February 7, 2025 • 39 mins
Brely Evans is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, author and comedian. She was a member of the 1990s R&B group Emage. She moved into acting and appeared in films such as Sparkle and The Man in 3B and the 2019 Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, Ambitions
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Ladystale Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My Favorite five Dad, Oh sorry, I don't have favorite,
it's my bad. It is one of the podcasts that
we have, one of the four mm hmmm. And you
see how I tone that down so I could be
semi professional, like this close to professional.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's not gonna happen. It was fun trying though.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Moving on, I wrote Onna, and just in case you
were wondering, is I'm a bit of a narcissist, so
you see you're like, oh, hold on, it's it's this way.
I have me in a magazine sitting behind me, just
to remind me that I'm beautiful and wonderful. And I
wrote books. You thought I was in a magazine for
something cool, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I do not, So they are.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I thought divorces bad, and I thought being brought
up with easy if only are Me a memory? And
Verse four and Coffee Widows Web and Widow's Debt and
you can find those wherever audio books are found. And
then I'll there's a few more, like we just wrote
our nineteenth so you can find that on www. Dot
And I thought ladies dot com actually everything that we
do and some things that we didn't want you to
(01:02):
know that we did that. We haven't had the time
to race off of the website yet. Have a co
host today, co hops. Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, I think that writing books is very cool, so
I don't want to hear any of that talk from you, darling, considering.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You have your book behind you right both of us.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But I am an author, an actress, an activist, and
a you know, baby director. I have one short film
under my belt. I'm also a podcaster on femon podcast
and I am grateful to be here today.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
By the way, she's the one that has like the
knowledge in the subject that we always talk about, so
she's going to help support me.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Like drops to me today.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm joking, but you've heard enough about me today. You have,
although a narcissis never said that. But you're not here
to hear about me. You're here to hear about our
wonderful guests. Wonderful guess would you like to introduce us?
By the way, she's camera shy.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So only for today because I lived my life in
front of the camera. Today I'll be a little bit
behind the camera. But yes, I am Brayley Evans, your
favorite actress, author entrope pro what you need because I
love business, so I do a plethora of things, be
(02:23):
it dancing, managing, estates, selling real estate. You know you
probably I probably have a little knowledge on a lot
of things. I'm really happy to be here with you
ladies today. Look at us, author girls. I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I love it, and we're cute. I mean even the
way that your name is on the screen. You're like, yeah,
she's sexy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh you said, author girls, I just recognize that's exactly
what you said, which means I get to segue, something
we don't really do on this show.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I get to segue and go, So what have you
written and what is it about?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
All right? Well, my first book I wrote is called
The ABC's of I Ams. I was doing. I do
affirmations when I wake up in the morning, you know,
during my morning routine, just saying I am beautiful, I
am worthy, I am resilient. I just pick words that
just kind of flow to me. There's no real rhyme
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or reason to what I'm saying. I just kind of
let it flow in the spirit. And this is the
way that I kind of build myself up before I
go outside and someone calls me something else, right, So
I heard to you know, had this thought, go online
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and go live on my Instagram and share my i
ams with them. So I was doing this during the
pandemic and people were like writing down what I was
saying in the chat and I said, yeah, say it
for yourself in the chat, you're saying it for yourself.
And then someone said, you know, a few days into this,
(04:05):
maybe a week or two, where can we read all
these i ams? And I said no, no, no, I
just save them off the top of my head, you know.
And she was like, no, but I want to read it.
I said, yeah, but I don't have it written down. Well,
one of my beautiful fans sent me an email and
had written down every affirmation that I had said over
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the last like maybe week, and it was pages and
pages and pages. And she said, this is the star
to your book. Now go write it. And I said,
oh my god, like she left me no choice but
to you know, move forward. So, long story short, I
sat down. I was in Atlanta working at the time
on a movie. I sat down at a desk with
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a blank sheet of paper, not even lines on it,
with a pen and I said, Lord, if you want
this book written, you must write it. You know, this
person has given me all the ims. I don't even
know how to form it into a book because you
just don't want a list of ims turning the page.
I don't think that's it. And I literally heard ABC's
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and I said ABC's, So I wrote down ABC and
I said, well, what is that? And then I literally
heard ABC's of im and I said ABC's if. I said,
oh my god, this is so remedial. Maybe God is
having me write a children's book. Okay, that's fine, the
ABC's of ims. That's how the title came. And then
(05:34):
I said, I still don't understand. Like I said, the
alphabet only has twenty six letters, so that's only going
to be twenty six affirmations. That's not a book. It's
not enough. Then I heard five letters for each I mean,
excuse me, five words for each letter. And I said, oh,
now we're talking. So I begin to write words, so
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five A words, five B words, five C words, and
so on. I still said, this is feeling like it's
not enough. Then I heard I literally every piece of it.
When I finished, I heard, now go through the Bible
and find the scripture that correlates to each of those
I am words. So people can stop just saying affirmations
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but realize that they are speaking the Word over their lives.
So I'll give you an example where it says I
am beautiful. Well that correlates to scripture that says I
am beautiful and wonderfully made. So now it's like, oh,
I'm not just saying an affirmation. I'm actually speaking the
Word over my life. And so that's how the book
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is created. If every page, every affirmation has a scripture
that tells you where it comes from, so that you
are affirming yourself with you know, a higher power than yourself.
And it's been working well for people. Testimonies come all
the time. People send me videos of them writing in
their book. It also has like some lines in there
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where you can kind of jot down your thoughts while
you're having that time. So that's how to use the book,
what the book's about, and how it came about.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So you mentioned your process was you sat down and
you had a conversation with God. And I saw, you know,
right before jumping on, I was looking at your Instagram
and I saw a post that said normalize praying before
you make decisions. I'm curious, how how does your faith
play a role in the things that you do, not
just writing, but everything that you do.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Can I tell you this? So I grew up in church,
so kind of that's all I know, right, It's like
I know that there is a higher power that's guiding
and directing my entire life, that knows my end from
the beginning. So I kind of move in this confidence
of faith that everything's going to always work out for me.
(07:58):
So it as a old person. I was out with
my girlfriends in my and me doing the girl thing
and we decided to get tattoos. So everyone's getting their
different tattoos and they go, well, Brayley, what are you
gonna get? And then I was like, you know, I'm
gonna get the word faith. And I got the word
faith written in Arabic in a tattoo. And after I did,
(08:20):
I completely heard, well, now you will live by faith?
And I said, uh oh, because what people don't understand
about living by faith is it's a lot of uncertainty
and it's a lot of I don't know what's next.
I don't it doesn't look like I have enough money
to buy that house, to buy that car, to go
on that trip. But I have to operate in themost
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of faith to make the moves I've made in life,
be it personal or business. And so faith has taught
me you're not gonna see it, but you have to
believe it, and you have to walk towards it when
you don't see it, and if you speak it, you
shall see it. So it's a trip that I tell people.
(09:06):
Don't read my book to yourself. That book is to
be read out loud. The instruction in the front of
the book says, read me out loud, because you activate
the atmosphere every time you speak. So whether people know
it or not, I have them put their hand in
front of their faces and you, ladies, please do it
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for me. Put your hand in front of your face
and say I am beautiful. Say it. So when you
said it, did you feel that air hit your hand. Yes,
that air just moved every molecule, every molecule in the
room that you don't even see, orchestrating the universe to
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remind you that you're beautiful. And it's a trip that
you will walk out today and you'll be like, oh
my god, I got like a compliment, and it came
out of nowhere. No, it came because you said, you
made this affirmation. And we don't we talk, so we
don't realize what we're doing. Every time we speak, we
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are creating. Like that's that's what makes us so beautiful
as human beings, is that our creator gave us his
very creation tool, which is the gift out of speaking.
