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00:00So, Dr. Benicia, can I make sure that she gets your information, your email address and everything so we can connect the dots so that she can apply for some funding for her business?
00:10Yes, absolutely. I actually have my team is here. They are stage left. Back in the corner, he's waving. He has a phone in his hand with a white shirt. Four people from my team are here.
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00:36Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Okay, before we go, I always got to do this. And Dr. Bryant, you never know when I tell you to do this, but I cannot leave this space without you offering us a word of prayer to the people as they go on for the remainder of the festival.
00:53Thank you. Everyone, whatever your faith conviction is, would you lift your hand to our creator? Good and gracious God, I pray that you will bless us to prosper. Cut off every enemy to our prosperity. Give us strength in the area of our weakness. I pray that our children will know the success that we never see. I pray that you'll break off every generational curse and help us to create generational wealth. In Jesus' name, amen.
01:21Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you for participating in American Sesh, guys. We appreciate you so much. And we will take a class photo, y'all. Clap it up for yourselves. You have officially been Sesh-ified.
01:34That's what we talking about, y'all. American Sesh.
01:51When I came home last night. You wouldn't make love to me. You went fast asleep.
02:14You wouldn't even talk to me. You say, I'm so crazy. Coming home intoxicated. I said, I just want to love you. I just want to love you, baby.
02:34Guess that's why I'm so elated. Come on, girl. Give it to me, baby. Give it to me.
02:38I bet you. I'll make you hot like you had enough. Give it to me, baby.
03:04I bet you I bet you hot like you had enough
03:08Give it to me Give me that stuff, that funk, that sweet, that funky stuff
03:13Give it to me Give me that stuff, that funk, that sweet, that funky stuff
03:17Give it to me, give it to me Give it to me, give it to me
03:21Give me the funk That sweet, funky stuff
03:23Yo-ho!
03:25On stage rockin' all stir-crazy Coco, flow like 1980s
03:30Come lit till I drop lazy None of that may be energy
03:34N-I-G
03:36N-I-G
03:38Just five
03:42Four, nine, forty-five
03:45Don't get out of line
03:46Yeah
03:47Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
03:49Pick a side
03:51Only double lines we cross
03:53Is dollar signs
03:55Yeah
03:55Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
03:57Hold up, wait
03:58I hear you just got paid
04:00Making rain
04:01Energy
04:02Be waving the room
04:07The crowd gon' move
04:08Look around, everybody on mute
04:11It's me and my crew
04:12Big energy
04:14It was on stock mode
04:16That flows
04:16From page Vogue
04:18No post
04:18Check too much
04:19Book clip on load
04:20That's like Kodak
04:21N-I-G
04:22N-I-G
04:24N-I-G
04:26N-I-G
04:28Yeah, yeah
04:30Gold links
04:31Rocked in them
04:33You know that we do it
04:34Grande
04:34You know that I'm gonna be extra
04:36When that camera go
04:37Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
04:38金
04:40No
04:41You know it
04:41Maybe
04:42Let's sì
04:42Ch bother
04:43Let's see
04:43It's it's a call
04:44What's up?
