S8E1: Simone Clarke unveils her personal journey - Story of Resilience, Strength and Empowerment.

[Music] [Music] welcome back to boings podcast I'm Karim boings and today we have a treat for you today Simone Clark joins us in the studio Simon Clark is a Jamaican broadcast personality known for engaging presence on various TV programs the popular television youth show rapping no never know that uh TV J's Morning Show Smile Jamaica and her own production Sim Souls session now Simone is a consumate communication specialist with over 30 years of broadcast experience both in radio and TV for more than a decade she has been a corporate communication expert uh which has seen her crafting communication strategy for some of Jamaica's top and most prominent corporate companies so today we'll focus on her illustrious career and you know she'll open up about her family life offering you the viewers a unique glimpse into her journey never been done before and welcome to the show Simone Clark all right aun Simone thank you so much for being here if you call me auntie Simone I'm going to no I can't help it I cannot help it okay thank you how does it feel being on that side of the microphone I don't like it I know you don't I've said it several times I prefer to be in your chair I know you but I realize sometimes you have to be over here cuz you can't keep to prod into people's lives and not be willing to talk about your own stuff well thank you so much for agreeing um as I said to you on the phone that I want because you've been doing this for so long um you normally say it's 25 years but it's actually 30 I been it's 25 years with the RG group yes but before going to the rgr group I was working in the field for a number of years before that so actually November of this year it will be 30 years yes in the industry and that was for rapping what exactly was that though for the ones who weren't here it right because I was still in dios then was I jesus K I was pretty young then I was still pretty young pretty pretty young was a baby I'm old you would have been in diapers probably for true so rapping was a youth there I don't think there's been anything like it since it AED it's a youth program where we went to all the schools across Jamaica M and discussed issues of the day affecting young people and got them to kind of talk up and hear their views and he their grosses and it was groundbreaking at the time and I still think there is room for something like that to happen again um I mean I guess it happens in different ways now across different platforms but something as structured as that I think is missing from the landscape but it was great for me cuz it gave me my induction and introduction into media MH TV is where I started first and then I went to radio um but it also gave me the opportunity to get my feet wet know Jama expose myself to all sorts of things cuz I was very sheltered before I started right um growing up in a Christian home we never really gone away do nothing so it was a nice Adventure but also it it really showed me how much I love this industry yes and I've been here ever since so then 30 years ago young Simone got this I'm still young well younger youer right because you were still young so younger Simone got this opportunity um why media why at that time you're like you know what I think I want to dabble in this field a little bit you know what it is I've always had a love for speech and all things speech so even as a child at St George's G's Primary School on Duke Street if it was um speaking drama CH all everything performing artists out there is I loved to do it I was a singer I was a dancer and apparently I was a speaker and so holya jcdc competitions um hoip of um speaking competitions lots of medals later I thought to myself you know what there's something about this industry that I love and so I got deeper into Performing Arts through Kathy L and Little People team players club um and then my parents were like what is this this is not a f right yeah go take your book come out of this right especially since you know Performing Arts group is larly secular yes my father's a pastor my mom was a missionary so I never really got it um but the speech thing was always resident in me and so I would watch like you know folks on TV and be like I would love to do that but I just never knew the whole and to a young girl like how do you even I mean it's a dream but you never ever think it would material realize right um it was through my love for speech and wanting to advance my love for speech that I went to an audition at the cptc at the time now MTI media training institute to try and get the speech development going it was a voice and speech course and out of that audition um wickliff Bennett who was the head of the organization at the time said to me we're looking for young presenters for this show called rapping and you are great so come in and I was like yes of course yes um ho training later them time they never put people on the hair without Foundation right don't get me started right um I started and just a great adventure yeah so that was 90 93 and then in 97 I auditioned for radio and started at Fame but then being on TV and being across Jamaica coming from a strict religion background I would say um I would think that it start like you know throwing a shark into a water and just trying to watch them navigate through that and say hey would you really survive what you've been doing great things since the sh in swim well yeah not not may have some tenous moments but he won't die adaptability is important in this business also surrounding yourself with good people the good thing is that unlike a lot of what I see nowadays I had the training MH