Why Not Me w/ Tika Sumpter

Tika Sumpter is a powerhouse talent–she's an NAACP nominated actress and producer, a children's book author (I Got It From My Momma) and podcast creator who's been steadily redefining what it means to move with ambition, grace and grit in Hollywood. We sit and talk about her journey, motherhood, marriage and building the life of her dreams.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm your host, Christopher and this is the Keep It Positive,
Sweetie Show. Welcome to the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show,
the place where we heal, grow and learn together. This
week's guest is the beautiful, multi hyphened talent Tika Sumter.
She's an NAACP nominated producer, director, children's book author, and
a podcast creator who's been steadily redefining what it means

(00:25):
to move with ambition, grace, and grit in Hollywood. We're
talking about none other than Tika Sumter, a powerhouse talent
who started in a billion dollar blockbuster like Sonic The
Hedgehog three, made her son dance directorial debut with The
Night Off, and is co producing and starring in a
new Amazon MGM rom com in collaboration with Tyler Perry.

(00:47):
Oh and did we mention that she's also releasing her
first children's book, I Got It from My Mama, and
creating an animated podcast for kids. In today's episode, we're
talking about storytelling, motherhood, ambitish, and the creative fire that
drives one of Hollywood's most inspiring voices.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Get ready for.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
This conversation, guys, because you do not want to miss it, Tica,
thank you so much for coming.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I've been waiting for thee.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh, I've been waiting for my phone call. Unfortunately, I
was like, and she don't call me?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And You're like when I getting that call and Tyler
both I think I was getting aside from both of
y'all for.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Right, I was like, so, who's on keep it pump.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, and I still haven't been. You're like, why am
I not.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Get it?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Though?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Sometimes you're like, you know what your friends You're like, oh,
you know, you're busy.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm trying to get it together. I'm figuring it out.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
And I want to have it right when I call
certain people. Girl, that's right, yes, and it's perfect. This
is the perfect timing. Perfect. Yes, how are.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
You I am? I'm like bursting with joy right now.
First of all for.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
You because I have known you for a long time.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, you were.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I mean, I'll tell the story.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
You were an extra stomping hard too, yes, right, yes,
And Will Packer produced it and I was on it,
and I just remember how, of course you were with
one of the leads. They were like, where's the pretty girl?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Her hair is cut? And I'm like, your hairs off cut.
She was like, she's pretty, and.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
You're just you were just so present and so not
trying hard to be anything but who you were, and
I just always wanted to kind of I was.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like, are you okay?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You were so sweet to me.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I like, I don't know why I was gravitating toward you,
but I do now. I just always saw like you
just there's something such a good spirit.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
There were beautiful love you too. I dropped it the
same thing.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I was like, you are stunning and I remember that
and how kind you were to me in that moment.
And then fast forward like two years later, you book
Candice on Having Haven and I walk up to you
as I'm a PA at that time. This is like
I just started the Yeah, I was a PA at
the studio and I remember walking up to you saying, hey, Tika,
I don't know if you remember before.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I like, Crystal, Yes, I'm like good.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I was like, because you know, like you're an extra
and like some people like you.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
You were a well established actor at that time, so
I was.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Like, she's still fresh and yeah, but I'm yeah, but
I'm nice to everybody. I don't care what you can
do for me. And your spirit is great.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Actually became really good friends with another extra on one
life to she's my friend now.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Like I just but you're not just that.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
You don't just go there to be an extra, right,
there's more in your world that's coming, obviously, So but
I don't care. It's like you're a good human. But
the fact that we saw each other on on halves
and you were I can't believe you were a PA.
I always feel like I remember you as the head
of the department.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah no, I started at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Now we here, okay, Okay, yeah, I started there, and
I remember it was just a breath of fresh air
because you just, you know, sometimes you with actors and
just this industry here, not even just actors, you don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
What you're going to get from one day to the next.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like y'all can be having a great conversation in one
setting and then you see them and they act.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like, yeah, they like, who are you.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
God? We talked about God?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
We did, I don't know him. You'd be like, you
don't good luck.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
They're like crazy, You're like.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Me literally crying literally you don't remember, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
So I've had some instances like that, but to see
you and then you like just embracing the way you
did just as a young black woman still trying to
figure it out and navigate this industry and find my
footing and to see where I fit in it meant
a lot. And then to have you as a now
it's just years of friendship.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Got years of friendship and like, I don't know, I'm
just so I'm just proud of you and I'm just
I'm so happy to be here and I'm so happy.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
To keep key with you and like meet your whole crew.
And yeah, girl, and where it ain't where you start,
it's not it's where you finished. You're gonna keep going.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I'm proud of you too.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
So I'm excited to have you on today because I
want people to know more more about you, just like
your journey and where you are today and all the
amazing things you've done.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Your resume is outstanding. I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, So take us back to Queens, New York.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Little Tica, Little Tica. I want to know, like from
the beginning.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I just honestly, like I asked my mom, like.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Who was I She was like, you were just observant,
and I love to go outside, stay outside till the
light came on, literally Tika, and it's.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Like I should climb trees.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Like there was this crazy BlackBerry tree in my friend's yard,
which is so weird to have in like a concrete jungle, right,
but it was huge. We would climb in and just
eat blackberries and we would go to each other's houses
and like it was amazing. Like that block was like
I lived there until I was like ten years old.

(06:08):
I remember everybody's name, you know. It was like top
Cat and like.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's like new news, right, Like you're like all those names, right,
Like are those real names?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
No, those are really like well those fun names, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Like, but like yeah, I would hang out. I got
into my first fight on the block, fight girl. I
didn't want to fight. It was it was a surprise jumping.
I was like, what's happening?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Like a jump? Well sort of.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
It was like I like came that. My friend's like
take a come, and I was like okay. I'm like
this little like think of a little like eight year
old nine year old like okay, and then.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'm like they're like you're gonna fight her? And I
remember the girl's name, I ain't gonna say. They're like,
you're gonna fight her, and I.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Was like fight, like fight, I didn't fight.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
What initiations a gangland?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Right? And so literally I had to fight this girl.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
And all I know is I don't know if it
was an angel or god, I don't know what it was.
It blacked out and I ended up like taking her
and swirling her around.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
It felt like a cartoon. And then I threw her
into a thorn bush and then she was like, I'm done.
I don't want to fight you.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
I was like period, period, like if young teeth could
say period, period.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Please don't fight me, please.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
I didn't want to do this anyway.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
And I went home.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
So but like that was my life, Like it was
like I didn't fight every day, but that was my
first fight. The block was so amazing and yeah, and
and my house felt like we had a house. And
then I looked at it recently online and it's so tiny.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Isn't that crazy.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I just went back to my hometown in November and
I was taking them. We were going to the house
we lived in, and I was like it felt so
much bigger when I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
You couldn't tell me there wasn't a mansion.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Girl, I lived in a mansion, and it was it
wasn't or it was not so and I was like,
that thing is so tiny, but it felt so mighty
for me as a little girl, and for my mom
and dad, you know, to buy a house during that time,
which was not not a lot of people were buying
houses at a young age. And yeah, so yeah, so

