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Oct 19, 2026 29 min

Getting It Out the Mud

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Loren LoRosa is taking listeners behind the scenes of a star-studded weekend, from Jaylen Brown’s birthday celebration to crossing paths with Meek Mill, LeBron James, and more! But beyond the celebrity moments, Loren gets personal about what it really means to get it out the mud. Sharing highlights from her keynote appearance alongside Pinky Cole, she reflects on building Brown Girl Grinding, overcoming rejection, betting on herself, and learning that success isn't just about working harder—it's about knowing when to slow down. From surviving to actually living, Loren reminds us that the hustle may never stop, but protecting your peace is part of the journey. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FM

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This is an iHeartPuckCast. Guaranteed human. It's a lot of the latest with long the Rosa.

This is a daily dig on all things pop culture and entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room baby. Now we are going to get into a conversation that I personally had that definitely shook the room when I had it but before we get there the conversations about getting out the money kind of you know what that looks like and the journey to figuring things out along the way of building something sustainable and business and in life you know I love those conversations before we get there we got to check it on ourselves. Let's check in behind the scenes of the grind. Back from the grind. So this weekend y'all I told y'all that I was out doing all of the things homecoming.

I traveled down to DC on Sunday for a alumni homecoming event which was a karaoke event. Shoutout to the bookmakers who brought me down there. Literally was there in and out for a day. We went to drinks and kind of dinner with friends. We mean back.

And then we had it back up here to home because you know working morning. But we also had the privilege and the honor. I had the privilege and honor of attending Jalen Brown's birthday party Jalen Brown. Former South Tic now a Philadelphia 76ers along with LeBron and Tyree Smaxley and so many other people who are about that make that team like y'all they about to go up over there. But I had the privilege and the honor to attend because I was there as my means plus one a celebration of him.

We were celebrating Jalen Brown's birthday. Don't know Jalen Brown personally but we do know the team that works behind the scenes with him and my boyfriend has an organization it is a nonprofit organization called the Catherine Brown Foundation and it's all about transforming people and communities and enriching people's lives and he has just built out a partnership that he's doing with the Philadelphia 76ers coming across the NBA to go back into the communities of Philadelphia where he is from. And you know before part of the day is your innovations financial literacy education and really just making everything he touches a better tomorrow. I am so proud of him so Friday night we kicked it off there we were really excited to go and to meet everybody and I got to meet a lot of people that he's been meeting with and having conversations with in person everybody from politicians to the team back office people that were there but also we got to see so many people in general.

I mean it's Jalen Brown who was one of the biggest conversations right now in the NBA. So there I ran into Meek Mill. I ran into I didn't get to see Keisha Cole. I got to see her perform but I didn't get to talk to her. I was singing Keisha Cole.

It was a full Tennessee sponsor bar. I had a few sprinters but listening to me saying Keisha Cole listen to me. Come on, girl. Yes. I love watching people.

I don't know. I don't know. That's a really very time.

It was not one quiet lip in everyone. Keisha Cole was performing. We love her down. Great night. Oh, Taleo, streamer Taleo.

Got to have a combo with him. He's one of the sweetest people ever. Taylor Townsend. World Renown tennis player also got to tell her how dope she is and how hard I'd be going for her especially when she had the incident that happened not this US Open with the last US Open when other tennis players basically caught her uneducated and not smart and all the things you don't say to black women. I had to learn to go.

We were writing for you at dawn. What was good? I'm also running for the bronze jeans. I didn't get a chance to meet Lebron but he was there. The bronze jeans in real life was there.

We also ran into Gilly was there with his wife who was a makeup artist and the industry but famously they have the best social media content together. When you meet her and see them together you feel like you already know them because we watched them so much online. Even outside of what Gilly and Wallo do for a million dollars worth of gain. Just following Gilly's family story across social running into them in person. I already felt like I knew her but we ran into them as well.

I did get a chance to meet Jalen. One of the things I loved was seeing how surrounded by family and good people. One of his cousins was there. I didn't know she would remember this conversation. She ever would hear this.

I forget her name but she came up to me and she was like I've been staring at you the whole time trying to figure out how I know you and I just realized you're the girl from the radio and I was like yep. And she was like I hope you hear all positive vibes. Don't be roomer and reporting on all the BS of my cousins because we love him. I was like girl I come and peace love him and see I'm here to have a good time. I was like honestly I don't know what BS you're referring to because when we have conversations about Jalen Brown or have in the last few months it's been about the big traits and the Sixers how dope it was to see him do his press conference from the community center in Philadelphia and get involved in the community.

