Keep it Positive, Sweetie - Kips Live Pt. 3 w/ The Cast of Zatima: Devale Ellis, Nzinga Imani, Danielle Laroach and Watch Jazzy + Positive Outcomes

Episode Date: April 13, 2025

This week on Keep It Positive, Sweetie, we're wrapping up the final segment of the LIVE SHOW with the powerhouse ladies of Zatima and our leading man, Devale Ellis!  We even brought two incredible audience members on stage for a special edition of Positive Outcomes—and let me tell you, the energy was unmatched. These live shows are truly something special. I hope to see YOU at the next one! 

Let's go y'all stand up make some noise one more time for the beautiful Krista Renea Alright now, y'all know I done went to Fastin Week Who is she? Are y'all ready? I don't know if y'all ready Alright Now listen Are y'all ready? I don't know if y'all ready. All right. Now listen, I'm so excited about this next segment.

You know, that's what I do for y'all. That's I show out for y'all. I'm going to do my big one for y'all every time now. So we are bringing the cast of your favorite series. And mine. To the KISS stage. You know them and you love them and if you like me you done yelled at them. They are the topic of your relationships and your group chats.

I'm talking about none other than my girls Fancy! Hey! Alright y'all! Willa Ry! Hey! Gotta be smart about it singing Zynga! Zynga! You got those ponytails! Yo yo yo yo yo yo I know for a fact

How you not gonna invite Zach to kiss? What's happening? Wow, what's up baby? Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me Alright, see how the tables have turned What's up Kiss family? Can I get a little comfortable? Can I get a little comfortable What is going on this man is strip I could strip I'm doing an interview like this now. Wow, Deval.

It's a Sunday, come on. Alright. Can we please give it up for the ladies of Zatima. So I'm going to be professional. Crystal, I love y'all too, I appreciate y'all. Crystal said I want you to do this Deval. Do you have questions for us? I said of course I do. She said, I'll write you some. I said, all right. So I have these cards. He ain't about to listen. He's not even about to read none of them cards.

I'm gonna be professional. It's the crossing of the line. You can call me Devopra Winfrey. You get a card, you get a card. No, you don't get no cards. You don't get no cards, nothing. All right, no. First and foremost, ladies,

look at where you are. Look at where you are. Can we get another round of applause for these women, please? Yeah! Has this moment been everything you guys thought it was gonna be? No, God keeps blowing my mind.

Like God continues to blow my mind with this journey. Like, every time I think that I've reached, oh I get it, I don't get it. I'm constantly learning. People love our show. Like they, y'all love Satiema, we love y'all. So Crystal do got some questions on here. I'm not about to answer none of these questions. Crystal, you know you one of my best friends. That's my dog, y'all. You from a small town, Martin, Tennessee. Now, look, all of these people from celebrities, people who bought tickets, DJs, they're all here for you.

What does it feel like to build your own empire? And first, giving honor to God, nothing without him is possible. I'm blown away. And I had to thank you Dee, because you set the foundation for the podcasting for me. I saw you doing it, I saw you and Kadine killing it. And I remember when I first booked Sisters and you and I became love interests on the show. And once you got to know me, you were like,

yo, like you need to start speaking more on your Instagram. Like nobody really knows who you are and you're really dope. And I was like, I am? You're welcome, you're welcome. You're welcome. And I remember you pushing me to put myself more out there. And I was trying to find that balance because we've had so many conversations

about social media and me taking the comments to heart and feelings being hurt, you know, and wanting to know how much can I open up to people. I love y'all too. But thank you, thank you for that. But to see where I am now and to have all these amazing people, and this is just a fraction of the people

that really ride for all of us. You know? That's very true. So it was so special for me and important for me to make sure that I share this moment with you guys as well. And I just, I'm... I know you gonna cry, I see it. I see it, I get a glistening, I get a glistening.

I see it. I'm not gonna cry, but to be like from a small town where people get stuck because that's all they know and for God to have put this vision inside me at a very young age for me to see that there's more to this world than Martin, Tennessee and where I'm from is a beautiful town but there's so much more. Yes. So I'm just grateful man. We love you Chris.

We love you. I love you too man. Thank you. And Zynga. Zynga Ling. Now I have a question because like I said like these are questions I really want to ask y'all as being like a homie to y'all. You've been a part of the fashion industry for way before people knew you right but we live in a very vain world where beauty is supposed to look one way. How do you continue to persevere? I keep showing up and showing out. Here he is! No, but truly, I mean, that's one way.

