Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls, you're listening to Ratchet and Respectable with Dimitria

El Lucas.

Y'all, don't shoot me.

I know I missed an episode last week.

I tried really hard to pull it together.

I was traveling.

I went out to LA.

Actually, it's somewhere deep in Southern California right on the coast.

BET brings together 200 women who are power players, shot callers, women of note in their

respective industries.

It was started by Debra Lee who used to run BET.

She has since stepped away and she took the event with her.

This was the first year that I've gone.

I've been invited a couple other years, but I was either traveling or I was just like

IBS on RSVPing.

But this year is my, you know, get up and go get it here.

Like I've been half-assing through life for a really long time.

And so this year I decided to step it up.

So one of the things that was on my step it up list was to attend this event.

Also, when people invite you to things and you don't show up, they stop inviting you.

And this is one of those things that I was like, oh, I'm taking for granted that I'm being

invited to this and I might want to show up in case I don't get an invite next year.

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