the part I wasn't ready for was the exposure when I went into radio and going into Fame which was kind of like the you know the party station the entertainment capital of Jamaican radio was our tag and so when I went in frosa realized the talent but he was like oh my gosh this girl is really so he actually dubbed me I have plaques at home where I get Awards and he dubs me the angel of Fame because everybody knew we never know party I was so sheltered going in and so a lot of the stuff I was learning I was like whoa but then eventually you get your feet weight um for me it was a real test of of the foundation and of the values because you know how you were raised and there were things you were being exposed to that were odd and and and and different from what you were taught um but the good thing for me is that because of my Foundation um I never frightened yeah I didn't fall down the wrong road because after a while kareim and you know this it may seem like really shiny when you get into it and excit but after a while it just becomes work yes absolutely that's why now I don't leave my yard I've I've done it I've been there I'm just my joy is being alone or with people I love because I've seen the lights and I've heard a lot of music and I've it's after a while it's just old you've been there done that yeah so like okay yeah yeah yeah can we talk about some of the challenges that um you fa broadcas industry and how did you um overcome them because it can be a little rough here to be honest you think it's a lot of moving Parts you think and it's either flight or fight literally sometimes that's all we can get um how have you um overcome all of those in the past and still standing strong today and very relevant and still going oh thank you yeah um the the antidote to what we face in this industry is building your core values and having a broad back sacrifice is also a key component getting used to the fact that when you're trying to build yourself in the industry and establish yourself it means that you're going to have to give up certain things holidays are not a thing yeah true birthdays are not a thing absolutely not um days off not a thing your loved ones dying and you being affected or not a thing yeah because and that's why people with who have a background in drama do so well in this business a lot of this Kareem as you know is showing up when you don't want to be there yeah like I would do that's why I have such a passion for radio and I long to get back into radio because there were days when I was reading newscasts and back announcing songs when tears were running down my face and nobody knew cuz the smile was always in my voice right because hurt and pain is something you process privately but when you go on air many of those Smile Jamaica mornings during maybe 90 I can't time stamp it no 9 20 20 17ish to 2020 is was the worst time in my life and I showed up every morning smiling yeah so in those three years what um Simone behind the scenes or in private was going through divorce yeah the realization of a failed marriage uh the realization of a young child that had to be raised the realization of a decision that had to be made because if it were not I would not be here today I'm not asking anybody any questions was either do or die like I was on the brink of insanity I was my my my stress was manifesting physically so I was physically ill mhm um I had dropped about 20 pounds and people are like oh you look so good you never look so good in your life what are you doing what is your secret it's your stress oh I'm dying yeah um rough rough rough rough but also that's when I learned that if God takes you through it he going to bring you through it that's why I tell people now say anything you're going through at this point that I've told you yeah it's a thing for now you're going to feel through it and it's going to hurt you but there's all you get to the other side it's just how you get there okay and I'm going to kind of talk about you know family later on in the show but back to broadcasting can you pinpoint a moment a memorable moment where you're just like wow this is I really love doing this um something that stands out to your mind right now the first thing that comes to your mind the first thing you know what sad the first thing that comes to my mind is actually negative wow you want sh the one thing that stands out in my mind is actually negative what is that that is the first time I went on air for radio and somebody called me and said why you chat so much nobody know why to hear you we want to hear the music yeah um and then the next day somebody called Rosman Brown who was my boss at the time who's not at cool Pi up you ramundo and said that why why is that going on radio she doesn't belong on radio um I also remember my first audition before getting to fame where head of that organization said to me you might want to consider a different field I don't I don't think this is a a field for you you see all these negative things are coming up um and then I remember you know when you're when you're in this business and you don't talk a lot about your personal life and people want to know more about you they make things up yeah that's something I couldn't know I couldn't understand kareim how people would just build stories and they can't seem so believable though I can tell you that sometimes I'm reading some things about me and I have to know Wonder wait how me to do this again because I would now have to I am now starting to believe these stories there was one story in particular in what was the ex news at the time that spoke to the girl at Fame who always wears her here in one hello 30 years later yeah um who was cot I don't want to say it m