The Breakfast Club - Loren speaks at the the Leadership Institute in D.C. via The Thurgood Marshall Fund 

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Loren is invited to D.C. by the Thurgood Marshall Fund to speak about her career arc and lessons learned along the way. Questions come from the host and an audience of young professionals who have come together for this HBCU Leadership conference!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Well, today's episode is actually us taking you to D.C. for a conversation that shakes the room. So I headed to Washington, D.C., to speak at a Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C.,

via the Third Good Marshall Fund, which is an organization that, you know, just helps kid that helps kids get to and through college historically black colleges and universities and let me tell y'all something okay i had such a good time in dc such a good conversation so the audience right i'm setting the scene the audience it's about five or six hundred hbc u students they had no idea i was coming they had been in this leadership institute it's like a you know something that they fly into from various schools so you have schools from all over the country that send their students a lot of them are at the end of their collegiate time. So they're like, juniors, seniors, it might have been some sophomores there as well too. But they had no idea I was coming there. Been there for a few

days. Today was like one of the closing days where we speak into them. And they introduce that I'm here. And I'm here to talk to them. It's based on professional development and just, you know, figuring yourself out in college. And they give you resources and tools this whole weekend to do so, which is so needed because, man, it's college and experience. But the way you've got to be prepared to take over the world is a whole other ballgame. So take a listen to my conversation at the Leadership Institute with the Third Good Marshall Fund. Oh, y'all can hear me? They can bring you up.

Okay, great. You were checking out the shoe? Shoe can? Listen, I, the whole fit is just it, right? Wow, it's a lot of y'all in here. Listen, yeah, we got good people here. Wow. We got good people here.

So we're going to chop it up a little bit. Let's do it. In a good kind of a way. So, let's start with the very, very important things. Yes. You studied at an HBCU. Would you like to tell all of our audience where you studied? The best HBCU in the world, Delaware State University.

Come on. Okay. I'm going to say it one more time because I like to be humble. The best HBCU in the world, Delaware State University. Okay? All right. Yes, U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. All right, yeah. Well, we're here.

This is calling response. It is calling response. But, yeah, I studied at an HBCU, which I'm always so proud to say. Yeah. Because I remember being at HBCU and people telling me working in entertainment at the level I'm doing it wasn't possible because I was at HBCU. Wow. So now I love to be like, oh, yeah, I went to Delaware University. Oh, Delaware University. Yes, it's a historically black college.

You know, and I'm amongst the HBCU family. I love, that is like forefront for me always. Well, as you know, we've got 500 scholars here participating in the conference, juniors and seniors in college. Do me a favor. Take us back in time. Can you talk some about your career pathway from your time at DSU marketing degree there? Yes.

And how things have progressed. Talk to them. That's been a journey. Okay, yeah. So a lot of people think that I studied journalism, that I was a communications major. I was a communications major for about a day. And then I realized that, well, I felt like at the time, a lot of the things that I was being taught in school wasn't necessarily what I needed.

I could learn that on the job. I felt like I needed the business and, like, the professional development that you guys are getting here. I felt like I needed that more. And the reason why I would be at, so I was on campus and I was doing everything I could. So, like, when people would come to campus and it's homecoming, I'm not even a mass comm major, but, like, I'm in a radio station doing interviews for whatever artists are on campus. I'm vlogging, and YouTube was so new, so people didn't know what I was doing, but I would, you know, vlog as much as I could hosting events.

Whatever I could do, you know, I was a part of a modeling troupe at Del State as well. Just staying in front of people and branding myself then, so people knew me for the person that, like, wanted to be in front of people speaking and entertaining. Sure. But when I decided to not be a mass-com major, the biggest thing was I felt like going and getting a marketing or business degree or just having any level of business, you know, experience and professional. was set me apart because what I began to realize, I knew a long time ago that, like, the internet

and social media was going to be, like, home for the creators. And as a storyteller, I was like, you know, the only way I can set myself apart, if everybody's online and they're doing something, the only way I can set myself apart is to really understand the business of me. Like, what is my brand? Who am I speaking to? How does that change every year? How does that change from when I'm at Dell State and I'm a student to first year out of college? I'm trying to find a job in L.A. to move into New York, like, in each level of my life, I've been able to kind of like, I wouldn't even say rebrand, but I guess storytell in a way that reaches the market, my market or my audience for where I'm at.

