October 13, 2020 • 31 mins
My next guest Glenn Robinson III is an NBA basketball player. His ARI Foundation which stands for “Angels Are Real Indeed,” is a non-profit organization aimed at empowering fathers and helping create deeper bonds between fathers and their children. They also provide resources to help elevate fatherless children and families. Glenn was inspired to launch this initiative after the birth of his daughter, Ariana, and wanted to shine a light on the importance of the relationship between children and their fathers. Glenn highlights fathers and their stories on his Instagram page, and wants to shine a light on some of the amazing work they’re doing. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Glen Robinson III.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rashwan McDonald.
I recognized that we all have different definitions of success.
For some insercisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up
and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their
very best life. These are my passions and that's what
I'm want to do for you. I want you to
stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to rise above
(00:23):
bigger obstacles than life will present to you. My next guest,
Glenn Robinson the third is an NBA basketball player. That's
what you know when you see somebody, but that's all
you think. But life is more than just being an
NBA basketball player. His A r I Foundation, which stands
for Angels are really indeed, as a nonprofit organization aimed
at empowering fathers and helping create deeper bonds between fathers
(00:46):
and their children. They're also they also provide resources to
help elevate fatherless children and families. Glenn was inspired to
launch his initiative after the birth of his daughter Ariana
or Arianna help him superstand it correctly, and wanted to
trying to light on the importance of the relationship between
children and their fathers. Glenn highlights fathers and their stories
on this Instagram page and wants to shine in light
(01:09):
on some of the amazing work they're doing. Please work
with the money making conversation, my man, Glenn Robinson, the
third are you doing today? I had to get a
lot out there live before I spoke to you, man,
A lot, a lot, because you know the thing about it.
First of all, what are you? What are you calling
it from right now? I'm calling it from Indiana, Indiana, Indiana,
(01:34):
So I'm based in Atlanta, Georgias, syndicated nationally UM podcasts
and all that good stuff series XM. The beauty of
bringing the individual or what I wanted to talk to
you about first of all was why the why was
their need for you to do a foundation like this.
I think that is a need, you know, in our community,
especially our Black communities, to feel that that that for
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us fathers, you know, first off, and to feel that
fatherhood if the father is not around, you know, meaning
just stepping up and empowering other parents, other fathers, UM
doing what you can to help UM. You know, our
young kids grow up in today's society, I think they
need all a mentorship and all the help that they need.
And having a daughter myself and going through this process.
(02:18):
You know, I just know how much my daughter means
to me, and as she grows every day is important,
you know. So if I'm able to help other people
and just have that same type of impact in their
lives and spread that that that knowledge, you know, around,
I think that we can we can start to have
more successful communities and more successful children in our communities.
That's really important that you say that. Really, I I
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have a daughter, Uh, She's only child, and just having
a child in general or giving life really changed my
perspective because in a way, you know, we all live
a selfish life. We just want to do what's what's
best for us, what's what we gotta do to get
what we want. And when you have a child, that
changes your value system. Talk about how to change your
value system, Glenn. Yeah, it changed a lot, you know.
(03:02):
I think being a professional athlete, you know, I just
finished my six season. Uh, I finished with the Philadelphia
has seventy six is this year, um, and I'm now
a free agent. But looking at how I was as
a rookie and then now after six years, and you know,
I have a daughter who's to um. You know, my
time management changed, you know, my responsibilities obviously changed. You know.
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UM obviously my finances and what I'm doing with my
money UM changed a lot. You know. So it matures
you and it makes you grow up, um in several
different ways, you know. And I think that if it
wasn't for my daughter, UM, you know, I just see
how far you know back that you tend to be
and you think that you know everything, but you really don't,
you know, and and and you know it's funny how
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how that how that comes out. It really is amazing.
I know that. Uh. I would tell people the the
best time I had with my daughter, would not she
when you know, when she was about gets up to
about eight marks, that's when she wasn't able to push off.
Then they started pushing off then as they think they
ruled the world. But when she was just falling asleep
on my chests and you know, laying next to me
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and just just barely you know, you use proper upglande
and then they leaned on one side because they didn't
have any also control. To me, man, those those memories
stick with me. Man, that all the memories stick with me.
But that memory of it, just being able to fall
asleep on my chest and and lay next to me,
and just realizing that how much power I have, and
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shaping a mind, how much power I have, and delivering
a good person to this world. I'm sure when I
read your intro and I read the research on you,
it really almost messed you up a little in a
good way. The responsibility him, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did. Uh.
(04:45):
You know, first off, I thought I was, you know,
obviously being a basketball player. You know, I thought my
first kid was gonna be a boy. You know, we
were gonna play basketball. You know. I thought that it
was gonna be all my way, you know, and and
and and God and life got a funny sense of
you and to you know how you least expected and
you know, and and my biggest blessing in my life
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has been my daughter, I think just because of the
alleys that I've been able to create, you know, surrounding her.
And that's the reason why I started the foundation is um,
you know, I didn't have a boy, you know, my
last name in a sense. You know, a lot of
men tend to worry about that, you know, And I
think that I just wanted to show her my genuine
love and create something that she'll see and look back
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one day and she'll pick up this foundation because it's
named after her already, and she'll she'll realize, you know,
what we've created, and how many people that we've helped,
you know, and growing up and and as she grows, Um,
I do have that influence on her life. And I think,
like you said, that's the biggest thing that we can
control as parents is you know, we we do have
a lot of influence in their lives as they tend
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to get older, you know, so that um, they're going
in the right path, you know, whether that's racism, whether
that's schooling and education, whether that's you know, career paths,
whatever that is. I think that they contend to kind
of put put themselves on a decent past if they
had that influence around it. You know, we're talking about
changing people's lives. We're talking about controlling destiny. And you know,
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this season, you played for the Philadelphia seventy sixers and
you got to experience the bubble down in Orlando, Florida,
and basically you didn't have control of your life anymore.
At that point, I believe. Can you tell everybody I
had cg Color alone that last week and he had
me laughing just talking about how I was from your perspective,
and tell us that this walks through the steps of
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how controlled the testing process of living life in the bubble.
If there was some good thing, tell us about it.
The annoying things you can tell about, tell us about it,
because you had no control of your life at that point. Glenn, Yeah,
you know, I think the hardest decision was, you know,
they gave us a choice, do we want to go
or not? You know, do you want to receive your
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paycheck and go to this bubble? And we didn't know
anything much about the virus at that point, and we
didn't know anything what this bubble was gonna be like.
So I had to make the decision to leave my
two year old daughter, which was hard, but you know,
I didn't want to leave my teammates down. I wanted
to go do my job. I wanted to go try
to win a championship. And then, um, my main concern
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concern was just staying. Say, you know, so if we
had to test every day, that's what we had to do.
