The Breakfast Club - Legacy, Love and All of The Above ( Iman Shumpert on Club Shay Shay and The Mann's Inspiring Relationship)

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

On this episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa, Loren checks in behind the scenes of the grind as she prepares to celebrate her grandmother’s 88th birthday — a milestone that sparks a deeper conversation about legacy, sacrifice, and the people who shape us. From reflecting on how her grandmother helped her bet on herself during uncertain career transitions, to honoring the wisdom that built the woman she is today, Loren opens up about family, financial growth, and what it really means to prepare for rainy days. She also reacts to Iman Shumpert’s emotional interview on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe, where he vulnerably discusses grief, fatherhood, and life after divorce from Teyana Taylor. Loren unpacks what his reflections reveal about love, loss, and redefining marriage on your own terms.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior. It's the true story of protests and rebellion in Black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Minnick Lamumba. Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm a homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You know if you don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren the Rosa, and this is another episode

of the latest with Lauren the Rosa. This is your daily dig on all things, culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Back on the grind. So checking in behind the scenes of the grind, y'all, I am on a countdown. My grandmother turns 88, literally in less than 24 hours. So I'm preparing for that, getting everything ready to, you know, just go hang out, have a good time with my grandmother and family and whoever pops out for her this weekend.

And I'll also briefly be in Baltimore this weekend for the C IAA weekend. I'm hosting a cheerleading competition and then bringing in my behind right on back to Grims and into the family. But yeah, I'm excited. I was talking to my grandmother this morning. First of all, I thought my grandma was turning, and I don't call her grandma. I called her my mom. I thought my mom was turning like 85, 86. And today I was talking to her and she was, I was like, my mom, how old are you turning?

And she was like 88. And I was like, yo, like that's crazy. My grandma was almost 90 years old. But you would never know, baby. Let me tell you all something, okay? You know how they say black don't crack? Black grandmothers, they're timeless. Like, they just are.

My grandmother gives 65 years old, I promise you. She's going to tear somebody up in space this weekend. It's going to be a great time. We're going to have good food. I got to, she don't even know how I'm about to do it up for her. And I couldn't tell her because she'd be like, save your money, save your money. And I am saving my money.

I am. And we were talking about that too. I'm doing such a good job of saving my money and just kind of preparing myself. We were having that whole like, I won't be here forever conversation. And, you know, we were talking about a lot of things. But I was telling my boyfriend when I sent him, just, you know, some of the things we were going to be doing this weekend. He was like, he was like, okay, big mama. Because I, y'all, I'm so excited for her to see the house that we're going to do our staycation in.

I got catering coming through. I wanted to surprise her and do like nails and all of that in the house like have somebody come but I called her today and she was on her way to the nail salon she do I try to get her stay and sit still I'm like it's going snow just stay in the house and she's like no but um I was telling him like you know literally without my grandmother I wouldn't be here like you guys would not be hearing from me I mean literally right I wouldn't be here because my grandma had to have my mom in order for my mom to have me but I mean like just career wise um Me and my grandmother are really, really close.

My dad was, you know, my dad, he's not, I was going to say he's not in my, I don't know how you describe my, me and my dad's relationship. Like I know my dad, of course. And me and my dad, yeah, like, it's all love, but my dad wasn't in the household. My dad wasn't, you know, super consistent all the time. So my second parent was my grandmother. Like my mom has been like my saving grace so many times all of my life. And when I decided to leave TMZ and I decided to leave L.A. I didn't have any money, but I didn't have really a choice.

My grandmother actually had had a slight heart attack. And when that happened, it was already pressure on me because I was just, you know, after my mom had battled cancer and she was good, I still didn't feel okay with being so far. Because just everything I realized that changed because I've been in LA for years. And then now I'm home in Delaware, you know, taking care of my mom for this year. And that's how my pop pop passes away. and, you know, my mom gets better and my grandmom's chilling. She's cool this whole time that I'm in Delaware.

