Who was the big shift for you, like, because at some point you decided let me take this seriously and took it into your own hands.

No, yeah, it was it was me getting fired and me just my homegirl were on a couch one day.

She was like, girl, you should go outside and find yourself in the street.

And I was like, girl, what do you mean?

And my cousin was like, but everybody's getting you know, viral, famous office app call Instagram, get on there.

And then from there that's when I was on Bader alert, hollering them like fighting myself on the street.

Then they put the Pokemon I mean, and I'm like fighting a Pokemon Like that was twenty seventeen.

I'm like, what, wow, that long ago.

So from there, I got my first brand ambassador, you know, with the hair company, but I was still short off my rent, you know, I was still trying to figure out, like what do I do?

So doing that and had to go to work at film Field Marriott.

So and after that I got fired from that job.

So I just kept getting fired everywhere.

I was just like because I would this is not what I wanted to do.

I didn't want to work for nobody.

I just knew that what mom my mom said and what I feel in my spirit is gonna happen.

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MM pretty Vere is my guest.

Everybody hard Mama, Hello, I'm so happy you came.

Yes, I took math busses again, the Greathound spirit.

I'm so happy to meet you finally in person.

You know, I'm so honored, you know what I mean.

I told you off camera that I love you so much and just what you've done for the culture is just timeless.

It doesn't go un notice.

You know, you just made it.

You made the door open for all of us just to walk in, you know, and from radio, everything else happens.

You know, TV comes, you know, brand deals come, but you really set yourself up that you are still the talk of the town.

You know, it's like, what are you talking about?

So yeah, I'm honored.

That's so sweet.

Thank you.

And a fan of your work, I think you're so funny and talented.

But then also when I had I had Coiler Ray on the pod and she was telling me about your mom and how your mom has been so great to her and inspire her, and that you also have been like somebody that you know, you send her things and support her, and I was like, devotional, Now I really really want to get to know her better.

And then somebody else too, Tierra Wack.

Did you have some connections but you don't know her?

Right?

You met her today?

I know her like that, but like I just send her devotions in the morning, like I'm such a spiritual bunny.

So like, girl, whatever you got going on, read this, read this devotion.

I never got a devotion.

I feel sad.

I feel out the loop.

Like now we got to number that.

Now I'm gonna be just dropping dropping gems every day.

What does that mean to be on Pretty V's devotion list?

What do you get?

And what moves you to share?

What I mean?

For me?

I believe in God.

So one thing about it.

If I have something that I'm reading every morning and I'm and I'm I have something that's gonna push me to share it?

Why not?

And I do that every morning?

Like Charlemagne Boosy, I'm like, Boosy, you don't cut up on shave room today, bab you need some scriptures And Y're like, you know, Boosy, Charlemagne Cat Williams, Like, I'm just sending it out to all my people's, you know, be someone Deasy's Funny, Marco DC, Young Fly, the list goes on.

So I want to know learn about all of that today from you.

But first of all, congratulations to you, because what I love about you is I feel like you built you.

Yeah, like I mean God built you, y of course, but I mean you really have taken like your funny.

Did you always know you wanted to do this?

Like where did this even come from?

And how did you?

Yeah, I create this business in this career that you have.

Yeah, I've always wanted to be in the entertainment industry, but radio was my passion.

I went to school all four years for communications, and then I had my own radio show call Lounge twenty two where we played the sexty and Smooth R and B from the eighties, Nineteenth Day, We did all of that O and then after that life began.

You know, I got out of college.

I had no connection to radios.

You know, I was working in programming interning right after college.

Thought I was gonna be that girl leaving school, end up being depressed, end up having nervousness, end up in my head, like, oh my god, what i'm'na do?

You know.

My mom's a pastor, so she's like, you know, God said you're gonna be in an art.

So I'm like, when you gonna when you're gonna show me what arts?

You know?

Yeah?

And I was like, you know, i'm'a figure this out.

I'm gonna do comedy.

God just telling me to move and have faith and do it.

And I did that and I'll try to figure it all out.

And I worked at fail for Marriott, I worked at Dollar Trees.

I worked at all the trees, not.

The Dollar Tree, no Dollar Try, all.

Over the place.

And then after that, I w I kept hearing music in this building and I was where I was working at and I was like, who's playing this music?

And come to find out with South Coast Music Group and then they had Baby Jesus and then I was his adamin.

Now he's called the Baby, you know, So I was assisting the baby at the time.

Back in twenty seventeen.

The Baby, Yeah had you as an assistant and you.

Were fresh out of college, well not fresh fresh, yeah, like yeah, twenty seventeen.

Were you a good assistant?

I got fired?

What did you do that got you fired.

I wasn't focused on that job.

Like I don't give me assistant vibes.

Yeah, Like I wasn't focused.

I mean with the glasses maybe a little bit, but not really.

You know, I wasn't focused.

And they knew that, you know when I came in, Like this girl wants to be a comedian, she wants to be in the entertainment industry herself.

But we're happy that she's here to help us because I graduated already, so I had like little college connections and the baby baby Jesus back then was trying to get into the college room of things, and I was helping him, you know, and still doing little radio plays for you know, Arnold Taylor, and you know, he was just like, you gonna have to slide off, you know this thing where you have.

You seen the baby since.

All the time.

So it didn't end badly, No, they were just like, you can't do this anymore.

He didn't fire me, okay, Arnold did.

Guy, just like we go ahead and focus on their comedies and me and Arnold was like.

This, oh still I love Yeah.

We didn't have any bad yeah, And it was just like he pushed me to my greatness.

You know, he was the one that says you gotta go.

And from there that's when the viral moments happened.

And then what was the big what was the what was the big shift for you?

