October 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Loren is invited to D.C. by the Thurgood Marshall Fund to speak about her career arc and lessons learned along the way. Questions come from the host and an audience of young professionals who have come together for this HBCU Leadership conference!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody who has you know, if you don't lie
about that.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right, Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Lauren L Rosa and this is the Latest with
Laura L.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, today's episode is actually us taking you to d
C for a conversation that shakes the room.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So I headed to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
To speak at a leadership institute in Washington, d C.
Via the Third Good Martial Fund, which is an organization
that you know, just helps kid that helps kids get
two in through college, historically black colleges and universities.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, I had such a good time in d C,
such a good conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So the audience, right, I'm setting the scene.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The audience, it's about five or six hundred HBCU students.
They had no idea I was coming. They had been
in this leadership institute. It's like, you know, something that
they fly into from various schools. So you have schools
from all over the country that send their students. A
lot of them are at the end of their collegiate time,
so they're like junior seniors semoight have been some sophomores
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there as well too, but they had no idea I
was coming there, been there for a few days. Today
it was like one of the closing days where we
speaking to them and they introduce that I'm here, and
I'm here to talk to them. It's based on professional
development and just you know, figuring yourself out in college,
and they give you resources and tools this whole weekend
to do so, which is so needed because man, it's
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college and experience. But the way you got to be
prepared to go over the world, it's a whole nother
ball game.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So take a listen to.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
My conversation at the Leadership Institute with the Third Goood
Martial Fund.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh y'all can hear me?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You were checking out the shoe Listen.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I think.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The whole fit is just it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow, it's a lot of y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
This is Yeah, we got good people here. We got
good people here, so we're gonna chop it up a
little bit. That's a good kind of a way. So
let's start with the very very important things yes, you
studied at an HBCU. Would you like to tell all
of our audience where you studied.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The best at HBCU in the world. Delaware State University. Okay,
I'm gonna say it one more time because I like
to be humble. The best HBCU in the world, Delaware
State University. Okay, all right, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
All right, yeah, well we're here.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is calling response.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It is calling response. But yeah, I studied at at HBCU,
which I'm always so proud to say because I remember
being at an HBCU and people telling me working in
entertainment at the level I'm doing it wasn't possible because
I was at HBCU. So now I love to be like, oh, yeah,
I went to Delawaressa University.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, Delawaresa University.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yes, it's a historically black college, you know, and I'm
amongst the HBCU family.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I love. That is like forefront for me always.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, as you know, we've got five hundred scholars here
participating in the conference. Juniors and seniors in college. Do
me a favorite take us back in time. Can you
talk some about your career pathway from your time at
DSU marketing degree there, yes, and how things have progressed.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Talk to them who that's been a journey.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, yeah, So a lot of people think that I
studied journalism, that I was a communications major. I was
a communications major for about a day and then I
realized that, well, I felt like at the time a
lot of the things that I was being taught in
school wasn't necessarily what I needed.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I could learn that on the job.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I felt like I needed the business and like the
professional development that you guys are getting here, I felt
like I needed that more and the reason why I
would be so I was on campus and I was
doing everything I could, so like when people would come
to campus and it's homecoming.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'm not even a mass.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Com major, but like I'm in a radio station doing
interviews for whatever artists are on campus.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm vlogging, and.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
YouTube was so new, so people didn't know what I
was doing. But I would, you know, vlog as much
as I could, hosting events, whatever I could do. You know,
I was a part of a modeling troop at dell
S as well, just staying in front of people and
branding myself. Then so people knew me for the person
that like wanted to be in front of people, speaking
and entertaining. But when I decided to not be a
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mass colm major, the biggest thing was I felt like
going and getting a marketing or business degree or just
having any level of business you know, experience and professionalism would.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Set me apart.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Because what I began to realize, I knew a long
time ago that like the Internet and social media was
going to be like home for the creators and as
a storyteller, I was like, you know, the only way
I can set myself apart if everybody's online, they're doing something.
The only way I can set myself apart is to
really understand the business of me. What is my brand?
Who am I speaking to? How does that change every year?
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How does that change from when I'm at Dell State
and I'm a student to first year out of college
and I'm trying to find a job in LA to
move into New York, like and in each level of
my life, I've been able to kind of like I
wouldn't even say rebrand, but I guess storytelling a way
that reaches the market, my market or my audience for
where I'm at. Like I think when I was at college,
you know, I was figuring it out. So my conversation was,
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then I'm a college student, I'm figuring it out, and
I'm vlogging about you know, what are internships?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How do I get them? How they you know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
One of the things I thought was crazy when I
was at college was when I graduated, they wanted you
to already have had a job before you could get
a job. And that was crazy to me. So I
remember I made a YouTube video about that and and like,
you know, that got like big pick up for me,
and then I posted it y d it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It was so new. I was like posting to like Facebook.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I don't even think Instagram had long form video at
the point, right, But I was just using every point
of my life. So after I left Dell State, I
moved to LA. Couldn't get a job.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
YouTube too. I lived on YouTube and I.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Meet people today, literally today who still tell me the
videos I was posting when I moved to LA years
ago inspired them to move to LA or you know,
different things like that. But I was just honest about
my journey after college with no money for real, trying
to figure it out. And one of the things that
I thought was also something that was like people got
to know about this. I wasn't afraid to go work
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a job. I think, you know, when you're trying to
be an entrepreneur or you're trying to figure out your career,
especially when you're in college and you get a degree
when you graduate, especially for me because I was first generation,
so you know, I was the first person.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
To figure it out. In my family.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Everyone's looking at you like, oh, you have this degree,
like you're supposed to live this great life now, just instantly.
And it doesn't happen like that all the time. Some
people do have that story, but for me, it didn't
happen like that. It wasn't instant, it wasn't right away.
So well, not in my focus, Like I knew I
wanted to be in entertainment, so I had to go
get a job. I worked for Barclaycard, you know, and
I was an internship I had at Delaware State for
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about two years. I was a publicist for some time.
I've been a flight attendant in each of those roles.
So much of what I learned at Dell State helped me.