But I just begin to notice how much I was missing. Like the small things I was missing and just the things that they needed because they were getting older. And I'm like, yo, I can't be here 24-7, but at least I need to figure out being closer. And I'm not the best now. Like, you know, I do as much as I can when I can. But with work picking up, I don't always have the time to always be there. know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm doing a lot, but it's better. I'm closer. But I say all that to say, my grandmother, when all of that, when I made those decisions to come this way because of everything I just described, I didn't have a job. Like, I was still working at TMZ for some time. I had taken leave, tried to go back to L.A., tried to move my mom to L.A. with me. This was too much. When I decided like, yo, okay, this doesn't work anymore for my life, for my mental, for nothing,

literally I was in Delaware we had an event space that we had open shout out to anybody that was you know supporting me during the event space air the event space was called the spot 302 it was in Delaware and um I was just doing as much as I could with that and just you know I picked up a few projects I was working with Escape ESPN I wrote for them a bit I hosted a little bit I was just doing anything I could to like have money coming because I wasn't getting money from a leave or anything like that and I quit my job so I wasn't getting any unemployment. I was figuring it out and my grandmother and my mom they've always like done property related things like ownership right and my grandmother I remember her one day we had a conversation

and she was just like look I think you're at a position where you need to lean on yourself and employ yourself she gave me a few instructions she told me a few instructions she told me what to do she told me how to basically like you know take some things that she had put aside to me put aside for me use it reinvested myself and basically just set myself up financially where i could at least have money coming in um or money available when i needed it and be able to pay my rent i was still living like very like hand-to-hand like you know like it was it was a it was a very different time especially because i've always been working and always been doing things um But I was just figuring it out.

And in the midst of that, I was guest hosting at the breakfast club. And then I moved to New York. And even then, she held it down, you know, if I needed a little rent money before, you know, a job kicked in or whatever. She has always helped me down. So now, and we've always talked about me getting in a position where I was able to save money. I was able to consistently do for myself. She said just, my grandma always says to me, I know you're going to be fine, honey. I know you're a star.

I know you're going to be good. I know you're going to figure it out. That's before she lectures me about not saving money or something like that, right? And we've always literally talked about what life would look like when I got to that point where like I'm able to provide for myself consistently because even in L.A. It was such a fight because I was so far and things were so expensive. And it just, money was just different over there. So now that she sees that I'm in a space where like I'm doing so much, but it's benefiting me

and I'm getting further in my career, she told me today like, I'm just, so proud of you. Like, I'm so proud of you. You're doing everything that you talked about you were going to do. You're, you know, you're getting better at understanding that like you got to prepare for rainy days. I'm proud of you. So I told, you know, Bay, I'm like, look, I would, I literally would not be here. You wouldn't even hear of me or know of me. And that goes for you guys too as a little right. As if it wasn't for my grandmom and her prayers. But listen, in her holding me down and let me borrow that money and do all the things that I've needed to do. So she going to get the fruit to my labor, period.

Like, hands down. Like, she has been the biggest, her and my mom, but, you know, my grandmother has, like, even when my mom didn't understand it at one point, my grandma didn't understand it either, but she never asked me any questions. She just always supported me, always. And I mean big girl support sometimes, like coming through with the checkbook. And not even just financially, just like, you know, we're also really close. So, like, I can call her.

We talk about everything. She's just taught me so much. So I want this, I mean, I always want my mom and my grandmother's lives to feel like they've worked so much. And now they can just kind of enjoy, you know, what they've built. And that me and my brother, we got it. But with this birthday, I mean, every birthday is special. But this year, this birthday, 88 is a big number. She on her way to 90, y'all, that's official.

She on her way to 90, then on her way to 100. And her biggest thing is, like, she just wants to spend time. Like she's always telling me like you need to make sure you schedule more time to spend time with us. So that's what we're doing this weekend. We spending time. It's going to be amazing. I can't wait until she walks in and she sees the house because that's another thing too. Like we were talking about me buying a house and she can't wait for me to buy a house that I actually live in.

And at one point she wanted it to be in Delaware so bad. But I think she's realized now that for work it really can't be. But this weekend is going to feel like that. It's going to feel like we're all living in a house together, having a good thing. time doing all the things so i'm excited so you guys will hear more about that um monday because yeah we're getting into it i always say we don't have a lot to talk about behind the scenes of the grind and then it'll be a whole thing right now let's get on into the latest because there is a lot to talk about canadian women are looking for more more to themselves their businesses their

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Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Mnaleck Lamouba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. both been assassinated, and black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Almemata, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest.

