October 18, 2024 • 27 mins
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Cicone Prince. Founded a Personal Development and Leadership Development company specializing in real-world business leadership and personal accountability approaches. He helps individuals, organizations and companies get to the root of their behavior, performance, and areas of improvement to change their overall outlook and become more productive, encouraging, and inspiring.
He is the CEO of CiconePrince.com where their slogan is “Making Motivation Personal by Introducing You to Yourself.”TM
With an Associate’s Degree and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering, Mr. Prince has used his love of learning to continue educating himself. He then passes on those lessons via engaging stories and illustrations during his motivational speeches.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the show. I am Rashaan McDonald, the host
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founded a personal development and leadership development companies specializing in
real world business leadership and personal accountability approaches. He helps individuals, organizations,
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and companies get to the root of their behavior, performance
and areas of improvement to change their overall outlook and
become more productive, encouraging and inspiring. Please work with the
Money Making Conversation Masterclass CHICONI Prince, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm doing fineing you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's a lot going on. We're gonna break this down
to my audience here because I want to start with
the word accountability. Checone, What does that mean when you're
in your business model?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, accountability means to me the ability to be accountable.
Some of the ones said that responsibility is your ability
to respond. And we all have an opportunity to make
the world a better place. But if we don't understand
that that's what is given to us. To who much
is given, much is required, we won't live up to
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that mantra. And so my goal is to help people
to understand that they have some than to offer the world.
Like my coach told me that you can be the
askment of somebody's headache, but if you don't realize that,
you will go somewhere and sit in the corner. You'll
go somewhere and sit down. So to be accountable is
to understand what it is you have and how valuable
it is, and that it's needed.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Now, let me ask this question to you. Is your
business tied to following your faith or following your passion?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Honestly, it's a combination of both. Because I believe that
all of us we have something that we've been placed
here to do, because if you weren't needed here, we
wouldn't be here. And so I know there are a
lot of people that lean so heavy on their faith
that they don't want to do anything. And I know
that there are so many people that lean so heavy
on the actions that they don't have any belief. But
I believe that there has to be a combination of both.
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We have to be able to understand that, yes, we
have talent, skills and abilities, but it's not just for
us to serve ourselves. We need to serve other people.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We just ask that because let's get to the background
of who shouldn't with the princess. Because I always tell
people the journey of where you're at are currently now
may not be how you started, but it's something that
you believed in as a youth. Because I always tell people,
between the age of eighteen and twenty four, you just fearless.
You have all these dreams, all these aspirations, and then
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what happens is life takes over and then you kind
of start listening to other people. They tell you should
do this. You might get married, and careers might take
you out of town, and you might get off course
from your dream. Are you doing what you're doing now
that you want to do or aspire to do between
the ages of eighteen and twenty four, tikoni.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, sir, I am not, But tell me about that well.
And actually, I have always been a very creative person,
and I found myself doing something that I really didn't
think I would be doing at the time, and that
was three D animation. I had a company called three
D Solution Providers and we did three D animation and illustration.
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And I was actually at an event back in twenty twelve.
It was called the Power Networking Conference with doctor George Fraser,
and at that event, I wind up winning a quick
pitch Business Olympics. While I was pitching my business, but
while I was on stage, I had an epiphany. While
I was up there telling people about my products or
my services, I realized that my words could be used
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for more than selling a product or service. They can
be used to sell people on themselves. You know, my
first book was entitled Are You Climbing the Wrong Mountain?
About finding your true purpose? And I tell people that
are three things you can learn by being on the
wrong mountain. The first thing you can learn is this
is not it, this is not where I'm supposed to be.
I can scratch this off my lists. But the second
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thing is being on the wrong mountain, you can identify
the right one. And that's what happened to me at
that conference. I realized, this is not where I'm supposed
to be. I'm supposed to be encouraging and motivating people.
