00:00Every single day that you see any woman, no matter who she is, every day you see a woman,
00:05you are watching a visionary. You're watching a walking visionary, a walking vision board,
00:11because us women are the blueprint.
00:22Being honored with the Billboard Woman in Music Visionary Award is truly an honor.
00:28The last 20 years of my life, not only extending my vision to myself, but extending my vision to others
00:34and other creatives and helping them bring their visions to life.
00:38Like I always had the vision since I was younger, whereas like I would walk up to different dance groups
00:44and be like,
00:44hmm, this should be like this. You know, I would walk up to a mannequin and say, hmm, the mannequin.
00:50So I've literally always had eyes that just seen beyond.
00:54To look back at younger me and see what I'm doing now has really been amazing that I've been able
00:59to, you know, be a vision for not just myself,
01:02but for others, especially in a time right now where, you know, you don't get the biggest budgets for things.
01:09I think it's really dope that I can step in and help other creatives get their vision out there and
01:14bring their vision to life.
01:15And also just like elevate their vision because, you know, creatives have their own vision.
01:20I think every single creative have their own vision.
01:22But when you step into a world of collaboration, it is a skill to trust.
01:26It is a skill to be able to collaborate in a way where you feel that trust and know, okay,
01:32I'm safe with you.
01:33It feels really amazing that, you know, I've been able to be a safety net for the creatives that I
01:41work with.
01:42It feels really good because I am used to more so being on the other end of it where I'm
01:47pouring into everyone.
01:48It feels really great to be seen and acknowledged and poured into and celebrated.
01:53Like, it really feels good, especially with everything that's happening.
01:57It's just everything that's coming at once.
01:58And I just don't take any of it lightly and I don't take any of it for granted.
02:02I'm very, very humbled.
02:04I'm very grateful.
02:05I'm just filled with so much gratitude.
02:08And it's a really amazing feeling.
02:10And I really appreciate, you know, Billboard for seeing me, hearing me, and, you know, just loving on me.
02:17Hopefully a full circle moment for all the young girls out there, you know, that look to me and say,
02:22Oh, my God, I look up to her or she influences me to want to be a director or want
02:28to be a dancer or a choreographer or, you know, singer, whatever it is.
02:32Like, I just, I love that I can inspire people and even, you know, young boys.
02:37And to anybody who look to me and love and respect what I do in this space, I'm happy that
02:45they can see this, this part and know that you can do it too.
02:49And no matter how long it takes, you will get your just due.
02:53The wait is not punishment.
02:54It's preparation for what's already written for you.
02:56So it's already written.
02:57I've worked with so many creatives throughout the years and they've taught me so much.
03:02A lot of the wisdom that I have now, because I literally call myself Spongebob Squarepants, so I'm going to
03:07soak up everything, you know.
03:10But I think that they really just, they describe on an even higher level everything that I just said about
03:16what it means to me.
03:18Because this is not something that just, like, came out of, you know, a random place and I just did
03:24it, you know.
03:25It's definitely through how they've inspired me and then how I can inspire the up-and-coming generation after me
03:31and, you know, just different things like that.
03:32These are people that had a vision.
03:34These are people who had that passion to understand what it meant to invest in themselves to get their proper
03:40visions out.
03:41Creative freedom is out of pocket.
03:43They've inspired me to know that that's what it takes and that's why I invest in myself and why I
03:50invest in certain companies
03:51or why I invest in things that can help others because that's just what it's all about, you know.
03:56Creative freedom is not free.
03:58Freedom is not free.
04:00I love Angela Bassett and I love Julia Roberts.
04:03Those two are, like, everything for me.
04:06I'm a movie head, so I love everything.
04:09Angela is really where I go when I want to get into those emotions.
04:16Things coming from the heart and just the way she moves and how she navigates this space is amazing.
04:21The same thing with Julia Roberts, especially in that rom-com place and you just, you feel with her the
04:26humanity of it all, you know.
04:28It's just something that I love.
04:29I enjoy watching them.