That's how we manifest. He said, let there be light.
He didn't think let there be light. He said it.
So we everything that comes off our tongue. I told
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us sometimes we got to slow down what we say
because we're speaking curses and don't even mean to. And
sometimes we say curses just like this one here. I'll
give you. When people say to me, oh my gosh,
brave me, I saw you in that movie you killed it,
I'm like, did I kill it or did I give
it life? Did I take words on a page that
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was in the script, put it in my mind, let
it come out of my mouth with air? That means
I actually breathe life into words on a page. So
we should change the language to oh my god, you
gave that so much life, because we need to say
things as they are, not you know, as the world
would call it, because we're calling things into existence that
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we don't really want. The only thing that comes to
kill things is what would be considered our quote unquote enemy.
The Bible says he comes to kill, still and destroy.
So when you tell me, oh, you killed it, then
you're saying, hey, you look like the enemy that we have.
And I'm like, no, I don't. I give life. I
look like our Lord and Savior. So I'm very big
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on words. And that's kind of how you know this
faith walk is working out for me, is that when
I'm you know, manifesting something, I get my words together
first and then I see it later.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I do have one question that's a bit or you
said movies and Atlanta. Yeah, that and I just wanted
to know didn't help it all in writing? Did you
do screenwriting before this or did you just sit down,
listen to the voice from behind, and then start writing.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I have never written a script, nor have I had
any desire to yet. Recently, I've been looking at these
two b movies and I'm like, wait a minute, this
looks like it was shot on a cell phone. I
should start tomorrow. So you know, no shade, no shade
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at all, because I'm very proud of these people who
have actually, you know, tried their hand at movie making
and I'm hearing that they're being very successful. And so
they have caused me to want to start telling some
stories from my life, and so screenwriting is in my
near future. But no, I had never written a script before.
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I said, I literally wrote this book with the instruction
of spirit because I did not know the first And
I'll tell you this, even after I wrote all that,
and I wrote it by hand, this was a handwritten job. Okay,
this was not me typing. And then I hired an
assistant to type everything up. And then I went on
a radio interview in Atlanta with well that radio personality.
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His name is Willie Moore Jr. And I said, Willie,
you know, I'm in the process of writing this book.
I don't know what I'm doing, you know, God told
me to write this book. I don't know how to
get a publisher or what to do. But I'm just like,
you know, kind of moseying along, you know, in the
process of writing this book. After that interview, someone on
those radio waves heard me called the radio station and said,
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please tell her I will publish her book. So that's
how the book got published. And then they're the ones
who did the cover, you know, the cover of the book.
They put it all together with the type setting. I
did none of that. So I want people to know
that when you speak, the universe is yet going out
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into the world, getting your help and bringing it back
to you. Because I believed that this book was going
to come out, I didn't know when. I didn't know how.
But we have to be reminded that the win and
the how is not our business. We just need to
make the request. And when I made the request, these
people came out of nowhere, and I know them now,
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but they worked on that book, and we didn't keep
writing books or anything like that. They worked on the
project and then they kind of disappeared back into their lives,
and I'm like, oh my god, I have a whole
book on Amazon. I would have never known how to
do that. It's not in my willlhouse. But when there's
something you would like to do, walk towards that thing,
and it will walk towards you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I feel like we shouldn't be taking notes Fromana.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I want to say, you're making me believe, you're making
me believe.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I think I believe out of you. I love it. Well,
that's what we're here to do, is each one teach one,
you know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, So I feel like I'm gonna fly towards my
dreams in a couple of weeks, and maybe maybe they'll
fly towards me too. No, they will, I'm.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Gonna put out they will fly toward me. Into the youth.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
They have no choice you. You are the highest being
walking the earth. They have no choice but to be
commanded by you. And I think a lot of us
don't realize how powerful we are, so we kind of
live in the shadows of life. But when you finally say,
wait a minute, I can literally have anything out. We know,
we tell a little kid, you can be whatever you
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want when you grow up, but then we put circumstances
and situations in front of them that caused them not
to believe it. But you know, if you ask this kid,
who are you, he goes, I'm super mad, and we
know that he's not, but in his mind he is,
so he jumps off the stair, you know what I mean.
So we have to get back to that childlike belief
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system where I can have anything I want and I
just have to walk towards it. And so I'm still practicing,
like you never get you never finished. This is like
this is the never ending race, right. I think I
heard Oprah say I never knew what I was doing,
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but I was calling things into existence and moving towards
something that I wanted, and it was moving towards me.
And I didn't know it was called manifesting. I just knew, Hey,
my eye is on this prize and I'm not going
to stop until I get what I want. And it's
like we've seen people do it, but a lot of
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us get a little gun shy, you know when it's
time to perform, but it's time to break out.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So I have a question that I'm just jumping again.
Remember I said the beginning that it was special. I
had a segue, So I just jump on this show, Yes,
jump jumping. So how did you get started with acting?
And what do you when did you know?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Like you're like, I am a true actress.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Well, I'll tell you this. I never wanted to be
an actress. It chose me growing up. I have sang
in the church choir. I always told I watched a
soul train every Saturday morning, sitting in front of the
TV as a kid, and I said, Mama, want to
be on that show. I want to be a singer.
And they said, yeah, what's your real job? What's your
real job gonna be? And I just always had music
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in my life. I want. I was, you know, just
always creating little girl groups when I was twelve and
fifteen and you know, doing the music thing. I ended
up moving to Los Angeles to finish college, but in
my mind I was thinking, well, LA is where the
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stars are, and I could probably become a star if
I just get to LA because you know, that's all
I think. You know, I'm thinking someone will discover me
if I just go there and I sing somewhere, and
I'll get discovered. That's I didn't come for college, but
I ended up graduating and got my degree. He gave
it to my parents and said, now I can focus
on this music. So I started to be a deak
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girl at a very popular studio called Larrabie Studio. I
was there working as a deak girl when the Chronic
with Snoop Dogg and Doctor Dre was being recorded. So
I got to meet those guys, you know, and I
was around just my eyes were big, like, oh god,
if they could just discover me, you know, so working there,
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work some other little jobs, and nobody ever discovered me.
But I was still going to sing on the weekends
at different clubs for like a hundred bucks a whole
night of singing, and I'd make a hundred bucks at
the end. But that one hundred bucks gave me so
much life, you know, like, you know, doing what I
love and making some money was enough for me. One day,
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coming from singing, I saw a Hispanic neighbor of mine
and he has all these tattoos all over his body,
and he goes and I get excited when I see him.
I'm like, oh my god, I saw you bite the
big mac Donald's commercial you are. I was like, oh
my god, you're famous. I had no idea. He's like,
so what, it's just a commercial. You have a whole
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TV show. And I said, no, I don't. He said, yes,
you do. I know who you are. I tell everyone
I live next door to a famous actress. You guys.
I was looking at him, like, who do you have?
I said, you have me mistaken, sir. I am not
on TV, he said, but I see you with the
makeup and the outfits, and I said, I'm going places
to sing. He said, you're a singer. I said yeah.
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He said, oh my god, I thought you were this
actress all this time. Like I've literally told people I
lived next door to her. If I saw this whoever
it was on TV, he said, I'm on my way
to my agent's off Let me tell you about if
you just listen, he said, I'm on my way to
my agent's office. You should ride with me. You guys.
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He wasn't a good friend of mine, and I don't
employ anybody to get in a car with somebody. But
he was my neighbor. He lived there with his whole family,
you know how Hispanic families. I'm he's not gonna do
anything to me because I live next door and I
know his whole family. So I got in the car
that day. I was selling real estate at the time,
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and like I said, going to sing places. His agent said,
who is this? He says, my neighbor. And I think
she should be an actor because I thought she was one.
