June 17, 2025 • 59 mins
What happens when you finally decide your peace is non-negotiable? Freshie—rapper, filmmaker, athlete, and community builder—joins me to share her remarkable journey of rebirth and self-discovery.
From the opening moments, Freshie's magnetic energy and wisdom fill the conversation as she dives deep into what it means to protect your peace at all costs. "What other people think about you is not your business," she declares, setting the tone for a raw discussion about reclaiming personal power. Her song "My Peace" emerged from a painful breakup that left her feeling diminished, yet became the anthem of her transformation: "You can't steal my peace, you can't steal my soul."
The conversation takes powerful turns as Freshie vulnerably shares her mental health struggles, including moments where she contemplated ending her life, and how reaching out saved her. "I'm not okay," she admitted to someone after her most recent low point—a statement that demonstrates remarkable courage. Her employers responded by giving her time off, showing what true support looks like when we're brave enough to speak our truth.
Perhaps most compelling is Freshie's discussion of what had to die inside her to make room for rebirth: "People pleasing," she answers without hesitation. She explains how, as a natural giver who leads with love, she often found herself manipulated and gaslit by those who took advantage of her generous spirit. The transformation came when she started heeding her intuition and observing people's actions rather than their words.
Beyond personal growth, Freshie shares her passion for community building through initiatives like The League Atlanta and We Outside ATL, creating spaces for authentic connection beyond typical nightlife scenes. She approaches her artistry without limitation, identifying as "an artist who happens to be in the LGBT community" rather than allowing herself to be boxed in.
Ready to reclaim your power and protect your peace? Listen now and remember Freshy's parting wisdom: "Your greatest strength and your greatest weapon will always be your self-awareness. Your peace is your own to own."
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Yeah, shine like glitter, let the lightning light
get bigger and in the sky, highlike a winner, big and bright
like a diamond.
I'm a shiner and I'm a shiner.
You're welcome.
Hello, hello, hello and welcomeback to In the Passenger Seat
(00:24):
with your Positivity Queen.
It's your girl, aletheaCrimmins.
What is good?
What is going on?
Have you missed me?
Because I have missed you.
Okay, let me tell you.
I'm excited about this segmentbecause we have a very special
guest and I am excited tointroduce them.
But let me just tell you thisright now I need you to be
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unapologetic about who you are.
It doesn't matter what anybodysays about you, it doesn't
matter what they think about you, because what other people
think about you is not your,what, it ain't your business.
So just be you, just loveyourself for who you are.
And if you have a skill, if youhave a talent, if you want to
put yourself out there, putyourself out there and don't be
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scared to do so.
Do not let fear be in thedriver's seat of your life.
Take control of your life, takeyour power back.
Do what you need to do for youbecause, honey, you have been
waiting for you to show up.
So show up and when you do, doit loud, do it loud.
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Shake the table, baby.
Shake the table.
Be unstoppable.
Let them know you are.
You understand me?
Yes, okay, so baby, let's getinto my next guest.
This person is unapologeticallywho they are.
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They do not ask permission tospeak truth at all.
She snatches the mic and shemakes it truth.
It's all about peace, purposeand positivity.
And if you don't know who sheis, then by the end of this show
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you will.
But let me just give you a clipjust to show you exactly what
I'm talking about.
Run that clip.
Show you exactly what I'mtalking about.
Run that clip, baby.
My soul, my spirit, is free.
Now.
That's something I own.
You can't steal my thunder.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You can't bear my storm.
I'm in tune with peace now.
That's all that I want.
Stay trying me, stay eyeing me,stay picking bones.
But I'm wrong.
In your reality, Timers are theessence and I know where I'm
trying to be.
The word integrity been hittingdifferent.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And we are going to welcome to the show a rapper,
singer, filmmaker, an athlete,an advocate, a walking force,
field of purpose and power, andprobably one of the realest
voices in the game right now.
You heard me Argue with yourmama.
(03:11):
Don't argue with me.
The realest voices in the gameright now.
I'm talking about the one, theonly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Hey, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up
with you, what's up with you.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I am good.
How are you Welcome to In thePast and Precinct?
I'm so glad to have you here.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, ma'am, I'm so excited to be here as well.
I'm always speaking thatpositive energy, so I made it
another day.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm happy to be alive and I'm excited to share more
of my story with the rest of theworld.
Yes, I love it, I love it, Ilove it.
So listen, let me just breakthe ice right quick.
What is the loudest thing aboutyou?
Like?
What is loud is it?
Is it your volume?
Is it your music?
Is it is it?
Is it your music?
Is it your mouth?
Is it your blonde hair?
What speaks loudest?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Honestly, it's my whole aura.
I'm not going to lie to you,because people that are around
me they say it's my spirit, myenergy, whether I'm hosting.
But when you're a superstar andyou've got so many things
that's added to you that you'reable to give to the world, you
have so many differentattractions.
So the way I'm able to pourinto people, that just shown up
as my authentic self and I'mjust happy that I can just be
once, 100% myself and be able togive so many people so much
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positive energy at every singlepart of life.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But wait we, we, we gonna run, run, run that back
because because I need people tohear it you have to speak that
off over yourself, like youdon't wait on nobody to tell you
who you are, because when youknow who you are, can't nobody
tell you who you are.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
so we said, she said when you were superstar period
yep, yep, when you, when you cando as many great things that I
can do and you can't do it theway I can do it, only I can do
it the way I do it okay, becauseoften imitated, but never what
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duplicated period there's onlyone me.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
There's only one me, and if you google me, you'll
find out baby listen, I therewas a time in my life and I like
and I I love that I have hitthe time in my life where if
people do not know who I am, orpeople have any question about
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me, I just I can now say with agood heart, google me yeah, yeah
.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And the funny thing is look, I'm doing a one single
a month challenge right now andmy song that's dropping in june
one of my lines is my favoriteline is to google me.
You might have lived one goodlife for real, but to me it
feels like I'm living two orthree.
Oh bars, baby.
But like, if you really Googleme, my government name and my
stage name, baby, them receiptsbe for themselves.
(06:13):
So when I say superstar, Istand in that 100%.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Baby, we got receipts , always keep receipts, because
them haters gonna do their job.
Them haters gonna do whathaters do.
Haters gonna do they job.
Them haters gonna do whathaters do.
Let them do their job.
But know that everything I say,I have receipts to back them up
period.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yep, you sound like a Sagittarius, I'm a Sag, I am a
Gemini so I don't know love hatewhat you gotta say about us.
What you gotta say about us.
So I don't know.
Love hate.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
What y'all say about us.
What y'all say about us.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Jim and I.
I think we Y'all a little spicy, but it works in y'all favor
sometimes, but when y'all mad,mad.
I'm going to leave y'all wherey'all be at.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But that's if I'm staying on your good side.
Because I was waiting on you tocome.
For me it'd be like gemini, not, not, not, not, not too much,
leave it alone.
So let me, let me ask yousomething.
(07:24):
So the song that we just heardyou said you cannot steal my
peace, you can't take my peace,you can't steal my soul.
Like what brought on thatmessage?
Because a lot of times it'slike people do try to take your
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piece, people do try to diminishyou and take something that
they didn't give you, yeah, yeah.
So what?
What brought this song?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
on.
To keep it short and simple, Iwas going through a very
troubling breakup, I would say,and it was just so heavy that I
felt like a lot of the energythat's around me was kind of
like like pushing me down and Ifelt so low.
I had low self-esteem, but inmy mind I'm like my peace, I
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know how I am, I know my light,I know what I give people.
I don't feel that around me atall right now, all I feel is so
low and I feel so negative and Ifeel so heavy, I feel so small,
I feel so dark and I'm like youcan't steal my peace, you can't
steal my soul.
My soul is what makes me me.
You know what I'm saying.
And I wrote that song and Iimmediately felt a release as
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soon as, because the first thingI wrote was the chorus and it
was because you can't steal mypeace, you can't steal my soul.
And I wrote that song, probablywithin 20 minutes, but it was
because I was aligned with it.
This is exactly what I'msupposed to be saying.
The rest of the world needs tohear this as well.
And still, to this day, I callit a daily affirmation.
I listen to it every morning.
I a daily affirmation.
I listen to it every morning.
I listen to it when I feel likesomebody's trying to bring me
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some negativity or whatever.
At the end of the day, thissmile, this soul, this energy,
you can't steal that from me.
That is what makes me who I am.
So the message that I've beentelling the rest of the world is
your peace is your own to own.
Can't nobody take that awayfrom them.
You don't even give people thepermission to have it.
That but that part.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
People only do what you allow them to do.
So why are you allowing them totake something that they didn't
give you?
Yep, they didn't.
They did not give it to you, sotherefore, they cannot take it
away.
So stop allowing them to takeyour peace.
Stop allowing them to take yourjoy.
Stop allowing them to take yourjoy.
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Stop allowing them to take allthese things from you.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
If you can add to it, you can stay.
If you're taken away from it,you gots to go.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm sorry and that goes in every aspect of life, in
any type of relationship,friendship, situation, ship, any
type of ship, it falls in thereBecause if you're not helping
me flow, then you're making mesink.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Absolutely.
You're just a weight that I'mcarrying on for no reason.
And the end of the song is I'min tune with peace.
Now, that's all that I want.
So leave me alone, just leaveme alone, and that's all that I
want.
So leave me alone, just leaveme alone and that's how it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Don't it feel good like when you actually have that
peace?
Oh yeah to where you can, towhere you can finally tell
people I don't need you, like Idon't, like I'm good right here,
like I'm good, like I don'tneed you.
I may want you in my life, butthe person that I've grown to be
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, I'm going to need you, and itsounds like that's what rebirth
is.
It sounds like that's youcoming into your self.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It sounds like you burned that old script, that old
version of who you were and youwrote a new one, absolutely and
most people knew me before forhaving a mohawk and it's this
whole other thing.
I had a mohawk for almost 10years, I want to say.
But like, when I came intowriting my album, I had wrote so
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many other songs but I'm likethis isn't the message that I'm
supposed to be putting out.
But I cut my hair off, I gotthe waves.
Look, I completely switched itup.
Instead of wearing dark clothes, I was wearing lighter clothes,
like I felt like a weight waslike literally lifted off of me,
and so when it came back andpushing the Reborn tour, it was
me kind of reintroducing myselfas a person, a human person, but
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also as an artist.
My sound is so unique.
I don't sound like anybody elsein the industry and I love that
and I want to keep it that way.
And even when it came down tomy piece, even though the words
of the song are really deep forreal, for real I put it over the
Af afro pop beat.
so you can still feel good, youcan still bop with it.
Now it's an uplifting.
