what is the end goal?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Is?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
What's that big job you want?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I know what's the next city next? So I don't
really know the next city because you never know. I
could be here forever, but you never never know. But
there's so many more. You can be an executive vice
president of programming. You can be a senior vice president
of programming. I can be the president of iHeartMedia. You
(07:55):
never know, so if you really don't know. So I
don't never really set out to actually have a certain role.
It's just really the impact and the growth. So if
I depended on where that next that that next step
is where the growth will happen. As long as I'm
(08:15):
able to impact some lives, entertain some people, I'm happy.
And you know the way technology is going now, you
know I could probably do like I'm doing right now.
I'm doing Augusta, Florence, Savannah, and Columbia, South Carolina, all from.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Right here in this studio. So you never don't you
never know.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
We never know what next state might be on that list.
Right so you have made an emphasis on empowering the
community and that impact.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
What is that impact looking like for you? Right now?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Right now, we're doing some amazing things since I've been
here a whole year, and I'm still doing events too
in South Carolina and Georgia. In two weeks, I'll be
back in Georgia for Radiothon and we based We raised
thousands and thousands of dollars for the local hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
Next week we have the annual Steve Harvey Turkey Giveaway
(09:08):
where we'll be giving away one hundred and four turkeys
to this community. In Columbia, South Carolina, we have a
Christmas Drive of Christmas giveaway coming up in December that
I'll have to be back for as well. So I'm
and also, hold on, let me tell you something else
I do. Since you brought up your film thing. I'm
also a playwright. Our write and produced stage plays, have
(09:28):
written and produced fourteen, all of them raise awareness and
give back to the community. Breast cancer awareness, domestic violence awareness,
teen violence awareness. Those are just a few of the
subjects that I've touched on. So I'm gonna figure out
a way to give back to the community somehow.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I love that. I love that. I love that.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Some you are program director. What does the your every
day look like for you?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, So first of all, before before y'all walked up
in here, I was doing program director duty. So I
was sending push notifications for all five stations that I'm on.
And that's you know, like if you download the free
iHeartRadio app, you look at the app, you listen to
the station like while you're on there. It's if if
if you're listening to me during the time that I
(10:13):
schedule the push notification, then you'll get the alert that
I'm sending, like listen to me for my infotainment report.
So that's one of the things. Also, music, the program
director is the person that schedules the music. However, with
Iheartmedium and a lot of the stations, most of the
music is already programmed into the station, so I mean
into the log So basically it's kind of like, you know,
(10:35):
I'm still making sure everything flows correctly, or adding in
music that I want to add in, and then.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
What else.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's so many, like creating promotions, Like right here I
have I've laid out my twenty twenty six events calendar.
So these are all my events that I'll be doing
in twenty twenty six. Just some of them, like the
(11:08):
one O four one, the Vibe Toy Drive, Well that's
next month, Steve Harvey Turkey Drive, Easter, Halloween cuts for kids,
breast cancer awareness, things like that. So putting those things together,
creating promos, producing promos, sending liners to the other talent
that aren't in the market for them to say on
(11:28):
the air, managing other employees, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
So from three to seven, these are important times for
families and folks are in their cars driving, sitting in
six o'clock traffic. What are we most likely to hear
from you during?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So three o'clock I got my infotainment rapport, Four o'clock
I got my topic of the day. Five o'clock, we're
gonna play some music. I'm gonna talk a little mess
a little bit. And then six o'clock I got my
info tainment rewind and throughout those hours I'm gonna do
giveaway and just play some really great music on this
particular station, one on four one the Vibe. I'm playing
(12:05):
old school and new school R and B and the
It's the music that y'all probably was born off of.
But in my mind, my station's in Georgia, in South Carolina,
I'm playing hip hop in R and B. So yeah,
I'm on that period, you know all of that. But see,
but when I'm here on one O four one the Vibe,
I'm a little laid back, you know what I'm saying.
(12:26):
I'm like, yes, here's some Anita Baker, but then I'm
about to turn up with with Sexy Red and in
Augusta and South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, I loved that. I love that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So what is your biggest takeaway while having this position
from the year you have had it here?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The biggest takeaway is that's a really good question.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Honestly, it's I ain't gonna say everything is the same,
like each position is the same.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But for the most.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Part it kind of is like I've been doing this
so long, like I'm still learning different things from different people.