It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King's senior and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die. In 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind.

Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What do you do in the headlines? Don't explain what's happening in science. of you. I'm Ben Higgins. And if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul, a place for real conversation. In each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life, celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks. And we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff, identity when you don't recognize yourself anymore, loss that changes you purpose when success isn't enough.

Peace when your mind won't slow down, faith when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. A nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies. is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history.

Everyone thought they knew how it ended. A verdict? A villain. A nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story? The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, doubt the case of Lucy Lettby,

we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived in. To ask what really happened when the world... decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to Doubt, the case of Lucy Lettby on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imani Shumbert, who, you know, NBA player at one point, big NBA player at one point, actor now, you can watch him on the shy, also was married to. and share children with Tiana Taylor,

sat down for an interview with Shannon Sharp on Club Shayshay. And this, watching this interview, wow, it was such an emotional interview, but watching this interview, I think for me, because, you know, I don't, I'm not like a sports fan. Of course, I know he ma'amper because of Tiana Taylor

and having reported on him, you know, previously even before that situation, but within that situation as well, too. I met him at the Black Effect podcast festival. I don't know if you really care for me too much now because of some of the reporting I did on him and Tiana Taylor's divorce when it was happening. But nonetheless, I have no issue with anybody. I'm literally always just doing my job, whether people understand it or not. This interview really made me, like, I was kind of in all of his ability to, like, be as vulnerable in this space because I feel like I've seen interviews with him before.

And even when I watched, I used to watch Tamara Taylor and Amman Shumper's reality show that they had about their marriage and everything that they had happening. And, you know, I felt like you knew him a bit, but you didn't really like know him for real. But when he sat down with this interview with Shannon Sharp, I was like, wow, like he is being very vulnerable. So straight out the gate, you know,

Shannon Sharp asked him how he's doing. And then he mentions the fact that Iman Shumper's father passed away not too long ago and it gets very emotional. Do you remember the last conversation you had with your father? My bad. My bad, dog. He really, so he really wanted me to, he liked when I,

when I wear the suits, that full suit, he liked when I wear a shirt and tie and stuff. He always got dressed for the office every day. He would wear a shirt. shirt and tie. And our last combo, he just was like, man, you look good in them suits, man. Like, I like that you taking jobs now that you're wearing that suit.

And then he told me don't come home, finish filming, because we was filming the podcast. He got to come home, finish filming. He got to go in the hospital. He'd be right back. Yeah, that was the last one. Did you know your father was that sick, ma'am? He never shared that. I mean, I knew he had to go in the hospital.

I thought he just had some, like, you know, people get older. Yeah. Be in that a couple of days and he'd be right back out before. Yeah, and then knowing him, I just, you know, I would have been, I guess I naturally worry more about my mom, my mom. Because, yeah, I ain't ever, a dude don't ask for help. He don't, yeah, even in them last couple months, man, it was like hard to help him.

You know what I mean? We ain't know what was going on for real, but it's like the help we think and we do it. We're just like, yeah, dad, like, you can ask us for anything. Like, you know what I mean? Like, but I ain't even like noticed that he's going out of his way to say thank you. Now that's one of the things that I'm talking about my grandmother and I'm talking about 88 and like, you know, all these years to come.

And I swear, man, like my biggest fear is being without people that I love that have been a part of my life for my whole life, my grandmother, my mom, my brother, like everybody, like my family, like, y'all, it's, I know that living forever is not a real thing. And, you know, as people get older, I don't know about you guys, but the older people, my family, they talk about not being here forever as if it's something that they are just okay with at this point. And I think it is one of them things where you get older and you come to turns with like, you know, life, you've lived your life and all of that, but I just don't know what I would do if I couldn't pick up the phone and call my grandmother and, you know, be excited about her birthday and, you know, all these things,