Him talking about fighting back against the big institution of the NBA and how he led you like they don't want you to get back and look out for people in certain ways that they can control you. Those are the type of conversations he is sparking in the room that we sit in. She was like okay because we love him and he has a great family and comes from a great family. She was running all the things down to me but I didn't need to meet her to know that. You get to see him with his mom, his brother, his teammates.

There's a lot of love on that team that they all have for each other and I love to see that but then also it's surrounded and being surrounded by love and real life is important and I think it speaks to his character and the character that a lot of people feel from him which is why we decided to leave the seltz and head on over to Philly. There was some people that are upset but the city of Philadelphia is excited. There were a lot of change makers and taste makers in that room from Pennsylvania or from the city of Philly who were there and really excited to see what the Sixers as a franchise and sports brings to the city but also what it's going to bring to the community. Great time that I had this weekend and you know speaking of building and a club that you cut from and what you surround yourself with and what that equals let's get into this conversation that I had. So I had the pleasure of being a keynote speaker at an event.

Shout out to Dunne and Dunne, they are an executive admin company and they had a operation for high profile individuals. I've been working with them for some time even though we were about to move on and no longer work with the company, I support their founder, Ajay, who is a young woman that I met some years ago when she was celebrating her first year anniversary in I Can't Hear As A Keynote. So to go back and speak during their 10 year anniversary was such a big deal. I, along with Pinky Cole, you guys know her from Slutty Vegan, you also know her now from her house as a Atlanta, we're the keynote speakers and we talked about getting it out of the mud and what that looks like for our lives right now, let's get into the conversation. I went off and said this is exactly what I'm talking about.

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I was sitting over there like, dang, it's been from the first year when I met Ajay and learned about done and done and really didn't understand what having an executive assistant or have an operations person would look like for me and how it would make sense for me to now. Life has really took it's like a complete 360. And I say that because if y'all are sitting here today and you guys are in the space that you're in today, mentally, I don't know where everybody is, business wise, I don't know about these numbers and what your Shopify's are doing and they're not doing, but you just never know what is coming next.

Let me not say that. You know what you want to come next. So you know what's coming next. You can manifest that. But when you talk about getting out that much, I think the only thing that I would tell people is to always stay ready because that first year when I came and I spoke and me and Ajay didn't know each other, I just really loved her passion about her business and about life.

When we got on the phone and I was like, okay, I want to support her. For me personally in business, I was trying to figure out so much stuff. I knew what I wanted to do. I knew where I wanted to take things. I knew what God was going to do when I trusted him.

It wasn't tangible yet at all. Like a lot of the stuff now that I'm doing and I see a lot of things that she read in her bio. I'm like, wow, there's been so much that has happened. And I remember when I spoke that first year at the one year anniversary, my message was, you know, no matter what happens, I'm a state dangerous. And that was my message then because I was just like, you really don't.

You can't predict the things that are going to happen. You can't. You just have to show up. You've got to be prepared. You've got to be ready.

When you get, you know, the couple extra dollars that you can put into your business, put it into your business, put it into your team. If you don't have a team in this show, homies who are willing to pull up and support you, make them your team. Period. Because no, I'm trying to tell you because there's been a lot of me just figuring it out as I go. You know, I was blessed to grow up in a household where I get it out that was a mantra.

My mother is an entrepreneur. I've never seen a work for anybody ever. I'm 34 years old and I like a really good life as a kid. You know, I grew up in inner city, one in Delaware. You know, everything's not perfect when you grew up in inner city.

But a lot of the imperfect things come from the outside world. My mom did everything. I mean, I was in everything. I skated. I was in, I was a swimmer.

I was a swim team. I played tennis. I was in theater. You know, she sent me to, I had a cousin on Broadway. I was in New York.

I had family in New York. She made sure she took us to New York often. I said, I say, I'm a younger brother and just really would, you know, take us to Broadway and show us the fashion district where she used to sell her clothing. She, you know, used to be a fashion designer. She did everything that she could and it made a lot of sense.

Then when I was younger, I didn't really get it. But I got older. I was like, okay. You know, you talk about getting up the mud. I think that that's like a generational thing for us as like people.