But I got online on YouTube and I talked about
that like, hey, here's all the jobs I'm doing because
no one will put me on camera. I'm putting myself
on camera telling you guys that I don't have a job,
and then now you know where I'm at now, and
then moving from LA to New York. I've been just
vlogging and documenting my journey and having to move from
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LA to New York and just figure it out. Like
Breakfast Club just was one of those things that like
kind of like just happened and it turned into so
much more. So I've been just vlogging and you know,
just the transition of that. But Dell State and being
a business major helped me understand that as things evolved
and changed, I needed to understand what that meant and
how to get that out to what my market was.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Love it, y'all feeling that that's real? Right, let's covert
a little bit time there at Dell State and you're
from Wilmington, Delaware as well. For my mistaken yes, okay,
to then go to the West coast, how do you
how do you make a move like that and still
stay you.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You just get on the plane and go. If I'm
being honest with you, like that's all that it was.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I think I've always.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So first I want to say that I was raised
in a household that you can't be really too timid.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
In my house.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
My mom's family is from the Bronx, so she talks
real crazy to the Bronx. Yes, so in my household,
you know, you you got to be able to like
keep up. So my mom, you know, really raised me
to be very like ambitious, to know what I want
and to just.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Go and do it to execute.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So for me, when I knew I wanted to go
to l I remember being at Dell State my senior
year and you know, any senior is here, senior.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Okay, all right, so for we got some sens in
December in here too, So.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Shout out to y'all. Y'all excited.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I know, I remember the feeling and are y'all at
that point yet where you guys are having to put
together like the presentations and have conversations about what you
want to do after school? Okay, Now let me tell
y'all how that went for me. So I'm a business major.
At the time, delawarees A University's business program was very.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like it was Boxton.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They didn't really like So I'm coming to school, I'm
coming to class and when they're asking me this, I'm like,
I'm gonna move to LA and become a TV star
and they're like, that's not the project.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We gave you. You need to create a business.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You need to and I'm like, I'm telling you I'm
the business. Here's my digital numbers, here's my and they
didn't really understand it then. So I went through that
whole struggle before I and went to LA. So from
that I learned that, like you, I couldn't really I
could only be me. I didn't have a choice because
if I chose to do whatever anybody else was telling me,
it wasn't gonna get me to where I was going.
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Because I just knew people didn't understand it at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So that was a big push.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But again I was raised that way, so I literally
just was like, Okay, here's my plan.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm gonna move to LA.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I found a friend I could like just crash it
for like a couple months, and I'm gonna figure it out.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Went there. Once it didn't work, I ran out of money,
couldn't find a job.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I had to call Barclay Card and Women's in Delaware
and say, hey, I'm on my way back to Delaware.
I need a job, but because of my internship, I
got the job.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I was there for a couple of years, moved back to.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
LA That time worked. It worked, but it was rough,
like I was broke. And if y'all are on YouTube
watching blogs, please go check out my YouTube channels One
on the Roads at TV, especially for the seniors and
the juniors, because I think in that time, the second time,
when I moved back to LA, I really realize that
no matter how much passion you have for something, things
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will always hit a low. And if they hit a low,
that means the highest coming. You just have to know
how to maneuver when things aren't the way that they
need to be or the way you want them to
be in the moment, because it will happen, like life
be license and you don't realize, like y'all are in
such a good place right now, like y'all are in college,
You guys are you know, getting to meet all these
people and build relationships and this, don't underestimate where you
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are right now.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Don't rush it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Spend these last couple of months whatever you have to
really just enjoy being Like for the most part, Billless
and worryless and all that, because once you get into life,
so many other things are coming at you. But I
think you know, from that time, I really built a
strong mental relationship with myself, and I would build it
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on YouTube, to be honest with you, like I would
turn on my camera and talk to myself because I
just needed somebody to talk through it with who wouldn't
discourage me. So when I was doing that, I was like, Okay,
we got this. So I'm in la. I'm figuring it
out that time. But everywhere I was going, what I
was realizing was people had never had a meet in
that space, and in the beginning of it, I didn't
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really understand what that meant. In the beginning of it,
to be honest with you, I was like, Oh, this
is gonna be so hard because I have a professional background.
I have the business degree. I've been working corporate now
for years, so I'm very well put together. I can
run a meet and from top to bottom, honey, like
I can, I get the things done. But I want
to be in entertainment and people don't really understand the
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switch and then I so in the beginning I was
really discouraged. And then that's how brown Girl Grinding. My
brand came about because I started realizing, like, Okay, well
they don't have a me. If I'm a marketing major,
I don't think about this in a business aspect. If
they don't have a me, that means there's a hole
in the market, like there's a niche for a me,
So why don't I make that a thing? So I
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started hashtagging brown Girl Grinding, and then I started realizing
other black and brown women were hashtagging it too, cause
they were catching on, like, Okay, every single time she's
doing something or she's talking about her journey, and now
we got guys in the mix too, but she's hashtagging that.
And it got to a point where I realized that,
you know, people not having a meet in the room
was my superpower.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Took a little minute, but I realized it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And once I realized that, you couldn't tell me nothing all,
no ball and nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So I've always been me.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I think it just took me a while to realize
the beauty in that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You had the one way ticket from the East Coast
to LA, but you had to come back. Then you
had a second one way ticket to LA, this time
it's stuck. Talk about overcoming challenges. Some of the scholars
in the room maybe in a similar position to you,
maybe they were that first one graduating, the first one
now going into corporate. Give them a couple of blueprint
pieces to help them overcome challenges.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I would say the best thing you can do is
to always be a student, Like when you leave school,
the learning shouldn't stop. And I know that that sounds cliche,
but I'm gonna be really honest with y'all.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
When you're the first.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
At doing something, you're going to mess up, Like I
mess up as stuff all the time. But what I
do is is I learn from that, so you know,
find people that like you can kind of latch onto
as like mentors or and even if it's not a
mentor that you actually pick up the phone and call,
if it's somebody that like you just follow on Instagram
or like you watch their YouTube content or you got
a chance to submit a question on her Instagram.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Story something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Because what you want to do is is it's like
trial and error, Like you want to take Okay, I'm
new here, so I'm probably.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Going to mess up.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And if I mess up, how can I you know,
be a person that like learns how to grow from that,
like basically teaching yourself, because a lot of times you
are going to have to teach yourself. Also, I ask,
and I still do. I mean, that's my job. I
ask a lot of questions, like if I want to
know something, I'm not going to be in a room
ever where there is something I want to know and
I do not ask.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You are doing yourself a disservice.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You are wasting your scholarship money or your tuition that
you pay if you ever find yourself in a room
with people that you can actually learn and progress from
and you do not try and do that. Sometimes it
is about being quiet. I've had to learn that too,
But you know, ask questions. Don't be afraid to say, hey,
I'm thinking this, what do you think? And I will
also say too, you know, if you're new in a space,
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use your friends. Like they got this thing. When you
come into college, y'all do the look to left of you,
look to the right of you.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, they got that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And I think that even though they do it real
quick when you come into college, and they might do
it at your your graduations. It's so important because like
a lot of times, you're gonna use the people that
you went to college with when you do mess up,
or not even mess up, but when you're at a
high because a lot of times, like now, what I'm
experiencing is like I'm reaching different success and goals that
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even though I envision a lot for myself, I don't
really have people I can call and say, hey, this
just happened to me. Not in my regular life because
it's new, But as I meet new people, I begin
to realize that those people have experienced that as well too.