(12:09):
Now it's an upliftingself-motivational song for you
and it's an affirmation, andit's repetitive because I want
it to stick.
I want you to understand oneheart, one mind, peace over all
things.
Like every single thing in thatmessage was something I needed
to tell myself, but I knew thatthat's true, because the world
needs to hear stuff like that.
And so, yes, I'm 100% andfreshy 2.0, if you want to say,
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or 5.0, I feel like a thousandpoint.
Oh, because I'm really here forreal and there's no, there's no
, there's no altering me, nomore.
I understand my purpose in life, I understand my peace, and
that's the only message that I'mwilling to talk about for real.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I love how passionate you are when you speak.
I love how passionate you arewhen you talk about everything
that you've been through, likeeverything that you've overcome.
What had to die inside of youto make room for this freshie
(13:10):
2.0, what had to die peoplepleasing oh, that's the simplest
.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's the simplest.
That's the simplest way I cansay it.
I can elaborate, but really itwas people pleasing, because
when you're such a giver andwhen you lead with love, all of
the time people feel obligatedto that or people manipulate you
or gaslight you into believingthings that aren't real things.
But you're going to take theirword for it, because I'm going
to give you the benefit of thedoubt every single time.
(13:38):
But then when I start realizinglike I just got to literally
pay attention to my intuitionthe moment I started doing that
I saw everything a whole lotdifferent and I was like dang
man.
This whole time I thought youhad my back, but really you was
playing in my face and I can see, because the games that you
were playing originally don'twork no more, and now you're
trying to figure out a differentway.
But now you're showing me moreof your hands.
So it's just I've been, I'vejust been honestly sitting back,
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watching, observing, lettinglife happen, and people have
shown themselves to me.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So I had to stop people from leaving.
People always show you who theyare and the issue is we don't
believe them the first time.
Yep, people always show us whothey are, but we think that
maybe if we love them enough orif we love them through it, then
we can change them.
(14:29):
People don't change unless theywant to.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
yes, yes, yes, potential is a dangerous word,
because that person may not eversee it themselves like we, we,
we can't make them change likethey, they they have to want to.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And I think that, for us, we fall in love with, with,
we want them to be instead ofwho they are.
We, we fall in love with theirpotential and not we see,
standing right in front of usand it'll be flag after, flag
after, and it's like I know thatthat's, that's all right, we
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know, we know that's how we are.
Especially, I've noticedbecause, like I, I am part of
the LGBTQ family and I noticedthat we often do that a lot,
like we will see past thembecause our community is so
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small and we just want that love, like we just want somebody to
be with us that we will lookpast a whole lot of things.
Stop looking past, stopsettling just because somebody
is there.
Yeah, stop settling justbecause they're there, yep.
(15:57):
And I love how you are a likeadvocate for mental health.
Yes, ma'am, you are a hugeadvocate for mental health.
Yes, you are a huge advocatefor mental health.
But I also know that whensomeone is that, there was a
dark moment where you almostwalked away from it all oh yeah,
(16:19):
I've had a few of them tell usabout that um'm going to
piggyback off real quick of whatyou said.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
With the LGBT community.
I think that a lot of us getpasses too, because we all know
that at some point we probablyhad experience and trauma in
childhood.
So we make excuses for peoplelike, hey, I'm willing to work
through things with you becauseI know how hard it was to try to
work through this, that and thethird.
So we give excuses afterexcuses.
Now my main thing is likethat's fine, but what is your
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respect level for me?
How do you speak to me?
How do you pour into me?
How are you?
How are you communicating withme?
I could deal with everythingelse, but how are you impacting
me?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
so this baby, listen you, what is your respect level
for me?
Bitch like what?
Yeah, what is your respect?
How are you going to respect me?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I, a lot of people do , do not ask that question, yep
yep and I and I had to learnthat the hard way, because my
parents have been together forover 40 years and even though my
childhood, from being LGBT,wasn't the easiest, they always
provided like as what they couldhave provided for me at the
time a very loving household.
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My family is very loving.
So I've never been spoken to ina toxic way a day of my life.
So when I deal with somebodythat's calling me out of my name
and talking down on mycharacter and speaking about how
I was raised and just stuffthat I knew wasn't true but I
felt like it was, I blamedmyself for it.
I felt like, oh, I've neverbeen spoken to this way.
Maybe there is something thatI'm doing wrong that I need to
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fix in this situation.
But that's when I startedlosing myself more and more and
more, because I knew I wasn'tdoing anything wrong.
But it was just your respectlevel for me and now that I've
seen that once, I don't everhave to go through that again.
So to answer your question, too, about my mental health and my
journey and things like that,when I was a kid, you know I
used to, you know I used to clap, you know, out of release, and
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there was multiple times whereI've tried to commit suicide.
As a kid and even down to beingan adult of five years ago, I
tried to do it.
Up until last month I tried todo it.
But the difference is, eachtime I knew that I didn't really
want to, I was just tired.
I was tired of trying.
I always felt like a burden, itwas just like things weren't
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making sense.
But the last time, like fiveyears ago or so, I really didn't
want to go.
So then this time, when I gotto that one 2%, I literally sat,
sat for a second and I calledsomebody from like 10 years ago,
somebody's mama, and I'm likeI'm not okay.
And she brung me out of it.
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She knew exactly what to do,whatever, but it's just like.
And then I went to work the nextday and I literally couldn't
make it to work.
I'm like I'm not OK.
They sent me home and I've beenout of work for a month.
I still have my job, butthey're like take care of you.
And so, thankfully, like me,knowing my lessons of it, I'm
exhausted, things aren't makingsense, too much stuff is piling
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up on me.
I'm overwhelmed and stressedout.
I have too much anxiety, I'veelevated high blood pressure.
All of this stuff is juststarting to crash on me.
I'm not okay, and for people tobe able to receive that and be
like I'm showing up for you, I'mpouring back into you.
I don't know what got you solow or feeling so low in your
life, but everybody startedpouring back in and that is part
of the community that I'vecreated for myself, as well as
my impact on people's lives inreal life, like people genuinely
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value me as a person and so I'mvery strong going.
I don't mind being vulnerableabout my truth, because I know
that there's other people thatthink I don't go through the
things that I actually gothrough if I'm able to
accomplish these things andinspire you people.
my life is just as hardsometimes as y'all's lives are,
and I think that connection iswhat helped me last on social
media since 2006 up to now andstill have a fan base and still
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connecting with people, so justbeing my authentic self and
again advocating for mentalhealth, because a lot of people
go through it but they don'twant to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
The two things that I want to say that I heard you
say several times, and thatpeople need to know it that it
is okay, it's okay not to beokay, it's okay to tell people
I'm not okay, like it's.
(20:38):
It's okay to tell yourself I'mnot okay, and know what those
signs are and know what to do inthose I'm not okay Moments, yep
, and I just want to thank youthat you chose to stay, because
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staying was a choice.
You could have easily went theother way, yep, but you chose to
stay, like you chose yourself.
So I just want to thank you forchoosing you and for still
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being here, because then wewouldn't have everything that we
have from you.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Wow, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So I just wanted you to know that and to know that I
personally just thank you forchoosing you and choosing to
stay around, and not just me.
Like you've helped millions ofother people with your story,
know their worth, know theirvalue and know that they, too,
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can choose themselves.
So Thank you, kudos, for that.
Thank you, kudos for that.
Thank you for that.
So people love to focus onnegative, they focus on drama,
they focus on fallouts, theyfocus on divorce.
(22:21):
What's one thing that you wishthat people would talk about
more?
Like how, how, how do you thinkthat we can shift that?
What, what can we talk aboutmore?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
um, I think, people's successes and what they're
actually doing.
Too many times I see people dointerviews and they could be 45
minutes long to an hour and theyspend 30 to 45 minutes talking
about drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, and then they wrap it
up with what's next or what canpeople expect from you, and I
feel like we shouldn't do that.
(22:59):
It should actually be reversed.
Or, you know, maybe don't eventalk about the drama part, but I
know drama sells in a sense.
But like when you have somebodylike me that's doing so much or
has done so much for thecommunity, that's actively still
pursuing so many differentother dreams and aspirations in
their lives, it's like we shouldbe talking more about that.
Because when I go back home andI go to these schools and I go
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to these other places as anathlete, I'm highly like people.
People are.
They want my attention, theywant to say how much I inspired
them, they want to tell me aboutI didn't know that I could do
this, but seeing you do this nowI'm inspired to do it or just
me going and chasing after mymusic career.
It's just so many other thingsthat I wish people focused more
on, like for me, myaccomplishments and my impact
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versus like stuff that happenedyears ago, like I'm not talking
about no more.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
it's like they won't let go of my past for me and I
just I don't like that but can,can I just say, say this people
love to bring up your past as ifyour past defines who you are
absolutely, as as if your pastis going to make you.
You know that you were meant tobecome your.
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Your past built you into this,right, absolutely, your past
built you into this and you youhave had like I've read your
resume like you have done a.
You have lived a million andone jobs Like you.
You have lived a million andone lives Like how do you stay
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grounded in all of this?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, I'll say that music has always been like my,
my passion and my outlet.
So even when I was, you know, adual sport collegiate athlete,
I had all of my equipment there.
I had all my film equipmentthere.
That's when I started makingmovies, was in Charlotte and
then leaving from a collegiateplatform to being more on the
professional side and trainingwith the Olympic bobsled team, I
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had all of my equipment upthere.
I was making remixes, I wasjust writing, perfecting my
craft, I was vlogging, I wasdoing all of that stuff.
So for me, my release hasalways been, even though I might
be doing stuff by myself or Imight be alone, I'm never alone
Because I'm always connectingback with my fans.
I'm always doing something forme.
So that part, and then again,being my authentic self, I don't
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like accepting roles, gigs,jobs.
I don't like doing somethingthat's going to take me out of
who I am If it doesn't alignwith me.
I will say no, I will decline it.
I'm not trying to disrespectyou, but for me that doesn't
align with my brand and I don'twant to be a part of something
like this.
Honestly, self-awareness A lotof people don't have
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self-awareness.
I know the things that aregoing to make me uncomfortable.
I know the things that I don'twant to do.
I'm going to say I don't wantto do and I, you know what I
mean and I'm going to say Idon't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So how did you become ?
Because, you're right, a lot ofpeople are not self aware.
So what brought you to thislevel, to where you were at one
point here, but now, like you'rehere and you know that, you
know that you know who you areto where you can say I
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self-aware of who I am?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
self-reflection and it's because if something
happens with me, or after this,honestly after our um interview,
I'm gonna self-reflect on thisinterview.
I take every moment as like,what did I just process?