04:45I can push it
04:46Please
04:46Come spray yourself
04:47Top
04:47I can spray
04:48Back up
04:48So
04:49Now
04:49We'll sorry
04:50Oh
04:50We'll see
04:51It
04:51This is
13:02baby the way she is about to bless this stage oh my god please get excited for
13:10the next segment the amazing Sarah Jakes Robbins is in the house
13:18power personified power by target please welcome to the stage the incomparable
13:23Sarah Jakes Robbins and journalist Danielle Young y'all
13:32testing hey essence how y'all doing all right yeah testing we're on okay
13:49we're gonna swap right there we go oh my gosh I'm up here with Sarah Jakes
13:57Roberts I know she's our queen this is so important Sarah not only for us to
14:07celebrate essence 30th anniversary but to celebrate you yes have y'all read power
14:14moves y'all got the audio book you love to hear Sarah reading it to you right Sarah
14:23Jakes Roberts I told you before you have done a lot to not only change the game
14:30for so many people but to personally change how we think about power and I
14:36hope y'all want to set an intention today y'all want to do that I get can I hear
14:42some noise all right today's intention we're gonna set with this conversation
14:47is to jump deep into self-discovery faith and the essence of power are you ready
14:55miss Sarah I don't know I mean are you you say you don't know well I love to start
15:01my interviews by asking beside your name and what you do who are you and what is
15:08one thing that you love most about who you are oh I am a woman on a journey of
15:16seeing herself the way that God sees her and trusting what God sees over my
15:25insecurities my fears other people's projections and one of the things I love
15:32the most about me is that I have found contentment being by myself so I don't
15:39feel the need to have a lot of validation or affirmation from other people if I can
15:46get by myself I can recenter and anchor myself that is beautiful y'all can clap
15:52for that that's good write that down in your devotionals and whatnot I really love
15:57that because so many times when you make it to a level like yours people think
16:02it's the things you know the things that you get the things that you accumulate
16:06that matter the titles but you are saying it is you you are your power yeah I
16:13resist the notion of like making it to levels because I think it makes my life
16:19about performance and I am really here to be an offering and to understand what I
16:24can give to any given moment and if I am constantly seeking level after level it
16:30puts a level of pressure on me that makes me become something instead of
16:37embracing all of embracing all of who I am so I'm really really careful even as things continue to
16:43like grow and progress of like hanging on to who I am at my core you know how do you do that how do you
16:51feel free to keep clapping I love it yes how do you do that how does one hang on to exactly who they are
16:59especially when the world is worlding things are happening if sometimes you can feel outside of
17:07yourself how do you hold on to who you are I think a lot of that has to do with giving yourself space
17:16to hear your own truth I think that oftentimes we get so busy pursuing someone else's version of who
17:24we're supposed to be or we get so busy pursuing who we think we should be based off of what we've
17:29gone through or what we have but to create a space where I can hear my own voice to create a space where
17:36I can hear my own wants my own pain my own feelings I have to create that space intentionally and that is
17:43part of understanding what my truth is so that I'm showing up in the world fully present and not trying
17:49to live up to other people's expectations ain't that real outside validation is literally nothing
17:56it is but also if you aren't careful it becomes everything and it happens so subtly that we miss
18:05the moments where we're living for the praise of other people it happens so subtly and then when we
18:10experience disappointment we have to remind ourselves that in some instances I needed the disappointment
18:16because me living up to their expectation was me already disappointing my authenticity and so when
18:23you reject me when I somehow don't live up to who you needed me to be it actually gives me permission
18:29to show up as someone who makes mistakes who doesn't do everything well and now I have the gift of
18:36authenticity yeah I love that yeah the gift of authenticity and speaking of gifts power moves is such
18:46a gift shout out to all of you who have it already and shame on you for not having I'm just playing
18:52now's your chance to make sure you get power moves but this is Sarah's latest book and it does a lot to
18:59help us understand our power and if you know anything about Miss Sarah Jakes Roberts you will know that she
19:06is very transparent about her journey um as it's a getting here and in that journey you know you did you
19:13experience things that in the Christian community would be considered bad or wrong and you were able
19:20to take it and live your life in a way that is so authentically you and powerful in that and I love
19:28that you share your story so authentically and I'm curious since we've been taught as as black women
19:35is a lot of us black women here but we've been taught about our power in a way that almost feels
19:43oppressive you know what I mean the strong black woman trope that is so tired that we're supposed
19:51to be grateful for um but there's there's some danger in that can you tell us what concepts about power
20:02that you have been able to reject especially when it comes to being a strong black woman and
20:08tell us about your journey in learning and unlearning those things well I thought for a long time that