So if you sitting in a room with me and
I think you might have understood something, or you might
have been through something, or you had a similar contract
issue or whatever, I ask, hey, this is what's happening
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to me.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Have you experienced this?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Do you have any lawyers you would recommend, any business managers,
any whatever? Do it all the time. But I got
that from del State as well too. I'm gonna reach
out to a friend. I'm gonna call you. I'm gonna
use what I have sitting right next to me, because
you guys are sitting next to some of the not
even some, you guys are sitting next to living legends
and you don't even know it. So you got to
make sure that that's what of the things that you
do too, and write down stuff. Talk to yourself, baby,
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learn how to coach yourself, okay, because the world is
going to try and humble you. Don't let them do what.
You gotta learn how to talk to yourself and block
out everything else.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Sometimes you have to encourage yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh all the time. Eay, we love that. Hi. My
name is Madison Berrietwaya.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I'm a junior at the Delaware State University where I'm
major in Mass communications with the concentration and Converingence journalism. First,
thank you for coming here and talking with us today.
My question is do you feel a responsibility of responsibility
to uplift black voices and stories and how does that
influence your work behind the scenes and how did your
HBCU add to that responsibility.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So, first of all, great question.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yes, I feel that responsibility and I felt that that
you don't. I don't care if you're on camera, if
you're behind the camera, if you sit at a cubicle
in a computer. As a black person in the world,
you're going to feel black responsibility period. Every job I've
ever had When I said, I realized they didn't have
a me. A lot of that was they didn't have
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a black person. So I mean Breakfast Club, to be
honest with chall is the first place I've ever worked
at where I'm working with black people where I'm not
the only black person, if not maybe one of two.
So I've always felt a responsibility because I think that
you know, there's just certain things that will happen and
you're watching it in front of you. Like even when
I was in corporate, I was hired by Barclays as
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a community relations coordinator and my job there was to
take Barclay card into the community where I was from
Front Women's in Delaware, to take them into the community
and figure out where their money should go, who they
should be helping, and why these are people that don't
even cross the blocks that I grew up on. So
you're talking about responsibility. Not only am I having to
explain to them why certain places need money, but I'm
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also having to explain to them why they shouldn't be
afraid to go and see it, you know what I mean,
so that they can really understand and this is who
you need to help so that happens there TMZ, I Raquel.
You'll remember Raquel that was on TMZ and Van Laythan
who had the moment with Kanye West. So I'm in there.
I'm at TMZ and they're there. They both end up
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leaving around the same time. I probably say Raquel decided
on like a Thursday, maybe a Friday. Hey, I just
had a baby. I'm not coming back. I'm cool right now.
Ahmad Aubrey gets killed instantly, it's like, oh, Lauren, you're black,
what do we do? And this is like and now
this is different because I'm not in a boardroom, I'm
not on an email. I'm in front of millions of
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viewers on primetime and daytime television in TMZ dot com.
When those stories go live, they reach the world. So
if anything goes out wrong in such a sensitive time,
it's like, yo, the whole world at one point was like,
it's Lauren's fault because you're seeing me on camera and
I'm the only black face you're seeing my responsibility. I
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had to oh, I had to grow up, Like my
responsibility not only kicked in, but it had to become
like I.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Was like cute little middle school responsibility.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I had to become like grown up, real real quick,
because it's millions of you wers that that responsibility is different,
especially when you know you don't feel as empowered because
it is just you. And then you transition into I
don't care if I'm empowered or not. That's not cool.
We're not gonna do that now while I'm here. You
want me to say what, No, I'm not saying that.
Why would I say that. Oh, I'm also gonna be
honest about this, and hey, you're very ignorant if you
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get on air and say that, Okay, cool, you wanna
get on air and say I'm gonna call you ignorant
on error because people need to know that that's not
how they should abide by anybody that doesn't look like
them because you don't understand. So I'm having like literally
like verbal sparring matches on camera, like the responsibility just
it never stops, It never turns off.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And the way that your.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
HBCU and my HBCU came into that, when you go
to HBCU, you just learn that, like I don't know,
like being black is this It's a gift to the world.