What can I take from this?
How do I feel about myself, mypresentation?
Is there something I could havesaid better?
But you know what I'm saying.
I always take the gratitude andalways being appreciative of
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every single opportunity, but Ireally, after every single
interaction with a person, aplace, a thing, I self-reflect.
And so how did I feel in thismoment, how did this moment make
me feel when this person spoketo me this way?
How did it make me feel and howdid I react to it?
The only way that I can learn isby self-reflection.
So now that I'm self-reflectingand I know how I feel, I'm more
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self-aware.
I don't like when you speak tome this way.
I've seen how you interact withother people.
If that's how you're going tointeract with me, I cannot work
with you.
So I'm safety, I'm I'mprotecting myself because I know
the world won't protect me thesame way I can protect me,
because they're going toautomatically assume that they
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know me better than I knowmyself.
But if you gotta speak to me,then you can't speak for me and
I can't speak for me.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You better speak.
You better protect your peaceat all costs.
Baby, I hope this is an episodethat y'all should have your pen
and paper, because babypressure is dropping knowledge.
And I'm just sitting here likeyep, yep, yep, yep, like if
(27:44):
y'all not taking notes, cause,baby, you are dropping some gems
.
Yeah, and it is very beautifulto see, it is very beautiful to
hear, and again, how passionateyou are about you and it like
you don't get that very often,like people are still trying to
(28:07):
navigate and find themselves andit seems like you are so
confident in who you are rightnow.
Yes, I am, and I love that, andI heard that you said that you
have that you play a huge rolein your community.
You have let me get, get mylist honey fresher than had 10
(28:35):
million and one jobs and fresherthan listen okaybt.
You have founded at the leagueatlanta.
Like you are turning communityinto a movement.
(28:55):
Yes, yes, like what, what justmade you say, yep, I'm, I'm just
gonna build a league, I'm gonnado this, I'm gonna do what,
what, what made you say this iswhat I want to do?
So?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
one.
I'm a, I have one, I have aphilanthropy mindset.
So I love to give and I love tolike show up and I like people,
I like to give, I like to help,and so I'm also from the
country I'm from the carolinas,I have sports, I have a back, I
have a background in beingoutside for real.
So when I moved to Atlanta itwas like all right, it's cool.
Like there's a lot of nightclubscenes, there's a lot of like
(29:33):
people getting drunk and youknow, paying for sex and stuff
like that.
But like I want to go fishing,I want to do bonfires, I want to
do stuff outside, and so Iwanted to create my we Outside
ATL page and I wanted to startdoing run groups.
I wanted to start doing a wholebunch of things because I know
how to teach people the rightformats to run, because I ran
track and stuff like that.
I used to work at a job.
We did gate analysis and stufflike that.
(29:54):
So my idea for the we OutsideATL platform was for
recreational purposes and sopart of that was doing pickup
basketball games and I wanted todo tournaments and stuff like
that.
So when my other co-foundersreached out to me and was just
like, hey, let's just puttogether the league Atlanta.
I'm like bet, boom, I'm in it,let's do it like.
This is already something thatwas along with what I wanted to
do anyway, so let's rock with it.
(30:15):
And from there it was just likeall right now, how can we expand
this to other places, do otherchapters and do this, that and
the third, and even I'm reallybusy, and so are my other people
as well on the team, so it'slike we have to like put a pause
back on it, but hopefully moreawareness that we bring to the
league and the purpose of theleague, we can get more sponsors
, we get more hands on deck, sowe can actually make it to the
more official level that we wantto have it.
(30:37):
Because from Atlanta to Vegasand then we're looking at
somebody in Texas wanting tohave their own little chapter,
so it's like it could blow upvery quickly.
But I wanted to tie it alongwith like pride as well.
So like, whenever we have ouryearly prize and stuff like that
, we wanted to have a basketballtournament at the end of that
too.
So like, yeah, y'all can comeout here and party and have a
good time too, but you can alsogo play in a basketball game and
(30:57):
think about it like theirhomecoming games or like you
know.
Just that's how I saw.
I envisioned it originally withand then also they align with us
too, and this is the the leagueatlanta yes, and the we outside
atl.
That's my uh non-profitorganization that I just do
recreational activities, so Ico-partner with that, or I we
(31:19):
cross promote with my leagueAtlanta as well.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Okay, so right now if you are in the Atlanta, it
don't even matter where you are.
I need you to write this downthe at the league, atlanta.
I need you to go show support,follow them right now, do your
(31:45):
due diligence right now, and Ineed you to go follow we outside
.
Yeah, lgbt, go out and do yourpart.
Support is free facts.
It's free facts.
It's not gonna take anythingfrom you, it's not gonna hurt
(32:06):
you.
Listen, go out, do what youhave to do and support it may
just bless you.
Let's talk about your music.
If you can choose your favoritesong that you made, what?
What would that be?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, gotcha, gotcha
(32:28):
, gotcha.
Your your favorite song thatyou made.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Pick your top three, and why man, it's hard when you
come from a party.
I've made, I've made I knowthat right now online.
If you look it up, you only seemy two albums and then the
single releases that I've beendoing.
Um, but I've had hundreds andthousands of songs already.
I've been making 2006, so, okay, it's just, that's hard but so,
(32:56):
so.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So, right right right now, with, with this, with,
with with this new album, what,what would be your, your
favorite, and why?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I'm gonna say my piece for sure, because I feel
like that's a song that I, thatheals the world, to be honest
with you, that one just has aworld impact, that it feels good
, it has more of a meaning to itand it isn't a daily
affirmation.
So I would say purposefullythat that would be probably like
my favorite song off the album.
Um, I would say purposefullythat that would be probably my
favorite song off the album.
I would say that, ooh, this ishard.
(33:33):
My next song would be my ForGranite song, which is kind of
like a free verse but thatbasically just talks about how
people take life and people takepeople for granted and all of
the life lessons that I'velearned, especially living here
(33:53):
in atlanta and kind of likelaying it all out there and a
lot of grown straight men belooking listening to like yep,
yep, so, just like, so.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So let me, let me hit , hit you with these.
So I'm gonna throw you out somesituations and then you tell me
which one of your songs wouldmatch that situation.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I like this game.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Okay, okay okay, okay , okay, okay, okay, Okay.
So you walk into Pride like thestage is yours.
What song you playing?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I would play let's Fly off my album because it has
like a jersey club mix too, butit's really like like you and
your friends are outside for agood time, y'all to pay your
rent.
So we're gonna have, we'regonna have fun, but I'm gonna,
I'm gonna tip you out whileyou're working.
We all we're here to get lit,so not not not see y'all know,
(34:46):
what that means when they doyeah, that's what.
Yeah, you got us a love to thedancers man okay.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
so when I I already know what, what this answer is.
When somebody tries to disturbyour peace, what Stone are you,
hey Siri?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Hey, alexa, play my piece, my freshie, asap.
Put it on max volume, okay.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
The world don't see you, but you see you.
What is the self-lovesoundtrack?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Self-love soundtrack.
Oh, so on my album I got a songcalled Remember Me.
It's actually the last songthat's on there, and what people
don't know about me as a writeris some of my things have
different meanings to it.
So Remember Me is like I talkabout some of my accolades and
how, like I made my own lane forreal and I know that.
But the industry is going toremember who I am regardless,
(35:52):
like if you've ever met me inyour life, even one time,
there's no way you're gonnaforget who I am.
But then the other side of themeaning to it is too.
Let's say that you in a cluband you having a good night and
you lock eyes with somebody forthe first time in your life, but
then y'all are connected.
For the rest of the night y'allare dancing, having a good time,
and it may lead to one nightstand, it may not, or whatever,
but that one experience withthat person, but that one
(36:14):
experience with that person thaty'all connected to for the
first time, like you saw thatperson and you were locked in
and that's going's go theopposite way.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Breakup tears, but you still fine as hell.
What is the post?
Breakup bop.
What is that breakup?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
bop, uh-huh.
So I got a song called brokensilence.
That's on my first album,that's also on my Instagram as
well and I would say that one.
But that's like it's not reallya bop in the sense of like you
upbeat with it.
It's gonna be more so.
Like dang, I really love thisperson for real, like heartbreak
breaks you down for real, forreal type thing.
(36:59):
But you know that you're thecat, so you know somebody else
can love you better.
But I would say probably thatsong repeat what you, what you
said you you know that what?
but you know, somebody else canlove me better, uh-uh you.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
You said you know that you the catch, you, yeah,
you, you know that you the catch, okay, you.
You the catch periodmanifesting the next level of
your life.
What is that theme song?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
my song is dropping in june, which is probably gonna
be next week.
Um, it's called.
It's talking about slash gottago, but really it breaks down
like I heard y'all talking aboutreally what you'd be talking
about.
I'll be making moves out here.
That's never what you talkabout.
It's going to be called TalkingAbout Gotta go and it comes out
(37:51):
.
I'm going to say next week.
It's done, I'm just waiting forthe master to come out.
I'm waiting for the masterversion of the audio.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Listen.
When that comes out, tag me soI can share, because I need to
manifest some things in my lifeand other people may too.
Yeah, so let let that come out,let let that be known all over
the world.
Okay, yeah, that will be known.
Do you label yourself as anlgbt artist?
(38:23):
Are you just?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
an artist, just an artist I'm an artist that
happens to be in the lgbtcommunity that part, that part
that, yes, I love it I, I, I donot like boxes.
I hate boxes, I don't.
I refuse to go in one.
I say this all the time too.
It's like no, I'm not just thatyou know I'm not, no, not, not,
(38:47):
not, not.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
With all the millions and millions of jobs that
that's that you have.
Baby you you is is no, no boxcan hold freshie at at all at no
time period.
Okay, yeah, when I, when I wasin college, when I was in
college, I had wanted to docreative writing but within like
the first week or so of mebeing in college.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
When I was in college , I had wanted to do creative
writing, but within like thefirst week or so of me being in
school or whatever, or in theclass, they were teaching me
like the greats or whatever, butthe entire time they're
teaching me about people whothought outside the box.
So I'm like, why are youteaching me the box if we're
talking about the greatestpeople thought outside the box
(39:25):
and I dropped the class, likeyou should be helping me make
whatever greatness I have in mymind better versus telling me
how to follow somebody else'sfootsteps and so I make when I
say I paid my own way.
Yes, yes, you're not writingthis shit down.
Yeah, when I say I literallyhave paid my own way from day
one.
I wasn't taught any of thisstuff.
(39:46):
I self-taught myself or trialand error.
I started shooting filmswithout a lick of knowledge of
shooting films.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Do you have any films ?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
out now.