But also, I have to say, say, Crystal continues to be an example in so many different ways because there's a lot of times where people comment things and I'm ready to say something back and then I just gotta be like, keep it positive, sweetie. You are better than this, you are better than that. So you're constantly inspiration, even just how to deal with those situations. But both of you have set great examples

of how to lead this cast in humility and grace. And I am so grateful that we got you guys as an example coming into this, because it was a learning experience. It was. It was. Definitely. And we came in with so much preparation, because you guys made sure that we were.

So shout out to y'all. Thank you. So Jazzy, Deja, damn it Deja! How many times y'all done heard that? Damn Deja! Hi Zackey. Alright now. Calm down.

Yo mama is here. Listen, and you too. Look, I ain't even gonna look at her when I ask this question. I don't see nothing. I just, but no, seriously, um, we met originally back in 2018. And here's a funny story. We were putting together this whole Zatima cast and Crystal and I were just talking

about people that we knew. And the role of Deja came up. And I said, Crystal, what do you think about Watch Jazzy? And Crystal said. She's perfect. Yes, that was the conversation literally. And this is the crazy part. We thought you were perfect because of Toya Turnup.

Now this is my question. Shout out to Toya Turnup. I know a lot of you know Toya Turnup. Should I bring her back? Yes. Yes. She been down for a minute, okay. Bring her back.

And I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you why I think you should bring her back. But my question is, you've gone through so many transitions from 2018 to now. Now you're a mom. What is it like to show so many different sides of yourself on social media? Oh my gosh, you know what?

First of all, hey besties. It's hard, it's hard because it's like, you get on one way and people love you for that thing. And then you grow and you're like, I'm not that no more. I'm not experiencing that anymore. But some people still are. But they still want you to be there. And you're like, okay, well I'm actually,

I'm doing this now. And it's hard because not everybody comes with you on your journey and on your ride. And you know, a lot of times people be like, oh, you used to do this. You used to, I remember when you used to, used to. And a lot of times people will be like, oh, you used to do this. I remember when you used to, used to. And I'm just like, gosh, I'm a mom now. My daughter is my life.

I wake up and I'm immediately a slave, like literally. You know, you wake up and instantly you're serving. Yeah, I got four of them. I don't own my life no more. I'm so blessed to have gone through so many different... No, I just... No, because you made me think, I got shit to do when I get home, guys. We gotta hurry up. I just... No, this way. I'm blessed to have gone through so many different things, and I've showed so much of my life on social media and now I feel like I'm really enjoying just the privacy that I'm creating for myself and

for my daughter, you know, just with nobody knowing what she looks like or just anything, just protecting her, protecting us because people are very weird and mean and let me tell you something, if anybody say anything about my child I proposed my child on people anything you have to say you already know what it's like but keep this purposeful because I will purposely kick somebody ass they talk about my my mother into my where you at you my mother listen my mother told me but this is a true story sorry to cut you off my. My mother told me one time I came over and I had a scratch on my face, it was a little girl. Little girl scratching my face, right?

My mother said, come here. Oh my God, this is like a Hassy's. What's this on your face? I was like, you know this little girl hit me, her name was Tabitha, but it's okay. My mother said, no, it's not okay. It's not. Tabitha's not outside of an ass whooping. I said, Ma she's a girl. She said I'm a girl too.

We going to see Tabitha right now. Shout out to us. Shout out my mom. I love you mom my bad but yeah just you know protecting her privacy and just really enjoying being a mom and and and not trying to post everything because sometimes like you can post things and you're like wow I'm really not being present I'm just trying to get this content but when you put your phone down real quick and you're you're able to really just be in that moment you create so many memories that you might not have on your phone but you have them in here so that's good right now that's what I'm really focusing on I'm glad you you you

said that because to your right it's another young another young woman who who irks my nerves on TV she irks my nerves but what y'all don't know though is I love her in real life. Yes I do too. Danielle is, Danielle yeah that's that's my girl like me and her father shared birthday so if y'all see her on the street please be kind to Danielle. Yes please. Alright fuck Belinda be kind to Danielle. Sorry ma. I gotta wash my mouth. You need to get your ass with like tab with her. I know I'm sorry. But go ahead and talk to Danielle. What has it been like for you being a mom now and being in your actor space? I know somebody is a lead now in a movie coming out. Come on Darwin. I want to say that. Thanks guys. I want to say nothing. Thanks, guys. I won't say nothing. Yes, it's crazy. Having a movie coming out, Darwin comes out to AMC Networks and All Black, March the 20th.