So all you want to do once you leave your
HBCU is just share that gift like ooh, okay, y'all
need a little sprinkle with me. Over here, you're a
little season and over there and I'm and you really
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learn how to show up. Like I think people are
always so amazed because it's like I'm fun, I know
how to speak.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I might be like, okay, cool period, but.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Then I also like I get on air and I
can be buttoned up if I want to, and they're
so amazed by that. And I'm like, at my AGBC
you everybody was like that. We was having a great
time when we were at college. But these are some
of the best professionals in the world right now.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
But your HBCU teaches you that it's like a it's
like an ability to like almost like I wouldn't say
camouflage because I don't really like that turn, but like
to Ben and I guess like shake and moves. So
the responsibility, yes, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I also make sure I prioritize highlighting other black media platforms,
which I was also doing at TMC too, because I've
worked for some of them, so I know how like
you know, they might break an exclusive and people don't
get to give them the.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Props they deserve.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And then also to your HBCU teaches you the full
circle of community. So like if you give and you
help when you need to get, because you're not always
gonna be up. You might be down and you're gonna
need to give help and pick up the phone. But
people remember when you were that person for them. And
I learned that at school too.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Okay, hello, thank you for being here. My name is
Collander Carter from Alabama State University, senior studying Communications, currently
with ESPN and Endscape. So my question to you is
working in entertainment. That's something I've always tried to push tours,
but right now I'm kind of stuck in the sports
in entertainment. So how do you handle professional relationships within
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entertainment because it can get messier.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
With rap beats?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Like, how do you prepare and handle those situations and
conflicts in the entertainment industry because that's rare.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Kind of in sports and entertainment.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You mean, like because of the content aircraft.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, because the content you're covering.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I mean, you just get to a point where you, like,
I can't please everybody. One of the things that I
do try to do though, is like I mean, if
I have a personal relationship with anybody and like I'm
gonna speak on something on their I talk to them
first off there like, Yo, even if I'm like that
was stupid, why did you do that? I'm gonna call
you and be like, Yo, you know what, that was
stupid and you like come on, and you know, I'm
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mightna have to talk about this, And then that extends
into okay, so while we're talking, I mean, because if
I know you personally, you know, we were on background,
so that means I can't use anything from the conversation, right,
But once we start talking and I'm like, okay, cool.
So as a friend, even if you're not a friend.
This goes for like people that I don't know personally either,
I reach out, Hey, so this happened, this is how
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I was being reported. These are this is what I know,
the facts that I've learned on my own. What do
you want to say for yourself? And then I think
if you present as long as I try to present
as many sides of the story as I can, if
you do that and then you stay your opinion in
the mix of that, if you choose to and I
also try and tell people like, okay, sometimes I say
in my opinion, so people know the difference between here's
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what is actually happening and here's how I feel.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
But people won't get upset.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You cannot get around that because I think one of
the things too, that people have enjoyed watching with me
is the fact that, like I'm honest, Like if I
feel away, I feel away. If I need to say
something I say, I think I've learned how to button
it up and.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Keep it real cute. But I think people enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's why y'all like watching The Breakfast Club because you
know Charlemagne is going to say what he wants to say.
You know Mv's gonna get a joke or tea, and
y'all know Jets with the mess and her news is real.
It's gonna say what she wants to say. And people
like that, so you can't.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Get around it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I will say, though I wouldn't I wouldn't run from it.
I wouldn't run from entertainment because of that unless you're
just not comfortable with it, If you're not comfortable with
rubbing people the wrong way, people having an opinion about
your opinion and not liking certain things. Is it might
not be the industry for you on camera because it
literally just happens. People gonna not like the fact that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You put on lipstick today.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, I promise you, I promise you. It gets that
petty like. People will be like, why she sitting up
there in that red lip. Journalists don't wear red lip.
Oh baby, I wear ruby woo. I do relet down Like.
So you gotta kind of like do all you can
do and realize that some things you just can't help.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You're welcome, all right, all right, we've got folks graduating
in December. We've got folks graduating in the spring. We've
got folks that are graduating next December twenty sixth or
into the next year. Give them a message or something
they can hold on to, something that they can play back.
Use this encouragement when it gets tough, close us out, says.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I would say I got two things, Okay, I would say, no,
I'll just do one. Warning comes before destruction. You're going
to experience a lot of different things. You are going
to try things, and you should throw that at the
wall see if they stick. Whatever you think, like, if
you're passionate about it, do it, do it well.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Start now.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Execution is important, Discipline is important, but you have an
instinct and you have a gut for a reason if
there is You know, when I say warning comes before destruction,
I really mean that there will be times where your
own natural instinct will say to you, this isn't right.
I should pivot here, I should take that opportunity. Even
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though I think I didn't want to work at barclay Card,
that was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I did it for two years. Without them, I wouldn't
be sitting here. I learned everything about my professional delivery
from that job, and I didn't even want to take it.
But my gut said, girl, you need a job. Just
take it, put your head down, do what you need
to do. Your instinct and your gut will tell you
so much of what you should be doing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Listen because those warnings will come.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That gut instinct will come, But it ain't gonna come
to many times before you get in your own way,
and that looks like the destruction. So get out your
own way, try things, stow things.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
At the well.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Execution, don't just talk about it, write it down, pray
on it. But actually go do it, like start now,
like right here, right now. You should be starting. If
you rap, I should be able to go on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And see freestyles and covers.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
If you are a journalists, I should be able to
see right now in your interviews. If you make clothing,
I should see right now some photo shoots, your homegirls
and all of your branding, all that stuff like start now.
Don't wait until you graduate, don't wait until you move
to your dream place that you want to live.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
None of that matters.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
These tables are going to be there for y'all pull
up a seat too, or for you to create for yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But you got to execute to do any of that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Let's give it up, y'all. Lauren, thank you again so much.
Reminded one more time on the on the ig.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, yeah, I'm Lauren Lorosa everywhere. So l O R
E N l O R O s A and be
my favorite.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Brown gargrinding.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, so brown gargrinding is I call it the online
group chat. So we inspire, we lift up, we have
a little bit of fun. There's news there, there's conversations there.
You have a good time over there to bron gar
grinding on Instagram, and I do have a podcast with
iHeart and the Black Effect Network called The Latest with
Lauren Rosa. It's a daily dig on all things pop
culture and entertainment, news and our break exclusives.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
There we just did.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
We just wrapped up all of our Diddy trial coverage,
so all that stuff is there as well too.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Helling content and again on a very very important topic.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, the Diddy trial coverage took my
social out of here. I started the trial with like
three thousand subscribers on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm at like sixty k right now.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
It's a testament to your work.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Do it now, don't wait. Nope, all that's iPhone footage.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Do it now. Don't wait for things they.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
We'll use it as our clothes everyone. So thank you all,
so so much. Let's give it up again, y'all for.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
At the end of the day, you guys could be
anywhere with anybody having a conversation about all these things,
but you choose to be right here with me, my
low riders, and I appreciate you guys for that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Lorren L. Rosa.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is the Latest with Laurence Rosa and I will
see you guys in my next episode.
