Dr. Sabrina talks Party at the Polls, new book, talk show

You're busy as always. I am super busy. And you're working with filmmakers who are creating a cool movement here in Detroit to get people to the polls because we know the election is coming up very soon here. Yes, it's an exciting collaboration between the Millionaire Master Class Academy and When We All Vote initiative. And that's an initiative by our own Michelle Obama. Yes. And so this collaboration, they're going around the country just having pop-ups to party for the polls. And you know people love a good party. So that will help get them to vote, right? And so tonight we are doing one specifically with the film industry because, you know, here in Detroit, we have Tubi, we have things on Amazon. I mean, we're just on the map. We're killing it. Let me tell you something. I have been in 10 movies. Well, that's what I was going to ask you about because I know you're a people expert. you help us get our lives together mental health mental wellness but you've been out here acting in these streets too Dr. Sabrina, let me tell you what's so crazy people call me and say i wrote something specifically for you wow from seeing me on tv they said my personality jumps out at you we love that i am so excited that i've been in thrillers i've been in comedy oh yeah she's doing at all i love it and so we're getting everybody together from joe smith to come on we're just having everyone at the event tonight just not to talk politics but just to talk about the importance of voting yes so we can vote early starting today so we want people to vote early don't wait till november to the last minute because then something could come up and prevent you from making your voice heard right guess what i'm doing on november the 3rd what are you doing having full knee replacement oh so you can't you have to vote early vote early wow so why would you say it's important for people to get out and make sure their voices are heard if especially the ones who don't think their voices matter let me tell you something when you think about voting people count because we're counting votes so if your vote isn't there we can't count it well say that again so there are people who have lost for 60 votes just think if 60 people have just gotten up yeah and gone to vote so i believe that our ancestors have fought i agree yes so because i have the right i'm going to exercise that right because once upon a time we did not have that option even if we wanted to vote we couldn't right and it wasn't that long ago yeah truly it really wasn't that long ago so we need to make sure that we honor the shoulders that we stand upon yes and we support this an amazing opportunity to vote for who we feel should be giving voice to what we are concerned about. Absolutely. And talk about how important this election is. We do have an open U.S. Senate seat right now. That's a big deal here in Michigan. And I mean, it's been making the news nationally as well. Definitely making the news nationally. When I woke up this morning, one of my best friends in Atlanta texted me and says, what's going on with that seat? We're talking about it we want to know what's going on and so i i love the fact that we have this opportunity to put someone in office who we feel will represent our vote and whatever that is for you right because we can't tell you who to vote for we just want to make sure that you vote yeah so if you want your voice heard you got a place you vote how about the fact that we see a lot of people They don't vote, but they complain. Oh, my goodness. That's something to say. Let me say this. I heard the amazing Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, and she said something that I absolutely love. She said that voting is a form of self-care. Wow. I love that she painted that picture that way. She painted that picture, and I say all the time, self-care is a requirement, not a recommendation. So you're required. to vote take care of yourself make sure you vote there have lots of sites right now you can go to Northwest Activity Center you can go to the main election space on Grand Boulevard but you can just go take your license and vote wow so party at the polls and that's happening today it's happening this evening 7 p.m on West McNichols i don't know the exact address we'll have it for you on the website we'll have it for you and they'll see you there i definitely will be there be sure to get out there now i do want to ask about this movie stuff we talked about the important stuff so when you say people they have roles they immediately think of you tell us about some of those roles that they've had you play well of course i play therapist okay of course that's the obvious one one of the movies that i'm in is called Lester and Lester is a thriller and it's this guy who is really not a guy he's actually a woman but he thinks he's a guy so he has a mental illness and he uh kidnaps women just all kind of craziness but at the end he slit his throat what and so he was in a straitjacket in the insane asylum and i was his doctor oh you were the doctor okay so cool was that he kept saying why are you calling me by a female's name and quietly you hear my shoes walking across the floor i said can i show you something and i take a mirror and put it up to and he just wow so it's thrilling and so i've been in something called baby mama drama oh comedy that was a comedy comedy oh goodness because this one