And a lot of us don't understand that, you know, getting out the mud doesn't mean that you always have to stay muddy. Like, you can get out the mud and figure it out and, you know, that builds your character. But when you begin to build real business out of which you got out the mud, baby, it is a blessing for real. So for me, just being back here again all these years later and, you know, working with IJ for all these years, I'm gonna tell you something like get it out the mud was a process. I don't even think I understood what I was really setting out to do.

I just love the things that I was doing. And even today, like I met somebody here today and the things that were saying to me, I was like, oh, wow, wait, that's okay. So that's happening. That's how you know, you guys are receiving it. Because for me every single day, I'm just getting up and getting up and I'm blessed to do the things that I'm passionate about.

I love, I love being able to get dressed and talk about things and talk to people and explore new things and dig into things. And it's not even just about people in their business. I've always been a very inquisitive person in my household. Any family managers in the building? Yeah.

How many of y'all, you know, oldest kid in your family, oldest girl in the family? Okay. So oldest kid in the family, y'all understand me, oldest girl, especially because, you know, black women, y'all understand me a little bit differently. I've always had to be the person that acts as why. You tell me something can't be done why.

You tell me that this happened, why. You tell me that this is where this originated from, why. That was a natural knack for me. I didn't know that me asking why and wanting to understand why and wanting to be able to tell people about the why and how the why connected to the next thing and the next thing made me a producer. I had no idea at all.

A lot of times when you're getting it out the mud, you don't even know what you're getting. You don't even know what you're doing. You just in the mud, fighting and figuring it out. A lot of times and you know, if you guys are in the beginning stages of your business, any of the time in the beginning stages, but if you are in the state of your business where you don't necessarily feel all of the progress and the success and all the accolades and all the claps, it can feel like you're still in the mud. I'm going to tell you something right now, it don't matter where you get to with that business with that idea, with that manifestation, you will always feel like you're getting it all the mud still.

I think it's a mindset thing. I'm in the process right now trying to transition my mindset because I think for a lot of us too, it's like surviving versus actually living. And I think as business owners, especially like black owned businesses, and I mean, I'm going to say minority, because if you only here look like me, as black owned businesses, a lot of times, like, you know, even when you see some success, even when you see a profit, even if you guys have gotten your businesses or, you know, your career support, you can live off of it. It's it when I feel like enough sometimes you still feel like you just constant tension or this constant fight. And what I've learned is that no matter what stage you're at, it's a mental thing for real.

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What fascinated me wasn't politics. It was what happens when a society decides it no longer values the people doing the work it depends on. Get Blockers Now, only at Blockers.fm. Like, my mentality, I was a freshman in high school, like, I'm going to go to New York, I'm going to model, I'm going to be on the cover of the magazines, I'm going to add, I'm going to have a talk show. That was my mentality, my ninth grade year in high school, because that's the way I was raised in my household.

Accomplishing things that were not tangible was what I grew up knowing was possible because my mother, she didn't even force it on me. I couldn't became anything. She honestly wanted me to be a lawyer and then your president before she got off to be the black, the first black president. I don't know why. You know, black moms, they just see some stuff.

Whatever. But my mom wanted me to be a lawyer, you know, it was stable, but also she felt like, you know, with all the things that I would encounter as a black woman in the world, I would know how to really fight for myself or fight for other people. But she, it was always a thing of like, even if it's not tangible, you were able to do it. And she subtly put that into my life every single day. And now that I'm grown and I look back on it, I realize how much your mental matters when you were trying to figure out getting it out the mud.

And what that means and how you get away from, not get away from the end of the way of like, you're always going to be grinding. You always going to be figuring it out. But you got to still, you go pack a joint for yourself too. And you got to be okay with that. Like, I realize sometimes like it'd be small things I'll do for myself just as the girl you've been working hard and tired.

Take the day to go sleep. And I feel like, oh, but if I go sleep, if I wake up the morning, it's all going to be going. That's the get it out the mud mentality because when you get it out the mud and it's so, you know, that tension is there, it's hard for you to really understand that eventually you clean the mud off and it's like, you still getting it and it feels like you get it out the mud, but you ain't in the mind no more. Like the business elevates things elevate. And that's the beauty of coming to things like this because you meet professionals who are in their business who are in different levels and different, you know, eras of their business and you get to see them five years later, 10 years later, living off of their like, like they've created from something that was not tangible at one point and how beautiful that can be.

But every now and then that get it out the mud like feeling and like energy, oh, you got to go back in train to go. You got to be here. You are literally your first line of defense when you are getting out the mud, like you are and it gets tiring. It's very tiring. You know, you exhaust your finances and resources.

