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Talk to your local agent today. Hey, B. A. F. A. F. Mandy here. I am really excited to introduce this week's episode because we are digging into the archive from our

conversation about a year ago with Amanda Seals. Now y'all may know Amanda Seals like

we did from her incredible portrayal of Tiffany Du Bois on the award winning series

insecure. But since leaving the show or the sense the show ended, Amanda has really made a name for herself

as a comedian, as an artist in her own right but also especially on social media an outspoken advocate. I mean on so many issues she does not hold back when it comes to defending black and brown I mean I'm

gonna say Americans but really just any citizen of the world Amanda speaks out she

speaks up she chooses to use her platform to speak on issues that she feels deeply passionate about and she does not go on social media and talk carelessly. She speaks with authority with clearly with the fact that she's

educated herself and always with I think a lot of love and passion in her heart, especially for black and brown people.

Like she is us, she wants us to thrive, and she is not afraid to use her platform for that.

So if y'all have missed some of the controversy lately, a few weeks back,

Amanda went out on... So if y'all have missed them of the controversy, let me just start by saying when we had Amanda on last year, we actually asked her if she had suffered any like any blowback or any repercussions from being so outspoken on so many issues in not just in

Hollywood but in a variety of topics and at the time she was like no I don't feel

like I have been penalized I don't feel like I am missing out on opportunities and shared, you know, a pretty awesome idea of how she defined success for herself and how she measures her own success differently to how maybe someone else working in or alongside

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