In this episode of the We Legit 16: Stories & Hustle Podcast, we talk about the reality of entrepreneurship, sacrifice, discipline, and building something from the ground up when nobody sees the struggle behind it.
The internet celebrates results, success, money, views, followers, and achievements but people rarely see the sleepless nights, self-doubt, losses, long work hours, and sacrifices it takes to build a business, personal brand, clothing brand, or podcast.
This episode dives into:
• Entrepreneurship & hustle culture
• The sacrifices behind success
• Staying disciplined when nobody supports you
• Building a brand while working a full-time job
• Mental pressure of entrepreneurship
• Social media perception vs real life
• Consistency, growth, and self-made success
• Why people only notice you after results show up
If you’re chasing your goals, building a business, creating content, or trying to level up in life, this episode is for you.
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Welcome back to We Legit 16 Story and Hustle podcast where
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we turn real life into legacy. Yeah, Season 2.
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Yeah, you are now locked into the podcast where pressure
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builds diamonds and story builds legacies.
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This isn't just small talk. This is ambition.
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This is sacrifice. This is the grind.
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Nobody claps for if you are building from nothing, betting
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on yourself, and chasing from your vision, you're in the right
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place. Now, let's get into this work.
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Today's episode is going to be into the beginning that nobody
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takes you serious. Now, I touched on this
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previously, but a lot of different things have been
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transpiring since my last season up to now.
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Now I have a big increase in listeners in Japan, in Vietnam.
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As of right now, US wise is Nashville, TN on Fort Worth, TX,
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Dallas, DF Dub, California, Long Beach, of course, Nashville per
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usual, Knoxville, Antioch, Madison.
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So this thing right here is growing and even though my
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previous episode I spoke on nobody's going to save you, but
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I think I need to re alliterate what's going on currently right
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now. So what I'm going to get into is
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when you're starting your brand slash podcast with little
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support for me, I already knew that I started off with the
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clothing thing. So I came up with a design as
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per usual and I knew that I wasn't going to have a lot of
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supporters right away, but it was something that made me gave
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me a task or something to do prove people wrong.
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As if like, you know what, let's see if he can do this.
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So I said it to myself, bet on myself every day.
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But this time it's different because when you bet on yourself
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in the business world, it's a big con.
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It's a big con, big con to come in to be like, you know what the
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con can be like. Well, it's not gonna work.
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If it don't work, then it's like A at least you tried.
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But the pros is, hey, he really did that.
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You know what I'm saying? It might took him a minute, but
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he really did that. Now, mind you, when I started
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the podcast going on by the summer ago last year, this time
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summertime, I didn't know what to talk about.
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I didn't know what to do. I recorded about two or three
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episodes. Then I just stopped 'cause I
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didn't have anything else to talk about.
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Then the people that did see it, they was impressed, they liked
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it. I was really shocked, you know,
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because I get no feedback or anything like that.
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I get no comments, I get no review or anything like that.
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So when you recording something, some of this nature, you do ask
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for no feedback. But when you don't get the
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feedback, it's like, Dang, am I doing this correctly?
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Am I doing this right? Or, you know, you just don't
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really know because, you know, people envy growth.
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But it's like, if I'm asking you something, just give me your
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honest opinion. But that secret hate is real
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because you can grow up with a person.
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You can go to school with a person.
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You can know this person your whole life.
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But as I'm growing with the podcast and the clothing and the
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media company, it's like I'm starting to see what boosie's
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talking about. I might not be in my own
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perspective city, but I'm in a city and that hypnotized hatred
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is real now. It's like it doesn't matter
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where you go. It's per usual.
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People gonna be people. But when you're a outsider in a
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city and you're trying to prosper or do something, you
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know it. You'll think it'll be love all
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the way around so far here and there, but not so much.
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I interact and mingle with people, but I'm still cautious
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due to the upbringing of growing back.
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Growing up in LA, Long Beach, LA is all the same thing.
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Doesn't matter what section of city, as long as in LA County,
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it's all the same thing. So growing up in Long Beach, I
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still got that little, you know, people do stuff.
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So I still got the little, no tension, you know, kind of like,
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you know, not standoffish, but cautious.
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So it's like, what do I, I take a chance and talk to people,
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interact. I don't have no problem doing
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that. But The thing is I don't know
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these people pedigree, they background, they story, who they
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are. So it would take me a little
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while to warm up to him and interact before I do anything.
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Because out West, mainly back home, the main, the name is
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everything, you know what I'm saying?
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So I know that it's watered down, but at the end of the day,
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I'm out the 80s and I'm built different and my whole thing is
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about structure, authenticity and being solid.