20:16the goal was not to be this strong black woman like I don't want to live up to whatever that means
20:22I think my journey of discovering power has helped me to realize that it's less about rejecting it and more
20:29about expanding it and so I am a strong black woman I'm also a girl who's gone through trauma and can be
20:36easily triggered I am strong in my faith in some areas and I'm learning who God is in other areas
20:43and I think instead of trying to figure out which side of the fence do I play on we knock the fence
20:48down and take up the full territory of who we are and when we give ourselves to be the strong black woman
20:55and the girl who's been traumatized as well I think that we force other people to adjust to that truth
21:01as well but until we make enough space within ourselves to be strong and fragile to be beautiful
21:08and a work in progress if we don't make that space we can't allow other people to make that space too
21:14and so we talk about taking up space I want us to take up space not just with our highlight reel
21:20not just with our strengths but I want your vulnerability to take up space I want your weakness to take up space
21:26I want you to force you down the throats of every person you meet until they be realized that you are
21:33digestible in whatever format you come in so we could be on the stage at Essence we could be preaching
21:38at the Potter's house I could have on my bonnet and be on TikTok like I'm gonna force you to see
21:43every version of myself because I don't want to be limited to only what you understand
21:48I'm gonna let that sit in the air for a little bit
21:54girl we love you we love no you're you're the way that you explain things the way that you give us
22:01the agency that we already have you make us aware of it it's such a beautiful gift thank you and I told
22:09you too it's so it's I don't know about y'all but I have not been okay okay this is cute the lights are on
22:16my makeup is done I look fierce but I have not amen but I have not felt fierce right I have felt
22:24weak I have felt lonely I have felt othered I have felt betrayed I still feel those I mean clap for that
22:32I know that's right who's hurt
22:35I know I know that we're not all okay all the time and there from from hearing you speak and from
22:47reading your book there's a lesson in that of not being okay and being digestible anyhow can you tell
22:56me about a time where you were not okay and you forced us to digest you anyhow I preached with a wig cap
23:04on I mean I was preaching and my wig came off and like it was not the ideal circumstance for me
23:14I think there were layers to that because you know I felt embarrassed in a place where I'd already
23:20experienced a lot of shame a lot of rejection and so um I had to stick beside myself in that moment of
23:27vulnerability and fragility not just in the moment but in the aftermath of what happened as well when
23:33people are like talking about me and having think pieces and misjudging me being willing to say you
23:39know what I know what it was I know what it wasn't and I'm going to have to stick beside me I think is one of the
23:45moments that come to mind um it would have been very easy to say like you know I'm going to tuck my tail and
23:52hide I'm not going to show up anymore this is evidence I struggle with inadequacy so I'm like this is evidence that
23:58you don't have any business being on this platform you're not cut out for this but instead I have to trust that God
24:05can use me in whatever form I show up in even if it's not necessarily the form I want to show up in like we talk
24:11about God using us but we want God to use a specific version of ourselves but what if God wants to use your
24:17vulnerability what if God wants to use the thing that you're embarrassed by what if God wants to use the thing that you'd rather
24:23hide and being willing to say literally any part of me that you want to use I have to learn to digest
24:28that first so then I can show up in the way that allows them to see your glory and not mine
24:34yeah that's it that's getting in my feelings are y'all feeling that and you're in your hearts
24:42I know I am I'm trying to keep it together Sarah
24:45I'm curious before you came to Sarah became the Sarah that we all know and love so deeply
24:52what was a time like this is pre internet pre fame what was a time where you felt your most powerful
25:02as young Sarah
25:04I think I probably felt more powerful before people knew me than I feel now
25:10because I just after I got pregnant as a teenager and like people had given up on me I think I felt
25:16the most powerful because when you grow up as like T.D. Jake's daughter there are like all of these
25:21expectations and then when you disappoint people there aren't any expectations at all so I think I felt
25:27this freedom and liberty to show up in whatever way I wanted to show up to do what I wanted to do like
25:32I felt this freedom that I think is hard to hang on to now and so I was 23 I was going through a divorce
25:41I felt powerful going through that divorce which is why I knew I wasn't going to be nobody's church hero
25:46because I was like this divorce is the best decision I could have made for me and my children
25:51and I just felt like I was reclaiming myself in a way that may be dissatisfactory to other people
25:58but what I knew for sure was that it was leading me to become the most powerful version of myself
26:04wow I love that I really love that like the perception you have around things that would be
26:12considered bad and negative and oh my god I can't believe and you're like that's when I'm my most
26:17powerful stop that yeah I mean I don't know maybe there's something wrong with me but like
26:23something's right with you baby I um I don't know I I think that you can hit such a low point in your
