February 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Musicians Matters & The Take Over Podcast
🎙 Hosts: Rodrick L. Swift
🎤 Special Guest: Anika Samone – Poet, Award-Winning Filmmaker, and Multi-Talented Artist
📅 Airing Date: 02/12/2025
📍 Available On: All major digital platforms
Episode Overview:
This episode of Musicians Matters & The Take Over Podcast features an inspiring conversation with Anika Samone, a true creative force in poetry, film, and the arts. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Anika has always been drawn to storytelling, using words and visuals to express her deepest thoughts and emotions.
Despite initially pursuing Computer Technology in college, she quickly realized that her heart belonged to the arts. Through perseverance, she transitioned into acting and filmmaking, earning recognition with her award-winning debut film, That’s Her. She has also graced the Las Vegas Strip stage in the production Can a Woman Raise a Man and built an impressive IMDB filmography.Now, Anika has come full circle, returning to her first love—writing—and she’s here to share her journey, insights, and creative process with us.
Key Discussion Points:🎭 The Evolution of an Artist – From poetry and drawing to acting and filmmaking, how Anika has embraced multiple art forms.
🏆 Breaking into Filmmaking – Winning Best Debut Film and making an impact in the industry.
🖋 Returning to Writing – What fuels Anika’s passion for storytelling and what’s next for her.
🎬 Challenges & Triumphs in Entertainment – The highs, lows, and unexpected turns in her career.
💡 Creative Advice – Tips for aspiring artists, writers, and filmmakers.Call to Action:
📢 Want to connect with Anika Samone?
Follow her journey on social media and check out her latest projects.
📢 Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on the episode using #MusiciansMatters #TheTakeOverPodcast #AnikaSamone
🎧 Tune in for an inspiring conversation with an artist who never gave up on her dream!
🎙 Hosts: Rodrick L. Swift
🎤 Special Guest: Anika Samone – Poet, Award-Winning Filmmaker, and Multi-Talented Artist
📅 Airing Date: 02/12/2025
📍 Available On: All major digital platforms
Episode Overview:
This episode of Musicians Matters & The Take Over Podcast features an inspiring conversation with Anika Samone, a true creative force in poetry, film, and the arts. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Anika has always been drawn to storytelling, using words and visuals to express her deepest thoughts and emotions.
Despite initially pursuing Computer Technology in college, she quickly realized that her heart belonged to the arts. Through perseverance, she transitioned into acting and filmmaking, earning recognition with her award-winning debut film, That’s Her. She has also graced the Las Vegas Strip stage in the production Can a Woman Raise a Man and built an impressive IMDB filmography.Now, Anika has come full circle, returning to her first love—writing—and she’s here to share her journey, insights, and creative process with us.
Key Discussion Points:🎭 The Evolution of an Artist – From poetry and drawing to acting and filmmaking, how Anika has embraced multiple art forms.
🏆 Breaking into Filmmaking – Winning Best Debut Film and making an impact in the industry.
🖋 Returning to Writing – What fuels Anika’s passion for storytelling and what’s next for her.
🎬 Challenges & Triumphs in Entertainment – The highs, lows, and unexpected turns in her career.
💡 Creative Advice – Tips for aspiring artists, writers, and filmmakers.Call to Action:
📢 Want to connect with Anika Samone?
Follow her journey on social media and check out her latest projects.
📢 Join the conversation! Share your thoughts on the episode using #MusiciansMatters #TheTakeOverPodcast #AnikaSamone
🎧 Tune in for an inspiring conversation with an artist who never gave up on her dream!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As your host, Rogeric Swill and this is your girl
Mother's Welcome to the Takeover.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Musicians Matters podcast, live right here, four thirty pm Specific
Standard time. It's seven thirty pm Eastern Standard Time.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Every Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hold all digital platforms thousand Power twenty one Christian Media,
l let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
This show right here is going to be an awesome
show to me for tonight, this show, I've been waiting
for this show for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Actually, this artist, this.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Entrepreneur, this author, she has been in my life for
quite some time. And anything she does, I'm right there
behind it.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
And basically.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I'm great and honored and to be appreciated to have
Romona on the show. Natha Romona on the show on tonight.
So but basically, before you come onto the show, basically
you can reach any of our shows on the Positive
(01:30):
Power twenty one Christian.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Media LLC.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Or either my website Drummers United International dot org, Drummers
International dot org and tap On podcast. You can reach
any of the shows on that that that platform. But
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before we go to this session, I have a few announcements.