Even though like you said, it wasn'tnoying, but um, we
test literally every day for the coronavirus um and they
would stick the Q tip up your nose um, and
they would swab us a mouth and and nose every
single day. Um. You know, our first two days there,
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we were in quarantine. Uh, you couldn't leave your rooms.
And they would bang on your door and just drop
your food, you know, at your door, and you will
open it. Nobody would be there. You grab your door
and close it. You grab your food and close the
door and then open you up your box lunch or
boxes dinner, you know. And that was the first two days. Um,
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they're sprinting down the hall you COVID nature not even
on the hallway no more if it was there. That's
that's funny man, you know. But my overall experience, I
think it was a lot better than I thought it
was gonna be. Um, you know, the food got better.
They started opening up things for us, such you know
susy gough. Um we could go. You know, they had
(08:18):
a pool for us, you know, allowance for us, um,
a bar for us. It was it was a lot
of different things, a barbershop. Um, so there was life
started to get a little bit better after day probably
thirty year around there, but I was I was trapped
in there for forty five days before we lost and
and and we exited out and came home. M But
that was an experience that I'm gonna tell my daughter
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about my grandkids about. UM. You know, a lot a
lot of people won't be able to experience that. And
I'm just thankful that I came out of it healthy
and and and still you know, remaining the same and
so so and so far, no one's tested positive for COVID.
The teen at the NBA bubble, they haven't, you know,
And I think that that's only know that you can
(09:01):
do that. You're gonna have sports, you have to do
it in the forum that they did, and it was
hard to do. It was strict, and they spent a
lot of money, I think a hundred and fifty million
to keep us safe. But I think if you're gonna
do it, you have to do it like that, if
you want to keep people safe. Well, the more important
thing is that, just like me, Glenn, I'm speaking to
Glenn Robinson, the third UH. He's UH plays currently for
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their Philadelphia seventy sixers. The name sounds familiar. He has
a father father University of Michigan shop shooting Dad. I
remember their run. I remember that run. Man, oh boy,
tell when they run and then it came to NBA. Man,
I just hate that shot, man, I hate it. And
it's like Steph Curry shot, you know when it goes
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up and like how could he miss? Type shot? And
that was your father's gift and you followed your father
was It wasn't an option that Glenn to not play basketball?
Can you play tennants? Can you play for my wife?
Receiver been the next Julius Joe and Julian June. I
can't think of his name right there being a wide
receive it. What were your options there? Brother? He just
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looked at you put a ball in your hand when
you can well basketball? That was it? What was apting.
It's funny I tell people story all the time. I
was born premature. So I was born three months early
and I was two two months in the incubator and
my dad and mom put a little produce, you know,
they put a little mini basketball and my incubator when
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I was young. So I like to tell everybody I've
been playing ball since I was I was in the
incubator six months. But no, you know, that was one
of the things I was always grateful for my mom
and dad, especially my dad being a number one pick
um you know, in nine before and really being a
man at that in that air. Um. He never forced
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it on me. You know, I played football growing up.
I played other sports growing up, but I fell in
love with basketball and I followed his footsteps in that sense.
But you know, I think that I've always tried to
remain you know, a different person, you know, and not
just follow his foot us, but create different paths, you know,
throughout my career to kind of separate me. And you know,
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he never had a foundation, um, but he did give
back to the kids of Gary, Indiana where we're from,
and what holds a free basketball camp every year. Um.
So I continue to do that, that same thing, and
on top of that, I'm doing my foundation. Angels are
real indeed who were helping empower other fathers. So I
try to take what he's done and model his example,
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but also continue to make it better and elevate it
even more and reach even more people, because, um, the
more people we can reach, even if it's just a
few kids who knows how the allives with change. You
know what, I'm glad, uh, I'm enjoying this interview with you.
Your your very unique voice, and then you just happen
to be able to dribble a little basketball, okay, and
and I respect And I'm gonna tell you I'm one
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of thettle You know, everybody think they can play bond,
but I can really play ball. But I was one
of them hard headed people. I thought the coach is
going to eventually come to a neighborhood park, see me
and tell me I can start. I didn't want to
go out there because that was I was that arrogant,
you know, I was as I was, as the neighbor
would say, I was all park GLn I was all park.
I was a bad boy and uh and so. But
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you know, when I look at the NBA and I
look at the ability to play an NBA, man, that's
special man. You know, that's that's a unique talent. What
does it take to be uh uh NBA player? Because
I from a mindset standpoint, from a physical standpoint, I
knew what I could do. But I know I didn't
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have the ability because first of all, I didn't have
the discipline to be an NBA player, because I wouldn't
even I wouldn't even auditioned or going for the basketball
practice because I thought I was better than everybody else.
So what does it take to be an NBA player? Yeah,
I think the biggest things that I've noticed, and like
we talked about, I just finished my sixth season in
the NBA, So you know, for whatever it's worth, you know,
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I've been able to stick in this league after seeing
a lot of people come in and out the league.
I was drafted second I was drafted second round and
it's only a small the centers of players that when
you went pro. I was mad at you. I was
mad at you. I was like, what is he doing?
What is he? It was a good Missigan team too,
what do he doing? What he? Continue with? Just I
(13:12):
just want to get that out. I just want to
get that out. Years I was young, you know, I
had just turned twenties, you know, but and I had
no idea about the whole business. But um, you know,
I think after being around now for a few years, UM,
what really separates you know, NBA players and a lot
of players that I've seen, and um, discipline and all
(13:34):
those things that you've said, But just to break it
down to simple terms, is whatever you got going on
in your life, whether as women, whether as finance issues,
his family issues, kids, whatever that's going on in your life,
you have to find some way. When you were able
to come onto the court everything that happens in those lines,
you're able to take your discipline and your hard work
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and you're able to turn it into success by focusing
and locking in. You know, when when when this distractions
out there and you're not able to focus your mind, um,
it can really mess you up. You know. And NBA
players and athletes in general, we already got a lot
going on. The money that's thrown at us people, that's
thrown at us um. And and that discipline is what
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you have to have. Well, you know I've been uh,
but I participate in the high levels with say, in
the entertainment game, So I know discipline is important because
it does come to you. It always amazes me how
I'm financially able to do a lot of things, but
I get free meals, I can get discount on my clothes,
and my wife just looks at me to go, really,
(14:37):
really this is gonna be and uh. And because I
always make a point of now I got you. I
gotta I paid when I go because it's because I'm
an entrepreneur. So I know being an entrepreneur, you know
you have to be with respect people and and and
tell them that their brain has value. And so when
I look at you and and and this conversation the
first time we ever talked. But I as a as
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a person who talks to a lot of people, Glenn, Um,
I'm a fan. Just just this conversation, and I want
to maintain a relationship with you because your your your
your success and your your your brand is beyond the court.