26:30life that it leaves you with nothing but yourself and your truth and in those moments you could say
26:38this is going to be the thing that I allow to just turn me into nothing or I can dare to believe that
26:44there is something left and I took those shattered pieces of my life and I saw them as valuable and it was
26:52like a secret between me and God like I didn't know if anyone else saw it as valuable but I trusted
26:58that me and God saw something in it and like little by little piece by piece I feel like my life has
27:03come back together I love that yes yes sadly we have about five more minutes so I'm gonna you know make
27:12it count I know we could sit here all day with her I want to know because power has been easily given
27:24to white men unchallenged you know I know we're in a sticky time politically and I'm not gonna go there
27:33um but when it comes to being a black woman do you feel like it's fair to say we're often not given
27:42or expected to be powerful and if we are it's not in a positive light
27:51that's such a that's not a five minute question um no I have five more questions so do that one
27:59I think that yeah I mean I think that it's easy for us to try to live up to someone else's idea of
28:10what power looks like and often that's negative I think there's so many nuances culturally and
28:16historically that play a role into how we define power as black women and while I think it is necessary
28:23that we understand the context in which we are building a platform for our power sometimes I
28:31wonder if we should also make sure that we're being intentional not about what stripped us from power
28:38whether or not it was fair but how do we reclaim it what does reclamation look like and how do we
28:46define power for ourselves because if we don't define power for ourselves we'll always be looking for
28:53someone else's definition of what it means to be powerful but the truth is that power for me
28:58is different than your definition of power and each of us have a responsibility to reclaim and define
29:05what power looks like not just for our family not just for black women but on an individual level
29:11what does it mean for you to be powerful with your past with your dreams with your gift with your
29:19anointing what does make power personal and I think the more that we are able to make power personal
29:25we have the strength we need to fight the systems of oppression that may try to project their version
29:31of what power looks like on us I love that that was good right
29:36somebody write it down I need to retweet it at some point
29:41um I would love to talk a little bit about um actually no because we're running out of time
29:50and I would love for you to affirm this beautiful audience of people who are here to watch us talk
29:57because they love you so dearly um when you are in the mirror and all the stuff is off
30:03and you are maybe affirming yourself what do you say to Sarah in the mirror to settle her for the day
30:14or to even start her day and then is this and can you give that gift to these to these people
30:22I can um so it's it's loud in here and um it this is a representation though sometimes of what's going
30:33on in my mind when the day is closed there's so many thoughts so much noise so many anxieties so many
30:41fears on the inside of me that my soul can sometimes feel like this room and it can be hard to stay focused
30:49it can be hard to tap into what's true what's real what do I really need to hear
30:55and so I'm going to ask you guys to do me a favor can you put your hand on the shoulder of the person
30:59beside you man we drag our chairs up
31:05can you put a little weight on that hand
31:10hold that person
31:13let them feel for a moment
31:17no matter what noise is playing in their head and playing in their mind
31:21that they're not in it on their own
31:24that life is not as lonely they are not as misunderstood
31:30as sometimes anxiety would have them to believe
31:33if you were an extension of God's love holding their shoulder right now
31:39I want you to pour love inside of them
31:41and then I want you to lean in in a still small voice
31:46and tell that person
31:47you're going to be okay
31:49you're loved
31:55you're valuable
31:58we need you
32:01show up
32:04in the fullness of who you are
32:07fullness of who you are
32:09and God will go ahead of you
32:12that's how I affirm myself
32:16y'all just got an affirmation
32:22but also a beautiful word to take with you to believe for yourself
32:28how powerful you are
32:30give it up for Sarah Jakes Roberts
32:32and power moves
32:37y'all this is a dream to me
32:39so thank you
32:40thank you
32:40we always find each other along our different paths
32:59sometimes we even make it out the group chat
33:04and it's like no time has passed
33:06no matter where we are
33:09we're always intertwined
33:11our destination is us
33:14and we feed each other's shine
33:17find your shine at Target
33:22and we feed each other's shine
33:27and we feed each other's shine
33:28and we feed each other's shine
33:29and we feed each other's shine
33:30and we feed each other's shine
33:31and we feed each other's shine
33:32and we feed each other's shine
33:33and we feed each other's shine
33:34and we feed each other's shine
33:35and we feed each other's shine
33:36and we feed each other's shine
33:37and we feed each other's shine
33:38and we feed each other's shine
33:39and we feed each other's shine
33:40and we feed each other's shine
33:41and we feed each other's shine
33:42and we feed each other's shine
33:43and we feed each other's shine
33:44and we feed each other's shine
33:45and we feed each other's shine
33:46and we feed each other's shine
33:47and we feed each other's shine
33:48and we feed each other's shine
33:49and we feed each other's shine
33:50Love is all we need to make everything complete.
