January 27, 2025 • 19 mins
Crystal Renee Hayslett Talks Maximizing Your Talent & How To Handle Haters
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pot to five point one.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Baby Crystal Renee Hazley my guest today in the Bell Day.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm so happier here.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We've tried to do this before and then the universe
wasn't allowing it, and now we're here today. It's so
you got like, I don't even know where to start
with you. You have many hats that you wear to somebody
who was just getting to know you, how do you
introduce yourself? What is the moniker that comes first? Is
it actress? Is it podcast? Or is it business woman? Okay,
(00:30):
yeah everything.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm an actor first right now, but music was my
first love. So I'm working on music now and then
I have the podcast and I own a soccer team.
It's just like so many different things.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
How did you get to own a soccer team?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Shout out to Big Wes, who's also a Shawna's partner.
He came to me with this amazing opportunity and said,
I know you love sports. How do you feel about
women's sports? And I said I want in. So it's
actually the Women's DC Power in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Wow, how's that experience?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Amazing?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Just growing?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Were you a soccer fan before that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm a sports fan period. Just I just love going
to games and just the energy. It's something about attending
games and that energy from the fans. Yeah, you can't
top it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But but singing was the It started with the singing.
So that was the first That was the first door.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Open, and it didn't really open. This is the pay thing.
You think, like, you want to act, and you're like,
I love music too, and at that time I was
seeing a lot of like singers getting acting gigs, so
I was like, maybe that could be my avenue. So
I started with the music career and then that wasn't it.
Acting ended up blowing up and now it's making room
for the music.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, so you're a hustler. You seem like, by any
means necessary type of girl in a good way, not
any means, but like, but you also not like, no,
it's not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The end the answer exactly when I'm saying more with
a Shina, because she does not take no for it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Listen, because if you take no, then it's then it's over.
Then where do we go from there? It's like, so
sometimes people need to know that you care enough to
push for it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes, absolutely, you know what I'm saying. I think all
the years I moved to Atlanta from DC in two
thousand and nine and from two thousand and nine to
twenty nineteen was the journey of getting my first big yes.
And that was what Tyler Perry sisters. Yes. Yeah, so
getting that yes, but it took ten years and then
it's like I blew up, But I'm like, where did
this girl come from? But it was although that ten
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years that really helped cultivate who you see to.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, but let's go back, because you were like you
were with a PA for Tyler.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I was, I'm what the first show I worked on
was having Have Not starting Ticket Sumter and Crystal Fix.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
In PA?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You're getting coffee, getting coffee and running errands?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Does he even know who you are?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Are you no idea? Like not at all? Like I'm
literally in the background, like getting coffee for other people.
I wasn't even close to him, getting coffee, running errands,
running close the set when things were forgotten, like you
do whatever is as.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes of course and then how and then you opened
your mouth and told him you wanted to act well
not from PA.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So I worked my way through the costume department. First
I started as PA, then became the background costumer where
I dressed all the background, and then from there I
became the A team's costumer. God so I was actually
addressing Tasha Smith. I love Smith, I love it. She
used to yell for me every day. First it was
warde of and then finally she learned. I was like,
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she knows my name, She's everything. I love her. And
from there that's when Tyler got to know who I
was and saw my work ethic, saw the energy that
I brought him, always happy and dance, and he was like,
who is this girl? And he just he was drawn
to me and ended up calling me to be the
costume designer a few years later, and then from there
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being his stylist for five years.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What is that? Because you know, people take I always well.
When people ask me how to get started, everybody frowns on,
like internships. Now they think I'm not working for free,
And I get it, there's paid internships. But you got
to find your way into a place somehow. But then
when you find your way in, how do you make
an impact? How do you make it matter? How do
you like just not delivered the coffee, and then your
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job is done and nobody cares, like, how did you
find the way to matter in that space?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Space? That's a good question. And honestly, I'm the intern queen.
Like right out of college, I intern on Capitol Hill
and end up getting a job. So like everything, the
way you treat your entry is the way people see
and they're like, oh, she takes it serious. So I
ended up getting called back for a job on Capitol Hill.
And then the same thing with being a PA. I
came in every day whatever you need, great energy. I'm
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not coming here with an attitude. I'm positive on on time,
on listen time, you're late, yeah, on time, and.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's just matters. People got to take that into those
things matter.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You're asking questions, showing people that you're interested, that you
want to learn, and that you're invested in it and it's
not just this is just to get by because people
can read that energy too, like they knew that I
wanted to be there.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
What a full circle moment for you. So then you
like fast forward and you're like you're on Sisters, you're acting,
you do a podcast and Tyler's a guest on your podcast.
