BPS 441: Comedy, Confidence, and the Art of Reinvention with Rhonda Shear

Some moments in life are stitched together like the seams of a well-loved garment, their fabric woven with laughter, reinvention, and a refusal to let the world dictate what is possible. On today's episode, we welcome Rhonda Shear, a woman who embodies this spirit of transformation with a playful wink and an unstoppable drive. Many remember her as the effervescent host of USA Up All Night, where she brought an entire generation into the cult world of late-night B-movies, but her journey extends far beyond the glow of a television screen.Rhonda Shear is an actress, comedian, entrepreneur, and accidental feminist, though “accidental” may not quite capture the intentionality with which she has shaped her life. Her story arcs from the glitz of Hollywood to the entrepreneurial success of her intimate apparel empire, with plenty of misadventures and revelations in between. She grew up in New Orleans, a city that instilled in her a sense of pageantry and performance, leading her from beauty pageants to acting, stand-up comedy, and ultimately, to building the number one selling bra in the world, the Ahh Bra.

From the outside, her career may look like a sequence of lucky breaks, but Rhonda speaks to something deeper—the power of embracing reinvention without losing authenticity. Hollywood tried to confine her to a singular image, the bubbly blonde bombshell, but she turned it into her own brand of comedy, injecting intelligence into satire and challenging expectations. “People told me, ‘You can’t be sexy and be funny.’ And I said, ‘Watch me,’” she recalls.Her experiences in the entertainment industry—auditioning against preconceived notions, breaking into stand-up at a time when female comedians were still a rarity, and later navigating the world of business—illustrate the universal lesson that one does not have to be what the world expects. Rhonda's path has been a testament to self-creation, a refusal to be boxed in by labels. In her book Up All Night: From Hollywood Bombshell to Lingerie Mogul, she shares the lessons gleaned from a life spent dancing between entertainment and entrepreneurship, always with an eye on what’s next.One of the most refreshing things about Rhonda is her unwillingness to bow to negativity. When the reality TV industry came knocking, hoping to manufacture conflict in her life, she turned them down. “I don’t do drama,” she says. “I don’t need to create problems where there are none.” This philosophy extends into her approach to life and business—where others see obstacles, she sees opportunities. Whether it’s transitioning from comedy to commerce or proving that reinvention is possible at any stage of life, Shear radiates the certainty that success is about mindset as much as talent.Her journey isn't just about professional transformation; it’s about love, too. In a twist straight out of a romantic comedy, she reunited with her high school sweetheart decades later, and together they built an empire. Their story reminds us that some things are destined to find their way back to us, no matter how much time has passed.

Life, as Rhonda Shear so effortlessly demonstrates, is about embracing every chapter with humor and grace. The journey from late-night TV to the boardroom isn’t as unlikely as it seems—it’s simply the next scene in a story written by someone unwilling to accept limitations.


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Speaker 6 (01:39):
And I don't like to play favorites, but this is
actually one of my favorite episodes because I grew up
watching usays Up All Night all the time. I remember
when this was on. I found so many movies because
of USA's Up All Night. And my guest this week
was the host of USA's Up All Night from nineteen
ninety one to nineteen ninety eight. She's acted in TV
shows like Happy Days, Mattered with Children, Duckman, Just the

(01:59):
Name of You. In two thousand and one, she launched
launched her own Woman's Intimate line, and she has the
number one selling Braught in the world and her new
book Up All Night. From Hollywood, Bombshell to Laudree and Mobile.
In this episode, we chat a lot about movies find
the courage of all your dreams. For you're venting yourself
at any age. It's just tons more. Again one of
my favorite episodes with guests Rhonda shere.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Happy to speak to you. Heard nothing but amazing things
about you. So thanks for having me on.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh thank you, Ron. I really appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
And you know I really wanted to have you on too,
because I grew up watching Up All Night or USA
is Up all Night, and I remember.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Wait, wait, wait, let me do it day of day? Wait,
wait us say all I have to do it as
the Greek chad, so I'll have to set it out.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
I remember that all the time. I mean I sometimes
I wouldn't even remember the movies, but I remember. I
remember that because you know, I remember too finding a
lot of movies i'd never heard of before from from
that intro, and I remember, I just remember that intro.
The first time I ever saw was you doing that?
And I remember, like it was so great because it's
so it's so catchy, you know what I mean, remember absolutely.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
And it's so funny that you say that, because you know,
when I first you know, there was another gal before
me that hosted Up All Night with Gilbert On. I
was always on Friday and Jilbigotty was on Saturday. And
I'm banking on her name right now, but anyway, you
might be able to see Carolyn Caroline, Carolyn Shelt, Caroline Schlitz.
And so she was there about a year and a

(03:31):
half before I got there, and I know people really
loved her, and I thought she was actually very good.
But you know, it was USA Network that wanted to
replace her for whatever, and I think they were going
a little bit. They thought it being a little bit sexier,
they wanted to kind of go for it. So I did.
But I always thought when I got it, I always thought,
you know, you have to come up with kind of
a catchphrase. And because years ago, I'm from New Orleans

(03:54):
and when I was in New Orleans, I used to
do this commotion for it was an all female you know,
like class like pre you know, all the gyms that
were mixed they used to have like men gym, female
gyms and anybody. It was called the shape spot for
all women. And I used to and the catchphrase was
let's get in shape. So that was kind of like

(04:14):
my saying, I mean all of my teens and my
twenties and so it always caught and where wherever I
would go in New orleanst But oh, it's a shapespot girl.
So anyway, that kind of brought me back to that,
and so I said, I have to come up with
some way of saying show that kind of catches, and
so hence that that's how that was born. And of
course it was a little bit of a good fier character.