Like cause at some point you decided, let me take this seriously and took it into your own hands.

So yeah, it was it was me getting fired and me just my home.

Girl was on a couch one day.

She was like, girl, you should go outside and fight yourself in the street.

And I was like, girl, what do you mean?

And my cousin was like, what everybody's getting, you know, viral and famous office app called Instagram.

Get on there.

And then from there, that's when I was on Waller Alert Hollywood and like fighting myself on the street.

Then they put the Pokemon in me and then I'm like fighting the Pokemon.

Like that was twenty seventeen.

I'm like, what, wow?

That long ago.

So from there, I got my first brand ambassador, you know, with the hair company, but I was still short off my rent, you know, I was still trying to figure out, like what do I do?

So doing that and had to go to work at film Field Marriott.

So and after that I got fired from that job, So I just kept getting fired everywhere.

I was just like cause you wasn't wasn't, I wouldn't.

This is not what I wanted.

I didn't want to work for nobody.

I just knew that what mom my mom said and what I feel in my spirit is gonna happen.

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Did you ever do that?

Like, there's a lot of comedians they do like that first, I don't know, like stand up and just trying to get on in the comedy clubs.

You ever go that route?

I did, but I did Wilding Out first.

I auditioned for Wilding Out.

I didn't make it.

I done told them I was DC young Fly cousin, I'm callous Miller Auntie like, I was gonna say everything, but you didn't make it.

Not the first round and be someone made it just hilarious made it.

Everybody else made it or set me.

And you know, God took me back from New York back to Charlotte, you know, and have me in that kitchen doing skits with my body enrolled.

And I was doing that, and then after that I had auditioned, and then they called me back twenty eighteen and said, hey, b see, you know you're doing your thing.

You know your numbers are growing.

You want to come back and do this audition again.

And when I got there, I didn't have to do it.

You know, I've been on the season for eight seasons now.

So you and your phone create enough content to get hired on a television show.

Yeah, create enough content that you're getting brands and making money off of Instagram.

To me, that's super inspiring, cause it's like it wasn't nothing but you and your talent, right, you know what I'm saying.

Like it wasn't like some producer came in or some people came in and spent money on cameras and this and that.

It was you.

It's an Instagram on Instagram.

It's amazing love bonding and roll and bonding and a roll in the kitchen.

And you saw bonuses.

You sell a lot of bonus, a lot of bonds.

You did a lot of I loved that for you, a lot.

Of bonus, a lot of roads.

And then after that, you know, wild'n out call back twenty eighteen, and then that's when I've been on the show for eight season.

After that, those deals started happening within that that year.

We ask everybody on our show.

We start with one to ten.

How happy are you on a scale of one to ten.

Ten, So you're like a happy person most of the time.

Yeah, what do you attribute that to?

I think just life.

You know, like when you sit back and you be like you are a really blessed girl.

Some days I used to be a one you know, some days i'd be a one in or two, you know.

But I think now that I know like the formula of everything, and I know like sometimes it just be you.

Nobody else is gonna fail you but you.

So I gotta give myself a ten to day because I've been doing a job well done.

Mm yeah, what do you mean nobody could do it but you?

Well, for me, it's it's like we always tend to blame somebody else for our success, and sometimes the only person that's failing you is you.

You can't if I depend, if I give my whole career to you, and I'm over here like well you told me, No, you've actually been.

You've been.

You've been helping me, you've been encouraging me.

You've been telling me what I need to do, and I don't listen.

I don't follow through with it, and I'm not consistent, and I'd rather do this then who is failing you?

Yeah?

Just me?

I'm the one.

Yeah, you know.

You come out your busy schedule to give me the formula, the encouraging words, the investing and I don't know what to do with it, Like yeah, no, all that.

That's why they say jay Z meet jay Z or you got a million dollars.

I'mun go meet jay right, you gonna leave the million dollars?

Sure some knowledgement.

I I know that he would tell me what to do, how to do it, and I'm gonna be a student in that setting to take those notes just like here, Like if you give me some gems today, I better go back to Lanta and say, you know what, Angie did this, And if I don't do it, then you're the one who's procrastinating your own dreams.

Yeah, so that's what I mean.

The only person that's spelling you is you.

Cause there's definitely a lot of information.

There's a lot of information, a lot of technology going on, tiktoking, you're back on snapchat, So why not who.

Gave me the best, best information or the best advice ever so far?

Like, well, what's been the best?

Cat Williams, what do you tell you?

Kat Williams told me?

He said, he said, stay in the mother fucking way.

He said, don't get out that way, you know, And I'm like what that means?

He was like, stay in the way, stay in everybody's way.

You are so funny, and you're funny than a lot of people, so you need to stay in that way.

And I always look at everybody as they're being funny.

You know.

I used to always say I'm cute.

I never said I was pretty, you know, until I say, yea, I'm yes, I'm pretty be when I got to college.

But when he told me that, he was like, get in your bag and staying at that, you know, and be in the way.

Don't come out that way for nobody, do it?

And I I it's heuck with me.

So yeah, when did you become pretty?

V uh?

When did you decide I'm pretty?

V uh?

College?

Mm?

I was like, look what am I?

And I'm like, I'm pretty and I'm like, my LM, myn ain't vina?

Just ain't v pretty v And I think for girls, for women, yeah, we don't always feel pretty, right, And I just wonder is that something you always felt?

And how did you get that to to claim yourself yes, I'm pretty v Yeah, like you telling the world to s how they should see you.

Yeah, right, And I don't n know that everybody has that type of confidence.

Yeah.

I was bullied in school, so I didn't feel I like I told you.

I didn't start saying I was pretty until like maybe college.