It's beyond the court. Man. I don't know if anybody
told you that, but just hearing how you talk, you
know you God just gave you the gift, your gift
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at someplace else, brother, and you just need to find
it and hold on to it and get the right
people around you. And I'm not telling you to quick
the NBA. I'm just telling you this this foundation. You know,
uh that you started the mission this to empower fathers
with the central resources that will allow them to be
the best dads they can be. We will also provide
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assistance to fatherless children and families. Tell us about that
part providing assistance to fatherless children and families. How does
that work? Glenn Robinson the third Yeah, when I first,
you know, started my foundation, Um, I was playing for
the Warriors at the beginning of this year. And uh,
there was a there was a family and my building
who had just one day they placed off a lottery. Uh.
(16:03):
They didn't have, you know, very much money. Uh they
they they you know, income wasn't very high and what
they were paying for rent was very low because they
wanted to through a lottery. Um. But she couldn't get
in the door. I was just moving in as well,
and myself and my brother here you're younger than me,
three hundred pounds, big dude. You know, he actually played football,
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I hope. So, so we helped this lady out. Her
name was miss c c and um she broke down
to the front desk. Um, you know, thank you to
Glenn and Jelyn for for the help, and would love
to cook for them one day. Um. So we ended
up going in and to her spot and she cooked
us food fried chicken, mac and cheese. I hadn't had
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a home cooking meal in a while, you know, I
wrote a lot, but that's a meal fried ticket. You
already starting at the at the at the if they
said that at the core of good home cooked meal,
right there, brother exactly. So, So we were getting ready
to eat and my brother and I we sit down
and she just had two chairs, Um, you know, to
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to just patio picnic chairs. Um, and you know, we ate.
And after that, my brother lived at me and he
was like, you know, you've been talking about this foundation.
I think the first family. I think the perfect opportunity
would be to help them. Um, you gotta get them
a table at least. And I was like, you know what,
you're right, and we went A couple of weeks later.
I surprised her, told her that we're gonna help get lunch.
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I was gonna take her out. Um, she does her husband,
she's actually been involved in, you know, domestic violence. She
has two children, no father involved in the house. And
she's worked two or three jobs her you know, their
whole lives. Um, and spend her last thirty dollars to
prepare that meal for my brother and not because we
watched her getting the house. Um, And I told her
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we were gonna go get some lunch. Um. I furnished
her whole apartment twenty six pieces of furniture, and they
were sleeping on the ground, all three of them, and
they now got bed to sleep on that night. UM.
And she she just called me the other day and
her son just became a father and she's now a grandmother.
And I still maintain that relationship. And Um, those are
the type of families, UM, that we that we helped
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when we talk about fatherless children, and and and and
her son, UM actually told me that I'm the reason
why he wanted to get a job. He went and
got h he just started as an electrician. Um, he's
on a path of success and as a father. So
those those stories and those type of things that we do,
that mean a lot more than, like you said, anything
that I can do on the basketball court. I'm able
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to help that family, take them basically from off the streets.
And now that because I spent a couple of thousand
dollars you know, on them, not even a lot of money,
but to get them in a decent bed at night.
That's what it's about. You know. It's really interesting, man,
because I've been fortunate to change people's lives, you know,
with with emotional assistance, physical assistance, financial assistance, and people
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just want to let you know that they're human home.
And once you can remove, uh, you know, a layer
of embarrassment, and that's sleeping on the floor of the
lawyer embarrassment. Uh old gonna close that. You got to
wear the school, the wear of the work or a
lawyer of embarrassment. It allows you to focus on who
you really are and can be. And that's what you
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did for them. But you know, you allow them to
walk into that apartment not stressed, to walk out feeling
good because they felt like humans again. And and that
that's why that's why I was just when I when
I when this interview with scheduled, you know, they they
you know, we have a meeting all the time, Glenn,
who who are gonna bring? What? What did he do?
Because I'm not just gonna bring black basketball players on
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my show, and they that did my research and I
went wow wow. But what what is impressing me more
is you, though? Is you what? What what's what's what's
the driving force of you? Because a foundation is what
it is. But the success of the foundation is the
is the is the leader, the founder, the person who
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wakes up thinking about to go to sleep thinking about
trying to make it big or try to try to
try to save more people than Sometimes you um like Sally,
if you know, you can only put your arms around
so many people at one time. Sometimes we try to
trying to try to expand and hurt your back. So
before you hurt your back, Man, tell us about you. Man,
tell us about you. Man. Yeah, I mean I uh,
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you know, everything that I got. You know, I've seen, um,
you know, my dad is what's successful. He had, you know,
money and cars and things like that. But that never
was my purpose or what drove me because I've seen
that and I was fortunate enough to see that with him.
But I grew up in the house with my mom
and my grandma. My grandma's from Mississippi, you know, my
(20:43):
mama and grandma. Currently they still live, uh you know,
close to Gary, Indiana. So we met West people and
at the end of the day, they care about who
are you as a person rather than whatever else that's
going on. Is at the end of the day, when
I look at myself in the mirror, what have I done?
Who am I as a person? And I feel and
as I walked through just finding my purpose. I know
(21:03):
that I don't know my I don't I feel like
I don't know my exact purpose or mission yet, but
it's coming and through this foundation, like you said, um,
I've realized that, you know, it's about helping the masses
of the amount of people. From what I do as
a professional athlete, you know, I'm able to take you know,
my six years experience as an athlete and able to
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talk to kids, able to help fathers, you know, different
alleys of people that I can reach, um and affecting
people's lives, that's just who I am in and since
I was first in the league, you know, I would
find kids to kind of help out here and there,
or go to the hospital and visit the sick kids
and play video games with them. It's just been who
I am. And I found a way to create a
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team around my foundation and we meet weekly on different
ideas that I have a different you know, suggestions that
they might have a families to help. So I put
a real structure around this because I know that I
take being a father and having my daughter and um
me just being in her life as a blessing. So
you know, I want to be able to take that
and help others to just be that role and kind
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of model figure for them, because you know, they look
at professional athletes and a lot of people do at
superheroes and this and that. But like you said, at
the end of the day, we're the same as you.
We put our pants on, the same thing as everybody else.
And if they're able to understand that in some type
of way, and you're able to come to terms and
them to look at you as a as a human
being and a decent human being, because we already know
(22:27):
how people think about athletes, then they're able to connect
with you. And I've noticed that. Well you know, I'm
connecting with you right now. Okay, And so, uh, I
know you just got some swag down here that you're
selling on your website. You know, got you know, some
selection when you're sold out on the on the black
T shirt they're so old out. You got the hoop,
got the jersey, got that the dad had, got to
(22:50):
pull over hoodie. You know. So I'm telling what I got.