And she said, you're gorgeous. Sit down and talk to me.
We talked a bit, and she said, honey, I'm gonna
start sending you out immediately, like you can get headshots
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next week, you can do all the things, get an
acting class. But I'm gonna start sending you out tomorrow.
And luckily I told her I'm a real estate agent,
so I'm in charge of my own time, so I
can stop at any time and do the audition. She said, great,
Just when I call you with an address, you just
make your way over there. And I said okay. She's
a commercial agent. And then when I was leaving her office,
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she said count the nose and I said, well. She
says a little game we play in the office. See
how many no's you get until you get a yes.
I said, oh that sounds fun. Okay, cool. She started
sending these, texting me these addresses. I would show up
and people would be in the lobby, nervous and sweating
and talking to themselves. I'm thinking, what is wrong with
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these people? Why they so scared? I had no idea.
Then they say Bradley Evans. I said, oh, that's me.
Let me go. It's like a doctor's appointment, you know,
you go in. And they said, oh, you're going to
read the words on that board over there, and I said, okay,
you're going to So I would read the words on
the board and then I called and said okay, I
went to the thing. She said, okay, no problem, I'll
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send you when another one comes. So I did this one, two, three, four,
five all the way nine times. On the tenth audition,
I go in and do the same thing. And during
the audition I just felt the urge. And here's something
about listening to your gut and not being afraid. A
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lot of us live afraid, it said, ma'am can I
I wouldn't really say this as a young black woman,
I wouldn't talk to my guy this way. And she
was like, excuse me, what would you say? I said,
First of all, black girls don't call their boyfriends or
significant others honey, like that's kind of an older like,
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we don't say that. She said, well, what do you say?
I said, well, we I would say something like pookie pie,
like you know, I would make up a name for him.
And so she's like, okay, well, why don't you do
the scene again and use your little pooky pie or whatever.
So I said, okay, great, and she said action, I said,
pooky Pie? Does my butt look big in these? And
I thwung my big old butt around. Y'all know, I
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got this big old trunk in a bag. And then
they started laughing in the room, and so they said
thank you very much, and I left the office. So
my agent calls me maybe a couple of hours later, like,
oh my god, I knew it, and I'm like what
she said, congratulations, you just booked your first national international
TwixT commercial and it was my tenth audition, you guys,
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And I said, really, in mind you I'm so green.
Had I been to an acting class prior to that?
The acting class I've gone to later on told me
you never you just say what they tell you to say.
You don't shake their hand, you don't look them in
the eye. You just you go in there and do
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what they tell you to do and then you leave.
But I didn't have any of those rules, so I
was uninhibited. I was just being a person. I was
being real authentic to the moment. And I said, hey,
this is not I'll say the honey, but I'm telling
you that's not what real black girls say. And that
they hired that, you know, they hired an artist, someone
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who was unafraid, someone who didn't care whether they were
getting the job or not, because remember I'm thinking I
got to count the nose, so which means maybe I
got to collect a lot of them. You know, I
had no anxiety about getting this job, and that's what
I want every actor to know, Like, be human in
the room. Let them see who you are. Like if
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someone has a nice shirt, compliment that, don't be don't
say things to get something, just be real. And in
my realness, it allowed me to book this huge forty
thousand dollars what I made one job. And after that
I said, oh shoot, I'm I'm an actor because if
I can make what I was making a whole year
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in one day of work, baby, sign me up. And
so that's how I became an actor.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, so I'm handing this off to Tanya because I'm
having way too much fun over here, just chuckling at
your story.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's so real. I love it, Tanya.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think you you guys, you know a bit about acting,
and so I feel like you have more questions that would.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm over here and thinking that's just you know, you
listen to the universe and you followed through.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, it's just something about you know, when you go
to classes they give you more constraints than freedom. And
so that's why now I teach an acting class and
it's called you know everything they don't tell you in
acting class is the name of my acting class, because
I like to tell people the things that I experienced,
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how I got through them. It's never brought up in
an acting class. And I'm thinking acting classes are great
because you need to act with other students, you should
understand the language, and you get a lot of good information.
So I don't say don't go to acting class. I
want you to go, but I alsoso want people to
come to my classes because I want you to understand.
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Until you know who you are, please don't go putting
on another character.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I really like that.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's really important because once you get settled with who
you are, how you look, how you show up in
the world, can you then go and be the most
authentic person in an audition?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Otherwise you're wearing a mask over another mouse.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yes, and it doesn't read authentic, so you don't get
the job, and you're wondering, how come I never book Well,
as soon as you show up as you as soon
as you realize you're the gift, as soon as you
realize the color of your skin is perfect for this,
The length of your hair, the crook in your teeth,
the brown in your eyes as soon as you the
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curves in your hips, that would be me. Sometimes I'm like, Lord,
I'm the curviest girl ever. It seems like my skinny girlfriends,
the way Hollywood is set up, they should be working
more than me. But it's not true. It's who believes
the most, who is the most confident walking in the
in the room, who can be settled with. If I
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get it, I get it. If I don't, God has
something better for me. I'm not attached to the outcome
because I know that the Bible says that He has
a hope for my future that he is going to
You know that it's going to be a beautiful future
if you think about it. One hundred percent of everything
you've been through, you've come through if you think about it.
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So why do we ever get worried about anything? Like?
It's like and I even I sometimes worry about things.
Oh my God, what if I do this? I can't
even make a mistake because God is gonna use everything
I do to come out for my good.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
So that gives me something else that I'm taking from
your website, tell us what it means to get off
the boat of fear and walk on the water of
your dreams.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
So I'm so glad you asked that. But the name
of my company is called water Walkers Worldwide. And I
struggled in the beginning when it was time to incorporate,
and I was like, Lord, water walkers, what does that
even mean? And so I didn't even know when the
word when it came again, it came to me water walkers,
(28:12):
water wall I kept hearing water walkers. I was like,
that doesn't even make sense. I don't know what that is.
And I was led to a passage in the Bible
that talks about how Peter got out of the boat
when Jesus said come, and he was able to do
the impossible, which is, we don't know of any human
today that can walk on water, right, but we do
know that in the Bible it says that Peter actually
(28:34):
did it. And so when Peter was walking on the water,
he was going towards Christ and his eyes were on him. Now,
the Bible also says he began to think when he noticed,
oh my god, it's storming out here. Oh my god,
I'm walking on water. Oh my god. You know, he
began to look at the elements, and he began to
(28:54):
think is the way it's written. But I like to
remind people, not only would he begin to sink, he
never drowned. So therefore I believe those parables in the
Bible we can take for ourselves and say, wait a minute,
I can jump out of a boat on some things
in my life, and even while I keep my eyes
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on the one that can make it happen, and I'm
not concerning myself with how how much when all the
things I can do it. The moment I become concerned
with the things I can't control, that's when I begin
to sink. But again I refer back to the best
part of the story. He did not drown. You will
not lose, because even a loss is a lesson. Now
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you know what not to do? You know, you know
what I'm saying. So I end up calling the company
water walkers because I really wanted to encourage people to
get out of the boats of their dreams. Like I
don't care if you don't feel like you have the money,
the looks, the time, The way I get out of
the boat and start walking out water. So my group
(30:05):
of students, we all call it we want to live
our wild life. And guess what WOW stands for W
walk oh on w water Wow. Every time you say wow,
you're saying walkome water, walk on water. When you say wow,
you're saying, oh my god, that person just did the impossible. Wow.