(04:36):
But if you really listened to the character, you know
it was fun and smart comedy. But if you were
just I guess, uh, channel surfing, you would just see
a lot of blonde hair, a lot of cleavage and
up on it. But anyway, it was good. It was
a good run, almost almost eight years, so kind of
cool to have that long run on the show, on

(04:58):
any show on to V.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah, that's absolutely amazing because I actually looked it up
because I didn't even know the total number of episodes
off the top of my head. I mean, there's like
nine hundred episodes of Up All Night, And I mean, right, and.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
You did it for like eight years. I mean, that's
an insane number of episodes.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
It really is, well you know what it is. It
is because we taped every week as opposed to like,
you know, most episode of shows were like twenty two
a season, but we were on every week, so it
would either tape every week and then the show New York.
For a while. I didn't move to New York, but
we would go to New York and tape four or
five you know, bank them and then they were an air.
So it was really cool to have that much fun

(05:35):
and I had. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I guess, they kept
changing producers and direct was on me. I don't know
what they wanted, but actually, and looking back, I'm still
friendly with all these people, and each month brought something
else to the table. Well, of course, in the very
early years it was really sexy and sassy and a
little lingerie and the first couple of years and then
it kind of changed and it became more interview style,

(05:57):
and then we got to New York, it really changed.
But I think people remember the earlier years. But for
me as a performer, they were all cool because I
really got to, you know, have a lot of saying
what I wanted to do. So she watched a late
like even the last year, we did a lot of uh,
I did a lot of impressions of like Lucille Ball
and Share and like some of my I powered you

(06:18):
a lot of my favorite ladies of television, so that
was really cool. But yeah, that I did four hundred
and fifty episodes myself, and I think I'm the only
one that has most. I mean I have probably at
least four hundred, might be missing a few, but I
actually had them, you know, that was part of my
contract that they had given me a video tape of everything.

(06:39):
So most of those have been doubt or uploaded, I
should say, and then a lot of them are still
on DVD, so eventually we'll get to them and put
them all on YouTube. But I'm the only one. They
literally USA Network disposed of them back then because of
the tape. Just saving tape. Can you imagine how what
a shame. So I think even the producer, some of

(07:01):
the producers have a few shows, but I have most
of them. Of course I don't have the movies. I
used to have all the movies. What they would do
is you were, say, network would send me the movies
to watch, and you know, of course, then you know,
you know, do the wrap arounds later on. I should
have saved all those movies. Although I wouldn't have had
the rights to them myself. But people always say, do

(07:21):
you have this film? You have that, and back in
the day, I did, but for my own stories, I
couldn't you know. We actually did two movies, or I
hosted three movies every Friday night, so we hosted and
wrapped around two and then the story one was just voiceover.
But they would send me all the movies ahead of time,
so I would have had a really great collection of

(07:43):
the films if I would have kept them all. But
it's funny, it's a genre that is kind of coming back.
Even a few years ago. I was asked to do
a film and everyone really misses that genre and the
fact that it was kind of innocent, like they we
thought you would see more, see more skin, or hear
more language than than you really got. So it was

(08:04):
kind of chitillating without being nasty. What have you. So anyway,
interesting time. I'm glad I was part of it, and
even being part of early basic cable, which was you
I say network was the first full out basic cable,
so very cool time. I'm glad I was part of it,
of course, and it led to obviously many other opportunities
and wonderful things.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
Yeah, I was going to say that there really is
nothing like this on TV anymore, because this, you know,
as I was saying earlier, introduced me to a lot
of films that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. You know,
because again, you know, your character was great, it was
it was engaging. You actually enjoyed, you know, doing what
you were doing. You know, again, I imagine watching all
these movies. You know, you're probably you know, you're getting

(08:46):
a fuel for these movies. You know, this was a comedy, right,
you know Nightmare and elm Street obviously that's you know,
more of a horror.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
But you know, yeah, but you know, it really is
nothing like.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
This now exating Believe me, I still I still have
fans reach out to me and say, I really miss this.
I mean, I grew up with this. Of course, I
always can't say I got a lot of boys. I
think I did, but I had a lot of female
fans in the show too as well. But isn't anything
I mean, of course, Elvira was you know, she was syndicated.

(09:18):
I know, Cassandra Peterson, and then they had Bob Briggs
and then they had uh, they had I guess the later,
you know the movie uh, you know, a knockoff of
us in a way, but they were all good in
their own way. And then I don't know that it
might be some local people that do it. I mean
all of this spurned from local people that did it

(09:40):
back in the day. And you know, even Elvira started
off the local show on Channel five in LA and
then that became syndicated. But now it's a shame. It's
really it's a sweet way it looks. It's really all
about I mean, what it was about then was making
people tune in to the commercials and keeping them entertained
with these films so that you know, USA would make

(10:02):
money off the ads. Well I don't think anybody realizesn't, but.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor.
And now back to the show.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
That little show made a fortune for USA Network off
the ads, and that funded a lot of their early
original programming, like was Sam Nikita and other shows like that.
So we were like this little cable show that costs
very little to produce, that was making some big dollars,
some big bucks for the network. So good time, good

(10:40):
time to be in TV. Then experiment a little bit fun.
I hosted the show from ninety one to ninety eight.
Everybody thinks it was in the eighties because I kept
my hair big, but I didn't start till January of
ninety one and just had a great time with it.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, and I remember those other USA shows too.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
By the way you met, you mentioned Nikita, and I
remember remember like you remember Duckman, that.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Show duck Man.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, I actually did a couple of episodes of it
as Ronda. I wasn't a Dark Coming, it was Rhonda.
And then I did Didn't Call All Science. I was
on an episode of that. I was on almost that
the other show I wasn't almost having Nikita darn, I'm
blanket on the other name of the show. I can't believe.
I can't think of it. But then they started off

(11:26):
or it was really made them put before Up All
Night was Night's Light, which just a lot of people
still remember. I vaguely remembered, but because it was before me.
But that was their first kind of out there programming
of you know, interstitial late night television. So it was
a really cool network to be part of in the
early days. And then they got into I Wish I

(11:48):
mean from I mean I don't watch ring as much.
I just don't knew much a lot of television. But
I always i'm told that it was better back in
the day. I think it was just it was a
little more raw and a little bit more experimental, and
you know, everything is so and everything is so much
more reality today than scripted, because we were a little
bit of both. We had a little We had a
little script and then a lot of like slim by

(12:11):
the seat of our pants. But it would take about
twelve hours to film those up. I mean, because I
would fill anywhere between thirty minutes of time till to
an hour, depending on how much was cut out of
the film. It's how much was you know, how short
the films are, so I it just depended on the film.
Sometimes I would have to fill a longer period. So

(12:33):
people think that people thought that we were live. We
were never alive and were taped in the day usually
unless we were doing a night event or something and
we shot for hours. It was a I mean, it
was definitely a lot more hard work than I think
people thought. But I had a blast, and I had
gooint people in my life and that produced it and
directed it, and a lot of people that were young

