Hello, everybody. It's Marissa Watley with the Marissa Watley Show. And I
have my favorite guests in the world, MARLINI Cruz, who's going to join
us today? The favorite guest. I like that. I like that,
and I like how you started it's the Marissa Watly Show. That sounded a
little sexy. Oh my gosh, no intention, no intention, But you
are definitely one of my favorite guests and co hosts. Um. I feel
like we have an amazing back and forth, really have a good time,
don't we. Yes, we do all the time. And you know what,
those shows that are improvised come out to be the fast, Yes,
they do, they do. I'm like, what's that about? Yeah,
isn't life like that in general? Like the things that you don't plan exactly
exactly anybody who knows meetos. I don't like to plan anything like, don't
put me in a box, don't tell me what to do, don't tell
me how to do it. M I actually work better. I think under
pressure. Yeah, and I think that. You know, when I have
to improvise is usually usually turns out to be my best work. What's the
science behind that? The why? I don't know. I feel like planning
and planning too much gives me like so much anxiety. Yeah, it's just
I'm a very impatient person, like I kind of like need things to happen
like sooner than later. And yeah, I yah see that from you.
I am. I am. I can plan ahead and I see things the
way that I want them to be, like in the future. But like
I'm future. I'm a future like a future thinker. Is that how you
say it? Like, I'm a forward thinker, so I'm always like in
the future versus being in the present. That makes sense, I mean yes
and no, because knowing you for the time I know you and how you've
handled yourself, if you were only a future thinker, you wouldn't have been
able to handle yourself the way you have. Like I think you have a
nice balance. I think it's because I'm always like a step ahead of myself.
That's where the balance comes from. But it doesn't mean that where my
mind is. My mind is usually always in the future, like I'm always
thinking ahead. So people are like slowdown one step at a time, and
I know that, and I do that. I do that because you can
only do one thing at a time. But it doesn't mean your mind does
not further than the things that you're doing, absolutely, you know in that
moment, which that gives you that balance because I'm the same way. You
know, I'm such a visionary that most people will not understand. If I
tell them my full vision, they'll be like, no, you're crazy,
or you know, you're you're thinking too much, or you're doing too much,
or you know, you're not going to get that far because most people
have a short and small mind instead of you. They see things in the
near only near future. I see the bigger picture, the medium picture,
and then the small one. Yes, in that order, in that order,
you know how they say, like, you know, you you think
you have an idea, right, let it be small, then you grow
it to something bigger. I always see like the end result. Yes,
And then I'm like, okay, so now we're taking the result and I
need to look at it in pieces. Then I have to backtrack and say,
okay, well what is that first step to that end result? So
my mind is actually the reverse. I think backwards, and I think that's
where that frustration comes because I'm already there. I'm already there, right you.
I don't need to take the steps to see the bigger picture. I
already see the bigger pictures, So the frustration for me sometimes lies and like,
Okay, I still need to go through that. You know, the
steps to get there absolutely, and the frustration for me, I mean the
steps to get there I have learned you know, over the years that are
extremely important because those are the steps that prepare you to even maintain when you
get there, right. They build that resilience, that anti fragility that is
so important to allow you to maintain, because it's one thing to get there,
but another to maintain. Right. But what is frustrating for me is
to get people on board. That's a big one, such a huge vision,
yes, because people do not see it oftentimes, Yeah, they don't
see that far ahead. Yeah, you know, so that's often my is
that you're kind of your challenge as well. Um, yeah, because you
know so it's hard for so everybody. Everybody has a different capacity, right,
and everyone's capacity is comes from two different places. It's the biological scientific
part of it, and then it's also your life experience. So people oftentimes
do not think the same way that you do, so their vision is going
to look a lot different. So you know, it's like when you're trying
to paint that picture for everybody to see, you know, the benefit in
the long run. Sometimes that's where the challenges and that's where it's difficult to
try to get people to be committed to your vision. But I do like
sharing those ideas. Like I'm one of those people where like I can't hold
it in and I'm like, look, this is what I'm doing, this
is where we're going, this is what's going to happen. And everything that
I say I'm going to do, I always do it. So just because
I said something last month and it didn't come into fruition the following month,
don't think it's not going to happen right because I'm That's that's where my talent
kind of is, is I'm able to see what's going to happen next and
what should happen next. So, like I said, I'm always I'm thinking
in the future. So I'm already there. So everything that I'm expressing now
is is what I'm imagining is going to happen, you know, days,
years, whatever, months to come. Yeah, what is Because I could
speak on some of my weaknesses and some of my strengths in terms of like
the vision. Right. So I'm a visionary and I'm good creating the foundation.