(30:27):
So it's so powerful again the things we say. So
that's where that comes from is I just want people
to really know that you can do it, whatever that
thing is. You can come out of a situation, you
can get into a new situation. Nothing's holding you back
(30:47):
but you. And I haven't even achieved all of my
wildest dreams yet because I still am, you know, working
on getting out of the boat in certain areas in
my own life. I'm not coming from a place of perfection.
I'm coming saying, you, guys, I found a formula. Let's
all work it together, you know. So that's kind of
how this is working.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So what's next for you?
Speaker 4 (31:08):
What's next for me most immediately is every Wednesday, I
have decided to have water Walker Wednesdays so that we
do a fast from the time you get up till
three o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm gonna start a
prayer call where people can call in and it's a
quick little prayer, and I tell people we don't have
(31:30):
to you don't have to pray long, you don't have
to pray loud, you to do all the things. It's
just at nine am, twelve noon, and three pm, depending
on what coast I'm on, I will hop on this
call line. I'll probably make it PST and hop on
this call and I'll say a little prayer that we
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all are trusting that we're here on this earth for
a purpose, and that we've all been given a gift
to live by, and that we would trust it enough
to try it, you know, trusted enough to go do it,
not just try it, but astually to do it. So
that's what's next, most immediately, because I was doing my
morning walk this morning and I said, uh, oh, it's
(32:12):
time to bring this back. I did it some years
ago and people were really gifted, you know, by that
time together once a week and it's quick, little and
I tell people you can be anywhere. You can be
on your job. They're not gonna tell you can't go
to the restroom. You could be in a meeting, excuse me,
you got to go to the restroom, but you're really
looking at your phone, like, oh, it's nine o'clock. I
gotta go do this quick little prayer and we're gonna
(32:33):
hop on that thing, say a little three five, be
on there for three to five minutes, and go back
to your life. But it's a sacrifice, right, It's the
sacrifice of I'm not gonna I'm gonna have all liquids
from the time I wake up until three o'clock in
the afternoon and turn my plate down because I'm believing
God for something and I'm gonna make a outward sacrifice
(32:53):
that this would show up in my life. And I'm
gonna connect to the source who can make it happen
at nine am, at twelve noon, and at three pm
will close out. So I'm really excited about just connecting
back to headquarters. That's what I call it. I feel like,
you know, you're connecting back to headquarters, going to the manufacturer, saying, hey, manufacturer,
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you've given me these gifts and talents in these different areas.
I know you're going to provide the resources. I trust you,
But in the meantime, I'm going to do my part.
And walk towards it. And so that's what's most right
in front of me. For you know, weekly on the
next level up, I've decided to also direct. So I'm
very excited about you being a director of your first
(33:38):
short film. Congratulations to you. Go do ten more, find
things to direct. If you have the desire, that means
you know you're not even strong enough to pick your
own desires. That means it's for you, like it's already
been placed in your soul to do. So that means
you are needed in that space. So I really want
(33:59):
to produce some movies. So I'm going to, like I said,
start screenwriting. I've already started directing. I've directed a few
music videos and a couple of scenes of some actors.
That's what I do for my actors as well. In
my class, I help them build their acting reels because
I noticed that too. I'm like, I go to acting
class for months and years at a time, but I
(34:21):
don't have anything to show for it. So that's why
in my class, yes, it costs much more than most,
but you walk out with a true sensibility of how
to navigate the business. You walk out with a actual
real to show your talent. You walk out with a
online community that you can connect to and ask questions.
(34:46):
You know, and all of us are on different levels
in that group, so you have a community of people
that you can connect with. So that's all I'll be
doing is running my courses. I'm gonna start casting, So
I would love to have your headshot and resume on
file because I'm always looking for new faces to be
a part of things. But that's what I'm looking to
(35:08):
put people on. I would you know what I'm going
to be in this industry? I said, I wish I
had a me someone that was open with how it
really goes, tells me the real and also gives me
a hand. I didn't have that, you know. I didn't
have anyone usher me into the industry. I just kind
of showed up here, showed up there, Oh take an
(35:29):
acting class, Okay, where to go? Go over here? Go
over there. No one pointed me any direction. So I
decided I'm going to be what I wish I had.
So that's on the horizon for me for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
What is the best way for listeners to support you
and what you do?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
They should follow me on Instagram at Brayley Evans. I'm
there almost daily. I do have a special subscription portion
on my Instagram if you go in the stories. A
lot of times I put the subscription button up. You
pay nine ninety nine to get the most authentic Brayley,
you know, get the behind the scenes, and that's how
(36:07):
you stay connected, finding out about acting classes, where they're
gonna be, what's going on, and just me giving tips
because I feel like I've learned over time that people
appreciate that which they pay for and it's just the truth.
So it's like, okay, well I'll make it where everybody's
accessible at nine ninety nine. Anybody can you know, can decide, hey,
(36:29):
I'm not gonna have McDonald's today, and I'm gonna go
ahead and make this subscription for the whole month. I
get to log on and hear what she's talking about,
and then if you decide to take the course, then
we set you up and get you on your way.
So yeah, that's Instagram is the best place. Also, Bradleyevans
dot Com my website. I feel like everyone let it
(36:50):
let me ring the alarm. They said that TikTok was
going away soon and if they ever decided to take
Instagram away. I want all of us, under the sound
of my voice, to get your own own website and
to promote yourself and build your own communities. Like people
forget that there are a certain number of people in
this world that are assigned to only you, that can
(37:11):
only hear from you your voice. And so for the
people who can hear my voice and it causes them
to move, I want to have a special place where
they can can you know, find me. So Brayleyevans dot
com is my website and Instagram is, like I said,
I'm there daily. I'm also working on my new page
over on fan Base, which is owned by a black guy.
(37:34):
His name is Isaac Hayes, the third I believe it is,
and he has a type of Instagram that's called fan Base.
But the cool part about it you can monetize on
the day one that you get on there. You don't
have to have a certain amount of followers or whatever.
And it's just a really cool idea to see what's
(37:58):
happening in the world such as Instagram and then say,
you know what, I'm gonna make a version of this
that's for the people. So it's called Fanbase. And I
urge all of you to check it out.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I would like you to know that I'm already over
here checking it out.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Like yo, this seems kind of nice. Okay, sorry, so hey,
she just wrapped herself up nicely.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Thank you, Tanya. You did a great job on this interview.
I got to sit back and smile and chuckle. I
enjoyed myself with this.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I love it, Tanya.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Do you want to go ahead and wrap it up
and tell everyone where they can find you and your work.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I do also have a website. It's Miss Tanya Miss
Tania Todd dot com and you can find me across
social media at Miss Tania time.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
When you say MS, is that MZ or m s ms?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Okay, and uh if you know it.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Behind her, there's a very cute pink book that says
fifty two love, and then there's a comics lit.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Those are both.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
That she well once she just wrote by herself fifty
two love and the other one, well, she's in that
one and that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
The comic's lit.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I've read it, Okay, I can stop talking, though I
was about to go on.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
A whole rum ramble right there, but you can.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Find out everything that your ladies are up to at
www dot and I thought ladies dot com. And when
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and support them as well. That does not mean it
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Sometimes they need someone who knows a little bit about
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We thank you in advance for that.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Remember that wisdom is all around you if you're open
to finding it and accepting it.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
So piece of love you guys from Wilnona and the
Missing Jade. Oh yeah, thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Bye.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Ladystale Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My Favorite five Dad, Oh sorry, I don't have favorite,
it's my bad. It is one of the podcasts that
we have, one of the four mm hmmm. And you
see how I tone that down so I could be
semi professional, like this close to professional.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's not gonna happen. It was fun trying though.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Moving on, I wrote Onna, and just in case you
were wondering, is I'm a bit of a narcissist, so
you see you're like, oh, hold on, it's it's this way.
