After constructing a profitable profession working behind the scenes for a few of leisure’s largest names, La’Torria Lemon is now able to put the highlight on herself by starring in OWN’s latest collection, Coronary heart & Hustle: Houston.
The Houston native has been a pressure in public relations for practically 20 years via her firm, Lemon-Lime Gentle Media and labored with a few of the likes of Tyler Perry, Jamie Foxx, and Beyoncé. Whereas it has put her in rooms that individuals may solely think about, that was by no means the preliminary plan.
The fact TV collection will present the publicist discover completely different chapters in her life and, based on her, the timing could not have been higher. “I think it’s just [that] opportunity approached me at the right time, and truthfully, I went to college for radio, TV and film, so it was never really a goal for me to be behind the scenes, it just kind of happened that way,” she tells xoNecole. “For 17 years, I was behind the scenes. And now it’s like alright, back to your passion, back to what you initially had in mind.”
Coronary heart & Hustle: Houston focuses on six ladies entrepreneurs navigating enterprise, love, and heartbreak.
In addition to increasing her model, viewers will even get a glimpse into La’Torria’s courting life. As a lover woman, the Clark Atlanta College’s 40 Beneath 40 recipient is just not a fan of the time period hopeless romantic, however reasonably prefers being known as a “hopeful romantic.” “Hopeless sometimes feels like or sounds like, oh, pity her. She [doesn’t] have [any] options, she’s desperate and that ain’t me. I’m approached and I’m pursued at times,” she says.
“Sometimes it’s just a matter of the caliber and what my interest is. I’m not very picky in the sense of, oh, you gotta take me on a $500 date, or whatever the case may be. But I do look for quality. Quality in the areas of, do you communicate well? Are you creative? Do you know how to plan a date? Do you know how to call me, and if you hear my voice, that my voice sounds a little down, because I’ve had a long day. Do you know how to boost me up a little bit?
She adds, “In order that’s type of the place I am at with it. You might even see on the present, possibly some dates that I’m going on, positive, however then I wish to say on the age of 36, my pursuit and what I need in life actually has nothing to do with profession. It is all about private.”
“I am not very choosy within the sense of, oh, you gotta take me on a $500 date, or regardless of the case could also be. However I do search for high quality. High quality within the areas of, do you talk effectively? Are you artistic? Have you learnt the way to plan a date? 
With all of the noise on-line about the way to date, the way to get a person’s consideration, how a lot they need to spend on you, it is at all times greatest to stay to your morals. It additionally would not harm to get recommendation from ladies who’s been there and are in comfortable relationships. La’Torria shares what position a few of the married ladies on the solid performed in her courting life.
“Some of the married women, when we’ve hung out, they have given their advice, and I think it’s worth tuning in to see some of the valuable things that they’ve said to me,” she explains. “There’s one married lady who actually set me up on a date, so we’ll have to see how that goes. But it’s been really good.
“Simply listening to their transparency, I feel regardless of if it is single life or courting life or married life, none of it’s straightforward, proper? All of it has completely different steps to it, completely different ranges to it. And I feel if you really care about any individual, you want any individual, you are prepared to compromise sure issues to make sure success. And identical to we wish success in our careers, we’ve got to take that very same strategy in relationships. Whether or not it is friendships, whether or not it is courting or no matter. Go into it with an open thoughts, go into to it with, ‘hey, that is one thing that I may see myself constructing with.’ Or once more, goes again to transparency. If it is not for you, it is not for you, however let’s not waste one another’s time.”
When she’s not focused on matters of the heart, she’s getting better professionally and personally. She is the co-owner of Rain on Washington Lounge and Restaurant in Houston and is launching a candle line, Lemon Royale, based off of her last name and love of the popular citrus fruit.
As for her personal growth, La’Torria shares that the show helped her to become more vulnerable. “I discovered about vulnerability with myself. I’ve at all times been an open e book, however but non-public, proper? And so non-public within the sense of, there’s those who had no thought I used to be single. They had been like, ‘Oh, you carry your self like a spouse or we by no means actually seen you with anyone. So we simply thought that was a personal aspect of your life,” she explains.
“However going into this expertise, I promised myself to be clear. I promised myself to point out the true me. Whether or not it is humorous, whether or not it is a good day, whether or not it is moments the place I am crying, whether or not it is moments the place I want my therapist, whether or not there’s moments the place I am lacking my dad, all the above, and that is what I’ve discovered to only be susceptible and be a human. PR, generally could be very robotic within the sense of, I am making it occur for everyone else. So that you’re behind the scenes, and that is the system of it. However if you step exterior of that and also you understand, hey, there’s an enormous piece of me that I do need folks to know, perceive and respect, we simply type of let all of it out.”
Coronary heart & Hustle: Houston premieres Saturday, August 2, 8 pm EST/ 7 C.
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