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So the world might be moving in One Direction, but I'm still
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staying grounded to my roots and what is important to me while
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moving. In today's times, some people
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forget the roots that were given to them in their adolescent
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years, but as time goes on, they follow trends that go along with
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trends instead of staying grounded and rooted.
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So when you stay grounded and rooted, you're outcasting look
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different, but when you go along with trends and what's going on,
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you're part of the crowd. It's just like high school, just
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without being in high school. It's just within the community.
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So when I started the podcast, got a little views here and
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there, I didn't really take it serious, but it gave me
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something to do and a different outlook on it.
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And I really had no education on it.
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I just wanted to talk and I'll do something different outside
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of clothing. So as you can see, that's one of
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my jerseys custom. That's the first one, the black
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and Gray edition, the young key on the back 88 to represent the
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year that I was born with the black trucker hat in the back.
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If you want a trucker hat, hit my DM and get you any color and
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we're gonna rock it on till there.
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Today I got the OG piece of the the run.
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The Ram represent my horoscope sign, the Aries with the Lokes
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on Raider hat with the anniversary edition Raider
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jersey. I had wore it before, but I felt
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like wearing it today 'cause we know I'm very proud that we got
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Fred Fernando Mendoza. But to get back into this
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episode, so when you start something, you may start it for
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a hot 2nd. A second can be however long you
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want it to be. But for me, I felt like I
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established clothing and I want to get into something different
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now. I listen to podcasts all day
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outside. When I'm outside having a good
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time going somewhere, you know, I listen to a podcast or two.
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I really did clubhouse that and Silver and Black today 'cause
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they talk about the Raiders. So them two, them three podcasts
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for sure give me something about, OK, it's a strategy to
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this. I see other podcasts, but I
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don't really consider a podcast. I can figure it's like it's
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reaction podcasts when you come up with scenario stories,
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educate and keep things going. Other people, podcasts that call
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themselves a content creator, they just react to a lot of
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people's videos. So that right there kind of for
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me separates podcasting and content creator.
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Content creator to me is creating something original and
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getting it from the ground up. And then you put it out to the
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world, your perspective on things or whatever it is that
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you're talking about. And then you have a lot of
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people call themselves content creators, but all they do is
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react to other people's videos. So you're not making content,
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you're just giving your opinion on original piece, my views.
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So when you're trying, as I said last season, when you're trying
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to be original and OG, it's gonna take a minute for people
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to resonate with it because it's not popular and it's not normal.
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So standing out is going to be hard to do because everybody's
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looking for a viral moment. Nobody wants to sustain the
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grind of longevity. Longevity wins the race.
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Slow and steady wins the race, as they say.
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So just remember as I always say, per usual, it doesn't
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matter what you're doing, it's always longevity in it.
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When you go in there for fast money and try to get a get rich
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quick, not very so much a scheme, but try to get rich
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quick. It's not going to last long.
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As soon as the money comes fast, it goes as fast immediately
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right away. The next thing we're going to
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get into is people thinking it's just a phase.
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Now for me I can't really speak on other people opinion on it
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because I never got feedback unless I asked for it.
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And when I do ask for feedback I never necessarily got it.
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So I got reviews, I learned off the reviews, I learned off of
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what was told to me and that's about it.
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So when starting out for me, I don't know what I was doing
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right. I don't know if I was doing
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wrong, I just don't know. I did it on my own.
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So learning as I go per usual. So even with little growth here
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and there, I still don't have a person to become around about a
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you should do this, you should do that, a person here and
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there, but they're not so much consistent.
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But I know that other people have lives, things to do, other
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stuff to concentrate on. So I can't get mad at a person
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on them choosing to do what's important to them versus me.
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So I just understand life all the way around.
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But for it to be a phase for me, you can say in the beginning
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when I started this podcast, it was a phase.
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I didn't have that set up back there.
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I had to like I had the 16 key. I didn't have that counter
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corner, that corner piece back there.
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I ain't had the display of the jersey or anything like that.
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I ain't even had this cube right here.
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So as time went on, I grew, learn different things, figure
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out like, hey, I need to do this, I need to do that.
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So it's like, what should, what should I do to make it stand
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out? So I started doing little things
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little by little, you know, everything.
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Don't start off right away. You're gonna make mistakes on
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the way, but mistakes is part of the process.
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Once you make a mistake, you learn from the mistake and then
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you counter on top of how to make it bigger and different and
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make it more vibrant to way you see fit for it to be a phase.