But the third thing I tell people that you can
learn by being on the wrong mountain is that once
you've identified the right one, it's not going to take
you that long to get up it because you have
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mounting climbing skills. The things you learn even climbing the
wrong mouth and that you take with you. And so
during those years doing those formative years of eighteen and
twenty four, there are a lot of lessons that you
can learn, and they aren't It's only a loss if
you leave the lesson, and so many individuals they consider
what I've wasted my time. No you've gotten experience. If anything,
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you learn what not to do. And so I try
to help people to understand that. Listen, wherever you are
in life, you have a wealth of experience and knowledge
that's got you that you know some things that work
for you, some things that are the goods you can
pass on, but you also know some pitfalls that you
can help other people avoid. So if we take it
all as a total, then we'll understand that we have
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something to offer the world.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, how old were you when you hit the stage
and you had that moment they realize that you know something.
I'm doing this, well, but this is not what I do.
How old were you?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I was in my mid thirties, So yeah, yes, I
was in my mid thirties in fact when I did that.
But up until that point, I was satisfied with the direction,
the fact that I was going. But again I realized
I was climbing.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Who was pouring you in that direction where you were going? Would?
Who was telling you that was the right direction for
you to go? To Coney?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well? Actually it was me because again, like I said,
I love being creative and three D animation allowed me
a chance to make something out of nothing. When I
hear words, I see pictures, and so people would they
would literally give me a paragraph explaining the process or
a or a new invention, and I could actually as
I read it, I saw pictures in my mind. So
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I would just go on my computer and I would
make what I saw. I would animate and I would
actually help them to actually illustrate their vision of the
future in three D. But again I realize that my
real talents, my real gift and abilities. And somebody will say,
what's the ConA, how you come from doing three D
animation to do in fact motivational speaking? And for me
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it was easy because it just became a reverse engineering.
Whereas before somebody else was giving me the words and
I was creating the visuals because I could see it
in my mind. Well, now I have the vision in
my mind. I just reverse engineer, and I'm giving them
the words. I'm painting a picture in their mind to
help them to understand who they are and what they
have to bring to the table.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, I think, Shagoonne, what they're asking you would go,
why do you go from motivation to from CD three
D animation to motivation? It's like, how do you have
the courage because you know yourself. There's so many people
are in marriagers they shouldn't be in because they don't
have courage to get out of it. So many people
are at jobs that they're working on a daily basis,
but they're afraid to leave because they don't know if
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they can get that check someplace else. So a lot
of people trapped in environments that they're not happy in
out of fear. And I think the question that people
are asking you is how did you accomplish that? And
what was the turning point? You say, you know something,
this is not my path to my future.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, I guess my turning point came in two phases.
One was that event where I realized that my words
could be used for something more than again selling the
product of service. But the other point or was I
actually watched Less Brown's fifty minute Mindset and that really
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helped me to understand that I could change directions, I
could change course, and I had a burning desire and
I still do to help people. I mean I tell
people all the time, if I'm not here to help,
then why am I here?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And so understanding the need that everybody has to exercise
their God given talents and abilities. That was again, it's
like breathing to me. And so I realized that I
could sell people on themselves, and that's what I started doing.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Selling people on themselves. Expound on that. Please tell me
that almost like sounds like self motivation are showing people
their value and allowing them to take advantage of it.
I may be saying it wrong, but help me out.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, I'm going to help you out because my slogan
is I'm Seconiprince off seconiprince dot com, where we make
motivation personal for introducing you to yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I think a lot of people really don't understand
who they are and what they have, and because of that,
they again allow the world to pass them by. They
don't value their value and see what value their value brings.
I'm gonna say that again for those that are taking notes.