What a beautiy a full full circle moment that must
have been.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
For It's funny because so I styled tiling. That's when
we got really close, being on the road with my
You know how it is. You have your team and
you get real they become family, of course, you know,
so he I became a little sister.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He became my big You were like his personal silence.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes, traveled everywhere with him, so like every press tour,
costume designed every single show, every movie, all his plays.
It was from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And then when he was dressing up and characters and
costumes did uh.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Huh even if he was like in character like on
the media movies. Yeah, I would costume design the entire
movie and then I would have to go and set
and get him dressed.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What's your best outfit?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh man, I would say it would be media family funeral.
That was he played beyond. He did like a Beyonce
with when she had the big hat. I remember that,
So we put him in the hat.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It was crazy, We're going to find that picture and
put it up sentence so we could put it up
to see it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, that was the fun actually getting that had made
to fit his head and then like curating that big
what that was? Y'all hate us coiny with that illuminant
home coming. It was crazy and she lost it when
when she yeah, that's fire. So then I love Beyonce,
so it's always good to get her nod.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm like, yeah, so you Rolls. It wasn't like you
went from internal PA to to this you you you
rose with it and then work.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
With him for all those times and even in that
time a lot of people don't know that. When I
started working for him, I wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Way to go professional professional operation we got going on here.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I started working with Tyler at the studio as a
p A. I was also auditioning, actively auditioning for for
roles and getting no after no action no. So like
I would be at work, my agent would send me
a script I would have to look over and study
and call the casting director at the study and say, hey,
can I run down and lunch and put this on
tape real quick. I would go to the costume department,
find an outfit that fit that character, run downstairs, grab
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lunch real quick. Everything was like, and then get right
back to work in the same day. So it was
a lot of behind the scenes grinding as well that
people didn't see. And he had no idea that I
was auditioning at the studio. Wow, Like I'm doing all
these auditions, and then he caused me to be the
costume designer. I'm like, this is a lot of responsibility.
If I do this, I definitely can't do the acting thing.
And I finally I prayed about it and I said yes,
(07:16):
And then from there for five years, I just literally
has it been five years? It was five years from
that time. Yeah, he was like he had no idea
because I never said anything. I was like, I'm going
to honor this. I think that's another thing that goes
back to the internship. Just honor where you are. So
with Tyler, when I became his stylist and the designer,
I just honored where I was and I gave it
one thousand percent.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, because sometimes people doing that to get to that,
and then you don't do a good job at that
moment because you're so worried about over there.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, don't worry about it. Be present where you are
and honor that moment. And I had my fortieth birthday.
He advice, Yeah, and he did a speech and he
was like, he said, I had no idea that Kristen
wanted to be an actor. And he said, I want
to tell everyone in this room. It was like two
hundred and fifty people there, and he's like, I want
to tell everyone here that the way you are under
someone else's God will bless you. He said, people see
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where she is now, but they didn't see her running
with my size fifteen shoes up in New York trying
to get to Ryan and Kelly, you know, like back then.
And he was like, they didn't see that. He was like,
Chris was like, te what you need five eve in
the morning, get you ready packing for the whole day
to do press runs. He was like, nobody saw that
traveling all over the world with me. And he was like,
and that's why I said I'm gonna bless her. And
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people were like, oh, because you can't forget the service part.
People forget to serve and that's like, I have a
heart of service.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But then you got to show up and deliver. Yes,
it's one thing to be on hard working, but now
you got to act and you gotta be good because
he's putting all this, you gotta deliver. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So when that came, I was like, when I got
the guts to even tell him, like, this is what
I did want to do. Let me pake the picture.
I was literally he was on doing the media farewell tour.
He's backstage, full media everything. Hey. I was like, what
you doing? He' said none, sit backstage waiting to go on.
I'm like, oh my gosh. I didn't realize y'all worked
today because he had so many dates and the calendar
was like this morning. I was like, oh, he off today.
(09:00):
He's like, no, on backstage, what's going on? I said, well,
I'm reading the scriptual sisters and I'm producing it with them.
