bell hooks

And the third one, we'll see about her.

But, like, with Main Character Energy, basically when I was, like, coming up, when I was, like, making it, this guy called Lee Griffiths at Soho, I was doing this thing called, like, Edinburgh Lab, which is this thing that people can do when they, like, are going to the fringe and they're, like, you kind of talk about and discuss, like, what it's going to be like like giving tips like it's yeah a nice like community like that is formed and he said this thing where he was like you don't have to put everything you've ever felt or thought into your first show like you're going to make other shows throughout your life and that suddenly just opened the whole thing up because I felt like I was trying to cram in everything everything into my first show main character energy and then I was like oh this is a trilogy and And like the, the trilogy is very inspired by bell hooks, all about love, which also is a trilogy of books.

It's all about love, communion and salvation.

And then also like, you know, Beyonce, like with her trilogy of albums, like I was like, oh, like these black women, not that like bell hooks necessarily love Beyonce, but like these black women like are like being really ambitious and like creating like bodies of work that will speak to each other.

And like the first show is about self-love and the second show, this one is about romantic love and the third one is about spiritual and communal love.

And I guess it came from a place of like, The first show kind of like was about self-indulgence.

That's beautiful.

I adore that.

Oh, man, so many folks.

I think the one person, she's not necessarily an entrepreneur per se, but she's an author, Bell Hooks.

I would love to sit down and pick her brain because she's, you know, she's a feminist author, speaker, writer, very prolific.

super smart but she did things in her way right she never went on other people's way of doing things it was super intentional about that I think also I mean I gotta give it up to the goat Michelle Obama I love her and every listen if you're Michelle if you're listening call me I I would love to sit down and just pick her brain about being amazing, high-powered woman who, again, chooses their own lane, says yes to the things that are important to them and be unapologetic about it.

I just adore that so much.

You know, when we talk about authors and books and things like that, poetry would be Rupi Kaur.

Writing would be Bell Hooks, Maya Angelou.

People like Oprah.

Brene Brown is another one who was incredible for me.

doing what I think a lot of these predatory kind of men do with younger women who don't have full access to that frontal precortex, right? The frontal precortex of their brain.

They haven't had the chance to read Audre Lorde yet or, you know, Bell Hooks or Angela Davis.

Like, they...

Sure, they grew up with feminist moms and they've grown up in a land that the landscape may look slightly different and they may have had slightly more understandings, probably are a little less racist in some of these things, right? But they haven't done any meaningful work at 22 or at 19 when they met her.

Toxic masculinity is a masculinity that is rooted in the domination of other people, not just women, but other men.

Bell Hooks said that toxic masculinity, she didn't say this word specifically, patriarch, excuse me.

Of course, it disparages and disregards women.

But the first lesson it teaches to disregard is you as a man, you must teach yourself that you are not worthy.

mentors, um, the people whose shoulders I stand on are, yes, Audre Lorde, Black feminist scholar.

Bell Hooks is another Black feminist scholar, writer, professor, Dr. Maya Angelou, who was a writer, a poet, an actress.

Toni Morrison is another writer, scholar, feminist.

So many people, and notice I haven't named a single therapist.