September 4, 2025 • 38 mins
Media Personality and Motivational speaker Joshua Rosa has figured out how to reach the masses without a huge team or big budget just faith, grit, and GOD by his side. 🚀
In this conversation, Joshua opens up growing up Dominican, Fatherhood and his journey to viral success which proves that impact doesn’t require an army.
Now part of iHeartRadio’s My Cultura Podcast Network, Joshua is using his platform and his show, Made For This Mountain, to inspire thousands. His mission?
To help people rise above struggles, break free from trauma, and silence the voices that say they’re not enough. Through raw stories and real talk, Joshua reminds us that the mountain in front of you isn’t here to break you it’s here to build you. 💪✨
Get ready for an episode that will light a fire under your faith, mindset, and purpose. Because you weren’t made to be buried by your mountain. You were made to climb it. 🏔️
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Come Again. A podcast by Honey.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
German, Joshua Thross, Bim Benito, The Grasses Come Again. We're
talking podcaster, we're talking father, author, creative follower, and just
the man out here overall just helping us heal. That's
(00:25):
how I found you. I was like, this guy's making
me feel real good right now, tell us a little
bit about you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm just a person that desires to help other people,
and that's always been the premise of what I do.
So that's kind of how I fell into this realm
of like social media and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, you were an extrovert at any point, because I
read that online.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm like, I'm extroverted on stage, so I know really well,
like in front of people in crowds. But then when
you're like one on one, I'm awkward. It's like, do
you like cheese? Like I don't know what to talk about?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So do you feel awkward right now? Not?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm tired of a mix that we decided it was
a good idea to be out late yesterday and that
was a mistake.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But all right, what's the number one title that you
would put upon yourself if you had to pick a
label and put it here, What would it be?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's like a deep question. I think I think out
of all those things, followers the most important, because I
think the only the other Obviously the faith in my
faith is a big point, but just that word itself,
because I think I had so much meat to it.
It's knowing that it's not all about me that I'm
following to lead.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I think followers a good word religion. What happened
that triggered that? You're very young, you know, and sometimes
young people tend to, you know, shy away from religion.
They're like, I'll do it when I get older, you know,
I'll do it when I'm forty fifty sixty. How did
you end up so connected with God? And you grew
up Catholic? Right, but then you went on a retreat
(01:48):
and there was like a moment what happened exactly?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, So there's the Catholic Church or something called the
Uchastic Adoration. I'm problems. They called the Charismatic Renewal, So
it's different. So it's like praise and worship and you know,
like preach good charismatic preaching. But there was a moment
of something with the Euchros, Jesus and the U Christ
and my cousin invited me. So sorry, sorry, I'm always
a musician. I was drummer for years. My cousin was like, oh,
come to his retreat and I was like, bro, I'm
(02:12):
not interested, Like that's not really my thing. He's like,
this is gonna be girls there. So it's like pick
me up at seven. I was like, I mean, but yeah.
So we went to the retreat and blow and behold.
I opened up and I was like, you know what,
let me let me actually be involved this, let me
not just go through the motion, and encountered Jesus there
and it's been an amazing story ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
When you say I encountered Jesus, can we get into
that because a lot of people like I want to
sign from God. I want to feel like God talking
to me. How did it happen for you? Like how
do you know that Jesus came into your heart or
touched you or whichever way you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Want to see it in that moment? Like that encounter
for me was like overwhelming like love, like just this
warmth and just like crying like vocals like everywhere, it
was just all into I was like, Wow, this is
God is real and that was a premise of it.
But there's like this big misconception that people think that
to follow God you have to feel God always.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's God's love, right, So it's that choice of choosing
to follow love that it is to choose everything else.
And that's our human arrogance that we think that God
has to prove himself to us. But we could dive
into a deep hole with that. But Yeah, just felt
that moment that God was real, and then after that
knowing that I don't always have to feel to know.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do you feel like you always have to move in
a in a Catholic manner or do you have your
moments where you're just Josh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So I think there's something called scrupulosity, which is a
fun word to saying. Scrupulosity is when you over make
yourself religious, where you overreligiousize yourself, and to be honest
in that sphere is very easy to fall into that
because as a speaker, I speak in conferences of four
or five thousand people in the church, so I do
have to carry myself in a certain manner. But the
(03:53):
reason I should want to carry myself in that manner
is because of me not because I need to prove
anything to anyone or look the type of I do
agree in that sense that sometimes people look at those
people and they think they make they make some sayings
right away. That's not true. I'm super flawed, super broken.
I make mistakes every single day. But at the end
of the day, it's what I go back to, not
what I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I say it because sometimes, you know, I go to
church and I am around people that go to church,
and sometimes you know, they slip up and say it curse.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm like, oh, they're just like me, yeah, oh yeah,
I mean I'm not I'm not justifying it. But this
is the truth. It's who you are. It's like, you
don't have to fake the funk if you do love Jesus,
Love Jesus, but you're also a person, like you're gonna
live in this world. Just try to live in this
world better.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What was the first moment that you picked up a
camera and you decided I'm gonna speak to people what
it Was it straight about religion or was it more about,
you know, just healing self worth, you know, life purpose
or did you straight what I like, start with God
and preaching the word.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, so for me, like I was, I was an
intense actually, like during the COVID time, that is when
I started out. For me like that, I was like, oh, well,
I'm not traveling to go speak to places, I might
as well shift to this platform. But then I realized
that there was a lot of people that didn't necessarily
relate or connect with what I was already doing. So
I kind of made that transition because it was more
(05:14):
about connecting to people than it was just trying to
force a message for them to receive. It was more
like about them than anything else. So during that COVID time,
I started, I picked up my camera and I started
doing that stuff. Awkward was very Oh, speaking to the
camera was the most awkward thing in the world. It's
still is to this day.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It is for me too, Like record a video and
send it. I'm like, this is awkward, but you turn
it on right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, you do it like ten times because you want
to get it right, and you mess up here and there.
But yeah, I think for me that was the start
of it, like during the COVID time, and then it
shifted over. I started doing like media stuff and branding
stuff for other people and other companies. And then I
was like, well, I can't tell people that I can
help them grow like their social media platforms if I
only have like two thousand followers on mine. So I
decided to use my gifting and be very intentional, and
(05:55):
in the first like two weeks, I think I grew
up to like ten thousand followers I want to count,
and now everything's were like seven hundred thousand over two platforms.
But that was like the snowball from that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Do you remember what was your first video that went viral?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, it was actually a J Cole video. There was
a point where you would google J Cole and it
would be Ja Cole and me. So it was like
he was saying, is uh, He's like, I'm trying of
living with demons because they keep inviting more that line
that he has, and I went.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Off of that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I talked about the reality that the reason that a
lot of us are still struggling things is because we
married the struggle. We made ourselves into this character trait
of the things that were the worst, and we went
into that and that video went like super viral. It
did like ten million views on social media, and that
was the one that just pushed everything no, uh ja
(06:43):
Coole adjacent j Cole ad Jason. So no, that's that
is the man that I got to send them a
message like bro, thanks to that line, because you know
that line got me here. But I do have friends
who are like Boz. His brothers friends were friends with him.
So my cousin went to school with him. So that's
the connection there. My cousin's actually a musician on tour.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Of course. Favorite album.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Favorite album is crazy, I say the one I want
you to. Actually, I don't think. I don't think it's
an album for me. I think it was his mixtapes
with Dollar Dreamers in the Game, Yeah, that was that
was I think the mixtape was actually called Dollard a
Dream too. The single was Dollard a Dream and the
whole mixtape that was for me.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So you've been a day one oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, that's yeah. Jaco's man, right, is a man. It's
just a lyrical poet like it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It connects, and it's very much like the content you
put out. It's just it's real. Anybody can connect, anybody
can feel like I'm going through the same struggle. You don't. Granted,
he's rich, he's a celebrity, but it's still hits. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I appreciate people like that because they allow themselves to
be vulnerable. You see the whole story, Like Gray Cole
was sleeping on a couch like Boz's mother's couch. Because
it isn't saying to me like that's but it's owning
that story and staying with it, e staying rooted with
it because it's easy with all that money to never care.
You could just become famous and not care about where
you came from, but then you lose your authenticity.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So the couch that Jacob was sleeping on was who boss?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Actually he lived in their their second floor apartment.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's so I know he visits when he comes back.
And I've seen the footage of like the guy. Yeah,
I like the guy. I didn't even know that was
that relationship.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, so the owner of the house was a different person,
but they lived there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh okay, I see because I've seen I think I've
seen the owner of the house. This is super dope,
this is super cool. Where are you originally from?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Dominican background?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I love this. He said, you Domini.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So there's actually Dominican father's days, there's your father's and
the Dominican Festival. We're just talking about in the Bronx.