I was like, I'm cute, like you know, but pretty just hit different.

But did you always feel pretty?

Like as a kid, did you th who t who told you you was pretty?

My mother, yuh, I was in the mission making for the pageants.

I was all over the place, you know, so she made me feel like, oh, my child's beautiful.

You know, she got freckles, she got this, you got that, she's talented.

My mom had to me a tap, jazz, dance, piano and being in pageants.

My father was like, m you think you're cute, you know like that.

So but all my life I thought I was, you know special what.

I didn't call myself pretty and beautiful until I got to call it myself.

Yeah, pretty and beautiful, until I got to college.

And that musta been empowering, right it was did you believe?

Like cause you believe it?

Yeah I hear that.

Yeah I believe it now too, even more.

Yeah know, not just people understand, not just my looks.

Like it's like I'm pretty, but I I can show you pictures I had acne galore Like this was recently like acne acne, acne, acne, and I was still bagging these dudes with the acne.

You wanna find the feble Like that was me, Like I didn't care.

You see the bump showing in the makeup and everything.

But I still thought I was pretty because I carried myself well, I wasn't all over the place.

I feel like my heart is pretty, like but now I'm like, well my skin is clearing up.

I'm like, I'm even more and more and more and more and more and more and more pretty.

You know.

So I didn't.

I've always had this confidence, like I've always knew, like I didn't care what I'm wearing on top of my head if I had.

A act me bump.

I'm still pulling.

I'm still doing this.

I'm still feeling myself.

And then now like you get more con cause now you're from the TV.

Now you gotta you know, you all this.

They gotta do too much covering in posts.

So no insecurity in that ever.

No, I've never been insecure about like how I look.

Mm.

You know, I think when we get into the Instagram and the social media life, you everybody got this.

Everybody got the fillers, everybody got the lips done.

Everybody gold.

So you're like, ooh, I want that.

Now you go to your daughter, you be like, should I get something in here like zippy zippy?

And they like girl, not right now?

Wait you know, n you you don't get if you don't get your pretty house.

Out of here, like just get somebody care needed v So I mean, yeah, I've I've never felt like that, like maybe with like about my little booty to be pituited up a little bit more.

Like let me I got a six pack, but let me get it more.

Defined like Tiana, like you know, like those moments, but never in the face.

Never with my with this, I've always felt pretty like my face car never's a clining.

Heard you say like never to acline me mama, like you too vain, you too vage.

They take that down and I was like, no, no, no, no, it's gonna be something.

It's gonna ring something one day.

Cause she like it now that she gets all over.

The place, She like, pretty be here, pretty be there.

I love that.

Let's talk about your mom.

That's how I got to know.

Well, Coy is the one who told me, I guess your mom has a relationship with Coy too.

For a lot of people.

Right, she has a church.

Yeah, she's a pastor, a pastor, she was a pastor when you're growing up or no, Yeah, wow, my mom.

Took to Corla Ray, she took to her.

She uh you know, uh thought that she is so talented and has a story.

And I told Coy about her, and I said, Bro, you need to be talked to my mom.

You need to become to church.

You need to be you know, whatever is going on, you know, cause we can have great days and still talk to counselors.

People don't know that just.

Because you you you sad.

On me, you always gotta go to them.

Know, if you have a faith based or whatever council you have and you have a great day, still pick up the phone say you know what, Aunt t T I'm having a good day.

Thank you so much for those words.

So those were something that Koy was bringing, you know, and to my mom.

And I appreciated her for trusting me to open that door for her.

So, yeah, my mom's a pastor and she's doing doing it for a while.

Wow, what is that like growing up with a mom as a pastor?

Ooh child?

And I'm Jamaican too, so I know, and you're feisty and you're sassy and stuff like, is there like y'all yes.

So my mom and my father, you know, we grew up, you know, talking like this was never in the household.

Really come down here doing this, you're not heremit like it was all those different things.

But my mom was never that person.

Though.

My mom was very like, come down here and do it, or come down here and do it, just depends on what day it is.

My father was very like, nah, you going to school, gonna become a doctor, you're gonna be a lawyer, you're gonna be whatever.

You're gonna be a real estate agent.

Like it was.

Strict in my my upbringing.

But I appreciate this.

I appreciate what they've done.

I appreciate the yelling.

I appreciate you know, the the are.

They still together?

No, So I appreciate.

I appreciate how I was raised.

I won't change it because I feel like it protects me in this industry.

How how I float?

You know, I don't.

I'm not too accessible, you know, I know what to take and well not to take.

I use my discernment for everything.

I'm an energy person.

So if I don't like the energy.

I'm not going you know, I always pray for God to give me that gift each day so I could do you know who's for me and who's not and I and I learned it in my household.

So yeah, what do you pray for?

A most so is a I R L question?

Peace?

Really peace?

I don't know what everybody praying for.

For me, for you or for everyone.

It's gonna be peace in this industry.

I mean you know y'are doing it for years.

By the way, you look good, Let's be very good.

Okay, you look really really so for me, peace, yeah, you know.

And God to keep restoring my youth.

I don't care if it's face.

I don't care if it's bones.

I don't care if it's my body, m cause I I'm a moving spirit, so I have to move.

So those are the two things.

Yeah, how is that affected?

Like?

Y cause when you think of like g religion and God and then you don't always put comedy next to that, right right, it's not the first thing that comes to So when you grow up in a house like that, and and uh, how does it affect what you do or n or does it not?

Or well with my mom and my dad, there were we were never living in the same household, got it, you know.

So my father was one of those dudes whereas like, you know, you need something, what's going on, what's going on in school?

He was very attentive.

He was very making sure that we're we're good.