or my mother or whoever. But I know that it's going to happen one day, you know, hopefully 20 plus years from now. So hearing him in this space and talk about all of that, it just made me think about that fear and what that looks like, you know, life posts people living their fullest life and getting up getting up on out of here. what does life look like and and how am I preparing today for that to happen and I don't think you really can ever prepare if I'm being honest with you but I do think that there are things that you can do to make it where it's like I'm I'm I'm I'm I have a peace of mind that I poured into

that person or in that relationship as much as I could and that's the sense that I got from yamon shumper when he was talking about his dad and his relationship with his dad because there was one point in an interview where Shannon Sharp even asked I'm like, if your dad was sitting here right now, what would you say? And this is what Eman said. If your dad was sitting in his chair today, it's been gone a year, and you could have a conversation with it. What do you think he would say to you, and what would you want to say to him? I don't know if my dad held back anything for me, so I don't think he'd have much to say.

He probably just reflect on whatever I'm going through at the moment. Mm-hmm. But, um... And to me, I'm like, you know, that red... I would have nothing else to say. We talked every day. We've said everything that we've needed to say. At this point, I would just be in all of his presence,

and I would just want to feel that. And I'm like, man, unk-shay-shay and waste. They weren't even an hour into the interview, and it got this deep and his vulnerable. Like, Imman had to take a second to get itself together to even get through the interview. And I mean, this just recently happened.

His father passed away back in October of 2025, So, you know, this is very fresh. And again, you could tell us that was very impactful in his life. So he's still dealing with that. But what I also thought was interesting was to hear him talk about his views on marriage now. And the reason why I segue from the father conversation and family and, you know, what that instills in you and them not being here one day is because what I've been having conversations with myself about is the biggest thing I can do to prepare myself for after the people that I love or are not here anymore is take everything I can from them wisdom wise even the things that they do that I don't want to repeat in my in my life right like take all of the good the bad the ugly

and just being a space where like I'm living a life that they will still continue to be like I'm proud of you know what I mean and really being true to myself and that and I mean it seems like a mind has gotten to the point he he says you know him and Tiana Taylor they're in a good space everything is cool now at some point and I told you I don't think I don't know how my mind feels about me. I don't know if he cares for me too much. Last time I talked to him, he was cussing me out. But they've got it because of the divorce, because the divorce, there was a lot happening. There was a lot of, like, tense moments that were being talked about and replayed the media.

And I understand it is something sensitive to people. Like, I get it. But he says they're in a better space and that things are good, which is really important when you're raising kids. But his take on marriage after the fact, like post. marriage, right? Post-divorce, I thought was interesting because it seems like he's really gotten to a point where he understands his self, at least for now, right? Because things change, people change. You meet somebody that can change your whole, you know. But it seems like he's in a space where he really understands

what he wants, what he doesn't want and why. And that's important as you're, you know, healing from things, as you are figuring out who you are post-barius, divorce, losing people you love, you know, trying to instill what they've taught you every day in your life. Let's take a What about this? Marriage? I don't know if I'll do it legally. I don't want to sign papers and all that. Like, we're going to do a contract. We're going to do a contract owning something that we both trying to do anyway.

Right. I'd rather the contract be about a business. If my mama had to wait and we got married. If my mama was there, it happened. It happened. For sure. But this whole. They get to be a part of it now because we went to the courthouse and now we got to do this.

Now I got to do it. I ain't going to do it all that. Look, I mean, I might not necessarily agree because for me, I want the paperwork. I want to do the whole shebang, you know what I'm saying? But I think I've always known because I'm very inquisitive and I, I've always said I don't believe in divorce. I don't want to divorce, you know, I want to figure it out, I want to work it out. but prior to having to figure it out and work it out, I want to make a really good choice.

And not that Amon and Tiana Taylor didn't make a good choice in choosing each other. They have two beautiful babies that have come out of it. But what I'm saying is that I want to make a choice of like, even if the person that I choose to be with is not the best situation for me because of something that is happening, we can get to a point where we choose each other to figure it out. And it doesn't happen for everybody.

But that's just what I want for myself. Canadian women are looking for more. More out of themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world are out of them. And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast. I'm Jennifer Stewart. And I'm Catherine Clark. And in this podcast, we interview Canada's most inspiring women. Entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, politicians, and newsmakers, all at different stages of their journey.