Like, I think when I was at college, you know, I was figuring it out. So my conversation was then I'm a college student, I'm figuring it out, and I'm vlogging about, you know, what are internships, how do I get them? How do they, you know, one of the things I thought was crazy when I was at college was, when I graduated, they wanted you to already have had a job before you could get a job. And that was crazy to me. So I remember I made a YouTube video about that, and, like, you know, that got, like, big pickup for me.

And then I posted it. It was so new. I was, like, posting to, like, Facebook. I don't even think Instagram had long-form video at the point. But I was just using every point of my life. So after I left Del State, I moved to L.A., couldn't get a job. YouTube. I lived on YouTube.

And I meet people today, literally today, who still tell me the videos I was posting when I moved to L.A. years ago inspired them to move to L.A. or, you know, different things like that. But I was just honest about my journey after college with no money for real, trying to figure it out. And one of the things that I thought was also something that was like, people got to know about this, I wasn't afraid to go work a job. I think, you know, when you're trying to be an entrepreneur or you're trying to figure out your career, especially when you're in college and you get a degree, when you graduate, especially for me because I was first generation. So, you know, I was the first

person to figure it out in my family, everyone's looking at you like, oh, you have this degree. Like, you're supposed to live this great life now just instantly. And it doesn't happen like that all the time. Some people do have that story, but for me, it didn't happen like that. It wasn't instant. It wasn't right away. So, well, not in my focus. Like, I knew I wanted to be in entertainment. So I had to go get a job. I worked for Barclay Card, you know, and I was an internship I had at Delaware State for about two years. I was a publicist for some time. I've been a flight attendant and each of those roles

so much of what I learned at Dell State helped me but I got online on YouTube and I talked about that like hey here's all the jobs I'm doing because no one will put me on camera I'm putting myself on camera telling you guys that I don't have a job

and then now where I'm at now and moving from L.A. to New York I've been just vlogging and documenting my journey and having to move from L.A. to New York and just figure it out like Breakfast Club just was one of those things that like kind of like just happened

and it turned into so much more so I've been just vlogging and, you know, just the transition of that. But Del State and being a business major helped me understand that as things evolved and changed, I needed to understand what that meant and how to get that out to what my market was. I love it.

Y'all feeling that? That's real, right? Let's pivot a little bit. Time there at Del State. And you're from Wilmington, Delaware, as well, if I'm mistaken, right? Yes. Okay.

To then go to the West Coast. How do you make a move like that and still stay? you? You just get on the plane and go. If I'm being honest with you, like, tell them. That's all that it was. I think I've always, so first,

I want to say that I was raised in a household that you can't be really too timid in my house. My mom's family is from the Bronx, so she talks real crazy. Shout out to the Bronx. Yes, so in my household, you know, you got to be able to, like, keep up. So my mom, you know, really raised me

to be very, like, ambitious, to know what I want and to just go and do it, to execute. So for me, when I knew I wanted to go to L.A., I remember being at Dell State, my senior year, and, you know, any seniors here? Senior. Okay. All right, so for...

We got some seniors graduating in December in here, too, so... Yes. Shout out to y'all. Y'all excited? I know. I remember the feeling, and are y'all at that point yet where you guys are having to put together, like, the presentations and have conversations

about what you want to do after school? Okay, now let me tell y'all how that went for me. So I'm a business major. At the time Delaware State University's business program was very like, it was boxed in. They didn't really like, so I'm coming to school. I'm coming to class. And when they're asking me this, I'm like, oh, I'm going to move to L.A. and become a TV star. And they're like, that's not the project we gave you.

You need to create a business. You need to. And I'm like, I'm telling you I'm the business. Here's my digital numbers. And they didn't really understand it then. And so I went through that whole struggle before I even went to L.A., so from that, I learned that, like, you, I couldn't really, I could only be me. I didn't have a choice because if I chose to do whatever anybody else was telling me, it wasn't going to get me to where I was going, because I just knew people didn't understand it at the time. Right. So that was a big push, but again, I was raised that way. So I literally just was like, okay, here's my plan. I'm going to move to L.A. I found a friend I could, like, just crash with it for, like, a couple months, and I'm going to figure it out. Went there once. It didn't work. I ran out of money. Couldn't find a job.

I had to call Barclay Card in Wilmington, Delaware, and say, hey, I'm on my way back to Delaware. I need a job. But because of my internship, I got the job. I was there for a couple years, moved back to L.A. That time worked. It worked, but it was rough. Like, I was broke. And if y'all are on YouTube watching vlogs, please go check out my YouTube channels, Lauren LaRosa TV.