So these are my stories, my friend's stories. I was like, Tyler,
I want in. I said, you don't know this, but
I want to act. And these stories are jumping off
the pages at me. I feel like this is the
time for me to ask you. He said, I'm gonna
call you when I get off. He hit me immediately,
text me write it with me. He's like, I love
this idea. Let's talk later. And that's when Fatima was created,
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and then from there got my own spin off because
I did the work even after the opportunity. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah,
but sometimes I was always I was scared to ask
because you see so many people asking. But then I
had to remember all the work that I had put
in for those years to have the guts to say,
you know what, let me just tell him, this is
what I want to do. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Do you get special treatment on set?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
No? And the cool thing is is that because I
started off as a PA, Like, it's so much love
like that the whole studio everybody, Like even when people
are making mistakes, I'm like, hey, I've been where you are.
Just tighten up, like we're all everybody. We're moving at
a very fast face the face if you know how
Tyler shoots like, we shoot fast. So I'm like, I
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get it. You know, I've been where you are. And
I love that journey because I have a better understanding
of every single role. So dope, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I love the name of the podcast too. It's so good.
If you haven't, if you haven't checked out, keep a
positive SWEETI you absolutely should. Tyler's actually one of the
one of the big episodes you had. But the name
is so good. Thank you, and it makes me wonder
if you keep it positive all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I do like it now, try to find that, yeah,
because my thing is life is too good and it's
too short. Yeah, to be negative. You know, there's so
much negativity in the world. Why add to it, you know?
And that's what I try to push. I don't like anything,
no matter how bad it is. I'm like, all right, guys,
what's the lesson in this? How can we redeem it? Like,
let's figure it out, you know, not saying I don't
get upset, but like, I'm not a negative person.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, it's a good time, it's a good it's a
good thing. It's a good title. And but the world
right now, do you feel the podcast world is like.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I feel like everybody on every street corner has a
damn podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Honey, they do they do? Do you love it? I do?
I love it because what I feel is a tribe.
And I'm sure you can attest this to when you
build your community and people that support you. Yeah, it's
nothing like it. And it literally has like people have
changed their life from like working on the relationship with
God to like fixing the relationship with their mother. For me,
talking about my own personal things, and I was such
(11:24):
a person that didn't want to be open. You know,
I just kind of like, let me just do it.
I do my job, y'all don't need to know my business.
And I finally got to the point was like, I
do need to talk. And it's been therapeutic for me
as much as it has been for them.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Every time you put your stuff out there. I did
a memoir years ago, and I was like, I'm gonna
write it all and then I'll just delete what I
don't want people to know. But once you get it out,
you're like, no, they need to know.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You just take it, take it, and then you see
so many people that see themselves and you're sure, yeah, yeah,
not for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So they had a little we were talking about the
idea of keep it positive, yes, and can you always
keep it positive? So there was some scenarios that my
little team over here came up with.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Se be honest with you in said scenario, Okay, this
is how does one keep it positive?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You like, this was a good game. Okay, is it
really a game? I don't know if it's a game,
but we're gonna all keep it positive. Okay, how do
you keep it positive? Crystal. When you catch your boyfriend
cheating on you start off strong. We start off strong.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Strong. You keep it positive by knowing that there's something
better for you and it's his loss. If you didn't
see the value in so you out out.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't stay in it and stay
positive because if I stay.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
In it, it's gonna get negative fast.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How do you keep it positive when they run out
of tequila at the bar?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Are you a drink? So you go out? You had
a long day, You go to the bar there out
of tequila. How do you keep it positive?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh man, we gotta go somewhere else next.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Let's see how do you get How do you keep
it positive when you get trolled on the internet?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh? Man, you know what? This used to be really
tough for me, Like when people were like saying stuff
and I would take it personal.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Have you figured it out?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You have, like all the time, and some times they.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Don't know you. Yeah, Like when people are trolling you
and like making like judgment on your life and who
you are, you have to realize these people are either
miserable or they don't know you. Because like if if
somebody I really know said something something about me. I'm like, dang,
that's how you feel. But then once people you don't know,
it's like you don't know me, Like I can't put
their energy into that.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's a good keep it positive? Yeah, I'm gonna give
you the grace because you don't know me. What if
it is somebody who knows you and they're trolling you?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh, how do you keep it positive? Yeah, we're gonna
have to have a conversation about it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's called the it's called the block button.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Baby, it's for life. Like we're done. Yeah, that's yes.
It's tough when the's people, you know, it's it's it's hard.
I know, the internet is my business. I'm like, that's tough.
