March 30, 2025 • 18 mins
How many times have we gotten information, advice, guidance...and not listened to it? Only to later realize, you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble, pain and heartache, if you had just listened. You are responsible for what you know!
AND...Malik reviews the new book You Deserve to Be Rich: Master the Inner Game of Wealth and Claim Your Future by Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Miligu has knowed that you want Leig, but has knowed
that you need.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, they have out a books that the whole wild
world was not.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Readli Belie's Bookshop bringing a world together with books, culture
and community. Hot. My name is Believe, your host of
Malie's Bookshop. Well well, well, well guess what this is
another episode? It is called You're responsible for what you know?
(00:32):
That's right, You're responsible.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
For what you know? Now?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
How many times have we've gotten some good information, it's
some good insight and didn't dance with it, didn't listen
to it, rejected it, only to find out that we
would have saved ourselves a lot of time and misery
and we just listened. Listen, You're responsible for what you know?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Sometimes we just don't know, and we're bouncing off the
ball walls and so we have to find our way.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But sometimes we.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Know, and we still refuse to do what's in our
best interest.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And that's what I see really in.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The black community is that we have been entrusted with
a lot of information, a lot of detail, a lot
of facts, but we don't dance to it, we don't
listen to it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I know I was a hard head growing up. I
love my mom, I love my dad, but I didn't
always listen to everything they gotta say.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Sometimes some of us got to touch the stove when
it's hot. Sometimes we have to run in front of
the bus.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Only to get run over.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Sometimes we just need to jump off the cliff and
thinking that we're gonna fly, only to fly flat on
the ground and just have to get back up. That's
the keep listen no matter what. If you fall, get
back up, try until you succeed. But listen, You responsible.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
For what you know. Sometimes you ain't gotta jump off
the cliff. Sometimes you ain't got to touch that hot stove.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Sometimes you ain't gotta run in front of that bus,
because you could pick up a book right here at
Elite Books and learn about what you're trying to find.
Or you can listen to some of the people more
advanced and have good advice and our experts. We have
to be smarter, not work harder, so we're responsible for
(02:22):
what you know.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Listen, Sometimes you just don't know, and you're just.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Gonna have to just suffer the consequences from being ignorant
or being unaware.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's just reality.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
No one knows everything and whatever you know, you can
put on them, probably on top of a pin neal.
All right, So we gotta study from the time we're
born to the time we die. Study to your cradle
to the grave. Right, seek and you should find. But
you're responsible for what you know. I know I've been
(02:54):
hard hitted. I know I've haven't always listened to those
who have more knowledge and more aware, more good advice,
my parents.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Or whatever, right, and only to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Later if I did had listened and implemented what I heard,
I could have saved myself a lot of time, a
lot of pain, a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Of seff But you're responsible for what you know. Listen.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Sometimes you just don't know, and that's okay because no
one knows everything. But you need to seek and find
the answers you're looking for. People always asks. People always
ask and say, hey, I'm looking for a book to
get some good advice. All right. You can read all
the advice you want, but it don't mean nothing to you.
(03:39):
What implement it?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
People have offered some good information, some good advice, some
good insight, and I got a lot of books here
to help you along the way. You want a book
on investment you got to hear let meliave books. Want
books on how to start business, We gotta heart believe books.
We got books with people have from rags to riches.
We got books where people tell you you know how
(04:04):
to avoid heartache, how to deal with marriage, how to
deal with lack of communication, how to be more.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Effective in business, how to.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Be more influential in your life, how to just be
a better person.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We got books like that, and right here.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
At Malife Books we got we get voice to the variclests.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But your responsible.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Once you know, once you know you gotta do better
to be better, you got to implement what you know.
Don't be stubborn, don't be hard hitted. Sometimes you need
to just sometimes you need to just man accept accept.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That what you heard, what you read, or what you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Was exposed to, it's in your best interest. Change is
good if it improves you and make you better. Not
everything you hear is gonna be helpful.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But there are a.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Lot of things that people have come to you because
you put it out in the world. You put it
out in the universe, and you put it out with
people where your answers come to you through people, through
a book or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know, it's called manifestation.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know, it's like you gotta think about it and
then you got to go and seek and sometimes it
comes to you.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know, that's confirmation when it comes to you after
you put it out of.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You verb that has happened to me A lot, a
lot of things that happened to me that I just
thought about, wanted to know about, and it just comes
to me. Now if I refuse and reject that information
that I requested, that I asked for, that I was
thinking about, then guess who's responsible. You're responsible what you know,
and it's going to be a consequence when you don't
(05:47):
listen to what's in your best interest. And in the
black community, we have a lot of issues that can
be solved if we would just do what's in our
best interest. But we responsible what I know. We have
examples of things that we see all day every day.