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It can be for some people. It's not taking it serious, but
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someone's taking it serious. They're gonna be like, hey, I
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don't care what anybody say. I'm a do this and This is why
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I'm be on and that's just that and ain't nothing wrong with
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that. So for someone to be like, man,
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it's just a phase that you're going through.
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A phase is when you graduate high school.
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And as I only know if I had said this, but there's certain phases
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that men go through. So everybody know from zero to
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18, there's all type of different phases.
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But as you grow older, from 18 to 21, that's a phase.
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From 21 to 25, that's a phase. Because they say man doesn't
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start maturing to the age of 25. But nowadays it's slightly
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different due to the economy, how life has expanded and the
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multiple use of illegal substance.
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So the material, so the maturity and the maturity level sustained
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a little longer and, but the thinking is there.
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But depending on what they did up to that age dictate how
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they're going to be later on in life.
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So without judging, it's just a statistic fact.
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So people can think that a person's at a certain age, but
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even though they're at that, even though they're at that age,
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their mindset can still be of a teenager cause some people grow
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up, some people grow old as older.
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Guy would tell me V dub out of Long Beach.
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If you ever hear or listen to this episode, I got that from
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you giving your jewels. So it's never a phase.
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It's only a phase when you're trying something out.
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It's never a phase when you're taking it serious all the way
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through and you putting your all into this.
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And for next segment, we're going to get into posting
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content with low engagement. For me, as I said previously,
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the engagement always gonna be low depending on what type of
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person you are. If you popular in the mix,
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people gonna rock with you 'cause you got a a story, a
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story of child foster care in and out them institutions.
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You had a whole lot going on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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blah. Me now, I went in foster care.
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My mom took care of me the best way she could.
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I tried to stay on the straight and narrow the best way I could,
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even though it's heavy presence in them LA streets all day every
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day. So for me, I can't be like this
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person because they chose to do certain things to get them in
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certain situations. For me, I was the oldest son,
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the oldest grandson and all that, so it's a lot of pressure
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on me because I set the tone for them under me so I couldn't be
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out reckless being in drama, baby Mama drama, all kind of, he
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said. She said stuff.
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I couldn't really do that because I'm being looked at by
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my younger peers. And that was really important to
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me because I even at a young age, I never really wanted to be
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like the statistic. My grandmother told me not to be
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like dad. So when she told me that I was
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17 years old. So that stuck with me.
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He spent less than two years, I was an adult on the street.
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I don't want to be like that. I like being free.
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I like having things to do, go outside, beach, party, function,
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everything. So it's like for me to stunt my
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growth to satisfy people that's only around temporarily is
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crazy. But even though that lifestyle
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has started with Raymond, WA in 69, it's still relevant to this
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day in 2026. So it's crazy for a lot of
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people to hold on certain values, which is nothing wrong
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with because them values probably save you or keep you
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grounded for a certain amount of years in time or for for ages.
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But a lot of people really have to realize legacy because you
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have somebody coming in behind you, kids, grandkids, great
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grandkids and so on and so on. So sons and granddaughters.
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So you have to set a standard and an example for how you want
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to be remembered among your younger core as in your tree,
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you at the top of the tree and you got branches.
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So you have to really think, I don't care what age you're at.
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You have to think long term because say that you didn't
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think long term. A generational curse is going to
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keep happening, happening, happening, and with them
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generational curses keep happening.
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The story is not being passed down.
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It stops at a certain level because when you have that
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generational curse, that's a lot of hate, envy and jealousy.
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So the true story is not going to be told properly.
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So to prevent that, whoever the individual is, male or female,
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you have to be structured and you got to be real all the way
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through with your youth, yourself as a person, your kids
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and grandkids. I don't care if if it's
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something that you don't want to speak on because of how severe
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the situation was or how the event came about.
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If it's a little too graphic, don't explain it tooth and nail,
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but describe it to your younger children in a way they can
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understand and hopefully not make the same mistake.
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Not necessarily a mistake, but the same thing that happened
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with you. Now I understand a lot of people
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really don't think about this kind of stuff, but we in 2026
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going to 2027 and if you are looking to keep a lifestyle
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going on with Raymond has started back in 69, you really
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just want to be in there. Because at the end of the day it
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give you a little fame, a little status in society.
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But in the real society, even with the Internet, it only lasts
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a hot 2nd. So you have to put together
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certain things in place for people to live off your fruits
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and labor later on to keep generational wealth going.
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Now, I know that a lot of people don't know anything about it,
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but you can be that one person is to set the tone and be like,
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you know what, I'm gonna do something different.