August the ninth, We're gonna be at the gas Station
recording Studio and it's gonna be on at twelve noon.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
From twelve noon to three.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Point thirty, we're gonna be at the Gas Station Recording
Studio again for Drummers United International Music Arts Fest. That's
gonna be at twenty two seventy East Loss Road, Las Vegas,
Nevada at twelve noon. Is Candy on the line. What's
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going on?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Candy? All right? So let's welcome our guess, Anka Ramono.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Oh blessed, I'm hanging in there. My brother, how you,
I mean, my sister, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I'm fantastic. Thank you for asking. I'm super excited to
be on the show today.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Be an awesome and dynamics show. My sister. Just till
before we start the show, tell the world about your yourself.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Well, I am a author, I am a filmmaker, actress.
I am an artist and the truest and to the words.
I love poetry and I love to do photography. And
right now I'm just open to the journey that God
has for me. And I am really about living in
my purpose.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I love that. I love that. I love that. So
check this out.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I see that you got a lot of stuff going
on you're in the process of opening up a new studio.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Let us know about that, doctor. Aren't you opening up
a new studio?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Are you talking about me?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
No, I'm not opening up a new studio, not right now.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Awesome, Okay, okay, awesome. Tell us a little bit about
your book.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
It's this amazing book with I'm one of twenty four authors,
and it's an amazing book about women who have taken
their trials and tribulation and turned them into triumph. It
is a book of women who have come together and
with the ability to be brave, you know what I'm saying,
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Like just the bravery that it takes to be able
to tell your story the truth, being transparent, you know.
And it's more like a an eye opening way to
look at women's lives and how sometimes we think that
things are so good on the surface and you have
no idea what hell they're going through at home, and
(05:17):
being able to come forward and actually share your real
story is something very triumphant. Yeah, just women and overcoming.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I love that overcoming, overcoming. We have come through a
lot of situations, good and bad, and I can protest
to that because of before the pandemic. I had two
back surgeries. People didn't even realize that. My first back
(05:54):
surgery was just only supposed to have been back, just
just the f first back of the surgery. But the
second back surgery was because the doctor did not open,
I mean, did not close my back up.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He left it open. So I ended up with a
situation that I was not.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Expecting and and coded out three times. People did not
even realize that. So, you know, I really went through
some situations or some triumphs like you said. So that's
really an interesting situation of going through situations and you
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you just accepting what the situation came for.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
You know, yes, definitely, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, it's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
You know, I was expecting that to happen, but you know,
God seem fit for it to happen.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But you know, I'm still here, you know, basically thankful
that I am still here.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Definitely, we never know what God has in store for us,
like you said, and two, we never know what our
testimony is gonna be. Yes, just being able to share
your testimony with other people, You never know how much
you actually can help someone, just be.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So, uh, I see that you you were, You've seen
that you're a photographer. Now what type of uh photographer
that you are that you are?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Are you like.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
On the site photographer or basically do you do like
film or what what type of photography do you do?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I do all types of photography. I really do love film.
I am a film writer, I am a director. I
love all things film. But as far as my photography
is concerned, I'm open to doing a little bit of everything.
I like landscape, I like doing portraits. I have a
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couple of models that I work with and I do
their work for them for their like their head shots
and things of that sort. So but I love I
love all types of photography. I mean, God is such
an amazing artist, and for us to be able to
to try to mimic what he does, it's awesome. Like
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I just love the sky and how beautiful it is
and just the natural artistry that's around us in nature,
because that is just so awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Right about that, I'm gonna trip you out. I'm a
photographer too.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I took up graphic arts and votec. People don't know it,
but the only people that listens in and you know,
open up the door on the podcast or we we
talk or or whatever. Basically, they will find out that
(09:26):
I was a photographer and still is a photographer.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I have worked with the process.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Camera far as parts of in Votec High school, high school,
technical high school.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You heard of a process camera?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
No, what's that?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, basically what is a process camera is?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Like say, for instance, the process camera is basically we
make the negatives for the offset press, you know, like
basic basically the offset press was back back in the days.
That's that's the only thing that we had before these printers.
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You understand what I'm saying. Yes, okay.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
So I would go into the dark room, maybe put
the the negative or the yeah, the negative on the screen,
and I would take the picture from the.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Big offset press camera. From there, I would go to
the the the basically the fix, the and the process
let's put it like that, the process of making the negative,
(11:09):
you know, the fact, the entrance and the finished of
the negative. And then from the negative, I would make
a plate off of that negative. You then from from
that that negative, I would go from the plate to
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the offset press.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Machine.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Now the offset press machine, that's where the ink will
come in.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
When when you put now that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That Now I'm I'm gonna tell you that that that
offset press is definitely you would have to ink the rollers.