But guess what, we don't implement it in the community
(06:07):
for the benefit of the community. For whatever reason. I
don't got all answers. All I know is I got
a space and a place called Elite Books that we
try to give voice to the voiceless, and we have
some of the answers to our problem. We offer some
of the answer right here at the bookstore. But listen,
(06:27):
you're responsible for what you know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I know I have not.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Danced to a lot of things that my mama told me,
that my coach told me. I got children, they don't
listen to me. Sometimes people are always atoned. Listen, I
don't care if a person give it to you in
the improper mind. If it's good information that can help
change your life for the better, why not implement it.
(06:57):
Why get caught up in how the or how is
it delivered to you. The bottom line is it's coming
to you and you need to make a decision, dance
with it, implement it, or guess what there's gonna be consequent.
Because you're responsible for what you know. There are a
lot of times you could have avoided a situation if
(07:18):
you will to just implement.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What you was already told.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I know that there are a lot of women that
don't listen to the parents and go out and do
what they want to do and get pregnant.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Tea, we got a problem in the community teenage pregnancy,
all right, But a lot of times they're not use protection.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They're not using birth control, and there's a responsibility come
when you you know we're freedom, come responsibility.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You're responsible for what you know. So if you turn
around and.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You do unprotected sex, get pregnant, or get a disease
or what.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Have you, guess what you responsible for what you know.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So what I'm saying is is that there is that
you have to do what's in your best interest, and
you need to implement information that can help you avoid.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Issues that bring trauma and problems later.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
On that I got kids, I raised them, and they
are some of them adults now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They ain't always want to listen to me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Ain't thinking that I you know, I ride them because
I love them, not because I want don't want to
see him win.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But I say, brother, do you want to eat State?
Or do you want to eat beans? In your life?
You know, because if you don't do your ABC's one
two threes, if you don't go as far as you can, before.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You get financially in debt, before you have children, before
you become an adult, when all the programs shut down
on you, I'm telling you that you're gonna end up
eating beans or if you want to eat State, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Make the sacrifice while he hunk.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Why you don't have no responsibility while you're being taken
care of, You're gonna put in the time, the effort
to work to transform your life, to be somebody, the
desire to be somebody. You see what I'm saying, So
that you can have state, meaning that you can have
the finer things in life and not struggle. I'm not
saying that you're not gonna have hiccups, ups and downs
(09:22):
in life.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But guess what you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You wanna be in a position where you have options
and that you have something you can that you're happy
about and that provides a quality of life for you.
Like I said, you might lose the job, but because
you got a skill, because you got a certain degree
of knowledge, you always can find another one or create
(09:46):
one for yourself. The bottom line is do you want
stink or do you want to eat beans? You know
what I'm saying, because if you don't dance Now, I
always use Nipsey Hustle because he changed his life. He
transformed his life and he didn't graduate from high school,
he didn't graduate from college, but he changed his life because.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He started to read books. All Right, you responsible for
what you know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He implemented what he read and his life changed as
a result.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He died a millionaire. He was murdered, but he died
a millionaire.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He died a leader, he died an activist, he died
a person who transformed and empowered his life through the
written word, through books. And that's an example of him
not having the knowledge, but seeking the knowledge and then
being responsible for what he read and learned and implement
(10:40):
it because you got to implement it. You responsible what
you know. You see what I'm saying. So it's a
lot of us we just hard hitted and we're stubboring,
and we just don't want to dance to good advice.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And it's gonna come back on you. I know it
came back on me. I know I have to.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Deal with a lot of issues to this day because
I did not take advantage of what I was taught,
what I knew, and did not implement. There's a price
to pay you responsible for what you know.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Something, man, a lot of us eating a lot of
foods might taste good, but in the end, you go,
you're gonna have to self the consequence because you're.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Responsible what you put in your mouth, right, So no,
it's no different.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So it's like we gotta be smart.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You get older, Hey, we gotta walk, we gotta exercise,
we gotta do certain things to add life to us.