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I didn't know anything about it. So I grew older.
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My uncles and cousins told me about Pops, but it didn't really
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resonate because I was attracted to the lifestyle.
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But. I just couldn't see myself being
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in the institution for a long period of time because I don't
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like people telling me what to do.
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So it's like, do I fit in or do I stand out?
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Now, looking at this episode right here, you can see I stood
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out. And fitting in get you stuck, no
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offense. And it takes some people a
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lifetime. It takes somebody a while to
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figure out what it is that they want to do.
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So always remember that when you start something, most definitely
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you're going to have low engagement because you're new,
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you're fresh. Don't nobody know how to respond
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to it yet. But if you're looking for that
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viral moment, you're going to quit immediately because you're
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looking at other people's journeys and you're trying to
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compare it to yourself. That is not hidden fast enough.
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But if you look at the long term effect, it's slow in the
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beginning, but it's slowly graduate.
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When you first go to school, you don't know nothing, but when you
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achieve passing each grade, you learn more and more and more.
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That is the process and the way to look at things as you growing
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whatever it is that you truly wanted to the next segment
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building while working a full time job.
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Nothing wrong with working Previously on my episode, I
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don't mind working because working guarantees you a Social
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Security, a retirement on top of that job and a four O 1K.
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Now those are three different incomes.
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So if you're working and you achieve those three things, when
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you're done working, you retrieve them three things and a
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check. Depending how much you invest in
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your 4-O1K, you're looking at over 100 easy depending on
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when you started and how much you've been putting in.
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Then if you have a company or a business on top of that, that's
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a fourth income. So instead of depending on one
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paycheck, you did it depending on three or more depending on
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whatever it is that you set up for yourself.
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That's why they always say grind in your 20s.
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As time goes on, money will start working for you and if you
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don't have the discipline for it, fine a bank to invest money
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into an IRA or put it in a compound interest account.
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I can't think of the name right now, but it's a compound
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interest account where you can put money in it for two, however
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many years you could take it out, put it back in, take it
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out, put it back in. Your money can grow that way and
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you're gonna invest in long term stocks.
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Short term stocks is good, but long term stocks will benefit
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you in a long term because you can treat it like a 401K.
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You can borrow against it, you can use it for a down payment.
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There's all kinds of things you can do with stocks in a 401K.
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So I always remember that people.
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And then for the ones that have kids, if you can't put away a
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lot of money for their college fund, there's a Gerber account.
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There's a Gerber account for children.
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And all you got to do is put in your information, let them know
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how many children you got, what's their names and what is
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it. Whatever it is you want to do,
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you can, you can put 20 dollars, $30 away for your kids.
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For most people, that is lunch, dinner on a daily.
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This is just one month for your kids future.
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You can set it up for them to get it at 18 to go to college,
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or you can set up at 25 for them to do whatever it is they want
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to do. But with that being said, you
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have to structure your kids a certain kind of way and teach
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them certain things they need to know before they get to that age
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because they not going to know that you're setting something up
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for them. It's for you as the parent to
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prepare them for what's going to be coming about.
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If you're not long, no longer around.
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Now, I understand for parents, they'll say things like this is
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tough, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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You know, I got to do this. I got to do that.
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All that is totally understandable.
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But I was a kid also and whoever parent, whoever our parents were
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kids also and their parents also told them things.
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So if you install things into your children little by little,
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they might not get it right away, but as time goes on they
00:24:51
will get it. Now for me, my mom told me
00:24:55
stuff, my grandmother's told me stuff, my uncle told me stuff, A
00:24:57
whole lot of people told me stuff.
00:25:00
It was in the back of my mind and I didn't resonate with it
00:25:04
until I was ready. But it was always in the back of
00:25:07
my mind and I remember. So I can't down talk somebody's
00:25:12
parenting styles because that is how they was raised and that's
00:25:17
what they're used to now. Just remember people, time is
00:25:22
going fast and the world is not the same.
00:25:26
So you have to prepare your children and grandchildren for
00:25:30
what's coming about as time goes on.
00:25:32
Because all that waiting around being saved or waiting for a
00:25:37
next election as president, you can't be thinking like that.
00:25:41
You got to get it now. Depending on other people will
00:25:43
keep you stunt in your growth. So you have to educate all day,
00:25:50
every day on who you are and what you're trying to do.
00:25:53
Because my great grandfather, Fred G Carter, Fred TT Carter, I
00:25:58
call him Fred G 'cause he was gangster and back in the early
00:26:03
1900s and he had 12 children, 12 or 11 children.
