EBONY: January 2025 Cover Shoot Meagan Good

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00:00What's up, you guys? It is your girl Megan Good,

00:02and you are behind the scenes

00:03at my Ebony January 2025 cover shoot.

00:08It has definitely been a reinvention every decade.

00:12You know, I've always had the mentality of wanting to make sure

00:15that every season of my life is the best season of my life,

00:18whatever that looks like for me, whatever I want to accomplish,

00:21whatever I want to experience, intentionally learning.

00:24And so in this season of reinvention,

00:27there's such a freedom.

00:29I don't think I've ever felt this free in my life.

00:31I don't think I've ever had this kind of peace in my life.

00:34It is one of the best feelings in the world,

00:37and it makes me feel like I can take on anything,

00:40and it makes me proud to stand in my authenticity.

00:42It makes me proud to be who I am and how I know my heart.

00:46It makes me proud to have the people that I have in my life.

00:50The journey of the career, it makes me thankful for that,

00:52even the disappointments, even the closed doors,

00:55even the people who didn't believe in me.

00:58All of that builds your character.

01:00All of that allows you to either become bitter or become better,

01:04and I choose to become better every single time

01:06and to have joy in that.

01:08It's been a little over 30 years,

01:12and I feel like I'm just beginning.

01:14The best way to describe who Megan is now is,

01:19I think I've always been very self-aware in a lot of ways,

01:22in a way that I'm, quite frankly,

01:24I'm surprised that I am.

01:25I think that growing up as a child actor,

01:29even though I've never been unclear

01:31about who I am or what I want,

01:33there were feelings of guilt, like,

01:35should I want that, or is that okay,

01:37or am I going to be judged for that?

01:39Are people going to think that I'm someone different

01:40than I actually am because they don't have

01:43a full understanding of this or that?

01:45Going back to what I said earlier, in this season,

01:49as long as I am telling my truth and it's said and it's heard,

01:53whether people agree with it or not

01:55doesn't really matter to me.

01:56What matters is that I'm telling the truth

01:59and that I'm walking in my authenticity

02:00and that I'm proud of who I am.

02:02Harlem, thus far, has been one of,

02:07if not the best experience I've had

02:10in 30-plus years in this industry.

02:13When you talk about sisters, these girls,

02:15and Tracy, and me, these are my sisters.

02:19I love them.

02:20They love me, and it's an undeniable thing

02:23that you wouldn't even question from any of us.

02:26And to be able to live in this character of Camille

02:30and to be able to pull things out of myself

02:32that other people hadn't seen for me

02:34and didn't even know existed in me,

02:36and to be able to surprise people,

02:39even after this long in the business,

02:41is the most gratifying feeling.

02:43I have a real village of women who hold me down,

02:48who cover me, who pray for me, who show up for me,

02:51and not in the traditional way.

02:53They show up for me the way that I wanna be shown up for.

02:55We met at the Ebony Power 100 gala about two years ago.

03:06We had no idea two years later we'd be coming back engaged,

03:09but it's a big part of our love story.

03:12And yeah, everything shifted that day.

03:15Little did we know.

03:16When that person comes to you,

03:18understanding that the gift is

03:21that person making you better,

03:23the gift is that person loving you unconditionally,

03:25that true, true fullness of who you are,

03:29that's what we all deserve, and not settling for that.

03:32And also allowing someone to make your life better

03:38and to bring out the best in you

03:39and to hold up a mirror that actually makes you live up

03:42to the full quality of the purpose

03:45and the reason that you're put here on this earth

03:47and those things being conjoined,

03:50but expressing themselves differently and loving them,

03:52loving the fact that they express themselves differently.

03:54Cherish that and cherish yourself

03:56and don't settle for anything less

03:58than what you really want and what you really deserve.

04:01Baby, it's been a lot of fresh starts the last couple years,

04:04but this is the accumulation of that process,

04:09that personal process, that relationship process,

04:13that career process, that growth

04:18that has been absolutely insane,

04:20especially this past year.

04:22Everything that I've learned,

04:25everything that I've poured in

04:26and everything that's been poured into me

04:28has been transformational in a way

04:32that doesn't mirror any other season of my life.

04:34It's like it literally is a second act,

04:39but it's a second act with all the tools

04:43and all the information and all the things

04:45and all the fearlessness and all the freedom

04:48and all the self-love and all the,

04:50okay, this is what you're working on, here's what this is.

04:53Maybe you might wanna work on that a little bit more,

04:55but the really, really real want with yourself

05:00and even in that there is no shame

05:02or it's just like this is where you are and that's okay

05:06and that's a beautiful thing.

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