People need to learn how to value their own value
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and then see what value their value brings, and so
helping people to understand that you have more in you
than you're putting out into the world. The question is
what's holding you back? And most of the time it's
just us and our fear and our inability to move
past our own hang ups. But when you realize somebody
is waiting on you, somebody is desperately seeking what you have,
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then you'll find a way. If you can't find a way,
you will make a way to get to them and
to help them. But if you don't see how valuable
your asset is, and I don't care what it is,
it could be frying chicken, it can be cutting grass,
It could be doing a county. It can be practicing law,
whatever you've been gifted to do. Somebody needs you. They
are looking for you. When I show up, they turn
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me away. But when you show up, you make a
difference in their life. And so my job is to
help inspire people, or should I say motivate, because I
believe inspiration can come externally. You can inspire somebody, but
motivation has to be internal. What's your motivation? Will you
understand what you have? Like I tell people all the time,
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until you know who you are, anything can stop you.
But once you know who you are, nothing can.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Okay, before I answer my next ask my next question,
what's your slogan? Again?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Sicony Siconi Prince of siconiprince dot com, where we make
motivation personal by introducing you to yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, help me out with a person fifty years old,
you know, and a job, because that fifty is a
rough year for people because sometimes they this is how
I'm gon riote it out. They might tell themselves, as
there's no relationship out there for them, this is the
only job in my life. They want to be an entrepreneur,
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but they're afraid they have no mentorship. Now, this is
about what you're saying. Looking into yourself, self motivation, that's
what you do. I got a lot of listeners who
are listening to this show right now who need self motivation.
Help them out, Sconi Prince.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, my first question fifty years old, now, fifty years old?
Fifty years old, fifty years old? Okay, if you're fifty
years old, my question to you is what is it
that you love to do? What is your passion? What
is that thing that you would do even if you
didn't get paid. What is that thing that you get
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excited about, the thing that you do that you don't
even look at your watch, The thing that you do
that when it's over, you're actually sad, You're like, when
can we do this again? What is that and then
figure out a way to build your own economy around that.
It could be something the simple as fishing. It could
be something as simple as you know, I'm flying the kite.
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There are so many things that we can do, but
I'm telling you there's somebody else out there that needs it,
and so understanding that you have what it takes to
lead somebody. You know, there are a ton of people
that do have have motivational speaking, but there's only one
Seconi Prince, and no one can do what I do
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the way I do it, when I do it, and
where I do it, And so understanding that I'm not
in competition with them. I'm just trying to be the
best version of myself. And if you never take the
time to understand who you are and what you have,
you're always going to keep second guinst yourself and you're
never going to move beyond what's comfortable. If you think
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about where you want to be. It's just like with
ener gps. You can put in a destination, but if
you don't have your locations turned on, it's gonna ask
you where are you? And we have to be honest
enough with where we are right now? What's holding us back?
Is it my fear? Is it the fact that I
don't know? I may have passion, but I don't know
how to do or what to do. You can find
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that out, but you have to be willing to step out.
The only thing between you and your dreams is you.
So let's get ourself in gear and let's understand that
we have something to do and a place to go,
and somebody waiting on us. It's not just about the money.
It's not just about the fame or the fortune. Who
are you helping? If you really want to impress me,
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show me the people that you help, not the car
you drive. Now much money you have, who are you helping?
Doctor mosboronnd Rowe He said that the fruit isn't for
the tree, and if you know that you have fruit
that somebody is waiting to eat, you will produce it
and you would do it for them.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making
Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashaan McDonald.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm talking to Schoni Prince, motivational speaker personal development leadership
from a personal development standpoint motivational speaker. You said it earlier.
It's a crowd of field. Now, oh yeah, you know,
it's like a lot of cookies on the tables, a
lot of flavors, and you know, you go out there,
you don't know which cookie to buy, which cookie to
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pick up, which cookie? Is that what's separating you in
the motivational game?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
There seconi Well, I realized not everybody is for me,
and I'm okay with that. I'm cool with that. Okay,
I don't have a problem with that. But there are
a group of individuals that when they hear me talk,
they gravitate towards me. Now, some people call it energy,
some people call it frequency, some people call it spirit.
