00:00Hello, Kim. Hi. Welcome to the Essence. Yes, thank you. It's so great to be here. I'm having you here. I love Essence. I'm so happy to be here. Love it. Who are you looking forward to seeing? Everybody. Everybody. And not just the performers. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody. You know, I'm looking forward to just being here and connecting. I'm looking forward to the music and all of the
00:30empowerment and just, you know, just being in the village. Yeah, yeah. I call it the best family reunion on earth. You just told me that you should be celebrating 40 years in this industry. Praise God. This year, 2016, is my 40th year in the industry. Yes. Wow. I started when I was seven with the Mrs. Butterworth commercial. Oh my goodness. What have you learned about yourself and just being in the public spotlight? What have you learned? You've grown up in front of us, you know?
00:58First, I've learned that God is a good God because, you know, for all intents and purposes and the way statistics go with my industry, I should either not be successful, possibly dead, strung out on something, and just not in my right mind.
01:17Yeah. And so, you know, I thank God for all of that. What I've learned from myself that, and especially with the last project I did with Dancing with the Stars,
01:27I learned just when I think I couldn't get any more determined, any more focused, a project comes along or just a new breath of life comes into me where I feel like,
01:39okay, let's go next level, you know? And I think that still having the passion for the industry after all this time is God's not done with me in this thing yet.
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