You have to ink one roller and then put that
uh negative one one one part. You would have to
ink the next roller, didn't clean the next roller, and
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then ink the other roller.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Then there you go. While there there goes the uh
the picture. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So I had anoster five thousand and I did like basically.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Uh singory like like you did, like I did.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I had like two where a point to where doctors
was asking me, can you do pictures for my office
back in the days when when I.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Okay, wow, that's amazing, yes, fair.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
It is very amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Now Amana, now I know you was a praise dancer.
Let the world know about that situation. What did you
like about praise dancing.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
It's a been a long time since I praise danced.
I used to love to praise dance. As a matter
of fact, it's funny how I actually became a praise dancer.
I was at service one Sunday and the dance team
needed needed someone for a skit that they were doing
and at the time, my cousin was over over that
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department and she was like, you should come and praise
dance and I was like what is that. I had
no idea what it was. And she was like, where
you know, you dance spiritually and things of that sort
for the Forgod. And I was like, yeah, no, I'm good.
I don't. I don't think the best for me. That's
not something that i've you know. I'm like, no, I'm
good and she was like, no, you really try it.
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So she had me come to some of the rehearsals
or whatever, and I came to the rehearsal and I
remember she gave me a solo and I was like,
what is happening? And I remember that I just prayed
and prayed and prayed, and God gave me this song
to dance to. And it was so wonderful. My very
first experience was so wonderful. The fact that she just
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had this faith in me that I could do it.
It was It was very interesting, and the actual finished
product was so beautiful, and it was just so annoying
today and I was just like, so grateful to God
that he allowed allowed me to be in that position.
Friend of moves through me like that.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I love that. You know, that's a good thing that
you have, that situation.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
That the part that I would like about that, about
that is the annoying thing not everyone has that I'm
gonna get into that, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You know, I know I'm touching a lot of feats,
you know, touching a lot of people with the situation,
a lot of people that just going to church and
then just okay, going in just just for the moment,
you know, when I go in on the kid before
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I go to the kid or whatever, I pray before
I go on to that kid. You know, I just don't,
you know, sit there and just get on the kit,
you know, and while I I'm here, I can't I give.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
The God everything that I have and not just just
a little bit, you know, you know what I'm saying,
Because you have to have the annoying thing when you
planning for God's people in prage dancing for God's people
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and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I mean, I believe that praise dancing is very I
think that people take it for granted. It's not entertainment, right,
You're actually it's a ministry. You know what I mean,
and just like any other minister, you have to make
sure that you are prepared and that you are open
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to receive what God has for you to give to
his people. And you have to make sure that you
are consecrating and preparing yourself for situations such as that.
You shouldn't take it lightly because it's not entertainment. It
really is ministering. And I agree with you, like before
you get on the floor, before you do anything for God,
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you should always make sure you are in his presence
and seeking wise counsel to ensure that you are you know,
open and you were actually hearing what He has to
say it has to say to you and through you
for his people.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Man a man like.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We're gonna go back to the work situation. How long
did it take you to through your book?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
The process has been It's been It's been a while,
especially with it being so many of us. It's, like
I said, twenty three other authors. It's called twenty four chapters,
and it has gone through ever after publishing company, and
we are super excited with the work that they've done for.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Us, and we just.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The the process, like I said, has been, it's been long.
I'm gonna say it probably has been I want to say,
almost a year, maybe almost a year, not quite a
year yet, but almost a year, because like I said,
it's so many of us. So I mean, you're trying
to get contracts signed for multiple people. You're trying to
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make sure you get people's information in, You're trying to
make sure you're getting you know, all the different things
that the working pieces of this project. You're trying to
get this from twenty three other people outside of myself, right,
and so just making sure everything gets in on a
time and making sure that you know, everything is proved
(18:40):
properly and proofed again and checked again and double checked
and triple checked, you know what I mean. So I
can say it probably has been almost a year. The
process is taken about a year, but it's here now,
and to see the finished product is surreal to actually
see my chapter and to see all the other women's
chapter and how everything is unfolded. We definitely want to
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make sure that everybody understands it's not just a book,
but it's a movement. We really are our sister's keeper,
you know, we really are helps one to another, and
being able to tell our testimony it really does help
people overcome.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It really does.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Awesome. Awesome, you're right, You're right about that. Telling the
testimony you basically an open book, basically, that's basically how
it is. That's the way I see it. And encouraging, Yes,
you're encouraging one another.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So that's a great part.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Of it. You know. As far as the business aspect
doing it, I'll do the people the world needs to
know if they want to do a book, what's the
(20:11):
ways about doing your book? That's what I'm trying to
ask you know.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Well, I mean I'm a part of a group of people,
and I mean almost like a village, if you want
to call it like a village, right, Like we're a
little village of people. They're some amazing women that I've
been working with. I am not a part of the
the ins and outs of the actual processing of the
book itself. I am just a part of or privy
(20:41):
to the part of being able to submit my information
and how the information is being translated to the other people.