00:26:10
And back in them days in the early 1900s, he was one that
00:26:13
spent all of them to go to college.
00:26:16
He worked three jobs. He was a tailor, well known in
00:26:19
Nashville, he was a Barber and he was a driver.
00:26:22
And for a man to be working like that and have that many children
00:26:27
and willing to put them to college and we talking in the
00:26:30
early 1900s, well, blacks won't even getting opportunities like
00:26:33
that. He created it.
00:26:35
So if he can do that, and mind you, I'm in 2026, the
00:26:40
opportunity is plentiful. It's no excuse, especially when
00:26:44
you got a phone. So some people use their phones
00:26:47
to keep up with the latest gossip.
00:26:49
Some people use their phone to educate and grow.
00:26:53
So it all depends on you as a person, on whatever what on
00:26:58
whatever it is you're trying to achieve and what you want to do.
00:27:02
Always remember that. So as we get into the next
00:27:07
segment, when I spoke on building with no support, we
00:27:11
don't spoke on if it's a phase or not depending on who you are
00:27:15
as an individual. We don't spoke on low
00:27:17
engagement, which is always the beginning process is up to you
00:27:20
to keep it going and stay consistent as time goes on.
00:27:24
And we spoke on working while being full time, which is
00:27:28
nothing wrong with because when you're working full time and
00:27:31
you're building something, you're not spending all of your
00:27:33
profit. It's a side hustle at the
00:27:36
moment, but you still building a company and a brand at the same
00:27:40
time. So you're not losing, but you
00:27:43
most definitely gain it. Remember that.
00:27:47
So as we move along in our podcast episode, investing in
00:27:53
equipment, logos, website, merch and promoting yourself.
00:27:57
For me, I promote myself all day, every day 'cause I know how
00:28:02
I wanted to look. Now the accolades of this new
00:28:07
investment, investment, investment investment investment
00:28:14
and investment investment. So if you ever look at the
00:28:19
YouTube video of this episode, you'll see everything I pointed
00:28:22
out, chair investment, table investment.
00:28:25
The arm is investment. So when you're working full
00:28:30
time, you can manage the dove flow efficiently.
00:28:36
So if you work overtime a lot, that's a lot of extra money
00:28:40
leftover will get you to get certain things that you need.
00:28:45
So nothing wrong with that. Then if you have children and
00:28:51
you're trying to build something, it's going to take a
00:28:54
while, but the longevity of it, as long as you staying
00:28:58
consistent and you believe in whatever it is that you're going
00:29:01
to do, it's going to come about. It's just a slower process and
00:29:06
it's all about decision making. Nothing wrong with that, as long
00:29:10
as you are staying focused on whatever it is that you want to
00:29:13
do. And that's what's all matter.
00:29:15
That's what it matters at the end of the day.
00:29:17
Yes, you can come up with a logo, yes, you can have a
00:29:20
website. Yes, you can get all this
00:29:22
equipment, all the merch, all the promotion.
00:29:27
But The thing is that people have to connect whatever it is
00:29:30
that you're representing. For me, I got locked up at 18,
00:29:36
19/20/20 was serious. Then I was in that cell and I
00:29:44
said to myself, man, if I get out of this situation, I ain't
00:29:49
never coming back. That was October 18, 2008.
00:29:53
I ain't been back since. And when that when it released
00:29:58
me, I changed my circle. I changed my way of thinking and
00:30:03
change my way on how I do a whole lot of things.
00:30:06
And even though I was in my early 20s where people looked at
00:30:10
me as oh, he does that the third he want to be around, he only
00:30:15
want to associate with us. He think he better than us and
00:30:18
ain't none of that. It's just I seen the long haul
00:30:23
of stuff that I was doing outside of the household.
00:30:27
Now mind you, I try to be legit the best way I can, but
00:30:32
sometimes in Ala society, there's certain things you just
00:30:36
can't. You just can't rock away, you
00:30:39
know? I'm saying you just have to deal
00:30:40
with it. People as from the L, the
00:30:44
greater LA area, know what I'm talking about.
00:30:46
It's certain things that you can dismiss, but it's certain things
00:30:50
that you can't. You just have to deal with it.
00:30:52
It's hard to explain without being too descriptive because
00:30:56
certain folks watch and put things together.
00:31:00
So I'm trying to work the best way I can without being looked
00:31:04
at in a certain kind of way. But that grounds you.
00:31:10
Now for me, I'm just speaking on Lai, can't speak on other areas
00:31:15
as in Dallas, Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, you know,
00:31:20
Minnesota, Cleveland, all them, a lot of different other spots.