(08:23):
that was my little time. And then I moved to
Long Island.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
When and they say, that's not New York.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
When people were like, that's not me. Oh god, I'm
gonna look at the camera. Be quiet, just be quiet
New York. Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
That is funny. Being in New York.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I feel like it's a melting pot and it's a
place where you have access to so many things. So
whatever it is that you want to do, there's something
in that city that you can tap into to help
build that character. What drew you to the arts and
was that something at a young age or was it
later on in life where you're like, this is what
I want to do.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
That's a good question.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
I remember in Queen's on Saturday mornings watching like shows likertoons.
I remember the Cosby Show not you know, I remember
a different world, like you know, like all those things
as a kid, and you're just I just remember. The
one thought I do remember is I want to be
in that thing inside.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
I don't know how like it was.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
It was just a little planted seed like I remember
that as a kid, that line I want to be
in there.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
And so that's all I had. Like there was no
like wish like oh, I'm going to do it girl, Like.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Let's let's go do the arts, mom, I want to
be in what are they doing? Nothing like it was
just that seed. I remember.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
It was like a spirit of life. I want to
be in there because it was just like you saw Rudy,
you know, you like saw all those things. And and
then when I went to Long Island, I I don't know,
I kind of it woke up.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
More, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
And I don't know exactly why it woke up more,
but it felt like more feasible because the time I
was like fifty sixteen, working at a movie theater.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I worked at a movie theater. Yes, it was sober.
I was just a concession girl.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Not just we sold girl, girl, we upsold well for
five hours more.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
You can have this two hours where you can have
this okay, shure, throw it in. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
So I worked at a movie theater and it felt
like I was next to my dream. Wow, you know,
and I was able to make some money, go to
New York on the Long Island Railroad on the weekends,
take classes.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Didn't know.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
I literally went to Barnes and Nobles and got a
book on like how to become.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
An actor.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Because I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
For me, there was no like internet. I don't even
think there was an Internet at that time.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah no, no, on nineteen.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
So ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Like the Ice Age, You're like, girl, how long ago?
Wasn't that long ago?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
It wasn't that long ago?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
But it feels you can make us feel it.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
They do like if you if you were born in
ninety eighty five or nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm like, like, come down, because it definitely makes me
feel old ninety those I'm like, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I just missed about a few years.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I go down, I know.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
But yeah, no, So I would go to New York
and kind of try to figure I was just trying
to figure that's it, like literally trying to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
So No, there was no real path.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
It was just the path happened when I graduated high
school and my mom moved to North Carolina and she's like,
are you coming? And I was like, no, Wow, I'm
going to go to New York and I'm going to
go to school and I'm going to try this other thing.
And I really thought I was going to go to school,
become a publicist, and then figure out a way in.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Take a get out of here.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
That was my shut up, its mass mydreie.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yes, no, I went to college.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I was a mass calm major with the emphasis in
PR and you you wanted to I wanted to be.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
A publicist for athletes. Yeah, I wanted to.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Wait a second, you.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Too, But you know, I like loved basketball at that time,
like Michael Jordan, like I just I love basketball.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
I was like, I'm going to somehow get in that
world too. I was all over the place. But yeah,
I wanted to be in the arts. But the crazy
thing is our paths.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, and how similar? Very similar?

Speaker 3 (12:25):
But I didn't finish school.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Okay, so what happened?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
What was the money?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
What?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Come on, let's keep like I couldn't afford it. I
was at a private I don't know what I was thinking.
I was at a private college. Couldn't afford it. They
basically were like, you pay this bill or your classes
are dropped and you have to leave. I was living
in their apartments on North Spelt Island. It was a
doorman building. That's how private school like. It was nice girl.

(12:53):
It wasn't a dorm. It was an apartment with other people.
And I basically they were like, if you can't pay
you bill, you have to leave. And I was like, mom, hey,
She's like I don't have it. And I was She's like,
apply for you know, loans or whatever. They're like you
somehow I couldn't get it or whatever. And I basically

(13:14):
left and I was like, what am I going to do?
How can I get fast money? I was like dancing
on a table, kidding.

Speaker 6 (13:25):
Listen, She's like joking, came back, what you gotta do?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
He'd be like, was dancing girl? No?

Speaker 1 (13:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
But I was kidding, but no.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
I had to waitress, so like every after so I
just started waitressing. And I was like my actual real
my plan A, which was going to school whatever, but
my real.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Plan A actually was to act. So it was like
let's do it.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
I literally got thrown in, like thrown out of school.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Thrown in just the while.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
So what what was your first role of two books?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
My first role that I booked.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
My friend one.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay, so I did two things. I booked, Like I
still have videotapes. It's crazy, I have VHS tapes.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh well, okay.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
In nineteen eight hundred, so I started doing these like
after school special shows.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh cute.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, and actually there's this actress who's like working now.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
We used to do them together. And then and then
I did a Curve commercial. Do you remember Curve perfume?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yes? I did Dowayne read now.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm not trying to.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
So I was in a Curve commercial shot in New
York City and it was so cool.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I was so cool. That was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Then that girl Curve.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
So yeah, I shot a commercial, and then I started
shooting more commercials and and then I got into voiceovers
and so yeah, that's how it all started.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Amazing. Yeah, I love that. What was that?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Like? How many from the quittings or getting kicked that
school basically like you got to go to busing tables
to that first commercial? Like, what was that because a
lot of people think like, oh, she just overnight.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
This is nothing about my journey is overnight. It was
overnight for a long time, a long overnight, long overnight. Ever,
it was in and out right because here's the thing
about this entertainment industry when you're first starting, especially like
you still have to keep your job to pay your bills.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Tika, I was trying to tell these children today, Yeah,
you have to work until you get there.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
You can't just no.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
And I booked a commercial like there was no, I
can't quit. That's a one off. Yeah, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Like and people think, oh, I got the thing. No,
you have to keep your job.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
I kept my job until I got one lef to live,
another job until I got one lef to live.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
How many years was that?