(12:55):
people that started off and went on to do amazing things,
like one of the young producers I think he produces
Bill More now. So I mean they went on to
do some pretty amazing things. And what goes off to that.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah, And you mentioned one thing to Ronda, which is
about how TV is nowadays, and you know, I wanted
to get your take on this.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
You know, I think back in.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
The in the nineties and the end even the eighties,
where where you know, a lot of these new TV
shows you know, were breaking ground and they were something
new when they were fresh. My whole take on this,
and something that I've noticed is that they let the
hosts like yourself, be themselves. And they really didn't say, say, hey, Ronda,

(13:36):
here's a ninety page script you have to memorize.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
They then, you know, would let you be yourselves.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
And I think as we get along to TV nowadays,
it's more of here's the script, read it, and don't
don't venture off this script.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
And I think it.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
Really makes a lot of shows to cookie cutter because
all the characters are talking the same, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Absolutely, and even in reality which everybody thinks of reality,
try this. I mean, some of my friends who I
did a lot of talk shows and hosts justice and
hosted our talk shows back in that era, and a
lot of those young producers are now the people who
are kicking button reality TV. So I was kind of
I did a lot of basically reality can but they

(14:16):
were just segments that reality TV is not real real.
I mean, yes, they don't necessarily have scripts with that
they memorize, but the producers really push you into situations
and they'll say, oh, I'd like to see you and
that guy and that girl, and I'd like to see
this happening. So you're kind of push those those reality

(14:39):
shows aren't necessarily as real, so I mean they and
they kind of stole the pot to make, you know,
tension happen. And I just because of that, it's it's
kind of manufacturing and it's all, well, that's why a
lot of reality shows I feel the same, because it's
the same thing. They're pushing for fighting or they're pushing for,
you know, for stuff to have, and so it's not organic.

(15:03):
And yeah, we had a really good time. I mean,
even if we were spooked and we had certain jokes
that were scripting. I mean, Gilbert and I were really
able to be ourselves and it was really fun to
experiment with that. And by the way, we had so
many guests on both of us. I mean, Gilbert had
all these great comedians in New York, and I had
great comics, and I also had cheerleaders, and you know,

(15:24):
I had actors and actress stand up comics and just
all kinds of people, singers and what you know, from
all walks of leans. And that was fun. I kind
of came into Brondo's world back then. So yeah, I mean,
and then we would shamelessly promote whatever, you know, if
they had a movie out or a book out, we
would promote them. And we had fun with it, and
we were kid about how shameless we are. And we

(15:47):
would do spoofs off of Lettermen was big at the
time and his list of ten and so we would
do our own list of craziness. And I had all
kinds of fans. I had foot featthers, fans that love
my feet and my shoes and all that we would
cater to. You know, whoever would really white us and
what we pay attention, we would give them a shout
out and no, you don't see that happening anymore when

(16:08):
you really cater to your fans. Yeah, we did. We
took we took the fan mail. We'd have fan mail nights.
I'll just ret fan mail.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
And that was fun, and you would you would also
just because you were being yourself and you know it
was also you were having fun and you're having fun
with it, you know, because you could just go and
you know, be yourself and like you said, you do
have some scripted jokes, but they allowed you, you know,
you were a character and then and you know, that's
why I think a lot of today it's just it's
harder and harder.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
It's almost like they.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
Want to homogenize things in terms of like you know,
I mean, you know how it is. So somebody probably
looked at, you know, a sheet or something and said, well, hey,
people really are responding to this on that show, So
what if we you know, what if we did this?
And that's why I think happens happens today is you
have people who've been looking at like so many numbers
and stuff like that that they just think that you know, hey,

(16:56):
look we have a formula we've made and if we
plug this for you and we're going to make hit
after hit after hit, and I think that's what.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
You are hundred percent right. It's more scientific today than
it is organic. And that's that's kind of sad. I
because I've like, I've pitched TV shows and in the beginning,
I really in the beginning, I mean years ago, I
wanted to do reality show because there was so much
craziness in my life. You know, I manufacture and produced undergarments,
which of course was a you know, came out of

(17:25):
wearing so many intimate apparel on up all night. But
I you know, I want I thought it was such
a such a funny business to be in. I mean,
you know, you're actually talking panties and bars. And I
pitched it and you know, people, you know, they liked it,
but they wanted it. They wanted they wanted to see
my husband's my business partner, and they wanted to see
us fighting and have him, you know, me being jealous

(17:48):
of the models and that I said, that isn't happening.
I mean, I'm not going to make up something that's
not real. And I mean these producers I had successful,
but he actually he kept pushing. You know what your
husband's thinking. You're trying to make something happen. It doesn't happen.
I mean, you know, we just can look at beautiful

(18:08):
girls and think they're beautiful, but that doesn't mean he
less or once you know that you're trying to make
something happen, it's completely untrue. So that's what happens on
those reality shows. I think it's kind of yucky. Yeah,
you know, so we didn't agree to go down that
room at all. I mean, you know that's a bad
road to go down.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Oh yeah, I mean that would cause you problems off
camera as well, because you know.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Right, yeah, I mean that's just bad. It's just bad.
And besides that, it's not who I am. I'm not negative.
That's not who I am as a person, and that's
not how I talk to my customers, you know. You know,
I'm more of a positive, flirty, fun you know, I
can't about my husband, but I don't believe in negative
and nastiest. I mean a lot of these people end

(18:54):
up getting divorces and some bad stuff happening on these
reality shows. But and I do think it's the fault
of the producer for pushing them down certainds. Oh yeah,
I don't need to do that. Yeah, I don't need
any of that life as love, as a positives. There's
enough negative that happens, you know that you don't want
to happen, and there's all these things in business or life,

(19:15):
but you don't need to push that into your life.
And that's what they want. They always want to have
that kind of ying and yang and the fight and
people fighting and arguing and pulling hand and I'm not me.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, it's kind of like Jersey Shore.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think that that reality show I think ruined a
lot of producers because we need more of that, and
it's like, you know, that was so manufacturing and you know,
now it's it's like, oh, you know, and or the Kardashians.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
That was another show.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
I think that just you know, it was a I
think again, like we were talking about formulas, and I
think that that was too much of a lot of
where producers could look at that and say, hey, see
we could be that that show.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsor
and now back to the show, right, you.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Know, look at what Kim can do from that show.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
It's like, well, yeah, that's that's not something most people
really want.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
All the housewives shows, you know, that's the fact that
they keep me. I've never watched any of them, you know,
and people say, I've never seen any of they just
don't intreat me or interest me at all. I know
what it means. I totally get it. I mean, hey, good,
that makes me happy. But you know, I'm like the
old session piece of people becoming celebrities because they actually
had talent, you know. I mean, I was a stand

(20:32):
up comic for many years and the Jerry Seinfelds were
around and those people, and that's that's that's where I
came from. People had to really be funny and write
a good joke. And my days a stand up and
a new one was kind of doing the sexiest stand
up comedy, female comic comedy at all when I started
in nineteen eighty four eighty five, and so it was
kind of a category even though what to do with me?