Especially for the seniors and the juniors, because I think in that time, the second time when I moved back to L.A., I really realized that no matter how much passion you have for you have. or something, things will always hit a low. And if they hit a low, that means a high is coming. You just have to know how to maneuver when things aren't the way that they need to be or the way you want them to be in the moment. Because it will happen. Like life be lysing.

And you don't realize, like, y'all are in such a good place right now. Like, y'all are in college. You guys are, you know, getting to meet all these people and build relationships. And this, don't underestimate where you are right now. Don't rush it. Spend these last couple months, whatever you have, to really just, enjoy being like, for the most part, billless and worryless and all that, because once you get into life, so many other things are coming at you. But I think, you know, from that time,

I really built a strong mental relationship with myself, and I would build it on YouTube, to be honest with you. Like, I would turn on my camera and talk to myself because I just needed somebody to talk through it with who wouldn't discourage me. So when I was doing that, I was like, okay, we got this. So I'm in L.A. I'm figuring it out that time. But everywhere I was going, what I was realizing was people had never had a meet in that space. And in the beginning of it, I didn't really understand what that meant. In the beginning of it, to be honest with you, I was like, this is going to be so hard. Because I have the professional background.

I have the business degree. I've been working corporate now for years, so I'm very well put together. I can run a meeting from top to bottom, honey. I get the things done, but I want to be in entertainment. and people don't really understand the switch. And then I, so in the beginning, I was really discouraged, and then that's how brown girl grinding, my brand came about because I started realizing like, okay, well, if they don't have a me,

if I'm a marketing major, I'm thinking about this in a business aspect. If they don't have a me, that means there's a hole in the market. Like, there's a niche for a me. So why don't I make that a thing? So I started hashtagging brown girl grinding. And then I started realizing other black and brown women were hashtagging it too because they were catching on, like, okay, Every single time she's doing something, or she's talking about her journey,

and now we got guys in the mix, too, but she's hashtagging that. And it got to a point where I realized that, you know, people not having a meet in the room was my superpower. Took a little minute, but I realized it. And once I realized that, you couldn't tell me nothing. Oh, no ball. Nothing at all. So I've always been me.

I think it just took me a while to realize the beauty in that. All I know. is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her. We know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV.

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here

if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her, or rape or burn, or any of that other stuff that y'all said. They literally made me say that I took a match

and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season at free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts.

I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, I help a centenarian mend a broken heart. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old. And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. And he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge

of like, okay, this is power. Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother tried to solve my problems through hypnotism. We could give you a whole brand new thing where you're like super charming all the time. Being more able to look people in the eye. Not always hide behind a microphone. Listen to Heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B. My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. How do you think you're misunderstood? I'm not this evil, mean person that.

people think that I am. I'm too compassionate. I have sympathy for that my man. Put so much heart and soul into your work. What's the hardest part for you to take that criticism? This shit was not given to me. I worked my ass off for me. Even when I was a stripper, I'm going to be the best pole dancer in here. When was the moment you felt I did it? I still to this day don't feel comfortable. I fight every day to keep this level of success because people want to take it from you so bad. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago now. We're getting a little bit older and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing. Bloomberg and IHeart podcast present

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Listen to IVF Disrupted, the Kind Body Story, starting September 19 on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You had the one-way ticket from the east coast to L.A. Yes. But you had to come back. Then you had a second one-way ticket to L.A. This time it stuck. Talk about overcoming challenges. Some of the scholars in the room, maybe in a similar position to you.

Maybe they were that first one graduating, the first one now going into corporate. Give them a couple of blueprint pieces to help them overcome challenges. I would say the best thing you can do is to always be a student. Like, when you leave school, the learning shouldn't stop. And I know that that sounds cliche, but I'm going to be really honest with y'all. When you're the first at doing something, you're going to mess up. Like, I mess up at stuff all the time. But what I do is, is I learn from that.

So, you know, find people that, like, you can kind of latch. on to as like mentors or and even if it's not a mentor that you actually pick up the phone and call if it's somebody that like you just follow on Instagram or like you watch their YouTube content or you got a chance to submit a question on her Instagram story something like that because what you want to do is is it's like trial and error like you want to take okay I'm new here so I'm probably going to mess up and if I mess up how can I you know be a person that like learns how to grow from that like basically teaching yourself because a lot of times you are going to have to teach yourself. Also, I ask, and I still do it. I mean, that's my job.