I have me in a magazine sitting behind me, just
to remind me that I'm beautiful and wonderful. And I
wrote books. You thought I was in a magazine for
something cool, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I do not, So they are.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I thought divorces bad, and I thought being brought
up with easy if only are Me a memory? And
Verse four and Coffee Widows Web and Widow's Debt and
you can find those wherever audio books are found. And
then I'll there's a few more, like we just wrote
our nineteenth so you can find that on www. Dot
And I thought ladies dot com actually everything that we
do and some things that we didn't want you to
(01:02):
know that we did that. We haven't had the time
to race off of the website yet. Have a co
host today, co hops. Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, I think that writing books is very cool, so
I don't want to hear any of that talk from you, darling, considering.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You have your book behind you right both of us.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But I am an author, an actress, an activist, and
a you know, baby director. I have one short film
under my belt. I'm also a podcaster on femon podcast
and I am grateful to be here today.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
By the way, she's the one that has like the
knowledge in the subject that we always talk about, so
she's going to help support me.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Like drops to me today.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm joking, but you've heard enough about me today. You have,
although a narcissis never said that. But you're not here
to hear about me. You're here to hear about our
wonderful guests. Wonderful guess would you like to introduce us?
By the way, she's camera shy.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
So only for today because I lived my life in
front of the camera. Today I'll be a little bit
behind the camera. But yes, I am Brayley Evans, your
favorite actress, author entrope pro what you need because I
love business, so I do a plethora of things, be
(02:23):
it dancing, managing, estates, selling real estate. You know you
probably I probably have a little knowledge on a lot
of things. I'm really happy to be here with you
ladies today. Look at us, author girls. I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I love it, and we're cute. I mean even the
way that your name is on the screen. You're like, yeah,
she's sexy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh you said, author girls, I just recognize that's exactly
what you said, which means I get to segue, something
we don't really do on this show.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I get to segue and go, So what have you
written and what is it about?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
All right? Well, my first book I wrote is called
The ABC's of I Ams. I was doing. I do
affirmations when I wake up in the morning, you know,
during my morning routine, just saying I am beautiful, I
am worthy, I am resilient. I just pick words that
just kind of flow to me. There's no real rhyme
(03:24):
or reason to what I'm saying. I just kind of
let it flow in the spirit. And this is the
way that I kind of build myself up before I
go outside and someone calls me something else, right, So
I heard to you know, had this thought, go online
(03:44):
and go live on my Instagram and share my i
ams with them. So I was doing this during the
pandemic and people were like writing down what I was
saying in the chat and I said, yeah, say it
for yourself in the chat, you're saying it for yourself.
And then someone said, you know, a few days into this,
(04:05):
maybe a week or two, where can we read all
these i ams? And I said no, no, no, I
just save them off the top of my head, you know.
And she was like, no, but I want to read it.
I said, yeah, but I don't have it written down. Well,
one of my beautiful fans sent me an email and
had written down every affirmation that I had said over
(04:26):
the last like maybe week, and it was pages and
pages and pages. And she said, this is the star
to your book. Now go write it. And I said,
oh my god, like she left me no choice but
to you know, move forward. So, long story short, I
sat down. I was in Atlanta working at the time
on a movie. I sat down at a desk with
(04:48):
a blank sheet of paper, not even lines on it,
with a pen and I said, Lord, if you want
this book written, you must write it. You know, this
person has given me all the ims. I don't even
know how to form it into a book because you
just don't want a list of ims turning the page.
I don't think that's it. And I literally heard ABC's
(05:13):
and I said ABC's, So I wrote down ABC and
I said, well, what is that? And then I literally
heard ABC's of im and I said ABC's if. I said,
oh my god, this is so remedial. Maybe God is
having me write a children's book. Okay, that's fine, the
ABC's of ims. That's how the title came. And then
(05:34):
I said, I still don't understand. Like I said, the
alphabet only has twenty six letters, so that's only going
to be twenty six affirmations. That's not a book. It's
not enough. Then I heard five letters for each I mean,
excuse me, five words for each letter. And I said, oh,
now we're talking. So I begin to write words, so
(05:57):
five A words, five B words, five C words, and
so on. I still said, this is feeling like it's
not enough. Then I heard I literally every piece of it.
When I finished, I heard, now go through the Bible
and find the scripture that correlates to each of those
I am words. So people can stop just saying affirmations
(06:21):
but realize that they are speaking the Word over their lives.
So I'll give you an example where it says I
am beautiful. Well that correlates to scripture that says I
am beautiful and wonderfully made. So now it's like, oh,
I'm not just saying an affirmation. I'm actually speaking the
Word over my life. And so that's how the book
(06:42):
is created. If every page, every affirmation has a scripture
that tells you where it comes from, so that you
are affirming yourself with you know, a higher power than yourself.
And it's been working well for people. Testimonies come all
the time. People send me videos of them writing in
their book. It also has like some lines in there
(07:04):
where you can kind of jot down your thoughts while
you're having that time. So that's how to use the book,
what the book's about, and how it came about.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
So you mentioned your process was you sat down and
you had a conversation with God. And I saw, you know,
right before jumping on, I was looking at your Instagram
and I saw a post that said normalize praying before
you make decisions. I'm curious, how how does your faith
play a role in the things that you do, not
just writing, but everything that you do.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Can I tell you this? So I grew up in church,
so kind of that's all I know, right, It's like
I know that there is a higher power that's guiding
and directing my entire life, that knows my end from
the beginning. So I kind of move in this confidence
of faith that everything's going to always work out for me.
(07:58):
So it as a old person. I was out with
my girlfriends in my and me doing the girl thing
and we decided to get tattoos. So everyone's getting their
different tattoos and they go, well, Brayley, what are you
gonna get? And then I was like, you know, I'm
gonna get the word faith. And I got the word
faith written in Arabic in a tattoo. And after I did,
(08:20):
I completely heard, well, now you will live by faith?
And I said, uh oh, because what people don't understand
about living by faith is it's a lot of uncertainty
and it's a lot of I don't know what's next.
I don't it doesn't look like I have enough money
to buy that house, to buy that car, to go
on that trip. But I have to operate in themost
(08:45):
of faith to make the moves I've made in life,
be it personal or business. And so faith has taught
me you're not gonna see it, but you have to
believe it, and you have to walk towards it when
you don't see it, and if you speak it, you
shall see it. So it's a trip that I tell people.
(09:06):
Don't read my book to yourself. That book is to
be read out loud. The instruction in the front of
the book says, read me out loud, because you activate
the atmosphere every time you speak. So whether people know
it or not, I have them put their hand in
front of their faces and you, ladies, please do it
(09:27):
for me. Put your hand in front of your face
and say I am beautiful. Say it. So when you
said it, did you feel that air hit your hand. Yes,
that air just moved every molecule, every molecule in the
room that you don't even see, orchestrating the universe to
(09:48):
remind you that you're beautiful. And it's a trip that
you will walk out today and you'll be like, oh
my god, I got like a compliment, and it came
out of nowhere. No, it came because you said, you
made this affirmation. And we don't we talk, so we
don't realize what we're doing. Every time we speak, we
(10:08):
are creating. Like that's that's what makes us so beautiful
as human beings, is that our creator gave us his
very creation tool, which is the gift out of speaking.
That's how we manifest. He said, let there be light.
He didn't think let there be light. He said it.