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Let's see. These will all seem too easy. To keep
it complic, to keep it po Okay, your go to
karaoke song is retired? Do you have a go to
karaoke song?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
My go to carryo is so funny. It's a random
song incomplete by Cisco that is super random, Like I
love every little ad lib it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But yeah, how do you keep it positive when somebody
says they're going to do something and they.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Do not you know, what just I value people who
are about their word and stand on it. And if
you that that's I didn't put that as my pet peeple,
that should be another one, Like that's another pet peeple mine,
Like just stand on it. Yeah, And when people show
you they are, just believe them, you know, And I
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know I can't depend on you now, so take.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It as a blame. I can see who you are
the same thing as another one. How do you keep
it positive? Because this is one of my pet peeves?
Oh god, what is it? It was too I don't
like a liar, yes, but a lot of people lie.
So you have to learn how to manage. You'll have
to learn how to keep it positive. My biggest pet
peeves are a bully or somebody who a manipulator. People
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try to manipulate people by being smarter than them or
more having or or feeding you. You know. I hate
somebody trying to manipulate me, or somebody trying to manipulate
or me watching somebody try to manipulate someone else, which
is like also like bullying. Very hard for me to
keep it positive in that moment.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I feel like there's a time for everything, you know,
there's sometimes whereas everything doesn't even be met with Okay,
let's steal with this in a nice way. Sometimes you
gotta you.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Don't want to go high. You don't want to go high.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Every time I'm being honest with you, like, there are
sometimes where I'm like, we're gonna have to let you
know so this doesn't happen again, because then people think
you're a pushover.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You have not you have I won't always keep it positive,
it's in there. How do people check the positive? How
do people check out the podcast? And what do you
want them to know about it?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yes, for early view and you can subscribe to my Patreon,
you get all the bts. They're gonna actually get to
see this interview, like the behind the scenes of us,
they get early viewing of that. But you can also
watch on YouTube on Tuesdays and you can listen to
it on every podcast platform super dope.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, and then what about the music you said this
music studio, what's happening? Yea working on and you have
people behind you? Are you signed?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Are you gonna sign or you know if I'm gonna
sign anybody right now? It's all independent, But what kind
of music like Yeah, R and B I'm a nineties girl,
so like you know that, I wanted to bring back
that feel, keep it still relevant, but like the feel
of what I grew up to, which is like Monica
and Brandy and Shy and Tea, you know. So it's
like I want to I want to have that when
you play because they're like, well, there's really not a
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space for that, and like, but every time you play
those records, everybody was like, oh, that's my song. So
it's got to be a space for it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
It's got you know, space for it. Oh yeah, listen
this good music is always a space.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
For the music. That's how I feel.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right, we'll be listening for that. What else do
people need to know?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
SISS is on right now Wednesday nights on BT at
nine to eight centrals. The Teama comes on Thursday nights
at twelve am Pacific time three am Eastern time, so
you can catch it. We do have people that set
their clock for like two fifty nine am in the
morning on the East Coast to watch it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
One of the one of the Sisters fans like they
die hard. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I know both shows, probably SIS and Entertainment.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's like both of them, right, they are die hard.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, we're the number one show on both platforms. So
it's like that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah. So people rolling up to you saying what doing Fatima?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I knew that was you. We were in the airport
this morning and like can I get a picture? Like
they're so sweet, and it's I mean, the community we build,
even with our fans, has just been beautiful. It really is.
We're blessed.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, sure, well you totally are. So you're just trying
to check every box and every category.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I am. Listen, there's a saying we ain't leaving no
money on the table. Is all the good money? You
know what I'm saying. We're gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're doing podcasts, We're doing albums, We're doing TV shows,
we're doing owning teams, all the talents.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Everything is the more. Yeah, the music, the podcast the acting,
the teams. Yeah, building brands and businesses. We're doing it all.
I feel like everything that God has given me I
want to use. I don't want to leave any talent
on the table, so I want to try to use everything.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
How do people support you? Where do they find you
all at? How to what do you? What do you,
what do you? How do people you know what I mean,
get behind the Crystal track.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, you can have a website www dot Crystaline Hazel
dot com. And you can also follow me on Instagram
at love Crystaline and that's l u V all right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
In the meantime, you can watch the shows and we'll
wait for the music. Yes, and you check out the podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Everything, Just check out everything. There is Crystal Day. Thank you,
thank you, no good
Pot to five point one.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Baby Crystal Renee Hazley my guest today in the Bell Day.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm so happier here.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We've tried to do this before and then the universe
wasn't allowing it, and now we're here today. It's so
you got like, I don't even know where to start
with you. You have many hats that you wear to somebody
who was just getting to know you, how do you
introduce yourself? What is the moniker that comes first? Is
it actress? Is it podcast? Or is it business woman? Okay,
(00:30):
yeah everything.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm an actor first right now, but music was my
first love. So I'm working on music now and then
I have the podcast and I own a soccer team.