I ask a lot of questions. Like, if I want to know something, I'm not going to be in a room ever where there is something I want to know, and I do not ask. You are doing yourself a disservice. You are wasting your scholarship money or your tuition that you pay. If you ever find yourself in a room with people that you can actually learn and progress from, and you do not try and do that. Sometimes it is about being quiet. I've had to learn that too. But, you know, ask questions. afraid to say, hey, I'm thinking this. What do you think? And I will also say, too, if you're new in a space, use your friends. Like, they got this thing when you come into college. Y'all do to look to the left of you, look to the right of you. Yeah, they got that. And I think that even

though they do it real quick when you come into college and they might do it at, you know, your graduations, it's so important because, like, a lot of times you're going to use the people that you went to college with when you do mess up or not even mess up, but when you're at a high, Because a lot of times now what I'm experiencing is like I'm reaching different success and goals that even though I envision a lot for myself, I don't really have people I can call and say, hey, this just happened to me. Not in my regular life because it's new. But as I meet new people, I begin to realize that those people have experienced that as well too. So if you sitting in the room with me and I think you might have understood something or you might have been through something or, you know, had a similar contract issue or whatever, I ask, hey, this is what's, happening to me. Have you experienced this? Do you have any lawyers you would recommend, any business

managers, any whatever? Do it all the time. But I got that from Del State as well, too. I'm going to reach out to a friend. I'm going to call you. I'm going to use what I have sitting right next to me because you guys are sitting next to some of the, not even some, you guys are sitting next to living legends and you don't even know it. So you got to make sure that that's one of the things that you do too. And write down stuff. Talk to yourself. Baby, learn how to coach yourself, okay? Because the world is going to try and humble you. Don't let them do it. You've got to learn how to talk to yourself and block out everything else. Sometimes you have to encourage yourself.

Oh, all the time. Every day. We love that. Hi, my name is Madison Burithway. I'm a junior at the Delaware State University where I major in mass communications with a concentration in convergence journalism. First, thank you for coming here and talking with us today. My question is, do you feel a responsibility to uplift

Black voices and stories, and how does that influence your work behind the scenes, and how did your HBCU add to that responsibility? So first of all, great question. Yes, I feel that responsibility, and I felt that you don't, I don't care if you're on camera, if you're behind the camera, if you're sitting at a cubicle and a computer, as a black person in the world, you're going to feel black responsibility, period. Every job I've ever had when I said, I realized they didn't have a me. A lot of that was they didn't have a black person.

So, I mean, Breakfast Club, to be honest with y'all, is the first place I've ever worked at where I'm working with black people, where I'm not the only black person, if not maybe one of two. So I've always felt the responsibility because I think that, you know, there's just certain things that will happen and you're watching it in front of you. Like, even when I was in corporate, I was hired by Barclays as a community relations coordinator.

And my job there was to take Barclay card into the community where I was from on Front Women's and Downer. It was to take them into the community and figure out where their money should go, who they should be helping and why. These are people that don't even cross the blocks that I grew up on. So you talk about responsibility. Not only am I having to explain to them why certain places need money, but I'm also having to explain to them why they shouldn't be afraid to go and see it. You know what I mean? So they can really understand this is who you need to help.

So that happens there. TMZ, Raquel, you all remember Raquel that was on TMZ? And Van Leighton, who at the moment with Kanye was? So I'm in there, I'm at TMZ, and they're there. They both end up leaving around the same time. I probably say, Raquel decided on like a Thursday, maybe a Friday. Hey, I just had a baby. I'm not coming back.

I'm cool right now. Amad Aubrey gets killed. Instantly, it's like, oh, Maure, you're black. What do we do? And this is like, and now this is different because I'm not in a boardroom. I'm not on an email. I'm in front of millions of viewers on primetime and daytime television. And TMZ.com, when those stories go live, they reach the world.

So if anything goes out wrong in such a sensitive time, it's like, yo, the whole world at one point was like, it's Lauren's fault. Because you're seeing me on camera and I'm the only black face you're seeing. My responsibility, I had to, yo, I had to grow up. Like, my responsibility not only kicked in, but it had to become like, I was like cute little middle school responsibility. I had to become like grown up real, real quick. Because it's millions of viewers that that responsibility is different, especially when, you know, you don't feel as empowered because it is just you, and then you transition into, I don't care if I'm empowered or not. That's not cool. We're not going to do that. Not while I'm here. You want me to say what? No, I'm not saying that. Why would I say that? Oh, I'm also going to be honest about this. And hey, you're very ignorant if you get on air and say that. Okay, cool. You want to get on air and say it. I'm going to call you ignorant on error because people need to know that that's not how they should abide by anybody. That doesn't look like them because you don't understand. So I'm having like literally like verbal aren't matches on camera. Like, the responsibility just, it never stops, it never turns off.