Yes, I just recently shot ashort film called that Night and
I premiered it at the LimelightTheater here in Atlanta on a
200-inch screen, but it's goinginto film festivals before I put
it out online.
So the whole purpose of meshooting just a short itself is
to put it in film festivals so Ican get more executive
producers and more networksactually looking at my stuff,
(40:15):
and then I'm gonna throw it backon youtube for all my fans.
What is this about?
Um, it's a short films.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I can't tell you too much, but it's basically like
okay, okay, I was, I was beingnosy okay, two two, two, two
girls are dating.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
They haven't had the best life or whatever they come
across um a good opportunity,but it ends up being a lot more,
uh, traumatic than they theyanticipated.
So that's the shortest way Ican give it to you um, but that
trailer is out on my youtube andon my instagram.
So if you want to go to freshyproductions and type in that
night trailer and pop up, okay,okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
well, now we have come to one of my favorite
segments of the show show AskAlethea where you send me your
questions and I answer them liveon my show.
If you have an Ask Aletheaquestion, feel free to DM me or
(41:16):
email us at pimpingpositivity atgmailcom.
So, and I always let my guestsanswer first and then I answer
the ask Alethea question is andthis is a kind of juicy one,
okay, all right.
So, alethea, everything in myrelationship is amazing.
(41:42):
They support me, show up, lovesme, but sexually they, it's
just not there.
I'll try to ignore it, I'll tryto focus on everything else,
but the spark is missing and Idon't know what to do.
Am I asking for too much?
(42:05):
Am I being selfish?
I'm going to let you hit doublefirst.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Okay, so I think everything is situational right.
Me personally, I've attemptedto be with somebody where I
didn't necessarily enjoy thesexual you know parts.
But is the person that you'rewith somebody that you can teach
to, or is their ego too bigthat they won't learn Like?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
is it just a lack?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
of experience, or is it just a oh, I don't, I'm just
not going to do what you'reasking me to do.
So I think those are aredetermining factors, because I
personally couldn't be withsomebody.
I couldn't teach how to pleaseme.
I can't do that.
You might not know originally,but if you can learn and I can
work with you.
But if it's not that, then Ican't rock with it.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Listen, teach me how.
Because baby show, show me,because Jill Scott said it best
show me, show me, show me, showme, because sometimes we don't
know.
Yeah, we don't know.
But let me just say this yourpleasure is not a luxury, it's a
(43:17):
requirement, like I, like I it,it is a required like it.
Pleasure is a requirement, atleast for me, and I don't think
that you're selfish for wantingto be turned on or satisfied
like it's not being selfish.
(43:38):
And if they can't love you, ifthey can love you emotionally,
but if your body is not, then wegotta disconnect going on,
(44:00):
because I am what they call.
They feel sexual.
If you got me here, baby, thepanties are coming off, but one
has to correlate with the withwith with the other.
(44:22):
So, like you, you can, you canhave me here, but but but I also
need you to have me here, likeI need you to have me here, like
you deserve love and pleasureand it ain't going to get worse
it's going to get worse than itis going to get better without
being able to teach them whatyou need.
(44:44):
We can have joy and orgasms.
We can have them both Joy andorgasms.
Intimacy and intimacy we canhave them because it's people
(45:05):
think that intimacy is just sex.
Yes, but there's so much moreto it than that.
Don't shrink your needs to fitsomeone else's comfort.
Yep.
Never shrink your needs to fitsomeone else's comfort, because,
yep, never shrink your needs tofit someone else's comfort
because we are not in aone-size-fit-all relationship,
(45:26):
mm-mm.
And just like you said, like,teach me, show me Because the
like saying is with us, with,like lesbians that women know
how to please women.
That's not always the case,because sometimes, like they
don't know, like you don't knowhow to please me, like that,
(45:46):
show me sis.
Like, let me know how, how youlike to be maneuvered.
So yeah, so, so that I can doit right.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yep, yep, yep.
I've never, I've never.
Anybody that had the bestintentions for me was never
offended by me telling them thatthey did something I didn't
like a bit.
They're more so of like okay,and then like well, how do you
like it then?
Or how do you, how do you wantme to do this?
Or what's what's your style?
(46:16):
Like well, how do you like itthen?
Or how do you, how do you wantme to do this?
Or what's what's your style?
What do you prefer versus likeI'm not doing that?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
what like what?
No, well, well then I mean, hey, I'm gonna text you later on, I
mean, you can go ahead, so so,so, so.
So you're saying that you areopen to learn wait me.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
I don't say I think.
I think I've been.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
It's a 10 out of 10 over here, so I don't really
know, this is one of the reasonswhy I'm selling it right now.
So oh, oh, 10 out of 10, wouldrecommend you, you, you, keep
(47:39):
all that over there in atlanta,keep, keep this.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Women, women in atl, y'all better watch yourselves,
because freshly is a 10 out of10 all the rumors, out of all
the rumors that I've had in mylife, not a damn one of them
(48:05):
said anything about me beingterrible and there you have it,
folks, and there you, you heardit from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
So so you, you ain't got a word about hearing it from
nobody else, because you heardit from freshly herself.
That you ain't got a word abouther being bad in in bed, and
and that's why she ain't doingnothing right now, because
because y'all be tying yoursouls to her and we don't need
no soul ties.
Okay, that's not you snatchingsouls so that energy was heavy.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Go ahead.
Energy gotta get up off me.
Oh, I need a moment torehabilitate myself.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Yeah, yeah, they be going crazy baby get, get me off
the show, because we don't Ihad one person.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
She was driving around with the strap in her car
waiting for me to finish wait,wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Say it again.
Say it one more again, please.
Oh, in the name, say it again.
My producer took his earpieceand threw it on the floor wait,
(49:53):
I can't make this shit up.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Wait what happened?
I was hosting a party, she put,so I bought a new, you know,
for every person, because I feellike everybody's sides are
different.
So for her she had it on, andso she put it in her car and her
backpack and was waiting for meto finish hosting at the club
so that we could, yeah, see,this is like you.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
You, you ain't even got to worry about bringing
yours.
I got it.
You ain't got to, you ain't gotto bring nothing, you just
bring yourself and I got therest.
So I'm riding around with astrap in my coat.
(50:36):
I am riding around strapped, inreal life.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
Yep, she wanted it, wanted, it right then, and there
yeah yeah, you ain't never gotto worry about me taking no
trips to ATL at all, because youstay over there.
You stay, ladies, I am thecatch, I am the catch Y'all on
(51:30):
that note because, because Iknow, I know that right now it
the the million dollar questionis where can we find you?
Speaker 2 (51:37):
y'all can find me on all platforms, at Freshie
Official, and I have this energyin real life too this podcast
just went real quick baby oh mygosh.
(52:00):
I was not expecting it to gohere, but we're here now.
I'm single, I'm single, I'mlooking for my next life.
I'm single and she's single.
If you like it, then you shouldhave put a ring on it.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh Okay.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
She's single and ready to to mingle.
So what y'all gonna do?
I ain't mingling, though I'm.
I'm the one I'm gonna speak tothe one, so y'all can switch out
shots, but I'm not.
I don't date multiple people.
I'm I'm exclusive, so oh so?
Speaker 1 (52:36):
so she's not speaking to the masses, she is speaking
to the one.
So, okay, wait, wait.
So what I need you to do rightnow is and I'm going to not
laugh, okay, because this is avery serious moment this is a
very serious moment I need youto put on your best freshie and
(53:08):
give a message to the one.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm going to tell you why.
I'm going to tell you why theone may be walking right now.
I know, and then the one'sgoing to understand exactly what
I'm going to say, because whatI've learned is, if you give
people too much, they will actlike somebody that they're not
to get what they want.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
So I don't want to say you see my teeth, can I turn
and show them?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
So if you know that you can love me, good, by all
means shoot the shot.
But if you just here for theattention, it's not going to me.
I'm sorry.
I'm gonna call it out everysingle time at freshie.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
can you, can you, can you put that to the bottom of
the screen at freshie officialeverywhere?
So shoot, shoot your shots.
Baller, baby, we baller and seewhat happens.
I mean, I mean I'm not going totell you that it will happen,
I'm just saying because the oneis out there, I don't know where
(54:08):
you're at, just have and youmight want to bring your own.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
I'll take care of that.
I'll take care of that for you,baby, don't worry about that.
Wait, so did I just officiallyget vows by you on national
television?
It wasn't very.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
See now people gonna be in my, in my dms, talk about
me, me I told you, I'm aninfluencer.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
I inspire a lot of people well, baby you are.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
You are inspiring people in more ways than one
Baby.
Let me tell you something youhave poured out your soul, your
light, your power, youreverything and so much more than
we wasn't expecting.
(55:18):
Thank you so much for justshowing us what true rebirth
looks like.
Before we go, I want you tofinish this sentence for me.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
I'm no longer shrinking because I'm worth more
than what I've been throughbecause I'm worth more than what
I've been through.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
I am no longer shrinking because I'm worth more
than what I've been through,and so are you.
At the close of every episode,I have something that's called
Pass it On, so you can pass on amessage to my next guest or
(56:02):
just anybody who is watchingthat may need a little uplifting
.
What do you want to pass on?
What message do you want topass on?
Speaker 2 (56:09):
your greatest strength and your greatest
weapon will always be yourself-awareness.
On top of that self-awareness,your peace is your own, to own.
I will continue to say thatuntil my last breath.
Don't let nobody take that awayfrom you.
Don't let nobody steal yourshine.
Don't let nobody dim your light.
Don't nobody steal your soul.
Everything about you that makesyou who you are is worth living
(56:32):
, so protect it at all costsprotect that peace.
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Baby, at all costs.
Baby, this is the energy that Iwas expecting on this show and
I got that and so much more.
Baby y'all, please go out thereand follow at freshly official
today.
Right now, stream the music.
Where can we find your music?
Speaker 2 (57:00):
my music's all over the place.
Uh, freshie is what you canfind me on all platforms apple
music, spotify, youtube music,all of that good stuff.
Um, there are two freshies now.
There's me with the blonde hairand there's a guy with the
green hair.
If you see green hair and thatother type of music is not me,
but yeah, my soul tree Bob.
You won't tell us me with the,with the, with the, with the
blind, but yeah, I'm everywhere.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
Stream freshly on all music platforms with the blonde
hair blonde hair gang.
Watch the film and the film iscalled that night.
Speaker 2 (57:35):
The short film that night supports the movement
called that Night the short filmthat Night.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
Support the movement.
Go to the platforms, supportthe movement and remember that
your peace is yours, period,your peace is yours.
Guard it like you guard youredges on a human day.