00:31:24
I can't speak on all that because I wasn't there and I
00:31:27
didn't grow up there. I can only speak on what I know.
00:31:30
So if people are listening from wherever they're from, just know
00:31:37
that I'm not judging. I'm just speaking on what I
00:31:41
know. And then, you know, we got to
00:31:45
get into recording with limited resources.
00:31:52
Now, mind you, when I first started this had a microphone,
00:31:57
no phone, no cube and a iPad. About the headphones, about the
00:32:03
mic and all the equipment, that's all I had.
00:32:07
I didn't really have this background right here.
00:32:09
That's not the original. If you go back to my YouTube
00:32:12
clips on the first season, you'll see how I was rocking it
00:32:14
the best way I could. But I didn't even have his
00:32:18
chair. I had a regular chair, like a
00:32:21
lounge chair at a barbecue, and I made it work.
00:32:25
But my whole thing wasn't how it looked.
00:32:28
It was just, I just want to speak and say the people
00:32:31
resonate with what I'm talking about.
00:32:34
Time went on, they resonated what I was talking about.
00:32:37
A lot of people know me. A lot of people don't know me.
00:32:40
So I think through this podcast, a lot of people found out the
00:32:43
way to get to know me. So it's all good and it's
00:32:47
lessons to be learned and everything.
00:32:49
And that's just life in general. So there's nothing wrong with
00:32:55
starting from the ground up. It's just depending on how you
00:32:59
want your journey to be. And as time goes on, you're
00:33:02
going to graduate. Now, what I mean by graduate,
00:33:07
whatever it is that you're doing.
00:33:09
So if you speak about in the negative aspect, people start
00:33:12
smoking weed, like graduate to meth, crack, heroin, all kind of
00:33:16
stuff. People start playing Pop Warner
00:33:19
football. They end up playing flag
00:33:22
football junior high. They play tackle football in
00:33:26
high school. But before they got to high
00:33:28
school, they stay in the little leagues and they stayed in
00:33:30
shape. And by staying in shape that
00:33:32
mean they play basketball and they play football.
00:33:35
So that's what you call graduating.
00:33:37
Now when you go to when you leave high school and you pick
00:33:41
up a trade, say you're good with your hands, you want to be a
00:33:44
mechanic. Some people go to Job Corps or
00:33:47
some people go to school, you get a degree and one mind being
00:33:51
a mechanic. But as time goes on, you
00:33:53
graduate to being a manager, supervisor, manager, possibly
00:33:56
becoming the CEO of the branch. So don't look at graduating as a
00:34:01
bad thing because when you're starting something from the
00:34:06
ground up, remember you're starting at the ground, but you
00:34:10
don't know how it is. When you're trying to dig
00:34:12
yourself up to the top. There's certain things that you
00:34:16
gotta maneuver and get through, but it's all part of the
00:34:19
process. So don't ever feel bad where you
00:34:23
started. Just always know.
00:34:25
It's like I always tell this one girl, it's only temporary.
00:34:30
So with that being said, for me doing podcasting, I had to learn
00:34:35
how to edit. Now it was tough in the
00:34:40
beginning because I know what to do.
00:34:42
I know if people Will Rock with all type of different edits.
00:34:46
So I had to put in my mind, I think about how I will view
00:34:50
this. So if I'm sitting here looking
00:34:52
at all like home, how would I do this?
00:34:55
If I keep someone's attention Now analytics tell me everything
00:35:00
so everything is rocking. I'm not doing nothing wrong.
00:35:03
It's just process, bunch of competition.
00:35:06
I'm competing with the whole world when it comes to this
00:35:08
podcasting thing 'cause you gotta look at it every.
00:35:11
A lot of people have a podcast. So even though mine is big
00:35:14
overseas in the States, but it's competition all the way around.
00:35:18
So I'm staying consistent, doing what I'm doing, but I'm getting
00:35:24
feedback, so I can't complain. If I wasn't getting feedback, I
00:35:27
wouldn't have made it this long. Thanks.
00:35:31
And then posting consistently, consistently, even when the
00:35:36
numbers is low. Now previously I was speaking on
00:35:41
clothing, but this episode is a little different.
00:35:43
Speaking on the podcasting now coming out the blue with
00:35:48
anything, it's gonna be low. So me marketing, posting
00:35:53
consistently, let them know showing clips or whatever it is
00:35:56
that I'm doing. It's how all this came about.