You know, you're looking for like the support that doesn't really exist because a lot of times people don't understand, you know, you're blessed if you have a tribe of people who get getting it out the mud. I will say that. And I was blessed to have that to a certain extent, but there's still a certain point of your vision is yours and God gives it to you. So a lot of times you walk in the mud and you get it off of you, but you don't about yourself. That's tough.

But if I'm being honest with y'all, once you get to a point where, you know, that getting out the mud isn't the physical swinging of the mud off of you and your business and your life and your household and it's an entirely that you can go in and out of like every now and then I got to get out of my like black girl luxury you deserve to be able to go by that and take that weekend and do this and get to the grind for real. Not every now and then majority of my time is spent grinding. Like brown, grind is a moniker for real, not because, you know, it's just like this cute thing. I started brown, brown, green and 2016. I moved to LA.

I had an agent tell me like, you know, black women on television in the talk show space and just in general period. It's really difficult to tell y'all. And you were a brown skin girl, you know, like I don't know what I could do with you. And he was honest with me. He was an agent guy.

He was older. He was the daughter of your age. Who just also had graduated college. And if she was in the world trying to figure it out, I would want somebody to be honest with her and I appreciated the honesty. I was pissed to have love.

I'm happy that you all moved along with LA for you to play in my face. I did not. I've done a lot of work up until this point, but I was I was so appreciative of it because number one, it was honest, but also I think it little spark at me. I left that office that day and I was like, OK, you know, like, if I'm thinking about like we all own businesses and our creators and work with in different fields here, you guys know the best thing you can do is find a hole in the market and fulfill a need that people don't even know they need it makes you one of one and makes you go through for something. something that has been my life from that moment on I was like okay if you're telling me that girls who look like me you don't even know how to market us and how to make money off of us I'm gonna figure that out because I know it's a money out here like I've always been a person that has been able to get to the tangible like the flip of the money that was not ever my issue growing up in Delaware we do fashion shows we do parties and my mom always supported all this because her thing was whatever you set your mind out to do you gonna figure it out so I'm in LA and I get told that I'm like you know what I'm gonna just start documenting my journey and I want to do it in a way where when the world

finally realizes they need me they know exactly where to find me so I started Haggon Brown for writing in 2016 no actually before 2016 was around like 2014 2015 and it was just like small stuff like I would get cute and come to events like this in LA or I would go cover carpet and all this for free and I was living off of a savings account that my grandma that put aside for me thank God for grandmother their prayers and her savings right no for real because I was my first time moving to LA I was literally living off of a savings account that my grandma gave to me in effect as she prayed for me and was like I'm gonna you go figure this out so I would go to these events and just do as much as I could for YouTube this was when YouTube was so new like when I tell y'all it was new I mean I would reach out to people and say hey I got this show on YouTube sit down interviewing people I got such and such views they'd be like YouTube sitting down with you like it was a celebrity like a real celebrity like oh we good nothing down she like would network are you with now everybody has a show on YouTube and YouTube is doing basically development deals trying to get you to not go to Netflix I hired myself a long time ago like I knew that this stuff was coming because I've always been an internet kid so I'm doing all that and figuring this stuff out

and eventually what happened with through me sharing my journey you guys can go to my YouTube channel it's more on the Rose at TV I documented the day I moved to LA and everything after I mean car being reposed sleeping on my home girl couch having to move back to Delaware working for it bank for two years and trying to figure out why the hell I was at this bank like me I'm in this bank like this I'm in this bank with all these old you know rich white men trying to explain to them what the culture of women's and Delaware was and I'm in the community relations department so my job was to give money back to the community which I love because I really really understand what people say when it just like it takes a village like my mom did a lot but she needed those boys about out of the house the good ones I mean the balance came to but I understood what that meant early because my neighborhood raised me my hate a lot of people I grew up with are my counterparts we show up for each other we you know what I mean so I'm working at this bank I'm doing all these things I'm documenting all of this what started to happen was people begin to hashtag brown girl grinding as well so they were like you know black girls who were like cute outside figuring it out hashtag and brown girl grinding when I

realized that I'm like oh okay now this is like a movement like we could be like a club so I 2015 not 2015 I was like okay I need a trade market but I don't want to go I don't want to ask for money because no one's gonna understand what I'm doing so I thought it's time to sue so I'm like if I get enough money to trade my grand-g and I get what they say and you think about a nail eventually you grind a nail enough the nail was useless it's always nothing it can do for you what I've had to learn through all of my experience of things right like my mom in her cancer

