Good morning. I am your host, brenda wade. Our first superstar has written and produced hits for everyone from mariah carey to whitney houston. He was awarded grammys for producer of the year in 1987 for the album of the year, movie soundtrack, the bodyguard. And in 1993 the r b song of the year and in 1985 for the song freeway of love. He is one of the top 10 producers with the very most number 1 hits by billboard magazine. Take a look at one of his works sung by mariah carey. Wow that is hot, hot, hot and tonight he will be awarded with a spirit awardality the Scottish Center here oakland, california. Here is the amazing Narda Michael Walden himself, and our in the Spirit Awards host janice edwards. Hello and welcome back. What an honor to have you two here. We are glad to be here. It is great to have you back on home base. You are so kind. It is so wonderful to be here. I love being here on black renaissance and brenda, you do a wonderful job. Congratulations on all you do and for bringing so much to our community. Thank you. And you brought mr. Walden who is receiving a in the spirit award. What is it . It celebrates the best of our community, people who have made contributions worldwide because they believe in giving back, they are very talented. He is one of the many people being honored because of that. He is a visionary and he believes in giving back. In the spirit award celebrates that in many different genres. Kathy adams is being honored. We have wilma chan. Bell have a davis and many more. Great. What a list of luminaries. Yes. We have Brenda Knight and jacqueline rushing from the sacramento of bay area Young Scholars program. You have to look at the list. It is amazing. It is a list of amazing people. Now, is it narda . Well, i am narda. Well, that is what i call you. I like to get the name right because i know that name has meaning as a deeply spiritual name. I was given this name in 1976 by my teacher. It means supreme musician. It is a testament to my music and my life. Perfect. Yes and a saint, soul, in india lived thousands of years ago and could appear and disappear and inspired people to love god more. So that is where the name comes from. Fantastic. I have a young stepson who wants to throe in your footsteps. When you started in music, what called you to this . What was your inspiration. I think i made a pact with god. I said i want to play music, lord. And the lord said i will give you the gift, but inspire people to have more gratitude. So, for people who play music, it is a gift you are given, like your gift. You have played with everyone. You have done composing, producing. Is it fair to ask what your favorite moment was in performing or composing . I prefer perming on some levels because performing son some levels bass it is because it is more immediate. Producing is not as immediate. You are working toward a greater end. One head helps the other, though. They are different gears. I understand. What would you say to someone who is a young and aspiring exposer or producer composer or producer who wants to do what you are doing . Love what you do. Have fun with it. If you love what you do you will have other people loving what you do. Be in the moment and be present . Yes. And. I know you need to feel yourself to have something happen. You have to feel it. That is great advice. Now, janice, in the Spirit Awards we will get to see narda tonight . Yes. I have to say years ago i had the privilege of being in his studio. He even allowed me to play his drums. Oh, my god. He is laughing because it was that bad. No, it was not. It was very nice. But when we talk about the spirit of giving back and loving what you do, it is the spirit that drives us saying we believe in life and we believe in each other and we want our community to be stronger. What is life without spirit and inspiration. It is so important. You brought so much and i absolutely thank you for that. And janice i know you are up to cool stuff, too. Yes. I am executive producing work in the silicon valley, so, i am very excited about that. And veteran radio veteran nick parker is the mc. It will be wonderful to work with hick. That is wonderful. We can soak up all that energy and light. I want everyone to get there, so, please get your tickets if you want to attend tonights in the Spirit Awards at 6 30, tonight, sunday, at the scottish Wright Center in oakland. Thank you for all you do. You stay right there because we have so much more inspiration for you. Ill never forget that moment. Woman as long as i live. Man i realized, at that moment, when we first saw the damage, these people really needed us and i was going to make a difference, right here in my community. Together with local responders, we cleared trees and collapsed walls. We had to get to the family trapped beneath. As a citizensoldier, i made a difference. Announcer be there for your community, at nationalguard. Com. Welcome back. In a recent study in African American womens skin compared to white women, white women had wrinkles while African American womens are smooth. That is why we say black dont crack. Africanamericans have their own set of challenges. Here to offer help is super model anderson. You have skin challenges . No i do. I get some of the hyper pigmentation, is that what it is called, doctor, around my cheek, so, i have been some products. More even skin tone. That is you before you had the treatment. Wow you can see it there. And this is a very common condition which is quite rev lent in africanamerican patients and patients that are of colored skin. We call it ma has ma. Although we dont see as much wrinkling, there are a lot of issues in younger and older patients. You wont ridge as much when you are black, but you can often be more blotchy. So, there are definitely challenges although it may not be wrinkling. There is uneven skin tone, exaggeration of skin conditions like melasma we see in women in their 20s, 30s and 40s and volume loss in laxity regardless of your color. That is what we are talking about. Aging. Your politically correct term like you just start to droop. You can correct things like melasma . Yes. How do you correct it. You like amazing . Well, women say why am i getting this . You can get them with Birth Control at the time of pregnancy and menopause. It is like oh, my gosh, another thin to be concerned about. So, before we had laser this is very safe the treating all skin types what is a fract lays center. It is a laser that is very safe because it takes part of the skin and leaves part of the skin intact and addresses the pigmentation conditions. And we have different conditions 9 four hydroquinone and other products we use to treat pigmentation from melasma and piper pigmentation that is common. What makes you look older you get more blotchy and uneven skin. Recordless of the color of the skin it is uneven toned. It reflects light. As we get older we got blotchy and wrinkly. If we can correct that there is a common myth in African American skin you cant