hello welcome to army b shore up close and personal i'm your host venus and i'm here to take you through this magical musical dance we call life and to do that i talk to prominent people in community that can give us tips that help us help us make it through now wait a minute that's what we normally do and normally i'm in charge and i asked the questions but today i forgot to say it's the anniversary of the bistro so well because it's that we're going to tell you a little bit about the b show so we're flipping the script and i have a panel of people who are going to ask me questions i don't know were they going to say i hope they're going to become one so let me introduce them so we can get started i have miscellany anderson who is an aspiring fashion buyer and merchandiser and i have a wonderful couple they are just the most beautiful couple on the planet inside and out all the way through they run a company called covenant business concepts and that they specialize in teaching small and large businesses how to train and just management training and all kinds of things like that and we'll tell you i'm good thank you for being here so i guess alina can go first and we'll take turns and what you want to know again as well congratulations on the anniversary of army easter how many years has a it's actually not years it's six months but i believe in celebrating whenever you can because you never know if you want to get to that you are for whatever you don't know a life as in store for you so celebrate what you can when you can it is a milestone six months on the air is a milestone that is that minutely so we know you have an extensive career because i like r and b jazz and gospel i can't choose between them i'm a jazz singer though so i like a little gospel so you get everything if you go up the show for when you get steak pork chops seafood whatever and so i want to be able to have all those john so that's with a r and b b stroking from and then when i interview people i always want to get up close and personal get in the business and find out what's going on so i say oh up close and personal and i my for christmas some reason they must've thought i'd like to do that and i was jackson of the a b c s so as my cousin would say there's venus again jazz and at the a b c is my god grandfather had a reel to reel tape really dating myself had a reel millions who don't know what that is these big gigantic rules that are tapes not for video but there they were tapes for music and he would video us or rather he would take a bus and so i would just be singing with the mi here bottle or whatever singing the a b c s to a jazz be so i have my family sings so when they sing in church you know they sing not really gospel but maybe just jazz and so i guess that's where a lot of that came from so that's really how all that started singing is my first love although i'm not doing too much of it now when radio came in it was a theme and i kind of put it to the side but i'm getting hungry so i'm hoping that it comes back that every time i talk to a singer on the panel my i need to say mom i want to say that i think i wrote that on facebook one day and somebody said well go ahead you know anyway so that's kind of where that came so most heard you saying i'm hungry for to so little self so cool thank you i'm trying and i got to go back and train get some more you wake up the voice and stuff but thank gathered over the years from the business perspective what you think someone entering this industry he really spent time invest and mastering ok well with everything a lot of people are born with gifts i believe in that but you still have two who are in your craft whether it's a talent in business or talent in singing or whatever it is so you need to go to school and study you discover study business management because if you know you see all these these singers from days gone by where they lost a lot of their money because they want to paying attention to the business and people were stealing from them royalties and everything they were not getting that so you have to align yourself with people who know how to do that  kind of person where i may know how to do certain things but that's not what i want to do so if you have the money and you've gone to school but you don't want to hand you don't have would you go to school so you know but if you don't want to handle it you hire somebody that you can trust that can handle those things for you or less for is there for example i must bring your company in because i teach an introductory voiceover class which is on the shelf right now but that's coming back out but these people helped to create that training class for me we sat down we met they asked me what do you want to do how do you want to do it what do you need all i did was feed them the information and when it came back it was in such a package that just was phenomenal that to me i could not have done that presentation and we do it from home so you sit your house i sit at my house and i train you on what it is to get into the business not voice over one or one i refer you out for that although i've been getting requests for that but right now i want to do voice over introductory and send you out that was a one on one but it was just phenomenal what they did and very easy for me i say i'm not a techie to grass and do so if you're looking for somebody to set up programs for you covered in business concepts they can they wanted to fit you in their particular box and it was your moment of truth when you had it the side to the venus brand or to let someone else tell you you know what you're capable of it and if you have a moment like that you're so funny that was kind of hard for me to answer i'm going to say because no i found a good one so i do i've done off broadway i haven't done broadway yet on the bucket list and of course i've done a lot of about it and we switched and we went to the director and said she's going to be her and i'm going to her and because the other person didn't know how to do an accent that it i got that because i have a little west indian i will go into battle which is the dialogue what did you say whatever so the girl couldn't do that so we switched to because i needed the character needed to have a west indian accent and she said i can't do any accent so we just went to the director