Clap that up. Clap that up. And I was leading that movie and breastfeeding in between. I mean, pumping milk and doing this 50. And I literally had someone come up to me, one of the PAs, and she was like, are you documenting this? I'm like, document what? I gotta get this milk, then I gotta go to lunch,

and I gotta do rehearsal. And she's like, you inspire so many people just by sharing. And sometimes I don't share enough because I know how much people are struggling. I'll book a role and I don't share it immediately on social media because I'm thinking about somebody who didn't get a call back this week. And it's like, actually you're supposed to share and inspire and be a blessing.

You know, you have to feel guilty. Yeah, for a favor on your life. That can't nobody do nothing about that. But what I'm saying is how I feel, I just, I feel like I just keep trying to prove to God that I can handle more. You know, every time he gives me something, I feel like I'm like, because I was a teacher's pet. And that's how I treat the Lord. I'd be like, God, you see me? You see me? I did it with a good attitude. Like, you know what I'm saying? So I'm just constantly pushing to be able to handle more.

And I feel like being a mother has just completely stretched my capacity. I had to learn to have faith for this kid. That was crazy, because it's like me. I don't care. Like, you know, I've got all the faith I need kid. That was crazy, because it's like me, I don't care. Like, you know, I've got all the faith I need. But it was like, wait a minute. There's a thing outside of you that you love more than anything on this world.

And you have to learn how to have faith for Him, right? So that's what really stretched me, because I like to think about being in the gym, building muscles and faith when it comes to God. So maybe I was on the bench prepping. Yeah, yeah. Like, it was heavy. But when I went through childbirth, I realized that the enemy ain't never really

threw its best shot at me. Oh, talk about that. Because baby, after you drop that baby and you get up and go to work, baby, you done did something. Let me tell you, you done did something. Don't let nobody tell you otherwise. So I just, I feel so full of gratitude. And you know, even I'm doing lead roles in films now

and that's all because of you guys' support and supporting Belinda and supporting our show and just really allowing, you know, black talent to shine the way that we do. I feel like we have the ultimate black job. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to say this, Danielle, working alongside you, you are so incredible.

Yeah, you know. Yeah, so talented, and I'm so proud of you. Thank you. It means so much. Y'all don't understand, this woman will give you your flowers. She is not... Yeah, she will. She will introduce you to the right people.

She will. She's a connect people, and I just, I feel like I wish everybody could get a little peek into your heart, because it is so beautiful. When I talk about top tier. No, to be honest, I think a lot of people don't really know that. Like I haven't, everyone I meet in Atlanta, they be like, I know Crystal.

I'm like, how do you, how could you possibly know Crystal? Everyone, they're like, I went to school with her. Everybody, the highest person in the freaking studio or at a network to the lowest person that works at the lowest place you can think, know Crystal and have a story of how Crystal has done something to help push their life forward. That is just a fact.

That's how we got close. That's how we got close. That's why you're so blessed. I mean, shoot, me and DaVinci in the back talking about stuff, legacy, to be honest, this is how things happen in our community. When good people create a space like this where we can all get together

and meet and learn from each other, that's how we continue to grow as people. I know that there's so many people that I've met in the back recently, just now that I'm like, oh, you do this, you do that, how can we can't do this together? And even in the audience, you should look to the person to your left or to your right, find out what they're doing. Hello, I can't, what you say? I can't hear

you. There's a lot of entrepreneurs. This is Atlanta. Just make sure if you have a business, customer service, it's of paramount importance. Because I've been to some places in Atlanta. I had some crab legs in places. OK, Deval. How you run a crab leg shop if you run out of crab legs? I bet they had that green wall. Huh? Listen.

Chicken wing spot. We don't got no more lemon pepper. What? This is Atlanta. Look, you know too, right? But no, but seriously, Crystal, we all appreciate you, yo. Like, we love you, yo. We love you.

Now, you stuck with all of us. No. Because there was supposed to be about five people back there. There's 57 people back there that ain't supposed to be back there. We all here just for Crystal. So, yo, I want to do this publicly with, I know the cast. We love you, yo. I love you.

Thank you so much. And congrats, yo. I love y'all too. We love you. Thank you so much. And congrats, baby, you sold out. Thank you. Watch that theater, baby. Yes! Thank you guys so much. I love you guys.

Thank you. Yes. And I'm gonna love y'all. I'm gonna do this. I appreciate you. I'm gonna do this. No, you gonna get out my seat. No, no, no.