And the way that your HBCU and my HBCU came into that, when you go to HBCU, you just learn that, like, I don't know, like being black is this, it's a gift to the world. So all you want to do once you leave your HBCU is just share that gift. Like, ooh, okay, y'all need a little sprinkle me over here, a little seasoning over there, and you really learn how to show up. Like, I think people are always so amazed because it's like, I'm fun. I know how to speak.

I might be like, okay, cool, period. But then I also, like, I get on air and I can be buttoned up if I want to. And they're so amazed by that. And I'm like, at my HBCU, everybody was like that. We was having a great time when we were at college, but these are some of the best professionals in the world right now. You know what I mean? But your HBCU teaches you that it's like an ability to like almost like, I wouldn't

take camouflage. because I don't really like that term, but, like, to bend and I guess, like, shake and move. So the responsibility, yes, I feel it. It's a thing. I also make sure I prioritize highlighting other black media platforms, which I was also doing at TMZ, too, because I've worked for some of them,

so I know how, like, you know, they might break an exclusive and people don't give them the props they deserve. And then also, too, your HBCU teaches you the full circle of community. So, like, if you give and you help when you need to get, because you're not always going to be up. You might be down, and you're going to need to give help and pick up the phone, but people remember when you were that person for them.

And I learned that at school, too. All I know is what I've been told, and that to have truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy Kilder, we know.

A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that you all said. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight, I help a centenarian mend a broken heart.

How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old. And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. And he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, okay, this is power. Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother try to solve my problems through hypnotism. We could give you a whole brand new thing

where you're like super charming all the time. Being more able to look people in the eye. Not always hide behind a microphone. Listen to Heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity. to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B.

My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. How do you think you're misunderstood? I'm not this evil, mean person that people think that I am. I'm too compassionate.

I have sympathy for that my man. Put so much heart and soul into your work. What's the hardest part for you to take that criticism? This shit was not given to me I worked my ass off for me Even when I was a stripper I'm gonna be the best pole dancer in here When was the moment you felt I did it

I still to this day don't feel comfortable I fight every day to keep this level of success Because people want to take it from you so bad Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty On the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago now.

We were getting a little bit older, and it just kind of felt like the window could be closing. Bloomberg and IHeard podcast present. IVF disrupted. The Kind Body Story. A podcast about a company that promised to revolutionize fertility care.

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Okay, hello. Thank you for being here. My name is Kalandra Carter from Alabama State University Senior Study and Communications. Currently with ESPN and ESCAP. So my question to you is working in entertainment. That's something I've always tried to push towards, but right now I'm kind of stuck in the sports entertainment. So how do you handle professional relationships within entertainment because it can get messier with rap beats? Like how do you prepare and handle those situations and conflicts in the entertainment industry because that is rare kind of sports and entertainment. You mean like because of the content you're covering?

Yeah, because the content you're covering. I mean, you just get to a point where you're like, I can't please everybody. One of the things that I do try to do, though, is like, I mean, if I have a personal relationship with anybody and like I'm going to speak on something on air, I talk to them first off air. Like, yo, even if I'm like, that was stupid,

why did you do that? I'm going to call you and be like, yo, you know what I was stupid. And you're like, come on. And you know I'm going to have to talk about this. And then that extends into, okay, so while we're talking, I mean, because when I, if I know you personally, you know, we're on background. So that means I can't use anything from the conversation, right? But once we start talking and I'm like, okay, cool. So as a friend, even if you're not a friend, this goes for like people that I don't know personally either.

I reach out, hey, so this happened. This is how it's being reported. These are, this is what I know, the facts that I've learned on my own. what do you want to say for yourself? And then I think if you present, as long as I try to present as many sides of the story as I can, if you do that and then you state your opinion in the mix of that, if you choose to.

And I also try and tell people like, okay, sometimes I say in my opinion, so people know the difference between here is what is actually happening and here's how I feel. But people are going to get upset. You cannot get around that. Because I think one of the things, too,

that people have enjoyed watching with me It's the fact that, like, I'm honest. Like, if I feel away, I feel away. If I need to say something, I say it. I think I've learned how to button it up and keep it real cute. But I think people enjoy that. That's why y'all like watching The Breakfast Club, because you know Charlamania is going to say what he wants to say.