I don't care what you call it. But when you
hear my voice, when you hear my presentation, in fact,
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when you read my books, when you come to my events,
you realize that I have something you need. And those
are the people I've been called to serve. Everybody else
got bless you have a smile on you, But the
ones that I've been call to serve, I'm here to
help you. So that's who I am, and I can't
be anything other than who I am. I'm not trying
to be Anyboudy. I'm not trying to replace anybody. I'm
trying to be the best secone that I can be
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because I know me showing up at my best is
going to inspire, motivate, and to courage somebody to do
the same.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Now, your latest book, Heal, which is h E A
L Help Elevate and Learn a God to Healing your
Inner child again, is about that person. See one thing
I love about you in my short term or just
doing my research. You keep putting the burden of responsibility
back on that person, and I think I've never heard that.
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See people always talk about come here, relax, come here
with a group of people, you meditate together, but you
go to write. Look in that mirror, we're talking about you.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
When you wake up.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You're looking at you when you go to bed. Is
about you? What thought proce got you there? Because you're
starting a three D animation. Then you went on stage
at the George Fraser event. You went you know, so
these people are looking at me different. They're not really
looking at what I'm doing. They're looking at what listen
to what I'm saying yes, And in the process of
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listening to what you what you're saying. You said, I'm
gonna let you know that I can only get you
there if you get yourself there correctly. Talk to me
bout exactly I'm getting on the prints train now.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, well listen. I know how critically important it is
for us to be able to work on ourselves, because
I tell people all the time, no matter where you go,
you're there. No matter where you go, you're there. And
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if you never develop yourself, you take the same thing
and from one relationship to the next, from one job
to the next, from one project to the next, from
one goal to the next, from one diet to the next.
So if you never change you, you're gonna wind up
getting the same results. One of the latest I had
on my podcast, in fact, she said that some people
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are dating the same person with a different face. And
it's like wow, because that really blew me away, because
it's like, we tend to keep gravitating towards the same thing,
but we need to change our appetite. So that starts
with us, That starts with us working and looking in
the mirror and say, my really, my personal development journey
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started when I was in college in Atlanta, and I
was dating this young lady. Everything was going good, great
and fine and wonderful until it wasn't. And whenever relationship
was over, instead of me blaming her and instead of
me you know, talking it down to her, I started
asking questions, but not of her, of me. I started
trying to understand and figure out why did I do
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to some of the stuff I did, Seconia, why is
it that? And most of the relationships you've been in
it was a woman that ended it. Why is that?
And I started to do my own personal, my own
research to understand me better. And it wasn't until I
stepped into the motivation of speaking arena that I realized
how much more work I needed to do. And so
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that's my thing. So many people we'll ask questions of
everybody else, but rarely do we do it of ourselves.
So that's my goal to help people to say, Okay,
why it's not just what you do, it's why you
do it. Some people ain't well again, but that's just
the way I am.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So what is that inner child that you're trying to
get us to allow to grow? And I'm assuming that's
the whole angle growth Internally, you let that person or
that in the child mature and accept responsibility, then you'll
be a better person for it. That was my takeaway
from the book.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Okay, well, and that is definitely true. We want to
do what I call an inner child check up. A
couple of years ago, I had a chance to speak
at a focused women's conference here Mobill and I finished
my presentation with an exercise, and I had all of
the ladies in the room. I said, Okay, first of all,
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secure belongings, because everybody ain't saved. Make sure your person
you're phoned right next to you. But then I had
them to close their eyes and put their hand over
their heart, and I told them to think about the
little girl that's still in them and how proud she
is of the woman that she's become. But then I
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also told him, I said, I want you to thank
that little girl for the strength that she had to
go through everything she went through for you to be
here today. And you will not believe how many women
of different ages and stages ethnicities came up to me
afterwards and thanked me. Some of them were tears in
their eyes for that exercise of just reminding them of
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who they still had in them and I think that
was the catalyus for me writing this book, because it
is so important for us to understand the things that
went into making us who we are, and if we
have current day behavior that was seated in our childhood,
especially if it's negative, we need to address that. We
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need to spend some time discovery. Now you can start
this process on your own, and the book is a
great starting point, and even my podcast helps with that
as well. But I've had therapists and psychologists and psychologists
on my podcast to help frame up a lot of
stuff I put in the book because my slogan for
my podcasts I'm not here to end the conversation. I
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just want to start it. Because a lot of people
don't really realize that they have current day behavior that
was seated in their childhood. They're trying to impress or
trying to please somebody that may not even be here anymore,
and they need to just take a step back and
look at why they do what they do and understand that. Okay,
you can change that, you can rewire your brain, but
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you have to first identify what it is that's negatively
impacting your life. And once you will to do that,
then you can take the necessary steps, get the necessary
help you need in order to unpack and repack your life.