00:36:01
So it's like, OK, it's low in the beginning right now, but
00:36:06
let's see where this go. I post clips, I post the
00:36:10
episodes. It was low views and it's still
00:36:12
low views. YouTube wise, audio wise, Apple
00:36:17
podcast, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music and Spotify.
00:36:21
I get a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of views and listens from all
00:36:27
type of different countries. And so far 10 Asia, Egypt,
00:36:34
Dubai, Japan, Vietnam, Finland, Nigeria, Pakistan, it's just a
00:36:42
lot of different countries, Texas, Tennessee, California,
00:36:46
Mississippi, Atlanta, it's just like a lie.
00:36:49
You know what I'm saying? So now I get into the phase of
00:36:54
where my vision, when I was telling people what I would,
00:36:59
what it what, what it was I was doing, per usual, nobody can
00:37:04
believe me. But as time goes on, he starts
00:37:06
showing proof. Like, Dang, like, is he really,
00:37:10
you know what I'm saying? Like now the people I used to
00:37:12
work with in Dallas, I see them, you know, looking.
00:37:15
I was like, man, I'm I had a lot of fun working with them.
00:37:19
But they ever hear this episode, hear this episode to see this
00:37:22
episode, just know I had a whole lot of fun working with y'all
00:37:25
and I try to stay in contact with a lot of y'all the best way
00:37:28
I can. I'll be seeing y'all looking.
00:37:30
I really appreciate that 'cause I function which owned on the
00:37:34
real. We had a lot of fun working
00:37:35
together and I missed them days. But just remember this people.
00:37:42
People support results. Very few support the process.
00:37:48
So when the process is happening, ain't nobody gonna
00:37:53
believe nothing, nothing. But when they see the results.
00:37:59
Oh, OK, let me hit that follow button.
00:38:02
Let me subscribe. Let me see what's going on.
00:38:05
So I always remember that. So it's just part of the
00:38:08
process. The best way I can put it, the
00:38:11
best way I can put it. And then you gotta remember that
00:38:18
consistency scare people because you're taking something serious
00:38:22
in life, which they took for granted in life because they
00:38:26
want to fit in. Fit in is good.
00:38:29
It's only temporary when you're building longevity.
00:38:33
When you grow, they look at they envy you because it's like,
00:38:37
well, how can you tell me this? How can you tell me that I tried
00:38:40
to you were stuck on what you were stuck on.
00:38:43
So I'll let you live what you was living and I did me.
00:38:46
Now, however, the tips fall in life.
00:38:50
You can't blame me for something I was doing for me when I was
00:38:53
trying to bring you along. You wasn't rocking with it.
00:38:56
Cool, you did what you did. Just live with whatever it is
00:38:59
your truth is and that's it. A lot of people deal with that
00:39:03
too because people that they try to bring along try to make them
00:39:07
feel guilty because they knew they made the wrong choice, but
00:39:10
they didn't believe what it whatever it was you was trying
00:39:13
to build. So now with that being said, per
00:39:17
usual, you should have brought me along.
00:39:20
Nah, if he wasn't rocking with, he just went rocking with it.
00:39:24
So it's like you can't make me feel guilty on something I chose
00:39:30
to do and you chose what you want to do.
00:39:32
And what I'm seeing in today's life is a lot of people is not
00:39:36
taking the responsibility of the choices they made.
00:39:38
They trying to make another person feel guilty, make
00:39:40
themselves feel better even though they made a bad choice.
00:39:44
And that generational curse, that's one way of looking at
00:39:49
things. So and then the next thing is
00:39:53
most people are quiet early because they don't know if
00:39:58
you're going to take this serious and they don't know
00:40:00
where it's going to go. You got to be mindful that a lot
00:40:02
of people never been around folks outside of sports and
00:40:06
entertainment to build something from the ground up and keep it
00:40:09
going. So to see it in real life, it's
00:40:12
like, oh wow, I didn't expect all that.
00:40:15
So depending on how your interaction was with that
00:40:20
person. You could take it personal or
00:40:23
you can be like, you could just chalk it up and just give him a
00:40:25
try. But it all depends on your
00:40:27
interaction with the individual. So I wouldn't say kick them to
00:40:31
the curb, but be mindful on your interaction because sometimes it
00:40:38
might not be exactly what you're thinking.
00:40:40
But as time will go on dealing with people, they will
00:40:45
eventually show themselves. Oh, and then staying committed
00:40:51
when nobody's clapping. When I started this podcast, you
00:40:55
know, 1, not too many people rocking with it.
00:40:57
So I got a lot of views overseas randomly.
00:41:01
So they rock with it and they follow me on social media.