and we said was she's going to be someone so and she's  that there me but i was watching a commercial of a comp show today somali's i'm going to be in for the what it's called but anyway so not late and it's coming out in a few weeks and she's playing a cop who said you know what it's a bad you know what couple i want to use your show you had you you're with if you were with a band it was being this lady with the song and the name of your show the end title was the way you used to be so i just wanted to talk about you know what do you feel is missing the radio what do you feel is missing from music that what you do is aiming to bring back live music the way it used to be music to exist you know no shade a kid say to the music that's happening now but i like music and people from my era like music that you can remember that you can feel that tells a story and where you can hear and understand all the words so i have a problem when i can and now i like to be too because you know i like to dance off i had a beer but then i got what i thought was i don't know what they're saying so i just roll with the and i think that music last longer the music that came from the fifty's and the sixty's and if you notice i mean you're you're past the millennium or you still consider millennium imo i mean your money ok so you guys are still using sampling the music that did fifty's and sixty's seventy's and eighty's and it will probably still be using it two thousand and twenty thirty and forty because it's that good and is that expressive i mean right now until they make it beats that's what i watched and it was so wonderful you know when i do songs one of my favorite vocal in this is billie holiday and i got a few but really holly i just love the classiness and the style so we're going back to twenty's and thirty's right back so i love the classin gardenia but i'm going to do billie holiday song because my grandmother told me that too and one of her favorite songs that she taught me in life was god bless the child that's got his own and so that's one of the songs that i would sing because it teaches you to remember you have to do what you gotta do to take care of yourself and make sure you have your own and don't look for people to help your hand up don't get me wrong every now and then people need help and especially in this business you need help because there's several times when you're not working so when you see people or hear about people out in the street living in their car is because they are definitely determined and focused on this business and they're going to do whatever they have to do to succeed now live in my car industry you know what to tell you the truth i think that some people are born with certain instincts or genes to do certain things and i don't think i looked at it then because i never thought i couldn't when i mean so when i was singing jazzing of the a b c s i just like lights camera action to some recent you know so i don't know whether that's a gene i inherited from one of my parents or you know whether that's just what i was born w but i think that it was just something that's been in me for as far back as i can remember i always want to sing and maybe because they sang i always want to act was one of model so if you look at my high school yearbook it says saying wow and then there were people that would say well if you can do one what would you do if i didn't and why do you have to choose one yes yes and i had a young actress here clearly cullen and i love her when i can see eye to eye with people and i did that to her and i did it to this other young artist and i said pick one and they can't pick one so we're like a special breed of people and david talbot talks about that he says you're crazy and he's among them because he's a producer ok and he said when you are we were crazy type of people but not really crazy is just because there are certain people that are people who start businesses there are certain people that are doctors i don't want no blood not to be a doctor and i don't want to sit in an office and type all the time so i wasn't a secretary you know for some reason i was born liking the limelight i can't explain it but i just know that it's a part of me and that's one of the tips that i have for people who want to do what ever it is you want to do you need to look inside yourself and figure out what your passion is because what your passion is that's what you should do that which is should be successful god gave us gifts and he said you use those gifts to take care of yourself so you've got to figure out what it is so that you can start taking care of yourself and once you figure that out then you're trying and then you want your credit and then you find a mentor and then you just go on and do whatever and the people that are happy as other people who are doing what they love they would do it for free of course you want to pay but they'll do it for free because they're happy and if you've got to eat and you don't feel like you're working yeah you know i strive all the time to do what i love and don't feel like i'm working now don't get me wrong i can do some business you know my my nine to five profession is human resources so you know i could do some business and i used a program telephone systems and things like that project manager i can do some business as he says very meticulous you know very professional like things a certain way you know don't know don't get it twisted but my love is intertainment but like you just sit in the i have to eat so while i'm not making any money from the stuff that i love until i can do it full force full fledged full time i do the other stuff so i will sometimes you don't see it because i walk around like a nun role you know so i'm really spiritual but out what i meant to say was that will you know as me as i'm very honest and straight up straight forward i'm not a phony and go through this you know i can't take this i'm not happy today i'm not even talking to you for weeks and what does he think sometimes he just lets me alone because he made me so he knows all about me and knows kind of person i am and so i have learned that when you have those down times there is nothing that is going to straighten me from my god there is nothing that is going to make me curse my god i make it a little upset because i'm human