So we everything that comes off our tongue. I told
(10:31):
us sometimes we got to slow down what we say
because we're speaking curses and don't even mean to. And
sometimes we say curses just like this one here. I'll
give you. When people say to me, oh my gosh,
brave me, I saw you in that movie you killed it,
I'm like, did I kill it or did I give
it life? Did I take words on a page that
(10:53):
was in the script, put it in my mind, let
it come out of my mouth with air? That means
I actually breathe life into words on a page. So
we should change the language to oh my god, you
gave that so much life, because we need to say
things as they are, not you know, as the world
would call it, because we're calling things into existence that
(11:16):
we don't really want. The only thing that comes to
kill things is what would be considered our quote unquote enemy.
The Bible says he comes to kill, still and destroy.
So when you tell me, oh, you killed it, then
you're saying, hey, you look like the enemy that we have.
And I'm like, no, I don't. I give life. I
look like our Lord and Savior. So I'm very big
(11:39):
on words. And that's kind of how you know this
faith walk is working out for me, is that when
I'm you know, manifesting something, I get my words together
first and then I see it later.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I do have one question that's a bit or you
said movies and Atlanta. Yeah, that and I just wanted
to know didn't help it all in writing? Did you
do screenwriting before this or did you just sit down,
listen to the voice from behind, and then start writing.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I have never written a script, nor have I had
any desire to yet. Recently, I've been looking at these
two b movies and I'm like, wait a minute, this
looks like it was shot on a cell phone. I
should start tomorrow. So you know, no shade, no shade
(12:39):
at all, because I'm very proud of these people who
have actually, you know, tried their hand at movie making
and I'm hearing that they're being very successful. And so
they have caused me to want to start telling some
stories from my life, and so screenwriting is in my
near future. But no, I had never written a script before.
(13:00):
I said, I literally wrote this book with the instruction
of spirit because I did not know the first And
I'll tell you this, even after I wrote all that,
and I wrote it by hand, this was a handwritten job. Okay,
this was not me typing. And then I hired an
assistant to type everything up. And then I went on
a radio interview in Atlanta with well that radio personality.
(13:24):
His name is Willie Moore Jr. And I said, Willie,
you know, I'm in the process of writing this book.
I don't know what I'm doing, you know, God told
me to write this book. I don't know how to
get a publisher or what to do. But I'm just like,
you know, kind of moseying along, you know, in the
process of writing this book. After that interview, someone on
those radio waves heard me called the radio station and said,
(13:49):
please tell her I will publish her book. So that's
how the book got published. And then they're the ones
who did the cover, you know, the cover of the book.
They put it all together with the type setting. I
did none of that. So I want people to know
that when you speak, the universe is yet going out
(14:10):
into the world, getting your help and bringing it back
to you. Because I believed that this book was going
to come out, I didn't know when. I didn't know how.
But we have to be reminded that the win and
the how is not our business. We just need to
make the request. And when I made the request, these
people came out of nowhere, and I know them now,
(14:31):
but they worked on that book, and we didn't keep
writing books or anything like that. They worked on the
project and then they kind of disappeared back into their lives,
and I'm like, oh my god, I have a whole
book on Amazon. I would have never known how to
do that. It's not in my willlhouse. But when there's
something you would like to do, walk towards that thing,
and it will walk towards you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I feel like we shouldn't be taking notes Fromana.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I want to say, you're making me believe, you're making
me believe.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I think I believe out of you. I love it. Well,
that's what we're here to do, is each one teach one,
you know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, So I feel like I'm gonna fly towards my
dreams in a couple of weeks, and maybe maybe they'll
fly towards me too. No, they will, I'm.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Gonna put out they will fly toward me. Into the youth.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
They have no choice you. You are the highest being
walking the earth. They have no choice but to be
commanded by you. And I think a lot of us
don't realize how powerful we are, so we kind of
live in the shadows of life. But when you finally say,
wait a minute, I can literally have anything out. We know,
we tell a little kid, you can be whatever you
(15:37):
want when you grow up, but then we put circumstances
and situations in front of them that caused them not
to believe it. But you know, if you ask this kid,
who are you, he goes, I'm super mad, and we
know that he's not, but in his mind he is,
so he jumps off the stair, you know what I mean.
So we have to get back to that childlike belief
(15:57):
system where I can have anything I want and I
just have to walk towards it. And so I'm still practicing,
like you never get you never finished. This is like
this is the never ending race, right. I think I
heard Oprah say I never knew what I was doing,
(16:19):
but I was calling things into existence and moving towards
something that I wanted, and it was moving towards me.
And I didn't know it was called manifesting. I just knew, Hey,
my eye is on this prize and I'm not going
to stop until I get what I want. And it's
like we've seen people do it, but a lot of
(16:39):
us get a little gun shy, you know when it's
time to perform, but it's time to break out.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So I have a question that I'm just jumping again.
Remember I said the beginning that it was special. I
had a segue, So I just jump on this show, Yes,
jump jumping. So how did you get started with acting?
And what do you when did you know?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Like you're like, I am a true actress.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Well, I'll tell you this. I never wanted to be
an actress. It chose me growing up. I have sang
in the church choir. I always told I watched a
soul train every Saturday morning, sitting in front of the
TV as a kid, and I said, Mama, want to
be on that show. I want to be a singer.
And they said, yeah, what's your real job? What's your
real job gonna be? And I just always had music
(17:23):
in my life. I want. I was, you know, just
always creating little girl groups when I was twelve and
fifteen and you know, doing the music thing. I ended
up moving to Los Angeles to finish college, but in
my mind I was thinking, well, LA is where the
(17:44):
stars are, and I could probably become a star if
I just get to LA because you know, that's all
I think. You know, I'm thinking someone will discover me
if I just go there and I sing somewhere, and
I'll get discovered. That's I didn't come for college, but
I ended up graduating and got my degree. He gave
it to my parents and said, now I can focus
on this music. So I started to be a deak
(18:04):
girl at a very popular studio called Larrabie Studio. I
was there working as a deak girl when the Chronic
with Snoop Dogg and Doctor Dre was being recorded. So
I got to meet those guys, you know, and I
was around just my eyes were big, like, oh god,
if they could just discover me, you know, so working there,
(18:26):
work some other little jobs, and nobody ever discovered me.
But I was still going to sing on the weekends
at different clubs for like a hundred bucks a whole
night of singing, and I'd make a hundred bucks at
the end. But that one hundred bucks gave me so
much life, you know, like, you know, doing what I
love and making some money was enough for me. One day,
(18:47):
coming from singing, I saw a Hispanic neighbor of mine
and he has all these tattoos all over his body,
and he goes and I get excited when I see him.
I'm like, oh my god, I saw you bite the
big mac Donald's commercial you are. I was like, oh
my god, you're famous. I had no idea. He's like,
so what, it's just a commercial. You have a whole
(19:07):
TV show. And I said, no, I don't. He said, yes,
you do. I know who you are. I tell everyone
I live next door to a famous actress. You guys.
I was looking at him, like, who do you have?
I said, you have me mistaken, sir. I am not
on TV, he said, but I see you with the
makeup and the outfits, and I said, I'm going places
to sing. He said, you're a singer. I said yeah.
(19:29):
He said, oh my god, I thought you were this
actress all this time. Like I've literally told people I
lived next door to her. If I saw this whoever
it was on TV, he said, I'm on my way
to my agent's off Let me tell you about if
you just listen, he said, I'm on my way to
my agent's office. You should ride with me. You guys.
(19:51):
He wasn't a good friend of mine, and I don't
employ anybody to get in a car with somebody. But
he was my neighbor. He lived there with his whole family,
you know how Hispanic families. I'm he's not gonna do
anything to me because I live next door and I
know his whole family. So I got in the car
that day. I was selling real estate at the time,
(20:12):
and like I said, going to sing places. His agent said,
who is this? He says, my neighbor. And I think
she should be an actor because I thought she was one.