I'm really really good manifesting the stuff that I know for sure that I
want to do. For example, this, as you very well know,
did not exist prior to COVID yea, and I created all of this within
six months that we roll home. So you know, I noticed that I
am really good hyper focusing and manifesting the things that I want. But I'm
good at manifesting the things that I want that I have control over, right
right, because at the end of the day, you only have control over
yourself. So and that doesn't stop me. For example, if I had
to do ten shows all on Marlenni because mar LENNI doesn't have any other co
host or host, Marlenni's gonna do it, yeah, you know, because
I don't wait upon other people to believe in my vision for me to get
it done. I'm like, let's go, right Yeah, But that for
me, it's also your your strength. Sometimes it's also your week. Oh
yeah, you know, if it's not properly balanced. Still, the fact
that I hyper focus is also sometimes my weakness. Yeah, you know what
my biggest weakness is I put a lot of things on my plate. I
put a lot of things on my plate at once because I'm a I'm a
visionary. I'm also a great multitasker. But I won't stop putting things on
my plate. And that's that's one of my biggest flaws. Because you only
have but so much time in the day, you only have but so much
control over all of these things, and you only have you know, you
only have enough strength to you know, to get through what you can get
through a lot of the things that I do have on my plate by default,
and a lot of things I do put on my plate, you know,
make it so much harder to like get to where I'm trying to go
because I'm like this constant balancing act. But um, that's that part to
me isn't stressful because I feel like I always have to be busy, like
I was supposed to be doing something, and honestly, I have to be
doing a thousand things that wants to feel productive. So while it's a week
a week, you know, a weakness, it's also my strength. I
think what I need to do is prioritized, is prioritized. That's one thing.
And then also, um, you know, find the help because you
know, you start to pile a lot of things on your plate. You
want to stay busy. You feel like it's the only way that you're gonna
feel productive. But at the end of the day, you know, everybody
needs help with the things that they have to do. You know, there's
no such thing as, you know, a business just running itself. You
know, you start a business, you have to have employees. You you
know, if you have your business grows, you need an assistant. Like,
everybody always needs help. And everything that I do and everything that I've
done so far has been by way of me. Right, Well, you
know, I'm going to challenge that a little bit because not every kind of
business or every kind of person needs that. I think we all need a
support system, which I think is different. But there's a lot of people
that are solopreneurs. There's a lot of people that you know, handle things
on their own and they're doing good. They don't especially the people that are
not necessarily in need of having that huge vision. Everybody's definition of success is
different. So my definition of success is that huge vision that I see that
is massive and it's like so overwhelming and heavy. Somebody else's vision. It
could be very simple and that's their vision of success. I just feel like,
bigger, small, It doesn't matter where you work. You could be
You could work in retail. You can't be successful in retail without the customers.
You can't be successful in retail without having the job. You can't be
you know what I mean. So everybody needs somebody. So no matter where
you are and how bigger, how small your vision is, there's always going
to be that other person or that other you know, liaison that's going to
allow you to grow so in some way, in some way, shape,
form or fashion. No matter what your business is, you're always going to
need the supports that the help. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which comes
in different ways. Right, absolutely, I agree with you. And that's
one of the things that for me has been very challenging because over the years,
I've been blessed to be in business now for thirteen years, and over
the years I've had teams, I've had employees, I've had you know,
good and bad, up and down. And what I have noticed, since
I'm such a hyper focuser, right, I'm not so great in building team.
I have to have somebody else building that, you know, It's so
funny that you say that that has to be like a personality type, because
I'm the same way. It's just like I don't really want to like I
need the team and I'm a great coach, but to actually put the team
together as a whole other thing for me. So I'm not an operational person.
I'm a very I'm a I'm a creator, a creative, a creative
mind. Soon, so I'm bringing you all the ideas, but I need
somebody else to do to do all that other stuff. You know, it's
all the legwork and stuff like that that you know, Can I do it?
Yes? Can I do it? Well? Sure? Do I want
to do it? Absolutely not? Yeah, absolutely yes. And and it's
very common because creators are often not the people that are the operators, right
right right, So it is common when you are the creator, when you
are the visionary. Um, there's nobody online and earth that's perfect in every
area, you know, even for example, you already know that I love
him Elon musk Um. Even Elon he's very clear at what he is good
at and still he's a millionaire. He focuses on making sure that the product
is a success. Making a successful product yeah. Right. He is in
the field within his businesses that he is good at and he focuses on that
is everybody else to focus on everything else, right, right, because you
have to know what you're good at and where is your area and allow other
people to handle the areas that your weekend. Oh yeah right yeah, so
yeah, that's we have that similarity again. Well, I mean go where
you can grow, right, absolutely, absolutely, And that's another thing.
Yea, go where you can grow. When you told me that, when
you gave me that that kind of like phrase, that sentence, I was
like, that's so great because we oftentimes, you know, within our path,
within our growth, maybe we know that we're not walking a path that
we're we can grow, or we're not around people where we're going to be
able to grow, and maybe we drag our feet in making the changes necessary.
But going where you can grow at old times and making sure that you
make that shift. It's so important, Yeah, making the mindset shift,
making the physical shift, making the shift in people in friends in and Beyonce
in frame of mind. I mean, it's so important, it is,
it is. But you know what that process looks different for everybody. It
looks so different for everybody, and there's so many different stages and phases of
growing, and um, you know what that looks like based on your life
and what you're calling is and what your purpose is and all of those things.
And I don't know, I you know, just speaking on myself if
I may. You know, I've had I've had I've had different stages of
growth. But I always know, like when I'm going through like some kind
of transition, you know what I mean, Like I always know what I'm
going through some kind of transition because things are just shaking up a little bit
too much where it feels weird and You're like, what what is it that
I'm going through? You know, what is it that I'm going through?