That's probably Condla right now.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But I forget if we had other guests throughout the
day that they were like, oh, sorry, we're going to
go to the Dominican Festival, like enjoy see you another time.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Hopefully we'll see you another time because in the Bronx
becon the but yeah, and my family's from the Bronx,
so they move from the R to the Bronx and
now Jersey, so beautiful state of New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And you were born in the Bronx, so you're a
BX Dominican.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay, yeah, I'm hoping to go this month. Actually I
haven't bought the flight yet.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Bro. But they moved to La.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They're living there now, funny enough, and some of them
are here visiting. So she's going back to seventeen. So
I want to visit that time for Copita.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Are you going to speak or are you going to
just going.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
To hopefully not get robbed?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Stop? It's rough out there. But I don't know, I
feel super safe when I go to Dominican Republic. I
don't know why. I just feel like these that's you know, obviously,
I make it so that I'm not you know, you
know what I'm saying. I play my position, you know
what I'm saying. But when I can go to the
supermarket and everything, my mom is currently there. You know,
(09:56):
she likes to live there between Florida and Dominican and
probably put it on the job. Miss for you is
I get a You know Dominican moms, you know, at
the end of the day, they want to be spoiled
and they don't work this hard to then end up
here eventually. Don't do Your mom still will now.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Fortunately she died in twenty one.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
My mom was not a she was a Dominican mom,
but she was an American Dominican mom. So you know,
I did not learn this whole thing of how Dominican
moms overloved their sons. It is discussed, but I didn't
learn this until my grandma. Like spending more time with
my grandma, Like I could like kick a baby, and
she's like that kid deserved it, Like she's just I
could do. She would come and follow up like squad.
(10:49):
So I didn't let My mom was very different. Mom
was like, no, we're not We're not playing that like
she was like, hey, you're gonna do that and I'm
not going to support any other problem.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And I'm like, okay, and you know what, I thank
her for trying to break that site.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, because it's not it's not healthy, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Not you know, and it's a problem in my family.
I have a brother and he can do no wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And that's trying to get such a bad rap as
Dominican men.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
There's a mom's fault. It's not even arts dominic. I'm
Dominican and I'm not. I do not dig Dominican because
I thank you Mom.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Listen, we need to break the stigma. Ndminican men are amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Love them. Here he go, here go your father is
boy or girl son? Luke? Okay, so you're not gonna
do none of that nonsense with Luke.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh no, he's not. Again, you get support, but not
that kind of support. How is he's eight months today?
Actually he's a little took his first step yesterday, eight
months eight months?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How smart is he?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Super? And my my thing, I feel like I'm doing
it right right now because every time he cries, I
put deepe go on and he starts dancing and I'm
like that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So so connected, you know, with your you know Dominican side.
You know, sometimes people start leaning towards like, you know areas.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I think it's important to know where you came from
and love it, like that's the reality. You can't we
can't lose our Like that's one of our biggest fear.
I do not speak English. That kid, he will not
hear English work for me because if I slip up,
I'll correct myself and then say it in Spanish because
I want him to keep that, you know, that's that's important.
It's our culture do we come from to who we are?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Joshua said, he's not going to be You've heard about that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh yeah, it's and not a dig on anyone that
I've lost that. But there's just so much beauty to
being able to connect and being like, my grandmother is
very young, so he was He's definitely going to grow
up with her, God willing, and I want that to
be like, you know, a relationship that they can have.
But he can speak to her and show understand completely.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So you know, the duality of being able to exist
in two languages is absolutely beautiful. Like I say all
the time, if I have to interview in English only
or Spanish only. The whole time. I feel a little
tense because I'm over analyzing every word and say, because.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Just sit there and stare at each other for a
little bit, and you know, you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Translate words from English to Spanish at least I do,
like I gotta find the wrong one, and I don't
want to say the wrong one, because you know, Spanish
words sometimes they don't mean what they really do.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yea his own thing, especially in the Dominican dialect, because
those are some words aren't words. We just make stuff
up because.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The thing was Dominicans like we still have you know,
Taino dialect, we have Spaniard dialect like and we put
it all together, yeah, you know tando, Like who says Toniana?
What is that? I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I was given to talk on and in this talk
I was talking about like lo for sure, like this
this daughter who fell in love with her husband that
got married and she used to cut the benede in
half and put it in a byline and all stuff,
and she did all these things. And the whole premise
of the story was that there's this trauma that's passed
down to generation, and we teach that consistently, and we
keep doing those things because that's what's taught. So it's strained.
(13:56):
So the whole tell the story. And then in the room,
I'm like, I know, what do you guys say? By
Oh you heard that story. It's such a good one.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's it's an amazing story. I've heard it with him,
I've heard it from me. I changed to believe because
it depends on, you know, color your skin.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So I said that. I was like, oh, oh not
Bilot's almost was a pilot. I was like, oh no,
oh yeah, And I started naming, like all these things
are the same exact things, but in different dialects mean
something different.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's crazy at he says, when a pilot and the
word it's actually a pyrex Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, a polo shirt. It's like we make up all
these things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I just Dominican, we're so colorful and we're so we're
just beautiful people. Not because I'm Dominican, but when I
go to Dominican Republic, I feel wanted. I feel like
people want to serve, you know, they want to cater
to you. And I understand what tourism also has to
do with money, but I've gone to places where tourism
and money and they could care less than we're there.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So I because literally twodays you have the comfort. So
my cousin is a guitarist. He plays for a pitple,
so he's on tour pit and they were in Bermuda
and he was saying like it was like comparing the
two people like Dominicans, how they are there and the
people in Bermuda. No offense to people in Bermuda, but
they were just straight up like, so you're not gonna
tip me?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Straight up?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
He's like, what, at least in dr they'll like, butter
you up and it looks skinny. Huh, It's like you're
ten dollars, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And then you're like, okay, some countries they.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Will be like that straight up. It was like, yeah,
where's my tip?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You know, made for this month, let's talk about it.
The concept behind it. If no one's ever heard your podcast,
what can they expect if they go to your channel?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So the whole goal is to challenge people, Like I
think the reason that we don't change is because we
don't challenge the things we've taught. We've become accustomed to
just staying and things, and for me, that was a
big one. Like even now, Like again, I never professed
to be perfect or know everything, but at the very
least I can communicate the things that I've rid or
seen and things that I'm challenging myself with. I think
it's good to put it out there and say, listen,
(16:00):
this is what I'm being challenged with. What are you
being challenged with? And then challenge people to be better
in those things. Why don't we do that right now?
What's the challenge?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm gonna tell you my challenge. You will help me,
cause I feel like you're here to lead, You're here
to you know, help us heal. I think my challenge is,
you know, being patient with men and understanding that they're
sensitive and they have feelings.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, that's hard because I think we live in the
world that's villainized men. So men, like we talk about
mental health and Men's Mental Health Month, and it's always
like a passive thing. Actually, there was like a video
that went viral on TikTok where it wasn't my Thank god,
it wasn't mine. This woman was like talking about She's like, okay,
let's take a silence for men's mental health and then
(16:45):
she literally took like a half a second. She's like, Okay,
we're done, and I was like, but that's the problem
that we create a culture that implodes in itself because
we villainize men and then blame them for being the villain.
So it's like, you're bad and you're doing bad things,
and no matter how much you try.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You're still bad.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I think for us to change that, we need to
realize again that men are human, that they have emotions,
that they go through things that they are are invited
and welcome to feel. And we don't let men feel
because especially Dominicans like I just I'm not bashing with
people again, but I see I make this joke, and
this is a joke. I don't mean this, but I
say to Myselwa's crying, like we only cry in the shower.
(17:21):
This to be funny. I'm not really saying you already
get in.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well anyway, it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Though, but it's this reality that we have to understand
that men are men, and they're human, and they deserve
to be loved and patient with too, like looking for
that patience. Is it rooted on something they're doing, or
is it rooted on something that has been ingrained in
my trauma to respond, and most of us respond from
our trauma and not from our actual self. Right, we
(17:47):
respond from the first reaction and not the thought process.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I think, you know, with men, they put up such
a strong front from little that then us women we're
just like, oh, he's strong, Oh he got this, Well
he don't care or he don't got It's like it,
I feel like they're partially to blame because you shrug
everything off and I don't care, and I don't give
a fuck you know what I'm saying and move on
on and who cares. I'm a man, I got this,
And like you said, from little, we watch our mom like,
(18:15):
don't you know what I'm saying? So it's I think
it's a combination of both. I feel like I have
to break those you know, those I don't want to
call them stereotypes with those expectations that I have. But
it's just like, he's a man, he's fine, he could
take it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But I also think it's twofold because I don't want
to take away the work aspect of it, because as
a human, not just as a man, as a man
or of woman, you should get up and do the
things you need to do. You should get up and
go to work, you should get up and put the
effort and put the time in. It's it's it's not
gender based. It's never human. Yeah, so I do agree
(18:48):
that that has to happen. I just think that we
can't overhype what the role is. Like we say, well,
this is your role. No, this is our role, and
how do we work together to make this more efficient?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know, I'm a female that has a lot of
masculine energies. I don't ever be like the man has
to do this, Like if you let me, I'll lead,
I'll be the man. You tell me what you feel,
And so that at least I don't struggle with that.
