00:00it's looking like a pretty busy year so far but um it's a good thing oh a lot of great
00:13things going on a lot of expansion for pastry which is you know obviously one of our number
00:19one priorities it's business that we built together four years ago and it's pretty incredible
00:24that it's grown as much as it has and you know has potential to be pretty worldwide sensation so
00:31very excited I filmed a movie in the beginning of your independent film called independent
00:35called dysfunctional friends with Wesley Jonathan Megan good Stacy Keebler Terrell Owens was in it
00:43it was a huge ensemble cast I'm missing a ton of people but I learned a lot of things on that set
00:49being around people that have been acting for their entire lives and I had a lot of fun so I'm pretty
00:54excited to see that and I did another feature for MTV called worst prom ever which is a really
00:59fun movie about prom and being the worst prom ever so I had a pretty cool cameo and that and it's a
01:06lot of fun and looking forward to doing a lot more films this year we're working on a lot of other
01:10things though we started a production company yes simmons 2 um the way I envision the sign is
01:17just simmons with a peace sign so it's like 2 and peace and love and happiness and uh just really
01:23putting out some really good quality programming so television a lot of things television movies
01:29there's a lot going on because we always have so many ideas when we're doing these shows and it's
01:34like why not have your own production company and we have ideas for other shows and not only for us to
01:40be in but just to produce them just ideas they just flow I don't know all the time from but they're
01:44just always I can't sleep at night because I have so many ideas I don't think my mind shuts off at
01:49all I think that might be the family you know gene or trade is just to your brain just never
01:54shuts off as soon as I wake up like I sleep with my phone in my hand I fall asleep and wake up like
01:57it's ridiculous not good pretty bad I sleep I do sleep but I am everywhere and I am everywhere within
02:03a day or two like 24 hours a different state every second I'm enjoying myself it's important so I'm
02:08definitely enjoying myself in the middle of working gotta do that I work with them and fashion editing
02:13and all that stuff so it's cool and I have a lot of other stuff I'm working on like books and my
02:19own clothing line tell them about your blog oh I just started a blog like eight days ago it's called
02:23the hiphopprincess.blogspot.com and honestly I just felt like it'd be cool that people in my world a
02:29little closer to me like a lot of fans have a lot of questions so I try to blog daily about whether
02:34it's clothing fashion behind the scenes at a photo shoot I do open entries from my diary kind of thing
02:40like I'm feeling or whether it was a couple years ago I just think it's cool to get really like
02:45personable my fans and let them see that you know we too are the same and we deal with a lot of same
02:50issues so I think organization is the main key and then from there is just passion for what you do and
02:57you know making sure you're doing what you love which is fun so it doesn't always necessarily feel
03:02like work but it is a lot of hard work and a lot of long hours but just really the key thing is just
03:09being organized and knowing exactly what you want to do and not letting anyone else lead you in a
03:15direction that they think is right for you organization is definitely key yeah we have Barbies that just
03:20launched oh I just I just actually blogged about them too yeah so in style Barbie they do different
03:25collections for different uh companies and pastry did for different Barbies they drop in Walmart and
03:32Target and um pretty exciting stuff the children's stuff is doing amazing our sales overseas and our
03:39popularity overseas is growing like pastry is becoming worldwide which is pretty exciting because we
03:44started with huge dreams and not that we weren't really sure but a lot of people really weren't sure
03:50if we can do it and the fact that it's gone to that level is pretty exciting it's kind of like it's not
03:55even like I told you so it's just like score this is great totally hey I'm Vanessa Simmons and I'm
04:02Angela Simmons you're watching Essence TV
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