But I'm not a part of the ins and outs
of the actual making of the book itself.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Awesome, So did you did you have anything to do
with the art artwork? So that I did see the
art on the cover and the back of the cover
and stuff like that that you have parts is doing that.
That was very nice artwork.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yes's absolutely beautiful, right, So I vote. I don't know
whose idea it was. I know that we all came
together and they asked us what our favorite flowers were,
and each of us told them what our favorite flowers were,
and we were in the process of making the cover
of the book, and that's where that idea came from.
All of our favorite flowers.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Wow, wow, wow. Do you have a favorite flower?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yes, of course. Our favorite flower is a black or kid.
It's so beautiful to me. It's something about the way
that it grows, and it's the way that it looks,
and it's using a lot of different like fragrances, and
I love perfume and so choosing a lot of different
fragrances and it's just it's just a beautiful flower to me.
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I love, I love how beautiful it is.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Amazing, amazing. That's that's great to know. That's really great
to know. And then as far as you said, you
do movies too.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yamaker, awesome, awesome, So can you tell us a little
bit about I'm doing doing your films.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yes, I mean I I love I love all things films,
from lighting it to it's actually shooting the film, being
the director of photography, to you know, being an actress
on on the screen the film is. My love for
film came unexpectedly again my cousins. Yeah. Shout out to
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mus Michelle. She she had this play that she was
doing and she was like, I need you to come
help me with this play. And I was like, yeah,
no again, it's one of those things I'm like, yeah, nah,
that's not really in my wheelhouse, right well I thought
so that I thought, and when I assisted her with
this play, I just got this overwhelming feeling of like,
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this is what I should be doing. This is so
much fun. And then it went from helping out with
our plays to then making an actual movie and just
all the steps that come along with that, and then
just seeing the finished product. I think editing is probably
one of my most favorite parts of it. To see
all the little pieces come together because it's all shot separately,
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and then to see all of it come together when
you actually piece together each scene, it is just so beautiful.
I mean, I love it. It's super exciting. So yeah,
I love filmmaking. I I do short films, maker so shorts,
I do feature films. Yeah, that's that's what that is.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I love that. I love that a lot. I love
that a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Shouts out to Miss Michelle and she's the only one
that I know of this world that can make three
or four films in one session and have it going
on in one place at one time.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
And I had I had the opportunity to play music
for her one woman show.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That was an opportunity of a lifetime.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well that's awesome, and thank you, Miss Michelle for giving
me the opportunity to play on your one Moment show.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yes, yes, I really thank you for that. So are
you going to be at her event on this year
the Black CHIMFESTI.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Biggas Black Fione Festival, for sure. I'm actually in the movie.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh lord, oh my goodness, Old did you want to
do you want to tell I?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Do you want to ask you what do you want
to tell the world about what to expect about your
your your party in the movie or do you do
you want them to just wait and see at.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
The same and see But they definitely The Las Vegas
Black Film Festival website Okay, get all the information about
the festival and premiere night.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Okay, Yes, I would like to give shots out to
my my cousin, the one I loved the most, Harry Holmes.
He's the he's he rocks, he rocks and everything he done,
(26:24):
he's just amazing. And uh I thank him for my
last session that he done for me, and so I
know he's amazing. That's where I know him. He's amazing.
In the Black Film Fest.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So did you give the web site so they can
know where to go buy their tickets at for this year?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
And it's a Las Vegas Blackstone Festival dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I remember when they started at the West Las Vegas Library.
You remember that she did.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Show some of her she did show some of her
movies there. Definitely, it's been at the Sun Coast for
a very long long time.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, I remember back then when she started there. That's
our long I've been following the Black Filmfest.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I remember that.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
So it's gonna be an amazing event.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
So I'm letting everybody know in the world know, from
from Africa to Asia to the United States. Okay, it's
gonna be going down at the Sun Coast. Hotel. Let
them know the date, the dates.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It's in April.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Give me one.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
It is the last week in April.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Okay, Miss Michelle just uh shouts out to Miss Michelle
at their orange.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Uh she loves her some orange, Yes she does. Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Before we uh close the show, my sister, give the
world some something positive to uh to uh sleep on
them tonight.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
You know, definitely just know that you're not the only
person going through what you're going through, and that there
are people out here that can help you. And you
always want to be your true authentic self and there
is no one better to be for yourself, and always
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remember that and just know that you're not alone.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Awesome, Okay, Awesome, my sister. I really appreciate you for
coming onto this show. You know that you always welcome
to come on any platforms, the takeover any platforms.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I know you like to cook, I know that you
like to do.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Arts and everything, so you can come up and the
platforms and which we can just talk it over.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I would like to thank my uh my number, I mean,
I would like to thank.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
My mentor Jerry Royce Live Positive Power for coming.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
In and being there for me and on this show
and then and then you know, man the.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Foundation helping me lay in the foundation. I'm truly thankful.