I just kind of struggle with like, if I got
to tell you sign, I'm gonna tell you what needs
to be told. I ain't gonna be sensitive, I ain't
(19:21):
gonna be sweet, I ain't gonna be calm about it.
But then it's just like I feel like Josh is
a man, he got this.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
But I also think that that's the dynamic of the
relationship that you have, right, because some people might not
be that way, Like, and I don't think so I do.
I could see where there's friction when the man isn't
the leader because it's not necessarily Again, it's not the
gender biased thing, but it is a natural thing, so
it should be naturally new. But then we could dive
into deep hole with that too, because people are raised differently,
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they have different problems, different traumas, and they respond from
those things. But I do think that every relationship specifically
comes down to that fact, what do we agree on?
What are we doing in how we're doing it? Because
I can't expect you to do something without ever telling
you about it. You're not psychic, You're good.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I like you.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I just listen, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah. I've watched all your videos and you come off
genuine and you come up. You know, there is a
lot of people that are putting on your social media.
How easy does it come for you to record these videos?
Because I'm also a life coach, and if coach everybody
in my life. But I can't I can't see myself
getting on video and like doing what you do. It
(20:30):
just feels so good and so natural. What kind of
space do you have to put yourself in to do this?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, I definitely need a lot of like alone time.
So again I'm an introvert, so I'm very sure. So
I did a lot of recharge time, Like after this,
I'm gonna go home and sleep for like an hour,
like I'm just stare at a war or something.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Why what does it make you feel?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's just it's just the exertion of exerting yourself and
being extra and pushing yourself out of there because I
like to just sit and chill like I'm not. I
don't like clubs. I like that kind of stuff. I
rather had out my boys and just have a beer
here and there. Nothing crazy, you know, So for me,
like to me to be outside of things, it just
is extra. But especially when it comes to like those videos,
(21:08):
is very taxing. It is to sit here and like
really plan out and jot out what's what's going to
be said, and and not just what's going to be said,
but is it going to provide value? Because I could
just sit there and just talk and that doesn't mean nothing.
It's not gonna help anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So it does.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It does take energy and giving myself the space to
do it. And then on top of that, I do
all the editing and everything and all the audio and
literally every everything to the tea. So I was mentioned
it before that it's just.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
A lot of work.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So it's taxings. But the greatest thing I've gotten so recently,
TikTok decided they were gonna take me out of the
Creator Fund, which is a big thing for me because
apparently had a business account. You're not supposed to have that.
But they put me back, so we're good. Okay, we
need that money because that really helped. That was a big, big,
big push for me to do that stuff. But then
(21:57):
what I was seeing was all the comments, like all
the people but that were receiving something, other people that
were being healed, they're going through a process of healing.
I am that's great to see the actual fruits, right
because that's the thing that you're like, Okay, I'm not
getting paid, but somebody's getting something, so that matters. And
shout out to Michael Tura and iHeart because they also
(22:17):
make it a lot easier for me to make content.
And I don't know if I can talk about that, right,
I mean, okay, cool, cool, good, Yeah, that's the boss.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I don't really talk about money, but we literally do.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I know what happens behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Which is awesome because that wasn't something that wasn't even
in the radar like that was. So I got an
email and the email was like, Hey, we love what
you're doing on social media.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I love this because that means they're watching.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, which to me again is why you got to
know who you're talking to. Would be before we dive
into yesterday, my boy my boys of barber and my
other boys of barber I mean barber shop. And he's
like a celebrity barber. So he's like, I don't know,
it doesn't matter for how and he's jay Z's barber
used to be. His name is Johnny Johnny Johnny Cakes
shout out to Johnny. Johnny was cutting somebody yesterday. So
(23:08):
we're having a banter, you know, to be the barber shop,
being funny talking and when I'm cool with people, I'm
like hilarious. I'm like top five that are a lot
funniest people in the room. And we're talking and like
wherever and the person sitting in the chairs telling the
story about something Johnny did when they were in Paris.
So whatever, he finished cutting the hair and a maid
(23:28):
back pulls up. He leaves and he jumps in the
back and he leaves, and he's like, yeah, that was
I'm not gonna say which one, but he was like, yeah,
that was the head of this record label completely and
I'm like, I was just sitting next to this man
talking making jokes. But this is the whole premise of
there is like, you gotta just be good to people
because you don't know who you're around, not because you're
gonna get something out of them, but because it might help.
So iHeart reaching out or Michael Tura reaching out was
(23:51):
a premise of that, it's just being good to people
because you don't know who's watching, You don't know who's
gonna help you out when you need help, and that premise.
So they reached out. I didn't believe it. I was like,
this is this is a scam. They're about to take
my paychecks. So I actually reverse searched the email. I
checked the IP to iHeart specifically because it wasn't her IPI,
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and I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Like, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I was like, Okay, it's real, and I still don't believe.
I got the first check, the Ford the thing they
can first, and I deposited my account and I took
money out and I'm like, this is still not real.
That is good of the time, but somebody's about to
hit me with like a fraud or something.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
They can reverse reverse, reverse that check it everything go negative.
You know, when I saw that you were a part
of Michael Do It, I was like, I love this
because I like the message that you're delivering, and it
puts us in a space where it's just not you know,
celebrities and you know influencers that move in the music space,
but it's someone that is actually putting out content, you know,
based on their faith, and what you're doing is helping
(24:51):
us heal digitally. You know, the content on social media
can be so toxic and you know, just so damaging
that when I see someone like you that's not let's say,
like a Joe Oldstein or you know what I'm saying.
You're relatable and I love Joe, but I feel like you.
I received the message easier because I'm like, he's one
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of my people.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Different world completely.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Now you work with the church also, right, I have
here you're like the director of a church.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I used to be director of veglization at a church
at parish. I mean I travel as a speaker for
the church or on your own. I have a ministry
called Actings Day. So I traveled.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Actually you say it, I read it, but it's Agnew's
Day of God Latin word it is la Lam of God.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's just for now, it's just Fernando and I. So
Fernandos are a worship leader. Fernando's like one of the
best worship leaders in New York period. Like I'm not
saying that. Some of my best friends, like dude is anointed,
like he would come and hear he would sing in
this room with change, like he is good.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Why didn't you bring him today?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
But you don't say, but he played percussions, but he's
any very different, are different. But he actually he's actually
he's the cancer out of power. So he has masks
so he has to sing the Mass today. So he's
there all day. But him and I travel leading worship
and preaching and stuff like that. And it's still take
it to do it, like one of my best friends.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And how do you end up traveling? Like who books
you like? Who reaches out? And how how does one
book you if they want it, you know, for you
to go because you know with this podcast, It's like
the amazing thing about it is it's not just heard
in the United States, but any country that speak Spanish
or Spanglish is listening to it. So how does one,
you know, book you or what do you bring to
the table if someone wants, you know, for you to
(26:34):
be in their space.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, so people, you typically will email me, like in
full I made more Motivated dot com, that's the whole thing.
And they would reach out and they would invite me
to typical conferences or local church events and all that's
scaled depending on what they're looking for. But they yeah,
they'll send an email and they'll say, hey, we have
this going on, are you available through that time? Right now,
(26:57):
I'm purposely only taking once an event because I hate
hotels like I hate, I love people, I love engaging,
I love conversation. I hate I do, I do, I
really do. Like I missed my bed. So that's the
right now.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
In general, like okay, I'm like Jesus Christ, let me
finish this up.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
In general, well, traveling, it's like, oh man, I missed
my room. Everything's comfortable and you travel alone, right, yeah,
like sometimes with Fernando, sometimes alone. I think it's better
with somebody else, because you know it's entertaining there you're
kind of just sitting there. It's only so much you
could do as you wait. But I love the interaction
with people. I love connecting with people. So it's dope
in that concept.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
How do you pick, like what you're going to preach
that they or do they tell you we want you
to address this group of people.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, they usually give me a topic like the theme
of like the event or the retreat. It's funny because
actually one of my biggest events I ever spoke at
was an arena in Wisconsin. Forty five hundred people in
this arena, by the way, there were no Dominicans in Wisconsin,
Like literally, it was a big arena, and I'm like,
yeah's Dominican here in one person the top third bro
(28:01):
goes whooh from really far away. I was like one person.