And even in my book I talk about having a
second childhood. We can actually get to the place to
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where life is fun again. But we have optimism and
hope and we have dreams. Because again, I think so
many people are locked in a box, and they have
the key, they lock themselves in. My thing is I
want you to take the key and unlock and let
yourself out and become the type of person that you
dreamed of when you were younger.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I love it. We're talking Seconi Prince, the arthor of
heal h e a L stands for help Elevate and
learn a guide to healing. You're in a child now
the whole process of how can we find out where
you're speaking? How can we find out and stay in
touch with you. You mentioned your podcast, tell us your podcast,
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but more importantly, how we can get you your next
speaking engagement? See you do your thing. All these are
private engagements that are structured around events that people invite
you to.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well. Actually, I have an event coming up in Dallas
on October the Trough, so I'm excited about that. I'm
gonna be speaking there along with some other incredible men.
But the easiest way to find out, in fact, what's
going on with me as you can check out my
podcast Fact, which is on my website seconiprints dot com.
Slash here that's c I C O N E p
(23:31):
R E I n CE dot com forward slash h
T A L. Then I think there's another forward slash. Uh.
You can also follow me on all social medias. I'm
on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and even YouTube. In fact,
YouTube you can go and see all of my podcasts
there there. You can watch all of them. You can
(23:54):
listen to them on Spotify and iHeartRadio as well. But uh,
the the easiest way to get in contact with me
is you go on my website. My email is there
at scone asseconiprins dot com. Even my phone numbers there,
you know. So I am here to help everybody that
I meet understand their value, see what value their value brings.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Two. A couple of things. How old you when you're
in college?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I was in my early twenties, early.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Twenties, okay, And your name of your and your company
basically you found it on personal development and leadership development
specialized in real world business leadership and personal accountability approaches. Right, yes, sir, okay,
in their early twenties, when you're in college, that's when
you started understanding personal development about yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Correct. Correct, I actually saw the need for it.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Right, So you did have this internal develop between the
ages of eighteen and twenty four that you are now
making money on. Now, it's all I'm saying, brother, All
I do is just wrap it up and let you know.
I hear when people talk again, our gifts are discovered
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early in life. If we have to listen and understand,
that's the journey and the journey you live in.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You started a brother in college, you became a three
D animator. You went on stage and it started letting
you know, giving you moments of saying that ain't what
you do, brother, that ain't what you do. Now, what
you're doing is what you do. I'm going to tell
you right now to go on it. I'm impressed by you, brother,
and I want to thank you for taking the time
to fill out that farm and come on my show.
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And I want to give you another opportunity to speak
to another side of our audience, because the more people.
I believe hear your story, the more your brand will
be able to impact the people that you're trying to impact.