It's just like so many different things.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
How did you get to own a soccer team?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Shout out to Big Wes, who's also a Shawna's partner.
He came to me with this amazing opportunity and said,
I know you love sports. How do you feel about
women's sports? And I said I want in. So it's
actually the Women's DC Power in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Wow, how's that experience?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Amazing?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Just growing?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Were you a soccer fan before that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm a sports fan period. Just I just love going
to games and just the energy. It's something about attending
games and that energy from the fans. Yeah, you can't
top it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
But but singing was the It started with the singing.
So that was the first That was the first door.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Open, and it didn't really open. This is the pay thing.
You think, like, you want to act, and you're like,
I love music too, and at that time I was
seeing a lot of like singers getting acting gigs, so
I was like, maybe that could be my avenue. So
I started with the music career and then that wasn't it.
Acting ended up blowing up and now it's making room
for the music.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, so you're a hustler. You seem like, by any
means necessary type of girl in a good way, not
any means, but like, but you also not like, no,
it's not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The end the answer exactly when I'm saying more with
a Shina, because she does not take no for it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Listen, because if you take no, then it's then it's over.
Then where do we go from there? It's like, so
sometimes people need to know that you care enough to
push for it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes, absolutely, you know what I'm saying. I think all
the years I moved to Atlanta from DC in two
thousand and nine and from two thousand and nine to
twenty nineteen was the journey of getting my first big yes.
And that was what Tyler Perry sisters. Yes. Yeah, so
getting that yes, but it took ten years and then
it's like I blew up, But I'm like, where did
this girl come from? But it was although that ten
(02:19):
years that really helped cultivate who you see to.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, but let's go back, because you were like you
were with a PA for Tyler.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I was, I'm what the first show I worked on
was having Have Not starting Ticket Sumter and Crystal Fix.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
In PA?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You're getting coffee, getting coffee and running errands?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Does he even know who you are?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Are you no idea? Like not at all? Like I'm
literally in the background, like getting coffee for other people.
I wasn't even close to him, getting coffee, running errands,
running close the set when things were forgotten, like you
do whatever is as.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes of course and then how and then you opened
your mouth and told him you wanted to act well
not from PA.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So I worked my way through the costume department. First
I started as PA, then became the background costumer where
I dressed all the background, and then from there I
became the A team's costumer. God so I was actually
addressing Tasha Smith. I love Smith, I love it. She
used to yell for me every day. First it was
warde of and then finally she learned. I was like,
(03:18):
she knows my name, She's everything. I love her. And
from there that's when Tyler got to know who I
was and saw my work ethic, saw the energy that
I brought him, always happy and dance, and he was like,
who is this girl? And he just he was drawn
to me and ended up calling me to be the
costume designer a few years later, and then from there
(03:39):
being his stylist for five years.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What is that? Because you know, people take I always well.
When people ask me how to get started, everybody frowns on,
like internships. Now they think I'm not working for free,
And I get it, there's paid internships. But you got
to find your way into a place somehow. But then
when you find your way in, how do you make
an impact? How do you make it matter? How do
you like just not delivered the coffee, and then your
(04:01):
job is done and nobody cares, like, how did you
find the way to matter in that space?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Space? That's a good question. And honestly, I'm the intern queen.
Like right out of college, I intern on Capitol Hill
and end up getting a job. So like everything, the
way you treat your entry is the way people see
and they're like, oh, she takes it serious. So I
ended up getting called back for a job on Capitol Hill.
And then the same thing with being a PA. I
came in every day whatever you need, great energy. I'm
(04:27):
not coming here with an attitude. I'm positive on on time,
on listen time, you're late, yeah, on time, and.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's just matters. People got to take that into those
things matter.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You're asking questions, showing people that you're interested, that you
want to learn, and that you're invested in it and it's
not just this is just to get by because people
can read that energy too, like they knew that I
wanted to be there.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
What a full circle moment for you. So then you
like fast forward and you're like you're on Sisters, you're acting,
you do a podcast and Tyler's a guest on your podcast.