So the takeaway is, now I got a whole another manager,
and I'm learning different things from him. So the takeaway
would be to be learning from him and just learning
(13:25):
how some people do different things, like some of the
people that's also in this building. So I'll go to
like Jeremy out there and ask him how he will
fill out this local promo inventory. So I'm learning different
things from from this particular building here in bat and Ruge.
So it's all good because I'm like, I mean, I
believe you know that I'm good at what I do,
(13:47):
but I strive to be so much better.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That is so great that you're so open and ready
to learn and either or well really willing to learn
because you.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Know other folks.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And then I have an amazing female boss who's out
of New Orleans. And when I tell you, she uplifts me.
She puts me like in endors, you know, in rooms
where you know, I'm like, okay, I'm supposed to be here,
you know what I'm saying. So yeah, and then she
(14:22):
teaches me and allows me to make a mistake and
helps me with it and you know, you know, help
me to make it better so the mistakes won't happen again.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I mean, I'm still learning.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So what quote unquote mistakes have you like grown and
like triumph over those mistakes?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So I think so again. Here in Baton Rouge, in
this iHeartMedia office, they're doing things a little different from
the markets in Georgia and South Carolina that I work at.
So it's a juggle sometimes between the too, because here
(15:02):
they might not require me to do like some of this.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well no, there they may not require me to.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Do some clerical things like rules and stuff like that,
and then here they're like, oh, make sure you got
these rules. And then sometimes I'm like, oh, shoot, I
forgot to do the rules because I'm not doing the
rules like that. Down here, I have somebody else there
that's doing the rules because they have somebody in the
prom they got a promotions director there. But here it's
(15:29):
like I'm like the program director, the promotions director. So
it's I'm doing all of this, and sometimes I kind
of forget.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Okay, m's monique in bad and Ruge.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You gotta have these rules, you gotta put that in
promo sque you gotta do this, you gotta do that.
Opposed to there, I got somebody in Georgia and South
Carolina doing that stuff. So sometimes that, you know, I
kind of forget things, and that, you know, is another
one of I won't say weaknesses, but something that, yeah,
it's never ending. That I just have to be more
(16:05):
organized and write everything down, put everything in my calendar,
you know, And I don't always, so I'm gonna write
it down. So like I wrote down, I gotta be
here at nine am at Stuart Hall ninety nine thirty.
See you said nine but okay, okay, nine thirty. It
is cause don't have me coming there early.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
But so.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Now the thing is that I gotta make sure that
I put this on my calendar. I wrote it on
this sticky notes. You say, I got sticky notes everywhere. Yes, yes,
but I have to put it in my calendar because
I got a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So you're really on air talent a mother? How do
you balance the two?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Like, oh, my son, let me tell you my son,
aj who's a senior at Savannah State. Before I moved,
before he left to go to college. Every time I
took a new position, I would sit down with him
and ask him, first, you want to move to Augusta,
You want to move to Montgomery and he always was like,
(17:11):
all right, let's do it. You know, I like new stuff.
And he's the only child. Oh yeah, so he's like, okay,
let's go all right whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, and every I think, every city I think.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
He was like, okay, well, every city I think. The
only city Montgomery. He was in the high school. He
was in junior high, and he was hitting a little
rough patch in junior high and I was like, oh jeez.
But for the most part, it's been good. It's all
coming full circle because once he graduates from Savannah State
(17:49):
in May, he's about now. He grew up in Augusta, Georgia.