I got a newsletter that goes out to an ainy
thousand people and uh and it goes bi monthly. So
next week I'm gonna drop your store, your your store
into my newsletter and and then recommend people browse your
your you. And then and then I also on my website,
(23:11):
I have a store, and I'm if you don't mind,
I'm gonna drop your your squag gear on there for
potential purchase as well, because that's what I do with
money making conversation this because you know, this is amazing.
This is a free format. Man. You know, my my
blessing is coming aware, my blessing talking to you because
I get to beat you. Man, I'm going like this
brother here, man, if this brother like because I'm trying
(23:33):
to this is how this is how I think. Man,
I'm trying to figure out how I can help this
brother raise money. Because see what I don't like here, Man,
When I was managing Steve Harvey, uh never you know,
and uh you know he's to spend his money. He
he's a brag about it. I spend my money on
my foundation. I go do now you really need to
be spending somebody else's money that keep your money in
(23:56):
your foundation, build your brand so other people have value
you and what you were saying, and then they give
you money and you can do more. And so that's
my that's my thoughts is running through my mind with
you is like how can we get together and you know,
put together your e p K and start putting together
sissle real so we can get you some get you
(24:19):
some forwards and some some some Truish banks and some
Bank of Americas on your website, dude, because you know
it's it's people out that d there Michigan. Need to
be on here making some donations. You know what I'm saying.
You know all alist and I'm just telling you how
I think because you go to university. You know, I'm excited.
(24:41):
Hey brother, you know like I'm gonna give you after
this call if you want to give myself number anytime
you have a good or bad thought, you called me. Okay,
this is what I do for a liver. Girl. You
if you don't even know who I am, google me. Brother.
All I do is make people famous. All I do
is make corporations a lot of money. Because I think
that's my skill. That's you. When I was eighteen years old,
I realized that was my gift. I just didn't then't
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understand it until I was in my authorities. I just
always used word like I'm just at the right place,
at the right time. I'm just lucky like that. And
then I realized, you know, that's what you do. You know,
that's what you that's your gift. You're able to look
at things and evaluate people and really push them to
lenings and give a clear understanding of what they can
do with their lives, because so many people don't, you know,
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because you know they've been told what they're supposed to do.
Like and I was, I was told to go to college.
I got to college, which was truly a blessing for me,
but I realized that wasn't what and my degree is
in mathematics, and I went to work like I was told.
I went to work for IBM. Then I realized, this
ain't what I want to do. This ain't what I
want to do. And so so I'm listening to you.
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You're successful as NBA player. I'm just telling you right now.
I don't during how many teams you've been on, because
you're in the n b A. You played in the NBA.
I know how hard it is. The D League is
full of people want to be you, you know, and
so and so so. But then what is bigger than that?
You know, look as great as Lebron is. What he
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does away for the league, I respect way more, way
more because I know God gave him the ability to
dribble too, dunk the i Q, to be able to
be the best basketball player in the world. But everything else,
he's thinking about everything else you're thinking about, Glenn. That
was part of the equation when people were telling you
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what you were supposed to do, telling you what you
were capable doing. This is something that you have matriculated
through life and said this is who I want to be,
this is what I want to represent this and and
it was borne out by the birth of your daughter. Man,
I'm telling him, I'm inspired talking to you, brother, And
believe me, I've done a lot for you to be
inspiring me. Appreciate that here, and I appreciate you having
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me here today. Well, the thing is is that man
to be successful, Glenn, And that's what money making conversations
all about. His creating relationships people here this and and
then here our conversation and your fan brace who hopefully
great some more followers. But more importantly, it's creating relationships
and creating a brain awareness of who is exactly is
Glenn Robinson the third beyond basketball, and beyond basketball, you're
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a person who cares about making other people's lives better
that are not directly tied to you. They're not your cousins,
ain't your aunt nature sustain your brother and your child,
or your girlfriend or your wife. They're just people that
you know need a helping hand. And we were at
the University of Michigan, my brother, there are a lot
of people over there with that can help you with
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this because it's it's phenomenal. And you are very articulate man.
And you can talk. Brother. I don't know if anybody
told you, but you can talk. Man. You know you
just need to go and realize what I just told
you and just keep talking, Glynn, Just keep talking, brother,
I'm keep talking, brother. I'm telling you, man, I'm way
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impressed with you, brother. I do so if you don't
have to drill another basketball, if you keep talking, you're
gonna be making way more money just because your ability
to talk than your ability to dribble. I'm just gonna
tell you that believe that bleed up the passion that
I hear and the ability to articulate who you could
be in life. You are impressive. Man. I I can.
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I can only say that to you verbally because of
the fact that you have to believe that yourself. You
have to wow man, Man, I tell you I love
this show. I love I love I love reading what
they said A diamond and the rough. You see your
diamond and the rough. Brother. I just look. No, You'll
be walking around and you see something, just sparkle on
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the ground and go, what's that? You know? I looked
down there. What's that? That's the third picked them up? Boy,
do something. We're gonna do something. Love you, man, I
love you, Man, I love your brother. Angels are real, indeed,
man helping fathers become better in fatherhood and helping families
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without one founded by Glenn Robinson, the Third glam My Man,
I'm telling your brother, as God is my witness, You're
gonna make way more money talking than drippling in your
life because you care about people and you want to
make a difference in people's lives. And it all starts
with your ability to think and articulate, and you do
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it very well. You just haven't accepted it yet. Accepted. Man.
Gonna go for it, brother, Gonna go for you. Walk
on that damn university music camping with a with a
ePK and the sizzle real and walk out of there
with several millions of dollars. Brother, no more spending your money,
no more, no more, no more, no more, no more.
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Let's stay in touch, appreciate everything and it's a pleasure. Okay. Man, Again,
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't just utter those words
so I can just sweat on on the microphone these
words so you can him it live alright, brother, I
want to thank you for coming on this show, Glynn,
and we will be in touch man, because like I
tell you, man to hear somebody like you talk and
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you're young because I didn't. I didn't figure out, because
I didn't figure out my my success path until I
was in my forties. And believe me, I had a
lot of Mercedes bends and a lot of big houses
along the way, a lot of good times and a
lot of times I wish I wouldn't have participated in.
But they were all good memories right now, because when
you get old, all you can live off your memories. Okay,
but uh but again, my brother, thank you for coming
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on money making Conversations. Okay, yes, sir, thanks a lot.
I appreciate some time. Yeah, get my contact information. We
can hook up. But but but again, I'm gonna put you
your whole or your whole swag in my not this week's,
but next Wednesday's newsletter. And uh, just to get the
word out, man, I'm I'm a Glenn Robin the third Fan.
We're gonna get these angels are real, indeed brand off
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that love that logo, by the way, it's outstanding. We're
gonna get it off. It's gonna be on fire. Man.
I'm just telling me, you're walking around two many million
as brother, be spending your own money. Now stop that.