And she said, you're gorgeous. Sit down and talk to me.
We talked a bit, and she said, honey, I'm gonna
start sending you out immediately, like you can get headshots
(20:32):
next week, you can do all the things, get an
acting class. But I'm gonna start sending you out tomorrow.
And luckily I told her I'm a real estate agent,
so I'm in charge of my own time, so I
can stop at any time and do the audition. She said, great,
Just when I call you with an address, you just
make your way over there. And I said okay. She's
a commercial agent. And then when I was leaving her office,
(20:55):
she said count the nose and I said, well. She
says a little game we play in the office. See
how many no's you get until you get a yes.
I said, oh that sounds fun. Okay, cool. She started
sending these, texting me these addresses. I would show up
and people would be in the lobby, nervous and sweating
and talking to themselves. I'm thinking, what is wrong with
(21:15):
these people? Why they so scared? I had no idea.
Then they say Bradley Evans. I said, oh, that's me.
Let me go. It's like a doctor's appointment, you know,
you go in. And they said, oh, you're going to
read the words on that board over there, and I said, okay,
you're going to So I would read the words on
the board and then I called and said okay, I
went to the thing. She said, okay, no problem, I'll
(21:37):
send you when another one comes. So I did this one, two, three, four,
five all the way nine times. On the tenth audition,
I go in and do the same thing. And during
the audition I just felt the urge. And here's something
about listening to your gut and not being afraid. A
(21:59):
lot of us live afraid, it said, ma'am can I
I wouldn't really say this as a young black woman,
I wouldn't talk to my guy this way. And she
was like, excuse me, what would you say? I said,
First of all, black girls don't call their boyfriends or
significant others honey, like that's kind of an older like,
(22:20):
we don't say that. She said, well, what do you say?
I said, well, we I would say something like pookie pie,
like you know, I would make up a name for him.
And so she's like, okay, well, why don't you do
the scene again and use your little pooky pie or whatever.
So I said, okay, great, and she said action, I said,
pooky Pie? Does my butt look big in these? And
I thwung my big old butt around. Y'all know, I
(22:42):
got this big old trunk in a bag. And then
they started laughing in the room, and so they said
thank you very much, and I left the office. So
my agent calls me maybe a couple of hours later, like,
oh my god, I knew it, and I'm like what
she said, congratulations, you just booked your first national international
TwixT commercial and it was my tenth audition, you guys,
(23:07):
And I said, really, in mind you I'm so green.
Had I been to an acting class prior to that?
The acting class I've gone to later on told me
you never you just say what they tell you to say.
You don't shake their hand, you don't look them in
the eye. You just you go in there and do
(23:27):
what they tell you to do and then you leave.
But I didn't have any of those rules, so I
was uninhibited. I was just being a person. I was
being real authentic to the moment. And I said, hey,
this is not I'll say the honey, but I'm telling
you that's not what real black girls say. And that
they hired that, you know, they hired an artist, someone
(23:51):
who was unafraid, someone who didn't care whether they were
getting the job or not, because remember I'm thinking I
got to count the nose, so which means maybe I
got to collect a lot of them. You know, I
had no anxiety about getting this job, and that's what
I want every actor to know, Like, be human in
the room. Let them see who you are. Like if
(24:12):
someone has a nice shirt, compliment that, don't be don't
say things to get something, just be real. And in
my realness, it allowed me to book this huge forty
thousand dollars what I made one job. And after that
I said, oh shoot, I'm I'm an actor because if
I can make what I was making a whole year
(24:35):
in one day of work, baby, sign me up. And
so that's how I became an actor.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, so I'm handing this off to Tanya because I'm
having way too much fun over here, just chuckling at
your story.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's so real. I love it, Tanya.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think you you guys, you know a bit about acting,
and so I feel like you have more questions that would.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm over here and thinking that's just you know, you
listen to the universe and you followed through.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, it's just something about you know, when you go
to classes they give you more constraints than freedom. And
so that's why now I teach an acting class and
it's called you know everything they don't tell you in
acting class is the name of my acting class, because
I like to tell people the things that I experienced,
(25:31):
how I got through them. It's never brought up in
an acting class. And I'm thinking acting classes are great
because you need to act with other students, you should
understand the language, and you get a lot of good information.
So I don't say don't go to acting class. I
want you to go, but I alsoso want people to
come to my classes because I want you to understand.
(25:53):
Until you know who you are, please don't go putting
on another character.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I really like that.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's really important because once you get settled with who
you are, how you look, how you show up in
the world, can you then go and be the most
authentic person in an audition?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Otherwise you're wearing a mask over another mouse.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yes, and it doesn't read authentic, so you don't get
the job, and you're wondering, how come I never book Well,
as soon as you show up as you as soon
as you realize you're the gift, as soon as you
realize the color of your skin is perfect for this,
The length of your hair, the crook in your teeth,
the brown in your eyes as soon as you the
(26:36):
curves in your hips, that would be me. Sometimes I'm like, Lord,
I'm the curviest girl ever. It seems like my skinny girlfriends,
the way Hollywood is set up, they should be working
more than me. But it's not true. It's who believes
the most, who is the most confident walking in the
in the room, who can be settled with. If I
(27:00):
get it, I get it. If I don't, God has
something better for me. I'm not attached to the outcome
because I know that the Bible says that He has
a hope for my future that he is going to
You know that it's going to be a beautiful future
if you think about it. One hundred percent of everything
you've been through, you've come through if you think about it.
(27:22):
So why do we ever get worried about anything? Like?
It's like and I even I sometimes worry about things.
Oh my God, what if I do this? I can't
even make a mistake because God is gonna use everything
I do to come out for my good.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
So that gives me something else that I'm taking from
your website, tell us what it means to get off
the boat of fear and walk on the water of
your dreams.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
So I'm so glad you asked that. But the name
of my company is called water Walkers Worldwide. And I
struggled in the beginning when it was time to incorporate,
and I was like, Lord, water walkers, what does that
even mean? And so I didn't even know when the
word when it came again, it came to me water walkers,
(28:12):
water wall I kept hearing water walkers. I was like,
that doesn't even make sense. I don't know what that is.
And I was led to a passage in the Bible
that talks about how Peter got out of the boat
when Jesus said come, and he was able to do
the impossible, which is, we don't know of any human
today that can walk on water, right, but we do
know that in the Bible it says that Peter actually
(28:34):
did it. And so when Peter was walking on the water,
he was going towards Christ and his eyes were on him. Now,
the Bible also says he began to think when he noticed,
oh my god, it's storming out here. Oh my god,
I'm walking on water. Oh my god. You know, he
began to look at the elements, and he began to
(28:54):
think is the way it's written. But I like to
remind people, not only would he begin to sink, he
never drowned. So therefore I believe those parables in the
Bible we can take for ourselves and say, wait a minute,
I can jump out of a boat on some things
in my life, and even while I keep my eyes
(29:17):
on the one that can make it happen, and I'm
not concerning myself with how how much when all the
things I can do it. The moment I become concerned
with the things I can't control, that's when I begin
to sink. But again I refer back to the best
part of the story. He did not drown. You will
not lose, because even a loss is a lesson. Now
(29:41):
you know what not to do? You know, you know
what I'm saying. So I end up calling the company
water walkers because I really wanted to encourage people to
get out of the boats of their dreams. Like I
don't care if you don't feel like you have the money,
the looks, the time, The way I get out of
the boat and start walking out water. So my group
(30:05):
of students, we all call it we want to live
our wild life. And guess what WOW stands for W
walk oh on w water Wow. Every time you say wow,
you're saying walkome water, walk on water. When you say wow,
you're saying, oh my god, that person just did the impossible. Wow.
