Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.