In this episode of the We Legit 16 Podcast, we talk about the reality of being self-made, taking ownership of your life, and why waiting on other people can keep you stuck for years.
This episode is for entrepreneurs, creators, hustlers, and anybody trying to level up mentally, financially, and personally. I break down the mindset shift that happens when you stop waiting for support, validation, motivation, or opportunities and start building your own lane.
Topics covered in this episode:
* Self-made mentality
* Discipline vs motivation
* Entrepreneur mindset
* Why people stay stuck in life
* Ownership and accountability
* Building a business from the ground up
* Staying focused without support
* Consistency and personal growth
* Hustle mentality and success habits
* Turning pressure into motivation
I also speak on balancing entrepreneurship, life responsibilities, podcasting, and building a brand independently while staying disciplined through setbacks, doubt, and distractions.
If you’re tired of excuses, tired of waiting, and ready to take control of your future, this episode is for you.
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Yo-yo, yo-yo, yo. Welcome to another episode of
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the We Legit 16 Story Hustle podcast, and I'm your host,
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Marquis Carter. Now today's episode is going to
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be about nobody is coming to save you and this is your
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advantage. This is episode is going to be
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about talking about one of the hardest truth people avoid
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hearing. Nobody's coming to save you.
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No perfect opportunity, no overnight success, no magical
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handouts. No person is going to build your
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vision. This episode is about ownership,
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discipline, accountability, and learning how to stop wanting,
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wanting validation and waiting for validation from people who
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never plan to support you growth in the first place.
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Let's get into the first thing we're about to break down.
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The first thing we're going to break down is why rely on
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motivation keeps people stuck. Now in everybody's mind, they
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have a goal, they have a dream, they have something they want to
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achieve. But relying on motivation is
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just the beginning. Everybody has an idea on what it
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is that they want to do, but as time goes on, things dwindle,
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the actions not being spoken into words.
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So it's like, are you being taken serious or are you just
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talking? That's the big question.
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Another thing is when you keep talking about something to other
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people and letting them know like a that's what I want to do
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and there's nothing being produced, they're not going to
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take you serious. They're going to look at it
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like, oh man, you always talk about that, but ain't nothing
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came out of it. So Long story short, the
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motivation is only the is only the beginning, but it's up to
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you as an individual to keep that going because one thing for
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sure, there's always somebody out there trying to outdo the
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next person. Now, I'm not just speaking for
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my spell myself. I'm just speaking in general.
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So motivation is one way where I keep a lot of people stuck.
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And the reason being is people talk all day, all night what
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they want to do, how they want to do it, how they want to go
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about doing it, but they really don't know how to go about doing
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it. So they're looking for a
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handout. Somebody come say today and the
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world just don't work like that. We might be lucky, get a little
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assistance here and there, but for you to fulfill your dreams
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and aspirations and whatever it is that you want to do, you got
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to work for it. And when you work for it, you
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don't appreciate it a whole lot better because it's like you can
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dream all you want, but if you're not going to put it into
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a perspective and get the job done, then it's just an idea
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that hasn't been put to motion. So that's the start of what you
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need to do. And I always remember that if
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you looking for somebody to save the day, then a portion of your
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company is going to be an investor in it.
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So you may own the company, the business or whatever it is that
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you thinking about doing. But when you bring other people
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along, you no longer have the final say so because whoever you
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brought along has a percentage into your company to wherever
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you want to make a decision. You have to make a vote or have
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a round table talk about it before executing whatever it is
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that you need to do. The next thing we're going to
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get into is the difference between talking hustle and
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actually living it. Now, for me, it took me a while
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to figure out that I was hustling.
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Reason being, growing up, hustling was always, well, I let
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me say this, For me, hustling has always been looked at as a
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person indulging in illegal activities, but never hustling
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was ever put into a legal standpoint as a person working
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just for me. I can't speak for everybody, but
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I'm just mentioning how it was portrayed and looked to me
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growing up. Now.