(20:54):
But I mean, I ended up getting booked and headlining
all over. But I mean, nowadays I want to be
right in there with the Amy Schumers, but back then
they didn't want that. Of course I'm not. I'm a
feminist in my own way, but but not the way
these women are. Like they may shimmer movies, you know,
she's attacking the guy. I'm still that old fashioned at all.

(21:15):
That's like I want the guy, you know, coming on
to the girl and being slurry. But I don't. I
don't like. It's just a I like just a little
bit more old fashion in my life. I think it's
sex to you. Yeah, but whatever you want to call
it out of a gold fashion. But that's just the
way I was brought up. And I still think, you know,
that's just I still think guys like that at the

(21:37):
end of the day. I don't think they wrestle and
love aggressive women and that are that aggressive, you can
still be a feminist. That's what my book's about. By
the way, I do have a book you know that
will be actually hitting. It's it's an important prefail right
now on Amazon called called Up All Night, and it's
the life and journey of an accidental feminist, which I

(21:58):
really think my life was because I had so many
you know, pageants. I was in this Louisiana. Then I
was the Saints cheerleader up at the New Orleans and
then I went on to Los Angeles and did Happy Days,
and you know, I was co starred on a lot
of television, and then eventually Up All Night and then
I reunited with my high school sweetheart sixteen years ago

(22:20):
and we started to Curt good as I Am on
the wand this year brand of intimate apparel, and so
it was about, you know, My book covers, you know,
my early life. I ran to public office when I
was young, and talks about that how I was accepted
to law school. But then I went to Hollywood and
I was very I was tight cast immediately as a
sexy girl, and I thought it, but it just it

(22:40):
didn't work. So eventually I just went with it. And
so the book has all these life lessons on how
to use what's God given. And I mean basically, I
was a feminist in my own way and stood up
and stood my ground and always did and I always
got things my way, but I also used the things
that were given to me in life. So I didn't know.
I wasn't just aggressive or outwardly aggressive woman, but yeah,

(23:04):
I did fight for my own rights, just I did
it my way. So the book has a lot of
life lessons and tips along with comedy and a lot
of pictures from Up All Night and my dunker life.
And I'm really excited it actually like I said, it's
on presale right now on Amazon called Ronde is Up
All Actually it's called up All Night by Ronda Share,

(23:24):
but it literally will be out October third, is when everything,
you know, it hits Hsen and all the other places.
So we're in bookstores. So we're very excited about it.

Speaker 6 (23:38):
And I'm going to link to that in the show
notes everybody, because I actually saw Ron was writing the
book and I thought this would be a great time
to approach you round about you know, coming on this podcast,
because you know, thank you, oh my pleasure, Geed, thanks
for you know, for coming on. And I will link
to that in the show notes because again I love
the title obviously, and again you know some of the
things you were just talking about aout using your strengths

(24:00):
and you know and using you know, not trying to
fight resistance, you know what I mean, Like people were
saying to you, you know, hey, you know, hey, rond
to this or that the other thing, and you know
you just mentioned about you know, finding your your talents
and finding what you do what you really like to
do and are very good at, and you know you
use that and you you were able to you know,
build this whole empire you have. Now you have a
clothing line, yeah, which.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Is doing very well.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
By the way, I actually, you know, to preap for
this interview, I actually looked it up and I didn't
know you have like the number one selling bra in
the world.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
I think.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yes, it's called the Abra Opera, which I always believed
in taglines, and it's just it's just very comfortable, wireless
no hooks and eyes bra. And it took off and
started doing it at two thousand and three. That really
took off, like in two thousand and nine ten, and
then we did an infomercial then well and behold, it

(24:52):
became a best selling braw in the world with over
thirty five million sold in thirty four countries and would
continue to do the bra along with other bra So
we basically came up with a category of broads. So
and we also started, you know, after a broad and
we have the Odd Lifestyle of clothing and now I'm
starting to get another loungeer line called Odd Dreams by
Ronda Share. So it's really exciting. And this is something

(25:15):
that came out of my husband and not getting married
and reunited and we started this business just to work
together because we hadn't seen each other really since we
were kids, and he was living in Louisiana and I
was living in Hollywood, and we put this together, never
thinking that it would have the success that it did.
But you know, we both complimented each other as business
people in media, as the spokesperson he you know, behind

(25:36):
the scenes and the financial end of it. So very cool.
So the book talks about love later in life and
finding a soulmate. It talks about you know, becoming an
entrepreneur later in life and that you can reinvent at
any age, and so I have a lot of tips
along with being really funny. I mean, it's a really
funny story now in my Hollywood stories and some fun pictures.

(25:58):
So I think it's a book for every one to read.
Both men and what I mean, we think we'll really
enjoy it. So I mean, and I have to say,
accomplishing and writing a book is something I always wanted
to do, and I actually am getting ready to start
my second one because you kind of gets into your blood.
But I have to say it's like one of the
prouder things that I've done is like, you know, actually

(26:20):
writing down because I thought I really feel I have
a lot to share with a lot of people, and
you also want to remember some of those amazing moments
in your life. And because if you know, I get
up and I do a lot of speak to it
and people love to hear my story and my story
with my husband, and you know, it's a very loving
tale of two people who were first first loved when

(26:42):
met when we were twelve and thirteen, and then getting
back together and then starting a business. I mean, gosh,
now you never even dream of that. That's why you
kind of have to go sometimes where life lead you.
And again that's like not manufactured, so people want you
to manifacture this stuff. And I just feel like you
have to be really real in life and very authentic
and stick with whatever you're doing, and you know, all

(27:02):
dreams can come true.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah, you mentioned about reinventing yourself. You know, if there's
one thing I've learned about this podcast is I've taught
interviewed people from all walks of life, and one thing
that they've all sort of mentioned mentioned is one way
or another is reinventing themselves. You know, some people they
didn't they didn't pick up a camera until they you know,
they were forty fifty years old and they were able