What a beautiy a full full circle moment that must
have been.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
For It's funny because so I styled tiling. That's when
we got really close, being on the road with my
You know how it is. You have your team and
you get real they become family, of course, you know,
so he I became a little sister.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He became my big You were like his personal silence.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes, traveled everywhere with him, so like every press tour,
costume designed every single show, every movie, all his plays.
It was from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And then when he was dressing up and characters and
costumes did uh.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Huh even if he was like in character like on
the media movies. Yeah, I would costume design the entire
movie and then I would have to go and set
and get him dressed.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What's your best outfit?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh man, I would say it would be media family funeral.
That was he played beyond. He did like a Beyonce
with when she had the big hat. I remember that,
So we put him in the hat.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It was crazy, We're going to find that picture and
put it up sentence so we could put it up
to see it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, that was the fun actually getting that had made
to fit his head and then like curating that big
what that was? Y'all hate us coiny with that illuminant
home coming. It was crazy and she lost it when
when she yeah, that's fire. So then I love Beyonce,
so it's always good to get her nod.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I'm like, yeah, so you Rolls. It wasn't like you
went from internal PA to to this you you you
rose with it and then work.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
With him for all those times and even in that
time a lot of people don't know that. When I
started working for him, I wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Way to go professional professional operation we got going on here.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I started working with Tyler at the studio as a
p A. I was also auditioning, actively auditioning for for
roles and getting no after no action no. So like
I would be at work, my agent would send me
a script I would have to look over and study
and call the casting director at the study and say, hey,
can I run down and lunch and put this on
tape real quick. I would go to the costume department,
find an outfit that fit that character, run downstairs, grab
(06:54):
lunch real quick. Everything was like, and then get right
back to work in the same day. So it was
a lot of behind the scenes grinding as well that
people didn't see. And he had no idea that I
was auditioning at the studio. Wow, Like I'm doing all
these auditions, and then he caused me to be the
costume designer. I'm like, this is a lot of responsibility.
If I do this, I definitely can't do the acting thing.
And I finally I prayed about it and I said yes,
(07:16):
And then from there for five years, I just literally
has it been five years? It was five years from
that time. Yeah, he was like he had no idea
because I never said anything. I was like, I'm going
to honor this. I think that's another thing that goes
back to the internship. Just honor where you are. So
with Tyler, when I became his stylist and the designer,
I just honored where I was and I gave it
one thousand percent.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, because sometimes people doing that to get to that,
and then you don't do a good job at that
moment because you're so worried about over there.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, don't worry about it. Be present where you are
and honor that moment. And I had my fortieth birthday.
He advice, Yeah, and he did a speech and he
was like, he said, I had no idea that Kristen
wanted to be an actor. And he said, I want
to tell everyone in this room. It was like two
hundred and fifty people there, and he's like, I want
to tell everyone here that the way you are under
someone else's God will bless you. He said, people see
(08:02):
where she is now, but they didn't see her running
with my size fifteen shoes up in New York trying
to get to Ryan and Kelly, you know, like back then.
And he was like, they didn't see that. He was like,
Chris was like, te what you need five eve in
the morning, get you ready packing for the whole day
to do press runs. He was like, nobody saw that
traveling all over the world with me. And he was like,
and that's why I said I'm gonna bless her. And
(08:24):
people were like, oh, because you can't forget the service part.
People forget to serve and that's like, I have a
heart of service.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But then you got to show up and deliver. Yes,
it's one thing to be on hard working, but now
you got to act and you gotta be good because
he's putting all this, you gotta deliver. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So when that came, I was like, when I got
the guts to even tell him, like, this is what
I did want to do. Let me pake the picture.
I was literally he was on doing the media farewell tour.
He's backstage, full media everything. Hey. I was like, what
you doing? He' said none, sit backstage waiting to go on.
I'm like, oh my gosh. I didn't realize y'all worked
today because he had so many dates and the calendar
was like this morning. I was like, oh, he off today.
(09:00):
He's like, no, on backstage, what's going on? I said, well,
I'm reading the scriptual sisters and I'm producing it with them.