But my mom was the one that was like in church, but also go chase your career too.

I'm not gonna hold you back because I know you're gifted.

I know my kids have a calling on they life.

So it made sense in my household cause my mom never deterared me from what I wanna do.

How did she know, you said, she always like encouraged you to do this.

How did she know?

Like?

What was it?

I I believe the relationship with God with her you know, and her spirit.

You know, like God told me you're gonna be in the arts, and she said that before anybody else did.

Really, she said that in middle school.

She told me that.

She was like, and I hold on and I held on to that do college cause do college.

I was depressed.

I was like I was that girl in like a school.

I was hosting everything.

I have my own radio show.

I everybody knew me, and then when I graduated, I was like, oh shit, I got nothing going on, you know, and I do.

I gotta full out of application, and I did so, you know, but I turned my nose into yeses.

And I always go by a delays and never denial, So we could go through those storms and you'd be delayed with you not denied.

Mm.

That's good.

Yeah, that's good.

So then why were you d like you seem like you have such a strong faith and a like st strong will.

Yeah, so then what what was it that took you down?

I was depending on my mom in her prayers more than my faith, you know, and I was older enough to carry my own faith, and sh she doesn't need to do the job.

You see.

We always listen to our pastors and our parents and we're like, well, my mom got it, you know, and I'm spoiled now I was.

I'm the last kid.

So she's like, ohay, why Mom'm gonna do it.

I'm'm gonna figure out.

She gonna pray for me, she gonna do that.

She gonna do that, not knowing that I got to go to God with my own issues and when I knew who he was in the midst of me being depressed, I gave everything to him and now I felt that peace, and from then I knew nothing was wrong.

I was just over here thought I was gonna get a job right after school, you know.

And that's what I tell these people that go to these colleges.

Make sure you have a plan and make sure you're make sure you're applying yourself right, because it is.

It gets hard, you know, getting out of school and then life begins and you know, you depending on mom and dad to to figure it.

Out, and people are starting to look at you like an adult.

Now, no, we're right, so you gotta figure it.

So I from that I was in a still place.

I didn't know what I wanted to do until my mind changed and I was like, you know what, I I got this now, you know.

And it changed when I left and I went to Miami at Change when I got my job working in radio.

And then after that that's when I got viral fired my Schling Street.

So all this happen in twenty fifteen.

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How bad were you were, Like like when you say you were depress because people are like, oh, I'm depressed today.

Like was it like was it dark?

Dark?

Like it wasn't like dark, dok, but it was fated with like why am I not sleeping?

Then it was like going on for a months to the point where I was like, you know, what I gotta pray, I gotta really do it.

I gotta get active, I gotta work out.

But it was never a place where I was just in my room, like, no, tim the lights off, don't bother me.

I was willing and able to combat the enemy.

What is the prayer that gets you out of a depression like that?

Because some people don't I had.

I talked with Tianna Taylor about this because she was like, you know, some people believe it's just hands together, get on your knee, say your prayer.

Tianna was like, I have real ones with God, like what yeah?

Like sometimes be her feelings with God, like what's show me?

Like, what do I need to That's it?

Breathe into me?

She said.

That was one of her prayers that she said.

But I think everybody prays different.

So I just wonder if for you, like what is that?

What is how do you pray yourself out of depression?

It's for me, God, give me wisdom, give me knowledge, give me peace, show me give me clarity, you know, And I got prayer warriors around me.

I go back to my mom because she's one of the ones.

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I have some IROL questions that we like to ask our guests in real life.

One are you your happiest like?

One are you in your bag?

When I'm working?

I love to work really like I love.

To meet the people, like to touch the people.

I like to be in front of people, like yourself, Like I just love to touch people.

I just love to speak life into people.

I just love to like see me create, you know on stage with different brands, Like I just love to like see like walkings, like being my purpose.

I love that, Like you look like you love it, Like you look like you're having so much fun.

I just saw the the Deasie, the little kit you did with I'm like, she's so crazy.

And then the best way, because you seem so free to be crazy, like you're down for whatever.

How did those things happen?

You just jump in and just jump in?

You know, Deansy is a clown himself, so it's like we always hit each other, like you got idea, I got idea, let's do it, you know.

So it's one of those ones where he has time for my bs, he has time for the craziness, and I got time for his.

And then how did those happen?

Did they give you guys, fund them yourself?

Or like, girl, that's a phone, Get.

That's a phone?

No, but like that when you had police cars, just.

Relationships and homeboys.

I got a police car.

That's it, that's all it is.

And you come here Atlanta, We're gonna have you a ski girl.

And then how do you make money off that?

You sell?

Like you just do it for promotions or like.

Just do it because we having fun?

Cause I think Instagram was paying mm and I think they stopped.

But there's other platforms like Facebook that pay snapchats.

Yeah, you know, we put it on those platforms and of course see the youtubeing and all that's.

Yeah, so it makes money somehow.

I don't know.

I see all these like influencers that have a millions of followers, and you create all this content all the time.

Yeah, I just I don't wanna.

Uh, you've clearly made a business out of it.

So yeah, like people have found a way to have just have a talent and just have a talent and not wait for anybody to usher you into anything.

Yeah, and you just kind of take it in on your own and create something, which is so I don't know, it's just so dope that you can do that a little iPhone iPhone right and everything else coming back effort and an iPhone.

You know, people see you moving and shaking with your peers, they see you moving and shaking with your friends.

They like, oh, like, I see that went crazy and viral.

How about we just acted to promote this sh this sugar or do you order it?

So it works, it's it's so you get brands to come in and then sponsor.

Yeah, just be consistent and everything like that.

So yeah, I mean it works sometimes Instagram and paying, but somebody looking at us in they front of pay.