Speaker 3 (16:19):
That was? Oh my god, it feels like a blur. Honestly,
New York feels like a big blur in my head
because I was.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
I was.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
It was like going between like struggling but also making
it in a way like.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
And I feel like making it as steps.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
It's not just one big thing like people are like,
when was your big break? I'm like, big breaks are
in pieces, right, YEA, when.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
You book your first commercial, You're like, dude, Then I
booked a cover girl voiceover.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I did Rihanna's You've Got the Cover Girl commercial, right, yes,
when she was the cover girl.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
I did a ton of voiceovers, like like.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
A ton of voiceovers.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
And so it was like steps of like okay, yeah,
the industry is saying yes, yes, but not fully.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, yeah you can't.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
I can't leave my job yet, right, And so it
was like it was a validation that I'm.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
On the right path and on the right path.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah. Yeah, it was a valid you you need it.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
And I think what people need to know most is
like like again, like making it is steps.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's not just some people do make it like that.
I don't know. I always thought and I thought I
would be that one.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, you know, either shooting in New York and you're
like I'm going to walk by this set.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
And they're like wait, direct to stop, stop, stop, give
me time.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
And I walked slowly and I'd look outside and look
at the production.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Like.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Walking past Law and Order.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's like You're like anybody out here, no one, because
you've heard these stories, I see hear.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Natalie Porton was like picked out of a, yeah, whatever,
and and like all these people were picked up and
I was.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Like, I have a football stadium. I saw him the
dembo trying to find that girl.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I'm like, that is not my story.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's not my story.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's not my story.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
But I thought it was gonna be but and that
was okay. But so yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Mean, so I kept my job and then I so
actually I opened Soho House, the first house in New
York shout out, so okay.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
It was when no one understood what was You're a
private members club.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Now everybody knows.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
And they were like, you have to be a member
to get in, and it was like people, I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Amazing. People would walk in and the lady would be like, sorry,
are you a member? And I'm like that's do you know?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
That is no you have to let them in.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Sorry, but you can apply to be a member, you know,
and you're like, oh my god. So so I worked
there for a while and I opened the first one,
and then I walked out and quit. And because I
couldn't take it was there was a lot of entitlement
going on there.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I couldn't take anymore. I mean, people are great, are great,
but also people aren't great.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, I know what you mean.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, and then I booked and then after that, I
I I'm sorry, you can ask me to question you
what you can do.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
I'm just excited you.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
So yeah, and then I like literally walked out and
I'm like having a New York moment, like crying down
the street because I'm like, I don't know what I'm
gonna do. God, I've auditioned, I've done the commercials, I've
done things here and there, like I want to be part.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Of this industry.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
And I felt like it's been a minute, and the
struggle feels long when you're in New York.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I can yeah, I struggled here in Atlanta, so I
can imagine a New York struggle. The cost of living
living just like the just the life just just it's rough.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I mean, partying is fine, Like I did go out
a lot New York, but.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
But what was not fun was like when is this
gonna happen? Like when is this dream actually gonna work?
You know that was placed in my mind when I
was such a little kid, you know, And I'm walking
down the street crying. A lady's like are you okay?
I'm like I did have a boyfriend at the time.
He was great and he's a little older than me,
and he was like, look, I got you. That was

(20:24):
the first time that I had somebody to fall on
in my life say like I'll.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Take care of you.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
But then like literally a week later, I booked One
Life to Live literally literally one summer. They're like they
you got the part, you know, for One Life to
Live And I was like what I was like, so
you don't need to take care of me.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
I can take care of myself. I'm so independent, like
hey girl.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
But like, yeah, so that journey to even my first
job was such I would not change it for the world.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Same. Yeah, no, you can't.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think those the moments that had and in between
landing what we would say your first big job, are
so vital, vital, oh my god, because they literally can
like make or break you, and if it happens too fast,
it can break you. But those little moments really build character,
they build tenacity, yes, and the.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Grits, the grit.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
I really do believe I can pivot. You ain't gonna
catch me on my back foot, yeah, And I can.
I can get out of this mud. Put me in
any mud. I'll get out of it, because I've seen
people go through worse, and I've also I've had my
own journey of just like, okay, knocking on doors, knocking
on doors. Yeah, I mean I knocked on a casting

(21:40):
director's door after I went to the casting This is
me in New York. This is this is my This
is why I love being like naives sometimes too, Like
when you're younger, you're like, why not me?

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Like literally my brain was.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like why not?

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah? So I went to an audition.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I didn't get it right, But why didn't I?

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Why did I get it?

Speaker 4 (22:01):
So I went to the audition and I was like,
you know, I had braids in my hair and they
were looking for like curly hair girls and whatever whatever whatever.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
They were looking for you anyway. So I was like
I went in with my braids or whatever, and so
I walked out whatever. Do you know that day I
went and took out my.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Braids and you know when your hair is crinkly, Yes,
I had crinkly hair. I went the next day and
knocked on.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
The cast and director's door.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
They were like Hi.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
I was like, I was here yesterday, I'm back.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm back. You said you wanted curly hair.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, I did. Like, You're like, this is what you wanted, right.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
But you wanted because you wanted me.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'm sure right, you just want a different hair hair,
So here it is.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Here, it is.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Can you talk about out of your mind? He was like,
oh you're you're sweet.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh no, unfortunately, thank you, though we already we found
our person.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
She was just like.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
And I was like, okay, wanted some one to come back,
but you know I had right into her again on
any other projects, they were like what heaven.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
She's so green? Dream means very new, but like.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
What right? What does that take a sumpter?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I love that about you though, and I feel like
that is a part of your character of not like
having that why not me? You know that makes you
have the confidence to go after the things that you want.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
It's so true. It's it's the why not me.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
It's the thing that won't let you sleep at night,
like I gotta do this, yes, like I have to
do this.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
There is no other option.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I just don't see myself and any Obviously, you grow
and you do certain different things, and you you know
you do you're an actress, but you also have this
and there are different things, but you know that ultimate
dream of like wanting to act, is something that you
cannot let go of. And I knew that in my
spirit and deep in my soul, no matter how many

(24:32):
people got picked over me, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
And also I was the girl I remember asian Naomi King. Yes, okay,
that's who it was. So she used to say, I.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
Used to see you in auditions and castings just like
you were so folks anybody you because you know, this
is when you used to go into casting and like
there's a room and everybody walks in and everybody's like.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hey girl, hey, how you you.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Know, and you're like and she's like, you used to
be so like this and not it didn't matter who
walked in the room.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
That was me too.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Like I was like, I don't care, I'm just going
to be me and I'm gonna get it. Yes, And
she she was like, I just admired you, you just
and you know, I was like, you did, I said,
I was, you.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Know, she she's being actor?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yes, I love her. I love that.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
So was there ever a role that you auditioned for
that you were like, I wanted that so bad? And
then you see who got we don't have to say
who got it, but you see who got and you're.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Like, I think that is the life of an actor, Like,
oh my god. There are so many roles.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Of every role, every probably every role I didn't get
I probably bad. And I'm talking about like, Okay, let
me make this look like, you know, let me make
this look like a slave it like I'm gonna get lighting.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
L Let me make this look like seriously, I'm gonna
give you.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
I'm taking these breaks out, I'm forgiving.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
I'm gonna give it to you, and I'm gonna do this.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh, I know, So you're that actor that I'm like,
I'm I'm gonna get this.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
I mean, every every every audition I ever have done,
I put my all into.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Not really sometimes I'm like I don't even want to
do this sometimes.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
But yeah, you do get those your agents sends yourself
and you're like.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
You're like, you see what I've done, See if I can.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know if you want me or not?