So these are my stories, my friend's stories. I was like, Tyler,
I want in. I said, you don't know this, but
I want to act. And these stories are jumping off
the pages at me. I feel like this is the
time for me to ask you. He said, I'm gonna
call you when I get off. He hit me immediately,
text me write it with me. He's like, I love
this idea. Let's talk later. And that's when Fatima was created,
(09:23):
and then from there got my own spin off because
I did the work even after the opportunity. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah,
but sometimes I was always I was scared to ask
because you see so many people asking. But then I
had to remember all the work that I had put
in for those years to have the guts to say,
you know what, let me just tell him, this is
what I want to do. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Do you get special treatment on set?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
No? And the cool thing is is that because I
started off as a PA, Like, it's so much love
like that the whole studio everybody, Like even when people
are making mistakes, I'm like, hey, I've been where you are.
Just tighten up, like we're all everybody. We're moving at
a very fast face the face if you know how
Tyler shoots like, we shoot fast. So I'm like, I
(10:05):
get it. You know, I've been where you are. And
I love that journey because I have a better understanding
of every single role. So dope, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I love the name of the podcast too. It's so good.
If you haven't, if you haven't checked out, keep a
positive SWEETI you absolutely should. Tyler's actually one of the
one of the big episodes you had. But the name
is so good. Thank you, and it makes me wonder
if you keep it positive all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I do like it now, try to find that, yeah,
because my thing is life is too good and it's
too short. Yeah, to be negative. You know, there's so
much negativity in the world. Why add to it, you know?
And that's what I try to push. I don't like anything,
no matter how bad it is. I'm like, all right, guys,
what's the lesson in this? How can we redeem it? Like,
let's figure it out, you know, not saying I don't
get upset, but like, I'm not a negative person.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, it's a good time, it's a good it's a
good thing. It's a good title. And but the world
right now, do you feel the podcast world is like.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
I feel like everybody on every street corner has a
damn podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Honey, they do they do? Do you love it? I do?
I love it because what I feel is a tribe.
And I'm sure you can attest this to when you
build your community and people that support you. Yeah, it's
nothing like it. And it literally has like people have
changed their life from like working on the relationship with
God to like fixing the relationship with their mother. For me,
talking about my own personal things, and I was such
(11:24):
a person that didn't want to be open. You know,
I just kind of like, let me just do it.
I do my job, y'all don't need to know my business.
And I finally got to the point was like, I
do need to talk. And it's been therapeutic for me
as much as it has been for them.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Every time you put your stuff out there. I did
a memoir years ago, and I was like, I'm gonna
write it all and then I'll just delete what I
don't want people to know. But once you get it out,
you're like, no, they need to know.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You just take it, take it, and then you see
so many people that see themselves and you're sure, yeah, yeah,
not for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So they had a little we were talking about the
idea of keep it positive, yes, and can you always
keep it positive? So there was some scenarios that my
little team over here came up with.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Se be honest with you in said scenario, Okay, this
is how does one keep it positive?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You like, this was a good game. Okay, is it
really a game? I don't know if it's a game,
but we're gonna all keep it positive. Okay, how do
you keep it positive? Crystal. When you catch your boyfriend
cheating on you start off strong. We start off strong.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Strong. You keep it positive by knowing that there's something
better for you and it's his loss. If you didn't
see the value in so you out out.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't stay in it and stay
positive because if I stay.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
In it, it's gonna get negative fast.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How do you keep it positive when they run out
of tequila at the bar?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Are you a drink? So you go out? You had
a long day, You go to the bar there out
of tequila. How do you keep it positive?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh man, we gotta go somewhere else next.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Let's see how do you get How do you keep
it positive when you get trolled on the internet?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh? Man, you know what? This used to be really
tough for me, Like when people were like saying stuff
and I would take it personal.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Have you figured it out?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You have, like all the time, and some times they.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Don't know you. Yeah, Like when people are trolling you
and like making like judgment on your life and who
you are, you have to realize these people are either
miserable or they don't know you. Because like if if
somebody I really know said something something about me. I'm like, dang,
that's how you feel. But then once people you don't know,
it's like you don't know me, Like I can't put
their energy into that.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
That's a good keep it positive? Yeah, I'm gonna give
you the grace because you don't know me. What if
it is somebody who knows you and they're trolling you?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh, how do you keep it positive? Yeah, we're gonna
have to have a conversation about it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's called the it's called the block button.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Baby, it's for life. Like we're done. Yeah, that's yes.
It's tough when the's people, you know, it's it's it's hard.
I know, the internet is my business. I'm like, that's tough.