And I think it really is I feel it really
is true. It is all about you. I will tell
people stop that stop sign, that stop signs that hand
we kind of put in our face. When you look
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in the mirror, that's you. When you go to sleep,
that's you. There's a responsibility along the way. You need
to hold yourself accountable, and that's the journey that you're
trying to impose on us.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yes, sir, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Thank you, sir. You're a wonderful brother, and I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Man. Thank you. I appreciate you too as well.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass
posted by me Rashaun McDonald. Thank you to our guests
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your gifts. Keep winning.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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dream Now. If you want to be a guest on
my show, please visit Moneymakingconversation dot com and click to
be a guest button. Let's get started today. My guest
founded a personal development and leadership development companies specializing in
real world business leadership and personal accountability approaches. He helps individuals, organizations,
(01:08):
and companies get to the root of their behavior, performance
and areas of improvement to change their overall outlook and
become more productive, encouraging and inspiring. Please work with the
Money Making Conversation Masterclass CHICONI Prince, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm doing fineing you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's a lot going on. We're gonna break this down
to my audience here because I want to start with
the word accountability. Checone, What does that mean when you're
in your business model?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, accountability means to me the ability to be accountable.
Some of the ones said that responsibility is your ability
to respond. And we all have an opportunity to make
the world a better place. But if we don't understand
that that's what is given to us. To who much
is given, much is required, we won't live up to
(01:55):
that mantra. And so my goal is to help people
to understand that they have some than to offer the world.
Like my coach told me that you can be the
askment of somebody's headache, but if you don't realize that,
you will go somewhere and sit in the corner. You'll
go somewhere and sit down. So to be accountable is
to understand what it is you have and how valuable
it is, and that it's needed.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Now, let me ask this question to you. Is your
business tied to following your faith or following your passion?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Honestly, it's a combination of both. Because I believe that
all of us we have something that we've been placed
here to do, because if you weren't needed here, we
wouldn't be here. And so I know there are a
lot of people that lean so heavy on their faith
that they don't want to do anything. And I know
that there are so many people that lean so heavy
on the actions that they don't have any belief. But
I believe that there has to be a combination of both.
(02:46):
We have to be able to understand that, yes, we
have talent, skills and abilities, but it's not just for
us to serve ourselves. We need to serve other people.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We just ask that because let's get to the background
of who shouldn't with the princess. Because I always tell
people the journey of where you're at are currently now
may not be how you started, but it's something that
you believed in as a youth. Because I always tell people,
between the age of eighteen and twenty four, you just fearless.
You have all these dreams, all these aspirations, and then
(03:18):
what happens is life takes over and then you kind
of start listening to other people. They tell you should
do this. You might get married, and careers might take
you out of town, and you might get off course
from your dream. Are you doing what you're doing now
that you want to do or aspire to do between
the ages of eighteen and twenty four, tikoni.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, sir, I am not, But tell me about that well.
And actually, I have always been a very creative person,
and I found myself doing something that I really didn't
think I would be doing at the time, and that
was three D animation. I had a company called three
D Solution Providers and we did three D animation and illustration.
(04:00):
And I was actually at an event back in twenty twelve.
It was called the Power Networking Conference with doctor George Fraser,
and at that event, I wind up winning a quick
pitch Business Olympics. While I was pitching my business, but
while I was on stage, I had an epiphany. While
I was up there telling people about my products or
my services, I realized that my words could be used
(04:21):
for more than selling a product or service. They can
be used to sell people on themselves. You know, my
first book was entitled Are You Climbing the Wrong Mountain?
About finding your true purpose? And I tell people that
are three things you can learn by being on the
wrong mountain. The first thing you can learn is this
is not it, this is not where I'm supposed to be.
I can scratch this off my lists. But the second
(04:42):
thing is being on the wrong mountain, you can identify
the right one. And that's what happened to me at
that conference. I realized, this is not where I'm supposed
to be. I'm supposed to be encouraging and motivating people.
But the third thing I tell people that you can
learn by being on the wrong mountain is that once
you've identified the right one, it's not going to take
you that long to get up it because you have
(05:03):
mounting climbing skills. The things you learn even climbing the
wrong mouth and that you take with you. And so
during those years doing those formative years of eighteen and
twenty four, there are a lot of lessons that you
can learn, and they aren't It's only a loss if
you leave the lesson, and so many individuals they consider
what I've wasted my time. No you've gotten experience. If anything,
(05:24):
you learn what not to do. And so I try
to help people to understand that. Listen, wherever you are
in life, you have a wealth of experience and knowledge
that's got you that you know some things that work
for you, some things that are the goods you can
pass on, but you also know some pitfalls that you
can help other people avoid. So if we take it
all as a total, then we'll understand that we have
(05:48):
something to offer the world.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, how old were you when you hit the stage
and you had that moment they realize that you know something.