Speaker 7 (26:36):
Come on, yeah, you just want me to beg sometimes
they want yeah, yeah no, but yeah, I think that
there are so many auditions that I haven't gotten that
I've wanted.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
But I literally believe what is for me really is
for me for sure.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Every time I've missed out on something and whatever happened
with that thing, I'm like, that's why.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's why, baby, Yes, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yes, every time I think I missed out on something, I'm.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Like, oh, thank God, because there's some shows that I
had an audition for and I'm like, dang, I really
wanted that end of the show in here and here
like answer that the first season guys like, I'm protecting
you from trying to let you know what I have
for you is for you and let's go have.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Some longity to it. So just hold on, hold on. Yeah,
And that reminds.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Me of like when you know Tyler Tyler Tyler carry
you know, he always is like, you didn't want to
do the Hey.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
I heard that I heard, and I'm like, that's not true.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
That Oprah had to call you.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
She did call me and she's like, I don't do this.
I was like, okay, you know, but ultimately I did.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
But I have the audition tape.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
So really for Candice, yeah, I still have the audition
tape and I'm like, I put the audition in what
do you mean I didn't want to do it, remember,
I guess when it was offered.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Then I was like, oh, I don't know, but I
did it, and I'm so glad I did.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, because it connected the dots in so many different ways,
not only because the fans are incredible, but because you know,
obviously we all are. We do business with Tyler. You know,
he's a friend.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
He's a he's all these things, every brother, you.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Know, and so it's just nice to like, Wow, if
I didn't take it, or if I didn't do the thing,
there's so many reactive things that might have not happened.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yes, So I.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Really do believe what is for you really is for you.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yes, let's talk about a full circle moment with you. Tyler.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
You co wrote and co produced Sisters in Italy. That
is that the name that you guys are sticking away
or is it still untitled?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Tyler said, Sisters in Italy. I'm like, okay, Italy.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
At first it's called sis like cases like s I
s y is.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
But then it was like they're like no, he's like,
we got to tend something, So right now it's Sisters
in Italy unless it turns into something else.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
But yeah, c what did it come about?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Even just from the did you decide like, I want
to write a story about sisters?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
How did that come about?

Speaker 4 (29:06):
So the initial idea was came from me in terms
of I wanted to write something. I am a middle
child and sometimes I feel like the world's on my
shoulders and my family, and I was like, I wanted
to write something where it's also fun and wonderlust while
dealing with like depth, like travel, but also you know,

(29:28):
two sisters who can't agree on anything after their mom
dies and leave them in in Italy and one is
kind of just all over the place, can't.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Which is Brisa, which is Brisia web Her, and.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
The other one is me.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
And it's this idea that you can be raised in
the same household but have two very different outcomes, and
so it's like we either figure it out in Italy
or we don't. And so I, you know, and then
I brought on a writer, hurt my friend Kemeando Katuno,
to help me co write and kind of re establish
some things and rework it and we did it together

(30:07):
and then I had it, and you know, I had it,
and then it didn't work out. I had it for
some years and I was like, okay, because you know,
you don't want to call.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Your friends exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know what you call your friends like, hey, come
through my podcast.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, you know what your friends? I get not.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
But no, it's different.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Totally asked somebody to do a movie that different. Yeah,
And so I called him and I was like, look,
can I send this to you?

Speaker 4 (30:39):
He was like yeah. He called me like within the week.
He's like, I love it. I love shout out Tea,
that is Hi, I love it.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Make some phone calls and make the phone call.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
I was doing something here in Atlanta. I walked out
of a coffee shop. I get a phone call from Tea.
He's like, we're doing it.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I wants to do.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
It, just like that, just like that on my knees
and I'm just like screaming.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
People are like are you man?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
It's like you're in the middle the street. Totally different
from the New York.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, that's like.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
And so I had that moment and I was just like, Wow,
something that I created and is being put on the
big screen. And it's different for him because he's never
directed anything that he didn't write, didn't.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Do everything because Tyler is the writer, creator, producer, director,
the things, all the things being boom boom.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
Bo bam and like I'm like I was, and he
was like, okay, so we are going to do this
and he told me the month he was like worst.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
I was like, it's happening. Whoa.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
I was like, why can't everything happen like that?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I know that's the parent Tyler perry Man. That man
he can put the needle.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Didn't move fast.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
So that was a full circle moment for me.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Beautiful, I guess you got to come on set this,
Oh my gosh. And we do Italy every summer, so
to see Italy.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Italy every summer, so I got to come on set.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
So I had to come on set and he's like,
go outside, it looks like just like Pordefino. And I
was like, Darling, yeah, well this Atlanta like he literally
I was like I felt like I was in Italy,
Like it was so cool. But then you actually got
to go to Chikatara. Where else did you guys shoot
it in Chikatara?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yes see, we hide there every summer.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Okay, So that is one of my dad is one
of the most picturesque little towns I've ever seen in
my life.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
I said, y'all about to be overrun, ma'am, because when
this movie come out, everywhere want to go there.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
No, it's so beautiful.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
The fact that they built a replica of where we went. Yeah,
literally I went and cried.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Like.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
He was like, I want you to come see it
and see what you think. I was like to start crying.
I was like, this can't this is not real. Yes,
it's like, it's real. It's your dream. Oh, ma'am, it's
your dream.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
You're gonna make me cry. Yeah, And I was because that's.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Him, that's him.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
And then when we went there, I was like, this
is that.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, this is it.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, this is it. And he was like happy, yeah,
all right. He's like this is your thing. This is
your thing, Tika. And from the producing standpoint, there's music
in it that bricious sings.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
I had to be in the studio with her picking
mute every He's like, you're your thing, like you this
is your movie, Tica. He's like, I'm in charge of
the directing stuff. Like he's like, but I want you
you can. I was like He's like, this is what
do you want? That's how everybody go to you, and
I was like.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Isn't that beautiful to have a black man the giant
that Tyler is say, it's in your hands.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
I'm giving you. This is you.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'm not because most people try to come in a lot,
even studios, They'll come in and you'll have this amazing
idea and then by the.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
End of the you're like, this was not what I what.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
This is not what we started with.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yes, yeah, wow, you know, And I.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Don't mind being flexible, and you know, you got to
be flexible. But he is a person who when he
says he's going to do it, he does it. And
he does it in a good manner of time. It's
not like, let's let's do this for five years. Yeah,
noine years. He gets it done, gets it done, and.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
So I'm really excited for everybody to see it, and
you know, you know, I'm just I'm just really.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Excited that it happened like I did it.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
I better get an invite to the premiere, as I'm saying,
of course I have to see it.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, you will be at the premiere.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yes, and maybe a few like screamings, you know how
you like send it like before it comes out oh
you know I need that exclusive.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
You got that sneak.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
You know you will be It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
So Tyler has been a part of your life for
a long time, for a long time, and for a
lot of amazing monuments and milestones.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
In your life.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yes, speaking of you met your husband, I was I
remember that.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
It was the rap party. I'm sure it already kind
of been happening. I remember, I said, you're like.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
And she's sitting next to a little too long, y'all.
It's not like, let's just as you know, it was not.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
We weren't giving It was like, we're not together at all.
It was like we go together real badd like.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Two weeks later.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
So I think you made a common next day like girl,
So yeah, what you saw is.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
What you saw, what had happened happened.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
So we know Tyler has this big thing like where
he doesn't really like for actors to date because it
can cause like how did that happen?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
And like what was it? Like was the moment you
saw him?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
You're like, officer just suggested, how is that man?