journey and her surviving stage four and all these things is that you have to figure out before you get to that point where you are no good to nobody you got to be good to yourself and get out the mud can literally bring you to a point where you're no good to nobody or yourself so for me when I think about getting it up and when I think about the mental part of it and how you can turn on and turn it off and if I can tell you anything today learn how to turn that on and when it's time I'm grinding I'm outside I'm frontline trained to go you can tell me nothing I'm here I'm prepared I'm ready and that's why you guys have been able to see what you guys have been able to see from me but when I'm also learning now in my 30s four years of life you know is that at the same time I have to take care of me as well too so as you're getting it out the mud also realize that getting out the mud needs to be like a character that you like enable you know what I mean like your businesses cannot sustain if you are not sustaining once you get through the mud you've got to be able to understand that like all that y'all are doing in the work that you're putting in it's even the you only get it out the mud and you go in and out those things no matter what

level of your life you're on I promise you that but at the same time when there are little successes celebrate them when you can take a little net don't feel guilty about it when you got to isolate yourself from your friends it's okay if they don't understand they got to go anywhere like getting it out the mud is not just about the physical burnout of trying to figure these things out it's also about how are you taking care of yourself because you're gonna have to get it again and again and again and again and again but eventually what will happen is you got resources you got people you can call you understand schedules you understand booking agreements you understand contracts you understand boundaries and that's when you really get out the mud and things are elevating for real for real when you have got yourself to a place where you know you're grinding but you're also understanding that like you are the magic and you got to protect the magic right get tricky you got to stay in that magic that's it y'all always shut it here every Canadian deserves a place to call home that's why we created build

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South now and download road Martin unfiltered on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast wherever you get your podcasts this Halloween join me Tim Harford as cautionary tales journeys into the paranormal will travel from 1800s America where vampires preyed upon a terrified community to a bizarre 1930s radio experiment which broadcast telepathic messages and on to 1970s England where intricate crop circles emerged overnight throughout October I'll be examining strange stories of the supernatural and asking what can we learn from them today listen to cautionary tales on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or whatever you get your podcasts hey I'm Nora Jones and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast called playing along is back I sit down with musicians from all musical styles to play songs together in an intimate setting every episode's a little different but it all involves music and conversation with some of my favorite musicians over the past two seasons I've

had special guests like Dave Grohl, Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweety, really too many to name and with this season I've sat down with John Legend, Joshua Hami, Phineas, Josh Groban and more check out my newest episode with Brittany Howard I don't think that I would learn grow if there was no change happening in life listen Nora Jones is playing along on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts blockers in Washington it became the worst thing you could be and I found six of them people who devoted their lives to public service who believe their work mattered until they were told they no longer belonged I'm Michael Lewis and my new audiobook Blochers Rebels in the Deep State tells the story of these blockers people who kept our most sensitive data secure help prevent wildfires made huge scientific discoveries but gotten the way of the Trump administration's agenda what fascinated me wasn't politics it was

what happens when a society decides it no longer values the people doing the work it depends on yet blockers now only at blockers dot FM okay because this stuff means a lot to me I am so grateful for everything that is happening day in my life I'm grateful for God for even blessing me with the ability to recognize into position into things through it to strategize I am just grateful and they say to those who a lot is given too much as required and I never it's like I understood with that meant but I don't think I felt the weight of it until as I'm getting older now and I want to build up my family members and my needs and eventually when I had children in the way that I was brought up because I'm realizing that everybody is not like this we were not naturally people that can just figure things out on everybody's not you know person wanted to get back and rebuild and do things in the right way but I think it's because people have to be impacted by the right people in their lives sometimes in order to make that trajectory a real thing and it's like each one teach one like if I can teach somebody what I learned and things are correct to me I'm gonna do it and as I realized that I'm being put in a position to be able to do that I just feel just the grateful profound honor that I just want to put on my life and I don't

know it gets me so emotional but I'm learning a lot about building and what get out the mud really truly means and how there's something levels to it and that's a level of getting out the money right now so y'all know I always keep y'all posting all the latest I'll take you guys with me everywhere this latest will run the girls up I tell y'all every single episode y'all could be anywhere with anybody but you choose me right here with me my low riders I appreciate you I'll catch you in my next one this is an iHeartPuck test guaranteed human

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