04:31Like, I can watch a movie that Angela's in a billion times and, like, each time watching it, like, it's
04:36my first time.
04:37Like, mm.
04:38It's like my little comfort films, you know.
04:40Same thing with Julia Roberts.
04:41Like, I can watch them in their comfort for me.
04:44Those are two for sure.
04:46Like, I love, love, love, love, love.
04:48Everything about women is super.
04:50We're a super mom.
04:51We're a super sister.
04:52We're a super daughter.
04:53We're a super wife.
04:54We're a super lover.
04:55We're a super girlfriend.
04:55We're just super women.
04:58We don't really get to take our capes off.
05:00Every single day that you see any woman, no matter who she is, every day you see a woman, you
05:06are watching a visionary.
05:07You're watching a walking visionary, a walking vision board, because us women are the blueprint.
05:14We give life.
05:15We turn houses into homes.
05:17We give love.
05:18We see that.
05:20We see the plan.
05:20We see the future.
05:22We see what's far ahead of us, what's behind us, and what's directly in front of us.
05:27Taking the lead in my journey to making sure I'm focusing on being present, you know, because as women, we
05:34are forced to be present and happen to be present in the now.
05:37We're always planning, even if it is a PTA meeting, whatever it is, just as women, we are always planning.
05:44We're planning what we want our hair to look like.
05:46We're planning what we want our makeup to look like.
05:47We're planning what we want to wear to go on this date.
05:49We're planning how we want to be.
05:51We're planning the kind of love that we want, you know.
05:54We're planning the kind of job that we want.
05:55It's just we are the visionaries.
05:59We are the vision.
06:00We are the blueprint.
06:02I'm proud of myself because in 2020, I told myself that I was going to be a big director
06:07one day.
06:07I told myself that I was going to be a great actress one day.
06:10I told myself that I was going to help other creatives.
06:13I told myself that I was going to, you know, I had all these plans that I manifested.
06:18And in that moment when everybody thought that I was bugging, I stood in my truth and
06:22I took that leap of faith and I began the real faith walk.
06:27Here I am now, 2026, doing all of the things that I said I would do in 2020.
06:31So I would like to go back in time and just tell my 2020 self that I'm very, very proud
06:37of her and that I see her and I feel her and to continue to follow her heart, whether it's
06:43her against the room or not.
06:44You have to be willing to follow your heart and take that gamble, the only gamble I'm going
06:47to take is with God.
06:48We're going to come together and he said, hey, we're going to the casino.
06:50What you want to do?
06:51You want to walk this faith walk or you want to stay here and stay mad?
06:55I'm not going to do that with you because I got plans for you.
06:58He stared me in the direction that I needed to go and said, walk straight.
07:01And that's exactly what I did.
07:03And I never turned back.
07:04And that's why I can go back to 2020 and not regret a decision that I made.
07:08Because again, I'm not focusing on what's behind me.
07:10I'm focusing on what's directly in front of me.
07:13I'm not even focused on what's far beyond me because life is so fragile.
07:17Life is so short and tomorrow's not promised.
07:19So we're not present in the now.
07:21How can we show up for later?
07:24My goal right now is to just be present in the now.
07:26This is not an overnight thing.
07:29This is 20 years of tears and happiness and ups and downs and trials and tribulations and
07:33a lot, most importantly, a lot of prayer.
07:36A lot of prayer.
07:37A lot of trust.
07:39A lot of trust in yourself.
07:40And most importantly, giving yourself grace.
07:44Give yourself grace through this faith walk.
07:48All of us, we all got to give ourselves more grace because we do worry about the pressures
07:54of what we have to do to be women.
07:56And even for men, it's just a pressure of what we have to do to be humans that we don't
08:00give ourselves enough grace, especially for women.
08:02We don't give ourselves enough grace.
08:05But I love seeing that we are stepping in this spot and standing 10 toes down on giving
08:10ourselves grace and putting ourselves first and being present for us, you know, and then
08:16everyone else.
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