I'm doing this, well, but this is not what I do.
How old were you?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I was in my mid thirties, So yeah, yes, I
was in my mid thirties in fact when I did that.
But up until that point, I was satisfied with the direction,
the fact that I was going. But again I realized
I was climbing.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Who was pouring you in that direction where you were going? Would?
Who was telling you that was the right direction for
you to go? To Coney?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well? Actually it was me because again, like I said,
I love being creative and three D animation allowed me
a chance to make something out of nothing. When I
hear words, I see pictures, and so people would they
would literally give me a paragraph explaining the process or
a or a new invention, and I could actually as
I read it, I saw pictures in my mind. So
(06:48):
I would just go on my computer and I would
make what I saw. I would animate and I would
actually help them to actually illustrate their vision of the
future in three D. But again I realize that my
real talents, my real gift and abilities. And somebody will say,
what's the ConA, how you come from doing three D
animation to do in fact motivational speaking? And for me
(07:11):
it was easy because it just became a reverse engineering.
Whereas before somebody else was giving me the words and
I was creating the visuals because I could see it
in my mind. Well, now I have the vision in
my mind. I just reverse engineer, and I'm giving them
the words. I'm painting a picture in their mind to
help them to understand who they are and what they
have to bring to the table.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, I think, Shagoonne, what they're asking you would go,
why do you go from motivation to from CD three
D animation to motivation? It's like, how do you have
the courage because you know yourself. There's so many people
are in marriagers they shouldn't be in because they don't
have courage to get out of it. So many people
are at jobs that they're working on a daily basis,
but they're afraid to leave because they don't know if
(07:53):
they can get that check someplace else. So a lot
of people trapped in environments that they're not happy in
out of fear. And I think the question that people
are asking you is how did you accomplish that? And
what was the turning point? You say, you know something,
this is not my path to my future.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, I guess my turning point came in two phases.
One was that event where I realized that my words
could be used for something more than again selling the
product of service. But the other point or was I
actually watched Less Brown's fifty minute Mindset and that really
(08:37):
helped me to understand that I could change directions, I
could change course, and I had a burning desire and
I still do to help people. I mean I tell
people all the time, if I'm not here to help,
then why am I here?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And so understanding the need that everybody has to exercise
their God given talents and abilities. That was again, it's
like breathing to me. And so I realized that I
could sell people on themselves, and that's what I started doing.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Selling people on themselves. Expound on that. Please tell me
that almost like sounds like self motivation are showing people
their value and allowing them to take advantage of it.
I may be saying it wrong, but help me out.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, I'm going to help you out because my slogan
is I'm Seconiprince off seconiprince dot com, where we make
motivation personal for introducing you to yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I think a lot of people really don't understand
who they are and what they have, and because of that,
they again allow the world to pass them by. They
don't value their value and see what value their value brings.
I'm gonna say that again for those that are taking notes.
People need to learn how to value their own value
(10:08):
and then see what value their value brings, and so
helping people to understand that you have more in you
than you're putting out into the world. The question is
what's holding you back? And most of the time it's
just us and our fear and our inability to move
past our own hang ups. But when you realize somebody
is waiting on you, somebody is desperately seeking what you have,
(10:32):
then you'll find a way. If you can't find a way,
you will make a way to get to them and
to help them. But if you don't see how valuable
your asset is, and I don't care what it is,
it could be frying chicken, it can be cutting grass,
It could be doing a county. It can be practicing law,
whatever you've been gifted to do. Somebody needs you. They
are looking for you. When I show up, they turn
(10:55):
me away. But when you show up, you make a
difference in their life. And so my job is to
help inspire people, or should I say motivate, because I
believe inspiration can come externally. You can inspire somebody, but
motivation has to be internal. What's your motivation? Will you
understand what you have? Like I tell people all the time,
(11:15):
until you know who you are, anything can stop you.