(57:58):
Guard it like like you guardyour edges.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
Guard your piece like that so they lighters guard it
like they they guard theirlighters and that's that's.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
That's a, that's a if you know, know, guard it like
you.
Guard that lighter If you knowyou know.
Okay, yeah, man, thank you somuch for being in the passenger
seat with me.
Thank you, girl Alethea Cremins, now listen.
(58:37):
I hope that you come back.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
I hope that this is not your last time.
I come back whenever you wantme to.
Speaker 1 (58:45):
So, as you go out there and be great in their face
, know that your peace is yours.
Protect your peace at all costs.
If they didn't give it to you,they can't take it away.
You go out there and continuebeing happy.
(59:07):
It's like I know you can be.
Let your light shine like thesun, be ultra violent, honey,
and, as always, you have a goodday on purpose.
Yeah, shine like glitter, let the lightning light
get bigger and in the sky, highlike a winner, big and bright
like a diamond.
I'm a shiner and I'm a shiner.
You're welcome.
Hello, hello, hello and welcomeback to In the Passenger Seat
(00:24):
with your Positivity Queen.
It's your girl, aletheaCrimmins.
What is good?
What is going on?
Have you missed me?
Because I have missed you.
Okay, let me tell you.
I'm excited about this segmentbecause we have a very special
guest and I am excited tointroduce them.
But let me just tell you thisright now I need you to be
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unapologetic about who you are.
It doesn't matter what anybodysays about you, it doesn't
matter what they think about you, because what other people
think about you is not your,what, it ain't your business.
So just be you, just loveyourself for who you are.
And if you have a skill, if youhave a talent, if you want to
put yourself out there, putyourself out there and don't be
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scared to do so.
Do not let fear be in thedriver's seat of your life.
Take control of your life, takeyour power back.
Do what you need to do for youbecause, honey, you have been
waiting for you to show up.
So show up and when you do, doit loud, do it loud.
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Shake the table, baby.
Shake the table.
Be unstoppable.
Let them know you are.
You understand me?
Yes, okay, so baby, let's getinto my next guest.
This person is unapologeticallywho they are.
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They do not ask permission tospeak truth at all.
She snatches the mic and shemakes it truth.
It's all about peace, purposeand positivity.
And if you don't know who sheis, then by the end of this show
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you will.
But let me just give you a clipjust to show you exactly what
I'm talking about.
Run that clip.
Show you exactly what I'mtalking about.
Run that clip, baby.
My soul, my spirit, is free.
Now.
That's something I own.
You can't steal my thunder.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You can't bear my storm.
I'm in tune with peace now.
That's all that I want.
Stay trying me, stay eyeing me,stay picking bones.
But I'm wrong.
In your reality, Timers are theessence and I know where I'm
trying to be.
The word integrity been hittingdifferent.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And we are going to welcome to the show a rapper,
singer, filmmaker, an athlete,an advocate, a walking force,
field of purpose and power, andprobably one of the realest
voices in the game right now.
You heard me Argue with yourmama.
(03:11):
Don't argue with me.
The realest voices in the gameright now.
I'm talking about the one, theonly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Hey, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up
with you, what's up with you.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I am good.
How are you Welcome to In thePast and Precinct?
I'm so glad to have you here.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, ma'am, I'm so excited to be here as well.
I'm always speaking thatpositive energy, so I made it
another day.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm happy to be alive and I'm excited to share more
of my story with the rest of theworld.
Yes, I love it, I love it, Ilove it.
So listen, let me just breakthe ice right quick.
What is the loudest thing aboutyou?
Like?
What is loud is it?
Is it your volume?
Is it your music?
Is it is it?
Is it your music?
Is it your mouth?
Is it your blonde hair?
What speaks loudest?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Honestly, it's my whole aura.
I'm not going to lie to you,because people that are around
me they say it's my spirit, myenergy, whether I'm hosting.
But when you're a superstar andyou've got so many things
that's added to you that you'reable to give to the world, you
have so many differentattractions.
So the way I'm able to pourinto people, that just shown up
as my authentic self and I'mjust happy that I can just be
once, 100% myself and be able togive so many people so much
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positive energy at every singlepart of life.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But wait we, we, we gonna run, run, run that back
because because I need people tohear it you have to speak that
off over yourself, like youdon't wait on nobody to tell you
who you are, because when youknow who you are, can't nobody
tell you who you are.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
so we said, she said when you were superstar period
yep, yep, when you, when you cando as many great things that I
can do and you can't do it theway I can do it, only I can do
it the way I do it okay, becauseoften imitated, but never what
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duplicated period there's onlyone me.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
There's only one me, and if you google me, you'll
find out baby listen, I therewas a time in my life and I like
and I I love that I have hitthe time in my life where if
people do not know who I am, orpeople have any question about
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me, I just I can now say with agood heart, google me yeah, yeah
.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And the funny thing is look, I'm doing a one single
a month challenge right now andmy song that's dropping in june
one of my lines is my favoriteline is to google me.
You might have lived one goodlife for real, but to me it
feels like I'm living two orthree.
Oh bars, baby.
But like, if you really Googleme, my government name and my
stage name, baby, them receiptsbe for themselves.
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So when I say superstar, Istand in that 100%.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Baby, we got receipts , always keep receipts, because
them haters gonna do their job.
Them haters gonna do whathaters do.
Haters gonna do they job.
Them haters gonna do whathaters do.
Let them do their job.
But know that everything I say,I have receipts to back them up
period.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yep, you sound like a Sagittarius, I'm a Sag, I am a
Gemini so I don't know love hatewhat you gotta say about us.
What you gotta say about us.
So I don't know.
Love hate.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
What y'all say about us.
What y'all say about us.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Jim and I.
I think we Y'all a little spicy, but it works in y'all favor
sometimes, but when y'all mad,mad.
I'm going to leave y'all wherey'all be at.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But that's if I'm staying on your good side.
Because I was waiting on you tocome.
For me it'd be like gemini, not, not, not, not, not too much,
leave it alone.
So let me, let me ask yousomething.
(07:24):
So the song that we just heardyou said you cannot steal my
peace, you can't take my peace,you can't steal my soul.
Like what brought on thatmessage?
Because a lot of times it'slike people do try to take your
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piece, people do try to diminishyou and take something that
they didn't give you, yeah, yeah.
So what?
What brought this song?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
on.
To keep it short and simple, Iwas going through a very
troubling breakup, I would say,and it was just so heavy that I
felt like a lot of the energythat's around me was kind of
like like pushing me down and Ifelt so low.
I had low self-esteem, but inmy mind I'm like my peace, I
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know how I am, I know my light,I know what I give people.
I don't feel that around me atall right now, all I feel is so
low and I feel so negative and Ifeel so heavy, I feel so small,
I feel so dark and I'm like youcan't steal my peace, you can't
steal my soul.
My soul is what makes me me.
You know what I'm saying.
And I wrote that song and Iimmediately felt a release as
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soon as, because the first thingI wrote was the chorus and it
was because you can't steal mypeace, you can't steal my soul.
And I wrote that song, probablywithin 20 minutes, but it was
because I was aligned with it.
This is exactly what I'msupposed to be saying.
The rest of the world needs tohear this as well.
And still, to this day, I callit a daily affirmation.
I listen to it every morning.
I a daily affirmation.
I listen to it every morning.
I listen to it when I feel likesomebody's trying to bring me
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some negativity or whatever.
At the end of the day, thissmile, this soul, this energy,
you can't steal that from me.
That is what makes me who I am.
So the message that I've beentelling the rest of the world is
your peace is your own to own.
Can't nobody take that awayfrom them.
You don't even give people thepermission to have it.
That but that part.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
People only do what you allow them to do.
So why are you allowing them totake something that they didn't
give you?
Yep, they didn't.
They did not give it to you, sotherefore, they cannot take it
away.
So stop allowing them to takeyour peace.
Stop allowing them to take yourjoy.
Stop allowing them to take yourjoy.
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Stop allowing them to take allthese things from you.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
If you can add to it, you can stay.
If you're taken away from it,you gots to go.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm sorry and that goes in every aspect of life, in
any type of relationship,friendship, situation, ship, any
type of ship, it falls in thereBecause if you're not helping
me flow, then you're making mesink.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Absolutely.
You're just a weight that I'mcarrying on for no reason.
And the end of the song is I'min tune with peace.
Now, that's all that I want.
So leave me alone, just leaveme alone, and that's all that I
want.
So leave me alone, just leaveme alone and that's how it.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Don't it feel good like when you actually have that
peace?
Oh yeah to where you can, towhere you can finally tell
people I don't need you, like Idon't, like I'm good right here,
like I'm good, like I don'tneed you.
I may want you in my life, butthe person that I've grown to be
(10:54):
, I'm going to need you, and itsounds like that's what rebirth
is.
It sounds like that's youcoming into your self.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It sounds like you burned that old script, that old
version of who you were and youwrote a new one, absolutely and
most people knew me before forhaving a mohawk and it's this
whole other thing.
I had a mohawk for almost 10years, I want to say.
But like, when I came intowriting my album, I had wrote so
(11:28):
many other songs but I'm likethis isn't the message that I'm
supposed to be putting out.
But I cut my hair off, I gotthe waves.
Look, I completely switched itup.
Instead of wearing dark clothes, I was wearing lighter clothes,
like I felt like a weight waslike literally lifted off of me,
and so when it came back andpushing the Reborn tour, it was
me kind of reintroducing myselfas a person, a human person, but
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also as an artist.
My sound is so unique.
I don't sound like anybody elsein the industry and I love that
and I want to keep it that way.
And even when it came down tomy piece, even though the words
of the song are really deep forreal, for real I put it over the
Af afro pop beat.
so you can still feel good, youcan still bop with it.
Now it's an uplifting.
(12:09):
Now it's an upliftingself-motivational song for you
and it's an affirmation, andit's repetitive because I want
it to stick.
I want you to understand oneheart, one mind, peace over all
things.
Like every single thing in thatmessage was something I needed
to tell myself, but I knew thatthat's true, because the world
needs to hear stuff like that.
And so, yes, I'm 100% andfreshy 2.0, if you want to say,
(12:31):
or 5.0, I feel like a thousandpoint.
Oh, because I'm really here forreal and there's no, there's no
, there's no altering me, nomore.
I understand my purpose in life, I understand my peace, and
that's the only message that I'mwilling to talk about for real.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I love how passionate you are when you speak.
I love how passionate you arewhen you talk about everything
that you've been through, likeeverything that you've overcome.
What had to die inside of youto make room for this freshie
(13:10):
2.0, what had to die peoplepleasing oh, that's the simplest
.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's the simplest.
That's the simplest way I cansay it.