And we don't always want to dance, right, we don't
always want to get up and walk.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
We don't want to go to the gym. We hard hited,
we stubborn.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, guess what, as you get older, the muscles get
soft and get weaker. All right, So hey, you're responsible
for what you know. And people telling you that, they
telling you stay away from this, stay away from that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Get older, you've.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Be like, oh man, then it gets too late. Listen,
you respon possible for what you know. All advice ain't
good advice, but some advice is some good advice.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
If two people come to you they don't know each other,
tell you the same thing. Hey, they giving you some
good advice, all right, because they ain't talking to each other.
But it's coming to you because it's something that you
need in your life, something that you design your life,
or something that is important for your life.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And they coming to you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And that's kind of how things are. That's synergy. That's
that's the universe, that's the comma, that's.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know, because I know that it just comes to you.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Some people call it confirmation, the Holy Spirit. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The point is, we live in a world where some
things are just unexplained, but people have all believe it
and it comes to us in the most unexpected or
expected time, and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's what we.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Need at that moment and at that time, and so
be open toward to receive it, but implement it. It is
the most important thing. Implementation, manifestation. You're responsible for what
you know. And so that's what I wanted to talk
about on this podcast this episode today, I wanted to
talk about them being responsible for what we know.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I hope you get.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Something out of this this league Muhammad the host of
Lae's Books up bringing the world together with books, culture
and community.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
So I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You Deserve to Be Rich by Rashi Blau and Troy Millions.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All right, book is just out.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I think they made the New York Times Bestsellers for
the first week out. You Deserve to Be Rich by
Rashi Blau and Troy Millions. Now these brothers co founded
co created a financial literacy program called Earn Your Leisure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It has blown up.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
These brothers has started in classrooms, some elementary teaching some
kids about money financial literacy, and it blossomed into a
huge organization.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Where they put on big conventions.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They went around the world the world with.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Tours Earned Your Leisure talking about money, talking about financial literacy,
talking about investing, talking about home ownership, talking about the
stock market. And the book is just everything they've been
doing to create their platform or Earn Your Leisure. So
the book is generated from all the work these brothers
(14:54):
have put together and have taken the community the storm.
People have traveled all over the United States to go
to Atlanta when they host one of their conventions. They've
also have had black bing. There's talking on that platform.
(15:15):
They've hosted the platform Earned Your Leisure in.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Ghana in Africa.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They even created a housing development in Africa selling a
partnership between Earn Your Leisure organization business and Ghana.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The government gave them some acres.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
They trying to bring people from America back to Africa
and they creating a whole housing development.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So you know, it's just the journey and.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Their whole motive is based upon the title of this book,
You Deserve to be Rich. Now, they're different ways. The
book talks about how how you can be rich. They're
different ways. They're different. You know, you can get rich
through the stock market. You can get rich by real estate.
You can get rich by learning how to save your
(16:13):
money and invest it properly. You can get rich and
get out of debt by making some simple choices, by
budgeting all of that stuff they talk about.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
In this book.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right, it's no one shoot fits all. Everybody's different.
Everybody has on their own individual obstacles. But the book
talks about a well rounded approach on what one can
do in order to become wealthy, become financial independent and
(16:45):
take control over your finances and so you know, finances
the number one thing people get divorce over. Okay, So
I think that you should pick a copy up.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Do you deserve to be rich? As a man thinking
so is he? So you have to think that wealthy.
You have to think rich. You gotta think wealth to
become wealthy.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You got to think it first, what I'm saying, and
then put the money moves so that you can change
your financial reality. And this book they wrote to the community,
to the world, how off the press. You Deserve to
Be Rich, by Rashid Blau and Troy Millings, they co
founded Earn Your Leisure. Pick up the copy. I guarantee
(17:32):
you and enjoy it. I know I did. I read it,
and I know that some of the things that just
writing down a budget, you know, can be tedious, meticulous
and you know, boring, but you gotta take a look
at where you at to know where you're going. And
so anyway, but the book is so much more than that.
(17:56):
You got to pick up copy, see how it hits you,
hit see how it hits your So because financial liter freedom,
financial literacy is a heart of financial freedom. You know,
there's a lot of things that we have not understood
that we're not doing in the hood. We don't teach
in our homes, we don't teach it to our kids.
(18:18):
So this is the area these brothers started out teaching
in schools and it's grown into a wonderful organization, is
making a difference, profound difference. So all I'm doing is
letting you know about this wonderful new book called You
Deserve to Be Rich We got it at melikbooks dot com.