They came to talk to me after I was like, oh,
I'm half I was like, okay, that counts. The bishop
actually celebrating the mask gave my whole talk. So the
whole talk I had ready for that day for that event.
He I guess the whole spirit inspired him. He gave
the whole talk that I was going to give before
(28:22):
you went on, so I had to write there and
change it all up four thousand plus people.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
What did you speak on that day? Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I don't remember. I was so tired. I didn't sleep
for like thirty something hours at that point, so I
was traveling And were you just.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So nervous and so on edge about speaking?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Actually a stage, I'm very very calm.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Oh, you're such a complex person.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It's the stage is easy because it's like.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
An introvert that is calm monster.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I think the word is omnivert. Is that the one
where you could kind of be both, but you're really
lean more to one side.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oh, the dexterity of this man. I read.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The veracity in my words.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I that you can be both.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Okay, no, you could, yeah, parably, that's the thing. So
I think that's what I am. But in the stage
of that, I think it's easier because not that you
don't care as much, but it's like you're the reactions
are different, like it's it's it's nice when like I
get to be funny and people respond to that. That
makes men even better. So in that component, it was
(29:24):
easier because I don't have to overseell, I.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Just just be b So what do you look at?
You know, I've presented artists like in big you know, stadiums,
you know, Prudential Center, the Barclay Center, But when they
invite me to actually speak, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna do it. And then I'm like, oh,
I'm not gonna be able to make it because just
thinking about standing there and addressing a whole group of people.
(29:47):
You said four thousand, Yeah, that's four thousand memori. Now
you what do you consume? Music, movies? What's your thing?
(30:08):
What are you watching right now?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't really watch much TV?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Is that because of your faith?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, that's just because it's my time. It'd be great
if I could just sit down.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And at night you can't eleven to twelve, you can't
watch something or.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You'd rather be ye, I'll watch social media trends so
I could be on the top.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
No, TV is not really my my greatest thing.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Typical typical.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Of course, if you were my playlist right now, you're
on my last play, it will be worship typical and
for some reason, coldplay, oh, because of the.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thing, not play or because of the.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The CEO drama. It's like, that's a good marketing. Someone
does something right, not them, but for at least copplay.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
No, I feel like, I feel like I want you
to give something, you know to our listeners. You know,
a lot of them are living their life, you know
what I'm saying. In the duality of the you know
English span is and a lot of them, I feel like,
want to be content creators, but they're afraid. How can
they just go for it? Like how do they get
just like yo is pick a nee, pick a topic? Like,
(31:11):
how can they also become content creators? And you don't
monetize off of this and you know, maybe go global
the way that you have.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean I think it's finding something you love
and talking about it. So it's at the end of
the day, So the goal should never be to be
famous or successful in them because you will hate it.
It become a job, becoming sure, it becomes something you
don't want to do because then you over overhype numbers,
you overhype analytics, you overhype all these things. I think
that the best way for that is to find something
(31:39):
you love, talk about it, and just think about it.
As you keeping memories, keeping the keeping the thing. My
biggest thing is the one. So something I say often
is I'm more concerned about the one person receiving than
the five million liking. I'm concerned about that one person
receiving the word or the healing they need. And that's
my person. Whoever that figurative person is, that's the person.
So the intention is that to create, to have memories,
(32:03):
or to create for somebody to receive, but never to
create to think that you have to be like because
then we dive into like people pleasing and we do
stuff like that, we we create a new trauma in
ourselves that we think that if people don't respond to
the things I've posted, that I must not be good,
that I must not be talented, that this is not happening.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
So what listen?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
As long as you like it, that's what matters. Create
because you want to create, not because you want to receive.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And I'll tell you this much. Don't worry about having
a team a team. Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Literally, I don't have one.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You're gonna figure it out. You know, you can be
a one man show. You could be a one woman show.
You can be very you know, self taught. You know,
YouTube is there to resource and if you have an iPhone,
that's what you need to turn it around. Or you
know they say used of the back camera, right, and
just start creating and start uploading. Don't sit one more
(32:52):
day with an idea or with a talent or with
a gift that you have and not share it with
the world because you feel like either you don't have
a team, you don't need videographer, you don't need an engineer,
you don't need an editor. You know, just go for it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, it makes my feasier, sure, But of course at
the end of the day, I think I think that's
the greatest thing that I ever had to do because
challenge was that where challenges make you better, to make
you stronger, make you better in the field. Because I
had to create everything on my own. So now I
know the ins and outs of it. I know what works,
what timing has to happened. But that was a process
of sucking. Like the camera that I was using, I'm
(33:27):
now using a Sony FX three, but it's a very
different ballpark to me. Where I was recording, I was
like a cannon like T three or something rebel and
it looked horrible. Like I compare you what I was
doing now, what I used to do then was absolutely horrible.
But I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now if
I didn't start that. So if I didn't have the
horrible even in six months, I'm gonna look back at
(33:48):
the footage I have now and I'm like, man, why
am I highlights so blown? Like that's terrible? Who edited this?
But that's the point. You're gonna improve, but you can't
improve if you don't start. It's not gonna be better,
you know.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And I saw a meanm and it was like, just
started and later make it better. Yeah, and do it?
That should? I tell people all the time. And you
know what it could be it is it your full
time job or do you also keep a job.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So for right now, that's what I'm all I'm doing.
I was very intentional about that, so like I'm still
ministrying preaching, so I still get that I haven't paid
for that, but I also get my social media like
TikTok and stuff and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Is what what I thought you were going to say?
Mus social security?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I'm Dominica, but social security, no, but we have that.
And then I was very intentional about this year, So
I don't know. I think the podcast is well. I
don't really know how to quantify these numbers, because your numbers,
(34:48):
I mean, I see them, but I don't know how
to compare to ask you question because.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't where I'm gonna pick your brain as soon
as you.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Shut that mic off, yeah, because I don't want to
tell about your numbers. But I don't know anything. But
it's doing well for what I see. So my biggest thing, though,
is if this is the only year that I have
this podcast that's happening, this is going to be the
year that I'm gonna try the best. I'm just fully
throw myself into this because the next year it doesn't happen.
It's cool, did it happen? But I gave this year.
I have enjoyed it this year, so no, it will happen.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
And you know, you're just gaining velocity and you know
you're exposure, and I feel like more and more people are,
you know, sending me your content and they're like, you
know this guy, did you see this video? And that's
when I know things are going to start to spin
out of control for someone when all that I see
is this person, and I'm like, why is everybody sending
me the same thing? And that's why I'm like, you
know what, I love your content. But then it started
(35:35):
to be like other people are watching and I'm in
a room and I'm like, oh, they're watching, and I'm like,
you know what, this is dope, And I love what
you're doing and I love that you know you're moving
and existing as a man of faith. So I feel
like I know a lot of men who love God
but are not willing to put it out there on
social media. I don't know if they feel like it's
going to make them feel weak or not cool. But
(35:57):
I want everybody to know loving Jesus is a main
Going to church is super cool. You meet great people,
and you know, if you love God, be proud about it.
Put a sticker on your car because.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
You know what, He's our Jesus. Yeah. No, And I
think I think at the same time, it's like people
are they're so hurt by like church, like church hurt.
People are hurt about that that they're scared to dive
into that really is but just that that quick premise
that it's just you don't follow people, you follow God.
(36:30):
So if you if you if you put your faith
in people, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And actually, Saint Teresa Copcutt one of my favorite sayings
as a senator from from uh the States. He went
over to visit and she was like looking around and
he saw how how efficient things were and how things
were a little messy and stuff like that. But he
asked her the question, He's like, how is it that
you're so successful in such a terrible place? And she responds,
she says, I wasn't called to be successful. I was
called to be faithful.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
And that was like, that's a good one bar.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
That is a bar because the reality is this that
we don't got to be successful. We just have to
be faithful to the things that we're in. You got
to be connected to that and make that the premise
of why you do everything else. And if your faith
is what roots you is you're rooted and grounded and
so be it.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But I love that man. Now, if people want to
find you, how they gonna find you? If you're listening,
you know to this episode today and you've never heard
of Joshua Rosa and you want to follow him, where
are they going to talk to me?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Every platform is underscore Joshua Rosa keeping uniform and easy. Yeah, YouTube,
well you made for this mountain is the podcast, So
YouTube is made for this mountain podcast. And yeah, that's
pretty much the easy way to find me.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
That's dope. Keep doing what you're doing. Man, You're absolutely amazing.