I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody who has you know, if you don't lie
about that.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right, Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Lauren L Rosa and this is the Latest with
Laura L.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Rosa.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
and all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, today's episode is actually us taking you to d
C for a conversation that shakes the room.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So I headed to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
To speak at a leadership institute in Washington, d C.
Via the Third Good Martial Fund, which is an organization
that you know, just helps kid that helps kids get
two in through college, historically black colleges and universities.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, I had such a good time in d C,
such a good conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So the audience, right, I'm setting the scene.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The audience, it's about five or six hundred HBCU students.
They had no idea I was coming. They had been
in this leadership institute. It's like, you know, something that
they fly into from various schools. So you have schools
from all over the country that send their students. A
lot of them are at the end of their collegiate time,
so they're like junior seniors semoight have been some sophomores
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there as well too, but they had no idea I
was coming there, been there for a few days. Today
it was like one of the closing days where we
speaking to them and they introduce that I'm here, and
I'm here to talk to them. It's based on professional
development and just you know, figuring yourself out in college,
and they give you resources and tools this whole weekend
to do so, which is so needed because man, it's
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college and experience. But the way you got to be
prepared to go over the world, it's a whole nother
ball game.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So take a listen to.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
My conversation at the Leadership Institute with the Third Goood
Martial Fund.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh y'all can hear me?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You were checking out the shoe Listen.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I think.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
The whole fit is just it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow, it's a lot of y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
This is Yeah, we got good people here. We got
good people here, so we're gonna chop it up a
little bit. That's a good kind of a way. So
let's start with the very very important things yes, you
studied at an HBCU. Would you like to tell all
of our audience where you studied.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The best at HBCU in the world. Delaware State University. Okay,
I'm gonna say it one more time because I like
to be humble. The best HBCU in the world, Delaware
State University. Okay, all right, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
All right, yeah, well we're here.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is calling response.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It is calling response. But yeah, I studied at at HBCU,
which I'm always so proud to say because I remember
being at an HBCU and people telling me working in
entertainment at the level I'm doing it wasn't possible because
I was at HBCU. So now I love to be like, oh, yeah,
I went to Delawaressa University.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, Delawaresa University.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yes, it's a historically black college, you know, and I'm
amongst the HBCU family.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I love. That is like forefront for me always.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, as you know, we've got five hundred scholars here
participating in the conference. Juniors and seniors in college. Do
me a favorite take us back in time. Can you
talk some about your career pathway from your time at
DSU marketing degree there, yes, and how things have progressed.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Talk to them who that's been a journey.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay, yeah, So a lot of people think that I
studied journalism, that I was a communications major. I was
a communications major for about a day and then I
realized that, well, I felt like at the time a
lot of the things that I was being taught in
school wasn't necessarily what I needed.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I could learn that on the job.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I felt like I needed the business and like the
professional development that you guys are getting here, I felt
like I needed that more and the reason why I
would be so I was on campus and I was
doing everything I could, so like when people would come
to campus and it's homecoming.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'm not even a mass.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Com major, but like I'm in a radio station doing
interviews for whatever artists are on campus.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm vlogging, and.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
YouTube was so new, so people didn't know what I
was doing. But I would, you know, vlog as much
as I could, hosting events, whatever I could do. You know,
I was a part of a modeling troop at dell
S as well, just staying in front of people and
branding myself. Then so people knew me for the person
that like wanted to be in front of people, speaking
and entertaining. But when I decided to not be a
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mass colm major, the biggest thing was I felt like
going and getting a marketing or business degree or just
having any level of business you know, experience and professionalism would.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Set me apart.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Because what I began to realize, I knew a long
time ago that like the Internet and social media was
going to be like home for the creators and as
a storyteller, I was like, you know, the only way
I can set myself apart if everybody's online, they're doing something.
The only way I can set myself apart is to
really understand the business of me. What is my brand?
Who am I speaking to? How does that change every year?
(05:04):
How does that change from when I'm at Dell State
and I'm a student to first year out of college
and I'm trying to find a job in LA to
move into New York, like and in each level of
my life, I've been able to kind of like I
wouldn't even say rebrand, but I guess storytelling a way
that reaches the market, my market or my audience for
where I'm at. Like I think when I was at college,
you know, I was figuring it out. So my conversation was,
(05:25):
then I'm a college student, I'm figuring it out, and
I'm vlogging about you know, what are internships?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How do I get them? How they you know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
One of the things I thought was crazy when I
was at college was when I graduated, they wanted you
to already have had a job before you could get
a job. And that was crazy to me. So I
remember I made a YouTube video about that and and like,
you know, that got like big pick up for me,
and then I posted it y d it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It was so new. I was like posting to like Facebook.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I don't even think Instagram had long form video at
the point, right, But I was just using every point
of my life. So after I left Dell State, I
moved to LA. Couldn't get a job.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
YouTube too. I lived on YouTube and I.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Meet people today, literally today who still tell me the
videos I was posting when I moved to LA years
ago inspired them to move to LA or you know,
different things like that. But I was just honest about
my journey after college with no money for real, trying
to figure it out. And one of the things that
I thought was also something that was like people got
to know about this. I wasn't afraid to go work
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a job. I think, you know, when you're trying to
be an entrepreneur or you're trying to figure out your career,
especially when you're in college and you get a degree
when you graduate, especially for me because I was first generation,
so you know, I was the first person.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
To figure it out. In my family.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Everyone's looking at you like, oh, you have this degree,
like you're supposed to live this great life now, just instantly.
And it doesn't happen like that all the time. Some
people do have that story, but for me, it didn't
happen like that. It wasn't instant, it wasn't right away.
So well, not in my focus, Like I knew I
wanted to be in entertainment, so I had to go
get a job. I worked for Barclaycard, you know, and
I was an internship I had at Delaware State for
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about two years. I was a publicist for some time.
I've been a flight attendant in each of those roles.
So much of what I learned at Dell State helped me.