Stop that today. Okay, we're could brother. We talked soon, man,
go bye. Okay. If you want to hear more money
making conversations, please go to money Making Conversation dot com.
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All the interviews are there. I'm Rashan mcdown. I'm your host.
Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rashwan McDonald.
I recognized that we all have different definitions of success.
For some insercisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up
and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their
very best life. These are my passions and that's what
I'm want to do for you. I want you to
stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to rise above
(00:23):
bigger obstacles than life will present to you. My next guest,
Glenn Robinson the third is an NBA basketball player. That's
what you know when you see somebody, but that's all
you think. But life is more than just being an
NBA basketball player. His A r I Foundation, which stands
for Angels are really indeed, as a nonprofit organization aimed
at empowering fathers and helping create deeper bonds between fathers
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and their children. They're also they also provide resources to
help elevate fatherless children and families. Glenn was inspired to
launch his initiative after the birth of his daughter Ariana
or Arianna help him superstand it correctly, and wanted to
trying to light on the importance of the relationship between
children and their fathers. Glenn highlights fathers and their stories
on this Instagram page and wants to shine in light
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on some of the amazing work they're doing. Please work
with the money making conversation, my man, Glenn Robinson, the
third are you doing today? I had to get a
lot out there live before I spoke to you, man,
A lot, a lot, because you know the thing about it.
First of all, what are you? What are you calling
it from right now? I'm calling it from Indiana, Indiana, Indiana,
(01:34):
So I'm based in Atlanta, Georgias, syndicated nationally UM podcasts
and all that good stuff series XM. The beauty of
bringing the individual or what I wanted to talk to
you about first of all was why the why was
their need for you to do a foundation like this.
I think that is a need, you know, in our community,
especially our Black communities, to feel that that that for
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us fathers, you know, first off, and to feel that
fatherhood if the father is not around, you know, meaning
just stepping up and empowering other parents, other fathers, UM
doing what you can to help UM. You know, our
young kids grow up in today's society, I think they
need all a mentorship and all the help that they need.
And having a daughter myself and going through this process.
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You know, I just know how much my daughter means
to me, and as she grows every day is important,
you know. So if I'm able to help other people
and just have that same type of impact in their
lives and spread that that that knowledge, you know, around,
I think that we can we can start to have
more successful communities and more successful children in our communities.
That's really important that you say that. Really, I I
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have a daughter, Uh, She's only child, and just having
a child in general or giving life really changed my
perspective because in a way, you know, we all live
a selfish life. We just want to do what's what's
best for us, what's what we gotta do to get
what we want. And when you have a child, that
changes your value system. Talk about how to change your
value system, Glenn. Yeah, it changed a lot, you know.
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I think being a professional athlete, you know, I just
finished my six season. Uh, I finished with the Philadelphia
has seventy six is this year, um, and I'm now
a free agent. But looking at how I was as
a rookie and then now after six years, and you know,
I have a daughter who's to um. You know, my
time management changed, you know, my responsibilities obviously changed. You know.
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UM obviously my finances and what I'm doing with my
money UM changed a lot. You know. So it matures
you and it makes you grow up, um in several
different ways, you know. And I think that if it
wasn't for my daughter, UM, you know, I just see
how far you know back that you tend to be
and you think that you know everything, but you really don't,
you know, and and and you know it's funny how
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how that how that comes out. It really is amazing.
I know that. Uh. I would tell people the the
best time I had with my daughter, would not she
when you know, when she was about gets up to
about eight marks, that's when she wasn't able to push off.
Then they started pushing off then as they think they
ruled the world. But when she was just falling asleep
on my chests and you know, laying next to me
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and just just barely you know, you use proper upglande
and then they leaned on one side because they didn't
have any also control. To me, man, those those memories
stick with me. Man, that all the memories stick with me.
But that memory of it, just being able to fall
asleep on my chest and and lay next to me,
and just realizing that how much power I have, and
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shaping a mind, how much power I have, and delivering
a good person to this world. I'm sure when I
read your intro and I read the research on you,
it really almost messed you up a little in a
good way. The responsibility him, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did. Uh.
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You know, first off, I thought I was, you know,
obviously being a basketball player. You know, I thought my
first kid was gonna be a boy. You know, we
were gonna play basketball. You know. I thought that it
was gonna be all my way, you know, and and
and and God and life got a funny sense of
you and to you know how you least expected and
you know, and and my biggest blessing in my life
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has been my daughter, I think just because of the
alleys that I've been able to create, you know, surrounding her.
And that's the reason why I started the foundation is um,
you know, I didn't have a boy, you know, my
last name in a sense. You know, a lot of
men tend to worry about that, you know, And I
think that I just wanted to show her my genuine
love and create something that she'll see and look back
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one day and she'll pick up this foundation because it's
named after her already, and she'll she'll realize, you know,
what we've created, and how many people that we've helped,
you know, and growing up and and as she grows, Um,
I do have that influence on her life. And I think,
like you said, that's the biggest thing that we can
control as parents is you know, we we do have
a lot of influence in their lives as they tend
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to get older, you know, so that um, they're going
in the right path, you know, whether that's racism, whether
that's schooling and education, whether that's you know, career paths,
whatever that is. I think that they contend to kind
of put put themselves on a decent past if they
had that influence around it. You know, we're talking about
changing people's lives. We're talking about controlling destiny. And you know,
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this season, you played for the Philadelphia seventy sixers and
you got to experience the bubble down in Orlando, Florida,
and basically you didn't have control of your life anymore.
At that point, I believe. Can you tell everybody I
had cg Color alone that last week and he had
me laughing just talking about how I was from your perspective,
and tell us that this walks through the steps of
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how controlled the testing process of living life in the bubble.
If there was some good thing, tell us about it.
The annoying things you can tell about, tell us about it,
because you had no control of your life at that point. Glenn, Yeah,
you know, I think the hardest decision was, you know,
they gave us a choice, do we want to go
or not? You know, do you want to receive your
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paycheck and go to this bubble? And we didn't know
anything much about the virus at that point, and we
didn't know anything what this bubble was gonna be like.
So I had to make the decision to leave my
two year old daughter, which was hard, but you know,
I didn't want to leave my teammates down. I wanted
to go do my job. I wanted to go try
to win a championship. And then, um, my main concern
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concern was just staying. Say, you know, so if we
had to test every day, that's what we had to do.
Even though like you said, it wasn'tnoying, but um, we
test literally every day for the coronavirus um and they
would stick the Q tip up your nose um, and
they would swab us a mouth and and nose every
single day. Um. You know, our first two days there,
(07:33):
we were in quarantine. Uh, you couldn't leave your rooms.