I'm super you know, happy that you're part of Michael
Tuda and iHeartRadio. We need more of us, not only Dominicano,
but you're also you know up north with me. Well connect,
we're gonna bond and you know we're gonna keep building
on this.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I'm monkey. Thank you, thank you for all this, Thank
you for having me on Come Again. Grassiers. Come Again
is a production of Honey German Productions in partnership with
Iheart's Maikundura podcast network.
Come Again. A podcast by Honey.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
German, Joshua Thross, Bim Benito, The Grasses Come Again. We're
talking podcaster, we're talking father, author, creative follower, and just
the man out here overall just helping us heal. That's
(00:25):
how I found you. I was like, this guy's making
me feel real good right now, tell us a little
bit about you.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm just a person that desires to help other people,
and that's always been the premise of what I do.
So that's kind of how I fell into this realm
of like social media and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, you were an extrovert at any point, because I
read that online.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm like, I'm extroverted on stage, so I know really well,
like in front of people in crowds. But then when
you're like one on one, I'm awkward. It's like, do
you like cheese? Like I don't know what to talk about?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So do you feel awkward right now? Not?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm tired of a mix that we decided it was
a good idea to be out late yesterday and that
was a mistake.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But all right, what's the number one title that you
would put upon yourself if you had to pick a
label and put it here, What would it be?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's like a deep question. I think I think out
of all those things, followers the most important, because I
think the only the other Obviously the faith in my
faith is a big point, but just that word itself,
because I think I had so much meat to it.
It's knowing that it's not all about me that I'm
following to lead.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I think followers a good word religion. What happened
that triggered that? You're very young, you know, and sometimes
young people tend to, you know, shy away from religion.
They're like, I'll do it when I get older, you know,
I'll do it when I'm forty fifty sixty. How did
you end up so connected with God? And you grew
up Catholic? Right, but then you went on a retreat
(01:48):
and there was like a moment what happened exactly?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, So there's the Catholic Church or something called the
Uchastic Adoration. I'm problems. They called the Charismatic Renewal, So
it's different. So it's like praise and worship and you know,
like preach good charismatic preaching. But there was a moment
of something with the Euchros, Jesus and the U Christ
and my cousin invited me. So sorry, sorry, I'm always
a musician. I was drummer for years. My cousin was like, oh,
come to his retreat and I was like, bro, I'm
(02:12):
not interested, Like that's not really my thing. He's like,
this is gonna be girls there. So it's like pick
me up at seven. I was like, I mean, but yeah.
So we went to the retreat and blow and behold.
I opened up and I was like, you know what,
let me let me actually be involved this, let me
not just go through the motion, and encountered Jesus there
and it's been an amazing story ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
When you say I encountered Jesus, can we get into
that because a lot of people like I want to
sign from God. I want to feel like God talking
to me. How did it happen for you? Like how
do you know that Jesus came into your heart or
touched you or whichever way you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Want to see it in that moment? Like that encounter
for me was like overwhelming like love, like just this
warmth and just like crying like vocals like everywhere, it
was just all into I was like, Wow, this is
God is real and that was a premise of it.
But there's like this big misconception that people think that
to follow God you have to feel God always.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's God's love, right, So it's that choice of choosing
to follow love that it is to choose everything else.
And that's our human arrogance that we think that God
has to prove himself to us. But we could dive
into a deep hole with that. But Yeah, just felt
that moment that God was real, and then after that
knowing that I don't always have to feel to know.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do you feel like you always have to move in
a in a Catholic manner or do you have your
moments where you're just Josh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So I think there's something called scrupulosity, which is a
fun word to saying. Scrupulosity is when you over make
yourself religious, where you overreligiousize yourself, and to be honest
in that sphere is very easy to fall into that
because as a speaker, I speak in conferences of four
or five thousand people in the church, so I do
have to carry myself in a certain manner. But the
(03:53):
reason I should want to carry myself in that manner
is because of me not because I need to prove
anything to anyone or look the type of I do
agree in that sense that sometimes people look at those
people and they think they make they make some sayings
right away. That's not true. I'm super flawed, super broken.
I make mistakes every single day. But at the end
of the day, it's what I go back to, not
what I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I say it because sometimes, you know, I go to
church and I am around people that go to church,
and sometimes you know, they slip up and say it curse.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm like, oh, they're just like me, yeah, oh yeah,
I mean I'm not I'm not justifying it. But this
is the truth. It's who you are. It's like, you
don't have to fake the funk if you do love Jesus,
Love Jesus, but you're also a person, like you're gonna
live in this world. Just try to live in this
world better.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What was the first moment that you picked up a
camera and you decided I'm gonna speak to people what
it Was it straight about religion or was it more about,
you know, just healing self worth, you know, life purpose
or did you straight what I like, start with God
and preaching the word.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, so for me, like I was, I was an
intense actually, like during the COVID time, that is when
I started out. For me like that, I was like, oh, well,
I'm not traveling to go speak to places, I might
as well shift to this platform. But then I realized
that there was a lot of people that didn't necessarily
relate or connect with what I was already doing. So
I kind of made that transition because it was more
(05:14):
about connecting to people than it was just trying to
force a message for them to receive. It was more
like about them than anything else. So during that COVID time,
I started, I picked up my camera and I started
doing that stuff. Awkward was very Oh, speaking to the
camera was the most awkward thing in the world. It's
still is to this day.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It is for me too, Like record a video and
send it. I'm like, this is awkward, but you turn
it on right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, you do it like ten times because you want
to get it right, and you mess up here and there.
But yeah, I think for me that was the start
of it, like during the COVID time, and then it
shifted over. I started doing like media stuff and branding
stuff for other people and other companies. And then I
was like, well, I can't tell people that I can
help them grow like their social media platforms if I
only have like two thousand followers on mine. So I
decided to use my gifting and be very intentional, and
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in the first like two weeks, I think I grew
up to like ten thousand followers I want to count,
and now everything's were like seven hundred thousand over two platforms.
But that was like the snowball from that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Do you remember what was your first video that went viral?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, it was actually a J Cole video. There was
a point where you would google J Cole and it
would be Ja Cole and me. So it was like
he was saying, is uh, He's like, I'm trying of
living with demons because they keep inviting more that line
that he has, and I went.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Off of that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I talked about the reality that the reason that a
lot of us are still struggling things is because we
married the struggle. We made ourselves into this character trait
of the things that were the worst, and we went
into that and that video went like super viral. It
did like ten million views on social media, and that
was the one that just pushed everything no, uh ja
(06:43):
Coole adjacent j Cole ad Jason. So no, that's that
is the man that I got to send them a
message like bro, thanks to that line, because you know
that line got me here. But I do have friends
who are like Boz. His brothers friends were friends with him.
So my cousin went to school with him. So that's
the connection there. My cousin's actually a musician on tour.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Of course. Favorite album.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Favorite album is crazy, I say the one I want
you to. Actually, I don't think. I don't think it's
an album for me. I think it was his mixtapes
with Dollar Dreamers in the Game, Yeah, that was that
was I think the mixtape was actually called Dollard a
Dream too. The single was Dollard a Dream and the
whole mixtape that was for me.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So you've been a day one oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, that's yeah. Jaco's man, right, is a man. It's
just a lyrical poet like it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It connects, and it's very much like the content you
put out. It's just it's real. Anybody can connect, anybody
can feel like I'm going through the same struggle. You don't. Granted,
he's rich, he's a celebrity, but it's still hits. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I appreciate people like that because they allow themselves to
be vulnerable. You see the whole story, Like Gray Cole
was sleeping on a couch like Boz's mother's couch. Because
it isn't saying to me like that's but it's owning
that story and staying with it, e staying rooted with
it because it's easy with all that money to never care.
You could just become famous and not care about where
you came from, but then you lose your authenticity.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So the couch that Jacob was sleeping on was who boss?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Actually he lived in their their second floor apartment.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's so I know he visits when he comes back.
And I've seen the footage of like the guy. Yeah,
I like the guy. I didn't even know that was
that relationship.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, so the owner of the house was a different person,
but they lived there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh okay, I see because I've seen I think I've
seen the owner of the house. This is super dope,
this is super cool. Where are you originally from?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Dominican background?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I love this. He said, you Domini.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So there's actually Dominican father's days, there's your father's and
the Dominican Festival. We're just talking about in the Bronx.