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Now I've seen people hustle but I also seen that it didn't get
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them too far in life because they may have Max 2 year run but
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a lot of time spent behind the walls on that hustling decision.
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Now for me, I'm always thinking. I'm a analytical thinker, so I
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think all day every day and I think about things the best way
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possible so I won't get caught up as my peer group and elders
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before me. So I don't wanna take a chance
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of going behind the wall and nothing's gonna be benefited
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from me. As in I stood, I stood up, head
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up, chest out, stood tall, come out, might get a BBQ.
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That's about it. So when I'm talking about the
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difference between talking hustle and actually living it in
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the beginning, some people fake it to make it, Some people show
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the struggle. But since we're in an age of
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where people make their social media a part of their life
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instead of just keep it all the way funky, a lot of people
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scared to show them hustling the struggle and them not being
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looked at in a good positive light on social media because
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they're scared of being on talked about in a not good
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fashion. So for me, I have a strong
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mindset. So I don't mind getting
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criticism because I'm already used to it.
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I got it all through school, all through life, every day all the
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way up to this age. So they don't really bother me
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as much. Not even in my 20s and teens,
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they never bother me. So once it's built different,
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but when talking hustle, people listen, especially if you can
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back it up, even if it's not in full motion, but it sounds
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really good, people would listen.
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They'd be like, hey, you need to put that in motion, 'cause I can
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see something in that growing. So it's like I'm talking, but
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someone's taking me serious and they see the vision that I might
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necessarily don't see. But as time goes on, if I put my
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foot where my mouth is, I'll see the fruits of my labor and how
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everything will grow. So that right there is what I'm
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speaking on is the beginning stages.
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But when you're actually living the hustle and showing it and
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living it, then you can flopped. And I don't mean by getting a
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new car or showing off your place with new furniture and all
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kind of stuff. You don't got the floss like
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that. You can just show analytics
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certain little things you on did to reinvest in the company, the
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business aspect. How's it growing?
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You can. What I do is I show off no new
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setup like this podcast setup. I got in here humble hustle all
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day. The Nipsey in the back with the
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headphones and mic license plate.
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No, I'm a Raider fan and I'll see that right there and the
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lights. So it's like that's the one way
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it showed I'm actually living it.
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And to be honest, this is not easy.
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If you really want to work for yourself, set your own schedule,
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do everything on your own where you don't have to listen to
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anybody. Trust me, you're going to be
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working every day and it's not easy.
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You have to. It's something you got to get
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used to, but in the beginning it is rough and hard because you're
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adjusting to something that you don't have no experience in and
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you don't know if it's going to work or not.
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So he's just going off of faith. But once you see the vision
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after six months to a year, you'd be OK.
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This was worth it. But give yourself 3 after the
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six months to a year. Give yourself 3 or 4 years to
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see it blossom if it's even worth continuing.
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If not, you can start up another business and keep that one
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going. Keep your current 1 going so you
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have two which the second one will blossom more than the first
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one depending on the turn out. Reason being you have
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experienced. You know what to expect so you
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know what to do and you know what not to do.
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That is the beauty of talking about the hustle than actually
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living it. Actions speak louder than words.
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Experience is the #1 teacher. Now after all that how excuses
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become a comfort zone. Growing up I heard a lot of
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people say they want to do this, they want to do that.
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Man, if I just had $1, I can do this.
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And I'm not going to lie to you, I kind of got stuck in that
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mindset also because it's like, I ain't know it take that much
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to do it. But once the Internet became
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accessible like it is today, it changes things now.
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So all that folklore stories and listening to elders and and all
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that other stuff, when the Internet came about, I can say a
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lot of people were kind of mad and upset about certain people,
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elders, family members telling them things.