was a terrible story MH and I read the story that day and I and I was like you know what this not worth it like love media but this this no cuz at that point now you're concerned with what people have to say and you're like how do I tell everybody how do I reach everybody to tell them it's not true right and I went to my best friend Dan and I said Dan this no this not make it this not nice I love this job it's my dream job but I cannot take this level of lying and criticism I can't manage it ID she people don't know make you walk away from something that you love yes I will never speak to you again and so you have to reach to a point where you go through that and you realize that this is part for the course yes especially when you lay low right cuz largely I'm a very private person yes yeah and people don't like that people want to know like what's going on with you um and so they but no it's like yeah like at this point and I've always said it like I've been doing this for in the space of social media and being known for 10 years so there's absolutely nothing that you can say at this point in my life to affect me like if you go after my child I'm going to fight that is it for me here the reason I'm so private with my family because if you say anything about me that's fine but once you talk about my mother or my sister then it's a totally different thing we not really fight but going to going to draw me out going draw me out make up nice you're going to draw me on a more positive note um can you think about your favorite aspect of being a broadcaster right what brings you Joy in the mornings waking up 4:00 in the morning and doing this for so long um you know what brings me joy yes is it is the same thing that brings me joy with Sim soul is the fact that and it's also a burden right I can't believe the amount of people who find joy in what I do really that's what brings me joy on the days when I don't feel like showing up I remember that there's somebody who's waiting at 6:00 to turn on the television to feel like their day is set yeah because the impact of the shows and the impact of the the the personality that we bring in the mornings or what they watch at night makes an absolute difference in their lives so I'm not just doing it to do it yes I feel like a part of people's families well you are you know you've been in our homes for 30 years if you you keep saying that K because it's like you yeah but that is a joy for me is knowing that I can make a difference in somebody's life um and apart from the fact I just love it and I love the people I work with and they too are family I mean Neel and da Harris and I are coming from wa from JBC do you know what JBC means Jamaica Broadcasting channel oh my God it's Corporation Corporation I knew it listen I know that okay I had JBC not Simone I did and it used to lock off at night time sh tab tab tab people know no that's that's a joy for me and just being able to show up every day as my true self yes my authentic self on a is is really fun do you sometimes not realize how much of a legend you are an icon in broadcasting do you sometimes not realize how iconic you are in this space like the the spaces and the contributions that you've made to this industry I don't think you sometimes sit down and say hey I've done this no is it something with broadcasters do like because we're on the go we don't be present and like celebrate our Milestones is it that I don't know I um I just think for something like legendary or icon it has to come from somebody else it can't come from you right um I have been guilty of I consider myself a very humble person yes and so I will I will often be the last person to talk my own horn achievements or success I'm just going every day trying to be the best I can be I'm trying to show up as positively as and authentically as I can and so even like sometimes people say things to me and it like you said that a while ago and it it feel kind of like me oh you're my favorite celebrity I always said no no no I'm I don't like I don't like the word because there is a there's a there's an an implication to the word that always rubs me the wrong way oh you're you oh are you the TV personality no I'm Sone cuz our job Kareem we the only difference between me and you and somebody who work in an office or sit at a front desk is that people see what we do a mass so a lot of people see what we do at the same time it doesn't make us any different I've always said that any better than anybody else I've always said that too so there's no hero status and there is no but your work speaks for you and if somebody thinks you're good at it and gives you a compliment and says boy you really make a difference in my life that's what I that's what I work well you're great at it and um we all would like an illustrous career like yours thank you you know but keep attic we're going to take a quick break we're here with Ane Simone going to take a quick break we're so F hi my name is Joseph Johnson executive chef and owner of pish pish is known for our daily delicious lunch service but what you might not know is that we do catering or catering services for every special occasion that you might have your birthday your baby shower definitely your wedding your special day follow all right welcome back uh we still have here the lovely Simone Clark who is a Jamaican broadcast personality and consumate communication specialist who I can't believe is actually on my show because I've been wanting this for a long time but I know that you don't like to be around on that side of the micr you know why I'm here yes I'm here because I see what you're doing I'm here because you have shown up for me when I've called you and I think based