33:57If we try to live together and be a big.
34:02You and me are one and we've only just begun.
34:06So let's make a new beginning and have someone good for a love.
34:13Y'all, that was a word.
34:15Love is all we need.
34:17Y'all got a whole affirmation from Sarah Mrs. Sarah Jakes Roberts, y'all.
34:27How about that?
34:28Please give it up.
34:30Please give it up again.
34:33Yes, I'm going to say for my pastor, Sarah Jakes Roberts, give it up, y'all.
34:37Give it up.
34:37Give it up for Target, Daniel Young for that segment.
34:41Wow.
34:42Power moves, y'all.
34:43If you do not have the book already, do yourself a favor.
34:46Go get it right now.
34:49And if books put you to sleep, then she also has the Audible where you can actually just listen to the book.
34:55But please, y'all, do yourself a favor and get power moves.
35:00I remember someone, when we spoke at the conference, they were saying that you can look at power moves in a couple of different ways.
35:07But how about looking at it as power moves instead of just making power moves, but how God moves.
35:16Aha.
35:17Aha.
35:19Aha.
35:21Y'all having a good time?
35:22Listen, did I let you down?
35:25I told you this morning what I say.
35:27It's up on this stage, baby.
35:29We've got performances.
35:31I told you we were going to have some amazing speakers.
35:34Did I lie?
35:36Was one lie told?
35:38Have we been having a good time?
35:40Y'all got Disney ears and everything.
35:42Did you book your trips yet?
35:43I need to see flights booked to Orlando, Los Angeles, Patti, everywhere that you can find a Disney anything, Disney World, Disneyland, you take your pick.
35:54But we have got to, we've got to do some things for ourselves.
35:57We've got to bless ourselves with vacations.
35:59We've got to read some good books.
36:01We've got to tune in to more artists, especially out of New Orleans.
36:05You guys had three artists here to perform, brand new artists that you probably got first listens to.
36:11So we've got to, we've got to support y'all and love on each other and continue to affirm each other like what just happened on this stage.
36:19Y'all ready for next?
36:20What's up next?
36:21All right, coming up in a few minutes, we're talking about women's health.
36:25Ladies.
36:27Okay.
36:29We've got women's health coming up.
36:30Stick around for a panel discussion featuring a group of high-powered black female government officials.
36:35DJ Rob Nice, where you at?
36:37I'm right here.
36:38How y'all doing this afternoon, ladies?
36:40Hey, what you got for us?
36:43I got a question.
36:44Ladies, if you consider yourself a queen, let me hear you make some noise.
36:48That's what I'm talking about, baby.
36:51Give it to a queen.
36:53I got it.
36:54Give it to a queen.
36:56Yeah.
36:56The queen is hyped up.
36:57Give it to a queen.
36:58I got it.
36:58Give it to a queen.
37:00Yeah.
37:01The queen is hyped up.
37:01Give it to a queen.
37:02I got it.
37:03Give it to a queen.
37:05Yeah.
37:05Yeah.
37:06The queen.
37:07L-A-T-I-F-A-H.
37:08Come in.
37:08Someone's ladies night.
37:09What?
37:09It must be Angie on the mic.
37:11The butter pee, honey.
37:12Got the sugar.
37:12Got the spice.
37:13Roll the L tight.
37:14Keep the rhymes right.
37:15Y'all just made this motherf***er up last night.
37:17And I'm the rookie on this all-star team.
37:20Me and Kim is getting cream.
37:21Like Thelma and Louise, but on chrome.
37:23Never leave that Brooklyn s*** alone.
37:24So if you say it's on, then it's on.
37:26Bang this in your whips.
37:28Pack them cold and roadie with the chips in the wrist.