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And some of it may be true, somewhat true, not all the way
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true or just a flat out lie. So I believe when the Internet
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came, I think that caused a big disconnect with the young and
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the old based on certain things I was told to them as time went
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on. But if they were told the truth,
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it would have been a different turn.
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It never let me not say that it might be a different approach
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and experience along the years coming along whenever that
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information was given to him. So when I started my business, I
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thought it was a lot of money, but I chose something to where
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it was safe and I won't take a big loss.
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But quite naturally, I took a loss my first year.
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So once I learned how to navigate on how to not take a
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loss, I was like, OK, I know what to do next year.
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So so I wanted to grind mode but it took me a while because like
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I had said previously in episodes, I had to get out my
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comfort because I didn't got used to working.
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But now I'm going into something to where like be working for
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myself. I talked about it for years but
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never put it to use. I've been in my comfort for
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years until Nipsey Pass didn't get a promotion.
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So I was like, hey, let me just put it together, pen and paper.
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So that's what I did. I sat on it and then there a
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girl I was dating at the time and got me out my comfort zone.
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So I really dug into it and doing research how to get LLC,
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what is needed, Do I have to pay taxes on it?
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What all I got to do? How much it cost 300 dollars,
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$300 to get LLC Depending on the state you you turn in how much
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you made every three months or that's 1/4 every three months
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equal 1/4. So it's four quarters in a year
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and then at the end of the year you pay your taxes, you pay
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taxes within it, you report your taxes at the end of the year.
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So when you start breaking certain habits, it's going to be
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weird and funny. But in the big in the long haul,
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it's going to be very beneficial because it's like, if I was did
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this a long time ago, ain't no telling how far would it would
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have been. But everybody experience is
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different. Everybody journey is different.
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So it's like a let me learn as I go, take this slow and steady
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route. So getting into anything and
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then I might not have to be running a business or a side
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hustle. It could just be going to work.
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I remember running to guys that hustled in the 80s, barely had
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any jobs when they got old. They had no income, then they
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started going to work. So in IT life, when you start
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working, there's certain things you got to go through on each
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employment that you have gotten. So this job, you might
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experience certain things, Another job, you might have to
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experience it. But if you experience it young,
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as time goes on, certain things are going to be affecting you.
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But when you start late in the game and you go through those
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tribulations of working for companies and seeing how they
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politic and, and do certain stuff, you know, when you're
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older, it's kind of hard to navigate that because you,
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you're starting late and you really need an income.
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So when you're stuck in your ways, it's like it's hard to
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work with someone like that 'cause they're difficult and
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this might not be necessary knowledge, but they lack
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experience and certain things you just have to go through when
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you're working. So that's one way to look at
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things from the young to the old, from the old to the young.
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You got to think long haul because everybody know what
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they're doing right now, but everybody got to prepare for
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what's going to happen as time goes on.
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Because remember, everybody has a day where they're not going to
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be here. So you might as well make the
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best of it if you choose to do what is whatever it is that you
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want to do. Not judging on lifestyle, but
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just live it to the fullest and everybody going to have
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something to say. But as long as you live in your
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truth and being you, that's all that matters.
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So never let people make you feel guilty on the decisions you
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made because you are living this life.
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But remember, as far as living this life, you're going to get
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comfortable. Whether you're working or not,
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you're going to get comfortable. So just realize that whatever it
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is you choose to do, comfort is going to be in the mix.
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The next thing we'll get into is why self-made people move
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different under pressure. I can really speak for this, for
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this, from my experience, I go through a lot.
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I don't experience a lot, young teenage years and young
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adulthood and late teens. So being under pressure, it's
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easy for me. But in the beginning, I was
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doing it so naturally that I didn't realize I was being
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pressured. But as I said earlier in this
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episode, I'm an analytical thinker.
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So certain things is not going to woo me.
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The oh man did. No, I, I think everything.
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So you're not going to put me in a situation to where you benefit
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and I don't. I might go along with something
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and let you think you got a way, but it's just certain things
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just have to happen. But when you're self-made,
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certain things you just got to handle.