And they would bang on your door and just drop
your food, you know, at your door, and you will
open it. Nobody would be there. You grab your door
and close it. You grab your food and close the
door and then open you up your box lunch or
boxes dinner, you know. And that was the first two days. Um,
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they're sprinting down the hall you COVID nature not even
on the hallway no more if it was there. That's
that's funny man, you know. But my overall experience, I
think it was a lot better than I thought it
was gonna be. Um, you know, the food got better.
They started opening up things for us, such you know
susy gough. Um we could go. You know, they had
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a pool for us, you know, allowance for us, um,
a bar for us. It was it was a lot
of different things, a barbershop. Um, so there was life
started to get a little bit better after day probably
thirty year around there, but I was I was trapped
in there for forty five days before we lost and
and and we exited out and came home. M But
that was an experience that I'm gonna tell my daughter
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about my grandkids about. UM. You know, a lot a
lot of people won't be able to experience that. And
I'm just thankful that I came out of it healthy
and and and still you know, remaining the same and
so so and so far, no one's tested positive for COVID.
The teen at the NBA bubble, they haven't, you know,
And I think that that's only know that you can
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do that. You're gonna have sports, you have to do
it in the forum that they did, and it was
hard to do. It was strict, and they spent a
lot of money, I think a hundred and fifty million
to keep us safe. But I think if you're gonna
do it, you have to do it like that, if
you want to keep people safe. Well, the more important
thing is that, just like me, Glenn, I'm speaking to
Glenn Robinson, the third UH. He's UH plays currently for
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their Philadelphia seventy sixers. The name sounds familiar. He has
a father father University of Michigan shop shooting Dad. I
remember their run. I remember that run. Man, oh boy,
tell when they run and then it came to NBA. Man,
I just hate that shot, man, I hate it. And
it's like Steph Curry shot, you know when it goes
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up and like how could he miss? Type shot? And
that was your father's gift and you followed your father
was It wasn't an option that Glenn to not play basketball?
Can you play tennants? Can you play for my wife?
Receiver been the next Julius Joe and Julian June. I
can't think of his name right there being a wide
receive it. What were your options there? Brother? He just
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looked at you put a ball in your hand when
you can well basketball? That was it? What was apting.
It's funny I tell people story all the time. I
was born premature. So I was born three months early
and I was two two months in the incubator and
my dad and mom put a little produce, you know,
they put a little mini basketball and my incubator when
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I was young. So I like to tell everybody I've
been playing ball since I was I was in the
incubator six months. But no, you know, that was one
of the things I was always grateful for my mom
and dad, especially my dad being a number one pick
um you know, in nine before and really being a
man at that in that air. Um. He never forced
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it on me. You know, I played football growing up.
I played other sports growing up, but I fell in
love with basketball and I followed his footsteps in that sense.
But you know, I think that I've always tried to
remain you know, a different person, you know, and not
just follow his foot us, but create different paths, you know,
throughout my career to kind of separate me. And you know,
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he never had a foundation, um, but he did give
back to the kids of Gary, Indiana where we're from,
and what holds a free basketball camp every year. Um.
So I continue to do that, that same thing, and
on top of that, I'm doing my foundation. Angels are
real indeed who were helping empower other fathers. So I
try to take what he's done and model his example,
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but also continue to make it better and elevate it
even more and reach even more people, because, um, the
more people we can reach, even if it's just a
few kids who knows how the allives with change. You
know what, I'm glad, uh, I'm enjoying this interview with you.
Your your very unique voice, and then you just happen
to be able to dribble a little basketball, okay, and
and I respect And I'm gonna tell you I'm one
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of thettle You know, everybody think they can play bond,
but I can really play ball. But I was one
of them hard headed people. I thought the coach is
going to eventually come to a neighborhood park, see me
and tell me I can start. I didn't want to
go out there because that was I was that arrogant,
you know, I was as I was, as the neighbor
would say, I was all park GLn I was all park.
I was a bad boy and uh and so. But
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you know, when I look at the NBA and I
look at the ability to play an NBA, man, that's
special man. You know, that's that's a unique talent. What
does it take to be uh uh NBA player? Because
I from a mindset standpoint, from a physical standpoint, I
knew what I could do. But I know I didn't
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have the ability because first of all, I didn't have
the discipline to be an NBA player, because I wouldn't
even I wouldn't even auditioned or going for the basketball
practice because I thought I was better than everybody else.
So what does it take to be an NBA player? Yeah,
I think the biggest things that I've noticed, and like
we talked about, I just finished my sixth season in
the NBA, So you know, for whatever it's worth, you know,
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I've been able to stick in this league after seeing
a lot of people come in and out the league.
I was drafted second I was drafted second round and
it's only a small the centers of players that when
you went pro. I was mad at you. I was
mad at you. I was like, what is he doing?
What is he? It was a good Missigan team too,
what do he doing? What he? Continue with? Just I
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just want to get that out. I just want to
get that out. Years I was young, you know, I
had just turned twenties, you know, but and I had
no idea about the whole business. But um, you know,
I think after being around now for a few years, UM,
what really separates you know, NBA players and a lot
of players that I've seen, and um, discipline and all
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those things that you've said, But just to break it
down to simple terms, is whatever you got going on
in your life, whether as women, whether as finance issues,
his family issues, kids, whatever that's going on in your life,
you have to find some way. When you were able
to come onto the court everything that happens in those lines,
you're able to take your discipline and your hard work
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and you're able to turn it into success by focusing
and locking in. You know, when when when this distractions
out there and you're not able to focus your mind, um,
it can really mess you up. You know. And NBA
players and athletes in general, we already got a lot
going on. The money that's thrown at us people, that's
thrown at us um. And and that discipline is what
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you have to have. Well, you know I've been uh,
but I participate in the high levels with say, in
the entertainment game, So I know discipline is important because
it does come to you. It always amazes me how
I'm financially able to do a lot of things, but
I get free meals, I can get discount on my clothes,
and my wife just looks at me to go, really,
(14:37):
really this is gonna be and uh. And because I
always make a point of now I got you. I
gotta I paid when I go because it's because I'm
an entrepreneur. So I know being an entrepreneur, you know
you have to be with respect people and and and
tell them that their brain has value. And so when
I look at you and and and this conversation the
first time we ever talked. But I as a as
(14:58):
a person who talks to a lot of people, Glenn, Um,
I'm a fan. Just just this conversation, and I want
to maintain a relationship with you because your your your
your success and your your your brand is beyond the court.
It's beyond the court. Man. I don't know if anybody
told you that, but just hearing how you talk, you
know you God just gave you the gift, your gift
(15:20):
at someplace else, brother, and you just need to find
it and hold on to it and get the right
people around you. And I'm not telling you to quick
the NBA. I'm just telling you this this foundation. You know,
uh that you started the mission this to empower fathers
with the central resources that will allow them to be
the best dads they can be. We will also provide
(15:41):
assistance to fatherless children and families. Tell us about that
part providing assistance to fatherless children and families. How does
that work? Glenn Robinson the third Yeah, when I first,
you know, started my foundation, Um, I was playing for
the Warriors at the beginning of this year. And uh,
there was a there was a family and my building
who had just one day they placed off a lottery. Uh.