Can can you believe this? Since that next week will
be my hundredth episode.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
That's amazing, little wonderful mouse.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Congratulations, yay, next week will be my hundredth episode. Next
week I would have Lucreto bowling. She's she's gonna be
having the big party with me on next week. We're
just gonna be talking it over and uh, you know,
just you know, laughing in a way.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Have you heard of the cover Girl?
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Yes, I've heard of cover Girl.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, her name is the cover Girl. T h A
cover girl. You can look her up and she's gonna
be on on next week show.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
And you you're talking about can sing, play the drums,
play the bass, and play the keys.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
At one time?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Wow? Yes, yeah, she's all the way from the Ohio's
God bless her. So next week's session is going to
be the talk of the town. So since God bless you, and.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
We're gonna sign off at this time.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
All right, fantastic, thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You have a wonderful us will.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Join me as your host. Rogert Swift and this is
your girl Mothers. Welcome to the Takeover Musicians.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Matters podcast live right here four thirty pm Pacific Standard
time at seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time every Wednesday
on all digital platforms. Positive Power twenty one Christian Media
LL Let's Go.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
You were listening to Jerors Live Worldwide podcast
As your host, Rogeric Swill and this is your girl
Mother's Welcome to the Takeover.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Musicians Matters podcast, live right here, four thirty pm Specific
Standard time. It's seven thirty pm Eastern Standard Time.
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Every Wednesday.
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Hold all digital platforms thousand Power twenty one Christian Media,
l let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
This show right here is going to be an awesome
show to me for tonight, this show, I've been waiting
for this show for quite some time.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Actually, this artist, this.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Entrepreneur, this author, she has been in my life for
quite some time. And anything she does, I'm right there
behind it.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
And basically.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I'm great and honored and to be appreciated to have
Romona on the show. Natha Romona on the show on tonight.
So but basically, before you come onto the show, basically
you can reach any of our shows on the Positive
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Media LLC.
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Or either my website Drummers United International dot org, Drummers
International dot org and tap On podcast. You can reach
any of the shows on that that that platform. But
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before we go to this session, I have a few announcements.
August the ninth, We're gonna be at the gas Station
recording Studio and it's gonna be on at twelve noon.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
From twelve noon to three.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Point thirty, we're gonna be at the Gas Station Recording
Studio again for Drummers United International Music Arts Fest. That's
gonna be at twenty two seventy East Loss Road, Las Vegas,
Nevada at twelve noon. Is Candy on the line. What's
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going on?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Candy? All right? So let's welcome our guess, Anka Ramono.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Oh blessed, I'm hanging in there. My brother, how you,
I mean, my sister, how you doing.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I'm fantastic. Thank you for asking. I'm super excited to
be on the show today.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Be an awesome and dynamics show. My sister. Just till
before we start the show, tell the world about your yourself.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Well, I am a author, I am a filmmaker, actress.
I am an artist and the truest and to the words.
I love poetry and I love to do photography. And
right now I'm just open to the journey that God
has for me. And I am really about living in
my purpose.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I love that. I love that. I love that. So
check this out.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I see that you got a lot of stuff going
on you're in the process of opening up a new studio.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Let us know about that, doctor. Aren't you opening up
a new studio?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Are you talking about me?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
No, I'm not opening up a new studio, not right now.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Awesome, Okay, okay, awesome. Tell us a little bit about
your book.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
It's this amazing book with I'm one of twenty four authors,
and it's an amazing book about women who have taken
their trials and tribulation and turned them into triumph. It
is a book of women who have come together and
with the ability to be brave, you know what I'm saying,
(04:54):
Like just the bravery that it takes to be able
to tell your story the truth, being transparent, you know.