on our interaction we've built something that's kind of cool yes yes yes it is cool and you've been asking me for a little bit and your producer is very persistent cuz he when I was telling her cannot be do it I cannot be do it you see her onto me yes but I'm here because of you thank you so yeah um we're going to kind of get a little personal um I want to go back now to your formative ear of young Simone in school the schools you attended um what type of students you were but then you love the art as you said earlier and you loveed you know drama and speech and singing and all of that but in terms of academically how was that for you I was very average really I was extremely average who would have thought that and that was a source of a lot of esteem issues with which I still struggle from time to time self-doubt esteem issues impostor syndrome MH um when I was in primary school I things were great it was when I got to Immaculate that things started to get sticky CU you know sometime you're in primary or Prep School you show up and you're show out but when you get get to high school now you're up against yeah and I don't even know why why we think we're up against anybody how we not compete but the system makes us feel like we are um I was largely maybe a Bish cish student and my parents didn't love that for me sorry Dad um I didn't love that for myself yes but um sometimes even with your best efforts it's just not your time yes and so when I left High School I always tell people like priz giving I was the girl singing in glee club I wasn't getting any Prize or for or for sports cuz I used to do track um but I used to just watch all the other young ladies going up for their academic Awards and I was never up there and so I accepted the fact in high school that I was not the brightest mhm but when I look back now I realize that everybody Peaks at different times I've always said that too so I left High School six sixth form I actually left Immaculate in fifth form because I wanted to history in sixth form and I got a two in history and my history teacher didn't recommend me so I went to wmer for six form and did did my uh a levels there and then ended up at UA mhm I wanted to go to UA and do media and communication but I failed lie I didn't fail the carac entrance test so caramac is a Caribbean media of Institute and Comm um Caribbean media Institute of communication right so you had folks from all over the region vying for a few coveted spots yes and so I didn't own a spot the first year I sat so I went and did a a major in Spanish for my first year and that was the year I started done at cptc MH so while I wasn't getting the theoretical underpinnings of media at UA I was getting way more at cbtc because at wili Bennett insisted that if you going to be in the space you had to know how to learn you had to learn camera learn audio learn editing log tape PA him present because within a year of being there I was actually teaching voice and speech because he trained us up myself Ivan chin Paul and Porter he believed that if you were going to work in this industry you had to know every single aspect of it even if you were just going to be a presenter MH right so I think in retrospect everything happens in divine order yes and so while I was getting doing my first year at UA as a Spanish major uh and a psychology minor well that means look at that now we see it I was also learning the business and so in my second year of UA I reapplied to caramac sat the entrance test again got in and the rest is history so now I had the theoretical underpinnings doing practical work up there practical work in the industry as well in the business on air and the rest just kind of yeah you know so if it was left to school alone I would have been a young lady with no self-esteem yeah but you just have to realize and I want everybody who's watching this to understand and if you have kids to understand that they Peak at different times yes and and sometimes they're doing the best that they can and what they have and it doesn't mean them donce or them walk lless or just just not their time to PE um your mother has no past um but can you just tell me some of your Fondest Memories with her espe child was she disciplined she was disciplined yeah to give me some L your mom what think your father no my father just him like this my mother was a real disciplinarian like she absolutely so the funniest thing about her is that she's she's a lot like me she was a lot like me um I would call my dad's office and they would be like hold on Mrs Clark because we sounded like a lot alike um I look a lot like her I think and my personality is a lot like her so she used to give enough joke and she laughy laughy and she um she was a really good woman she was steeped in her faith very principled um and she loved her kids yes a lot and she was always there for us she was a fantastic grandmother like Ain was her handbag she now leave nowhere without Aaron man I never had to worry when she was around like my schedule is crazy but I never had to worry about her because I always knew rinnie was safe Grandma cuz Grandma was always here and so a lot of the values and underpinings I have are from her um a lot of my faith um is from what she imparted both herself and Dad um but she was just an amazing amazing amazing woman how did you deal with her passing because it is so hard to lose a parent and I was saying this to um that it's the worst thing that have ever happened to me in my entire life um there's no manual to to grief and grieving there's absolutely none you can be perfectly fine just a second and 2 minutes after and it's just been a year for me but it is so hard um comes in waves yeah and there is no