(27:25):
to go out and make films and you know, some
people they ended up, you know, winning Sun Dance and
they ended up just sort of, you know, doing something
completely different now. And you know, it's just it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
It's taking chances, dates and a lot of so, you know,
and my husband and I got together. He was living
in the Mousian, I was living again in La We
took a chance and we moved to Florida after a
couple of years to start our business with Home Shopping Network,
which is known as HSM now it's branded as HCM.
Is located in Florida, so we see you to we
moved here that it would really help our business move

(27:59):
it along be in front of the white people, and
it did. But so many people are so complacent where
they live and what they do that they won't take
that chance. So it's one of the things I always
told long entrepreneurs and all people is that sometimes you
have what's the worst that will happen. You can always
go back home or back but it's where you began.
But if you don't take a chance at something, and

(28:20):
people get stuck in ruts and won't do it. So
when you talk about these people, I am sure I
interview with people. I am sure that they all took chances,
and there's some of us that will do that and
some that won't. So I always like to encourage people
that hey, it's cool, it's okay, go for it. Nothing
bad will happen. You'll always wonder in your life if
you don't. Just like you doing the podcast, I mean,

(28:42):
I'm sure it's amazing that you keep learning things, and
you know, it's amazing to interview people in here how
they've made it or how they've changed. And you know,
I use the word reinvent. It's not even that I
started out to invent and I going to get married.
We both had to change, you know, directions career for
different reasons. Now. You know, I wasn't twenty one the

(29:05):
sexy girl stuff anymore. Not that I couldn't be the
sexy older girl. But you know, you have to be
real and where you are in your life. And yet
I didn't want to stop working. So it's just like, okay,
let me continue doing something that is I love, near
and dear to me. I can still be myself, but
it's just another extension of myself and my husband as well.
He was a businessman. He had never done anything in

(29:27):
the obviously apparel world, but he just applied everything that
he knew about business to what we're doing. Same thing.
So a lot of people are just afraid to do
that and no reason to be. So, you know, living
in my dream house in Florida, I've got the five
dogs very happy, and we don't know what real life

(29:49):
will take us next. The book is exciting because that's
kind of taking me on another journey. I'm getting offers
to mixed speeches and appearances and some TV talk shows and.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
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And now back to the show.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Just hired a publicist and he's got some really exciting plans,
and we're to do a book signing in New Orleans
the weekend of October the twenty seventh, and then which
is a fun weekend because it goes almost right into Halloween.
And then we're going to do a book signing here
in Florida Saint Petersburg, Tampa area the weekend of October fourteenth.

(30:34):
So you know, just those two things I am so
excited about because I'm sure I'll get a lot of
my up all night fans. I'm sure I'll have some
fans from who watched me on HCN and our big
you know, customers of my brand. So it's me, you know,
just you just living life, don't. I don't look back
and go, gee, I wish I was still the sage

(30:54):
or I still wish I was. I just looked forward
and think, wow, I still got time to do accomplish
a lot more. Yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yeah, absolutely, And you probably took a chance writing that
book because you know, I have a friend of mine
who's a professional author, and he said, if you actually
think about writing a book and what it really is,
he goes, you know, it's only been around for this
little sliver in human history and being able to you know,
write an actual book, put it together. And then he said,
if you look at it again, in the world that

(31:25):
we live in now, Rhonda, you know, you can put
you make a kindle version, you can do self polishing,
you can go through a publisher.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
You have a lot of options. Yeah, and that's even
a smaller sliver.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
And he said, if you think about how it actually
what it means to write a book, he goes, you
as a human being, are sitting down and writing you know,
five digits, you know, in words. So it's a couple
of thousands upon thousands of words and compiling it together
all these thoughts, and I mean it's time consuming, and
I mean you probably thought to yourself, you know, hey,
I could write this book or I could go do
another thing.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
I mean, and so you really have to make a choice.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Thank you, I love it. Your son put it that way.
I've never thought about it, but it's true, and I did.
I did put it off for years and then I
because I've been wanting to do it, but I just
felt like it was the right time with everything that
was going on in my life. So finally I just
sat down. I did have a ghost writer that kind
of put my thoughts into the right order, and then
I completely rewrote what he did, and then he loved

(32:20):
what I did. I mean, I literally took it and
started not over, but just you know, it had to
have my voice completely. And then after that he then
took that and really pulled it together. So it was
a really you know, because I had never structured a book,
and as a new author, you really have to have
that right structure so you know, it holds people's attention

(32:44):
and it's my life could even when Tim Tim is
my Tim Vanda Hayes, my ghostwriter's name. He's fabulous and
I don't mind admitting it at all, but he he
just you know, really made me understand, you know that
the process and again holding the attention. And we went
back and forth of how because a lot of mine

(33:05):
seeing start in one part of my life, so it
kind of like goes back and it keeps going back
to certain stories. So I think that's where I needed
help because I would started saying, if I start from
the very beginning, then it's going to get boring if
I just go through my life. So we would start,
you know, we started like you know, a certain birthday,
and then we told some stories there. So it's very compelling.

(33:25):
I'm very excited about it. And again we put the
life lessons in. We also put like basically like a
bubble over my head, so I express to the reader
what is going on in my head, like even what
I was thinking when I was in a beauty pageant,
you know, So how did I feel when I was
on stage and in front of an audience with just

(33:46):
a swimsuit on. Even though I was young, I never
really you know, what was going on in your mind,
And I think that really gives an insight to the
people who read it of what was really happening in
my head and what motivated me to continue to do
what I did through life and just really excited about it.
So the second book that I'm already concocting in my

(34:08):
brain is perfect because it has to do with self
body image and how we look in the mirror as women.
So that covers my brand, but it also covers you know,
who I am, and then how you know some life,
you know, you gain weight, you lose weight, you know,
you get women become self conscious, but then you know,
So it deals with it, and I'm going to do
it with a lot of levity and a lot of comedy.