37:30Here's a French pitch.
37:32I dismiss all you chicks.
37:33Fit six from the fourth fifth.
37:35Make it dance.
37:36Ow!
37:36I stay focused in the dopest.
37:38Like a penny with a hole in it.
37:40Y'all just hopeless and toteless.
37:42I ain't lying.
37:43Trying to knock me off.
37:45Keep trying.
37:45All it takes is one phone call to my street.
37:47Team promote that ass.
37:49Like a soundtrack.
37:49Blue Jack.
37:50Sit that.
37:51Send it off with the 850.
37:53Y'all missing the buck.
37:54With the f*** bump.
37:55Biggie in the truck.
37:55In the buck to my double.
37:57Let me see you do the bank head.
37:59With the riches.
37:59It's the rap made with the QB.
38:01And I got all my sisters to match.
38:04This is ladies, my guy.
38:05And I rise this time.
38:07Oh, this is ladies, my guy.
38:10Oh, what a fool.
38:11Oh, what a lie.
38:13Ladies, my guy.
38:15And the feelings rhyme.
38:16Oh, this is ladies, my guy.
38:19Oh, what a fool.
38:20Oh, what a fool.
38:22Oh, what a fool.
38:22Oh, what a fool.
38:23Now, I'm this one to the kids.
38:24It's the girl, let me get their face on the dead blocks.
38:26It also, I'm gonna feel check that he must be with my plans.
38:29Don't feel the case.
38:30Help out my youth.
38:31Hear this.
38:31I know this little girl.
38:33Her name is Maxine.
38:34Her beauty is like a bunch of rose.
38:35Her beauty is like a bunch of rose.
38:36If I ever tell you about Maxine.
38:38You ought to say I don't know what I know.
38:41But murder she wrote.
38:43Real, real.
38:44Murder she wrote.
38:46Murder she wrote.
38:49Murder she wrote.
38:50I know it's name.
38:51Her beauty is some bad character.
38:53Then the kind of living can hold.
38:55Jack can follow me.
38:55Her beauty is some bad character.
38:58Then the kind of living can hold.
39:00Jack can sing.
39:00Tell your pretty.
39:01Your face ain't pretty.
39:02But your character dirty.
39:03Tell your just a act too.
39:05Flirty, flirty.
39:05You're run to thump dick.
39:07And also, Aubrey.
39:08And when you find you miss the data.
39:10I'm just sorry.
39:10Sorry.
39:11Sorry.
39:12Good now.
39:12How about cozy connor when she jokes and when she jammed
39:14She know about the loom crack and every money man
39:17Mixed up with the coolie Chinese white man and Indian
39:19The wickedest kind of girl that means her flyers buck up and no no no
39:22Heard about his third, her name is Lexi
39:23Her beauty's like a bunch of pros
39:26And if I ever tell you about Maxine
39:28Your older say I don't know what I know
39:30But murder she wrote
39:32Murder she wrote
39:36Murder she wrote
39:37Murder she wrote
39:40Everyone call me love sometimes
39:43You better know, you better know
39:44I don't know about you but it ain't a crime
39:48It's not a crime, it's not a crime
39:49Everyone call me love sometimes
39:53Remember that girl
39:54I don't know about you but it ain't a crime
39:57Question I ask
40:00Tell me what you want or what you really really want to do
40:02Tell me baby girl if your love is really really true
40:05Tell me what you want or what you really really want to do
40:07Tell me baby girl
40:08I know I've been like no, yo, yo
40:10If you really love me, let it flow, flow
40:13And if you don't love me, let me go, go
40:15Watching the road where I let you know, know that
40:18Everyone fall in love sometime
40:22I don't know for you, but it ain't a crime
40:26It's not to cry
40:27Everyone fall in love sometime
40:31I don't know for you, but it ain't a crime
40:36Hey, hey, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
40:38Beep, beep, the singer got the key to the G
40:41A wee pretty girl want to meet
40:43So tell me what's up before me hit in the street
40:46You see, you see, I'll be at 19
40:48The whole of them girl, they want to be our friend
40:51And you me really love, why you want it fitting
40:53You have me place a puzzle, me can't comprehend
40:55But then again
40:56Everyone fall in love sometime
41:00I don't know for you, but really ain't a crime
41:05Everyone fall in love sometime
41:09I don't know for you, but really ain't a crime
41:14And I don't know for you, but really ain't a crime
41:15You can have a new value
41:17When all is ready, I throw this switch
41:31Pump up the volume, pump up the volume
41:33Pump up the volume
41:35Pump that bass
41:37You can have a new wave
41:39And follow this one
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41:52And show me what it means
41:52You can have a new wave
41:53Pump up the volume on record
41:54And show you what's up when你 get a new wave
41:55Give me the name of the Lord.