Yeah, but I'm sure and I know you have other and I know you did TV shows, you.

Did rap uh rap shit.

Yeah, but I know you probably have.

Movies.

We shot up chrisa movie, the crpety Stone, and I paid lead.

It's an Hoo on Hulu.

Oh rap shit.

I played Deronda Hood's Story with Remy.

We did that and it was another movie.

I did hip hop uh Christmas, the Surreya and everyone.

So we tap it into that space.

You know, we really are in their red carpet hosting, the TV hosting and also had my own I have my own merchandise in stores, six hundred plus stores city Trends, you know, they all down in the South.

So you know, we we we moving and grooving.

Yeah, mama.

So so I'm like, I'm excited about it.

You know.

My first brand ambassador was Fente, you know, so they you know, took me on their wings and we built that good stuff and and I did their their makeup classes and stuff.

That was the first brand, big brand.

And then it happened, is.

That when Rihanna reached out when they was like, I want you to be and then.

Recently I did I Valentine's They skied, but I had Case in it.

You know.

I love me some case.

Anything that's back in that era, I'm gonna dig it up and find them.

So the case I said, Case, I want you to be in my Valentine's Day skid like we're gonna remake happily.

Ever after he was like, I'm down, I'm in the A.

So Rihanna hit me.

She was like, what's going on here?

Girl?

I was like, girl, nothing at all.

So it was funny for her.

Yeah.

Yeah, So I was always love.

I feel like you know you talked, you said this back.

You were like a combination of Carol Burnett, Oh yes, and Jim Carrey.

We need people to see you that way too and put you in the type of movies.

Yeah.

And because it's time and I'm ready for it, you know, And I'm setting up everything to do that because it is it is time.

Like I love Carapernette, she's telling a story.

Tyler Perry is one of the ones too, you know.

And I love Jim Carrey.

He's he's a physical comedian.

But he's the type of that goes all in, ye know.

He's so daring and so bold and careful.

On has the same way the facial expression.

Yeah, you're so physical.

Sometimes I see you do these skits and I'm scared for you.

I'm like, oh my god, you kill someone.

D that wobbly ass table with the.

Suit kit is holding it up.

It's like a girl.

I'll sit it down.

But I love it, you know, and I want people to see I'm not.

I don't want people to always give me as a pretty face.

Mm like this girl, she could work, you know, cause I I don't want to be that.

I I wanna work out, I wanna eat right, I wanna keep my my my skin right, you know.

I I don't wanna be that.

I wanna just be someone that's gonna work hard, even if it's a bonding and roll on like let's go, you know, because it's it's it's it's needed.

In real life.

What is the best and worst decision you've ever made?

My best decision was moving to Atlanta.

You know that was a faith move.

So I'm happy because that's when my career blossomed.

You know.

My worst, my Grandma Pha, my great grandma passed away and I told her I was coming back to spend time with her.

A week later she passed.

MM.

I didn't go back.

You know, I don't wanna cry, but I didn't go back.

I ain't go back.

I ain't go back.

And and look at her one time, you know, the last phone call we had when she told my mom she was ready to go, and she was ready to get her gown and she was ready to get her herself together.

And I would never do that again.

My my, my, my father.

Mama is still here, and every chance I get, I'm gonna try to see her in for Lauderdale and either and sit work, even if it's boring, even if we gotta watch Benny Henn all day.

And then he gave you know, like i'm'a be there because I told.

My great grandmother I would come back, and I never did.

MM.

That was a great, great lesson she taught you.

Yeah, cause you probably a more conscious now to spend the time with your family and parents.

And MM for sure.

Yeah, and even the friends too.

You know, if you tell somebody you gonna call 'em back, call him back, cause you just never know.

You know and even for me.

You know, people they said they're gonna call me back, calling me back, you know, you never know what I'm calling you about, you know.

So I think that's what I learned.

Are you sensitive if people don't No, not really, because it's not home.

We bothered, but if it's something that I really need to tell them, Like.

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Give it a quick in real life.

What do you like most about yourself?

Mm?

W I would say my faith?

I W.

I would say my faith.

I would say my faith for sure.

So is it religion or God?

Like?

Do you cause it's a fine line for people, right, Like, it's two different things.

Yeah, I think for it's both for you, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's it's both because I believe in Jesus, right and I know people you know, have a lot of gods around, you know, and that's whatever flows to everybody's both.

But I think for me, I just know when I call his name, I get what I need.

Mm you know when I is it instant?

I mean it's in a space where I'm like that phone gonna ring, you know, and it's it's like, oh my God, but just moments where it's like yeah, a hour later I feel it, you know, a hour later I'm getting that phone call like I just prayed about this.

Oh my God, that fast, that fast.

Yeah, does it ever freak you out?

Does it ever?

Like not in a bad way, but like does it ever surprise it?

Yes, I don't know what.

Opportunity just came and I was just like, so, I have a nonprofit called The Pretty Victory.

Why I talk to young girls about their mind their mental health, their self esteem, the confidence, just building that up and just encouraging them to keep going.

So I told God, I said, it's two things.

I said, God, I want to start talking to young girls.

You know, I wanna really at truly dive in their minds and really encourage them to keep going because they may not have a mentor they may not have a sister like and I wanna be that til my whole emails started flooding with with people like hey, I see.

What do you mean?

Like immediately em.

When I say, I looked at my email and it was like the District of Atlanta they this school wants you to come out, this person wants you to come out, this person they want to do charm school.

They want you to do this.

And it just started flooding like that, like same day or no day, same day, going into the midnight.

Wow.

Then I told and you could ask my makeup artists.

I told God, I was like, I just move into my my house.