I'm getting out. Look at this audience question. But I'm gonna do this one time, right? Do this one time. Cause y'all see me do it? Yeah. I was just gonna say, okay legs. Because you know I always comment

on all her stuff on social media. But y'all see the legs. Okay legs. Okay legs. I love y'all. Thank you so much. I love you legs. They tried to not invite Zach. Hell no. Zach the, tell you no more. I love y'all. I love y'all. All right. We are to the end and my favorite part of the show.

Are y'all ready for this? So I asked you all to write in to our positive outcomes listener letter so that you could come on stage with me. So, please welcome Tahirah Watson and Jamana Turner. Ladies, you guys are here. Thank you so much for coming. Seriously, and thank you for writing in. I love you guys for your support.

And I want to pour into you. So you have a question for me and I'll let you go first. So my question was how do you deal with wanting to step out onto your own independence when you feel like your family depends on you for whatever it may be as stability in the sense with my family per se. So the household I grew up in, it's normal to stay at home till you get married and then just venture out on your own after that. But I feel like now it's at the point where a lot of it is because more so instead of just being there to support me, but more so trying to shelter me from things that are in the outside world. Yeah, wow. I'm so sorry. So you want advice on what you should do. All right, Tahira.

I would say, and I've dealt with this, even being where I am now, and I've always been the risk taker of the family. And my family, I love them, but my parents played it very safe. They were always like, get an education, get a degree, and get a good job with a 401k, and start a family. So when I was in college, I knew by 25 I'd be married, having kids, and that was what was laid out for me.

But I had so much more that I wanted to do, and often my parents did not understand that You know and if I had of listened because at that point you're an adult You know so it's not like we're telling children to not obey and listen to their parents When you get to an age where you can make your decisions on your own I feel like you should take a stance and do what's best for you and let your family know that you love them and that you're always going to be for them because you can't choose your family. You're stuck with them for life, you know, but there is there comes a time where you have to really ask yourself what do I

want? What does Sahira want? And go for that because you never want to look back on your life and be like and be like what would it have been like if I had a stepped out on faith? I never want to live my life with regret. And I want to tell you guys a story. This was President Obama's first campaign. I did everything my parents told me to do. I got an education. I got the great job on Capitol Hill.

Got a great job, 401K, all the things. And President Obama's, or at that point, he was Senator Obama, his assistant came and said, hey, we got some paid jobs for the campaign, do you wanna come do it? Me being the risk tech, I'm ready to quit this job and go work for this black man. I'm like, hell yeah, sign me up.

My parents were like, no, like, why would you do that? He's not gonna win. In my mind, because we're coming from a small town, remember where I'm from, we don't see that. I think a lot of black people are like, ain't no way, if we're honest with ourselves. They're like, why are you gonna quit this job and go do this?

For them it was more about loyalty, making sure that you stay with the people that gave you a shot. Senator Lamar Alexander from our state gave me a shot, but I really wanted to go work on that campaign. Two years later, we had President Obama, and my parents at that moment said we will never tell you what not to do because you could be working in the White House right now. So I say to you, Sahira, go for what you want, love your family, respect your family,

but don't live your life with regrets. Okay? You're all right. You're welcome. All right. Is it Jemana or Jemana? Jemana, Jemana, what is your question for me? So I'm 31.

I just turned 31 in February and I'm a virgin. I'm saving myself for marriage. That's amazing. Yeah. Yes, give it up for Jamona. Wow. But when it comes to dating, that always throws the guys off.

I was actually just talking to a guy, and he's like, you're great. You have your own. But I can't save myself for marriage. And I always run into this issue. And I'm like trying to put myself out there and I'm kind of getting a little discouraged because every guy that I meet is like, that's a no-no.

And so if you were my big sister, what advice would you give me? Well, I am your big sister. And what I would tell you, I made the mistake of not doing what God told us to do. You know, and I'm finally coming to an understanding I made the mistake of not doing what God told us to do. And I'm finally coming to an understanding of why God put certain principles in place,

and that's to protect us. You think about it, when you're dating someone out of wedlock and you're having sex, and the first thing you think about is, when they cheat on you, it's like, you could have brought me a disease back. That's the first thing you think, like you put my life you is like, you could have brought me some disease back. That's the first thing you think like you put my life in jeopardy. But if he wasn't having sex, you wouldn't have to worry about that. Okay.

You know what I'm saying? Um, but I think about like that. You think about that getting pregnant before you're ready. You think about the different stipulations. And even when you think about relationships and you have sex, I don't know if you guys can attest to this, but I'm the only one in the room. But as soon as you give yourself away, things change. It's like the scales fall from your eyes.