Like there's been times where, um, you know, I'm growing and you
know, you just feel it. You don't know what's happening, but you
see things are changing. There's a move that's forced there's there's people that are
forced out, there's a job change, there's something major, some sort of
major event that shook things up and change things so much. Right, there's
earthquake, tsunami, ya, all those things. Everything's happening all at once,
you know, And I know when it's happening. I just can't always,
you know, gauge when that transition stage is going to be done.
But I know that there's something bigger on the other side, right, So
yeah, just even like more recently, you know, I've been changing a
lot of things. There's so many different things I'm going to do. I'm
going by coastal, so I'm gonna be splitting my time between two different states.
I'll be back and forth and you know, doing business and those kind
of things. That's a huge move. That's a huge, big, bold
move. You know, I am a mom. You know, I have
a child that's in school. There's a lot of back and forth that needs
to happen. But I also need to keep up with those kind of things,
you understand, And I'm doing it on my own, so it's not
easy. But you know, I've definitely been going through a phase where,
you know, it seems like a lot of people that I was that perhaps
you know, how do you say, whether it's friends with or in business
with or whatever. So many things have changed. There's so many people that
you know, I don't I don't necessarily feel the same connection to the way
that I did. Just a couple of months ago, and it's amazing.
You know, I don't I don't have any ill feelings towards these people,
but for me to not feel that connection anymore, it's just telling me that
there's something more out there, or there's something else out there that I'm supposed
to be chasing. You know, there's some sort of divide that's happening.
You know. I've been spending a lot of personal time, like with myself.
I haven't been posting a lot, I haven't been doing a lot of
those things. But I think times like this are really important, you know.
And as I look around, I see like so many other people,
and we're not going right now where the world is right now, things are
not easy. There's like every day we turn around, there's like some other
catastrophe that's happening. You know. Um, times are kind of weird right
now. So people are going through their stuff, you know, and there's
so many people. Yeah, I don't know what's going on, but there's
something that's that's that's happening that hasn't happened before. But there's so many people
that are, you know, going through their own you know, growth stages
if you will, and there's you know, people that have been having a
tough time like mentally yea, you know, there's a lot of people.
Um, even you know, celebrities are notable people that have been going through
a really, really, really tough time. So I say that to say
that spending time with yourself is very important and sometimes you just have to stop
everything and allow that time for yourself because there's something in that process that you're
supposed to be hearing or absorbing in order to be prepared for that next level.
So I've definitely been experiencing that, um the last like six seven months,
which now I'm you know at the time, like when you're taking this
time to yourself, like you're not realizing like what's happening, I'm like,
what the purpose of it is and all of that. And then you know,
as time passes, you start to realize, Okay, that happened because
of this, and this happened because of that. It all starts to make
sense. So and I had a friend on it. I had a friend
on the show before where he was talking about, you know, having a
phase where he had to sit down, and I said, look, you
know, sometimes these sit downs, if that's what you want to call it
need to happen, because there's something that that something that's happening in that process
that needs to happen in order for you to get to the next level.
Like just when you think you're not growing, you're having the most growth.
It's so true, it's so true. So while these things are happening,
not always easy. Every day is not like you know, walk in the
park, Oh, walk in the park. It ain't. But you know,
you just allow these things to happen, and because you know that it's
putting you on the path that you need to be on for the future.
There's so much to say about that because there's something that nobody can deny right
now, and it's the fact that the world is changing, Isn't it crazy?
I just I don't even know what the world is changing. If I
knew, If I knew, this is what it was like to be an
adult because as kids, a lot of the kids, you know, they
have no idea what's going on. And we were there were things that were
happening when we were kids and we had no idea what was going on.
Yeah, yeah, but but this is different though we're living literally during a
transition. We are right, Yeah, during a global transition for humanity in
general. We are entering a new phase of humanity and we can see this
very evidently when we speak of artificial intelligence, and then the big shots are
saying it's going to be a whole new world, and it literally will be
a whole new I'm not looking forward to that, to that world. I
know you're an Elon Musk fan and everything, but I don't know about all
of these robots and everything just doing stuff for you. It just takes that
personal touch out and I need that. I'm a people person, Yeah,
like I need people. Yeah, I don't need robots. That's a whole
another topic. I mean, you know that is another topic with endless episodes.
What about dating a robot? Isn't that like this thing? Well,
now you're shifting. Okay, I'm not shifting. We're talking technology here and
how the world has changing. Let's let's go. Let let me just begin
to say that what we are living right now with artificial intelligence is something that
is not something that just came about. Artificial intelligence have been around us for
years upon years. We've been underground, you know, developing this making it
better. The fact that a surfaced does not mean that it's something new,
right, Um, this has been something planned, This has been something that
you know, the powers that be have plent in society a little at a
time to the point where we are all technology. Anyhow, let me tell
you you are already an extension of a robot this right here, just the
fact that you could detach it and put it down for a minute. But
we are on the phone twenty four seven, We are live right now,
and both of us have the phone really next to us, do you know
what I mean? So, now with that being said, you mentioned don't
get me, don't get me started on this topic. We could go for
hours. You mentioned Elon. Now, Elon has been talking and advising about
this topic for years and letting people know the dangers about it for years.
