I finally get to L.A. graduate, have a kid in college and I have to pursue my dream because
if I don't what am I teaching my son?
So i moved to california with seven hundred dollars in my pocket and my toddler.
And i had to fight the good fight because people are telling me i can't you can't do
this, you can't.
Are you crazy?
You're moving to California with your son?
You'll never make it.
I was twenty six when I decided to come here.
There's the age thing.
Oh you're too old.
If you listen to people and if you allow people to project their fears onto you, you won't
live.
What if i believed those people who told me that when I became pregnant in college that
I wouldn't finish?
I walked across that stage with my son on my hip and I collected my degree.
my diploma.
I didn't hear the naysayers when they were like you're too old to go to California.
If you don't hit by 25 you're not gonna make it.
I will be forty six this year, I am just touching the surface.
I am just getting started.
and that's my message to kids today, they think so little because of Instagram.
You know everybody wants instant fame.
it didn't take me, it didn't happen.
this me getting here, this is 20 years of hard work.
of proving that my voice mattered.
right?
Did i always get paid what i should have?
no.
But that wasn't my struggle the struggle's bigger than that.
Get the big picture and stick to it.
I have a voice.
everything in life that's coming to you is gonna come through you it starts inside of
you you know whether it's love from another from a male from whoever that love has to
start within you if you don't know how to take care of yourself or care for yourself
first you know how are you gonna teach someone else to you know if you don't fight after
go after with such tenacity your goals in life what are you what are you leaving your
significant other to admire about you it all starts with you you know you're the temple
and you have control you're in a bad situation it's up to you to get out of it you can't
give another human the responsibility of your happiness.