just in front of anything it's not just been a year it's going to one day it's going to just be 30 years and it's going to feel the same my mom died in March of 2021 MH and some days I forget it's not yesterday yeah and her death for me is compounded by the fact that it happened so fast which you can also understand yeah um she got sick got coid and within 3 weeks she was gone um I did not get to see her cuz she was in hospital at the time when the hospitals were crowded I couldn't go yeah she died by herself essentially um I don't talk about it a lot Kareem but one of the memories I have is cuz she lives pretty close to me we're like two two complexes apart and the day I realized I had to I had to get her to hospital um after wrestling with it with it for so long cuz I knew what was happening in the hospitals I got the ambulance and called the ambulance and the ambulance went for her and one of the one of the memories that I cannot erase is being in my kitchen having called her to say okay you're going to go to the hospital just go and let them take care of you everything's going to be fine and the last thing I remember of that day is hearing the ambulance cuz you know once they have the person in the ambulance have to turn on the sirens right and the last thing I remember is hearing the sirens leave the complex cuz I could hear cuz there're just two complexes up and I just I sat on my kitchen floor and I just wept cuz I didn't know I had I like to be in control of things and I realized I had absolutely no control I didn't know what was going to happen next um I couldn't be there in the way I wanted to here she's going to the hospital I can't go to the hospital to visit her mhm I mean it was the worst feeling ever and just a notion of her being there not being able to be in constant touch with her being able to touch bases with her for for the first few days and then not being able to hear from her in the days after that and trying to figure out what the hell is happening Until you realize that it's not it's not ending where you want it to end um so what I try to do now is I try to frame it you know when I think about what a gutting loss it was for all of us when I look at my dad who you know we buried her on her anniversary on their anniversary because they would have celebrated 50 years that year so like two weeks after she passed my dad insisted he said we said um till death right MH and so we're going to bury her on that day um I just think about what a joy she was and cuz my whole life know is about perspective like when something happens in my life and I'm like why is this happening I don't go oh God why is this happening to me I think seriously stop and I say okay why is this happening in in so much as what is the lesson yeah what can I take from this how can it help me with the next thing CU if you don't think like that you will lose your mind right yes so my key takeaway is mom was here for a time she gave me all the tools I needed to be able to navigate my life successfully yes she gave me all the tools I needed to be a great mother to my child she was there for Arin in her formative foundational years Aaron remembers her grandma now when we talk about Grandma we talk about Grandma and we laugh remember when Grandma did this I remember when Grandma said that or grandma would do this our grandma would say that and so what I'm grateful for is the years we had not the years we lost yes cuz if I don't look at it like that yeah right yeah let's just shift gears a little bit to and you brought it up in the conversation about your marriage to ARF goopo who's no deceased um how did you guys meet in the first place we met and we met at Fame at Fame yeah long time ago yeah I actually met arif's Dad when I was eight when we when I started rapping I met IO 93 long time ago he always used to joke with me I say remember you know before you know um yeah I met ARF when we started radio yeah at that point um upon dating what made you say hey he might be the one for me to actually get married Karim is going through I have never talked about this to anybody um AR and I had a I want to say it felt like a a bit of a kindred Spirit um it was his sense of humor it was his Zeal for life it was just a connection I don't know that there was any great Epiphany yeah behind it there was just a a really good friendship that developed into something more and it felt like a natural progression to me um um and it felt comfortable yeah and it felt right um and that's really the only way I can it was a qualitative thing there's no science behind it you know now you guys have a daughter together beautiful beautiful daughter but how do you manage all of this that's happening and motherhood and work and um lost of your mom the Lost of her father the Lost of her grandfather it's just a lots of has been the L of her grandmother and the loss of her grandom as well both her grandparents right no three so Dad is the only grandparent she has left now right and then you know being there and being present as a mom and trying to be strong and going through life navigating through this crazy thing called life and work and personal stuff how do you navigate and balance all of this you know the truth is that some days I don't [Music] know some days I don't know there is an there's an autop piloted that's going on mhm when my mom died I told people that she died she died on the 30th of March I remember Lori my producer calling me and saying Sim we can't do a show next week and I was like why and she was like what you can't do a show next week and I'm like yes we're doing our show next week because the greatest tribute I could would give her was I showing her honor mhm and was not to stop and