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Now, today we are back at its top of the week.

And anytime, Monday is my favorite day in news.

I like the weekends because, you know, it's normally more chill unless someone gets arrested.

But Monday, there's always so much that has happened.

So you just have a plethora of things that you can discuss that you can talk about and that have went down.

If I'm checking in, because you guys know we do the behind the scenes of the grind check in here at the latest with Lauren the Rosa.

Back on the grind. Which is our time when we ask, how are you doing? Like, how are you really doing? I want to hear from you guys. How are you doing? A lot of times when you're grinding, when you're out here moving around, you don't take time to ask yourself how you're doing and you dang sure don't answer the phone for the friends that are going to take the time to ask you that as well, because you don't ever really want to stop. You just want to keep going. And if you're a person like me, you don't know if people ever really care. And I don't even think it's that they don't care. It's just, I'm a problem solving myself. So what can you do to solve this problem when I feel like it's my own thing? So we created the behind the scenes of the grind check in for all of the, you know, everybody out there on your grind. Y'all know I'm a brown girl on her grind and, you know, just to take the time to do that. So if I'm checking in from behind the scenes of the grind, I've been so blessed recently. You guys have heard me talk about this a few times here on the podcast, all of my lowriders, being able to spend time with family. I've been so blessed recently. You guys have heard me talk about this a few times here on the podcast,

all of my lowriders, being able to spend time with family. I've been able to, I don't even know how, but, you know, on the weekends where I'm not doing events or speaking engagements or whatever it is that I can do outside of Breakfast Club and the podcast here, y'all know I'm outside. I'm working. But I've been able to spend a lot of time with my family, with my grandmother, with my mom. They were actually in New York the other weekend, and they came and stayed with me, and it was literally just a weekend of me waiting on them, like cooking for them and all the things. And then this weekend, we celebrated my niece's birthday. Drop a bomb for Brooklyn. My niece turned 11, and we went to the American Dream Mall. Shout out to American Dream Mall who took amazing care of us. They made sure that, like, you know, my mom, she's older. They made sure that, you know, we didn't have to walk around too crazy, and that we had all access to the things that we needed, and that the kids had a good. And they were just really accommodating of our party. And we had a few people in our party. It's always hard during group events to get everybody on the same page. But from the planning stages to the execution, they just really were amazing. So shout out to Keisha and the team over at American Dream Mall. If you all looking for a place to do the birthday party, I'm telling y'all, we had a great time. We stayed in the park until the lights came on. We was at the letout at American Dream Mall. I was telling my niece, like, girl, you're going to learn when you get older. You don't do the letouts, okay? You leave before the lights, come on. But we were there until the park closed because we were just having such a good time. The kids were having such a good time. We did the water park and the amusement park and all the things. So I feel good. We also went to Central Park and my niece had never been in Central Park. So I took her there and my little cousin. It was her birthday as well too. So they got to go to the zoo in Central Park and y'all know kids. It was everything for them. They were in New York and they were in Central Park and they got to go to the zoo in Central Park and y'all know kids. Like they, it was everything for them.

They were in New York and they were in Central Park and they got to see, you know, where the show Jesse was shot.

It was a vibe.

It was such a vibe.

So I feel good.

That makes you feel whole.

But getting on into the latest, speaking of family, a family that we've been talking a lot about here on the

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