He is developing, obviously, artificial intelligence, because when you cannot defeat your
enemy, what you have to do unite. We cannot defeat technology and artificial
intelligence anymore. It is a monster that we can no longer defeat, right
And we've done this to ourselves to be on us. So we are at
a point with artificial intelligence there is no going back. There's no putting that
monster in the box. It is out of the box. Now we need
to determine as a human being, as a you know, species, how
we want to go about this. Do we want to create a whole new
species, because that's what we're doing. Yeah, that is what we're doing.
I mean I don't I don't care for it. I don't care for
it. I think it's I think it's ridiculous. Yeah. I'm the person
who comments under this stuff on Instagram when they post like the Roots and ask
you if you know, what do you think about it? Like, I'm
like, sow against that stuff. That's ridiculous. Beyond ridiculous is dangerous.
Yeah, you know, it is extremely dangerous because we're not only creating something
that is more intelligent than us, because we are literally feeding it the whole
blob of intelligence that we have gathered since we have conscious right, we have
consciousness. It learns on its own, so we feed it all the information
that we ever know of humanity. Here you go, everything we know,
and it also regurgitates that information and feeds itself. So it's beyond the human
capacity. Yeah, we will not be able to control artificial intelligence. And
this is not only robots. What people see like the you know, No,
this is beyond that. They're gonna start looking like human beings, Like
they're gonna put real skin on these robots. They're gonna and even if they
do not have a body, just the simple fact that they can control For
example, Alexa, Alexa has a body. No, Alexa controls your whole
entire environment of your house, whatever you give her, access to your heat,
your light, your our alarm system, the music that you put in,
the everything, and she does not have a body, right, ye,
So we have to look beyond what we you know, our small frame
of mind sometimes think about you know, robots and what we know about it.
The world is changing, you know, and if we don't wake up
fast, we're for a route awakening. So to connect that back to what
we were talking about initially, there is a shift that is going on in
humanity. Not only would artificial intelligence climate change, right, there's so many
aspects of us that is changing, right, that is bringing about this rebellious
kind of drama, kind of depression, mental health, in all these changes
in a human body and mind that of course we're going to be feeling it
right, right, But more than ever, I think we need to be
you know, very conscious, very aware, and have that support system so
we could know how to you know, maneuver around these times. Yeah,
now I'm going to shut up. I was listening to you. Hey,
I'm not against any opinions here. This is this is you know, it's
something that's been upon us. Yeah it's a heavy topic, but it's something
that's been upon us for so many years. Everybody's a part of all these
social media platforms. You have Instagram, Like now there's a Twitter rival rival,
I forget the name of it any anyhow, there's another Twitter essentially,
So this stuff is not going to stop, you know, and you know
there's you know, people are becoming less and less social in person because they
have that social media aspect. You don't have to leave the house to have
a relationship with somebody. And now the metaverse, uh, now you'll be
able to have everything you do physically, even sexual relationships and all that you
will be able to do in the metaverse. Everything everything meet me in the
metaverse? Like what he there? Crazy? I wonder how that's gonna be.
But no, I think Elon Musk, I think he like introduced I
don't know if it was a joke, if it was serious. I don't.
I try not to like indulge too much in this stuff because it's just
too far fetch for me. But it's called I forget what it's called.
It's like a robot wife or something like that. I'm like, so it's
just getting to the point where people are gonna be dating robots or is this
just a robot that's gonna be at home? But apparently this robot is able
to do things that a real wife would do. Everything, girl, everything
and much more. You men have issues. I'm sorry that is not you
know, I don't know care even I don't agree with that. I don't
like it, but it's the truth. I think it's crazy. Okay,
wash my dishes, clean my floor, but like to be in an intimate
relationship with me? No crazy? And now, this is artificial intelligence that
could speak to you. Have you spoken to chat GPT? Have you interacted
with it yet? What's that? Now? Okay, I'm at a tech
person. Don't ask me anything, techie. Don't ask me about movies.
Don't ask me about actors and names and movies and stuff. Chat is a
language model, is an artificial intelligence. You ask it to do anything,
and it will give you that in a matter of seconds or minutes. Seconds,
you know, create this for me, create that for me, Write
a book, right this, right, write code for a website. It
does it all, okay, in a matter of seconds. So this is
an example of how you can interact with an artificial intelligence, just like I'm
interacting with you. But now you have the ability to get a lot of
information, to get intelligent information a matter of consider a human being cannot do.