particular person had seven different children by seven different women oh that sounds like a celebrity we know but i think more kids more kids than the celebrity but in the show he comes to me as a doctor and i do a full ram of tests on him come to find out he has a real disorder called Klinefelter's disorder which means your um sperm are sickle cell shaped it's sickle shaped which means they don't swim which means he was impotent which means none of those seven oh that's good it's so good that's a plot twist I wasn't expecting okay so out of all the roles that you have the the chance to play you got the thrillers the comedies what's your favorite genre I have to say comedy really I have to say comedy because I believe that laughter is medicine for your soul and so even though I am a mental health professional and all of that I laugh on purpose all the time I love that so the fact that someone saw that there's something in me that can help other people laugh that I'm not just stuck in being clinical right but that it is funny I'm in a sitcom and the sitcom is a comedy where I play uh my part is Dr. Hershey oh and I'm Dr. Hershey because I got all this I love it come on chocolate Dr. Hershey and so it's a comedy it's funny all the people that come in that I interview and doing sessions with them, it is absolutely hilarious. Oh, my goodness. Just when I thought I knew everything Dr. Sabrina was doing because she's here, there, and everywhere. I mean, another incredible talent. She acts, too. We also know you have these events where people can come in, check in with you. Yes. Is it Breakfast with Breezy? Breakfast with Breezy. And the mindset behind that is that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Yes, people forget. And my son has a Chick-fil-A location, and so I do it at his location, which is in Lincoln Park. We do it the last Wednesday of every month, and it's from 9 to 11, breakfast hours. So you can come and get great breakfast. We have great networking, and we can talk about whatever. So if you have that question that you may not be able to come and sit in the office and talk to me about your issues, just come on. And just let's open up the discussion. And then also, I have prizes. I love giving gifts. Oh, wait. I didn't know there were gifts now. What can the people get? Oh, I have gifts for men and gifts for women. I have smell good stuff. I have gift cards, you know, because gas is just ridiculous. Okay, can we talk about it? It's stressing me out. Yes. We're going to give people advice on how to de-stress from debt. How to de-stress from the money thing. And so I am so excited to support my son and his wife and their business. But let me tell you something, that waffle and chicken. We got to give Dr. Sabrina her props because she made sure that we were able to try that new sandwich when they came out with it. It is so good. Delicious. I don't even like bread that much. And that's how you know it's good when you don't normally eat it. I don't normally eat it. And you're like, hmm, it's so good. It was delicious with the syrup, too. Yes. Thank you for that again. That was a great morning. That was a great morning. Yes. Thank you for connecting us with your son. and that sandwich we appreciate it uh you do have a book oh i have a new book new book i have several books author actress uh the people expert i'm pretty sure i need more hands look mama but i have a new book and it's called dr sabrina's 52 weeks of mental wellness the acronym edition we love your acronym i love an acronym and i didn't realize that i had hundreds of them oh have you not re-watched your fox 2 interviews and they're all so great you're not just saying them and it's going over our heads like it's really sticking with it up to me and say oh my god i remember when you said and i was like really you're like i said that that was good another lady that had a file in her phone where she has taken pictures and she has them all and so i put them in a book and guess who wrote the foreword to life oh who could it be i think I know him, but go ahead and share. Charlie Langston. How was it having the Charlie Langston write the foreword for your book? Well, let me say this. I would not be on Fox 2 if it wasn't for Charlie Langston. Really? In 2014, I was the keynote speaker for a breakfast for attorneys and he was in the audience. Wow. And afterwards he came up to me and you know how he is. Yes. You are amazing. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, my God. Oh, my goodness. Yep. I'm going to get you on Let It Rip. And I thought that he was just kind of hyped from the moment. But two weeks later, they called me. I have been doing something at Fox 2 since 2014. And it was because of Charlie Langston. I did not know that. Yes, that's the real story. So, of course, when I thought about pulling together the things that I've been doing here, of course I needed to pay homage to the person who got me here wow he absolutely said yes and it is such a touching uh foreword because he talks about when he first met wow about um that I'm more than just mental health and so it's just a beautiful thing and I love that so much Charlie does have a great eye for for talent and he's like he's always on point with it so the fact that he's the reason that we get to see you every Monday every Mental Health Monday to get our lives together for the week incredible i can't wait to read the foreword i gotta see what he says yes all