42:04I'll be the name of the Lord.
42:09I'll be the name of the Lord.
42:14They never had a pretty girl from Joburg.
42:17See me now, and that's what they prefer.
42:19I don't touch no wheel, cause I got a chauffeur.
42:22First class, how I get around the world.
42:24Just mess me with the drama.
42:26Unless you call me with the commas.
42:28Or DJ turning the sound up.
42:31Cause we bout to pour the rounds up.
42:34From Jersey to Ibiza.
42:37They say it doesn't get sweeter.
42:39Feel my body banging like speaker.
42:42Sweating on my concealer.
42:44Skin tight, no millimeter.
42:46And my face can't make them feel weaker.
42:49But you know that my body is a healer.
42:52I love to make it
48:51And what I say, how's your heart?
48:54How's your mind?
48:56How you feeling?
48:58You got your peace?
49:00Hold on to it.
49:00It's yours.
49:01It belongs to you.
49:02Hold on to your joy.
49:04Don't give it away.
49:05Y'all hear me?
49:06Can you do this?
49:07Can you make some noise?
49:19Can you make the show?
49:21Y'all excited about the show tonight?
49:22Who going to the Superdome?
49:25Woo!
49:26And after this, I'm going to need to eat.
49:30Because your girl is hungry.
49:32So any recommendations?
49:34I love me some NOLA food, okay?
49:37I need all the recommendations you got.
49:39But for now, for our final segment of the day,
49:43Black Women's Health.
49:45We've talked about things concerning your mind, your body,
49:49the inner you, the outer you, the exterior, all of the things.
49:53But right now, we're about to get into women's health,
49:55advocating for the strong Black woman sponsored by State of Louisiana.
50:01Y'all, give it up for the panel.
50:03They're coming to the stage, y'all.
50:04Give it up for yourselves.
50:06Give them a warm welcome, y'all.
50:11Hello.
50:14Testing, testing.
50:15Hello.
50:16That's right.
50:18That's right.
50:18How are you doing?
50:19It is such a blessing to see you.
50:22You look gorgeous.
50:23Hello, Essence Fest.
50:25How y'all doing today?
50:27Good.
50:28We're going to try to make a hard topic a fun time.
50:32We are strong Black women.
50:33But do you know that strong Black women,
50:36we have to advocate for our health.
50:38Is that right?
50:40All right.
50:41So we have a dynamic panel for you.
50:44Some bad women, okay?
50:45Black women in the legislature.
50:48So we're going to start off with none other than State Representative of Louisiana,
50:56District 101, Vanessa Caston-Lafleur.
51:00Hey, yeah, yeah.
51:15So we're going to learn to lead that throughulake.
51:19Okay.
51:19So we're planning to find the competency done,
51:20and it's to run a lot better than the candidate,
51:21so we know that people have health clinic,
51:22but we know obviously tons of patients.
51:24And if we have a full growth,
51:26we're pem physicians who can adjust the performance,
51:27which takes a lot of parents' ability.
51:28Also we've been trying to maintain that additional work feature,
51:29which0 of our staff came from later dimensional post,
51:31they were coming up to tomorrow.
51:32So we're going to travel today.
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57:15Black women save everybody.
57:18We do.
57:19We do.
57:20When we create policy, we're thinking about not just our family and our people in our home.
57:26We're thinking about the Sunday school teacher, the neighbor across the street.
57:30We're thinking about, so when we implement policy around health, we have to keep our communities healthy and thriving.
57:37And so our organization is strictly focused on the priority for black women's health.
57:42And I'm super excited to say.
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