Speaker 3 (36:08):
My husband? So crazy?

Speaker 1 (36:12):
It's so crazy to be Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
No, another insert of Tyler Perry.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
Yeah, it's like, you know, my butt always looking at somebody.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Maybe right, that's me?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Now maybe is there a future there? You know, you're
at this age. I'm like, is that my husband or no?

Speaker 6 (36:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Or is it just a few nice I'm not kidding,
not kidding. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
No.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
I I saw Nick. He was in the makeup room
with Gavin Houston and there there was a few other
people there, and I had my dog with me. Yes,
I passed the makeup Lola, who I had before everybody. Yes,
And I passed the makeup room and I went, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
And I went in. I was like, hey, everybody, and
then Nick's standing there and uh, He's like, oh, what's
your dog's name?

Speaker 5 (37:16):
I'm like, Lola, but yeah, I know no. And then
he goes, is it a girl or a boy? And
I go Lola. He was like, I was so nervous
talking to you because.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I said to people I wanted to hear, Oh, the
that was name is Lola. It's definitely a girl. You
missed all of this.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
And so and then I walked out the room and
I go, no, I'm not dating an actors.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
I'm not doing any actors. No, no, no, I'm not gonna do.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
And then our first scene, which is on tape very
somebody sent it to me the other day.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
That was the very first scene.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
It was the end of the day. He made me
laugh so hard and he was so cute and I
was like.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Maybe wow. And then of course Tika.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
I talked.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I talked about myself this way. Tika goes and just like, oh,
if you guys ever go out or anything, here's my number,
just call me. I'll come with you. Guys. What the hell?
And he didn't call me really he thought I was married.

(38:25):
I go, what, why would I give you my number?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
He's like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I just got like, no way, there's no way to
be single. You know what. I didn't. I thought you
play whatever? Okay.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
So then we went to Tyler Lepley's birthday at All
Black Club.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Nick at All Nick was at All.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Black Club another guy who worked on the show who
was white too, and Nick was just like.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
M hm, cool cool.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
And I was like, are you okay?

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Did anything? Are you is anything?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Like?

Speaker 4 (38:59):
A be sure you're He's like, why why wouldn't I
be get you're married?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Why are you ask all these questions?

Speaker 4 (39:07):
The problem, right I'm like, no, I'm just want to
make sure you feel comfortable.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Like you. He was like, no, I'm good, Like what
are you doing? And I think that was my nervousness.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Like I was like, and then his friend had to
tell him, I think he likes you. What he's like
he literally said what no, no way, and he's like,
she likes you.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Oh man.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
And then that night he was like okay. And then
that night history we stealed the deal.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Love I love it. Now you have a beautiful daughter,
beautiful you had it. Oh my gosh. Your wedding was
absolutely stunning.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Thank you so much. Oh my god, that time that
was so fun.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
You dance. My feet hurt like for two days afterwards.
We danced was We.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Had so much fun.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I'm so glad everybody came early so that we could
hang out. We got key in the pool talk and
just see your face. And Tyler showed up for me
in so many ways that people have no idea about that.
He's just I'm like, just always saying, you know, my
dad died when I was younger, and he's like, I'm
standing in the gap for him. And I was like,

(40:19):
just so many things that he does that nobody knows,
and he's just.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
I don't care what y'all say.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
I don't care what anybody say, Like this man stands
in the gap for so many people.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
You have new idea.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
And so yeah, it was an amazing wedding and I
still got my man.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Because you know, a lot of black women, we we
try to like stick to our brothers. We yes, and
we leave hope for him. Yes. And what moment were
you like, I'm gonna try this? Was that your first? No?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Okay, now, but I've tried, you know, I've naturally I
sound like a hope like I'm tried it all.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Oh my god, Oh.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
I got what is that song?

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I got?

Speaker 3 (41:11):
White Billiam Rasta, you know what's like Jesus.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
No.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I mean I've I've had like I've lived, you know.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
I mean, I'm forty four years old, and so I
love black.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Men, Yeah for sure.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
And I dated black men and I wanted to be
with black men. And my daddy was black, you know,
my mama's black brother, my brother uncle black black black.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Yes, Like, and I've dated you know people that I
just get.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Along, like, yeah, you don't see color, I don't.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
See I see you.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
But I'm like also, I'm like, you're just fine, yeah,
and you're smart and you're funny.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
And to me, it's not this, it's just how do
you treat me right? Right?

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Like how do you love me? Whether it's for a
long time or not, it's like how do we get along?
But I like talking to you, right, you know, And
I've loved I've one day when I'm eighty nine, and
i will write a book.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
I will write a book. Okay, okay, and before I croak,
good luck in life. Literally literally this is But I
just there's not like a thing where I'm like, I
want to date a white man.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
I think you're like, oh, you.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Know yeah, And I feel like a lot of women
sometimes they get to that point where like, let me
just try something different, just try right, yeah, I mean,
look look at the numbers.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
I mean I don't know. I mean I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Whether it's white, whether it's Asian, whether it's Indian, whatever
it looks like, you gotta try as long as they
treat you good and as long as they finding.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Love is hard. It is hard, no matter what color you, maam,
is even harder.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yes, I want to ask you about that because You're
dealing with two different upbringings, two different temperaments.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
How was that adjusting?