I mean, I feel like all of that is fine, but I'm
not trying to establish an emotional connection with a robot. So that's really that's
where I'm coming from with this. Give me all the information. It takes
two seconds, greater, I get it faster than I'll get it from a
person. I you know, it's probably a little bit easier. You push
a button, you use a remote, or you ask the question. That's
fine, But to like have this emotional connection and with a robot, yeah,
it's I don't know. I just don't know. Not only are we
I see in the in the not so far future, we'll have marriages with
robots. Like what, artificial intelligence don't calling you? You can't have kids
with a robot calling it. I don't want to hear it. We're changing
this subject here. I'm done with this. I don't want to tell this
is insane. There are, um now there are how do you call the
stations where they could have a whole child come on, a human being child,
like a real human child, so a robot can Now, okay,
they're they're they're fake wombs where a child grows. Does does this not bother
anyone else? Because I'm so bothered by Yes, I am definitely. It's
crazy and it's creepy and it's weird. It's one thing if we're like hatching
a dinosaur egg or something like. Obviously there's no dinosaurs because we have no
other way to do it. But we there's people still exist, there's no
reason too and if we do not stop now. There was a letter,
an open letter they call it, that was signed by many people, many
big shots, and Elon is one of them to sign it, asking for
a halt. Let's stop and think about this, because if we can see
it's gonna we can hurt. Yeah, they can take over and we'll have
no control take over, you know what, we will be smart enough not
to listen to us and do their own things. We've seen movies like this,
right, These movies have been out for decades. Yeah, So the
danger of it when you have an artificial intelligence that things on its own,
it's much much smarter than you. It could reproduce itself. Right, Um,
why do they need us again? Can you remind me? We will
be like what cats are for, they're going to like kill us and especially
and like going back to the emotional part. If they can figure out how
to how to program some sort of emotion or connection to certain thoughts, that's
when it's going to be our downfall. Because while they're not human beings,
they can't really have true emotion, they're gonna still process things in sequence and
order the way that a human being would. And that is what's going to
end up in the results. Well, that's already possible. And I'll tell
you why. Because we are being stupid enough and yes, I'm going to
say stupid. We're being very careless and very stupid and what we're putting out
there, and these language models are being trained with the data of the content
that is being created. So if you create content, you create hateful,
spiteful, malicious, you know, all that stuff. All that human negative
emotion that is in us. That's what we're feeding these models. Yeah,
so at the end of the day, you're feeding your own monster that will
eventually come back to bite you. Does that make any sense? It is.
It would behoove us to create content that is empathetic, that is positive,
that is motivational, inspirational, uplifting, because that's what we're going to
be feeding it. But you know, we're always going to have the two
sides. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not really ready for all of
that. It's not ready. Yeah, I'm not ready for that. And
this is another thing right now that you mentioned we're not ready. We already
know that legislature and the lawmaking process is really slow and it does not function
the way in the speed that this is moving. This hit us like and
we didn't even know when it started. Yeah, right, So the same
way, it is so unfortunate that the laws are not in place to limit
these companies that are in an arms race of what they're creating, and they're
creating something that could eventually wipe us out as humanity, but the laws are
not in place yet to control that. Yeah, it's dangerous. I don't
know. I guess we got to see what happens. But but yeah,
I mean, I'm definitely feeling the changes. There's been so many things that
have changed. Um, this winter was exceptionally cold. Wasn't like below zero?
Yep, you didn't get it. But now you switching, You switching
on me. I don't want to talk about robots anymore. We're gonna switch
the subject. We talk about the things. But yeah, like all these
things that have happened, you know, So the weather was like really cold,
I think there was there was wildfires in Canada. There was earthquakes over
there in Turkey, like catastrophic earthquakes. There's a lot going on. Yeah,
there's so much going on, you know. Yeah, and a lot
of that is also man created. Uh yeah, listen, there's so much
controversy over that, like we have no idea what you know, who's doing
what and what's doing Who's just we are destroying ourselves in so many ways.
You know. Another way that we could potentially destroy ourselves is in engineering.
You know, COVID for example, engineering these things that could viruses that could
kill us. Right, Like, we can already engineer a new human and
the way we want it. The color, the the the background, the
f We can engineer a human in every single way. I just buy everything
we can. We've gotten to the point that, like we can modify absolutely
everything, yep, and we can create a virus that can wipe whole humanity.
But you know the crazy partis it's like people are so stuck on creating
all these negative things. They're not even thinking about like creating like positive things,
like why can't we create like superpowers and like really indulge in that,
Like why can't I teleport yet? That's what I want to do. I
don't want to focus on artificial intelligence. It's a form of superpower if you
if you, yeah, But I'm not the piece of technology. I'm a
human being and I want to figure out how I can do those, you
know, superpower kind of things. I would much rather people focus on on
on using those parts of their brain than to be focused on all the negative.
It's just like all these negative things are being creative. We've got suffer
war, We've got robots I could potentially take over. Like what are we
doing that's positive for mankind? Right now? What are we doing? If
you if you had the ability to like have a superpower. What would it
be if I had the ability to have a superpower? I mean, I
have to think about that. Um, there are several things I would do.
But that's a that's a very good it's such a good question, right,
Yeah, No, it's a deep question, and it's one that I
don't want to answer too swiftly because when you start thinking about and getting creative
with superpowers, there's always a good and bad of everything. Yeah, there's
always a bad way of using a superpower and then will always be right.
So I got to think about that. How about you. I would want
to teleport. I'd like to travel so and I'd like to be in and
out of places. So if I could be if I can go from one
place to the next. If I'm in trouble, I can teleport away from
that, right yeah, if I want to if I need to get away,
I can teleport away from where I am. If I need to be
in multiple places at the same time, the whole dual state thing that I
was telling you about, if I need to do that, I could be
there in an instant. So for me, with my lifestyle, I think,
you know, having a superpower of being able to teleport would be ideal
for me. I've heard so many different kinds. Yeah, I guess what's
similar to a genie where you desire something and it's right there. That would
be really cool. But that's cool. I like that. But eventually there
will be a form. For example, I know, I'm gonna go briefly
back to artificial intelligence because this is gonna freak you out a little bit,
but it's already happening. Reality everything there's We've never been lived a time in
humanity where you can really literally sense birth till death, you know, sum
up a human being and have evidence of their whole life in social media.