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Let's see. These will all seem too easy. To keep
it complic, to keep it po Okay, your go to
karaoke song is retired? Do you have a go to
karaoke song?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
My go to carryo is so funny. It's a random
song incomplete by Cisco that is super random, Like I
love every little ad lib it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But yeah, how do you keep it positive when somebody
says they're going to do something and they.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Do not you know, what just I value people who
are about their word and stand on it. And if
you that that's I didn't put that as my pet peeple,
that should be another one, Like that's another pet peeple mine,
Like just stand on it. Yeah, And when people show
you they are, just believe them, you know, And I
(14:58):
know I can't depend on you now, so take.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It as a blame. I can see who you are
the same thing as another one. How do you keep
it positive? Because this is one of my pet peeves?
Oh god, what is it? It was too I don't
like a liar, yes, but a lot of people lie.
So you have to learn how to manage. You'll have
to learn how to keep it positive. My biggest pet
peeves are a bully or somebody who a manipulator. People
(15:24):
try to manipulate people by being smarter than them or
more having or or feeding you. You know. I hate
somebody trying to manipulate me, or somebody trying to manipulate
or me watching somebody try to manipulate someone else, which
is like also like bullying. Very hard for me to
keep it positive in that moment.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I feel like there's a time for everything, you know,
there's sometimes whereas everything doesn't even be met with Okay,
let's steal with this in a nice way. Sometimes you
gotta you.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Don't want to go high. You don't want to go high.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Every time I'm being honest with you, like, there are
sometimes where I'm like, we're gonna have to let you
know so this doesn't happen again, because then people think
you're a pushover.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You have not you have I won't always keep it positive,
it's in there. How do people check the positive? How
do people check out the podcast? And what do you
want them to know about it?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yes, for early view and you can subscribe to my Patreon,
you get all the bts. They're gonna actually get to
see this interview, like the behind the scenes of us,
they get early viewing of that. But you can also
watch on YouTube on Tuesdays and you can listen to
it on every podcast platform super dope.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, and then what about the music you said this
music studio, what's happening? Yea working on and you have
people behind you? Are you signed?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Are you gonna sign or you know if I'm gonna
sign anybody right now? It's all independent, But what kind
of music like Yeah, R and B I'm a nineties girl,
so like you know that, I wanted to bring back
that feel, keep it still relevant, but like the feel
of what I grew up to, which is like Monica
and Brandy and Shy and Tea, you know. So it's
like I want to I want to have that when
you play because they're like, well, there's really not a
(17:02):
space for that, and like, but every time you play
those records, everybody was like, oh, that's my song. So
it's got to be a space for it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
It's got you know, space for it. Oh yeah, listen
this good music is always a space.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
For the music. That's how I feel.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right, we'll be listening for that. What else do
people need to know?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
SISS is on right now Wednesday nights on BT at
nine to eight centrals. The Teama comes on Thursday nights
at twelve am Pacific time three am Eastern time, so
you can catch it. We do have people that set
their clock for like two fifty nine am in the
morning on the East Coast to watch it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
One of the one of the Sisters fans like they
die hard. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I know both shows, probably SIS and Entertainment.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's like both of them, right, they are die hard.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, we're the number one show on both platforms. So
it's like that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah. So people rolling up to you saying what doing Fatima?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I knew that was you. We were in the airport
this morning and like can I get a picture? Like
they're so sweet, and it's I mean, the community we build,
even with our fans, has just been beautiful. It really is.
We're blessed.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, sure, well you totally are. So you're just trying
to check every box and every category.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I am. Listen, there's a saying we ain't leaving no
money on the table. Is all the good money? You
know what I'm saying. We're gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We're doing podcasts, We're doing albums, We're doing TV shows,
we're doing owning teams, all the talents.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Everything is the more. Yeah, the music, the podcast the acting,
the teams. Yeah, building brands and businesses. We're doing it all.
I feel like everything that God has given me I
want to use. I don't want to leave any talent
on the table, so I want to try to use everything.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
How do people support you? Where do they find you
all at? How to what do you? What do you,
what do you? How do people you know what I mean,
get behind the Crystal track.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes, you can have a website www dot Crystaline Hazel
dot com. And you can also follow me on Instagram
at love Crystaline and that's l u V all right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
In the meantime, you can watch the shows and we'll
wait for the music. Yes, and you check out the podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Everything, Just check out everything. There is Crystal Day. Thank you,
thank you, no good
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