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And when you handle it, a person that's not as strong minded as
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you will look at you like Hercules, like oh, OK, I see
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what this person doing. This person is brave and he just
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don't he he he stand up for herself or herself.
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Confidence builds a weak person's curiosity when you're
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self-made strong and you're dealing with people that's not
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as strong as you. They're intimidated by you by
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nature, but they're also intrigued.
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But they don't want to be around get with you or interact with
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you or anything like that. But they want to be in the mix
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on what you got going on though. Snakes in the grass, snakes in
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the grass. So just remember that there's
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always going to be pressure in everything that you do.
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It's called life. You just got to know how to
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navigate and deal with it. But if it becomes an issue, just
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find somebody to talk to that you feel comfortable expressing
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yourself where that person don't have to worry about going to
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tell the next person. It's between you and that
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person. So just remember that pressure
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is always going to be in the mix, staying tall through it
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all, head up, chest out and stand on 10 toes and just
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staying on whatever it is that you're saying and doing.
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Because if it goes left, it just goes left.
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You can still navigate. Every day is not going to be the
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same. And if you is going through
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something, just remember it's always temporary.
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So that is a fact. Then you also have to remember
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that building a business while working a full time job, it's
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tough. Most people's schedules is all
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over the place. So for me, I try to take two
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hours a day working on it and when I mean 2 hours a day
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posting on social media, making videos, taking pictures,
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thinking about concepts, lifestyle photos to take to post
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and show people what I got going on and what I'm doing.
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Simple stuff like going to the movies, having like me time,
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mental health days, just chilling out.
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Because when you're building something, remember it's not
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just local people watching, it's a whole lot of people do to the
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Internet and social media. You never know who's watching.
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So just be prepared to deal with a lot of people you don't know.
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And it's like it's just hard to explain.
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It's like you got a whole lot of people coming at you say that
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your stuff goes viral. People don't think you got
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money, but they don't know that you're trying to get monetized.
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They don't know what the situation you might try to get
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monetized. You might made a couple little
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duckies. You're networking, you know,
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you're trying to build this thing up to where it can build
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on its own to where you don't have to work that full time job.
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But I would say keep the full time job and work the business
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the best way you can because reason being that if that full
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time job goes under, downsize, whatever the case may be.
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If you got a company and you built it up, you can fall back
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on that instead of trying to find another job.
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And then you maximize all income.
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So say you didn't pay your franchise tax, you can work a
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little extra on your full time job to make up on what you miss
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spending business wise. So it's a pro and a con, but
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there's benefits to both. Your job have insurance,
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retirement, 4-O1K. Your company doesn't have that
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as yet. So you're building up to it.
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So if it goes under, you still got the job to fall back on.
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If it goes good, you still got the job along with that extra
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income. So if you can make 100 on
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the business and make 40 to 60, the average yearly salary
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depending on your job field is anywhere from 50 to 75 a
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person and it's over 100 with a spouse.
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So, So say two people make 60, that's 120 a year.
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Say one person has a business, that business is say it made
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100, so that's 220. And say the other spouse has a
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small business and that's 20.
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So quite frankly, you just make over 200 between two people
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working wise full time and off the business.
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So you got to think about finances too, but you got to had
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the right partner. That's why I always say you got
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to choose your partner wisely because having the right partner
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will build you up a whole lot more.
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But when you choose the wrong partner, it's a whole lot of
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things that you got to take care of that you never really
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realized. So building a business while
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working is a good benefit. A lot of people frown on it
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because it's not a true hustle or entrepreneurship, but you got
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to remember times as hard and different things are going up.
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So having that full time job will keep you balanced.
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So you got to have balance to stay above water.