00:41:07
They pop up on the lives, you know, I'll be seeing them when I
00:41:11
see the air. I was like, oh, OK, so they they
00:41:13
really rocking with this. The UK also Russia other spots
00:41:18
that I'm thinking off the top of my head.
00:41:20
So be mindful people that it doesn't, it might seem like a
00:41:26
slow period, but things are moving.
00:41:30
Just remember once motion starts happening, people start moving
00:41:36
different. That is what I'm experiencing
00:41:39
right now. I can't speak on actually who it
00:41:42
is, but I'm noticing a lot of difference of interaction with
00:41:47
people. And I don't know how to take it
00:41:52
because I always had a popular, been popular in a roundabout
00:41:59
way, not mainstream all across the city or anything like that.
00:42:03
But you know, low key. But now this is different
00:42:07
because I'm going, I'm growing global.
00:42:11
The company is being recognized. And the way it's looking, I
00:42:16
might be on the road to turn this into a Fortune 500 company.
00:42:21
And for people that never seen it from the ground up, I was
00:42:26
born in 88. I seen Suge Knight, P Diddy, J
00:42:31
Prince Birdman, Jay-Z, Dame Dash Diddy.
00:42:38
You know, I've seen a lot of people built themselves on the
00:42:41
ground up. So I never would chase viral
00:42:46
success because I had seen it grow throughout the years.
00:42:50
Wu Tang, just to name a couple. That was a rap group, though
00:42:55
that's not really a mobile. Jermaine Dupri, Kanye West,
00:43:00
$0.50, Eminem, you know, they all went through steps and they
00:43:04
just grew. So this is pre Internet, pre
00:43:08
social media. So just another way of things to
00:43:12
look at stuff. So I am going to get ready to
00:43:18
close all this out, but just remember people, even though I
00:43:24
started a podcast, I had to deal with silent hate, fake
00:43:30
engagement. People ask me questions trying
00:43:33
to figure out whatever it is I got going on and I have to deal
00:43:38
with it on a daily. Now mind you, I work full time.
00:43:42
So people on the job, seeing what you're doing outside of the
00:43:45
workplace, they'll get mad at that.
00:43:48
It doesn't matter whatever it is that you're doing.
00:43:50
You can be the cook at McDonald's.
00:43:52
You can go from the cook to the manager, cook, supervisor, cook,
00:43:59
maintenance cook to whatever the case may be.
00:44:02
It doesn't matter what it is. Somebody's gonna have something
00:44:05
to say and somebody's gonna hate on it.
00:44:08
The best way that you can do is write down on a sheet of paper
00:44:13
late at night when it's just you and you think about whatever it
00:44:17
is that you want to do. It's called a new year
00:44:19
resolution and stick to it. And when you stick into
00:44:23
something that you want to do, it doesn't matter what other
00:44:26
people think, you know, wrote this down on pen and paper,
00:44:30
which makes it official document.
00:44:32
And all you got to do is follow whatever it is that you put down
00:44:34
on that pen and paper and give yourself three to four years
00:44:39
before it can blossom. And if it doesn't blossom, keep
00:44:43
that same mentality, just transfer it to something
00:44:46
different and new. You already got experience,
00:44:49
three to four years experience on doing whatever it is that you
00:44:52
was trying to do, but now you're about to get into a phase of
00:44:56
doing something different. So you're experienced, you
00:44:58
already know what to do. And if the new company takes
00:45:02
off, you can backtrack and go back to what you did in the
00:45:04
beginning and revamp that and rebrand it.
00:45:08
Now people just remember it doesn't matter what you're doing
00:45:13
as long as you're staying all the way true and legit.
00:45:16
Because remember that people always gonna have something to
00:45:19
say and you just gotta Chuck it up with it with a can of paint
00:45:24
because people got mouths and they gonna talk all day.
00:45:27
Now what they talking about is not matching what they saying
00:45:31
and living. I wouldn't pay no attention to
00:45:34
them. But if you don't watch whatever
00:45:36
it is that you're doing and it's grinding and building, stay on
00:45:40
top of that and keep it going. Because just remember, you got
00:45:43
one life, one body. Make the best choices to keep it
00:45:48
going as long as you can and enjoy life.
00:45:53
So before I wrap this up, understand something.
00:45:57
Your story isn't random, your grind isn't invisible, and where
00:46:03
you are heading is bigger than where you started.
00:46:07
There's no shortcuts, no excuses.
00:46:10
It's just discipline, pressure and purpose.
00:46:13
If this episode hits you, don't just watch, move, subscribe,
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share it with somebody building something real.
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00:46:30
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