Seven bedroom dah da dah.

I'm I'm in my house like I'm a little princess.

I don't know what's going on.

I don't know how to fix no light or nothing, but I'm gonna be like I got a little house now.

I said, God, I gotta get this money to to furnish this home like what i'm'a do child.

I looked at my email and it said, pretty Vic, you just bought your home.

I would like to furnish your whole house for you who says that my whole house is furnished by this one company to this.

Day, a company did it?

Yeah, a c like for ads like promote it like that.

She just blessed me with it.

She did my whole she did my dining, she did my my living room, she did my my m my, my thr.

For for mention or for just cousin j Yeah.

She said, I H I seen that you moved, and I wanna furnish your home.

And I aks, God, how I'm gonna furnish all these bedrooms and my downstairs And he pulled through right away.

And I hadn't thay, I didn't.

I think I'm not asking for the right things.

I gotta get more specific in my prayers.

I'm telling you, I literally.

I'll be asking God for peace, for like uh for like uh clarity, yeah, all of that.

I'm very I'm a very thankful prayer.

Like when I pray, I it's hugely led with what I'm grateful.

You know, let me thank you.

I Yeah, but I don't ask for a lot of specific things.

Yeah, maybe I am missing the boat with.

Here, got the got the aks, and you gonna receive it.

Cause I literally was on that thing.

I was like, I don't know how I'm we do this.

I just moved, Yes, things, come on, mom.

I wanted to stay in my apartment so bad.

My mom said, no, baby, you are deserving of the higher heights.

You gonna get this house.

It's gonna go through.

And it was you know, buying a house, how the processes.

Yes, it's dragon it's a lot.

So I'm like, okay, Mom, it's making me upset, like we get it like and she was like, no, we got it, and we did.

I got in.

I was like, whoa, this is my responsibility.

Now come on, I'm like twenty seven, I'm like, what are we talking about?

So I called them people.

They hit me up.

They emailed me, they said, we see you bought the house, girl, we wanna furnish it.

Oh, God said, I got you.

And even when we don't see it, sometimes, like you said, it gets to the point, well are you even hearing me?

Like are you even there?

The people understand the more in this industry, the more people get higher, the more their stot losing sight of who did it for 'em?

You could tell you look at the word shows.

They don't say God no more.

When they say well, I just wanna think, they say God.

Some people say what'em do?

Some of them do angie, but some of them be like, okay, now the more you know somebody, people be girl growing them in the church home, and as soon as they get that award, they don't even know him no more.

M it happens.

And then you know when they on.

They bend and knee, then they say, hey, okay, God, I'm back.

It happens.

You see it.

You see people careers flourish and then be like what happened?

What what turn did you take?

You know?

So I think for me, I'm not gonna be that because I told them I won't be that.

Mm So I think for me, I'm gonna always say thing and a lot of people have they still do that, but then some't and then they expect it to just be that, and then you know, it's like okay, wow.

She like, cause I'm like, I'm trying.

I'm'a go through my lists of like, yeah.

People do some people do, and if it may be not just nervousness on stage, some people just sill forget or people like pray before they get up there.

Who knows, but I know when I get them oscars, I'm gonna be shouting and saying thank you Jesus, thanking God, you know, because I know what it is.

I just don't people do forget.

And I've and I've learned that from people in your era who would call me and tell me people do forget.

So you need to stay and say thank you God, you know, and and keep going.

I remember Missy told me one day, she said, girl, don't lowercase that g you better put God, you know, And I like you, right, we be lowercasing that word you better put good.

And I'm just that girl and I'm not gonna waiver her.

You know, I'm not homie.

I'm that friend.

But I'm also gonna be the one that's gonna call and pray for you too, you know cause I know.

I love that.

Yeah, except like your mom has a church, right, and you do the you're involved in the church.

Yeah, I do the announcements.

The announcements.

Are they funny?

Because they must be funny.

Girl, I got my little my little jigg and jags on on the thing.

It's so funny.

Girl, don't come up here and do no comedy skits.

Now, it's not the pullpit to do that.

So whatnot?

Well, God gave you the talent.

But in the midst of it, I do, I'll be turning up.

So I said to the DC young father that I said, dec let me show you one little thing I did on the pul pit, and he was like, not you up there cutting up?

So yeah, I did that.

So I think I use my gift and everyone I go to my home.

But like here she goes.

She about to dance for the tithes and offering.

So literally that's what I do.

It's fun My mom church is called Godswitive Temple, and she she's so excited.

She's so excited about it.

She's so warming.

I can't wait for you to meet her.

I can't wait.

She's so warming, she's so real, she's so raw.

She's toll living New York.

She lived in the Bronx, she moved to Miami, came back and back and forth.

But yeah, my mom is a real one.

You guys are close.

We are.

That's my I don't play by her, like everybody already know.

I do not play about that lady.

I don't care what y'all do, but don't play with that one.

You know.

I love, Yeah, I love I love I love her.

That's sweet.

Okay, let's see Irral in real life?

What do you peop?

What do you hope people learn from you?

Like when you do those things?

When you talk to the girls, I know you say you're doing one tomorrow.

What are your What are the things that you What are the important things that you teach them?

One of the things that I teach them is no, it's not you.

You gotta change your mind.

Mm you know, because I think we tend to be like, well, you know, it's me and it's I'm the one that's overthinking I'm the one that's this.

It's like when we keep laboring on ourself like that and we keep what labels on it, that becomes you.

You know that, ain't you.

It was one girl and like I say her name, but she was in there, and she was the oldest one in there, and she came in.

She be like, oh my god, we got pretty people about what just all of that right?

And she sat down.

She's like, you gotta because me and be small.