(34:30):
So I'm already putting thoughts down about that, And then
I could put a lot of the stories that I
couldn't fit into the book. I can add those stories
back into because it was hard when we edited it
that I you know, a lot of the stories I
would have loved in were taken out, but you can't
put everything in. This way, I get to put back
a few of the stories and add to it until

(34:52):
some more tales because I do kiss and tell a
little bit in the book about some of my Hollywood
stories and people I dated, and that's kind of fun,
and it's not done. It's just, you know, it's just
just just real. There's nothing in it that isn't one
hundred percent authentic and real. So that's cool. What your
friend said was the author I could see becoming very

(35:14):
addicted to that now. When I wrote my book, though,
here was the only obstacle I had. So I've got
these four little schwallas in New York. So I'm sitting
there writing and they wouldn't let me write at my desk,
so I had to write downstairs on the couch on
the computer, and basically they were climbing over me. So
months and months of dogs climbing. Now, I think that
takes a special talent to be able to have dogs

(35:36):
on your computer and write more so than anything. But
it's a great feat when you finish it and you
find then the only thing is this is when you
need Sometimes I think you definitely need an editor, but
because you just like don't know when you think it's over,
and then you think of oh, I have this one
more thing, and then you need that other eye, even

(36:00):
outside of my husband whoever read, to look at it
and go, Okay, you're done, you don't need You'll write
again and you'll put it in there. So it is
an interesting process, especially your first book.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
Yeah, you know, it's funny because the friend of mine,
who's an author, who actually said that to me. He
said the first because you know, he and I would
would talk back and forth, and I've actually had him
on this podcast before and he said to me that
the hardest part about anything is actually starting it. And
I said, well, what's the second hardest part? And he
goes finishing it? And I said yes, because because you,

(36:34):
just like you said, you get stuck in the endless
loop of rewrites like oh should I keep this now?

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Should not keep right? And then you just have to
get out your own head.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
I mean that's what I did. I completely rewrote, you know,
I completely rewrote it from scratch and and and then
it took a different turn. But you know, at the
end of the day, it's exactly where I want it
to be because I think what it was, desperately it
was more autobiographical in the beginning, and I do have
a book agent, and even though self published it, we

(37:02):
may still bring it to you know, major publishing house,
which you can do now. And my I do have
a book agent in Los Angeles. And when he first started,
it's great, it's autobiographical. I can't believe all the things
you've done in your life. It's amazing. But the big
publishing houses don't necessarily buy complete autobiographical books now, and

(37:25):
he's he's a really big book agent who deals with
just the big houses, you know. So he said, I
think it needs to have more insight, and I didn't
know how to do that. At first. I didn't. I
couldn't figure it out. I couldn't figure out how to
take what I had already and then you know, make
it insightful. So that's when when I started thinking of

(37:46):
the bubble, you know, like people always don't know what
is that person really thinking, you know, and so it
became like the bubble over my head. And then also
each chapter will have life lessons that I learned at
that part of my life. So it really goes back
to my has my up all my ears, it has
my you know, years as a miss Louisiana. And my

(38:06):
New Orleans upbringing. I mean it's and that in itself
is interesting to grow up in New Orleans and then
finding love. So each each each chapter really has something
for everybody entrepreneur. I think will give a lot of
people insight to how to start a business and how
to keep going with it and not give up. So

(38:27):
you know, I think, you know, it tells the story
of my life, but it also has lessons. I think
it's important to you know, even if someone has no
idea who I am, and they will pick it up
and just read, Okay, this is a woman who you
know when I started. If like I can call it
kind of the Bill Cosby years, because when I was
in Hollywood, you know, we don't know what who knows

(38:49):
what happened and what didn't happen then, But I can
tell you I was in Hollywood in the eighties and
in that era, and guys would push themselves on you,
and they would I'd say, if you don't sleep with me,
you are I will get you black ball from the business. Now,
I never went down that route. Maybe if I would have,
I would have been a bigger star, but it wasn't

(39:11):
who I am. I always kid about that if I
was slept around, maybe you know, I would have worked
if it wasn't me. I was. I came from this nice,
southern strict family and it wasn't who I was. I mean,
it just wasn't. You know. I had I had boyfriends,
but they weren't you know. I never chose the big
producer types that came after me, but we need some
big big ones came through my life, but no one
was going to push that down my throat and pardoned

(39:34):
the con But you know it was I was not
going down that road of I had to live with myself.
So you know, everything I got, I got on my own.
I didn't have family in the business. I knew no
when when I first got to Hollywood, and literally I
just did it the old fashioned way of auditioning. Well, yeah,
when you look at Hollywood today, this connection and it
is who your father and mother is. But I moved

(39:56):
here I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
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Speaker 4 (40:09):
So I'm proud of that. I'm proud that I got
where I got on my own, and you know, did
get a name for myself and did end up the
headlining at a stand up comic when I was told
you're too pretty or you're too sexy to be a comedian,
and I was like, to hell with that, I will
do it. I stood in line at the comedy store
until I got on stage in the amprov until finally

(40:30):
I got all the way up to headlining. And so,
I mean, I feel like I really accomplished things that
I wanted to. And pretty much the book talks about,
you know, whenever anybody would tell me I couldn't do something,
it would make me try harder. I mean, I've been
told about my whole life. I was I was either
too twenty or too sexy to do this, or I
was you know, ahead of my time. Do I stand

(40:51):
up on shore dresses minnise girls know I was doing it?
It had to like be a flumpy mother or or
you know, even in even in my lingerie business, you
can't do that. There's too many other brands I there.
You can't start who's going to buy the brand? So
pretty much my whole life has been you can't and
I have. So that just shows you that anybody can

(41:12):
do it if you If you you just can't listen
to negativity. I am a glass half full person, not
a half empty person, and I think that makes a
difference just who you are, you know. And so when
I started the book, I'm like, well, well, anybody read it?
I really feel like, you know, after having the few
people I have that have read it, they have, and
people that are like major people like you know, I

(41:34):
have a friend who's one of the presidents at MGM,
and he loves the book, and that really made me
feel good because these people had a lot of a
lot of manuscripts go past their death. So who knows,
maybe one day it'll be a book. I mean, not
a book, a movie, you know, not hopefully not a
B movie. But I'll take a brooded too. I'm fine
with that.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
It would be really a meta if you actually introduced
it on like a special edition of USA Up All
Night in movie.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
Well, you know what's really funny, Dave, was the very
first thing I did on the All Night was the
very first movie I ever introduced was, or rather on
USA All right, was Basic Training, which is a movie
I started which had like three seconds of toplessness, which
I was mortified to do at the time. It was
in my contract that it didn't have to be more

(42:23):
than three seconds. And of course I went on to
do Playboy in ninety one called Girls of the of Comedy,
which I actually brought that idea to them, and then
that next year up All Night had like taken office,
so they came back and offered me a celebrity pictorial
and so that was really cool. So you know, I
have you know, the book also talks about my Playboy

(42:45):
years and going to the Mansion, so a lot of
people like that in itself, you know, because I did
go to the Mansion for many many years. Actually I
had a line with Crystal Hefner a couple of years back.
You know, I should say the last Missus Haffen. I
believe the last Missus Haffen who is still Missus heffsnot.
But you know, so you know, just just thwomps through

(43:07):
all those kind of interesting things, uh and along with
you know, I do a lot of charity, wook, and
it talks about that giving back once you've kind of
hit a certain spot in life. You we enjoy my
husband and I, you know, getting back to the community
and kind of hits all that.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
But you mentioned them.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
I'm sorry, have you mentioned the Comedy Store. I just
want to ask this for I forget you mentioned the
Comedy Store. Did you ever meet a comedian there named
Don Barris?