great things i'm sure so we know you do the acronyms that we look forward to uh they stick with us do you have an acronym for the people today we talked about those gas prices i just filled up for 479 a gallon i think i'm gonna share my favorite acronym okay let's do that And my favorite acronym is that any and everything that we do, we must care. Care is just a special four-letter word. And the C is we must be coachable. Because how do you get better if can't nobody tell you nothing? I know that's right. So make sure that you're coachable. Learn how to take feedback gracefully and implement it. And then two is the A, and the A is to have an attitude of gratitude. when you're complaining you can't be thankful because you're focusing on the negative and when you're thankful you can't be complaining so i choose gratitude yeah and then the r is to be righteously responsible own your stuff if you did it say you did yeah because that's the only way you can heal and you don't allow other people to continue to put you back in a place that you've already moved away yes so just own your stuff and move on and then the e okay i used to say embrace excellence but now i know if you embrace it you can let it go oh now i say embody excellence so good if i embody it my a game shows up every game yes that was so good okay how did you come up with the acronym because we know there's so many and again they're all so good what's the process what's going through your head when you're coming up with these acronyms well let me tell you how i started doing acronyms uh in 2005 i started sending out morning motivational messages in a text every morning for monday through friday okay and then one saturday a good girlfriend of mine that works over at amazon jillian blackwell she called me on a saturday morning and says Where's my acronym? Where's, where's my... oh you were slipping, you didn't send it one morning, I didn't send it on a Saturday or a Sunday, oh because I felt like people needed them for the work day and not for the weekend, she said no I need an encouragement every day, every day, and so from that day I started doing them every day, wow I just have tons and tons of acronyms because people like them, and then when I would wake up I would get up, sit on the side of the bed and this was my discussion with the Holy Spirit, yes amen okay what, what they need today, oh and so I just would sit there and a download would come a download and even now when I'm doing my mental health Monday oftentimes most times the week before I just kind of start thinking about what's going on in the world what's going on around here and then a topic will come so like last week I did the mental impact of blight, oh most people have never even thought about right how blight can affect you yeah mentally, so that's good, okay now I love the acronyms even more because it's not you just oh we're gonna do this today but you're listening to the Holy Spirit and letting that guide you to what the people need, absolutely so it's so many people, I mean I've had bishops, I've had people like Karen Clark Sheard, yeah of the legendary Clark Sisters, yes come up behind me I was at her church, she was walking behind me and she literally jumped on my back and I said why are you, she says, I said to, she said to herself the next time I see Dr. Sabrina I'm just gonna jump on her because there's no way that she knows that I needed to hear those words is she in my room she said she would be reading and going is she in here oh my gosh so that's how I know it's the Holy Spirit wow the Holy Spirit is places that I can't be okay amen it's not even Sunday We're going to take you out of church for a little bit. We're preparing you for tomorrow. It was so nice having you on this show. Oh my goodness, I love it. Can I just share one last thing? Yes, please. Today. Today. I am filming my own talk show. What? And it's called Life Made Easier with Dr. Sabrina and Company. I'll have a live studio audience. Wow. So people can come on down. You can still come on down. The door is open at 2 p.m. at the Bond Steel right on Woodward, 3424 Woodward. Okay. attached to that new amazing hotel, the A.C. Hotel. That's a nice hotel. That's a nice hotel. So we're starting the show, taping right at 3 p.m. Yay! So people can come, no ticket price. Just come and sit in the audience and be a part of this amazing show. Congratulations to you. Again, she's doing everything and she's everywhere. So mother, host, author, actress, a host of other things, okay? Guess what I'm not, though? What are you? I'm not a wife. and she's still fabulous i'm not a wife so i will say this i'm single oh goodness ready to mingle we're going to have you back for valentine's day and we're going to be taking up um some wonderful things we might auction you off yes but you guys yeah but they gotta y'all gotta pay this dr sabrina now let me you gotta come correct this is what i've learned is that a lot of people because because they see me on tv they won't either assume that i'm already married i don't know what that got to do because you're so fabulous okay and i'm not and then they then they think that well if she's on tv she she got a whole bunch of men no oh i don't have a whole bunch of men said the dms are dry no no oh they're not dry they're not dry you have potential suitors already just that they not it's the wrong one it's the wrong oh we need the right so okay since we're on the topic you brought this