And she's like you got to be small here whatever, like a god.

And then we were talking.

The other girl was crying cause she loved be Simon, And you know, I'm just I'm a very observing person, so I I waited till be some moone tell her story and and I just kept looking at this one girl.

I was like, she is just so hard in the inside and I could see that, you know, but she was just trying to still be all of that.

And her hands was like her hands was like this on the chair right, and everybody was just like talking and they were so engaging.

She was still smiling.

Her hand was like this just balled up.

And I said to her, but everybody did it.

I said, do this right, and then she was like and I said, no, you do this.

And I when she did this and beatone was like, well I wanna do it too, I wanna kill what what I gotta do?

So I said no, not you, says I want her to do it by herself.

I said do this.

And as soon as she put her hand on the table, I said, well you let it go, and she just bust out crying.

I said, let it go, let the rejection go, let the abandonment issues go, let the not trusting people go.

You're you're you're eighteen in here we in the bronx.

What did you think you saw in her?

Where was she this hard?

She was just sh she was just still holding on.

And I think that was the circle that we were having.

It was time to let it go, you know.

And the people told me when I left, the officers was like, you know, she never cries.

Oh, and that's what made the other girls cry, cause she's just they never seen that side.

And you just told her to put her hands on the tail.

And let it go.

She was bald shit.

My spirit told me to look down and her hands was like that, like like bald up uh, And I said let it go my mom, let it go.

And then she just begin to cry, busting out cry kids, you not when I was like, girl of rejection issues vandamit issues must leave you and you are too young to do with that.

Go let it go.

Mm.

And from there she gave me the biggest hub.

My mom gave her a book.

My mom a sent me down with like twenty books from Atlanta, signed it and I brought a little note and I said, sister read this every day.

I'm'a go back to myr and see her and I'm like, are you been reading?

Are you going back?

And i'm'a go back to where I see her to Ma, and I was just like, you know.

Does that happen all often to you?

No?

Not Like if I'm around somebody and I understand what's going on, I could feel it.

I'm like, girl, give me a hug, or like my team like I'm always stopping and encouraging them.

My home gress is something yesterday and I said, she said to me, she said, I want God to view me how I how y'all view me?

And I said, He's already answered that, because when I tell you that you're great, he's speaking through me to tell you you're great, my mom.

Mm, like you're okay, you're hold you're valued, you're this, You're that.

You don't need to look for any answers no where else.

He's already been answering you around people.

You're okay, you know.

So I think for me, if my spirit is just telling me to encourage somebody, I'm gonna do it, you know.

And I think everybody is in that space.

Everybody has that like you good, you okay, and you're able to give a word.

You know.

I think we got if you need, if someone's in need of something, you know, to stop and say, here's this.

You know, my spirit told me to check it on you.

You be having probably uh your homewords on your mind, and you like, you know what, Shoot, I gotta call tt lo lo kk whoever so you know, to speak to cause my spirit is on them, you know.

And I'm I'm that way like I don't wanna.

You actually do it, cause some of us will.

You'll think about it and then you go on about your day.

You don't actually act.

I gonna act on it.

Yeah.

Always, I'm Charlomagne ten o'clock at night.

I don't care people.

The wife yellow.

You okay, you know what it was.

We got what you got going on?

You straight, like I'm that person.

And then it's just every time I had a birthday shout out recently and everybody said the same thing about me.

They're like, ve gonna send you some devotions, she gonna read for your behind, and I like, I receive that because I just I don't wanna be nobody else but myself.

And I'm funny, I'm crazy, i act wow, But when I'm in my little place, I'm like, give me a second.

I'm just reading this.

I'm doing this.

I'm so that it's it's a it's a it's a r it's a pray.

You gotta pray for those things.

Some people don't pray for you, Like God, I need that gift.

I want that gift.

I wanna be able to hug Angie and turn that she's doing a great job.

I wanna be able to turn that she's doing a phenomenal job, even when she may feel like she's not seen, even when she may feel like I've been in the industry so much, I ain't get my fly.

I ain't do this, But you have, and you will, you shall and it's coming.

I don't care how time goes by.

You are deserving of all of that MM, because you are a special being and you know you are.

You know, you're a great mother, a great wife, a great host.

You doing it for a long time.

And I pray that God give you everything your heart desires, because it's happening, you know.

So yeah it is we.

I receive all that.

I receive all that accident cause you deserve it.

You deserve it.

And I think a friend should do that.

You should be able to tell when your friend need a little word work.

You know, you need that, you need that little who does it for you.

Everybody says that they be like me, who does it for you?

Mm.

You know my core friends, my tribe does it for me.

I do have my friends who she's here today, one of 'em that speaks lifely to me all the time.

My hairstyles who's in Austin.

She speaks life to me all the time.

You know, little Duval, Charlemagne, my mother, my sister.

So I do have I do have those people, you know, and I appreciate those people, but you know, sometimes you want those people to be there every step of the way and everybody got their own life to live.

But you know, I feed myself back, you know, we had It's funny because I have talked to other comedians before, and there's always this connotation about people use comedy to heal.

Mm.

You don't seem like you have a lot have had a lot of trauma in your life, but like people who have h had trauma are the best comedians.

Or I watched my mother uh get abused.

Mm.

You know, I watched her get through that.

I watched my mom you know, fight and fight for us, you know, everything, and just all of that.

Yeah, that's why she's the way she is when it comes to prayer.

You know, I was watching prayer saved her out.

Yeah, I I've watched her did she talks about this.

It was nothing to hide, But I watched her go through that.

You know.

I watched us literally uh f her figured it all out, you know with us, you know, but I had a father who was providing.

I had a father that was there, But I also had a side where it was like, why do y'all do that, you know, like physically abusive yet to my mom?