(16:03):
They didn't have, you know, very much money. Uh they
they they you know, income wasn't very high and what
they were paying for rent was very low because they
wanted to through a lottery. Um. But she couldn't get
in the door. I was just moving in as well,
and myself and my brother here you're younger than me,
three hundred pounds, big dude. You know, he actually played football,
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I hope. So, so we helped this lady out. Her
name was miss c c and um she broke down
to the front desk. Um, you know, thank you to
Glenn and Jelyn for for the help, and would love
to cook for them one day. Um. So we ended
up going in and to her spot and she cooked
us food fried chicken, mac and cheese. I hadn't had
(16:47):
a home cooking meal in a while, you know, I
wrote a lot, but that's a meal fried ticket. You
already starting at the at the at the if they
said that at the core of good home cooked meal,
right there, brother exactly. So, So we were getting ready
to eat and my brother and I we sit down
and she just had two chairs, Um, you know, to
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to just patio picnic chairs. Um, and you know, we ate.
And after that, my brother lived at me and he
was like, you know, you've been talking about this foundation.
I think the first family. I think the perfect opportunity
would be to help them. Um, you gotta get them
a table at least. And I was like, you know what,
you're right, and we went A couple of weeks later.
I surprised her, told her that we're gonna help get lunch.
(17:30):
I was gonna take her out. Um, she does her husband,
she's actually been involved in, you know, domestic violence. She
has two children, no father involved in the house. And
she's worked two or three jobs her you know, their
whole lives. Um, and spend her last thirty dollars to
prepare that meal for my brother and not because we
watched her getting the house. Um, And I told her
(17:51):
we were gonna go get some lunch. Um. I furnished
her whole apartment twenty six pieces of furniture, and they
were sleeping on the ground, all three of them, and
they now got bed to sleep on that night. UM.
And she she just called me the other day and
her son just became a father and she's now a grandmother.
And I still maintain that relationship. And Um, those are
the type of families, UM, that we that we helped
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when we talk about fatherless children, and and and and
her son, UM actually told me that I'm the reason
why he wanted to get a job. He went and
got h he just started as an electrician. Um, he's
on a path of success and as a father. So
those those stories and those type of things that we do,
that mean a lot more than, like you said, anything
that I can do on the basketball court. I'm able
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to help that family, take them basically from off the streets.
And now that because I spent a couple of thousand
dollars you know, on them, not even a lot of money,
but to get them in a decent bed at night.
That's what it's about. You know. It's really interesting, man,
because I've been fortunate to change people's lives, you know,
with with emotional assistance, physical assistance, financial assistance, and people
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just want to let you know that they're human home.
And once you can remove, uh, you know, a layer
of embarrassment, and that's sleeping on the floor of the
lawyer embarrassment. Uh old gonna close that. You got to
wear the school, the wear of the work or a
lawyer of embarrassment. It allows you to focus on who
you really are and can be. And that's what you
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did for them. But you know, you allow them to
walk into that apartment not stressed, to walk out feeling
good because they felt like humans again. And and that
that's why that's why I was just when I when
I when this interview with scheduled, you know, they they
you know, we have a meeting all the time, Glenn,
who who are gonna bring? What? What did he do?
Because I'm not just gonna bring black basketball players on
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my show, and they that did my research and I
went wow wow. But what what is impressing me more
is you, though? Is you what? What what's what's what's
the driving force of you? Because a foundation is what
it is. But the success of the foundation is the
is the is the leader, the founder, the person who
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wakes up thinking about to go to sleep thinking about
trying to make it big or try to try to
try to save more people than Sometimes you um like Sally,
if you know, you can only put your arms around
so many people at one time. Sometimes we try to
trying to try to expand and hurt your back. So
before you hurt your back, Man, tell us about you. Man,
tell us about you. Man. Yeah, I mean I uh,
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you know, everything that I got. You know, I've seen, um,
you know, my dad is what's successful. He had, you know,
money and cars and things like that. But that never
was my purpose or what drove me because I've seen
that and I was fortunate enough to see that with him.
But I grew up in the house with my mom
and my grandma. My grandma's from Mississippi, you know, my
(20:43):
mama and grandma. Currently they still live, uh you know,
close to Gary, Indiana. So we met West people and
at the end of the day, they care about who
are you as a person rather than whatever else that's
going on. Is at the end of the day, when
I look at myself in the mirror, what have I done?
Who am I as a person? And I feel and
as I walked through just finding my purpose. I know
(21:03):
that I don't know my I don't I feel like
I don't know my exact purpose or mission yet, but
it's coming and through this foundation, like you said, um,
I've realized that, you know, it's about helping the masses
of the amount of people. From what I do as
a professional athlete, you know, I'm able to take you know,
my six years experience as an athlete and able to
(21:24):
talk to kids, able to help fathers, you know, different
alleys of people that I can reach, um and affecting
people's lives, that's just who I am in and since
I was first in the league, you know, I would
find kids to kind of help out here and there,
or go to the hospital and visit the sick kids
and play video games with them. It's just been who
I am. And I found a way to create a
(21:45):
team around my foundation and we meet weekly on different
ideas that I have a different you know, suggestions that
they might have a families to help. So I put
a real structure around this because I know that I
take being a father and having my daughter and um
me just being in her life as a blessing. So
you know, I want to be able to take that
and help others to just be that role and kind
(22:06):
of model figure for them, because you know, they look
at professional athletes and a lot of people do at
superheroes and this and that. But like you said, at
the end of the day, we're the same as you.
We put our pants on, the same thing as everybody else.
And if they're able to understand that in some type
of way, and you're able to come to terms and
them to look at you as a as a human
being and a decent human being, because we already know
(22:27):
how people think about athletes, then they're able to connect
with you. And I've noticed that. Well you know, I'm
connecting with you right now. Okay, And so, uh, I
know you just got some swag down here that you're
selling on your website. You know, got you know, some
selection when you're sold out on the on the black
T shirt they're so old out. You got the hoop,
got the jersey, got that the dad had, got to
(22:50):
pull over hoodie. You know. So I'm telling what I got.
I got a newsletter that goes out to an ainy
thousand people and uh and it goes bi monthly. So
next week I'm gonna drop your store, your your store
into my newsletter and and then recommend people browse your
your you. And then and then I also on my website,
(23:11):
I have a store, and I'm if you don't mind,
I'm gonna drop your your squag gear on there for
potential purchase as well, because that's what I do with
money making conversation this because you know, this is amazing.
