00:00hey hey everybody I'm Dana Blair host of essence live dudes dudettes everyone we have moved and
00:09our new offices are bigger and better than ever so of course I'm gonna spill all the tea and take
00:15you on a special sneak peek behind the scenes everything at our new studio and our new office
00:20face let's take a look frosted glass so the best thing I think about this new building is that we
00:31have these really great snack bars on each and every floor I want cranberry juice I don't know
00:37if y'all know this essence lab I'm a little hyper so if you don't want anything at the food bar we
00:41actually have a really dope cafeteria that just opened up next stop editorial the floors are
00:49really really big my first few times here I got lost multiple magazines are on this floor our
00:55sister titles in style people don't clean your desk up now now that you got company so take a look so
01:07what's happening here at your desk what I really love on my desk is my picture of mine my squad
01:11as a love editor that's my husband and my dog Yolanda is my neighbor hi Yolanda oh look at your
01:18multicultural chocolates yes okay let's talk about the chocolate can we look at the chocolates
01:23okay so I've got the way about eating the light-skinned chocolate first or should I eat the dark-skinned
01:30chocolate according to my dating life I like the dark chocolate your lashes are popping thank you
01:36they're mine and you better tell it that she is all natural risk my isle thank you guys thank you
01:42Corey thank you Alana thank you Charlie I can't bring this into the fashion closet it looks really clean and
01:55organized right now so these are like inspiration boards for upcoming issues upcoming trends things we
02:03may or may not have shot things that have inspired us so this is a lot of fun but now we are going to go
02:09to where the real magic happens the video floor let's go okay guys this all of this fabulousness
02:22behind me is our control room which is always live and popping just like our show and for a girl who
02:27can't even program the clock on her microwave I find all of these buttons really really impressive so
02:33let's go take a look and see how the magic really happens well hello there handsome hi okay so everyone
02:41this is Serge he's the director for essence live without him child I don't know what would happen can I
02:47push a button like what is what do these buttons do these are the camera buttons mm-hmm and I'm not
02:52going to shut off the power to the entire building sorry you can't say that it just don't hit the self
02:59make it what's going on what do you do here at essence I am the on-air graphic producer and we
03:05design the graphics for the show and you call them live you push them live when we're live isn't it
03:11exciting it is be honest you ever get mad at me because I can't see you no so are you ever like
03:25no love and kisses all the time this is studio a one of four studios here in the new space dandy
03:37shmandy cameras which I will not touch because again they say I break things and I'm not trying
03:41to break anything but I love these bad boys now this is a set storage room different chairs different
03:50tables rugs fixtures different little knick-knacks and things like that to put on the shelves Diane
03:56slays it each and every week so it's always something fun always something new thank you so
04:04much for joining me and you have officially been inside
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