So if you're looking to connect, then we hope you'll join us. Listen to the Honest Talk podcast on IHart Radio or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Inalick Lamouba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. had both been assassinated.

And Black America was out of breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Al-Mermata, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King's senior and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. to be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die.

1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind. Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your Podcasts. What do you do in the headlines don't explain

what's happening inside of you? I'm Ben Higgins, and if you can hear me, is where culture meets the soul, a place for real conversation. Each episode, I sit down with people from all walks of life,

celebrities, thinkers, and everyday folks, and we go deeper than the polished story. We talk about what drives us, what shapes us, and what gives us hope. We get honest about the big stuff,

identity, when you don't recognize yourself anymore, loss that changes you, purpose when success isn't enough, peace when your mind won't slow down, fake when it's complicated. Some guests have answers. Most are still figuring it out. If you've ever felt like there has to be more to the story, this show is for you. Listen to if you can hear me on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious,

and powerful spy agencies in the world. But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's the unicorn.

No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets. Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And I saw another interview.

David Mann, who they lowriders, y'all, they listen to the podcast. So David, David, and Ms. Tamila Man were on Jamal Bryant's podcast that him and his wife do.

The podcast is called, Let's Be Clear. Now, they're having a conversation about all of the things and they get into the marriage conversation. And one thing I love about David, man and Mr.

David Mann and Ms. Timela Man's relationship or their marriage. Let me get it right. Their marriage is that their union is so strong. And I don't say that that said that they've never

going through things, you know, and I don't know, you know, them things they've ever got them to the brink of being like, uh-uh, nope, we ain't doing this no more. But they figured it out. They've been together for 38 years. And I learned today that they've never had a separation. Let's take a listen. How many years have you all been married?

38 years. Wow. Yes. No separations. Come on. She said no separations. We're loving it. We work through it.

And I don't mean I wasn't mad at them, but we weren't. Now, being in a marriage, like, they got the union so strong. And y'all are both celebrities, I know it come with some task, child. I know it do, because let me tell you all something. Every single day, like now that I'm in a relationship, and I'm in a relationship with a man, honey, I mean, okay, I'm in a relationship with a person that makes me want to do better, it makes me want to figure it all.

I'm not perfect. And my mouth is still crazy. I will pause that, but, you know, I don't have to. It's still crazy, you know, so every now and then it'd be like a, hold on, all right, who you talk, and vice versa. Like, you know, there are tough moments. And even though our relationship is new, I feel like when I, when I hear the men have a conversation about what their marriage is, that's what I envision my marriage to be.

And now dealing with a person who, you know, I wouldn't be opposed to marrying. I wouldn't be opposed to doing like very permanent things with. I always think about what is it that I can do to just ensure that. You know, like, it's like you really just want to, you want to hear the person. Even in moments where I'm like, I don't want to hear that. Like, you know, I'm trying to put on my best like, like standing 10 toes day on 11 if I have to. You do want to hear the person out.

You do want the person to be happy because you want to be happy and you want to be heard out. Um, so I've had to learn a lot about enforcing boundaries that I didn't even know I had to learn if I'm being honest with y'all. I thought I was so good at like, arms link don't play with me. I'm showing up. I work. I go home. Respect me and I'm not going to beg you for it.

But like I thought I was really good at that. And I think I do do a really good job because I respect myself. So people respect me. But when you're dealing with, now I wouldn't even say people in the life. line like because he's not in the line light he's behind the scenes and I still feel like there are certain things that I have to chin check boundaries on and it's just it's a very touchy space and I think it's taboo like people would love to act like you never ever ever have to feel away about anything like jealousy is never a thing and security is never a thing um like miss timula man says she had to

tell somebody like hold on back up off my man at a meet and greet Let's take a listen. I had a lady the other day coming full frontal hug around the neck. And I say, ma'am, you can't do that. And she was like, why? I said, because I said so. I know that's right. I say, you bold enough to do it.

I'm bold enough to say something. I know that's right. Get off of him. I know that's right. What if you weren't even fresh? I know that's right. Give me 50 feet. Baby.