because so many people were reaching out to me to say gosh s we get this because my remember this is a height of Co you know people lose them people yes yes so I just use the opportunity as a show not only to honor her but to help all the people who are reaching out to me to say my God how are you traversing this cuz I don't know what to do mhm I tell people that that period in my life is when I understood the song one set of footprints in the sun because some days you get up and you don't know how you made it from morning to evening to go back to your bed I have a lot of those days right of course yeah and so there's a muscle that I built during that period um also realizing that you cannot do it alone so the support of my very small circle but also getting the tools through therapy so when I felt like I was going to lose my stuff yes right I went back to basics MH when I was going through my divorce I knew I needed therapy cuz I didn't have the tools and so I did that and so I went back to a familiar Place yeah cuz I've always Ted therapy as one of the best things that ever happened in my life and some people shame to talk it and I don't shame to I talk it and encourage everybody I meet happened to me to to do it because it will help you to lift the emotional baggage and weight that you cannot lift alone when Arif passed you two were divorced yes yes um why did the marriage end why yes is it a series of things there is there's no there's there is never any one thing yeah that destroys a marriage um sometimes people grow apart mhm sometimes they say people don't change but sometimes I feel people change um I I won't go into like details of it because I still think that even in sharing you have to have boundaries yes what we just got to a point where we realized it I just got to a point where I realized it was not healthy anymore emotionally MH um I could not be my best self in a situation that was soing um it was affecting my ability to function it was affecting my physical health and I realized that in order to be my best self for Ain I could not be in that situation anymore and it's a it's a difficult decision that you take years to get to kareim especially when you have a child CU often times people stay in bad situations because of the children right but what you're doing is you're Act not helping the child when the child children sense they sense and they see they they're very intuitive they do and so what I got to a point where I realized the best thing I could do for her was to show her what a healthy version of Love looked like and she was not seeing it in the situation that I was in how was she I had to with father she is the most amazing child I have ever met and I'm not maybe I'm biased I am biased yeah but Aaron is so strong that most days Karim yes she's the one that's carrying me yes wow mommy are you okay yeah why do you look like that today do you want to talk about it yeah is there anything I can do she's so smart you need a hug yeah she's a amazing and so she's not good with grief she's a very happy child um so she doesn't wallow or I will calling and say what are you feeling now are you okay my mommy's here if you need to talk about anything but in the middle of everything Karim she's thriving yeah she's thriving she I don't know she channels it into dance or she more than likely she does yeah so so that's her Outlet more than likely yeah man she's a she she dances like she's a big dancer and her dream is to a dance academy so I'm just trying to push her in that direction but that's her outlet and so I try to put her into things that will take her mind occupy her mind not take her mind off it because you don't yeah she writes a lot she she dra she draws a lot she's very artistic just like her dad was um there's music in her blood just like you know I guess that's coming on from her Grandpa Grandpa io's Legacy um but she is she's doing really really well yes well I love to hear it well we're going to take a quick break more when we [Music] return [Music] all right so we're still here with the lovely Simone Clark um and I think that the first two segments are a little bit heavy right so for these for the final two segments it's more fun and light let's do it laughter and games and things like that oh my god um should I be scared no no no no no uh what were some of the major lessons that you've learned from marriage in just in general and would you get married again absolutely really oh my gosh I cannot wait are you a romantic person I am I am I am a giver really I'm a doer yes yes if if me love you it's over so are you looking for someone right now are you dating I am I am open to someone being in my life you're open but you're not dating I'm not dating I would like to date but wait how you define dating dating is courting just getting to know people I call it my interview phase like so I date multiple people at once oh and that is completely healthy there's nothing wrong with that Society tells us that we need to date one person at a time I believe in dating multiple people because it's like you're interviewing people for a particular space or position and then you narrow down that list as you go so if it's where say for instance five people and you're dating just getting to know nothing intimate um and then you know as the time progresses you're like okay well you can come off the chopping block you can come off the block now I'm down to two it's a process of helish it's like elimination so I'm just being like okay you don't have these qualities The Bachelor right so that's what dating is to me and to Simone okay so you're not dating um I am not dating okay do I see my eye on somebody maybe that's your only scope for today would your