We've never lived such a time. Right now, we're living that time.
My daughter, you know, sends birth till the day she dies. She
is going to have her entire life registered social media. So you can literally
listen to this though. Artificial intelligence can make you immortal because you take this
life, this persona personality, habits, train, everything, mindset, and
you artificially place it into an artificial intelligence, and you have another form of
Marabella's. You have another form of Marlenni. For example, this chat GPT
can create a song. You tell it create a song with the lyrics of
you know, as if it was Twopac. I give you a song as
if it was Twopac in two seconds, right right, a comedy as if
you are Kevin Hart in the style and the personality of Kevin Hart in a
second. So it will personify, right, any character, any person.
You can become immortal. That's another way of immortality. Yeah. You know,
when you're talking about superpowers, why one thing I would do is another
superpower is to like change the weather. I do not. I'm not like
a rain person. It's going to be raining all this week. What is
everybody doing for Fourth of July weekends? So Fourth of July is actually on
Tuesday, but people have been going down the show here in Jersey. People
go down the shore a lot, like that's a thing. So people are
going down. People went down on like Thursday. The weather's been okay,
but it looks like it's like Thursday Thursday. People go down early, so
they could be there for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Yeah.
Wow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Yes, I'm
sure it's like paths right now. Yeah, absolutely got off an entire week.
If I could change the weather just like that. That's exactly what I
would do. Well, that's another thing that's already been done. Oh gosh,
I'm sorry. I was just talking about myself. I could change the
weather be personally, I absolutely would. Yeah. We already have the power
too, that's insane. Yeah, and it's true. It's true. It's
true. We already Yeah, yeah, we've got to pass certain superpowers already.
Did you do anything for Fourth of July? Have you not yet?
But I'm blinding. I love, you know, watching the fireworks with the
baby. So now I live in an area where we can see that very
clearly, now, So yeah, that's gonna be fun. Yeah, I
don't know. Um, I don't know. I'm definitely gonna hang out a
little bit, you know. I went just went out with a couple of
friends the last couple of days, but nothing, nothing too crazy. And
I haven't gone down to the shore. Um, I'm sure I'll get there
at some point, you know, maybe hit up a if the fans are
around. They know when Marissa walk. Oh my gosh, I don't know,
but you know, tune into my social media right, um, and
um, let's see, let's see what this weekend brings I'm actually excited to
to you know. Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays. Yeah,
yeah, it's It's super chill for me. It's not like one of
those where you have to like prepare a little bit too much. It's okay
to hop around. There's a lot of people out. Everybody's excited. It's
in the summer, which is a big deal. Yeah, so it's it's
actually one of my Um, it's one of my favorite holidays. So let's
say I have no idea who I'm gonna be watching the fireworks with. Um,
you can't in the Fourth of July. You can't really hide too much,
you know, talking about that for a second. I know we're going
on the tantrums, like of us, like we're going on tangents, but
um, the little small tangent here. Are you more of a private person
or are you more of a public person when it comes to what MARLINI in
general, because I mean to be honest. In today's society, everything is
now meshed together. You can't really divide anymore. Yeah, you know,
it used to be that you would know my my professional side and my social
media or whatever. Some people would know my personal But now it's all meshed
age. I think it's subjective because people who know me know me, you
know, like if I've spent enough time with you and I've opened up to
you'll know like the different sides of my personality. I'm very chameleonic, so
I could be whatever which way, whatever my mood is is where I'm going
right so um, But for the most part, I would say I'd like
to try to keep it. I keep business separate from like my private life,
so you know, even on social media, like I have a private
page that it's existed forever, I don't. I don't allow everybody to be
my friend, you know, and I post there's certain things on there that
I post that you know, for the most part, are humorous, like
just just being funny or whatever. But you know, I don't post those
things on my business page, so you're not always going to get the same
things posted on the same pages. So in that regard, I guess you
could say, you know, there's two different sides for the most part in
private. But I'm also an open book. I don't care you know,
I am who I am. I'll tell people, you know, the truth,
if you want to know something about me. Just ask ye and I'll
give you an answer. Did I expand on that good enough for you?
Or yeah? I mean, but when it comes like relationships and stuff like
that, I don't know. I feel like every relationship. When it comes
to relationships, because that's a big part of your life, right. You
see some people in their profiles they're putting out there who they're dating, who
they're in a relationship with, who they're married to. I would like to
say, for the most part, I'm a little bit more conservative on that
side. I've done that before. I just don't think that your private life
is always for display. I do think that, you know, it's good
to show your partner respect enough to where you're not like hiding them, But
I don't see the need to put your entire relationship and every step of that
relationship on the forefront for everybody to see. There's certain things for me that
are just sacred and I don't feel like I have to share that with everybody.
And there's certain things that I don't feel like I have to share with
the people closest to me, or maybe one person would resonate with that more
than the other. So it just depends. I mean, for the most
part, I'm an open book. But you know, when it's time to
like not share everything, I just don't, you know, absolutely, and
I am very much you know the same. When it comes to my personal
my private I believe in the in that sense, in the old way of
how we handle that. You know, I like to be mysterious. I
do. I like to be I like when someone lives a certain experience with
me and it's only that person and I that are living in that experience.