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Okay doesn't name from what what how old or what era?
What era of He he.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
Started in the nineties, like the early nineties. He was
there and now he's like the he does the the
he's the headliner on the Ding Dong Show on the
Monday nights.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Oh maybe that's why I may know the saying that
kind of and the probable I mean that would have
I still would have been out there. Of course in
ninety one because of me. I was still on the
still on the road, gosh, I mean I was on
the road until I mean I still actually occasionally do stuff,
but definitely up into like two thousand and six or seven,
I was still, you know, out there. So I guess

(44:14):
I know a name from that, but I can't say
I remember, like medium, I just thought maybe I'm like,
I'm thinking like maybe I dated them, and I don't remember.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
He's been out there for years and he actually does
like a lot of work with the Comedy Store.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Every night he's there, and.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Uh, yeah, his name was really familiar to me, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Because he was like him and Mark Maron are really
good friends.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
Okay, well I am sure that we came across each other,
but that would have been during my up all night years.
He's really funny, you know. And and I've met so
many people to my life, like through New Orleans and
then my comedy years and even might now a power
of years ago. I know that name. There's there's a
comedy comic out that's doing really well, nate out there

(45:08):
now named Sebastian. Do you know who he is? Okay,
if you, if you, if you just google, Sebastian will
come up comic. I can never pronounce his last name right,
but anyway, he's major. He is like major, like major shows,
major showtime, all that stuff. And Sebastian used to wait
on me as a waiter at the Fourth Seasons bar

(45:30):
I want to go There was around the corner from
my house in Beverley Health and we'd go there and
he was funny and he would say to me, I
was on up all night at the time, and he
would say, I want to be you. You know, La
has a lot of way those that are actors, you know,
I mean, it's like the only one thing I didn't do.
But you know people that legitimately that's that's their job,
that's their day job with their night job. And he

(45:51):
would say, I really admire. It's really sweet because he
goes would I admire he was a female comic, and
he when he took off, he took off. I mean
he really took them. And I didn't even realize it
because I've been so out of the loop myself, just
doing my own thing in the last few years. And
then I came across from like on social media, and
I was like, man, I'm proud of you. I mean,
you know, because he said he was doing going to

(46:12):
do it, and he did it, and he's got a
whole different take. So yeah, I you know, stand up
comedy is a really rough road. Most of my friends
that even started, like I started in mayby four, but
most of my friends has started in eighty four are
still doing stand up. People usually don't leave that world.
And the cool thing is you can get older and
still do comedy, but you just have to find kind

(46:34):
of different venues because you know, it is a younger
world at the comedy club. So then people move to ships,
they do boats, they do you know, comedy cruises, they
do theater, you know, so you can keep at it.
But I have to say I'm not I'm happy, Dave,
and I'm not out there on the road doing that
for a living. Although every now and then there's a
piece of me that, you know, my friend will come

(46:55):
to town, Carol mcgommery, she's hysterical out of New York,
and she gets up at the club and I and
I'll have a couple of glass of wine and I'll
be like, I want to do what you do. She's like, no,
you don't want to give up your life. Your life
is good. I said, well, it's still it's still in
my blood, you know, to make people laugh, and it's
still like it once it's in your blood, it's your blood.

(47:17):
But every now and then I do Rhonda's Pajama Party
and then I'll host it and I'll do the stand
up and then I have like four other females and
sometimes I put a male comic in this. So maybe
with the book coming out, we'll do that again, which
would be really cool.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
Yeah, I was just gonna say when the book comes
When the book comes out, if you do like a tour,
like you know, if there are a tour, you get
like another taste of it. So then at the end
round you cry to be like, well, you know what,
I got it out of my system again.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
But now I'm gonna I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm not
I'm not doing this again for until the next book.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Right exactly exactly, but I do. But you know, what
I love doing is to speaking tours. So I'm excited
about that because I get a lot of it doing.
You know, we want Arst Young and all these major
entrepreneurial for the SPRA and I mean I didn't even
think about myself as an entrepreneur, you know, but all
of a sudden we're winning all these awards and it

(48:07):
was amazing. So I found myself being asked to speak
locally and regionally, and all of a sudden, I'm getting
up making these speeches about being an entrepreneur but I'm funny,
and then they're asking questions spent my Hollywood background. So
I really enjoyed it. I mean, I had never done
just speaking without doing stand up obviously, so I'm really

(48:30):
excited that now I'm being submitted and being asked to
speak because you know, there's there's there's a few comedic speakers,
but not many that can, you know, just talk about
their life and how they did it. So I'm looking
forward to doing that. It's a little bit of stand
up and it's a little bit of you know, information getting.
So I look forward to that too. That maybe who

(48:51):
knows that that may be the next the next sort
of stand up comedy. It will just be you know,
entrepreneurs speak at sieeches.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
You have to do like a different posts podcast too,
like Johnny Dumas's podcast I'm Just Throw on Fire.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
I'm sure you've heard of his podcast.