And it's more like a an eye opening way to
look at women's lives and how sometimes we think that
things are so good on the surface and you have
no idea what hell they're going through at home, and
(05:17):
being able to come forward and actually share your real
story is something very triumphant. Yeah, just women and overcoming.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I love that overcoming, overcoming. We have come through a
lot of situations, good and bad, and I can protest
to that because of before the pandemic. I had two
back surgeries. People didn't even realize that. My first back
(05:54):
surgery was just only supposed to have been back, just
just the f first back of the surgery. But the
second back surgery was because the doctor did not open,
I mean, did not close my back up.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He left it open. So I ended up with a
situation that I was not.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Expecting and and coded out three times. People did not
even realize that. So, you know, I really went through
some situations or some triumphs like you said. So that's
really an interesting situation of going through situations and you
(06:38):
you just accepting what the situation came for.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
You know, yes, definitely, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, it's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
You know, I was expecting that to happen, but you know,
God seem fit for it to happen.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But you know, I'm still here, you know, basically thankful
that I am still here.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Definitely, we never know what God has in store for us,
like you said, and two, we never know what our
testimony is gonna be. Yes, just being able to share
your testimony with other people, You never know how much
you actually can help someone, just be.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So, uh, I see that you you were, You've seen
that you're a photographer. Now what type of uh photographer
that you are that you are?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Are you like.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
On the site photographer or basically do you do like
film or what what type of photography do you do?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I do all types of photography. I really do love film.
I am a film writer, I am a director. I
love all things film. But as far as my photography
is concerned, I'm open to doing a little bit of everything.
I like landscape, I like doing portraits. I have a
(08:20):
couple of models that I work with and I do
their work for them for their like their head shots
and things of that sort. So but I love I
love all types of photography. I mean, God is such
an amazing artist, and for us to be able to
to try to mimic what he does, it's awesome. Like
(08:41):
I just love the sky and how beautiful it is
and just the natural artistry that's around us in nature,
because that is just so awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Right about that, I'm gonna trip you out. I'm a
photographer too.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I took up graphic arts and votec. People don't know it,
but the only people that listens in and you know,
open up the door on the podcast or we we
talk or or whatever. Basically, they will find out that
(09:26):
I was a photographer and still is a photographer.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I have worked with the process.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Camera far as parts of in Votec High school, high school,
technical high school.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You heard of a process camera?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
No, what's that?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, basically what is a process camera is?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Like say, for instance, the process camera is basically we
make the negatives for the offset press, you know, like
basic basically the offset press was back back in the days.
That's that's the only thing that we had before these printers.
(10:19):
You understand what I'm saying. Yes, okay.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
So I would go into the dark room, maybe put
the the negative or the yeah, the negative on the screen,
and I would take the picture from the.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Big offset press camera. From there, I would go to
the the the basically the fix, the and the process
let's put it like that, the process of making the negative,
(11:09):
you know, the fact, the entrance and the finished of
the negative. And then from the negative, I would make
a plate off of that negative. You then from from
that that negative, I would go from the plate to
(11:30):
the offset press.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Machine.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Now the offset press machine, that's where the ink will
come in.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
When when you put now that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That Now I'm I'm gonna tell you that that that
offset press is definitely you would have to ink the rollers.
You have to ink one roller and then put that
uh negative one one one part. You would have to
ink the next roller, didn't clean the next roller, and
(12:09):
then ink the other roller.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Then there you go. While there there goes the uh
the picture. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So I had anoster five thousand and I did like basically.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Uh singory like like you did, like I did.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I had like two where a point to where doctors
was asking me, can you do pictures for my office
back in the days when when I.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Okay, wow, that's amazing, yes, fair.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
It is very amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Now Amana, now I know you was a praise dancer.
Let the world know about that situation. What did you
like about praise dancing.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
It's a been a long time since I praise danced.
I used to love to praise dance. As a matter
of fact, it's funny how I actually became a praise dancer.
I was at service one Sunday and the dance team
needed needed someone for a skit that they were doing
and at the time, my cousin was over over that
(13:36):
department and she was like, you should come and praise
dance and I was like what is that. I had
no idea what it was. And she was like, where
you know, you dance spiritually and things of that sort
for the Forgod. And I was like, yeah, no, I'm good.
I don't. I don't think the best for me. That's
not something that i've you know. I'm like, no, I'm
good and she was like, no, you really try it.
(13:57):
So she had me come to some of the rehearsals
or whatever, and I came to the rehearsal and I
remember she gave me a solo and I was like,
what is happening? And I remember that I just prayed
and prayed and prayed, and God gave me this song
to dance to. And it was so wonderful. My very
first experience was so wonderful. The fact that she just
(14:20):
had this faith in me that I could do it.
It was It was very interesting, and the actual finished
product was so beautiful, and it was just so annoying
today and I was just like, so grateful to God
that he allowed allowed me to be in that position.