Speaker 2 (43:19):
And like even I know, Nick and I have talked,
you know, like in the very beginning, he's like I said, like,
how do I you know what I'm saying. I'm like, bro,
you gotta this is a sister here. You know what
I'm saying. Everybody he was saying, the family comes with everything.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, And that was.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
What I did do as I got into therapy because
I thought he.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Was the problem.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
But then a mirror was held up and it was like,
oh girl, you're not that cute right now, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Like, there's a lot of.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Things I had to deal with, including boundaries for everybody, yeah,
including what I will accept from family or not, and
including making this new family, yes, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Like then when you have a child, that's the whole
other thing.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
But yeah, we're very We grew up very different where
his parents there was no like they don't rely on
him for anything, you know, that's just not how he
grew up and so understanding, not that that my mom
relied on me, but I was like, I made it you.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
And your mom would be right there with you now.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
She complained the other day, I don't go nowhere no
more with you.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
You know, And I was like, that's because you're yes,
Like I gotta take care of you for real, like.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Your kind a black girl with the rassak and pasta.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I'm like, girl, come on, like now, Yeah, it's a difference,
especially when you have your own family.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
It's something different difference when you have your own family
and then uh yeah, and so you just have to
learn to set boundaries. And marriage is not easy, you know,
it's and I know people are gonn like it's easy
if it's good, you know, And I'm like, that's it's good.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
We we love each other.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
It's just you go through constant changes, yes, fixes and
constant like you know, and then change with your child,
and there's just so many dynamics in a household, and
so to hold it all together is like it's it's
a lot.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
You know, you've been having time for yourself. But he's
an amazing guy. Yeah, and he treats me well and
more than well.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
And we are building our lives and continuing to build
our lives and happily it's.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
A beautiful life. Thank yeah, it really is.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
I love that, and you have a beautiful daughter, Ella,
You created the Adventures of Curiosity Coude and then you
have a new book. I get it from my mom
and Ella inspired this. Yeah, and I heard you say
earlier that one of your first gigs was doing like
after school like videos, So I feel like the Currier
Cove kind of ties back into what you're doing in

(46:02):
the very beginning.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
It's so crazy crazy, it's so crazy how and I
was doing cartoons too, voiceover yes.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
So it just it's crazy how it all melds together.
We did.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
We started Adventures of Curiosity Cove aocc if you can't
remember Adventures of Curiosity Cove because Ella, when she was younger,
like three four, she would ask us to tell her stories.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Off the top, like off the dome. You don't tell
me a story? Like I was like give me a yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Yeah, yeah with this girl right and she lived down
you know, it's like I.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Had to tell these stories and then she's like another one.
I was like another one.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
I was like, girl, I don't know storytelling.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
I'm exhausted.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
And so we were like when she got older, she
started getting into kids podcasts. She'd be like, mom, can
you turn on my podcast, you know, when we're in
the car or in the she was in the bath,
and I was like, oh, you love podcasts.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Story, we tell stories.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Why don't we create something that would be amazing that
we think we can do really well into a podcast.
And so we created Adventures of Curiosity Code, which is
about emotional intelligence, and this little One of the stories
in there or series is the Curious, this little third
grader kind of her coming of age story in third grade,
and then.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
A bunch of other one offs.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
But and then out of that I created you know,
I got it from my mama on the cover, so yeah,
it all worked together.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
Yes, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Actually read it this morning and it's such a cute book.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
And I love how she, Like children do, they often
imitate everything they see. Yes, And there was a morning
you were making them, you're making the pancakes and she
still up the better trying to get the cinnamon, and.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
You like, just leave, please leave. And then she did
the same thing to the kid at school.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
And I loved how the emotional awareness where you're teaching
her how to apologize and then she in turn does
the same thing with the kid at school.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, that was so good. I was like, wow, yeah, it's.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
Like we we think, you know, we love to talk
about how kids are all the best things that kids
have about us, you know, and I think sometimes we
don't talk about the challenging things and the things that
they mirror. Yes, right, And so I wanted to give
parents a pass to say we all mess like. I
wanted to show them we mess up. We all mess

(48:17):
up and the mom had to actually apologize to the kids.
I didn't realize how much apologizing I've had to do as.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
A mom, wow to a child. And I always people,
you know, some people are like.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Some people think they'll lose their power, and I'm like,
I am giving her the best power.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Ever because she has a voice.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yes, come on.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
You know we talk about we want our kids to
have voices when they get older.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
They don't have when they're younger. It's going to be
hard to find when they're older.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
So true.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah, So I just tried to create that world. And
I want parents and kids to have fun reading. I
love when it's fun for me to watch something with
my child. When it's not, it's like, oh my god,
I'm a fall asleep or read something and I'm like,
not that book.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Please please lot that book again. You don't want to
read it, please please read it. I'm like, you read
it right, read me, read me? You know so? Yeah,
so Ella loves it and I hope you know other
families do too.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yes, you're also part of the Sonic Headgehog franchise. And
you're one of the few black women that are part
of a billion dollar franchise.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
What does that feel like? One of the few?

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Let me give it tea better, one of the few
African American women that are part of a billion dollar franchise.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
A blessing, A blessing, A blessing.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
And what I love it about Paramount what they did
was even when I came in to read for it,
it wasn't a normal audition really, No, it was I
walked in a room in a hotel with almost everybody
from Paramount, like everybody at this long table, and James

(50:00):
Marsen was sitting there, and there were recording tapes here.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
I don't know who any of these people were. I
don't know who how do you. I don't even know
who the cast is. I don't know who anyone was.
I just walked in and I was kind of like,
here sit here, here's your script. And I was like okay, and.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
We had a whole read through in front of everybody
who was part of this thing.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
And then they were like okay, great, thank you and
I was like okay, okay, bye, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
What's happening right And then they called and they were like,
they'd love for you to be part of it.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
That was it. That was it.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
It went from knocking on the door, this is curly hair.
If you want me to yeah, we want what we want.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
Yes, we want you and so and writers direct, our director,
our cast, our crew, our producers. They have treated me
like gold. That they have made me feel amazing, like
an actress should feel.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Yes, like when she's part of something that is making
company a lot, you know.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
And I'm just proud to be part of a franchise.
Not everybody gets to do that. So true, I'm proud
of you.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Now did Ella get to watch that and hear your voice?
Did she did you say hey, I'm doing it, I'm
in this movie or did you.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Just let her be like wait, does that you No?