Speaker 6 (49:05):
Yeah, so it's like the one podcast in the world
right up there, like Mark Maren's and like this is
your American life and but but you know that's good.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
So you don't have to help me get this is
kind of all near to me too, you know when
you have your head to you know, I I've been
a very focused person in my world. So you know,
my life has been Women's for Daily and Fashion and
so I'm pretty excited about opening this new chapter of
Like you said during podcasts, I mean I did Gilbert Godfrey.
If you talk about dirty, you're telling me I can

(49:36):
be uncensored. If you ever go Google. I'm sure hopefully
I'll do it again talk about my book. But if
you if you Google and find the roch to Share
podcast with Gilbert Godfreed, you might it is beyond dirty.
It is like I mean, he and I when we
get together, I don't know what it is, but he
brings out the naughty and man, he's naughty, but he

(49:57):
think it's naughtier.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
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Speaker 4 (50:11):
It's pretty funny. I mean, you know, I've had people
say they were walking down the street and listening to
it and laughing out loud, people like staring at them.
So yeah, I was pretty funny because he could do impression.
So I would name different guys, you know, from my
pastor in Hollywood, and then he would go off and
just do an impression of them and you're just laughing,
you know. So he's one of the quotes on the

(50:31):
back of my book that you know, says to buy
the book. And then I have Mindy Grossman on the back,
who's the CEO of Weight Watchers and was the CEO
of HSN major business person. And then I have Joy
mcgano who the movie Joy was written about, so pretty
pretty exciting, plus a lot of other friends on the

(50:52):
inside and celebrities, but it kind of hit show business
and entrepreneurs and the CEOs. So I'm really excited. I
know I'm talking more about the book, but I guess
it's just that I'm really excited about it a lot.
With my line. Listen, you know, please go to wandashare
dot com, go to HSN dot com check out. I
had this full, amazing line of everything from the most

(51:14):
amazing undergarments to lounge wear, and I was really into it.
We literally designed everything in house here in Florida, and
then we manufacture all over the world and a lot
of a lot of my most of my apparel, like
my clothing is made in the USA, and then a
lot of my other pieces are made in Turkey and
we make it China. But we use beautiful factories with

(51:36):
real high quality everything. So that's very exciting too. And
when you get into that world, and that was listen to.
My husband and I taught ourselves. We didn't come from
that world at all. I came from a background show business.
Next thing, you know, you know, we're reaching out to
factories and you know that was quite an interesting time
in our lives too. But again, you're never too old

(51:59):
to read to recreate too well, reinvent and find another
career and find love, find all those wonderful things.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, and that that is such a wonderful signment, Ronda.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
And yeah, I mean I will definitely send you the
links to to the podcast I just mentioned.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Just check them out because.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
Please, I want, I want to put it up for sure.
There goes my dog. They knew, they knew the end
of the podcast.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Yeah, they can feel, they can feel. Yeah, we haven't talked.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
You're like, mommy, I'm hungry. I must I must acknowledge
their names. We have Chicky, Tiki, Sweetie, Lexi, and Brandy,
like two and a half are rescues. When I got
it at a notion, she's kind of a rescue.

Speaker 6 (52:45):
And now you mentioned your names are probably like now
even more eager because they're not the Probably they're probably like,
what yea is it? Do we do something that you
know what's going on? But I will link to everything
Randa that you mentioned.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
You you know, you're.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Just quickly before we before we.

Speaker 6 (53:01):
Sign off on this episode of the podcast, I just
have one final question, and I just want to ask,
is there anything that you might want to just you know,
talk about or discuss, or is there anything you want
to just to say to sort of sum up this
whole podcast interview.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
Well, you know, just summing up is like I am
a positive person. Everybody out there is to think positive
and try to run from negativity. I mean, just don't
surround yourself with negativity and don't listen. I mean always,
I always like to say, put a stake in it
and go for it. In your life, joy your life,
Savor your life. I love food, I love everything. You know,
I in moderation obviously, you know I love fine wine.

(53:38):
But I say, enjoy life, Enjoy the journey of your
life and of your business, and then it's fun and
just don't be negative. So that kind of sums up
my life. And I've had a had a wonderful life
so far, and I hopefully and will continue to be amazing.
Who knows where I'll on up next, maybe doing a podcast,
who knows, but but I thank you Dave. It's been

(53:59):
wonder fall. And I just I know you're gonna link.
But I do have a website two or a web
page of rondasher speaks dot com. So that's for anybody
who is interested in having me as a speaker, along
with rondashare dot com and of course Amazon with the book.
And I know that you'll promote the rest. And I
thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (54:19):
My pleasure, Ronda, Ronda, it has been so great talking
to you.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Thank you, Dave, it really has. Again.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
I I used to watch us ample night all the time.
Uh you know, I know I've already mentioned that, but
I thought I mentioned it again. I mean because of you,
I found the Toxic Avenger and I've had Lloyd on
the show.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
I love Lloyd. The last big film I did, he
was in it. We had a scene together. Oh and
I was like, I was like a like a bad prisoner,
of course, because that's what maybe it was. What's the
name of the film, I can't remember, but anyway, but
we actually won Best Film of the Best BET Film
of the Year. But anyway, I love Lloyd. Lloyd used
to come on up all night all the time, and

(54:59):
TOXI came on. I mean literally, he was one of
my regular guests. So he's He's a great guy, isn't
brilliant brilliant man? Great guy.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
It was funny really really really quick because I know
you have to run really quickly. When he came on
the podcast, he said that he started trauma in prison
with him and Michael Hurts because and he was like, well,
I was Michael's prison bitch, and he's like, you know
we got married. Well, people who listened that podcast actually
wrote into me and they were like.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Dave, is that true?

Speaker 6 (55:26):
Did he really form this in prison? And I said no.
I said it would have been funny if he did.
But I was like, you know, we should have put
a disclaimer before Lloyd's interview, being like, don't don't pay
attention to I think.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Lloyd says, it's all I know.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
I know, and he is so funny and so brilliant,
such a family man. I'm a great guy and and
really helped up on up all night because he supplied
this great films and you know, he we had TOXI.
What can I say. I'm not going to tell you
what a good lover he was. People don't believe that.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
To RNDA of absolute pleasure talking thank.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
You and I'm sure we'll do it again anytime, please,
thank you.

Speaker 6 (56:05):
Yeah, I was gonna say when the second book comes out,
you have to come back on.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
You've got It, You've got It, or the next time
I'm hosting, or whatever you want another reason, I'll always
look back on your show somehow.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Please Rna, the door is always open. I thank you
so much, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
Dave, and please send me the link and I'll talk
to you soon.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
I want to thank Dave so much for doing such
a great job on this episode. If you want to
get links to anything we spoke about in this episode,
head over to the show notes at Bulletproof Screenwriting dot
tv for it slash for forty one.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Thank you so much for listening. Guys, as always, keep
on writing no matter what. I'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Thanks for listening to the Bulletproof Screenwriting podcast at Bulletproofscreenwriting
dot tv.