5. Overcoming the Fear with Cleo King

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When there’s an obstacle between you and your dreams, what steps do you take to conquer it? A life changing quote covers Charla’s desktop background while Lauren readjusts where fear lives in her mind. Living your best life despite the fear is something our guest, Cleo King, has been doing for her whole career. Having credits in some of the best TV shows and movies out there (Pineapple Express, Magnolia, The Hangover) Cleo has been around the business long enough to know that overcoming fear is one of the keys too true self discovery. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw For a full list of all the shows and movies Cleo King has been in, see her IMDB page here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454598/ This episode is sponsored by HarperCollins - I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying.

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0:00.0	Keep your eye on the prize. And that's what I've always done. If that's what I want, go get it.
0:08.0	Don't go down here laughing and talking and key in with people don't go down here playing laughing and
0:15.4	traveling keep your eye on the prize and I knew I had to go to New York or LA to be an actor and I told them and my dad said to me
0:27.1	honey there are too many people cuter than you and too many people smaller than you.
0:32.3	You got to find something you can do in this life and
0:35.1	acting is not it. And I will not waste time in the other direction because time is precious and it could be gone so fast you
0:46.1	better jump on it honey because if you don't somebody else will.
0:50.1	This is the secret lives of black women. I'm Charlotte and I'm Lauren and today we are talking about
1:00.7	something that I deal with on a daily basis
1:03.6	and I think a lot of people do, which is overcoming fear
1:08.4	to be your full self, live your most authentic life overcoming fear to even simply function.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	Which some days are easier than others.
1:22.0	Today I feel it's like a good day for me and overcoming
1:24.8	fear but I'm always cautious of like tomorrow I may be so crippled by it I may not
1:31.1	be able to leave my house. Same. I have those same struggles with fear and I think sometimes I kind of look at it from the opposite
1:39.3	point of view. I'm actually more afraid of inaction. I'm afraid of what my life will look like if I don't do
1:44.2	the things that I'm afraid of. But fear is a thread that runs through my daily life.
1:48.8	It's a constant campaign. I once had a therapist tell me, you know, you're always going to have fear but you can't let it be
1:54.4	in the driver's seat like how can you be in the driver's seat of your life and just
1:58.3	have fear in the back and be you know a motivator. I actually have a quote on my laptop on my desktop. It says
2:08.8	fear is a sickness and I literally look at it every day because I'm always so afraid of everything and I feel like for the most part the things that we're afraid of are just apparitions. It's not real. You know, we make it up in our minds that it's something to be afraid of.
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