There's a certain beauty to that, right that this is not registered, this
moment right now is not registered anywhere else, just in your mind and mind,
right, I think there's a beauty to that. You know, there's
also a beauty to you separating your personal in a way. And you know
I put personal pictures sometimes, and you know, I talk about my personal
life because now at the reality, like I said, it is all a
mesh, right, but I allow it to be to a certain point.
When you look at my social media is all mostly business, yeah, all
of them. I don't have a personal social media. If you're in in
my life and you're living these moments with me, there's no reason as to
why we have to necessarily be like showing the world like yeah, you know
what I mean. I like to hold I like to hold certain mystery.
Yeah yeah, I can agree with that. Yeah yeah, I don't know
how. You know, there's some people that like live their life for social
media all day every day, there's recording and everything. I don't know that.
It drives me nuts. I need some sense of like, I need
like me time. So my me time is like when I'm not when the
camera is like not on me, you know, like that's my version of
me times. But there's some people and they do a great job with it.
I'm not saying that they don't. It must be like their job to
do that, but it is. It's very invasive, I think extreme private
and personal lifestyle and extremely you can't really be enjoying every single moment if you're
forcing, you know, to record what happened. What happens with that is
that innately, even those that say they're being real, they're not. You're
really staging the real even the real part of the struggles, you're still staging
because let's be let's be honest here, when you're in the eye of the
public, you want to be seen under a certain light, right, Nobody
wants to be seen as the worst of the worst, a scumbag, or
you know, in a negative light. Everybody wants to be seen in a
positive light. That's just innate in humanity. Yeah, right, So how
real are you really going to be? Right? Even those that post the
struggles or whatever, that's even kind of man manipulated in a way. So
it doesn't look that bad, you know what I mean, or it looks
worse right whenever. So for example, when we're talking a good example of
that is when we're talking about, um, what is this reality shows?
We all know reality shows are not real. They're scripted, and the producers
create this situation where it's more drama. I think they're more stage than they
are scripted. I've been behind they're stage. So they give you like a
setting and like it takes its natural kind of well scripted. It's well scripted
in that way. But scripted could also mean that line by line it was
written. It's not always like that. Sometimes it's just like fashion is.
It's being premeditated and planned. There is a producer that is thinking about what
will catch somebody's attention the most. Let's make them fight right now? Let's
make this drama, you know, a little bigger. Let's make her you
know, all this is done behind the scene. So that is being done
in social media now yeah, oh yeah, so so social media essentially is
the reality is the reality show? Would you do a reality TV? Would
you ever do reality TV? How do you feel about it? That's a
good question, and I would say it depends I would do it. I
would do it. I would say it depends too. I think I could
be on any of those shows they have, like so many, oh my
god, they have so many drama filled shows, like so many of them.
I think I would do good on any of them, you know,
because I'm chamileonic, Like I said, I can relate to so many different
situations scenarios. You put me somewhere, I could all conform to that and
it's still you know, the real the real me. Yeah, it's still
the real me, like the core of me and everything orange flavor. But
there's just exactly but there's just certain ways that I just don't want to market
myself anymore, Like I don't want to get stuck there. Like if you
put me on like the like Bad Girls Club or something like that, can
I be a bad girl. Yeah, I could be a bad girl,
definitely can, but that's not how I want to market myself, you know,
and that's not what I want to be known for. And I also
don't think it's going to help you know, certain aspects of my life,
like, especially in business, How would a show like that help me?
Unless you know, because everybody's you know, everyone's clients and everyone's um base.
As far as business is going to come from a different place, maybe
all of the bad girls would be you know, those will be my clients.
You know. I don't know, But there's just certain um there's certain
narratives that I just don't want to participate in because I don't want it to
affect me negatively. Well you know in a way. That's that's my point
of saying. It depends especially what I am purposely trying to create. This
is where you know, and your bigger picture comes into play. If I
didn't know where I was going, what I wanted to do, you would
just do whatever. I would just do whatever, like you know, what
make me famous? Do you know how many people I know that just do
whatever? Like there's so many people that just like do whatever just to get
somewhere. Well, but it works. I mean, I guess it gives
them purpose. Well well, well, I mean every every situation is different
and every person is different, you know. But for the most part,
in the majority, a lot of people today want to go viral. Do
whatever it takes to go viral. Yeah, put me in here, put
me in there, and do this, do that. I just want to
go viral. My question to you is, why the heck do you want
to go viral? Because do you understand that after you go viral, that's
a whole lot of freaking pressure is going to be under a microscope. But
some people like that. That's not pressure to everybody. Some people like that.
Oh but wait, wait, wait, wait, okay. Some people
may like that because they like the adrenaline, they like the attention. But
is it good for them? Right, because there's a whole lot of people
that have gone viral. Does the world know about them now? No?
Because as easy as they know about you, it's just as easy as they
will forget about you. You got to stay relevant, right, So is
it really worth it to only go viral? What the heck did you just
do? You just put your life under a microscope for no freaking reason.
Now, if you know you're a bigger picture, if you know where you
want to go, what you want to do when you're why you would direct
that traffic. Now that's why the benefit of you knowing your bigger picture.