daughter and um father vet these people or or the next person of course of course of course because let K may not have no more time for Waste yeah I really don't yeah and so anybody who I bring into my life at this point is somebody who I am I am seeing a future some sort of future with yes because also I'm not going to expose multiple people to Aon yes obv no no if you come into my space you it has to sit well with her yes and she has a very intuitive Spirit she's like her mother MH so she and she going to tell me like Mommy I don't know or Mommy I like X yes um my dad for sure has to approve and dad also too has a very Discerning spirit so so he will know and I and trust me I know who they would both like like yeah and so you know that would be it would that person would have to fit that criteria before I say okay would you date a younger guy and how young would you I would you know yeah I would you know you know say like don't feel old but you don't look old anti Simone you really don't don't old I don't know I I don't feel as a matter of fact kareim I feel younger in my spirit now than I did 10 years ago I love that for you honestly that's inner peace you know honestly that's that's growth um that's peace that's having been through lessons I know you can weather paron the P any storm it's a I find myself in this phase of my life where I just want to live now I don't have any reservations anymore I'm not afraid to do things I am open now for the first time in in uh I got divorced in 2018 for five years five years in the last 6 months to a year of my life I'm like okay Sim it's time to just get yourself back out there MH but I don't I I think I'm so he out of the loop M I don't know how to look and the truth is that I don't want to I don't I want to look I just feel like when you open yourself up the good things come to you um my friend Den says you know you can't be open but in your bed cuz the man you meet is going to be the one that's underneath the bed and is a thought stalker or a thief so you don't want that so you have to get yourself out there but I truly I'm not even sure what out there looks like anymore it's murky mky dirty I'm same same infection regular I just feel like once you mindset changes and you allow yourself to be in a space where you can say you know I think now is a good time then the good things happen to you what are okay let me not ask that one yet one of my viewers actually asked me to ask you if you would give Neville a [Laughter] chance let me just say let me just say though right that was it NE you can come outside now oh my gosh what you do no okay well no because Nev Nev and I have a different kind of relationship and I think half of Jamaica or more thinks that we ought to get married yes or be together yes but it's not that kind of party guys I'm so sorry you it's just a chemistry right I love and when people work so well together it's like maybe we have it's not work never and I have been friends for almost as long as I've been in this industry well then may might never know so why we don't marry de then because the same thing come on people well maybe you can just marry both any no that's what that's okay that was a joke please Tom at Mand it's not a thing you know what I mean no what are some of your deal breakers in a relationship deal breakers mhm I don't okay gosh don't get me if you're if you're if you like to share adult interest okay yeah yeah yeah if it's me it's me yeah I don't into any open nothing oh let no negatory nope n not going to happen I only have I and you alone one um two you've got to be thoughtful and kind okay thoughtful and kind three you've got to be considerate I didn't realize how much value I placed on consideration until the other day okay you can you can be dating somebody and you're not considerate towards that person that's true I've got to be able to trust you MH got to be able to know you have my best interest at heart mhm I love somebody who spends time mhm um I love somebody who remembers the little gestures that make me happy I don't require a lot I don't ask for a lot I don't have lofty I don't want to fly to Paris I don't want to go to you know I just want I can I mean I'm open to traveling now more than I was before cuz as I've told you I feel like I have a new found leas yeah on life but I just want somebody Kareem in whom I can be my natural authentic skin mhm no pretense no ears I can fall apart M I can come together um I can laugh that's a big thing for me if you cannot make me laugh it is it is an hard no yeah um but I don't I'm not looking for anything that's I'm looking for a good decent um ambitious driven human being who is kind who is sweet who is thoughtful who is funny I don't know is that too many things not it is really not um with whom I can be myself yeah yeah that's not to to ask for come on I don't think so you know does that person exist he must be I'm right here I exist a Simone some there more of me outside okay that's not weird I thought you know what let's go to the break okay what forward let's go to the break yeah is a good time hey guys it's shavez bridge and I'm here with some great news the ambassador program is finally here go on the website click become an ambassador and check out the requirements do you have what it takes to become an ambassador always wanted to work with the bridge work with great products share our platform show us your talent check out how to become an ambassador on our website I look forward to seeing you let's [Music] work right welcome back to boy tins podcast and we still have here the lovely Simon Clark um but this round is the speed round right so I'm going to throw some questions at you real quickly and you'd have to answer