That's probably Condla right now.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But I forget if we had other guests throughout the
day that they were like, oh, sorry, we're going to
go to the Dominican Festival, like enjoy see you another time.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Hopefully we'll see you another time because in the Bronx
becon the but yeah, and my family's from the Bronx,
so they move from the R to the Bronx and
now Jersey, so beautiful state of New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And you were born in the Bronx, so you're a
BX Dominican.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay, yeah, I'm hoping to go this month. Actually I
haven't bought the flight yet.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Bro. But they moved to La.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
They're living there now, funny enough, and some of them
are here visiting. So she's going back to seventeen. So
I want to visit that time for Copita.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Are you going to speak or are you going to
just going.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
To hopefully not get robbed?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Stop? It's rough out there. But I don't know, I
feel super safe when I go to Dominican Republic. I
don't know why. I just feel like these that's you know, obviously,
I make it so that I'm not you know, you
know what I'm saying. I play my position, you know
what I'm saying. But when I can go to the
supermarket and everything, my mom is currently there. You know,
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she likes to live there between Florida and Dominican and
probably put it on the job. Miss for you is
I get a You know Dominican moms, you know, at
the end of the day, they want to be spoiled
and they don't work this hard to then end up
here eventually. Don't do Your mom still will now.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Fortunately she died in twenty one.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
My mom was not a she was a Dominican mom,
but she was an American Dominican mom. So you know,
I did not learn this whole thing of how Dominican
moms overloved their sons. It is discussed, but I didn't
learn this until my grandma. Like spending more time with
my grandma, Like I could like kick a baby, and
she's like that kid deserved it, Like she's just I
could do. She would come and follow up like squad.
(10:49):
So I didn't let My mom was very different. Mom
was like, no, we're not We're not playing that like
she was like, hey, you're gonna do that and I'm
not going to support any other problem.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And I'm like, okay, and you know what, I thank
her for trying to break that site.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, because it's not it's not healthy, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Not you know, and it's a problem in my family.
I have a brother and he can do no wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And that's trying to get such a bad rap as
Dominican men.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
There's a mom's fault. It's not even arts dominic. I'm
Dominican and I'm not. I do not dig Dominican because
I thank you Mom.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Listen, we need to break the stigma. Ndminican men are amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Love them. Here he go, here go your father is
boy or girl son? Luke? Okay, so you're not gonna
do none of that nonsense with Luke.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh no, he's not. Again, you get support, but not
that kind of support. How is he's eight months today?
Actually he's a little took his first step yesterday, eight
months eight months?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How smart is he?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Super? And my my thing, I feel like I'm doing
it right right now because every time he cries, I
put deepe go on and he starts dancing and I'm
like that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So so connected, you know, with your you know Dominican side.
You know, sometimes people start leaning towards like, you know areas.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I think it's important to know where you came from
and love it, like that's the reality. You can't we
can't lose our Like that's one of our biggest fear.
I do not speak English. That kid, he will not
hear English work for me because if I slip up,
I'll correct myself and then say it in Spanish because
I want him to keep that, you know, that's that's important.
It's our culture do we come from to who we are?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Joshua said, he's not going to be You've heard about that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh yeah, it's and not a dig on anyone that
I've lost that. But there's just so much beauty to
being able to connect and being like, my grandmother is
very young, so he was He's definitely going to grow
up with her, God willing, and I want that to
be like, you know, a relationship that they can have.
But he can speak to her and show understand completely.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So you know, the duality of being able to exist
in two languages is absolutely beautiful. Like I say all
the time, if I have to interview in English only
or Spanish only. The whole time. I feel a little
tense because I'm over analyzing every word and say, because.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Just sit there and stare at each other for a
little bit, and you know, you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Translate words from English to Spanish at least I do,
like I gotta find the wrong one, and I don't
want to say the wrong one, because you know, Spanish
words sometimes they don't mean what they really do.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yea his own thing, especially in the Dominican dialect, because
those are some words aren't words. We just make stuff
up because.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The thing was Dominicans like we still have you know,
Taino dialect, we have Spaniard dialect like and we put
it all together, yeah, you know tando, Like who says Toniana?
What is that? I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I was given to talk on and in this talk
I was talking about like lo for sure, like this
this daughter who fell in love with her husband that
got married and she used to cut the benede in
half and put it in a byline and all stuff,
and she did all these things. And the whole premise
of the story was that there's this trauma that's passed
down to generation, and we teach that consistently, and we
keep doing those things because that's what's taught. So it's strained.
(13:56):
So the whole tell the story. And then in the room,
I'm like, I know, what do you guys say? By
Oh you heard that story. It's such a good one.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's it's an amazing story. I've heard it with him,
I've heard it from me. I changed to believe because
it depends on, you know, color your skin.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
So I said that. I was like, oh, oh not
Bilot's almost was a pilot. I was like, oh no,
oh yeah, And I started naming, like all these things
are the same exact things, but in different dialects mean
something different.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's crazy at he says, when a pilot and the
word it's actually a pyrex Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, a polo shirt. It's like we make up all
these things.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I just Dominican, we're so colorful and we're so we're
just beautiful people. Not because I'm Dominican, but when I
go to Dominican Republic, I feel wanted. I feel like
people want to serve, you know, they want to cater
to you. And I understand what tourism also has to
do with money, but I've gone to places where tourism
and money and they could care less than we're there.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So I because literally twodays you have the comfort. So
my cousin is a guitarist. He plays for a pitple,
so he's on tour pit and they were in Bermuda
and he was saying like it was like comparing the
two people like Dominicans, how they are there and the
people in Bermuda. No offense to people in Bermuda, but
they were just straight up like, so you're not gonna
tip me?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Straight up?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
He's like, what, at least in dr they'll like, butter
you up and it looks skinny. Huh, It's like you're
ten dollars, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And then you're like, okay, some countries they.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Will be like that straight up. It was like, yeah,
where's my tip?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
You know, made for this month, let's talk about it.
The concept behind it. If no one's ever heard your podcast,
what can they expect if they go to your channel?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So the whole goal is to challenge people, Like I
think the reason that we don't change is because we
don't challenge the things we've taught. We've become accustomed to
just staying and things, and for me, that was a
big one. Like even now, Like again, I never professed
to be perfect or know everything, but at the very
least I can communicate the things that I've rid or
seen and things that I'm challenging myself with. I think
it's good to put it out there and say, listen,
(16:00):
this is what I'm being challenged with. What are you
being challenged with? And then challenge people to be better
in those things. Why don't we do that right now?
What's the challenge?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm gonna tell you my challenge. You will help me,
cause I feel like you're here to lead, You're here
to you know, help us heal. I think my challenge is,
you know, being patient with men and understanding that they're
sensitive and they have feelings.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, that's hard because I think we live in the
world that's villainized men. So men, like we talk about
mental health and Men's Mental Health Month, and it's always
like a passive thing. Actually, there was like a video
that went viral on TikTok where it wasn't my Thank god,
it wasn't mine. This woman was like talking about She's like, okay,
let's take a silence for men's mental health and then
(16:45):
she literally took like a half a second. She's like, Okay,
we're done, and I was like, but that's the problem
that we create a culture that implodes in itself because
we villainize men and then blame them for being the villain.
So it's like, you're bad and you're doing bad things,
and no matter how much you try.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
You're still bad.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I think for us to change that, we need to
realize again that men are human, that they have emotions,
that they go through things that they are are invited
and welcome to feel. And we don't let men feel
because especially Dominicans like I just I'm not bashing with
people again, but I see I make this joke, and
this is a joke. I don't mean this, but I
say to Myselwa's crying, like we only cry in the shower.
(17:21):
This to be funny. I'm not really saying you already
get in.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well anyway, it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Though, but it's this reality that we have to understand
that men are men, and they're human, and they deserve
to be loved and patient with too, like looking for
that patience. Is it rooted on something they're doing, or
is it rooted on something that has been ingrained in
my trauma to respond, and most of us respond from
our trauma and not from our actual self. Right, we
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respond from the first reaction and not the thought process.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I think, you know, with men, they put up such
a strong front from little that then us women we're
just like, oh, he's strong, Oh he got this, Well
he don't care or he don't got It's like it,
I feel like they're partially to blame because you shrug
everything off and I don't care, and I don't give
a fuck you know what I'm saying and move on
on and who cares. I'm a man, I got this,
And like you said, from little, we watch our mom like,
(18:15):
don't you know what I'm saying? So it's I think
it's a combination of both. I feel like I have
to break those you know, those I don't want to
call them stereotypes with those expectations that I have. But
it's just like, he's a man, he's fine, he could
take it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But I also think it's twofold because I don't want
to take away the work aspect of it, because as
a human, not just as a man, as a man
or of woman, you should get up and do the
things you need to do. You should get up and
go to work, you should get up and put the
effort and put the time in. It's it's it's not
gender based. It's never human. Yeah, so I do agree
(18:48):
that that has to happen. I just think that we
can't overhype what the role is. Like we say, well,
this is your role. No, this is our role, and
how do we work together to make this more efficient?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know, I'm a female that has a lot of
masculine energies. I don't ever be like the man has
to do this, Like if you let me, I'll lead,
I'll be the man. You tell me what you feel,
And so that at least I don't struggle with that.
