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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I am your host, Danny M. Lavary,

and with me in the studio this week is Olivia Sharmin Morris, an artist, activist,

and the founder and CEO of Black Monarch Entertainment. Her new Instagram Live lifestyle series, The T,

invites celebrity guests to participate in intimate conversations. Olivia, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, Danny. I'm so excited to be here.

I am so looking forward to it as well, and I'm also looking forward to hear a little bit more about

your own series and your own approach to interviewing people. But first, we have a couple of

people to assist, and if you wouldn't mind reading our first letter for us, we can get started.

So the very first one is about unexpected grief, and it reads,

a high school teacher I had over a decade ago passed away unexpectedly last week.

I had not kept in touch with him, though he had a profound impact on me, and I often share

stories of being in his class. His wife was a favorite teacher of mine as well, and he always

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