That was the longest I was there, like sixteen years
of his life. He is now going to pursue a
doctorate program in Augusta, Georgia at Augusta University.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And it's crazy. He grew up there and now.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
He's gonna come back there.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So I'm like, oh, so home, yeah, because that's considered
home to him, right because he grew up there.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
So yeah, So that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
So do you ever miss your home Detroit? Like you're
in a dirty South now?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No. So I'm originally from Flint, and if you know
anything about Flint, Michigan or Detroit.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
It's a little rough there.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what I'm saying where I lived. When I
lived there, it was rough. Now granted now I'm much
more successful than I was then, it probably wouldn't be
as rough for me there, but it's still it's a
little rough. And plus I don't want to I don't
want to live where there's snow. I don't like being cold,
so I don't miss it. My family, my friends, we
(18:52):
all get together, we go on cruises. My mom lives
in Georgia. My mom follows me everywhere I go. My mom,
my brother, all of them moved to Augusta and I left,
but they all were doing very well. They visit me here,
I visit them, and yeah, life is good.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
That is amazing. And really Augusta's like home home.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No no, no.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, with the school in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I was there in Augusta for eleven twelve years. But no,
it's not my home. I mean, that's that's the longest
I've ever worked in a radio station because I've been
working there, been on air at the same radio station
for twenty years, since AJ was one years old.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, but I mean, that's that my people.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But now they all right, no, no, I ain't you know,
I ain't gonna forget where I came from.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Originally.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I love all the cities I was at, even Old
Stank in Albany, listen, m.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But anyway, but it was just hard.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
All many was hard for me because it was my
first program director's position and I had six men.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
All of them were my employees.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So I used to always joke and say I got
seven kids because they drove me crazy. But they made
me a much better program director. So I ain't tripping. Yeah, yeah,
it's a long interview, like twenty minutes. Would this one'll
be going on the air. I don't have to cut this,
baby Dow, I'm gonna need some time. Yeah, but anything else,
(20:37):
So what are you playing? What?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What? What do you want to do?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
What do I want to do? Honestly, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Okay, it's understandable whatever God.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Puts the front in me right at this point, right,
But like my goal, like I do want to have
my own like daytime television show.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Okay, you could be starting off with something like that,
with like a podcast or something.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's the thing. Whatever, I know Jesus listen.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Peopleould be like, why you ain't got a podcast because
I'm on the radio already.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I mean, I mean, kudos to them. Everybody want to
mic listen. Everybody think they are celebrity, a.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Superstar, and I'm not knocking them for it, but I
have some substance like what do you what are you
bringing to the audience?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
You got other than a microphone and headphones.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And somebody that got some good camera lighting. So heah
m m, yeah, I know you'll figure it out. Keep
building a relationships though. So when y'all graduate, where y'all going, Well,
you you're graduating first?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Where I'm going going.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Back to Atlanta?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
No, y'all done with atl Yes right now?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I plan to attend Temple University and go and tough
film to get my master's in film.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's that's where my head is at right now.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's a food.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So that's my ultimate goal from writing. I'm gonna get
into film. Right now. I'm in a class and I'm
taking Juliard in New York, but it's online so I
do it every Wednesday. And but that's for It's a
writing class for me to be a better uh screenwriter,
so I write. I'm doing good with the plays, but
(22:36):
I want to write for film. So yeah, keep in
touch with me. You never know, we'll work together one day. Yeah,
because that's my You know, radio, I love radio, is
paying all my bills?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I would? I would. I don't want to ever choose.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
But writing your passion, yes, but this is my passion too.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You can have multiple passions.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
You know what Mariah the scientists said, is it a
crime to love exactly people out of time?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So I like exactly. We can love everybody right exactly.
I love it all. I can't. I refuse to choose.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm doing well with balancing both of them, so no complaints. Yeah,
all right, So you want to wrap this interview.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Up or yes, you can do the cussing. I mean it's.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Okay, okay, Well, thank you ladies for coming in. I
appreciate you coming. Please introduce yourselves again and your school. Hi.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, hello again.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I'm Taylor mcglorry, a senior mass communication major from Southern University. Hi.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh god, I can cut that out. I can edit
that up.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Why are you laughing? Okay? Hi everyone.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
My name is Nicole mcglory, a junior majoring disability studies
and counseling.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And I'm from Well, I'll go to Southern.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
University, right, And so what are you planning to do
with you graduate?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I plan to go to OT School for Occupational Therapy
at Baylor University.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, Oh that's what's up you. She's got a much
harder career ahead, cause the the the living, the life
is her fast being.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wait a minute, well, thank y'all so much for coming
and I appreciate it and I cannot wait to speak
at Southern on Thursday. Lisom let me tell you this,
you gonna need some relationships
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