but i will not person i will tell the devil he's a liar and if i'm feeling bad that day to day is a good day yesterday was not ok so when i have bad days if i can sleep i will go to sleep or i will listen to gospel or something as i think you asked me before about things songs so i got a few of them so i'll listen to some of them to kind of bring me up but if none of that is working because sometimes none of that works so if none of that's working then i kind of just wallow kind of in that day i'm only allow myself that day so today is not a good day tomorrow we have better one the sun will come out tomorrow you know so i kind of just pay no attention to that there's a wash i need to gather strength or so round myself with people who can lift me up you must surround yourself with positive people anybody that's negative and i see you posting things sometimes and you know i treat you like a daughter anybody'd as negative you don't have time for them brush them off anybody that's not going to lift you up build you up and care about you they don't need to be in your camp right after all not in your ca kicked along the way i get feeling like i'm not along the way feeling like i can't along a way but again that's that day come tomorrow is something different now i say reach out to people and talk to them but sometimes i don't want to talk to you i want to talk to anybody because nobody can really get me when i'm really well there are a few people who take that that there are a few people who really know me who can dig right in and say come on let's go snap out of it  books on tape you learning because they take a lot of time that a do overs and what you call it pharmaceutical because they're words in the air and only the doctors can say  jingles i want to stick to you know those kind of things god is sending me learning stuff and tomorrow i'm going to do a merrill commercial and i'm like sitting here trying to study these words as a whole bunch of words and they're doing the you know the dictionary so  they can tell you how to pronounce it is leave two or three of them not in there but you can access them before hand how to pronounce this so they'll tell you how to pronounce it and i'm sure those takes will take a lot because even though i'm practicing those words are not words that will read off your tongue right so they're those kind of things but i've learned to say take whatever is given to you because that's probably where i need you to be you know so i kind of don't turn down anything especially when you know work that you can turn at work you know and boys i think is a very lucrative field but it's kind of hard to get into when deal with is pretty it's not a look at of his voice over and to get into radio i was a voice of a person when i went to radio so i went there to do commercials but when you get that in your blood you know so i wasn't doing too much of the first i was engineering there i'm on air but i was engineering the show to get behind the scenes you're handling everything while the host is doing whatever with the remote or in the studio and house and but i came here to do commercials so i went to the the assistant  director as that i wanted to commercials is about go read some and he took me back to the sales people is that let me introduce you to the sales people so they can get the some of the firms to want to use your voice and so i started doing that and then it came to me is that we want you to be the voice oh cool so when i got upstairs they have your contract which is separate from your regular on air contract and they say you know we want you to voice that station so any time you heard anything in between the commercials ninety eight point seven kiss f m you're hearing me ok i'm not the voice is aging anymore and it's not existing want but that got in your blood and you're like oh my god i how do i get this out even though you make more money in t v so that's why i can't separate them because t v and singing was always the way i wanted to go so but i still want to be somewhere do radio you like they know where you are but they really don't know but you had that person on a year so it looks like they feel like they know you and that's one thing that's important to me that i'm the same wherever i am if i'm on the radio if i'm walking down the of you have to i pride myself in trying to be the same all the time again i don't lie phoneys and sometimes there are people in the colony names to people but sometimes people aren't what you think they are and then when you meet them you so upset when i went there i loved everybody because i listen to them all the time i don't hide them like what i did know that when i grew up i was going to be one of them i didn't know so once i got there and saw that i was a fan now i'm a fan and a colleague this is cool you know  go but everybody wasn't nice and i was like wow you know yeah but anyway i want to get to where you guys are how we can catch you how people can find you how they can find out about your business and anybody can be a mentor or guide you so tell us we want him down now i'm sorry let you have one more quick one if not and i just wanted to ask you because i know you do mentor and you know through a lot of young people what is one piece of advice that you would give to a young person who is shrug going with the they want to cook a stable career but they have this passion in fact what would you what advice would you give them follow their passion or follow your passion but have a back up i used to say to my son i've got a plan a b c and d and when i didn't have it he would mommy mommy what happened to your other plans and you get tired you know and i'm older now than i was then you know start no reason him so sometimes you don't have the strength  d but that's when you call on your positive people around you that's what you call them so if you have someone like that you tell them to follow their passion but plan for backup because you've got to be able to do that or so later how can we stay in touch with you if we want to mentor you improve and or particular area of the industry from a leadership standpoint give us a call and i told you that also and we're going to put those links up so you don't have to remember that if you don't remember the launching you can find me on venus crew tell you on facebook venus