It's sold wherever books are sold, but hey, support molikbooks
(18:41):
dot com pick.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Up a copy. Peace.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Thanks for listening to Malik's Bookshelf, where topics on the
shelf are books, culture, and community.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check
out my Instagram at Malik Books. See you next time.
Miligu has knowed that you want Leig, but has knowed
that you need.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, they have out a books that the whole wild
world was not.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Readli Belie's Bookshop bringing a world together with books, culture
and community. Hot. My name is Believe, your host of
Malie's Bookshop. Well well, well, well guess what this is
another episode? It is called You're responsible for what you know?
(00:32):
That's right, You're responsible.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
For what you know? Now?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
How many times have we've gotten some good information, it's
some good insight and didn't dance with it, didn't listen
to it, rejected it, only to find out that we
would have saved ourselves a lot of time and misery
and we just listened. Listen, You're responsible for what you know?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Sometimes we just don't know, and we're bouncing off the
ball walls and so we have to find our way.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But sometimes we.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Know, and we still refuse to do what's in our
best interest.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And that's what I see really in.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The black community is that we have been entrusted with
a lot of information, a lot of detail, a lot
of facts, but we don't dance to it, we don't
listen to it.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I know I was a hard head growing up. I
love my mom, I love my dad, but I didn't
always listen to everything they gotta say.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Sometimes some of us got to touch the stove when
it's hot. Sometimes we have to run in front of
the bus.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Only to get run over.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Sometimes we just need to jump off the cliff and
thinking that we're gonna fly, only to fly flat on
the ground and just have to get back up. That's
the keep listen no matter what. If you fall, get
back up, try until you succeed. But listen, You responsible.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
For what you know. Sometimes you ain't gotta jump off
the cliff. Sometimes you ain't got to touch that hot stove.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Sometimes you ain't gotta run in front of that bus,
because you could pick up a book right here at
Elite Books and learn about what you're trying to find.
Or you can listen to some of the people more
advanced and have good advice and our experts. We have
to be smarter, not work harder, so we're responsible for
(02:22):
what you know.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Listen, Sometimes you just don't know, and you're just.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Gonna have to just suffer the consequences from being ignorant
or being unaware.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's just reality.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
No one knows everything and whatever you know, you can
put on them, probably on top of a pin neal.
All right, So we gotta study from the time we're
born to the time we die. Study to your cradle
to the grave. Right, seek and you should find. But
you're responsible for what you know. I know I've been
(02:54):
hard hitted. I know I've haven't always listened to those
who have more knowledge and more aware, more good advice,
my parents.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Or whatever, right, and only to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Later if I did had listened and implemented what I heard,
I could have saved myself a lot of time, a
lot of pain, a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Of seff But you're responsible for what you know. Listen.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Sometimes you just don't know, and that's okay because no
one knows everything. But you need to seek and find
the answers you're looking for. People always asks. People always
ask and say, hey, I'm looking for a book to
get some good advice. All right. You can read all
the advice you want, but it don't mean nothing to you.
(03:39):
What implement it?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
People have offered some good information, some good advice, some
good insight, and I got a lot of books here
to help you along the way. You want a book
on investment you got to hear let meliave books. Want
books on how to start business, We gotta heart believe books.
We got books with people have from rags to riches.
We got books where people tell you you know how
(04:04):
to avoid heartache, how to deal with marriage, how to
deal with lack of communication, how to be more.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Effective in business, how to.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Be more influential in your life, how to just be
a better person.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We got books like that, and right here.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
At Malife Books we got we get voice to the variclests.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But your responsible.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Once you know, once you know you gotta do better
to be better, you got to implement what you know.
Don't be stubborn, don't be hard hitted. Sometimes you need
to just sometimes you need to just man accept accept.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That what you heard, what you read, or what you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Was exposed to, it's in your best interest. Change is
good if it improves you and make you better. Not
everything you hear is gonna be helpful.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But there are a.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Lot of things that people have come to you because
you put it out in the world. You put it
out in the universe, and you put it out with
people where your answers come to you through people, through
a book or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know, it's called manifestation.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know, it's like you gotta think about it and
then you got to go and seek and sometimes it
comes to you.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know, that's confirmation when it comes to you after
you put it out of.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You verb that has happened to me A lot, a
lot of things that happened to me that I just
thought about, wanted to know about, and it just comes
to me. Now if I refuse and reject that information
that I requested, that I asked for, that I was
thinking about, then guess who's responsible. You're responsible what you know,
and it's going to be a consequence when you don't
(05:47):
listen to what's in your best interest. And in the
black community, we have a lot of issues that can
be solved if we would just do what's in our
best interest. But we responsible what I know. We have
examples of things that we see all day every day.