the first answer that comes to your mind that's the answer that I want to hear but before we get into that though um Sim so sessions is doing so well thank you do you have anything else in the pipeline that we need to know about 1,000 things what we can't if tell kill you right me so K sometimes I can't sleep on but yes there there are other things in well I can't wait to see that okay all right first question H have you ever been kicked out of a store restaurant bar event Etc negative what is the weirdest thing you've done in public e make a fol of myself probably some weird dance or something what is the last excuse you use to cancer plants okay okay what is the the biggest mistake you've ever made at school or work h i don't make mistakes you don't learning lessons okay me too love that what is the dirtiest area or room of your house dirty probably not dirty crowded closet closet yeah need for declutter for sure if someone went through your closet what's the weirdest thing they'd find then not find nothing weird in there and if they were to find something I wouldn't tell you would I How many pairs of shoes you have I cannot count well enough enough for a small nation which of your family members annoys you the most um none of them I love them all when is the last time you cried yesterday yeah same me too when is the last time you made someone else cry was it me it could have been you it could have been you even though there was somebody after you because I shot that actually everybody who was on what what is wrong with you guys everybody on the set that day cried all of all of you my friend call me and the person after her too Jesus okay if you could pick anyone in the world to be president who would you choose to be president yes Barack again me too that's my for president what is the worst date you've ever been on you know you know I've I've never had a worst date cuz I don't go on dates with people who I don't feel like I should be on dates with that is it how many times do you wear jeans before you wash them jeans of crime what is that question um maybe jeans can wear jeans for wear no no jeans for wear three times three times same or two for me sometimes if some okay have you ever lied about your age no no besides your phone what's the one item in your house you couldn't live without who tell you can't live without my phone oh I am the happiest when I'm without my phone really you're not tired for your phone I ampp or blow our email or can you do this can you that's why it Tak so long to respond to messages one thing I couldn't do without is my television really that's my happy place what do you watch mindless TV um do you like reality TV I do really it depends though so I watch a lot of the Netflix I will watch A Love is Blind okay I watch a two hter even know two H hand is ridiculous but I'm a serious girl so Law and Order and and um have you seen suits I have not watched suits yet I just started actually and I like it you you're going to get annoyed at Parts but you can because I get into it the thing well right on the first episode but for me me I hated it like in the first couple episodes but it I was just so why you hate it was it bad or was it the storyline I just thought that it was kind of corny because I was just watching Scandal and how to get away with murder so I you know I thought that it was something similar to that but it's really not but first episode tell you're definitely going to like it trust me yeah um what's the biggest fight you've ever been in with a friend with a friend argument disagreement honestly have never really it's cuz my friend Circle so my best friend I met when I was four years old and she's still my best friend my other best friend Dan I met when I went to Fame in 97 we are so brutally honest with each other and we live so well that we don't we don't we don't fight about anything we talk about tough things but we don't have F okay what is your go-to drink if you're at a bar or a restaurant uh Merlo I'm a red wine girl okay dry I can see that full boded yes I can see that well see wasn't that bad no no it wasn't I never thought it was going to be I wish I wouldn't come here right but thank you so much an Sone and um as I've said to you couple days ago that I look up to you sometimes for strength because you yourself has just gone through so much and you know of recent times it's just thing after thing after thing and when I just see how much you pour into people and how much you allow other persons to come on your show and just feel so safe and vulnerable like I can just talk to you forever um I must say that I appreciate you a lot I really do I appreciate all you've done in this space I appreciate you know all the times that you've offer what advice to me um so just continue being genuine continue being so pure I love and appreciate you loads loads Lords Lords Lords but thank you thank you for being here I appreciate you I love you too guy and I'm always here for you you know thank you well there you have it thank you for having me I'm sure that they love this one you know so thank you all for watching until next time this is Bo things podcast all right so that was the episode with Simone Clark trust me such a wonderful woman um I'm glad that she stopped by we learned a lot about her know once again thank you for all for watching Remember to like subscribe and share the videos and drop a comment and all these things also just want to say big up to my sponsors now my production team and location I mean we said it last week we've been saying it is at Studio 45 they located 30 to 32 riddles Road um and it's unit number 45 yeah see all the nice things all the 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