But I got online on YouTube and I talked about
that like, hey, here's all the jobs I'm doing because
no one will put me on camera. I'm putting myself
on camera telling you guys that I don't have a job,
and then now you know where I'm at now, and
then moving from LA to New York. I've been just
vlogging and documenting my journey and having to move from
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LA to New York and just figure it out. Like
Breakfast Club just was one of those things that like
kind of like just happened and it turned into so
much more. So I've been just vlogging and you know,
just the transition of that. But Dell State and being
a business major helped me understand that as things evolved
and changed, I needed to understand what that meant and
how to get that out to what my market was.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Love it, y'all feeling that that's real? Right, let's covert
a little bit time there at Dell State and you're
from Wilmington, Delaware as well. For my mistaken yes, okay,
to then go to the West coast, how do you
how do you make a move like that and still
stay you.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You just get on the plane and go. If I'm
being honest with you, like that's all that it was.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I think I've always.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So first I want to say that I was raised
in a household that you can't be really too timid.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
In my house.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
My mom's family is from the Bronx, so she talks
real crazy to the Bronx. Yes, so in my household,
you know, you you got to be able to like
keep up. So my mom, you know, really raised me
to be very like ambitious, to know what I want
and to just.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Go and do it to execute.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So for me, when I knew I wanted to go
to l I remember being at Dell State my senior
year and you know, any senior is here, senior.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Okay, all right, so for we got some sens in
December in here too, So.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Shout out to y'all. Y'all excited.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I know, I remember the feeling and are y'all at
that point yet where you guys are having to put
together like the presentations and have conversations about what you
want to do after school? Okay, Now let me tell
y'all how that went for me. So I'm a business major.
At the time, delawarees A University's business program was very.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like it was Boxton.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They didn't really like So I'm coming to school, I'm
coming to class and when they're asking me this, I'm like,
I'm gonna move to LA and become a TV star
and they're like, that's not the project.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
We gave you. You need to create a business.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You need to and I'm like, I'm telling you I'm
the business. Here's my digital numbers, here's my and they
didn't really understand it then. So I went through that
whole struggle before I and went to LA. So from
that I learned that, like you, I couldn't really I
could only be me. I didn't have a choice because
if I chose to do whatever anybody else was telling me,
it wasn't gonna get me to where I was going.
(09:43):
Because I just knew people didn't understand it at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So that was a big push.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But again I was raised that way, so I literally
just was like, Okay, here's my plan.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'm gonna move to LA.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I found a friend I could like just crash it
for like a couple months, and I'm gonna figure it out.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Went there. Once it didn't work, I ran out of money,
couldn't find a job.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I had to call Barclay Card and Women's in Delaware
and say, hey, I'm on my way back to Delaware.
I need a job, but because of my internship, I
got the job.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I was there for a couple of years, moved back to.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
LA That time worked. It worked, but it was rough,
like I was broke. And if y'all are on YouTube
watching blogs, please go check out my YouTube channels One
on the Roads at TV, especially for the seniors and
the juniors, because I think in that time, the second time,
when I moved back to LA, I really realize that
no matter how much passion you have for something, things
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will always hit a low. And if they hit a low,
that means the highest coming. You just have to know
how to maneuver when things aren't the way that they
need to be or the way you want them to
be in the moment, because it will happen, like life
be license and you don't realize, like y'all are in
such a good place right now, like y'all are in college,
You guys are you know, getting to meet all these
people and build relationships and this, don't underestimate where you
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are right now.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Don't rush it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Spend these last couple of months whatever you have to
really just enjoy being Like for the most part, Billless
and worryless and all that, because once you get into life,
so many other things are coming at you. But I
think you know, from that time, I really built a
strong mental relationship with myself, and I would build it
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on YouTube, to be honest with you, like I would
turn on my camera and talk to myself because I
just needed somebody to talk through it with who wouldn't
discourage me. So when I was doing that, I was like, Okay,
we got this. So I'm in la. I'm figuring it
out that time. But everywhere I was going, what I
was realizing was people had never had a meet in
that space, and in the beginning of it, I didn't
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really understand what that meant. In the beginning of it,
to be honest with you, I was like, Oh, this
is gonna be so hard because I have a professional background.
I have the business degree. I've been working corporate now
for years, so I'm very well put together. I can
run a meet and from top to bottom, honey, like
I can, I get the things done. But I want
to be in entertainment and people don't really understand the
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switch and then I so in the beginning I was
really discouraged. And then that's how brown Girl Grinding. My
brand came about because I started realizing, like, Okay, well
they don't have a me. If I'm a marketing major,
I don't think about this in a business aspect. If
they don't have a me, that means there's a hole
in the market, like there's a niche for a me,
So why don't I make that a thing? So I
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started hashtagging brown Girl Grinding, and then I started realizing
other black and brown women were hashtagging it too, cause
they were catching on, like, Okay, every single time she's
doing something or she's talking about her journey, and now
we got guys in the mix too, but she's hashtagging that.
And it got to a point where I realized that,
you know, people not having a meet in the room
was my superpower.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Took a little minute, but I realized it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And once I realized that, you couldn't tell me nothing all,
no ball and nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So I've always been me.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I think it just took me a while to realize
the beauty in that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You had the one way ticket from the East Coast
to LA, but you had to come back. Then you
had a second one way ticket to LA, this time
it's stuck. Talk about overcoming challenges. Some of the scholars
in the room maybe in a similar position to you,
maybe they were that first one graduating, the first one
now going into corporate. Give them a couple of blueprint
pieces to help them overcome challenges.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I would say the best thing you can do is
to always be a student, Like when you leave school,
the learning shouldn't stop. And I know that that sounds cliche,
but I'm gonna be really honest with y'all.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
When you're the first.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
At doing something, you're going to mess up, Like I
mess up as stuff all the time. But what I
do is is I learn from that, so you know,
find people that like you can kind of latch onto
as like mentors or and even if it's not a
mentor that you actually pick up the phone and call,
if it's somebody that like you just follow on Instagram
or like you watch their YouTube content or you got
a chance to submit a question on her Instagram.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Story something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Because what you want to do is is it's like
trial and error, Like you want to take Okay, I'm
new here, so I'm probably.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Going to mess up.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And if I mess up, how can I you know,
be a person that like learns how to grow from that,
like basically teaching yourself, because a lot of times you
are going to have to teach yourself. Also, I ask,
and I still do. I mean, that's my job. I
ask a lot of questions, like if I want to
know something, I'm not going to be in a room
ever where there is something I want to know and
I do not ask.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You are doing yourself a disservice.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You are wasting your scholarship money or your tuition that
you pay if you ever find yourself in a room
with people that you can actually learn and progress from
and you do not try and do that. Sometimes it
is about being quiet. I've had to learn that too,
But you know, ask questions. Don't be afraid to say, hey,
I'm thinking this, what do you think? And I will
also say too, you know, if you're new in a space,
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use your friends. Like they got this thing. When you
come into college, y'all do the look to left of you,
look to the right of you.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, they got that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And I think that even though they do it real
quick when you come into college, and they might do
it at your your graduations. It's so important because like
a lot of times, you're gonna use the people that
you went to college with when you do mess up,
or not even mess up, but when you're at a
high because a lot of times, like now, what I'm
experiencing is like I'm reaching different success and goals that
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even though I envision a lot for myself, I don't
really have people I can call and say, hey, this
just happened to me. Not in my regular life because
it's new, But as I meet new people, I begin
to realize that those people have experienced that as well too.