do the treatments, it is dangerous and lasers cant be used i wondered about that. But you can . Yes. There are aboccasions called color line technologies, a lot of them developed right here in the bay area in the silicon valley, these little companies are developing things that are truly color blind. That is amazing. Right here in the bay area. Absolutely. So, you can treat hyper pigmentation. What are other risks of people of skin of color. I know a myth is they cant get skin cancer. That is a big myth. I point to bob marley who passed away from melanoma, so, i tell people use the sunscreen as soon as possible. Although it is not as high as caucasian people, it is still as prevalent. We need to protect our skin. The melasma, the number one thing that makes it work is the sun. Use the sunscreen even in this sunny bay area. How heavy of sunscreen should you use and what is really the optimal thing . That is an excellent question. I tell patient to use a brood spectrum sunscreen which has protection against ultraviolet 8 and ultraviolet b. So, look for blood spectrum. Get get brood spectrum Broad Spectrum sun block, right . Yes. Look for the fact that it also has uva protection, protection. No now, what about beauty treatments. What can with we do quickly . Someone like natalie, there is very little. She is so beautiful. But there are things like prevention, maintenance and intervention. Preevents and maintenance is ascii. The clear and brilliant lasers can prevent and treat pigmentation. Then the university treatment, regardless of the color of your skin is still botox. Because what women love regardless of the age is the brow lift that you get. Not just the treatment of the frown line, but the natural lift of the brow is wonderful. From botox . Absolutely. Can i get your number, doctor . I will need some pep and regard legs of the color of the skin we droop as we get older, so, there are treatments that are innovative like thermage. Okay. We have so much more to ask the doctor about, dont we. You will want to take his information now. It is dr. Victor narcar at 2800 webster street suite 505 here in San Francisco. You can call him and contact him at. Thank you for being here, doctor, and natalie, for being a glowing example of what we may all look like. Stay right there. We have treats ahead. Welcome back. Have you ever dreamt of the perfect cookie experience . Well, if you are like me, you love cookie monster and your cookies. I have my special fashionista friends here. You are so great. You two are in business as a mother and doctor making, in my opinion, the best cookies ever. We have to agree with you thank you. How did you get the idea to start bumcies and go in business together . Initially, brenda, any mother taught me to bake these cookies, tasty cookie, when i was 7 years old with my brownie troop. He had to go to the orphanage twice a year and we would take our baked goods. I asked her to bake cookies after watching her do it for years. And then she would let me help mix to begin with. Then i got older and started baking, making cookies for everyone and it took off from there. So, these are your moms recipes . Yes. These are my moms recipes. Then i taught my precious daughter when she was 8 because she is a true connoisseur of cookies. So, three generations making these fantastic cookies. What is your moms favorite . I am going to say chocolate chip, brenda. But during the year i think maybe that and oatmeal. Really . Yes. I know you brought some just for halloween we did let me see these. They are still warm. Yes. We just baked them, so are these oh my gosh. Look at these cookies. They are so beautiful and they match my outfit because i am wearing my owed to San Francisco giants yea being the native San Francisco can that i am. May i taste . Absolutely. Oh my goodness. That is absolutely amazing what is your advice for people that want to bake and be successful . Be patient about your product. With us, everything is made by hand and from scratch. I have seen you with the mixing bowl. Yes. It is really a great thing for people and customers to be able to come and see we are actually preparing and measuring the ingredients. We use the absolute best ingredients and every batch is, like we said, made by hand. You can smell the aroma as it billows out into the air. It brings people in. I am thinking what are you baking . And they say i smell cookies and it really creates excitement. What advice would you give to someone who wants to do what you two have done. Small businesses have faced a lot of challenges in america repeatedly, so what is your best advice . For us it has been our faith. It has allowed us to even though we spray been a little app rehen sieve or apprehensive or scared to do it, i would rather do it shaking than not at all. It has been our faith and we have had a lot of angels and guides along the journey to help us do it. And how long have you been in business . Threeandahalf years. You weathered one of the most challenging Economic Times we have faced. Yes. But you know what, you have said it is so important. This is a high truth coming from the meisters of cookies have faith be patient about what you are doing. There is an old saying, fear knocks on the door. Faith opens the door and nobody is there. Nobody is there when we have faith. Fear cannot overcome you. What is your favorite cookie to make . Do you have a favorite . Well, they are all my favorite. I mean our menu isnt too extensive. We have lemon frosted snacks, a newer recipe. We have butter cookies. We have semi sweet chocolate chips, and the butter cookies. Semi sweet chocolate chips . Yes. I bet those are your favorites. Absolutely. That is for you thank you for joining us today. You have to visit their store. For more information, visit. You are fabulous. All our wonderful guests today brought us health, wealth and happiness in unique ways and i want to bring you more health, wealth and happiness, too, by getting rid of the toxicity in your life. You may wonder what is this all about. Every show we give you news you can use. What is a toxic relationship . One where the person says mean things to you or hurtful things to you or undermines your goals when you are looking to make changes and worst of all they are constantly being negative in their tone in how they treat you by justifying it by saying i had a rough day, or somebody has to tell you the truth, or it is just tough love. Never mind all of that. Remember this. Love is not supposed to hurt. Most toxic relationships come from misunderstandings about money, so, i have a gift for you. I started the love money and save us seminars. You can go to my website at doctorbrendawade. Com. When you go to the website i will give you the seven secret to detox your life now. It is a relationship and love secret guide. All right . We will take another look right now with Narda Michael Waldens production of mariah carey. I am brenda wade. Blessing, everyone
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