Actress and producer, Marsai Martin, sits down with Sharí Nycole at EXCELERATEHer to chat about how it felt to be honored.
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00:00What is the feeling that you have when you're coming into an environment where you know you're going to be honored?
00:06And how did that feeling kind of shift for you with this particular award?
00:09Oh, wow.
00:11Well, it kind of feels like five stages of something.
00:15Like how it feels like five stages of grief.
00:16I was like five stages of trying to calm myself down and get ready to prep for something like this.
00:23And honestly, it starts with what the award is for.
00:28How does this connect and relate to me as of right now in the space that I'm in?
00:33And who am I talking to?
00:34Who is the audience?
00:35Who am I engaging with?
00:38And when I would, of course, I've known Miss Kim for quite a while.
00:43And to be able to be here and just kind of be in her world and her space, I knew that was a very big moment for me and for her as well.
00:53So I just I wanted to give her all her props and as well as the amazing CEOs, the business women, the corporate women and everybody who was in that room that I guess in other ways watched me grow into this person, into this 20 year old version of me.
01:12So to be able to kind of just put all of those details and kind of just put them in a space where I'm like, all right, this is this is what I know I'm going to say.
01:23And I want to present myself.
01:25That's that's pretty much what it is.
01:27And I try not to think about it throughout, you know, like so guys, you can overwhelm yourself with it.
01:33But sometimes like even today, I just did a little text thing in the morning and that was it.
01:40I was like, what do we think?
01:41Oh, my little notes app.
01:42And that's and that's that's what I did and didn't worry about it anymore.
01:46And it turned out great.
01:48I mean, it was such a warm room.
01:50I mean, having you and along with some of the other women there here to present and to understand and connect with one another.
01:57Yeah.
01:58Made everything so warm and easy to.