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Say you start the business with no full time job and that means
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you got to take out a loan. You got to spend money on the
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loan. It may be low, but you got a
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loan. So right there, your ownership
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is gone. When you have a, when you have a
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job and a business, it's ownership because you don't have
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to get a loan. You could just structure your
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money from your full time job, incorporate in that, incorporate
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that to your business. So you're not losing, you're
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gaining slowly, but you're gaining.
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That's the key. So from there, we got to get
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into staying focused when support is limited.
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Now, I am everybody experienced this, but my thing is people are
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going to support when they feel like it.
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They don't have to do it. So I'll be tripping when people
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be saying they don't get support and all this other stuff.
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It's you. You got to build it up.
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You're not the only one trying to build a brand in a company.
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It's competition with the whole world, not just the local
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people. So for me, all my business came
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from strangers, people I don't even know that's supported and
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some family wise friends wise experience on at at purchase.
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But but a big bulk of it has been outside of Nashville and
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more so West Coast that I got majority of my support from not
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even California, just the West Coast in general.
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So with that being said, that kills people's pride and joy too
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because they're not getting supported on something they
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started. That's why I said the first six
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months to a gear is the hardest because you got to realize who's
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going to be with you and who is going to be out the picture.
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So you're going to learn a whole lot about your circle, who you
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associate with all kind of stuff when you decide to run a
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company. Now I the reason I keep saying
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run a company because people look at it like, Oh well, I'm
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going to just give me a side hustle.
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It can start off as a side hustle.
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Once you get your paperwork together, then it's a business
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kind of slash company. You're officially a CEO on
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paper. Now if you had this idea of your
00:26:10
side hustle turn into a business, pretty soon it's going
00:26:14
to be a 500 Fortune company. The more you put into your
00:26:19
business, the more it will grow. So that's how you start a
00:26:24
Fortune 500 company. Start off with whatever it is
00:26:27
you like to do to where you don't feel like a job.
00:26:29
It's just something you love doing.
00:26:31
Something you love doing can turn it to anything as long as
00:26:34
you keep putting in the work. And remember, consistency is key
00:26:38
and staying above water and keeping the same program going
00:26:43
is going to get you places. It's going to take you a lot of
00:26:45
places. You're going to be a whole lot
00:26:46
of people. You're going to network, you're
00:26:48
going to collab. It's all part of the game.
00:26:50
So just know your part and how you want to market what it is,
00:26:55
whatever it is that you're going to be promoting to the world.
00:27:01
Now, one thing for sure, consistency matters more than
00:27:08
talent. Reason being you can be talented
00:27:11
all day but if you don't have the motivation to give you that
00:27:16
spark then it's like well I have this talent but I'm not
00:27:21
motivated to keep it going. That's where the consistency
00:27:25
come in. A person that has no talent but
00:27:28
is consistent sees vision. The person that's talented and
00:27:35
average wise consistent is looked at as popular, got
00:27:42
something going on but he's in comfort.
00:27:46
So when you most talented people stay in their comfort until
00:27:52
someone gives them the idea or brighten their horizons to get
00:27:55
out of that comfort and recognize their talent and keep
00:27:58
them going. Prime example, Snoop Dogg had a
00:28:03
documentary, he said that he went to the county jail for a
00:28:09
case and the inmates that he was in LA County jail with at that
00:28:15
time told him, hey man, you need to get up out of here and pursue
00:28:19
what it is that you got going on and what you doing.
00:28:22
You shouldn't, you shouldn't be in here.
00:28:23
You're not like us. Look at Snoop Dogg now.
00:28:28
And they say if them inmates never gave him that limelight or
00:28:32
that talking, there's no telling where he'll be today.
00:28:36
So reason being that you may not see what others see, but if
00:28:43
someone's trying to speak something to you, you should
00:28:46
take heave or at least try whatever it is that they're
00:28:50
advising you to do. Reason being, it may work or it
00:28:55
may not, but at least you can say I try.
00:28:59
So don't be a folklore story of having all these glory years and
00:29:06
his talent and you ain't do nothing with it.