(30:27):
So it's so powerful again the things we say. So
that's where that comes from is I just want people
to really know that you can do it, whatever that
thing is. You can come out of a situation, you
can get into a new situation. Nothing's holding you back
(30:47):
but you. And I haven't even achieved all of my
wildest dreams yet because I still am, you know, working
on getting out of the boat in certain areas in
my own life. I'm not coming from a place of perfection.
I'm coming saying, you, guys, I found a formula. Let's
all work it together, you know. So that's kind of
how this is working.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So what's next for you?
Speaker 4 (31:08):
What's next for me most immediately is every Wednesday, I
have decided to have water Walker Wednesdays so that we
do a fast from the time you get up till
three o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm gonna start a
prayer call where people can call in and it's a
quick little prayer, and I tell people we don't have
(31:30):
to you don't have to pray long, you don't have
to pray loud, you to do all the things. It's
just at nine am, twelve noon, and three pm, depending
on what coast I'm on, I will hop on this
call line. I'll probably make it PST and hop on
this call and I'll say a little prayer that we
(31:50):
all are trusting that we're here on this earth for
a purpose, and that we've all been given a gift
to live by, and that we would trust it enough
to try it, you know, trusted enough to go do it,
not just try it, but astually to do it. So
that's what's next, most immediately, because I was doing my
morning walk this morning and I said, uh, oh, it's
(32:12):
time to bring this back. I did it some years
ago and people were really gifted, you know, by that
time together once a week and it's quick, little and
I tell people you can be anywhere. You can be
on your job. They're not gonna tell you can't go
to the restroom. You could be in a meeting, excuse me,
you got to go to the restroom, but you're really
looking at your phone, like, oh, it's nine o'clock. I
gotta go do this quick little prayer and we're gonna
(32:33):
hop on that thing, say a little three five, be
on there for three to five minutes, and go back
to your life. But it's a sacrifice, right, It's the
sacrifice of I'm not gonna I'm gonna have all liquids
from the time I wake up until three o'clock in
the afternoon and turn my plate down because I'm believing
God for something and I'm gonna make a outward sacrifice
(32:53):
that this would show up in my life. And I'm
gonna connect to the source who can make it happen
at nine am, at twelve noon, and at three pm
will close out. So I'm really excited about just connecting
back to headquarters. That's what I call it. I feel like,
you know, you're connecting back to headquarters, going to the manufacturer, saying, hey, manufacturer,
(33:16):
you've given me these gifts and talents in these different areas.
I know you're going to provide the resources. I trust you,
But in the meantime, I'm going to do my part.
And walk towards it. And so that's what's most right
in front of me. For you know, weekly on the
next level up, I've decided to also direct. So I'm
very excited about you being a director of your first
(33:38):
short film. Congratulations to you. Go do ten more, find
things to direct. If you have the desire, that means
you know you're not even strong enough to pick your
own desires. That means it's for you, like it's already
been placed in your soul to do. So that means
you are needed in that space. So I really want
(33:59):
to produce some movies. So I'm going to, like I said,
start screenwriting. I've already started directing. I've directed a few
music videos and a couple of scenes of some actors.
That's what I do for my actors as well. In
my class, I help them build their acting reels because
I noticed that too. I'm like, I go to acting
class for months and years at a time, but I
(34:21):
don't have anything to show for it. So that's why
in my class, yes, it costs much more than most,
but you walk out with a true sensibility of how
to navigate the business. You walk out with a actual
real to show your talent. You walk out with a
online community that you can connect to and ask questions.
(34:46):
You know, and all of us are on different levels
in that group, so you have a community of people
that you can connect with. So that's all I'll be
doing is running my courses. I'm gonna start casting, So
I would love to have your headshot and resume on
file because I'm always looking for new faces to be
a part of things. But that's what I'm looking to
(35:08):
put people on. I would you know what I'm going
to be in this industry? I said, I wish I
had a me someone that was open with how it
really goes, tells me the real and also gives me
a hand. I didn't have that, you know. I didn't
have anyone usher me into the industry. I just kind
of showed up here, showed up there, Oh take an
(35:29):
acting class, Okay, where to go? Go over here? Go
over there. No one pointed me any direction. So I
decided I'm going to be what I wish I had.
So that's on the horizon for me for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
What is the best way for listeners to support you
and what you do?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
They should follow me on Instagram at Brayley Evans. I'm
there almost daily. I do have a special subscription portion
on my Instagram if you go in the stories. A
lot of times I put the subscription button up. You
pay nine ninety nine to get the most authentic Brayley,
you know, get the behind the scenes, and that's how
(36:07):
you stay connected, finding out about acting classes, where they're
gonna be, what's going on, and just me giving tips
because I feel like I've learned over time that people
appreciate that which they pay for and it's just the truth.
So it's like, okay, well I'll make it where everybody's
accessible at nine ninety nine. Anybody can you know, can decide, hey,
(36:29):
I'm not gonna have McDonald's today, and I'm gonna go
ahead and make this subscription for the whole month. I
get to log on and hear what she's talking about,
and then if you decide to take the course, then
we set you up and get you on your way.
So yeah, that's Instagram is the best place. Also, Bradleyevans
dot Com my website. I feel like everyone let it
(36:50):
let me ring the alarm. They said that TikTok was
going away soon and if they ever decided to take
Instagram away. I want all of us, under the sound
of my voice, to get your own own website and
to promote yourself and build your own communities. Like people
forget that there are a certain number of people in
this world that are assigned to only you, that can
(37:11):
only hear from you your voice. And so for the
people who can hear my voice and it causes them
to move, I want to have a special place where
they can can you know, find me. So Brayleyevans dot
com is my website and Instagram is, like I said,
I'm there daily. I'm also working on my new page
over on fan Base, which is owned by a black guy.
(37:34):
His name is Isaac Hayes, the third I believe it is,
and he has a type of Instagram that's called fan Base.
But the cool part about it you can monetize on
the day one that you get on there. You don't
have to have a certain amount of followers or whatever.
And it's just a really cool idea to see what's
(37:58):
happening in the world such as Instagram and then say,
you know what, I'm gonna make a version of this
that's for the people. So it's called Fanbase. And I
urge all of you to check it out.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I would like you to know that I'm already over
here checking it out.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Like yo, this seems kind of nice. Okay, sorry, so hey,
she just wrapped herself up nicely.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Thank you, Tanya. You did a great job on this interview.
I got to sit back and smile and chuckle. I
enjoyed myself with this.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I love it, Tanya.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Do you want to go ahead and wrap it up
and tell everyone where they can find you and your work.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I do also have a website. It's Miss Tanya Miss
Tania Todd dot com and you can find me across
social media at Miss Tania time.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
When you say MS, is that MZ or m s ms?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Okay, and uh if you know it.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Behind her, there's a very cute pink book that says
fifty two love, and then there's a comics lit.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Those are both.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
That she well once she just wrote by herself fifty
two love and the other one, well, she's in that
one and that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
The comic's lit.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I've read it, Okay, I can stop talking, though I
was about to go on.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
A whole rum ramble right there, but you can.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Find out everything that your ladies are up to at
www dot and I thought ladies dot com. And when
you go there you can go down to the middle
of the page and you can see the charities that
we probably support. We asked that you take a moment
and support them as well. That does not mean it
have to mean monetary. You can give them a little knowledge.
Sometimes they need someone who knows a little bit about
some expertise that they don't have. Or you can get
(39:32):
your hands thirty and go work and you know, support
them that way.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
We thank you in advance for that.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Remember that wisdom is all around you if you're open
to finding it and accepting it.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
So piece of love you guys from Wilnona and the
Missing Jade. Oh yeah, thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Bye.
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