I can elaborate, but really itwas people pleasing, because
when you're such a giver andwhen you lead with love, all of
the time people feel obligatedto that or people manipulate you
or gaslight you into believingthings that aren't real things.
But you're going to take theirword for it, because I'm going
to give you the benefit of thedoubt every single time.
(13:38):
But then when I start realizinglike I just got to literally
pay attention to my intuitionthe moment I started doing that
I saw everything a whole lotdifferent and I was like dang
man.
This whole time I thought youhad my back, but really you was
playing in my face and I can see, because the games that you
were playing originally don'twork no more, and now you're
trying to figure out a differentway.
But now you're showing me moreof your hands.
So it's just I've been, I'vejust been honestly sitting back,
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watching, observing, lettinglife happen, and people have
shown themselves to me.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So I had to stop people from leaving.
People always show you who theyare and the issue is we don't
believe them the first time.
Yep, people always show us whothey are, but we think that
maybe if we love them enough orif we love them through it, then
we can change them.
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People don't change unless theywant to.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
yes, yes, yes, potential is a dangerous word,
because that person may not eversee it themselves like we, we,
we can't make them change likethey, they they have to want to.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And I think that, for us, we fall in love with, with,
we want them to be instead ofwho they are.
We, we fall in love with theirpotential and not we see,
standing right in front of usand it'll be flag after, flag
after, and it's like I know thatthat's, that's all right, we
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know, we know that's how we are.
Especially, I've noticedbecause, like I, I am part of
the LGBTQ family and I noticedthat we often do that a lot,
like we will see past thembecause our community is so
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small and we just want that love, like we just want somebody to
be with us that we will lookpast a whole lot of things.
Stop looking past, stopsettling just because somebody
is there.
Yeah, stop settling justbecause they're there, yep.
(15:57):
And I love how you are a likeadvocate for mental health.
Yes, ma'am, you are a hugeadvocate for mental health.
Yes, you are a huge advocatefor mental health.
But I also know that whensomeone is that, there was a
dark moment where you almostwalked away from it all oh yeah,
(16:19):
I've had a few of them tell usabout that um'm going to
piggyback off real quick of whatyou said.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
With the LGBT community.
I think that a lot of us getpasses too, because we all know
that at some point we probablyhad experience and trauma in
childhood.
So we make excuses for peoplelike, hey, I'm willing to work
through things with you becauseI know how hard it was to try to
work through this, that and thethird.
So we give excuses afterexcuses.
Now my main thing is likethat's fine, but what is your
(16:51):
respect level for me?
How do you speak to me?
How do you pour into me?
How are you?
How are you communicating withme?
I could deal with everythingelse, but how are you impacting
me?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
so this baby, listen you, what is your respect level
for me?
Bitch like what?
Yeah, what is your respect?
How are you going to respect me?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I, a lot of people do , do not ask that question, yep
yep and I and I had to learnthat the hard way, because my
parents have been together forover 40 years and even though my
childhood, from being LGBT,wasn't the easiest, they always
provided like as what they couldhave provided for me at the
time a very loving household.
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My family is very loving.
So I've never been spoken to ina toxic way a day of my life.
So when I deal with somebodythat's calling me out of my name
and talking down on mycharacter and speaking about how
I was raised and just stuffthat I knew wasn't true but I
felt like it was, I blamedmyself for it.
I felt like, oh, I've neverbeen spoken to this way.
Maybe there is something thatI'm doing wrong that I need to
(17:54):
fix in this situation.
But that's when I startedlosing myself more and more and
more, because I knew I wasn'tdoing anything wrong.
But it was just your respectlevel for me and now that I've
seen that once, I don't everhave to go through that again.
So to answer your question, too, about my mental health and my
journey and things like that,when I was a kid, you know I
used to, you know I used to clap, you know, out of release, and
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there was multiple times whereI've tried to commit suicide.
As a kid and even down to beingan adult of five years ago, I
tried to do it.
Up until last month I tried todo it.
But the difference is, eachtime I knew that I didn't really
want to, I was just tired.
I was tired of trying.
I always felt like a burden, itwas just like things weren't
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making sense.
But the last time, like fiveyears ago or so, I really didn't
want to go.
So then this time, when I gotto that one 2%, I literally sat,
sat for a second and I calledsomebody from like 10 years ago,
somebody's mama, and I'm likeI'm not okay.
And she brung me out of it.
(18:58):
She knew exactly what to do,whatever, but it's just like.
And then I went to work the nextday and I literally couldn't
make it to work.
I'm like I'm not OK.
They sent me home and I've beenout of work for a month.
I still have my job, butthey're like take care of you.
And so, thankfully, like me,knowing my lessons of it, I'm
exhausted, things aren't makingsense, too much stuff is piling
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up on me.
I'm overwhelmed and stressedout.
I have too much anxiety, I'veelevated high blood pressure.
All of this stuff is juststarting to crash on me.
I'm not okay, and for people tobe able to receive that and be
like I'm showing up for you, I'mpouring back into you.
I don't know what got you solow or feeling so low in your
life, but everybody startedpouring back in and that is part
of the community that I'vecreated for myself, as well as
my impact on people's lives inreal life, like people genuinely
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value me as a person and so I'mvery strong going.
I don't mind being vulnerableabout my truth, because I know
that there's other people thatthink I don't go through the
things that I actually gothrough if I'm able to
accomplish these things andinspire you people.
my life is just as hardsometimes as y'all's lives are,
and I think that connection iswhat helped me last on social
media since 2006 up to now andstill have a fan base and still
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connecting with people, so justbeing my authentic self and
again advocating for mentalhealth, because a lot of people
go through it but they don'twant to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
The two things that I want to say that I heard you
say several times, and thatpeople need to know it that it
is okay, it's okay not to beokay, it's okay to tell people
I'm not okay, like it's.
(20:38):
It's okay to tell yourself I'mnot okay, and know what those
signs are and know what to do inthose I'm not okay Moments, yep
, and I just want to thank youthat you chose to stay, because
(20:59):
staying was a choice.
You could have easily went theother way, yep, but you chose to
stay, like you chose yourself.
So I just want to thank you forchoosing you and for still
(21:23):
being here, because then wewouldn't have everything that we
have from you.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Wow, yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So I just wanted you to know that and to know that I
personally just thank you forchoosing you and choosing to
stay around, and not just me.
Like you've helped millions ofother people with your story,
know their worth, know theirvalue and know that they, too,
(21:59):
can choose themselves.
So Thank you, kudos, for that.
Thank you, kudos for that.
Thank you for that.
So people love to focus onnegative, they focus on drama,
they focus on fallouts, theyfocus on divorce.
(22:21):
What's one thing that you wishthat people would talk about
more?
Like how, how, how do you thinkthat we can shift that?
What, what can we talk aboutmore?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
um, I think, people's successes and what they're
actually doing.
Too many times I see people dointerviews and they could be 45
minutes long to an hour and theyspend 30 to 45 minutes talking
about drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, and then they wrap it
up with what's next or what canpeople expect from you, and I
feel like we shouldn't do that.
(22:59):
It should actually be reversed.
Or, you know, maybe don't eventalk about the drama part, but I
know drama sells in a sense.
But like when you have somebodylike me that's doing so much or
has done so much for thecommunity, that's actively still
pursuing so many differentother dreams and aspirations in
their lives, it's like we shouldbe talking more about that.
Because when I go back home andI go to these schools and I go
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to these other places as anathlete, I'm highly like people.
People are.
They want my attention, theywant to say how much I inspired
them, they want to tell me aboutI didn't know that I could do
this, but seeing you do this nowI'm inspired to do it or just
me going and chasing after mymusic career.
It's just so many other thingsthat I wish people focused more
on, like for me, myaccomplishments and my impact
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versus like stuff that happenedyears ago, like I'm not talking
about no more.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
it's like they won't let go of my past for me and I
just I don't like that but can,can I just say, say this people
love to bring up your past as ifyour past defines who you are
absolutely, as as if your pastis going to make you.
You know that you were meant tobecome your.
(24:09):
Your past built you into this,right, absolutely, your past
built you into this and you youhave had like I've read your
resume like you have done a.
You have lived a million andone jobs Like you.
You have lived a million andone lives Like how do you stay
(24:31):
grounded in all of this?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, I'll say that music has always been like my,
my passion and my outlet.
So even when I was, you know, adual sport collegiate athlete,
I had all of my equipment there.
I had all my film equipmentthere.
That's when I started makingmovies, was in Charlotte and
then leaving from a collegiateplatform to being more on the
professional side and trainingwith the Olympic bobsled team, I
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had all of my equipment upthere.
I was making remixes, I wasjust writing, perfecting my
craft, I was vlogging, I wasdoing all of that stuff.
So for me, my release hasalways been, even though I might
be doing stuff by myself or Imight be alone, I'm never alone
Because I'm always connectingback with my fans.
I'm always doing something forme.
So that part, and then again,being my authentic self, I don't
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like accepting roles, gigs,jobs.
I don't like doing somethingthat's going to take me out of
who I am If it doesn't alignwith me.
I will say no, I will decline it.
I'm not trying to disrespectyou, but for me that doesn't
align with my brand and I don'twant to be a part of something
like this.
Honestly, self-awareness A lotof people don't have
(25:38):
self-awareness.
I know the things that aregoing to make me uncomfortable.
I know the things that I don'twant to do.
I'm going to say I don't wantto do and I, you know what I
mean and I'm going to say Idon't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So how did you become ?
Because, you're right, a lot ofpeople are not self aware.
So what brought you to thislevel, to where you were at one
point here, but now, like you'rehere and you know that, you
know that you know who you areto where you can say I
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self-aware of who I am?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
self-reflection and it's because if something
happens with me, or after this,honestly after our um interview,
I'm gonna self-reflect on thisinterview.
I take every moment as like,what did I just process?
What can I take from this?
How do I feel about myself, mypresentation?
Is there something I could havesaid better?
But you know what I'm saying.
I always take the gratitude andalways being appreciative of
(26:32):
every single opportunity, but Ireally, after every single
interaction with a person, aplace, a thing, I self-reflect.
And so how did I feel in thismoment, how did this moment make
me feel when this person spoketo me this way?
How did it make me feel and howdid I react to it?
The only way that I can learn isby self-reflection.
So now that I'm self-reflectingand I know how I feel, I'm more
(26:54):
self-aware.
I don't like when you speak tome this way.
I've seen how you interact withother people.
If that's how you're going tointeract with me, I cannot work
with you.
So I'm safety, I'm I'mprotecting myself because I know
the world won't protect me thesame way I can protect me,
because they're going toautomatically assume that they
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know me better than I knowmyself.