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know mentally physically you know, all of that, you know, And she has a book.

She has her own devotional books, so she talks about that in her book, right and in faith.

You know.

I watched my brother, you know, get into this big car accident, this motorcycle accident.

Excuse me, and God said he had seventy the the the doctor said he has seventy two hours to live.

The doctor in Miami City has seventy two hours to live.

My mom said, well, that's seventy two hours for me to go fast.

Now I have a nephew from my brother, remember the kul wal.

My brother could talk, mother works everything.

Nothing.

You look at my brother, it is nothing out of scratch on a inch.

Wow.

Why did they think he was gonna die?

Because that's what they said.

There was like they can't He was bleeding from his head top.

They had to put n needles and tools in his head.

He was br he was eating out of his stomach.

He couldn't walk, He didn't know who was who, He didn't talk.

It was just like a lot.

And then my mom said, okay, well I have seventy two hours too fast.

And she told me the Lord taught her to get up cause he's not onto death and she got up from that place.

And I have a brother now and he's thirty eight.

Wow, when did this happen?

This was when he was sixteen.

He was a big one of those big motorcycle uh dirt bite guys in Miami, you know, the mar King Parade.

They'd be outside.

So he was one of those ones that was doing Willie's and and he he's cracked his helmet open and yeah, and he uh he was helicoptered helicopter sh you know, to the air, to.

The and you were young.

I was r young, but I remember everything, and I was like, wow, So I've watched so much, you know, I've watched my uh step n my uh step dad you know, talk down, you know, on me and told me certain things I didn't like.

But uh but that just made me go even harder cause i'm'a show, you m you know, and that's what I did.

So I have moments.

But I think comedy has healed me.

You know, I think heals me every day because, like I told you, it brings me joy, you know, it brings me joy.

It brings me to be like I remember when they told me I couldn't do it, you know, and it it makes me happy.

So yeah, good for you, God bless you found then, Yeah, I found that that nothing from my past has hold me into the space where I got to be paralyzed in it.

You know, some people would just be paralyzed, not physically but mentally.

K move like I ain't.

I ain't get that right and that I ain't ever been in that space.

I've always moved.

Do you have a favorite like skit or moment or like if somebody's just learning who you are right now that this is the this is the one that says this is the defining yeah moment, comedy moment for you.

It's like all of them for me.

But Charon, who is she?

Sharon is?

Charon is my aunt in real life?

Is there is her real name?

It's like every Jamaican Auntie is.

You gotta have a Charon.

You have to have a look at Dwight.

You have to have a n A d.

You have to have you know, you.

Don't have a level like you should add a level.

Yeah never, you know, I don't.

So I think for Cheon, it was just only right to come up with.

And my aunt used to do be Cheron all the time.

She would do fish and scone fish and talk about everbody in the neighborhood.

And my grandparents was the same way and this, so it was like all of every share runs everybody in one.

She's the aunt that gossips in the neighborhood, talk about everybody.

But they have on in the news today.

So I was like, let me just take the little bits and pieces of how I grew up and put him all in one in one thing.

You know, she's the one, yeah.

Bd, miss White, then find it.

I use it too, easy access, easy access.

Do you have any mentors in the space, in the comedy space or people that have or idols or people that you is you know.

Brisia Webb.

I talked to Bricia Webb because she has done like one woman shows and stand up, so she has encouraged me in that space.

Charlamagne, you know comedy was he funny donkey other day?

So so he you know, he's been a good friend to you, be a great friend to me, a really good friend in me.

Charlamagne goes.

People don't know the other side of him, Okay, I mean I think you know he first of all, he you he has changed very much over the years.

When he first started, he was very different and he has grown so much.

But there's also like I I only got to know him when I started working at iHeart and then okay, but he like welcomed me.

He he'll he'll send me a message out of nowhere with just checking on you.

And you know, like he's just he's he's that one's.

Yeah, he's very sweet to you know.

And like I said, little Duvall and you know, me and Tiffany had will speak time to time.

I check up on her and Gina teacher Campbell, you know, like I love her.

She she's always encouraging me to keep going.

Nick Cannon.

People don't give Nick his followers at all.

Nick has put a lot of comedians on.

He has made a big platform to put comedians on on a show that is worldwide right now, you know, Kevin Hard, Kat Williams, d Ray Davis, you know, the list goes on and on, and myself now pretty v now DC, Young Fly, now be Simoe and now just hilarious now Chico being Carlos Miller, Like he has set up this platform for us to win and a lot of and even for artists.

A lot of people don't talk about that man m But I'm gonna talk about him because he has definitely helped me, you know in many ways, like his his his number is always on go.

I'm always calling him, I'm always checking up on him.

I'm always making sure I'm sending him devotions to like you know, like that's the thing got sending you devorces to read.

So I'm like he has literally like opened that door.

He never gave up even when I thought I was going home.

He's like, Nah, You're here for a reason.

Mm, you know, always thinking of me for tours.

So yeah, he's he's special.

That's tough.

Yeah, well you definitely here for a reason.

Ah.

I think maybe that's the last thing in real life?

What what is your purpose?

Healing people with my comedy and with my my heart?

You know, I think that's my purpose speaking life and you know, making the world laugh, cause it's healing both ways, you know.

So my purpose is bigger than me and and I think I am on the way to conquer what I need.

But the most importantly is healing the people with my gift.

I think people ask God, where's my gift?

What do I do?

What's my purpose?

But we don't understand that it's already in us.

We have to activate where he already gave us.

So I'm gonna activate me speaking life, continue to do that, and me making the war.

Lefse can't go better than that.

You cannot pretty be everybody.

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