But guess what, we don't implement it in the community
(06:07):
for the benefit of the community. For whatever reason. I
don't got all answers. All I know is I got
a space and a place called Elite Books that we
try to give voice to the voiceless, and we have
some of the answers to our problem. We offer some
of the answer right here at the bookstore. But listen,
(06:27):
you're responsible for what you know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I know I have not.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Danced to a lot of things that my mama told me,
that my coach told me. I got children, they don't
listen to me. Sometimes people are always atoned. Listen, I
don't care if a person give it to you in
the improper mind. If it's good information that can help
change your life for the better, why not implement it.
(06:57):
Why get caught up in how the or how is
it delivered to you. The bottom line is it's coming
to you and you need to make a decision, dance
with it, implement it, or guess what there's gonna be consequent.
Because you're responsible for what you know. There are a
lot of times you could have avoided a situation if
(07:18):
you will to just implement.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What you was already told.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I know that there are a lot of women that
don't listen to the parents and go out and do
what they want to do and get pregnant.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Tea, we got a problem in the community teenage pregnancy,
all right, But a lot of times they're not use protection.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They're not using birth control, and there's a responsibility come
when you you know we're freedom, come responsibility.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You're responsible for what you know. So if you turn
around and.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You do unprotected sex, get pregnant, or get a disease
or what.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Have you, guess what you responsible for what you know.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So what I'm saying is is that there is that
you have to do what's in your best interest, and
you need to implement information that can help you avoid.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Issues that bring trauma and problems later.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
On that I got kids, I raised them, and they
are some of them adults now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They ain't always want to listen to me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Ain't thinking that I you know, I ride them because
I love them, not because I want don't want to
see him win.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But I say, brother, do you want to eat State?
Or do you want to eat beans? In your life?
You know, because if you don't do your ABC's one
two threes, if you don't go as far as you can, before.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You get financially in debt, before you have children, before
you become an adult, when all the programs shut down
on you, I'm telling you that you're gonna end up
eating beans or if you want to eat State, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Make the sacrifice while he hunk.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Why you don't have no responsibility while you're being taken
care of, You're gonna put in the time, the effort
to work to transform your life, to be somebody, the
desire to be somebody. You see what I'm saying, So
that you can have state, meaning that you can have
the finer things in life and not struggle. I'm not
saying that you're not gonna have hiccups, ups and downs
(09:22):
in life.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But guess what you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You wanna be in a position where you have options
and that you have something you can that you're happy
about and that provides a quality of life for you.
Like I said, you might lose the job, but because
you got a skill, because you got a certain degree
of knowledge, you always can find another one or create
(09:46):
one for yourself. The bottom line is do you want
stink or do you want to eat beans? You know
what I'm saying, because if you don't dance Now, I
always use Nipsey Hustle because he changed his life. He
transformed his life and he didn't graduate from high school,
he didn't graduate from college, but he changed his life because.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
He started to read books. All Right, you responsible for
what you know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He implemented what he read and his life changed as
a result.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He died a millionaire. He was murdered, but he died
a millionaire.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He died a leader, he died an activist, he died
a person who transformed and empowered his life through the
written word, through books. And that's an example of him
not having the knowledge, but seeking the knowledge and then
being responsible for what he read and learned and implement
(10:40):
it because you got to implement it. You responsible what
you know. You see what I'm saying. So it's a
lot of us we just hard hitted and we're stubboring,
and we just don't want to dance to good advice.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And it's gonna come back on you. I know it
came back on me. I know I have to.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Deal with a lot of issues to this day because
I did not take advantage of what I was taught,
what I knew, and did not implement. There's a price
to pay you responsible for what you know.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Something, man, a lot of us eating a lot of
foods might taste good, but in the end, you go,
you're gonna have to self the consequence because you're.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Responsible what you put in your mouth, right, So no,
it's no different.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So it's like we gotta be smart.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You get older, Hey, we gotta walk, we gotta exercise,
we gotta do certain things to add life to us.
And we don't always want to dance, right, we don't
always want to get up and walk.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
We don't want to go to the gym. We hard hited,
we stubborn.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, guess what, as you get older, the muscles get
soft and get weaker. All right, So hey, you're responsible
for what you know. And people telling you that, they
telling you stay away from this, stay away from that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Get older, you've.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Be like, oh man, then it gets too late. Listen,
you respon possible for what you know. All advice ain't
good advice, but some advice is some good advice.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
If two people come to you they don't know each other,
tell you the same thing. Hey, they giving you some
good advice, all right, because they ain't talking to each other.
