Actress and podcaster Khadeen Ellis, sits down with Sharí Nycole and breaks down the beauty in tapping into her gifts and embracing new opportunities. She also discusses the joy in juggling marriage, motherhood and her professional purpose.
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00:00Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Talk about being deliberate and intentional, especially when it comes to being a mom, being a wife. We talked about that balance piece. Yeah. And we talked about this a little bit off camera yesterday, the visibility piece. Yeah. And I ask because I do have close friends who are moms, are working moms, who are amazing like yourself. But sometimes being the mom takes precedent. Yeah.
00:22And so things that they may want to do career wise, like you said, they put on the back burner. So there's a level of visibility professionally that they may not have. So for you in knowing that and also, again, you're in a power marriage. Your husband's also a celebrity. Have you did you ever have moments on this journey where you felt invisible? And if so, how did you work through that to become obviously what you become at?
00:41Yeah. To answer the question of feeling invisible, I don't feel like there was ever moments where I myself felt invisible. However, I do felt components of my life were invisible.
00:54Yeah, that's good.
00:54Okay. So though my husband, for example, celebrates me all the time as a wife and a mom. We do the vlogs. Everyone's smiling. People love them. People love that. You know, and he's always shouting me out. He's always bigging me up and pushing me to the forefront. But that's as Kadeen wife and mom sometimes. Right. But then there's Kadeen the actress.
01:11There's Kadeen the host. There's Kadeen the person. And I've had to realize that after getting married and having children, a lot of women say after children, I want to get back to my old self. I want to get back to the old Kadeen.
01:25There is really no old Kadeen. It's who Kadeen is now. Who is this new version of Kadeen after she's done all the things? How do I now learn who she is? How do I pour into her?
01:38How do I assess how her needs and wants have changed? What stays the same? So there's definitely moments where I've felt that components of my life were defined by what people saw me as, you know?
01:54And now I'm ready to get back to now that I feel like I'm done having children, child, because I'm not having no more babies.
02:00Are we sure? We done, done, girl.
02:02Because y'all really has a real battle. You know, sometimes things happen.
02:07Baby, he might just rush past me in the hallway, honey, and there's number five.
02:11Yes. So knowing that and knowing that if I were to get pregnant again, for me, from a health standpoint, it would not be good.
02:18My husband did get a vasectomy, so I won't be physically having children again, which is typically the hardest part, particularly being on camera and in the acting space.
02:27It's like having to be pregnant and then come back and be pregnant and come back. Yeah.
02:30So still wanting to remain, of course, being an active mom and wife and all that, I am ready to get back into the space professionally where I can kind of just use my instrument, you know, as an actress and as a host.
02:42And I have an opportunity that came my way recently that you guys will learn about very soon.
02:47I can't wait because this is the second time you've said, I'm getting annoyed now that I don't know what it is.
02:52And you know, you know why it means so much to me? It's because in that space, I felt so alive.
03:00I did. I felt like that's where I was supposed to be on a professional level.
03:05It made me want more. It made me want to do better.
03:08It made me want to study again and to fine tune this instrument that I felt was rusty and maybe couldn't be revived, you know?
03:17So, yes, this particular opportunity, coupled with the love and the support from my husband and my children and my family, my parents, my in-law, everyone has just been rallying around me to make sure that I was prepared for this moment.
03:32And in my stillness at the end of 2024, and by relinquishing everything to God, I got a call on January 6th that changed my life.
03:41Wow.
03:42And I can't wait for you to find out about it.