Speaker 4 (51:19):
So she saw the first one when she was like three, okay, four,
she was. That's the first movie she sat through and
was like, and I had to like fall out of
a building and she's like, I don't like that.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Part of Mama.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
She's like, I love Sonic And now she's like because
she she'll be like sometimes she's like, Mom, I don't
want you to leave. Like you know, she's like, we
said something the other day, I know you don't want
me to be an actress anymore.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
She goes, no, you have to be in the Sonic movies.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Like, I don't care what else you do, but the
Sonic movies you gotta keep back.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
But yeah, no, she's obsessed.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
She's obsessed and she loves video games and she loves
like that whole world. So I took her to the
headquarters of Sega in Burbank and people it was fun.
So I'm just I'm I'm like super proud. That's the
one thing that she can watch them in, you know.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, hasn't had that she is not
watching like mom.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
She like, Mom, I don't like with like that Candice character.

Speaker 9 (52:15):
You know, she'll be like sometimes did you similar, Yeah,
she's like mirror, Yeah that is funny.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
What is next for Tike at Sumter.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
What is next.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Oh, that's a good question. I think I have so
many things in the pipeline. I'm kind of like you,
like I'm I'm into building. I never want to be
only relying on a system that easily throws people out right,
and so I am building my company fort Sumter.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
You know, media to content to.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
You know, content to product and uh, through the world
of Women at the Center, Moms at the Center.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
And yeah, there's a lot of things coming up right now.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
It's the book.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
There's some great podcast stuff coming up once once, once
the contracts are signed. Yes, and oh Watson, I play Yes,
yes Chestnut, Okay, yeah on Watson.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
So I'm excited about that. That's coming up.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
There's a two part finale that I'm in, uh in May,
and then yeah, Survival the Thickest is out.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
I play The Love and.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
I just started watching that yesterday while I was getting
my hair braided.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
So it's funny, it's funny, it's so really funny. Michelle
Buteau is the creator. She's amazing and funny. Tasha Smith, Yeah,
like I said, so that and then yeah, there's a
few other things that are in the work. So, I
mean there's always gonna be We're gonna.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Feel like you got a million eleven jobs and and.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Yes you had to.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
And that's another thing people think once you like reach success,
that it just is no. You have to keep building
from that filth pace. It doesn't stop.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
You keep and you just I feel like your dream
grows in a different way.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
It does right, Like you don't have a one stop
shop like it's done. It's like, oh, I want to
stretch myself here. Yeah, that's for me where I'm at.
I'm like, I want to do this.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Yeah, you know, so I love that for you. I
remember you called me one day. I think it's right
after I got the soccer team.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
You like, girl, I said, girl, a soccer team? Okay,
keeping positive, sweetie.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
I was like, you're part of a for a soccer team.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Yeah. And I love that though.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
But I love that we can call each other and
like have hey, girl, what how and what and.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
How can I get it?

Speaker 3 (54:40):
You know?

Speaker 2 (54:40):
These are conversations that we have and like podcasting, like
how did you do this? Like knowing that you have
a girlfriend that you can call and the same I
can call you and like, Tika, I'm trying to do this.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Give me some guidelines.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Yes, yeah, any time, and that's what we need to do,
share information because information is power. Yes, right, yeah, And
so I'm I was so proud when I've read that
that you did bad, you bought you know, you're part
of this soccer franchise, and I was just like, you're like, girl, girl,
you got a journal, you got merch, merch.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Man, So yeah, I'm just really proud of you.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
But again, the dream just grows in a different way
while you continue to do the thing that you've always
wanted to do.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
So going that's me exactly. I love that.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
I remember you said, you just said something about being
part of an industry that can just throw you away,
and that was like after we came in that strike,
and I told you that too, I said, girl, after
that strike, I said, I gotta I can't depend on
this because it gets it's easy to like have all
this money coming in because acting pays the bills, you know,
especially when you're on a show that goes for as
long as our shows are.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Gone nine yours is gone nine years.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Nine seasons. Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Just nine season, nine season.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
That's a counting time.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Most shows normally stop around five or six.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
If you're lucky, if big, if that's not normal, that's
law and Order exactly. Like law and Order is like
twenty crazy, that's probably like crazy anatomy. Like it's very rare,
very rare. So I keep your job, baby, and keep working.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
But you have to build to people.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
You have to keep building because they think like, oh,
this is just the one thing I'm going after.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
You have to build from that.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
You build from it.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
And and what I love about today is literally you
can start right now.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Yes, it doesn't have to look pretty. Nope, it could
be what it is until you grow. Like if you
want to do something, literally you can.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
And there's so much access now and information, so much
and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Do everything you know what I mean, and do it well.
But like you're just I don't know.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
I think you are a complete inspiration to so many
and to all your friends you and you know it
made me be like, let me get up, let me
stop watching this show and go want to write my book? Yeah,
exactly right, writing, so you're not to just writing and
creating and like ownership.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Yes, you know that is so important.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
And we were talking before we started filming about Tyler
was the one that really kind of showed us.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
What ownership, real ownership, real ownership looks like, and for.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Us what it looked like and how because we didn't
we don't see a lot of people in those positions
or to know that, hey, no, you should be doing
this too, and this is how you need to set
up your deals and when you do your contracts, you
should be asking for this.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
And there were so many things.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Like afterwards, they're like, why is why is this not
already taking care of them?

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Like, oh, I didn't know, I know, ask for that,
ask for it.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
When you can call somebody who's in a position of power,
Can I just tell you something. I go into every
room now and I say, I can tell who doesn't
have power and who does?

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (57:46):
And I say, I have seen real power move like
real power. Yes, not middleman energy, real power.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Who is she sound like a shawna' seana be like.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
That just like you?

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Okay, yeah, okay, because I'm not playing with y'all.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
I need somebody who can make decisions and who can
make it happen. So every time I even now like you,
still people think again, when you're in these positions that
you don't get roadblocks and you don't get people saying well, no,
you got to go this is the route how it
normally happens. And I'm like, yeah, but how else can
we get around normally?

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Else?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
I liked it, And.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Because I'm not a normal girl, because and.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Why does it have to be normal? Like, let's knock
that over?

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Yeah, and then also give me the people who can
make real power, like who has a yes or no?

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (58:54):
You know, And I've seen it so many times and
very few have it in the industry. Yeah, very few
have it, right, And Tyler is one of them.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Yeah, he for sure. One about lucky. Are we to
be blessed by God? Sorry?