So if you sitting in a room with me and
I think you might have understood something, or you might
have been through something, or you had a similar contract
issue or whatever, I ask, hey, this is what's happening
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to me.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Have you experienced this?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Do you have any lawyers you would recommend, any business managers,
any whatever? Do it all the time. But I got
that from del State as well too. I'm gonna reach
out to a friend. I'm gonna call you. I'm gonna
use what I have sitting right next to me, because
you guys are sitting next to some of the not
even some, you guys are sitting next to living legends
and you don't even know it. So you got to
make sure that that's what of the things that you
do too, and write down stuff. Talk to yourself, baby,
(16:04):
learn how to coach yourself, okay, because the world is
going to try and humble you. Don't let them do what.
You gotta learn how to talk to yourself and block
out everything else.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Sometimes you have to encourage yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh all the time. Eay, we love that. Hi. My
name is Madison Berrietwaya.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I'm a junior at the Delaware State University where I'm
major in Mass communications with the concentration and Converingence journalism. First,
thank you for coming here and talking with us today.
My question is do you feel a responsibility of responsibility
to uplift black voices and stories and how does that
influence your work behind the scenes and how did your
HBCU add to that responsibility.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
So, first of all, great question.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yes, I feel that responsibility and I felt that that
you don't. I don't care if you're on camera, if
you're behind the camera, if you sit at a cubicle
in a computer. As a black person in the world,
you're going to feel black responsibility period. Every job I've
ever had When I said, I realized they didn't have
a me. A lot of that was they didn't have
(17:11):
a black person. So I mean Breakfast Club, to be
honest with chall is the first place I've ever worked
at where I'm working with black people where I'm not
the only black person, if not maybe one of two.
So I've always felt a responsibility because I think that
you know, there's just certain things that will happen and
you're watching it in front of you. Like even when
I was in corporate, I was hired by Barclays as
(17:32):
a community relations coordinator and my job there was to
take Barclay card into the community where I was from
Front Women's in Delaware, to take them into the community
and figure out where their money should go, who they
should be helping, and why these are people that don't
even cross the blocks that I grew up on. So
you're talking about responsibility. Not only am I having to
explain to them why certain places need money, but I'm
(17:53):
also having to explain to them why they shouldn't be
afraid to go and see it, you know what I mean,
so that they can really understand and this is who
you need to help so that happens there TMZ, I Raquel.
You'll remember Raquel that was on TMZ and Van Laythan
who had the moment with Kanye West. So I'm in there.
I'm at TMZ and they're there. They both end up
(18:14):
leaving around the same time. I probably say Raquel decided
on like a Thursday, maybe a Friday. Hey, I just
had a baby. I'm not coming back. I'm cool right now.
Ahmad Aubrey gets killed instantly, it's like, oh, Lauren, you're black,
what do we do? And this is like and now
this is different because I'm not in a boardroom, I'm
not on an email. I'm in front of millions of
(18:37):
viewers on primetime and daytime television in TMZ dot com.
When those stories go live, they reach the world. So
if anything goes out wrong in such a sensitive time,
it's like, yo, the whole world at one point was like,
it's Lauren's fault because you're seeing me on camera and
I'm the only black face you're seeing my responsibility. I
(18:59):
had to oh, I had to grow up, Like my
responsibility not only kicked in, but it had to become
like I.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Was like cute little middle school responsibility.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I had to become like grown up, real real quick,
because it's millions of you wers that that responsibility is different,
especially when you know you don't feel as empowered because
it is just you. And then you transition into I
don't care if I'm empowered or not. That's not cool.
We're not gonna do that now while I'm here. You
want me to say what, No, I'm not saying that.
Why would I say that. Oh, I'm also gonna be
honest about this, and hey, you're very ignorant if you
(19:29):
get on air and say that, Okay, cool, you wanna
get on air and say I'm gonna call you ignorant
on error because people need to know that that's not
how they should abide by anybody that doesn't look like
them because you don't understand. So I'm having like literally
like verbal sparring matches on camera, like the responsibility just
it never stops, It never turns off.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
And the way that your.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
HBCU and my HBCU came into that, when you go
to HBCU, you just learn that, like I don't know,
like being black is this It's a gift to the world.