Come on. I mean, that cougar was like, was like whew. People love to act like these real moments don't happen. And now I'm learning like, no, they do, but y'all

just find a way. First of all, you set your boundary as she did and as I'm sure he will moving forward, period. But also you just find a way to like not let that throw away everything else until that moment. And you move forward better. Like that is the goal.

And that's what I took from. Iman's conversation. the conversation that, you know, I watched Jamar Bryant and his wife have with the men's as well. It's like, all of these things will come. I don't care if you do the most blessed, sanctified holy water on the,

you know what I mean, the white cracker and the cranberry juice, all the tongues and the stomping. I don't care how all of that you are or the complete opposite. These things will come in a relationship and what are you doing to deal with it. And y'all, I'm like really a grown-up

at this point because now, I know I be like before I used to know I was on BS and I wouldn't care. I'm like I don't care whatever. Now in this new space, baby, okay, we might be on we might be on BS a little bit. Every now and then I feel like you got just a little just a little razzle dazzle so that, you know, talking about setting boundaries so that, you know, Bay knows don't play with me. But a lot of accountability like, you know, is happening in this era of my life. a lot of it. And I'm happy about it. It's not always easy, but I am happy about it though because

I feel like it's not even about for the other person or maintaining a relationship for myself. I'm always in a good space when I'm accountable because I'm like, all right. And even if the accountability is hard, because I'll fight you to the end. I'll defend something to the end. But sometimes in what I'm learning now, even when I do that, I'll come back and be like, okay, this was wrong, this was right, whatever. That helps me personally because, I'm learning a lot about myself in my weak spots, the spots that I need improvement on, that I could do better on, that I could maybe get a little help with, you know, like, like, you know, therapy, whatever the case may be.

Like, I'm learning so much about the things that aren't perfect about me, and it helps me so much navigate my relationships with people. So now it's like, you know, everything isn't somebody else's fault. And that has changed my life a lot. It's made some things harder because you want to. things to be somebody else's fault sometimes because it's just easier to get through. But that has really changed my outlook on so much in life in general, just for myself. And of course, going back to the relationship and the relationship, boyfriend, girlfriend,

but even in my friendships. And also my work relationships. And also, too, like, I think one of the things that I do a lot of, you know, as the oldest kid in my family. The only girl is like, you know, the eldest daughter is like, it is a beautiful thing, but it's also traumatizing as hell. Because you are put in a position where like life hits and you just have to figure it out so many times and sometimes from a very early age.

And it builds you to the strong person that like just is so like, ain't nobody, ain't no stopping us now. Oh, you heard that? You heard the low harmony? You heard it? Okay. it builds you into one of those type of people but at the same time behind the scenes you're exhausted you burnt out you're miserable you're sad sometimes you're lonely you're there's all these things that you feel

and i'm getting to a space where i'm learning to not take a lot of that those things on to just deal with things as they come be okay with the cards that were dealt to me and not internalize a lot of things because some of it just really ain't my fault now the stuff that is my fault i'm able to better identify now and I'm getting even better at it. I'm at the beginning stages, but don't worry, we're going to put this baby in sport because it's always an AMG, okay? We always AMG line over here. But until I get to the full force of what that looks like, just even in these beginning phases, it's really been helpful to be able to look internally and understand what I should digest, what I should hold on to, what I should be accountable for, and which is just really, like,

out of my control, for real. Like, period. Like, there are some things that are just, out of my control, and it's nothing I could do about it. So I'm taking all that in. I'm learning all of that as I go through these different phases of life and people get older and I get older and I'm talking about buying. I can't believe I'm talking about, you know, marriage and, you know, all. And I can believe it, but I just don't feel that age yet. Like, you know, I always thought when I got to like the ages that I used to think

we're old, you would feel it. I feel like just yesterday I was walking onto my college campus, like trying to figure girl life. And now here I am. Latest with Lauren the Rosa, the podcast, 8 million audio downloads later. The low riders, y'all are here. And we're talking about marriage, accountability, therapy, and me wanting to get my shit together because I love people.

I'm not mad at it. It's a journey. And look, we're just starting. We are just starting. So hold me accountable. But like, you know, don't hold me too long. Take your girl out for a drink a little. Put me down and take me out for a drink a little bit in there.

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