You're like, oh, he ain't even as cute as I thought he was. You're like, oh. You know, it's like all these things come up and it's like the whole honeymoon phase is over. But if we do things the way God intended, I feel like there is something beautiful on the other side of that. So I would tell you to stand firm on what you believe. Listen, the right man will come along.

I know when I read the letter, you said that even the Christian men, quote unquote Christian men, they be the, honey, them ones in the church be something else, honey. Listen, they are something else. So you have to stand firm on that. And the Bible also says, instead of doing those things, it's also okay to be single. That's the, honestly, it says that.

So a lot of times you have to wait until the right man finds you and you're 31. You're not in a rush. You still have your whole life ahead of you. I would focus on your career, your passions and things that make you happy and save yourself for the right one. Because I'm telling you, if you don't, you're going to be picking yourself up off the floor crying, heartbroken, and it's just not worth it, y'all. It's really not. So that's what I would say you to do. You're welcome. Thank you, ladies. Y'all giving up for these beautiful women. Give me a hug. Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all giving out for these beautiful women. Give me a hug. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all.

We belong together. And you know that I'm right. Am I singing the right song? Although we go to the end of the road, still I can let go. It's so natural. I belong to you. I love you guys so much. Before we get out of here, I want to give some thank yous and first and foremost, let's give a big shout out to God for getting us all here safely because y'all came from everywhere. I want to give a

shout out to my sweeties and my Kip family. family now I want y'all to yell real loud for our sponsor BET y'all better tune in every week to Sisters and now Zatima is on Linear so y'all make sure y'all check us out on Wednesdays and Thursdays give it up for my girls Pretty V, B Simone, Jazzy, Shamia, my favorite new R&B artist. Did y'all enjoy Lee Vasi? Yeah. Oh, she's so good. Christian R&B, she's amazing. DaVinci, Deval, who just took over the show. Yes.

And y'all know we cannot end this without a prayer. Amen. So I'm gonna bring out one of my favorite men of God. He hates when I call him this. Pastor Todd Galbraith. Kim family, can we make some noise for our amazing visionary? The best podcast you can watch anywhere. Make some noise for yourselves one more time I

Want you to know that I literally I pulled up and I saw the billboard and I saw sold out and Literally, I want you to understand that this room is not sold out because of the character you play on television But it's it's sold out because of the character you play on television. But it's sold out because of the character of your heart. And these women and men and whoever are watching week to week and who are in this room, like they're not connected to a character. Like who you are, it just explodes out.

Like your heart is what makes you this incredible person. And like I've just kind of watched God from the vantage point that I have, just keep elevating you and elevating you. And the thing that's so dope is you remain this amazing person. That you have this stuff, but this stuff doesn't have you. And that's why we love you.

That's why I did all these services and came straight here. For services today. And then came here, thank you. I just wanna speak this over you. Eyes haven't seen. Ears haven't heard. Neither has it entered into the heart of man. You wanna sing that?

No. Sing, sing, sing, sing. All that God has prepared for you, you have not scratched your surface, and I'm so proud, I tell you not scratched your surface and I'm so proud. I tell you this all the time. I'm so proud of you. Thank you. And I can't wait to see what God does next.

Can I pray? I'm a prayer. Can we stand? Is that cool? We're getting ready to go home. You've been sitting down for a long time outside of those of you who were twerking with the DJ. I saw sorry. But let's pray.

Lord, I thank you. I thank you for this amazing visionary. Thank you for my friend. I thank you for what you're doing through her, that she has not sacrificed you for an opportunity, that she tells everybody that if it had not been for the Lord, I wouldn't be where I am. And I pray that you continue to protect her, keep her open doors that no devil can shut.

I thank you that Lord because of how she serves you, that she takes you with you on every elevation. So God, as you promote her, that you promote the kingdom of God as well. And I thank you Lord for every person in this room and for every person that's gonna watch this podcast Lord let us all leave better and inspired to grow and become all that you have called us to be Keep us safe until we meet again in Jesus name. Amen Thank you so much guys, I love you guys much. I appreciate you all the way to the balcony. I see you guys and I thank you so much. Oh, I was like, is that a fire alarm? Y'all saw my face? No, I really do. I love you guys and I thank you and I pray that you make it home safely. Y'all know what to do. In the meantime, in between time.

Keep it hot, but it's weaning. DJ Mars, take us away. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the beautiful Chris Rene, y'all. Make some noise, y'all.