00:29:09
Today's time they should just look at you as a bum and you
00:29:13
ain't doing nothing. So as a young person would say,
00:29:18
why would I praise somebody for something they did back in the
00:29:21
day? What about right now?
00:29:24
Right now you asked me for change.
00:29:26
Right now you want something like food.
00:29:29
Not saying that that that type of bum is doing them things, but
00:29:36
I'm that part, I'm speaking on experience living in Los Angeles
00:29:41
County. So it's just a couple things to
00:29:45
take mind to and really think about what it is that you
00:29:52
experience in life. It may be 16 years, 18 years on
00:29:57
the earth. Still you experience some stuff.
00:30:01
So my years on the earth I haven't seen anything different.
00:30:05
Only thing I've seen different is environment, how the city and
00:30:08
county and state structure. People wise still the same.
00:30:13
You still got to navigate through the rail and the fake.
00:30:16
But at this point in time in 2026, everybody should know who
00:30:22
who they want to deal with. And if you still falling for
00:30:25
certain things that's on you because ain't nothing changing.
00:30:31
Ain't nothing changing. People are the same no matter
00:30:33
what technologies in the picture, but human nature stays
00:30:38
the same. And another thing that we have
00:30:43
to get into is you got to turn your pain setbacks and isolation
00:30:48
into fuel. Me, I never had isolation like
00:30:54
that. I know a lot of people but not
00:30:57
too many people believed in me because I went through the
00:31:03
typical thing. I want to go to college, trade
00:31:05
school and I never completed it. So a lot of people never took me
00:31:09
serious on anything like that. But it's like OK I tried this.
00:31:13
I just want a feeling when someone else do something it's
00:31:17
cool when they do it's a problem when I do it.
00:31:19
So for me, when people doubted me or anything like that or said
00:31:25
a whole, I want to say hurtful, but they would just say certain
00:31:29
stuff like oh, you ain't gonna be this, you ain't gonna be
00:31:31
that. You're gonna be this da da da.
00:31:34
And it's like, OK, y'all have these views of me.
00:31:37
Watch time goes on. Then people are looking at me on
00:31:44
their screen and saying, damn, only if I knew.
00:31:49
So it doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter family
00:31:56
members say, doesn't matter what anybody say, as long as you know
00:32:00
yourself, your true values and your core, you're going to make
00:32:05
it happen. So for me to people that's
00:32:10
viewing this visually on YouTube or audio wise on Spotify, Apple
00:32:15
podcast, iHeartRadio, Amazon Radio, Amazon Music, I mean, and
00:32:22
Apple podcast that just follow your gut feeling or whatever it
00:32:28
is that you want to do because it can work or it cannot.
00:32:33
You never know unless you try. Now when you're starting
00:32:37
something new, you're going to get to Aww, you ain't like us no
00:32:41
more. Just bypass all that because
00:32:44
pretty soon as time goes on, you're going to see people's
00:32:47
turn out. Sounds going to be for the good
00:32:49
sounds going to be for the bad. I can't give you the
00:32:54
expectations of folks because I can't tell you everything.
00:32:59
Because certain things you just have to experience on your own.
00:33:02
It's called experience. And once you get that, it's
00:33:05
like, OK, I know what I'm doing, I know what I'm rocking with, so
00:33:10
I just gotta adapt. But last but not least, the
00:33:16
mindset shift that separates builders from speakers.
00:33:22
So when you get into that part, your mindset is going to change
00:33:28
drastically. For me, sometimes depending on
00:33:32
who I'm talking to, I can hold a genuine conversation, but
00:33:36
sometimes it's like you hear the same thing over and over.
00:33:41
It's like a broken record. You hear the same, you get the
00:33:43
same conversation from the same people.
00:33:46
So it's like, who could I speak to then?
00:33:52
That's what I say by you gotta have a tight knit circle.