Yeah, Now, okay, I went viral, Ladies and gentlemen, this
is what I'm doing. I'm doing this, I'm doing that, I'm doing
this project, and you follow me here blah blah blah. Now there's a
purpose. Now, there is an avenue to where you're directing that traffic.
What's a reason to keep putting out content? Right? You know? So
it's always about your why. Yeah? Is your why only to become famous?
Or is your why to direct people towards your bigger vision? Yeah,
you know, don't get me start on that. I hear, I hear
the passion in your voice. But yeah, I mean, I mean,
going going viral is fine, But like you said, I'd rather have a
purpose attached to it. You know, I think I think the business behind
it and the um the money aspect for me is more important than just being
famous. Like I don't need everybody to know me, but the people that
do need to know me, I want them to respect me for my work,
you know, and I want to to do well you know, in
that arena. So it's not important to me to go viral for everybody to
see me. It's just you know, everybody. It's almost like choosing your
audience. You know, you got to know who your audience is and you've
and you got to know your purpose. But yeah, I know people that
are very well known internationally that you know, if I say the name,
they would know, but they don't have a penny in the bank. But
there's a lot of people like that. There's a lot of people. But
there's a lot there's a lot of people. And I have met a lot
of people that have tons of followers, a huge following, but their following
doesn't feed their business, so I doesn't feed their life in general, it
doesn't. But you know, that's their starting point. They have the following.
Now they have to use capitalize on the following in order to you know,
to make it make sense, not always you. That has to be
purposely done, right, it has to be purposely channeled because if not,
those are just going to be people that they just know about you. And
I know a heck of a lot of people like that they've gone viral from
one day to the next because they were doing stupid videos, funny videos,
you know, or whatever it is, and then that's it. There's just
somebody that went viral. At the end of my life, I don't want
to say I was somebody that just went viral. I want there to be
a purpose me personally. There's some people that are okay, living like that,
yeah, you know, living paycheck to paycheck, having no money in
the bank. But but just people knowing about them. Okay, if that's
your sense of purpose. But I want that to have more meaning in my
life. I want my my following, my fame to mean that I'm contributing
to the world in a much greater scale than just me being known. Yeah,
no, I know what you mean. So you're saying that the pressure
comes in having that following without the purpose, Absolutely I agree, absolute agree
with that, and and that following not This is where I speak to a
lot of youth, a lot of you know, young people, and they
all say, I want to be famous or I want to you know,
I want to be known, or I want to go viral. I'm like,
what is your why, right, why you want to be famous?
Because the pressure that comes with being famous is heavy, especially not everybody is
prepared for that. Are you prepared for people criticizing every single aspect of you?
Your look, the way you've talked, the way you walk, your
style, you're blah blah blah. Everything will be criticized because you have the
good and the bad, right are you ready for that? I mean most
of the people, you know, a lot of these young people are not
m you know what I mean. Yeah, Absolutely, it's a crazy it's
a listen, it's a very crazy topic to UM to address. You know,
we just talked about so much. We're both in radio, and you
know, at any point we can go viral. You know, at any
point we can go viral. UM. But you know, if it should,
should that be the case on any given show, I would want it
to have more purpose and meaning than not. Absolutely I agree with you on
that. And I think today we put too much emphasis and that's shifting now,
but we put too much emphasis on how many followings we have. We've
put so much value, empty value to that that we've really we have a
lot of people, for example, that are prior to the Internet or social
media era that are incredibly talented, incredibly famous in their own right that do
not have so many followers, and they're now being you know, weighted on
how many followers you have, which is an empty kind of you know,
weighing system. It's empty, Okay, this is how many people follow you.
And some of the most successful people in the world, some of the
most wealthiest people in the world, do not even have an Instagram hands all
or a Facebook handle, like most of those people actually are not on social
media. So while someone's following can vary, it can vary for a reason.
You know. In order for your social media handle to get to discovered
essentially by people, you have to put yourself out there. You have to
post a lot, you have to reach out maybe like follow, do all
these things. There's things that need to be done, and then you have
people who are doing any people who don't do it. And it's just really
that simple, right, you know. And that's another thing, like personally,
I've in my social media I've trained people not to have to see me
every single day. You're not going to see me every day. I'm not
going to be a slave on the phone because you want to see me every
day just because No, that's being a slave. Oh today, I have
to do this because they have to see me. I have to live,
I have to do business. I have a lot to do. You know.
I you cannot train people to have to see you every single day.
Do you really want to be a slave like that. That's a good point.
Yeah, that's a good point. I mean I do want everybody to
be a slave to my show. However, So the Marissa Watley Show we're
live every Sunday eight pm to nine pm Eastern Standard Time. And this is
Marlenni my co host, right massa show because you can go where you can
grow. Absolutely, so we had a good time today. Today was just
open conversation. We're just being silly, going back and forth in certain topics.
So I hope you didn't enjoyed UM while you were with us. UM.
Stay tuned. I will have some very special guests coming up this summer.
I'm really excited to be back in the studio. There's so many things
to cover, so many things to talk about. But thank you so much
for tuning in. It's Marissa Watley with the Marissa Watley Show. Go where
you can grow, That's right,