Friend of moves through me like that.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I love that. You know, that's a good thing that
you have, that situation.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
That the part that I would like about that, about
that is the annoying thing not everyone has that I'm
gonna get into that, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You know, I know I'm touching a lot of feats,
you know, touching a lot of people with the situation,
a lot of people that just going to church and
then just okay, going in just just for the moment,
you know, when I go in on the kid before
(15:24):
I go to the kid or whatever, I pray before
I go on to that kid. You know, I just don't,
you know, sit there and just get on the kit,
you know, and while I I'm here, I can't I give.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
The God everything that I have and not just just
a little bit, you know, you know what I'm saying,
Because you have to have the annoying thing when you
planning for God's people in prage dancing for God's people
(16:07):
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I mean, I believe that praise dancing is very I
think that people take it for granted. It's not entertainment, right,
You're actually it's a ministry. You know what I mean,
and just like any other minister, you have to make
sure that you are prepared and that you are open
(16:35):
to receive what God has for you to give to
his people. And you have to make sure that you
are consecrating and preparing yourself for situations such as that.
You shouldn't take it lightly because it's not entertainment. It
really is ministering. And I agree with you, like before
you get on the floor, before you do anything for God,
(16:57):
you should always make sure you are in his presence
and seeking wise counsel to ensure that you are you know,
open and you were actually hearing what He has to
say it has to say to you and through you
for his people.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Man a man like.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We're gonna go back to the work situation. How long
did it take you to through your book?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
The process has been It's been It's been a while,
especially with it being so many of us. It's, like
I said, twenty three other authors. It's called twenty four chapters,
and it has gone through ever after publishing company, and
we are super excited with the work that they've done for.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Us, and we just.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The the process, like I said, has been, it's been long.
I'm gonna say it probably has been I want to say,
almost a year, maybe almost a year, not quite a
year yet, but almost a year, because like I said,
it's so many of us. So I mean, you're trying
to get contracts signed for multiple people. You're trying to
(18:18):
make sure you get people's information in, You're trying to
make sure you're getting you know, all the different things
that the working pieces of this project. You're trying to
get this from twenty three other people outside of myself, right,
and so just making sure everything gets in on a
time and making sure that you know, everything is proved
(18:40):
properly and proofed again and checked again and double checked
and triple checked, you know what I mean. So I
can say it probably has been almost a year. The
process is taken about a year, but it's here now,
and to see the finished product is surreal to actually
see my chapter and to see all the other women's
chapter and how everything is unfolded. We definitely want to
(19:03):
make sure that everybody understands it's not just a book,
but it's a movement. We really are our sister's keeper,
you know, we really are helps one to another, and
being able to tell our testimony it really does help
people overcome.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It really does.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Awesome. Awesome, you're right, You're right about that. Telling the
testimony you basically an open book, basically, that's basically how
it is. That's the way I see it. And encouraging, Yes,
you're encouraging one another.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So that's a great part.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Of it. You know. As far as the business aspect
doing it, I'll do the people the world needs to
know if they want to do a book, what's the
(20:11):
ways about doing your book? That's what I'm trying to
ask you know.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Well, I mean I'm a part of a group of people,
and I mean almost like a village, if you want
to call it like a village, right, Like we're a
little village of people. They're some amazing women that I've
been working with. I am not a part of the
the ins and outs of the actual processing of the
book itself. I am just a part of or privy
(20:41):
to the part of being able to submit my information
and how the information is being translated to the other people.
But I'm not a part of the ins and outs
of the actual making of the book itself.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Awesome, So did you did you have anything to do
with the art artwork? So that I did see the
art on the cover and the back of the cover
and stuff like that that you have parts is doing that.
That was very nice artwork.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yes's absolutely beautiful, right, So I vote. I don't know
whose idea it was. I know that we all came
together and they asked us what our favorite flowers were,
and each of us told them what our favorite flowers were,
and we were in the process of making the cover
of the book, and that's where that idea came from.
All of our favorite flowers.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Wow, wow, wow. Do you have a favorite flower?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yes, of course. Our favorite flower is a black or kid.
It's so beautiful to me. It's something about the way
that it grows, and it's the way that it looks,
and it's using a lot of different like fragrances, and
I love perfume and so choosing a lot of different
fragrances and it's just it's just a beautiful flower to me.
(22:04):
I love, I love how beautiful it is.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Amazing, amazing. That's that's great to know. That's really great
to know. And then as far as you said, you
do movies too.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yamaker, awesome, awesome, So can you tell us a little
bit about I'm doing doing your films.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yes, I mean I I love I love all things films,
from lighting it to it's actually shooting the film, being
the director of photography, to you know, being an actress
on on the screen the film is. My love for
film came unexpectedly again my cousins. Yeah. Shout out to
(22:59):
mus Michelle. She she had this play that she was
doing and she was like, I need you to come
help me with this play. And I was like, yeah,
no again, it's one of those things I'm like, yeah, nah,
that's not really in my wheelhouse, right well I thought
so that I thought, and when I assisted her with
this play, I just got this overwhelming feeling of like,
(23:23):
this is what I should be doing. This is so
much fun. And then it went from helping out with
our plays to then making an actual movie and just
all the steps that come along with that, and then
just seeing the finished product. I think editing is probably
one of my most favorite parts of it. To see
all the little pieces come together because it's all shot separately,
(23:48):
and then to see all of it come together when
you actually piece together each scene, it is just so beautiful.