I just kind of struggle with like, if I got
to tell you sign, I'm gonna tell you what needs
to be told. I ain't gonna be sensitive, I ain't
(19:21):
gonna be sweet, I ain't gonna be calm about it.
But then it's just like I feel like Josh is
a man, he got this.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
But I also think that that's the dynamic of the
relationship that you have, right, because some people might not
be that way, Like, and I don't think so I do.
I could see where there's friction when the man isn't
the leader because it's not necessarily Again, it's not the
gender biased thing, but it is a natural thing, so
it should be naturally new. But then we could dive
into deep hole with that too, because people are raised differently,
(19:49):
they have different problems, different traumas, and they respond from
those things. But I do think that every relationship specifically
comes down to that fact, what do we agree on?
What are we doing in how we're doing it? Because
I can't expect you to do something without ever telling
you about it. You're not psychic, You're good.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I like you.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I just listen, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah. I've watched all your videos and you come off
genuine and you come up. You know, there is a
lot of people that are putting on your social media.
How easy does it come for you to record these videos?
Because I'm also a life coach, and if coach everybody
in my life. But I can't I can't see myself
getting on video and like doing what you do. It
(20:30):
just feels so good and so natural. What kind of
space do you have to put yourself in to do this?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, I definitely need a lot of like alone time.
So again I'm an introvert, so I'm very sure. So
I did a lot of recharge time, Like after this,
I'm gonna go home and sleep for like an hour,
like I'm just stare at a war or something.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Why what does it make you feel?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's just it's just the exertion of exerting yourself and
being extra and pushing yourself out of there because I
like to just sit and chill like I'm not. I
don't like clubs. I like that kind of stuff. I
rather had out my boys and just have a beer
here and there. Nothing crazy, you know, So for me,
like to me to be outside of things, it just
is extra. But especially when it comes to like those videos,
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is very taxing. It is to sit here and like
really plan out and jot out what's what's going to
be said, and and not just what's going to be said,
but is it going to provide value? Because I could
just sit there and just talk and that doesn't mean nothing.
It's not gonna help anyone.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So it does.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It does take energy and giving myself the space to
do it. And then on top of that, I do
all the editing and everything and all the audio and
literally every everything to the tea. So I was mentioned
it before that it's just.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
A lot of work.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So it's taxings. But the greatest thing I've gotten so recently,
TikTok decided they were gonna take me out of the
Creator Fund, which is a big thing for me because
apparently had a business account. You're not supposed to have that.
But they put me back, so we're good. Okay, we
need that money because that really helped. That was a big, big,
big push for me to do that stuff. But then
(21:57):
what I was seeing was all the comments, like all
the people but that were receiving something, other people that
were being healed, they're going through a process of healing.
I am that's great to see the actual fruits, right
because that's the thing that you're like, Okay, I'm not
getting paid, but somebody's getting something, so that matters. And
shout out to Michael Tura and iHeart because they also
(22:17):
make it a lot easier for me to make content.
And I don't know if I can talk about that, right,
I mean, okay, cool, cool, good, Yeah, that's the boss.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I don't really talk about money, but we literally do.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I know what happens behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Which is awesome because that wasn't something that wasn't even
in the radar like that was. So I got an
email and the email was like, Hey, we love what
you're doing on social media.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I love this because that means they're watching.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, which to me again is why you got to
know who you're talking to. Would be before we dive
into yesterday, my boy my boys of barber and my
other boys of barber I mean barber shop. And he's
like a celebrity barber. So he's like, I don't know,
it doesn't matter for how and he's jay Z's barber
used to be. His name is Johnny Johnny Johnny Cakes
shout out to Johnny. Johnny was cutting somebody yesterday. So
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we're having a banter, you know, to be the barber shop,
being funny talking and when I'm cool with people, I'm
like hilarious. I'm like top five that are a lot
funniest people in the room. And we're talking and like
wherever and the person sitting in the chairs telling the
story about something Johnny did when they were in Paris.
So whatever, he finished cutting the hair and a maid
(23:28):
back pulls up. He leaves and he jumps in the
back and he leaves, and he's like, yeah, that was
I'm not gonna say which one, but he was like, yeah,
that was the head of this record label completely and
I'm like, I was just sitting next to this man
talking making jokes. But this is the whole premise of
there is like, you gotta just be good to people
because you don't know who you're around, not because you're
gonna get something out of them, but because it might help.
So iHeart reaching out or Michael Tura reaching out was
(23:51):
a premise of that, it's just being good to people
because you don't know who's watching, You don't know who's
gonna help you out when you need help, and that premise.
So they reached out. I didn't believe it. I was like,
this is this is a scam. They're about to take
my paychecks. So I actually reverse searched the email. I
checked the IP to iHeart specifically because it wasn't her IPI,
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and I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Like, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I was like, Okay, it's real, and I still don't believe.
I got the first check, the Ford the thing they
can first, and I deposited my account and I took
money out and I'm like, this is still not real.
That is good of the time, but somebody's about to
hit me with like a fraud or something.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
They can reverse reverse, reverse that check it everything go negative.
You know, when I saw that you were a part
of Michael Do It, I was like, I love this
because I like the message that you're delivering, and it
puts us in a space where it's just not you know,
celebrities and you know influencers that move in the music space,
but it's someone that is actually putting out content, you know,
based on their faith, and what you're doing is helping
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us heal digitally. You know, the content on social media
can be so toxic and you know, just so damaging
that when I see someone like you that's not let's say,
like a Joe Oldstein or you know what I'm saying.
You're relatable and I love Joe, but I feel like you.
I received the message easier because I'm like, he's one
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of my people.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Different world completely.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Now you work with the church also, right, I have
here you're like the director of a church.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I used to be director of veglization at a church
at parish. I mean I travel as a speaker for
the church or on your own. I have a ministry
called Actings Day. So I traveled.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Actually you say it, I read it, but it's Agnew's
Day of God Latin word it is la Lam of God.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's just for now, it's just Fernando and I. So
Fernandos are a worship leader. Fernando's like one of the
best worship leaders in New York period. Like I'm not
saying that. Some of my best friends, like dude is anointed,
like he would come and hear he would sing in
this room with change, like he is good.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Why didn't you bring him today?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
But you don't say, but he played percussions, but he's
any very different, are different. But he actually he's actually
he's the cancer out of power. So he has masks
so he has to sing the Mass today. So he's
there all day. But him and I travel leading worship
and preaching and stuff like that. And it's still take
it to do it, like one of my best friends.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And how do you end up traveling? Like who books
you like? Who reaches out? And how how does one
book you if they want it, you know, for you
to go because you know with this podcast, It's like
the amazing thing about it is it's not just heard
in the United States, but any country that speak Spanish
or Spanglish is listening to it. So how does one,
you know, book you or what do you bring to
the table if someone wants, you know, for you to
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be in their space.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, so people, you typically will email me, like in
full I made more Motivated dot com, that's the whole thing.
And they would reach out and they would invite me
to typical conferences or local church events and all that's
scaled depending on what they're looking for. But they yeah,
they'll send an email and they'll say, hey, we have
this going on, are you available through that time? Right now,
(26:57):
I'm purposely only taking once an event because I hate
hotels like I hate, I love people, I love engaging,
I love conversation. I hate I do, I do, I
really do. Like I missed my bed. So that's the
right now.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
In general, like okay, I'm like Jesus Christ, let me
finish this up.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
In general, well, traveling, it's like, oh man, I missed
my room. Everything's comfortable and you travel alone, right, yeah,
like sometimes with Fernando, sometimes alone. I think it's better
with somebody else, because you know it's entertaining there you're
kind of just sitting there. It's only so much you
could do as you wait. But I love the interaction
with people. I love connecting with people. So it's dope
in that concept.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
How do you pick, like what you're going to preach
that they or do they tell you we want you
to address this group of people.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, they usually give me a topic like the theme
of like the event or the retreat. It's funny because
actually one of my biggest events I ever spoke at
was an arena in Wisconsin. Forty five hundred people in
this arena, by the way, there were no Dominicans in Wisconsin,
Like literally, it was a big arena, and I'm like,
yeah's Dominican here in one person the top third bro
(28:01):
goes whooh from really far away. I was like one person.
They came to talk to me after I was like, oh,
I'm half I was like, okay, that counts. The bishop
actually celebrating the mask gave my whole talk. So the
whole talk I had ready for that day for that event.