This is a free format. Man. You know, my my
blessing is coming aware, my blessing talking to you because
I get to beat you. Man, I'm going like this
brother here, man, if this brother like because I'm trying
(23:33):
to this is how this is how I think. Man,
I'm trying to figure out how I can help this
brother raise money. Because see what I don't like here, Man,
When I was managing Steve Harvey, uh never you know,
and uh you know he's to spend his money. He
he's a brag about it. I spend my money on
my foundation. I go do now you really need to
be spending somebody else's money that keep your money in
(23:56):
your foundation, build your brand so other people have value
you and what you were saying, and then they give
you money and you can do more. And so that's
my that's my thoughts is running through my mind with
you is like how can we get together and you know,
put together your e p K and start putting together
sissle real so we can get you some get you
(24:19):
some forwards and some some some Truish banks and some
Bank of Americas on your website, dude, because you know
it's it's people out that d there Michigan. Need to
be on here making some donations. You know what I'm saying.
You know all alist and I'm just telling you how
I think because you go to university. You know, I'm excited.
(24:41):
Hey brother, you know like I'm gonna give you after
this call if you want to give myself number anytime
you have a good or bad thought, you called me. Okay,
this is what I do for a liver. Girl. You
if you don't even know who I am, google me. Brother.
All I do is make people famous. All I do
is make corporations a lot of money. Because I think
that's my skill. That's you. When I was eighteen years old,
I realized that was my gift. I just didn't then't
(25:03):
understand it until I was in my authorities. I just
always used word like I'm just at the right place,
at the right time. I'm just lucky like that. And
then I realized, you know, that's what you do. You know,
that's what you that's your gift. You're able to look
at things and evaluate people and really push them to
lenings and give a clear understanding of what they can
do with their lives, because so many people don't, you know,
(25:23):
because you know they've been told what they're supposed to do.
Like and I was, I was told to go to college.
I got to college, which was truly a blessing for me,
but I realized that wasn't what and my degree is
in mathematics, and I went to work like I was told.
I went to work for IBM. Then I realized, this
ain't what I want to do. This ain't what I
want to do. And so so I'm listening to you.
(25:45):
You're successful as NBA player. I'm just telling you right now.
I don't during how many teams you've been on, because
you're in the n b A. You played in the NBA.
I know how hard it is. The D League is
full of people want to be you, you know, and
so and so so. But then what is bigger than that?
You know, look as great as Lebron is. What he
(26:06):
does away for the league, I respect way more, way
more because I know God gave him the ability to
dribble too, dunk the i Q, to be able to
be the best basketball player in the world. But everything else,
he's thinking about everything else you're thinking about, Glenn. That
was part of the equation when people were telling you
(26:26):
what you were supposed to do, telling you what you
were capable doing. This is something that you have matriculated
through life and said this is who I want to be,
this is what I want to represent this and and
it was borne out by the birth of your daughter. Man,
I'm telling him, I'm inspired talking to you, brother, And
believe me, I've done a lot for you to be
inspiring me. Appreciate that here, and I appreciate you having
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me here today. Well, the thing is is that man
to be successful, Glenn, And that's what money making conversations
all about. His creating relationships people here this and and
then here our conversation and your fan brace who hopefully
great some more followers. But more importantly, it's creating relationships
and creating a brain awareness of who is exactly is
Glenn Robinson the third beyond basketball, and beyond basketball, you're
(27:13):
a person who cares about making other people's lives better
that are not directly tied to you. They're not your cousins,
ain't your aunt nature sustain your brother and your child,
or your girlfriend or your wife. They're just people that
you know need a helping hand. And we were at
the University of Michigan, my brother, there are a lot
of people over there with that can help you with
(27:35):
this because it's it's phenomenal. And you are very articulate man.
And you can talk. Brother. I don't know if anybody
told you, but you can talk. Man. You know you
just need to go and realize what I just told
you and just keep talking, Glynn, Just keep talking, brother,
I'm keep talking, brother. I'm telling you, man, I'm way
(27:57):
impressed with you, brother. I do so if you don't
have to drill another basketball, if you keep talking, you're
gonna be making way more money just because your ability
to talk than your ability to dribble. I'm just gonna
tell you that believe that bleed up the passion that
I hear and the ability to articulate who you could
be in life. You are impressive. Man. I I can.
(28:20):
I can only say that to you verbally because of
the fact that you have to believe that yourself. You
have to wow man, Man, I tell you I love
this show. I love I love I love reading what
they said A diamond and the rough. You see your
diamond and the rough. Brother. I just look. No, You'll
be walking around and you see something, just sparkle on
(28:40):
the ground and go, what's that? You know? I looked
down there. What's that? That's the third picked them up? Boy,
do something. We're gonna do something. Love you, man, I
love you, Man, I love your brother. Angels are real, indeed,
man helping fathers become better in fatherhood and helping families
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without one founded by Glenn Robinson, the Third glam My Man,
I'm telling your brother, as God is my witness, You're
gonna make way more money talking than drippling in your
life because you care about people and you want to
make a difference in people's lives. And it all starts
with your ability to think and articulate, and you do
(29:26):
it very well. You just haven't accepted it yet. Accepted. Man.
Gonna go for it, brother, Gonna go for you. Walk
on that damn university music camping with a with a
ePK and the sizzle real and walk out of there
with several millions of dollars. Brother, no more spending your money,
no more, no more, no more, no more, no more.
(29:46):
Let's stay in touch, appreciate everything and it's a pleasure. Okay. Man, Again,
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't just utter those words
so I can just sweat on on the microphone these
words so you can him it live alright, brother, I
want to thank you for coming on this show, Glynn,
and we will be in touch man, because like I
tell you, man to hear somebody like you talk and
(30:06):
you're young because I didn't. I didn't figure out, because
I didn't figure out my my success path until I
was in my forties. And believe me, I had a
lot of Mercedes bends and a lot of big houses
along the way, a lot of good times and a
lot of times I wish I wouldn't have participated in.
But they were all good memories right now, because when
you get old, all you can live off your memories. Okay,
but uh but again, my brother, thank you for coming
(30:30):
on money making Conversations. Okay, yes, sir, thanks a lot.
I appreciate some time. Yeah, get my contact information. We
can hook up. But but but again, I'm gonna put you
your whole or your whole swag in my not this week's,
but next Wednesday's newsletter. And uh, just to get the
word out, man, I'm I'm a Glenn Robin the third Fan.
We're gonna get these angels are real, indeed brand off
(30:52):
that love that logo, by the way, it's outstanding. We're
gonna get it off. It's gonna be on fire. Man.
I'm just telling me, you're walking around two many million
as brother, be spending your own money. Now stop that.
Stop that today. Okay, we're could brother. We talked soon, man,
go bye. Okay. If you want to hear more money
making conversations, please go to money Making Conversation dot com.
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