But if you gotta speak to me,then you can't speak for me and
I can't speak for me.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You better speak.
You better protect your peaceat all costs.
Baby, I hope this is an episodethat y'all should have your pen
and paper, because babypressure is dropping knowledge.
And I'm just sitting here likeyep, yep, yep, yep, like if
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y'all not taking notes, cause,baby, you are dropping some gems
.
Yeah, and it is very beautifulto see, it is very beautiful to
hear, and again, how passionateyou are about you and it like
you don't get that very often,like people are still trying to
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navigate and find themselves andit seems like you are so
confident in who you are rightnow.
Yes, I am, and I love that, andI heard that you said that you
have that you play a huge rolein your community.
You have let me get, get mylist honey fresher than had 10
(28:35):
million and one jobs and fresherthan listen okaybt.
You have founded at the leagueatlanta.
Like you are turning communityinto a movement.
(28:55):
Yes, yes, like what, what justmade you say, yep, I'm, I'm just
gonna build a league, I'm gonnado this, I'm gonna do what,
what, what made you say this iswhat I want to do?
So?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
one.
I'm a, I have one, I have aphilanthropy mindset.
So I love to give and I love tolike show up and I like people,
I like to give, I like to help,and so I'm also from the
country I'm from the carolinas,I have sports, I have a back, I
have a background in beingoutside for real.
So when I moved to Atlanta itwas like all right, it's cool.
Like there's a lot of nightclubscenes, there's a lot of like
(29:33):
people getting drunk and youknow, paying for sex and stuff
like that.
But like I want to go fishing,I want to do bonfires, I want to
do stuff outside, and so Iwanted to create my we Outside
ATL page and I wanted to startdoing run groups.
I wanted to start doing a wholebunch of things because I know
how to teach people the rightformats to run, because I ran
track and stuff like that.
I used to work at a job.
We did gate analysis and stufflike that.
(29:54):
So my idea for the we OutsideATL platform was for
recreational purposes and sopart of that was doing pickup
basketball games and I wanted todo tournaments and stuff like
that.
So when my other co-foundersreached out to me and was just
like, hey, let's just puttogether the league Atlanta.
I'm like bet, boom, I'm in it,let's do it like.
This is already something thatwas along with what I wanted to
do anyway, so let's rock with it.
(30:15):
And from there it was just likeall right now, how can we expand
this to other places, do otherchapters and do this, that and
the third, and even I'm reallybusy, and so are my other people
as well on the team, so it'slike we have to like put a pause
back on it, but hopefully moreawareness that we bring to the
league and the purpose of theleague, we can get more sponsors
, we get more hands on deck, sowe can actually make it to the
more official level that we wantto have it.
(30:37):
Because from Atlanta to Vegasand then we're looking at
somebody in Texas wanting tohave their own little chapter,
so it's like it could blow upvery quickly.
But I wanted to tie it alongwith like pride as well.
So like, whenever we have ouryearly prize and stuff like that
, we wanted to have a basketballtournament at the end of that
too.
So like, yeah, y'all can comeout here and party and have a
good time too, but you can alsogo play in a basketball game and
(30:57):
think about it like theirhomecoming games or like you
know.
Just that's how I saw.
I envisioned it originally withand then also they align with us
too, and this is the the leagueatlanta yes, and the we outside
atl.
That's my uh non-profitorganization that I just do
recreational activities, so Ico-partner with that, or I we
(31:19):
cross promote with my leagueAtlanta as well.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Okay, so right now if you are in the Atlanta, it
don't even matter where you are.
I need you to write this downthe at the league, atlanta.
I need you to go show support,follow them right now, do your
(31:45):
due diligence right now, and Ineed you to go follow we outside
.
Yeah, lgbt, go out and do yourpart.
Support is free facts.
It's free facts.
It's not gonna take anythingfrom you, it's not gonna hurt
(32:06):
you.
Listen, go out, do what youhave to do and support it may
just bless you.
Let's talk about your music.
If you can choose your favoritesong that you made, what?
What would that be?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, gotcha, gotcha
(32:28):
, gotcha.
Your your favorite song thatyou made.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Pick your top three, and why man, it's hard when you
come from a party.
I've made, I've made I knowthat right now online.
If you look it up, you only seemy two albums and then the
single releases that I've beendoing.
Um, but I've had hundreds andthousands of songs already.
I've been making 2006, so, okay, it's just, that's hard but so,
(32:56):
so.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So, right right right now, with, with this, with,
with with this new album, what,what would be your, your
favorite, and why?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I'm gonna say my piece for sure, because I feel
like that's a song that I, thatheals the world, to be honest
with you, that one just has aworld impact, that it feels good
, it has more of a meaning to itand it isn't a daily
affirmation.
So I would say purposefullythat that would be probably like
my favorite song off the album.
Um, I would say purposefullythat that would be probably my
favorite song off the album.
I would say that, ooh, this ishard.
(33:33):
My next song would be my ForGranite song, which is kind of
like a free verse but thatbasically just talks about how
people take life and people takepeople for granted and all of
the life lessons that I'velearned, especially living here
(33:53):
in atlanta and kind of likelaying it all out there and a
lot of grown straight men belooking listening to like yep,
yep, so, just like, so.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
So let me, let me hit , hit you with these.
So I'm gonna throw you out somesituations and then you tell me
which one of your songs wouldmatch that situation.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I like this game.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Okay, okay okay, okay , okay, okay, okay, Okay.
So you walk into Pride like thestage is yours.
What song you playing?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I would play let's Fly off my album because it has
like a jersey club mix too, butit's really like like you and
your friends are outside for agood time, y'all to pay your
rent.
So we're gonna have, we'regonna have fun, but I'm gonna,
I'm gonna tip you out whileyou're working.
We all we're here to get lit,so not not not see y'all know,
(34:46):
what that means when they doyeah, that's what.
Yeah, you got us a love to thedancers man okay.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
so when I I already know what, what this answer is.
When somebody tries to disturbyour peace, what Stone are you,
hey Siri?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Hey, alexa, play my piece, my freshie, asap.
Put it on max volume, okay.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
The world don't see you, but you see you.
What is the self-lovesoundtrack?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Self-love soundtrack.
Oh, so on my album I got a songcalled Remember Me.
It's actually the last songthat's on there, and what people
don't know about me as a writeris some of my things have
different meanings to it.
So Remember Me is like I talkabout some of my accolades and
how, like I made my own lane forreal and I know that.
But the industry is going toremember who I am regardless,
(35:52):
like if you've ever met me inyour life, even one time,
there's no way you're gonnaforget who I am.
But then the other side of themeaning to it is too.
Let's say that you in a cluband you having a good night and
you lock eyes with somebody forthe first time in your life, but
then y'all are connected.
For the rest of the night y'allare dancing, having a good time,
and it may lead to one nightstand, it may not, or whatever,
but that one experience withthat person, but that one
(36:14):
experience with that person thaty'all connected to for the
first time, like you saw thatperson and you were locked in
and that's going's go theopposite way.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Breakup tears, but you still fine as hell.
What is the post?
Breakup bop.
What is that breakup?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
bop, uh-huh.
So I got a song called brokensilence.
That's on my first album,that's also on my Instagram as
well and I would say that one.
But that's like it's not reallya bop in the sense of like you
upbeat with it.
It's gonna be more so.
Like dang, I really love thisperson for real, like heartbreak
breaks you down for real, forreal type thing.
(36:59):
But you know that you're thecat, so you know somebody else
can love you better.
But I would say probably thatsong repeat what you, what you
said you you know that what?
but you know, somebody else canlove me better, uh-uh you.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
You said you know that you the catch, you, yeah,
you, you know that you the catch, okay, you.
You the catch periodmanifesting the next level of
your life.
What is that theme song?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
my song is dropping in june, which is probably gonna
be next week.
Um, it's called.
It's talking about slash gottago, but really it breaks down
like I heard y'all talking aboutreally what you'd be talking
about.
I'll be making moves out here.
That's never what you talkabout.
It's going to be called TalkingAbout Gotta go and it comes out
(37:51):
.
I'm going to say next week.
It's done, I'm just waiting forthe master to come out.
I'm waiting for the masterversion of the audio.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Listen.
When that comes out, tag me soI can share, because I need to
manifest some things in my lifeand other people may too.
Yeah, so let let that come out,let let that be known all over
the world.
Okay, yeah, that will be known.
Do you label yourself as anlgbt artist?
(38:23):
Are you just?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
an artist, just an artist I'm an artist that
happens to be in the lgbtcommunity that part, that part
that, yes, I love it I, I, I donot like boxes.
I hate boxes, I don't.
I refuse to go in one.
I say this all the time too.
It's like no, I'm not just thatyou know I'm not, no, not, not,
(38:47):
not, not.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
With all the millions and millions of jobs that
that's that you have.
Baby you you is is no, no boxcan hold freshie at at all at no
time period.
Okay, yeah, when I, when I wasin college, when I was in
college, I had wanted to docreative writing but within like
the first week or so of mebeing in college.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
When I was in college , I had wanted to do creative
writing, but within like thefirst week or so of me being in
school or whatever, or in theclass, they were teaching me
like the greats or whatever, butthe entire time they're
teaching me about people whothought outside the box.
So I'm like, why are youteaching me the box if we're
talking about the greatestpeople thought outside the box
(39:25):
and I dropped the class, likeyou should be helping me make
whatever greatness I have in mymind better versus telling me
how to follow somebody else'sfootsteps and so I make when I
say I paid my own way.
Yes, yes, you're not writingthis shit down.
Yeah, when I say I literallyhave paid my own way from day
one.
I wasn't taught any of thisstuff.
(39:46):
I self-taught myself or trialand error.
I started shooting filmswithout a lick of knowledge of
shooting films.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Do you have any films ?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
out now.
Yes, I just recently shot ashort film called that Night and
I premiered it at the LimelightTheater here in Atlanta on a
200-inch screen, but it's goinginto film festivals before I put
it out online.
So the whole purpose of meshooting just a short itself is
to put it in film festivals so Ican get more executive
producers and more networksactually looking at my stuff,
(40:15):
and then I'm gonna throw it backon youtube for all my fans.
What is this about?
Um, it's a short films.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I can't tell you too much, but it's basically like
okay, okay, I was, I was beingnosy okay, two two, two, two
girls are dating.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
They haven't had the best life or whatever they come
across um a good opportunity,but it ends up being a lot more,
uh, traumatic than they theyanticipated.
So that's the shortest way Ican give it to you um, but that
trailer is out on my youtube andon my instagram.