But it's coming to you because it's something that you
need in your life, something that you design your life,
or something that is important for your life.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And they coming to you.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And that's kind of how things are. That's synergy. That's
that's the universe, that's the comma, that's.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know, because I know that it just comes to you.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Some people call it confirmation, the Holy Spirit. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The point is, we live in a world where some
things are just unexplained, but people have all believe it
and it comes to us in the most unexpected or
expected time, and.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's what we.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Need at that moment and at that time, and so
be open toward to receive it, but implement it. It is
the most important thing. Implementation, manifestation. You're responsible for what
you know. And so that's what I wanted to talk
about on this podcast this episode today, I wanted to
talk about them being responsible for what we know.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So I hope you get.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Something out of this this league Muhammad the host of
Lae's Books up bringing the world together with books, culture
and community.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
So I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
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Speaker 2 (13:38):
All right, book is just out.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I think they made the New York Times Bestsellers for
the first week out. You Deserve to Be Rich by
Rashi Blau and Troy Millions. Now these brothers co founded
co created a financial literacy program called Earn Your Leisure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It has blown up.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
These brothers has started in classrooms, some elementary teaching some
kids about money financial literacy, and it blossomed into a
huge organization.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Where they put on big conventions.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They went around the world the world with.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Tours Earned Your Leisure talking about money, talking about financial literacy,
talking about investing, talking about home ownership, talking about the
stock market. And the book is just everything they've been
doing to create their platform or Earn Your Leisure. So
the book is generated from all the work these brothers
(14:54):
have put together and have taken the community the storm.
People have traveled all over the United States to go
to Atlanta when they host one of their conventions. They've
also have had black bing. There's talking on that platform.
(15:15):
They've hosted the platform Earned Your Leisure in.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Ghana in Africa.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They even created a housing development in Africa selling a
partnership between Earn Your Leisure organization business and Ghana.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
The government gave them some acres.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
They trying to bring people from America back to Africa
and they creating a whole housing development.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So you know, it's just the journey and.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Their whole motive is based upon the title of this book,
You Deserve to be Rich. Now, they're different ways. The
book talks about how how you can be rich. They're
different ways. They're different. You know, you can get rich
through the stock market. You can get rich by real estate.
You can get rich by learning how to save your
(16:13):
money and invest it properly. You can get rich and
get out of debt by making some simple choices, by
budgeting all of that stuff they talk about.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
In this book.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
All right, it's no one shoot fits all. Everybody's different.
Everybody has on their own individual obstacles. But the book
talks about a well rounded approach on what one can
do in order to become wealthy, become financial independent and
(16:45):
take control over your finances and so you know, finances
the number one thing people get divorce over. Okay, So
I think that you should pick a copy up.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Do you deserve to be rich? As a man thinking
so is he? So you have to think that wealthy.
You have to think rich. You gotta think wealth to
become wealthy.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
You got to think it first, what I'm saying, and
then put the money moves so that you can change
your financial reality. And this book they wrote to the community,
to the world, how off the press. You Deserve to
Be Rich, by Rashid Blau and Troy Millings, they co
founded Earn Your Leisure. Pick up the copy. I guarantee
(17:32):
you and enjoy it. I know I did. I read it,
and I know that some of the things that just
writing down a budget, you know, can be tedious, meticulous
and you know, boring, but you gotta take a look
at where you at to know where you're going. And
so anyway, but the book is so much more than that.
(17:56):
You got to pick up copy, see how it hits you,
hit see how it hits your So because financial liter freedom,
financial literacy is a heart of financial freedom. You know,
there's a lot of things that we have not understood
that we're not doing in the hood. We don't teach
in our homes, we don't teach it to our kids.
(18:18):
So this is the area these brothers started out teaching
in schools and it's grown into a wonderful organization, is
making a difference, profound difference. So all I'm doing is
letting you know about this wonderful new book called You
Deserve to Be Rich We got it at melikbooks dot com.
It's sold wherever books are sold, but hey, support molikbooks
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Speaker 2 (18:42):
Up a copy. Peace.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Thanks for listening to Malik's Bookshelf, where topics on the
shelf are books, culture, and community.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check
out my Instagram at Malik Books. See you next time.
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