So all you want to do once you leave your
HBCU is just share that gift like ooh, okay, y'all
need a little sprinkle with me. Over here, you're a
little season and over there and I'm and you really
(20:06):
learn how to show up. Like I think people are
always so amazed because it's like I'm fun, I know
how to speak.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I might be like, okay, cool period, but.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Then I also like I get on air and I
can be buttoned up if I want to, and they're
so amazed by that. And I'm like, at my AGBC
you everybody was like that. We was having a great
time when we were at college. But these are some
of the best professionals in the world right now.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
But your HBCU teaches you that it's like a it's
like an ability to like almost like I wouldn't say
camouflage because I don't really like that turn, but like
to Ben and I guess like shake and moves. So
the responsibility, yes, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I also make sure I prioritize highlighting other black media platforms,
which I was also doing at TMC too, because I've
worked for some of them, so I know how like
you know, they might break an exclusive and people don't
get to give them the.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Props they deserve.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And then also to your HBCU teaches you the full
circle of community. So like if you give and you
help when you need to get, because you're not always
gonna be up. You might be down and you're gonna
need to give help and pick up the phone. But
people remember when you were that person for them. And
I learned that at school too.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Okay, hello, thank you for being here. My name is
Collander Carter from Alabama State University, senior studying Communications, currently
with ESPN and Endscape. So my question to you is
working in entertainment. That's something I've always tried to push tours,
but right now I'm kind of stuck in the sports
in entertainment. So how do you handle professional relationships within
(21:46):
entertainment because it can get messier.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
With rap beats?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Like, how do you prepare and handle those situations and
conflicts in the entertainment industry because that's rare.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Kind of in sports and entertainment.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You mean, like because of the content aircraft.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, because the content you're covering.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I mean, you just get to a point where you, like,
I can't please everybody. One of the things that I
do try to do though, is like I mean, if
I have a personal relationship with anybody and like I'm
gonna speak on something on their I talk to them
first off there like, Yo, even if I'm like that
was stupid, why did you do that? I'm gonna call
you and be like, Yo, you know what, that was
stupid and you like come on, and you know, I'm
(22:22):
mightna have to talk about this, And then that extends
into okay, so while we're talking, I mean, because if
I know you personally, you know, we were on background,
so that means I can't use anything from the conversation, right,
But once we start talking and I'm like, okay, cool.
So as a friend, even if you're not a friend.
This goes for like people that I don't know personally either,
I reach out, Hey, so this happened, this is how
(22:45):
I was being reported. These are this is what I know,
the facts that I've learned on my own. What do
you want to say for yourself? And then I think
if you present as long as I try to present
as many sides of the story as I can, if
you do that and then you stay your opinion in
the mix of that, if you choose to and I
also try and tell people like, okay, sometimes I say
in my opinion, so people know the difference between here's
(23:07):
what is actually happening and here's how I feel.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
But people won't get upset.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You cannot get around that because I think one of
the things too, that people have enjoyed watching with me
is the fact that, like I'm honest, Like if I
feel away, I feel away. If I need to say
something I say, I think I've learned how to button
it up and.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Keep it real cute. But I think people enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That's why y'all like watching The Breakfast Club because you
know Charlemagne is going to say what he wants to say.
You know Mv's gonna get a joke or tea, and
y'all know Jets with the mess and her news is real.
It's gonna say what she wants to say. And people
like that, so you can't.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Get around it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I will say, though I wouldn't I wouldn't run from it.
I wouldn't run from entertainment because of that unless you're
just not comfortable with it, If you're not comfortable with
rubbing people the wrong way, people having an opinion about
your opinion and not liking certain things. Is it might
not be the industry for you on camera because it
literally just happens. People gonna not like the fact that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You put on lipstick today.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, I promise you, I promise you. It gets that
petty like. People will be like, why she sitting up
there in that red lip. Journalists don't wear red lip.
Oh baby, I wear ruby woo. I do relet down Like.
So you gotta kind of like do all you can
do and realize that some things you just can't help.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You're welcome, all right, all right, we've got folks graduating
in December. We've got folks graduating in the spring. We've
got folks that are graduating next December twenty sixth or
into the next year. Give them a message or something
they can hold on to, something that they can play back.
Use this encouragement when it gets tough, close us out, says.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I would say I got two things, Okay, I would say, no,
I'll just do one. Warning comes before destruction. You're going
to experience a lot of different things. You are going
to try things, and you should throw that at the
wall see if they stick. Whatever you think, like, if
you're passionate about it, do it, do it well.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Start now.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Execution is important, Discipline is important, but you have an
instinct and you have a gut for a reason if
there is You know, when I say warning comes before destruction,
I really mean that there will be times where your
own natural instinct will say to you, this isn't right.
I should pivot here, I should take that opportunity. Even
(25:30):
though I think I didn't want to work at barclay Card,
that was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I did it for two years. Without them, I wouldn't
be sitting here. I learned everything about my professional delivery
from that job, and I didn't even want to take it.
But my gut said, girl, you need a job. Just
take it, put your head down, do what you need
to do. Your instinct and your gut will tell you
so much of what you should be doing.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Listen because those warnings will come.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That gut instinct will come, But it ain't gonna come
to many times before you get in your own way,
and that looks like the destruction. So get out your
own way, try things, stow things.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
At the well.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Execution, don't just talk about it, write it down, pray
on it. But actually go do it, like start now,
like right here, right now. You should be starting. If
you rap, I should be able to go on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And see freestyles and covers.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
If you are a journalists, I should be able to
see right now in your interviews. If you make clothing,
I should see right now some photo shoots, your homegirls
and all of your branding, all that stuff like start now.
Don't wait until you graduate, don't wait until you move
to your dream place that you want to live.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
None of that matters.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
These tables are going to be there for y'all pull
up a seat too, or for you to create for yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But you got to execute to do any of that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Let's give it up, y'all. Lauren, thank you again so much.
Reminded one more time on the on the ig.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Okay, yeah, I'm Lauren Lorosa everywhere. So l O R
E N l O R O s A and be
my favorite.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Brown gargrinding.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, so brown gargrinding is I call it the online
group chat. So we inspire, we lift up, we have
a little bit of fun. There's news there, there's conversations there.
You have a good time over there to bron gar
grinding on Instagram, and I do have a podcast with
iHeart and the Black Effect Network called The Latest with
Lauren Rosa. It's a daily dig on all things pop
culture and entertainment, news and our break exclusives.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
There we just did.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
We just wrapped up all of our Diddy trial coverage,
so all that stuff is there as well too.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Helling content and again on a very very important topic.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, the Diddy trial coverage took my
social out of here. I started the trial with like
three thousand subscribers on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm at like sixty k right now.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
It's a testament to your work.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Do it now, don't wait. Nope, all that's iPhone footage.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Do it now. Don't wait for things they.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
We'll use it as our clothes everyone. So thank you all,
so so much. Let's give it up again, y'all for.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
At the end of the day, you guys could be
anywhere with anybody having a conversation about all these things,
but you choose to be right here with me, my
low riders, and I appreciate you guys for that.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Lorren L. Rosa.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is the Latest with Laurence Rosa and I will
see you guys in my next episode.
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