up not me what is dr sabrina looking for let them know okay so this the biggest thing is that i need someone who's kind a lot of people aren't kind no they're not they that they don't they're not chivalrous they don't ask you out on a date and then they what are they doing oh no they'll say can you come over i want to netflix and chill come over i don't know you sir no i can't come over to your house no take me out and you definitely can't come to my house that part we don't need to know where we stay yeah we can't we can't do one so just the whole old school bring you flowers flowers flowers can't go wrong with flowers so the whole thing about romance is big for me okay because even though because oh and it's the other thing people think because i do what i do that i'm just powerful woman just all those things yes but i'm still a woman she's still a woman i'm still a woman we can submit with the right person like a lady you heard dr sabrina we need the romance we need the kindness and you need to treat her like a lady anything else for the people who may be watching just a little bit now how much we're talking gotta have a little money gotta be able to take me to nice places where you want to eat at give my favorite place is Ocean Prime that's a good restaurant Ocean Prime it's not a cheap one though it's not a cheap one and then my second is La Petite Des Jardins oh where's that breakfast brunch house on oh you don't know i feel like i've heard about it and when they told me i'm like i haven't been there yet oh my goodness is it downtown it's in midtown okay it's right on Woodward between Canfield and willis okay right across the street from the mcdonald's there okay But when I tell you that catfish Ooh, they have catfish. Ooh. Are they cheesy grits or regular grits? You can get them either. Oh, I don't like cheesy grits. Really? I like my grits with just salt and butter. And this is why I was going to ask, are you putting sugar in your grits? And you're not. This is why I love Dr. Sabrina. She gets sugar She gets sugar No sugar. No sugar. No sugar. She's sweet, but she don't need the sugar in the grits. She's already sweet. But it's an amazing, amazing brunch place, which is one of my favorite places. On Sunday they have a DJ so they have music, it's amazing and so they have these things called a soul bowl, what's in it? The soul bowl is the bowl itself is cornbread okay, which is amazing and then they put green macaroni and cheese and yams all in a bowl, it's a thanksgiving bowl pretty much you wait, you don't like the bowl we're talking about because i'm weird because i don't like my food to touch, uh my husband okay okay so i always get a deconstructed bowl now yeah, is that something you came up with? yeah that's what she told me, tina motley hey but she told me you want everything but you want it in this little thing because i don't, i don't think things should touch, the mac and cheese and the yams can touch? no you don't like when the mac and cheese and the yams, i don't even eat yams oh dr sabrina we were doing so great we were doing so great people always tell me oh no my black woman's curl you did i'm taking it right now the mac and cheese and yams can touch okay okay what's your plate you have it your way okay this is what i get when i go okay muffin okay by themselves okay either a piece of catfish or two wings and mac and cheese okay all on a little platter but they don't but they don't touch it's like a nice distance between the two so we don't have one flavor of the food on the other flavor yeah okay okay i don't like it and then i don't like when things are supposed to be dry like cornbread okay and then with my greens that that that i will give you that one yeah i agree with that yeah but the mac and cheese and the yams i can't i can't agree with that my son eats that i'm like what's wrong with you where did you come from who raised you well hopefully there's a man out there watching us right now he can cook and he doesn't want his food touching either and you guys get along just fine okay this is the other thing is that it's important for people to understand that when you when you're meshing lives you're not trying to make another i don't want to meet that's another segment i already got me i need something different than me okay you're coming back together we make a bigger yes okay so we're gonna have you back to talk more about that because that was good we could be here all day but we gotta go but you got all the guests this was great having you you really have to come back and join us i absolutely will come back anytime and if you're out there uh come correct or don't come at all and kindness uh a little bit of money okay and you need to romance gotta be gotta be romantic and and you can't be i hate to even say this but you gotta have some intellect oh we need someone smart and intelligent of course that i hate is when people text you and they text you the wrong word like you instead of you or like okay or like i'm here okay but they spell it like h-e-a-r oh yeah no and no you're yours and yours you're theirs and theirs okay we'll be here all day thank you for joining us dr serena this was great this was great be sure to check them out at today's event be sure to check out breakfast with breezy be sure to get the book all the information i'm sure will be on your website and social media yeah all right and we'll see you monday yeah all right mental health monday don't forget