He I guess the whole spirit inspired him. He gave
the whole talk that I was going to give before
(28:22):
you went on, so I had to write there and
change it all up four thousand plus people.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
What did you speak on that day? Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I don't remember. I was so tired. I didn't sleep
for like thirty something hours at that point, so I
was traveling And were you just.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So nervous and so on edge about speaking?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Actually a stage, I'm very very calm.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Oh, you're such a complex person.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It's the stage is easy because it's like.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
An introvert that is calm monster.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I think the word is omnivert. Is that the one
where you could kind of be both, but you're really
lean more to one side.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Oh, the dexterity of this man. I read.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The veracity in my words.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I that you can be both.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Okay, no, you could, yeah, parably, that's the thing. So
I think that's what I am. But in the stage
of that, I think it's easier because not that you
don't care as much, but it's like you're the reactions
are different, like it's it's it's nice when like I
get to be funny and people respond to that. That
makes men even better. So in that component, it was
(29:24):
easier because I don't have to overseell, I.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Just just be b So what do you look at?
You know, I've presented artists like in big you know, stadiums,
you know, Prudential Center, the Barclay Center, But when they
invite me to actually speak, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna do it. And then I'm like, oh,
I'm not gonna be able to make it because just
thinking about standing there and addressing a whole group of people.
(29:47):
You said four thousand, Yeah, that's four thousand memori. Now
you what do you consume? Music, movies? What's your thing?
(30:08):
What are you watching right now?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't really watch much TV?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Is that because of your faith?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, that's just because it's my time. It'd be great
if I could just sit down.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And at night you can't eleven to twelve, you can't
watch something or.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You'd rather be ye, I'll watch social media trends so
I could be on the top.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
No, TV is not really my my greatest thing.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Typical typical.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Of course, if you were my playlist right now, you're
on my last play, it will be worship typical and
for some reason, coldplay, oh, because of the.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thing, not play or because of the.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The CEO drama. It's like, that's a good marketing. Someone
does something right, not them, but for at least copplay.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
No, I feel like, I feel like I want you
to give something, you know to our listeners. You know,
a lot of them are living their life, you know
what I'm saying. In the duality of the you know
English span is and a lot of them, I feel like,
want to be content creators, but they're afraid. How can
they just go for it? Like how do they get
just like yo is pick a nee, pick a topic? Like,
(31:11):
how can they also become content creators? And you don't
monetize off of this and you know, maybe go global
the way that you have.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean I think it's finding something you love
and talking about it. So it's at the end of
the day, So the goal should never be to be
famous or successful in them because you will hate it.
It become a job, becoming sure, it becomes something you
don't want to do because then you over overhype numbers,
you overhype analytics, you overhype all these things. I think
that the best way for that is to find something
(31:39):
you love, talk about it, and just think about it.
As you keeping memories, keeping the keeping the thing. My
biggest thing is the one. So something I say often
is I'm more concerned about the one person receiving than
the five million liking. I'm concerned about that one person
receiving the word or the healing they need. And that's
my person. Whoever that figurative person is, that's the person.
So the intention is that to create, to have memories,
(32:03):
or to create for somebody to receive, but never to
create to think that you have to be like because
then we dive into like people pleasing and we do
stuff like that, we we create a new trauma in
ourselves that we think that if people don't respond to
the things I've posted, that I must not be good,
that I must not be talented, that this is not happening.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
So what listen?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
As long as you like it, that's what matters. Create
because you want to create, not because you want to receive.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And I'll tell you this much. Don't worry about having
a team a team. Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Literally, I don't have one.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You're gonna figure it out. You know, you can be
a one man show. You could be a one woman show.
You can be very you know, self taught. You know,
YouTube is there to resource and if you have an iPhone,
that's what you need to turn it around. Or you
know they say used of the back camera, right, and
just start creating and start uploading. Don't sit one more
(32:52):
day with an idea or with a talent or with
a gift that you have and not share it with
the world because you feel like either you don't have
a team, you don't need videographer, you don't need an engineer,
you don't need an editor. You know, just go for it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, it makes my feasier, sure, But of course at
the end of the day, I think I think that's
the greatest thing that I ever had to do because
challenge was that where challenges make you better, to make
you stronger, make you better in the field. Because I
had to create everything on my own. So now I
know the ins and outs of it. I know what works,
what timing has to happened. But that was a process
of sucking. Like the camera that I was using, I'm
(33:27):
now using a Sony FX three, but it's a very
different ballpark to me. Where I was recording, I was
like a cannon like T three or something rebel and
it looked horrible. Like I compare you what I was
doing now, what I used to do then was absolutely horrible.
But I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now if
I didn't start that. So if I didn't have the
horrible even in six months, I'm gonna look back at
(33:48):
the footage I have now and I'm like, man, why
am I highlights so blown? Like that's terrible? Who edited this?
But that's the point. You're gonna improve, but you can't
improve if you don't start. It's not gonna be better,
you know.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And I saw a meanm and it was like, just
started and later make it better. Yeah, and do it?
That should? I tell people all the time. And you
know what it could be it is it your full
time job or do you also keep a job.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So for right now, that's what I'm all I'm doing.
I was very intentional about that, so like I'm still
ministrying preaching, so I still get that I haven't paid
for that, but I also get my social media like
TikTok and stuff and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Is what what I thought you were going to say?
Mus social security?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I'm Dominica, but social security, no, but we have that.
And then I was very intentional about this year, So
I don't know. I think the podcast is well. I
don't really know how to quantify these numbers, because your numbers,
(34:48):
I mean, I see them, but I don't know how
to compare to ask you question because.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't where I'm gonna pick your brain as soon
as you.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Shut that mic off, yeah, because I don't want to
tell about your numbers. But I don't know anything. But
it's doing well for what I see. So my biggest thing, though,
is if this is the only year that I have
this podcast that's happening, this is going to be the
year that I'm gonna try the best. I'm just fully
throw myself into this because the next year it doesn't happen.
It's cool, did it happen? But I gave this year.
I have enjoyed it this year, so no, it will happen.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
And you know, you're just gaining velocity and you know
you're exposure, and I feel like more and more people are,
you know, sending me your content and they're like, you
know this guy, did you see this video? And that's
when I know things are going to start to spin
out of control for someone when all that I see
is this person, and I'm like, why is everybody sending
me the same thing? And that's why I'm like, you
know what, I love your content. But then it started
(35:35):
to be like other people are watching and I'm in
a room and I'm like, oh, they're watching, and I'm like,
you know what, this is dope, And I love what
you're doing and I love that you know you're moving
and existing as a man of faith. So I feel
like I know a lot of men who love God
but are not willing to put it out there on
social media. I don't know if they feel like it's
going to make them feel weak or not cool. But
(35:57):
I want everybody to know loving Jesus is a main
Going to church is super cool. You meet great people,
and you know, if you love God, be proud about it.
Put a sticker on your car because.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
You know what, He's our Jesus. Yeah. No, And I
think I think at the same time, it's like people
are they're so hurt by like church, like church hurt.
People are hurt about that that they're scared to dive
into that really is but just that that quick premise
that it's just you don't follow people, you follow God.
(36:30):
So if you if you if you put your faith
in people, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And actually, Saint Teresa Copcutt one of my favorite sayings
as a senator from from uh the States. He went
over to visit and she was like looking around and
he saw how how efficient things were and how things
were a little messy and stuff like that. But he
asked her the question, He's like, how is it that
you're so successful in such a terrible place? And she responds,
she says, I wasn't called to be successful. I was
called to be faithful.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
And that was like, that's a good one bar.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
That is a bar because the reality is this that
we don't got to be successful. We just have to
be faithful to the things that we're in. You got
to be connected to that and make that the premise
of why you do everything else. And if your faith
is what roots you is you're rooted and grounded and
so be it.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But I love that man. Now, if people want to
find you, how they gonna find you? If you're listening,
you know to this episode today and you've never heard
of Joshua Rosa and you want to follow him, where
are they going to talk to me?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Every platform is underscore Joshua Rosa keeping uniform and easy. Yeah, YouTube,
well you made for this mountain is the podcast, So
YouTube is made for this mountain podcast. And yeah, that's
pretty much the easy way to find me.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
That's dope. Keep doing what you're doing. Man, You're absolutely amazing.
I'm super you know, happy that you're part of Michael
Tuda and iHeartRadio. We need more of us, not only Dominicano,
but you're also you know up north with me. Well connect,
we're gonna bond and you know we're gonna keep building
on this.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I'm monkey. Thank you, thank you for all this, Thank
you for having me on Come Again. Grassiers. Come Again
is a production of Honey German Productions in partnership with
Iheart's Maikundura podcast network.
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