I mean, I love it. It's super exciting. So yeah,
I love filmmaking. I I do short films, maker so shorts,
I do feature films. Yeah, that's that's what that is.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I love that. I love that a lot. I love
that a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Shouts out to Miss Michelle and she's the only one
that I know of this world that can make three
or four films in one session and have it going
on in one place at one time.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
And I had I had the opportunity to play music
for her one woman show.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That was an opportunity of a lifetime.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well that's awesome, and thank you, Miss Michelle for giving
me the opportunity to play on your one Moment show.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yes, yes, I really thank you for that. So are
you going to be at her event on this year
the Black CHIMFESTI.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Biggas Black Fione Festival, for sure. I'm actually in the movie.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh lord, oh my goodness, Old did you want to
do you want to tell I?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Do you want to ask you what do you want
to tell the world about what to expect about your
your your party in the movie or do you do
you want them to just wait and see at.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
The same and see But they definitely The Las Vegas
Black Film Festival website Okay, get all the information about
the festival and premiere night.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Okay, Yes, I would like to give shots out to
my my cousin, the one I loved the most, Harry Holmes.
He's the he's he rocks, he rocks and everything he done,
(26:24):
he's just amazing. And uh I thank him for my
last session that he done for me, and so I
know he's amazing. That's where I know him. He's amazing.
In the Black Film Fest.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So did you give the web site so they can
know where to go buy their tickets at for this year?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
And it's a Las Vegas Blackstone Festival dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I remember when they started at the West Las Vegas Library.
You remember that she did.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Show some of her she did show some of her
movies there. Definitely, it's been at the Sun Coast for
a very long long time.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, I remember back then when she started there. That's
our long I've been following the Black Filmfest.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I remember that.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
So it's gonna be an amazing event.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
So I'm letting everybody know in the world know, from
from Africa to Asia to the United States. Okay, it's
gonna be going down at the Sun Coast. Hotel. Let
them know the date, the dates.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It's in April.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Give me one.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
It is the last week in April.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Okay, Miss Michelle just uh shouts out to Miss Michelle
at their orange.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Uh she loves her some orange, Yes she does. Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Before we uh close the show, my sister, give the
world some something positive to uh to uh sleep on
them tonight.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
You know, definitely just know that you're not the only
person going through what you're going through, and that there
are people out here that can help you. And you
always want to be your true authentic self and there
is no one better to be for yourself, and always
(29:25):
remember that and just know that you're not alone.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Awesome, Okay, Awesome, my sister. I really appreciate you for
coming onto this show. You know that you always welcome
to come on any platforms, the takeover any platforms.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I know you like to cook, I know that you
like to do.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Arts and everything, so you can come up and the
platforms and which we can just talk it over.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I would like to thank my uh my number, I mean,
I would like to thank.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
My mentor Jerry Royce Live Positive Power for coming.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
In and being there for me and on this show
and then and then you know, man the.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Foundation helping me lay in the foundation. I'm truly thankful.
Can can you believe this? Since that next week will
be my hundredth episode.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
That's amazing, little wonderful mouse.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Congratulations, yay, next week will be my hundredth episode. Next
week I would have Lucreto bowling. She's she's gonna be
having the big party with me on next week. We're
just gonna be talking it over and uh, you know,
just you know, laughing in a way.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Have you heard of the cover Girl?
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Yes, I've heard of cover Girl.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, her name is the cover Girl. T h A
cover girl. You can look her up and she's gonna
be on on next week show.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
And you you're talking about can sing, play the drums,
play the bass, and play the keys.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
At one time?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Wow? Yes, yeah, she's all the way from the Ohio's
God bless her. So next week's session is going to
be the talk of the town. So since God bless you, and.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
We're gonna sign off at this time.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
All right, fantastic, thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You have a wonderful us will.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Join me as your host. Rogert Swift and this is
your girl Mothers. Welcome to the Takeover Musicians.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Matters podcast live right here four thirty pm Pacific Standard
time at seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time every Wednesday
on all digital platforms. Positive Power twenty one Christian Media
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Speaker 3 (32:47):
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