Speaker 3 (59:10):
I break out in something.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Sometimes you are absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Before we close out, we do what it's called our
Positive Outcomes Listener Letter. This is where our listeners write in,
ask us a question, and we give them advice.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
You down, I'm down for whatever you need.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
All right, let's do it.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
This one comes from Jennifer O'Neill, and she said, how
do you give a man who you're dating potential husband? Oh,
we'll just talk about that to get his finances? Profession
and life in order.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
So we can experience a life together. Oh that's tough.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Wait, how do you let me understand this question?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Basically, how do you get your man in order before
you get married?

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Or how do you give him the time to get
his life in order? Like, you have someone that you
feel could be your husband, but he needs to get
his finances, profession in life in order so that you
guys can experience the life. Basically, I know what you're saying, girl, Jennifer.
You're saying you want him to be able to experience
the life that you want. Yeah, because sometimes you know,
you feel like you're in a position.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
And that person your day may not be able.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, to meet you there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
First of all, she has to understand he may never
be at her position.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
And is that okay?

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
That's yes, you have to be okay with it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
And no, ask yourself, are you really okay with it?

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Because that's a real question.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
Yes, and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Valid and it is And if that's not your thing anything, know,
that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Okay, But if you want to help him try to grow,
then maybe you can connect help connect dots. Maybe he's
not that great at at organization or whatever. That is
to get his flow going, whatever that is, fin finances
or career. Maybe you can help connect, help him connect
the dots.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Yeah, because you also.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Don't want to feel like you're wearing putting more rocks
in your backpack.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
I do know what you mean.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Yeah, and so there's a happy medium of feeling like,
here are the things that I can help you with
to get you on your way.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
But you have to get on your way.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
You have to do yes, yes, yes, And I think
that's the point of having a partner, you know, having
someone like we all have different strengths and weakness and
then if you pair together like okay, wait you really
are go get or you just need the right tools.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Here we go, Well I got this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Let me let's connect and build the thing to rules
from my tool box.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Yeah, but I don't want to have to give you everything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
I need to see what you can do in growing
as well. Yeah, Jennifer, that's that's so good to help.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Yeah, that was great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
So we're gonna play a quick game of this or that.
Well I think I know this one maybe like both
of them.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
So coffee date or why night?

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
Oh oh right? Can I ask you a question? Yeah,
I know if this is a quick game. But why
are people so against going on a coffee date?

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Well, I don't drink coffee, well tea, yeah, I'll do tea.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
So you're going a date?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Absolutely a date? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
Absolutely, Well you look down, so I feel like you
won't Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
I love wine. Okay, but I'm saying like some people
are like that's cheap.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
No, not her girl, Like that's a great way to
leave early if you don't exactly right, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
I was like, you know, I love it. It's great
for like really just no pressure. I feel like pressure,
no pressure.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
And dinner is long. If you're not into it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Then you got the pressure of like so what you're
doing nothing, I'm going on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
I'm leaving bye. Yeah okay, so I would do I
like wine.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Me too.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
What's your wine? I get a little like wine.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
No, right, it's different.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
It's different attitudes or experience that you're gonna get it, like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Yeah, so what's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
That's the third fourth date?

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Right, Okay, we'll stick to the coffee for the Netflix
binge or spontaneous road trip was spontaneous drip?

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Yes, beach vacation or mountain escape.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
I love a beach vacation.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
I'm a water baby. Water.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
It depends if the ocean is calm.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Yeah, Chicago water.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
No, but they have to save somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Listen. People have Mediterranean water.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Give me that Bahamas water.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
They're clear water. I can see for miles and miles away. Yeah.
Dressing up in hills or chilling in hoodies.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Hoodies, Gosh, girl, I can't look at me I have
I know You're going somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
And I'm about to be riding some sneakers.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
I was like this, this is this is cute.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Yes, girl, no matter what you put on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Staying in face mask or dancing all night face mask
like facials.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Dancing all night.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Yeah, that's a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Spicy tacos are sweet cupcakes, spicy tacos.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
Texting me all day or deep late night.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Calls, deep late night calls. If I'm calling you, that's
a problem. We need to be together.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
I know that's right. Oh, this is good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Rom com movie are true crime document sharing secrets or
keeping it mysterious?

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Mystery is not fun after the first time around, I've
had mystery. No, thank you, no mystery. What is its sharing?

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Secrets or keeping it mysterious, sharing secrets. Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
And then matching tattoos are matching outfits tattoos.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Do you have any tattoos? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Girls, I know you can't see them now, so if
you know, you know, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
I know this is gonna be a great episode. I
love you, I love you more, Thank you for coming.
I'm proud of everything you have going on. Seriously, guys,
it makes you go get her book, check out Eventures
a Curiosity, covid and all the amazing things will let you,
guys know when her movie's coming out. We're definitely gonna
support you. And everything you have going on makes you guys.
Follow Tika at Tica Sumter. Is it that's your Instagram?

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Yeah, at Tka Sumter's Attika Sumpter.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Follow her because you've been doing better on posting girl.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
I'm proud of you. Yes, I'm very proud of you. Girl.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
I need help on TikTok though, because.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Oh I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Followers I have on TikTok, so I don't even think
they think it's me. This ain't ta because she has
three hundred and fifty six followers.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Oh yeah, it's definitely not you, okay, we'll talk offline
about that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Can you guys help me?

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
I and not only that, other people have more than
me of me, they're acting.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Like me, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
They're doing the.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
They did that challenge the boys to men one member
in Tyler's Yeah, nobody is fool.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
And my niece is like, your challenge is going viral.
I'm like, what challenge?

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
Oh my gosh, so you have to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
No, it's old. So now like a nineteen hundred lady
late late, you're late, ma'am. I mean, like, is it
the dance? What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
I want to tell them another day.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
I was like, I want to do that that all.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
The kids are doing. And then it't like.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Jesus in the club.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
It's always on Instagram. It's something that the kids are doing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Michael Rainey like all his videos on TikTok, that's all
he's doing. He's dancing like on tables. It's like he
does this and then he does this little dance. Savannah
and her daughter just dis or he just did it,
and then they.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Like slide down walls.

Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
And like O.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
He was like so cute. So we're all gonna do
it together. And he's like no, you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Thank you, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
I love you too. Great, so good, guys. There was
a great conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
I hope you guys all received the message of your
time is your time, and whatever God.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Has to you, he has for you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Tike a story and everything that she talked about was
absolutely amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
I love her journey.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
It was inspiring for me and I love to know
that I have a sister that we both can encourage and.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Inspire each other.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Thank you, guys so much for tuning in to another
episode of the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show. Don't forget
to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with
someone who could use a little positivity. You guys can
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In the meantime in between times, stay blessed, stay encouraged,
and remember to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Keep it positive. Sweetie. I'll see you guys next time.