So if you want to go to freshyproductions and type in that
night trailer and pop up, okay,okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
well, now we have come to one of my favorite
segments of the show show AskAlethea where you send me your
questions and I answer them liveon my show.
If you have an Ask Aletheaquestion, feel free to DM me or
(41:16):
email us at pimpingpositivity atgmailcom.
So, and I always let my guestsanswer first and then I answer
the ask Alethea question is andthis is a kind of juicy one,
okay, all right.
So, alethea, everything in myrelationship is amazing.
(41:42):
They support me, show up, lovesme, but sexually they, it's
just not there.
I'll try to ignore it, I'll tryto focus on everything else,
but the spark is missing and Idon't know what to do.
Am I asking for too much?
(42:05):
Am I being selfish?
I'm going to let you hit doublefirst.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Okay, so I think everything is situational right.
Me personally, I've attemptedto be with somebody where I
didn't necessarily enjoy thesexual you know parts.
But is the person that you'rewith somebody that you can teach
to, or is their ego too bigthat they won't learn Like?
Speaker 1 (42:33):
is it just a lack?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
of experience, or is it just a oh, I don't, I'm just
not going to do what you'reasking me to do.
So I think those are aredetermining factors, because I
personally couldn't be withsomebody.
I couldn't teach how to pleaseme.
I can't do that.
You might not know originally,but if you can learn and I can
work with you.
But if it's not that, then Ican't rock with it.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Listen, teach me how.
Because baby show, show me,because Jill Scott said it best
show me, show me, show me, showme, because sometimes we don't
know.
Yeah, we don't know.
But let me just say this yourpleasure is not a luxury, it's a
(43:17):
requirement, like I, like I it,it is a required like it.
Pleasure is a requirement, atleast for me, and I don't think
that you're selfish for wantingto be turned on or satisfied
like it's not being selfish.
(43:38):
And if they can't love you, ifthey can love you emotionally,
but if your body is not, then wegotta disconnect going on,
(44:00):
because I am what they call.
They feel sexual.
If you got me here, baby, thepanties are coming off, but one
has to correlate with the withwith with the other.
(44:22):
So, like you, you can, you canhave me here, but but but I also
need you to have me here, likeI need you to have me here, like
you deserve love and pleasureand it ain't going to get worse
it's going to get worse than itis going to get better without
being able to teach them whatyou need.
(44:44):
We can have joy and orgasms.
We can have them both Joy andorgasms.
Intimacy and intimacy we canhave them because it's people
(45:05):
think that intimacy is just sex.
Yes, but there's so much moreto it than that.
Don't shrink your needs to fitsomeone else's comfort.
Yep.
Never shrink your needs to fitsomeone else's comfort, because,
yep, never shrink your needs tofit someone else's comfort
because we are not in aone-size-fit-all relationship,
(45:26):
mm-mm.
And just like you said, like,teach me, show me Because the
like saying is with us, with,like lesbians that women know
how to please women.
That's not always the case,because sometimes, like they
don't know, like you don't knowhow to please me, like that,
(45:46):
show me sis.
Like, let me know how, how youlike to be maneuvered.
So yeah, so, so that I can doit right.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yep, yep, yep.
I've never, I've never.
Anybody that had the bestintentions for me was never
offended by me telling them thatthey did something I didn't
like a bit.
They're more so of like okay,and then like well, how do you
like it then?
Or how do you, how do you wantme to do this?
Or what's what's your style?
(46:16):
Like well, how do you like itthen?
Or how do you, how do you wantme to do this?
Or what's what's your style?
What do you prefer versus likeI'm not doing that?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
what like what?
No, well, well then I mean, hey, I'm gonna text you later on, I
mean, you can go ahead, so so,so, so.
So you're saying that you areopen to learn wait me.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
I don't say I think.
I think I've been.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
It's a 10 out of 10 over here, so I don't really
know, this is one of the reasonswhy I'm selling it right now.
So oh, oh, 10 out of 10, wouldrecommend you, you, you, keep
(47:39):
all that over there in atlanta,keep, keep this.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Women, women in atl, y'all better watch yourselves,
because freshly is a 10 out of10 all the rumors, out of all
the rumors that I've had in mylife, not a damn one of them
(48:05):
said anything about me beingterrible and there you have it,
folks, and there you, you heardit from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
So so you, you ain't got a word about hearing it from
nobody else, because you heardit from freshly herself.
That you ain't got a word abouther being bad in in bed, and
and that's why she ain't doingnothing right now, because
because y'all be tying yoursouls to her and we don't need
no soul ties.
Okay, that's not you snatchingsouls so that energy was heavy.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Go ahead.
Energy gotta get up off me.
Oh, I need a moment torehabilitate myself.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Yeah, yeah, they be going crazy baby get, get me off
the show, because we don't Ihad one person.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
She was driving around with the strap in her car
waiting for me to finish wait,wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Say it again.
Say it one more again, please.
Oh, in the name, say it again.
My producer took his earpieceand threw it on the floor wait,
(49:53):
I can't make this shit up.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Wait what happened?
I was hosting a party, she put,so I bought a new, you know,
for every person, because I feellike everybody's sides are
different.
So for her she had it on, andso she put it in her car and her
backpack and was waiting for meto finish hosting at the club
so that we could, yeah, see,this is like you.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
You, you ain't even got to worry about bringing
yours.
I got it.
You ain't got to, you ain't gotto bring nothing, you just
bring yourself and I got therest.
So I'm riding around with astrap in my coat.
(50:36):
I am riding around strapped, inreal life.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
Yep, she wanted it, wanted, it right then, and there
yeah yeah, you ain't never gotto worry about me taking no
trips to ATL at all, because youstay over there.
You stay, ladies, I am thecatch, I am the catch Y'all on
(51:30):
that note because, because Iknow, I know that right now it
the the million dollar questionis where can we find you?
Speaker 2 (51:37):
y'all can find me on all platforms, at Freshie
Official, and I have this energyin real life too this podcast
just went real quick baby oh mygosh.
(52:00):
I was not expecting it to gohere, but we're here now.
I'm single, I'm single, I'mlooking for my next life.
I'm single and she's single.
If you like it, then you shouldhave put a ring on it.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh Okay.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
She's single and ready to to mingle.
So what y'all gonna do?
I ain't mingling, though I'm.
I'm the one I'm gonna speak tothe one, so y'all can switch out
shots, but I'm not.
I don't date multiple people.
I'm I'm exclusive, so oh so?
Speaker 1 (52:36):
so she's not speaking to the masses, she is speaking
to the one.
So, okay, wait, wait.
So what I need you to do rightnow is and I'm going to not
laugh, okay, because this is avery serious moment this is a
very serious moment I need youto put on your best freshie and
(53:08):
give a message to the one.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm going to tell you why.
I'm going to tell you why theone may be walking right now.
I know, and then the one'sgoing to understand exactly what
I'm going to say, because whatI've learned is, if you give
people too much, they will actlike somebody that they're not
to get what they want.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
So I don't want to say you see my teeth, can I turn
and show them?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
So if you know that you can love me, good, by all
means shoot the shot.
But if you just here for theattention, it's not going to me.
I'm sorry.
I'm gonna call it out everysingle time at freshie.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
can you, can you, can you put that to the bottom of
the screen at freshie officialeverywhere?
So shoot, shoot your shots.
Baller, baby, we baller and seewhat happens.
I mean, I mean I'm not going totell you that it will happen,
I'm just saying because the oneis out there, I don't know where
(54:08):
you're at, just have and youmight want to bring your own.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
I'll take care of that.
I'll take care of that for you,baby, don't worry about that.
Wait, so did I just officiallyget vows by you on national
television?
It wasn't very.
Speaker 1 (54:42):
See now people gonna be in my, in my dms, talk about
me, me I told you, I'm aninfluencer.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
I inspire a lot of people well, baby you are.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
You are inspiring people in more ways than one
Baby.
Let me tell you something youhave poured out your soul, your
light, your power, youreverything and so much more than
we wasn't expecting.
(55:18):
Thank you so much for justshowing us what true rebirth
looks like.
Before we go, I want you tofinish this sentence for me.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
I'm no longer shrinking because I'm worth more
than what I've been throughbecause I'm worth more than what
I've been through.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
I am no longer shrinking because I'm worth more
than what I've been through,and so are you.
At the close of every episode,I have something that's called
Pass it On, so you can pass on amessage to my next guest or
(56:02):
just anybody who is watchingthat may need a little uplifting
.
What do you want to pass on?
What message do you want topass on?
Speaker 2 (56:09):
your greatest strength and your greatest
weapon will always be yourself-awareness.
On top of that self-awareness,your peace is your own, to own.
I will continue to say thatuntil my last breath.
Don't let nobody take that awayfrom you.
Don't let nobody steal yourshine.
Don't let nobody dim your light.
Don't nobody steal your soul.
Everything about you that makesyou who you are is worth living
(56:32):
, so protect it at all costsprotect that peace.
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Baby, at all costs.
Baby, this is the energy that Iwas expecting on this show and
I got that and so much more.
Baby y'all, please go out thereand follow at freshly official
today.
Right now, stream the music.
Where can we find your music?
Speaker 2 (57:00):
my music's all over the place.
Uh, freshie is what you canfind me on all platforms apple
music, spotify, youtube music,all of that good stuff.
Um, there are two freshies now.
There's me with the blonde hairand there's a guy with the
green hair.
If you see green hair and thatother type of music is not me,
but yeah, my soul tree Bob.
You won't tell us me with the,with the, with the, with the
blind, but yeah, I'm everywhere.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
Stream freshly on all music platforms with the blonde
hair blonde hair gang.
Watch the film and the film iscalled that night.
Speaker 2 (57:35):
The short film that night supports the movement
called that Night the short filmthat Night.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
Support the movement.
Go to the platforms, supportthe movement and remember that
your peace is yours, period,your peace is yours.
Guard it like you guard youredges on a human day.
(57:58):
Guard it like like you guardyour edges.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
Guard your piece like that so they lighters guard it
like they they guard theirlighters and that's that's.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
That's a, that's a if you know, know, guard it like
you.
Guard that lighter If you knowyou know.
Okay, yeah, man, thank you somuch for being in the passenger
seat with me.
Thank you, girl Alethea Cremins, now listen.
(58:37):
I hope that you come back.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
I hope that this is not your last time.
I come back whenever you wantme to.
Speaker 1 (58:45):
So, as you go out there and be great in their face
, know that your peace is yours.
Protect your peace at all costs.
If they didn't give it to you,they can't take it away.
You go out there and continuebeing happy.
(59:07):
It's like I know you can be.
Let your light shine like thesun, be ultra violent, honey,
and, as always, you have a goodday on purpose.
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