00:33:56
It's somebody you can really relate to and talk to where you
00:34:00
don't have to worry about them going back and saying something
00:34:03
to the next person. Having you looking crazy on
00:34:06
something you said in private. But they were so thirsty to get
00:34:10
some stirred up and try to play victim as if they didn't do
00:34:13
nothing. It's crazy.
00:34:15
But it's the world we live in. So it's just something you got
00:34:18
to get used to. But when you shift your mindset,
00:34:23
it separates you from a lot. You see things differently.
00:34:28
You know who you're dealing with when they speak, you know what
00:34:31
type of person you're dealing with.
00:34:33
You know how the world might shift.
00:34:36
You know what to expect when doing business with somebody,
00:34:41
legal or illegal. Either way it goes, it's just
00:34:44
experience. So don't get mad when you with
00:34:50
your peer group or your circle and you want to talk about
00:34:54
something else. They still stuck on what they
00:34:57
stuck on. So don't feel bad when you want
00:35:01
to branch off and do something different because remember them
00:35:04
generational curses is real and it's going to be hard to break
00:35:10
it. So you have to be strong minded
00:35:16
and think about if it's worth doing.
00:35:20
Now as I always say, live your truth and be you and you ain't
00:35:26
got to worry about nothing. Because just remember, life is
00:35:32
like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going
00:35:35
to get. And first and foremost, podcast
00:35:42
wise, I love this. Give me time to think, reflect
00:35:46
and speak. I also speak on real life
00:35:49
experiences. So from building this company
00:35:52
up, I started off selling shirts, jackets, you know what
00:35:57
I'm saying? Gradually graduated to
00:36:00
podcasting. Never thought about doing it but
00:36:04
a lot of people said they wanted me to speak so here I am.
00:36:07
I balance being an entrepreneur with life responsibilities and
00:36:12
learning how to create opportunities instead of waiting
00:36:15
for them. Me, I'm a go getter.
00:36:17
I don't like to sit around and wait.
00:36:19
I like to try to make things happen on my own.
00:36:21
If I can't make it on my own then I reach out to outsource.
00:36:27
But that is the mindset that I have.
00:36:31
So business wise it works for me.
00:36:35
So that's why I love it and I know what to well, I didn't know
00:36:39
what to expect. But as time went on, I was like,
00:36:42
OK, I can do this. But always remember if you ever
00:36:46
felt overlooked, unsupported, doubted, or frustrated because
00:36:51
things aren't moving fast, yo, this is the episode for you.
00:36:57
Because the moment you realize nobody's coming to rescue you is
00:37:04
the exact moment you become dangerous.
00:37:08
Why? Because this isn't just
00:37:10
motivation, this is structure, this is ownership, and this is
00:37:15
the execution. So you got to remember, stay
00:37:20
down 10 toes all day every day and stay on top of everything
00:37:26
that you're doing. And remember, hard work always
00:37:31
pays off. Doesn't matter what it is,
00:37:33
whatever it is that you're doing, just stay consistent and
00:37:36
keep on going. People always going to have
00:37:38
something to say but that's just a way of life.
00:37:41
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Is we legit clothing now To the youth out there, stay strong and
00:38:29
stay grounded on what you're doing.
00:38:31
What you doing now is going to be what you doing in the future.
00:38:34
So if you got bad habits, try to break it to where it won't be
00:38:39
where it won't affect you in the long run.
00:38:42
It's all about breaking generational curses.
00:38:44
Y'all. We almost six months into the
00:38:47
new year and we're going to 2027.
00:38:49
Let's make some changes and keep it going.
00:38:53
Go Raiders UFC football on the way Lake show.
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We get hot. We got to do something man.
00:38:58
We look like we might get sweat, but at least get a game or two
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win. As per usual, this is
00:39:04
m.carterfrom. We legit 16 y'all enjoy your
00:39:07
night. Nice catch.
00:39:10
You on the flip side, Peace.