You know Envi's going to get a joke or two. And y'all know Jess with the mess, and her news is real. It's going to say what she wants to say. And people like that. So you can't get around it. I will say, though, I wouldn't run from it. I wouldn't run from entertainment because of that, unless you're just not comfortable with it.

If you're not comfortable with rubbing people the wrong way, people having an opinion about your opinion and not liking certain things, it might not be the industry for you on camera because it literally just happens. People are going to not like the fact that you put on lipstick today. No, I promise you. I promise you.

It gets that petty. People will be like, why is she sitting up there in that red lip? Journalists don't wear red lip. Oh, baby, I wear Ruby Woo. I do red lip down. So you got to kind of like do all you can. do and realize that some things you just can't help. Thank you.

You're welcome. All right. All right. We've got folks graduating in December. We've got folks graduating in the spring. We've got folks that are graduating next December 26 or into the next year. Give them a message or something they can hold on to, something that they can play back,

use as encouragement when it gets tough. Close us out, sis. I would say, I got two things Okay, I would say No, I'll just do one Warning comes before destruction You're going to experience a lot of different things

You are going to try things and you should Throw things at the wall, see if they stick Whatever you think Like if you're passionate about it, do it Do it well, start now, execution is important Discipline is important But you have an instinct And you have a gut for a reason

If there is, you know, when I say warning comes up for destruction, I really mean that there will be times where your own natural instinct will say to you, this isn't right. I should pivot here. I should take that opportunity. Even I think I didn't want to work at Barclay Card. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. I did it for two years.

Without them, I wouldn't be sitting here. I learned everything about my professional delivery from that job, and I didn't even want to take it. But my gut said, girl, you need a job, just take it, put your head down, do what you need to do. Your instinct and your gut will tell you so much of what you should be doing. Listen, because those warnings will come, that gut instinct will come, but ain't going to come to many times before you get in your own way. And that looks like the destruction. So get out your own way, try things, throw things at the wall.

Execution. Don't just talk about it, write it down, pray on it, but actually go do it. Like start now. Like right here, right now. You should be starting. If you rap, I should be able to go on Instagram and see freestyles and covers. If you are a journalist, I should be able to see right now. interviews. If you make clothing, I should see right now some photo shoots, your home girls

and all of your branding, all that stuff. Like, start now. Don't wait until you graduate. Don't wait until you move to your dream place that you want to live. None of that matters. These tables are going to be there for y'all to pull up a seat too or for you to create for yourself, but you've got to execute to do any of that. All right. Let's give it up, y'all. Lauren, thank you again so much. Remind them one more time on the, on the IG complaint. Yeah, I'm Lauren LaRosa everywhere. So L-O-R-E-N, L-O-R-O-S-A. And then my favorite.

Brown Girl Grinding. Come on. Yeah, so Brown Girl Grinding is, I call it the online group chat. So we inspire, we lift up, we have a little bit of fun. There's news there, there's conversations there. You'll have a good time over there to Brown Girl Grinding on Instagram. And I do have a podcast with IHeart and the Black Effect Network called The Latest with Lauren La Rosa. It's a daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and I break exclusives there.

We just wrapped up all of our Diddy Trial coverage, so all that stuff is there as well, too. Yeah, that's where I'm at. Helming content, and again, on a very, very important topic. Yeah, oh, yeah, no. The Diddy Trial coverage took my, like, social out of here. I started the trial with, like, 3,000 subscribers on YouTube. I'm at, like, 60K right now.

It's a testament to your work. Do it now. Don't wait. Nope. All that's iPhone footage. Do it now. Don't wait for things. We'll use it as our clothes, everyone.

So thank you all so, so much. Let's give it up again. At the end of the day, you guys could be anywhere with anybody having a conversation about all these things. What you choose to be right here with me, my lowriders, and I appreciate you guys for that. I'm Lauren LaRosa. This is the latest with Lauren LaRosa, and I will see you guys in my next episode. The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went under. solved for years, until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward

with a story. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to live. Avile for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose podcast.

I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B. My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had. This shit was not given to me. I worked my ass off for me. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on. the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... And so I pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? Listen to Heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Introducing IVF disrupted, the Kind Body story, a podcast about a company that promised to revolutionize fertility care. It grew like a tech startup.

While Kind Body did help women start families, it also left behind a stream of disillusioned and angry patients. You think you're finally like in the right hands. You're just not. Listen to IVF Disrupted, the Kind Body Story, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.