But once you know who you are, nothing can.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Okay, before I answer my next ask my next question,
what's your slogan? Again?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Sicony Siconi Prince of siconiprince dot com, where we make
motivation personal by introducing you to yourself.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, help me out with a person fifty years old,
you know, and a job, because that fifty is a
rough year for people because sometimes they this is how
I'm gon riote it out. They might tell themselves, as
there's no relationship out there for them, this is the
only job in my life. They want to be an entrepreneur,
(11:57):
but they're afraid they have no mentorship. Now, this is
about what you're saying. Looking into yourself, self motivation, that's
what you do. I got a lot of listeners who
are listening to this show right now who need self motivation.
Help them out, Sconi Prince.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, my first question fifty years old, now, fifty years old?
Fifty years old, fifty years old? Okay, if you're fifty
years old, my question to you is what is it
that you love to do? What is your passion? What
is that thing that you would do even if you
didn't get paid. What is that thing that you get
(12:36):
excited about, the thing that you do that you don't
even look at your watch, The thing that you do
that when it's over, you're actually sad, You're like, when
can we do this again? What is that and then
figure out a way to build your own economy around that.
It could be something the simple as fishing. It could
be something as simple as you know, I'm flying the kite.
(12:59):
There are so many things that we can do, but
I'm telling you there's somebody else out there that needs it,
and so understanding that you have what it takes to
lead somebody. You know, there are a ton of people
that do have have motivational speaking, but there's only one
Seconi Prince, and no one can do what I do
(13:21):
the way I do it, when I do it, and
where I do it, And so understanding that I'm not
in competition with them. I'm just trying to be the
best version of myself. And if you never take the
time to understand who you are and what you have,
you're always going to keep second guinst yourself and you're
never going to move beyond what's comfortable. If you think
(13:42):
about where you want to be. It's just like with
ener gps. You can put in a destination, but if
you don't have your locations turned on, it's gonna ask
you where are you? And we have to be honest
enough with where we are right now? What's holding us back?
Is it my fear? Is it the fact that I
don't know? I may have passion, but I don't know
how to do or what to do. You can find
(14:02):
that out, but you have to be willing to step out.
The only thing between you and your dreams is you.
So let's get ourself in gear and let's understand that
we have something to do and a place to go,
and somebody waiting on us. It's not just about the money.
It's not just about the fame or the fortune. Who
are you helping? If you really want to impress me,
(14:25):
show me the people that you help, not the car
you drive. Now much money you have, who are you helping?
Doctor mosboronnd Rowe He said that the fruit isn't for
the tree, and if you know that you have fruit
that somebody is waiting to eat, you will produce it
and you would do it for them.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making
Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashaan McDonald.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm talking to Schoni Prince, motivational speaker personal development leadership
from a personal development standpoint motivational speaker. You said it earlier.
It's a crowd of field. Now, oh yeah, you know,
it's like a lot of cookies on the tables, a
lot of flavors, and you know, you go out there,
you don't know which cookie to buy, which cookie to
(15:23):
pick up, which cookie? Is that what's separating you in
the motivational game?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
There seconi Well, I realized not everybody is for me,
and I'm okay with that. I'm cool with that. Okay,
I don't have a problem with that. But there are
a group of individuals that when they hear me talk,
they gravitate towards me. Now, some people call it energy,
some people call it frequency, some people call it spirit.
I don't care what you call it. But when you
hear my voice, when you hear my presentation, in fact,
(15:49):
when you read my books, when you come to my events,
you realize that I have something you need. And those
are the people I've been called to serve. Everybody else
got bless you have a smile on you, But the
ones that I've been call to serve, I'm here to
help you. So that's who I am, and I can't
be anything other than who I am. I'm not trying
to be Anyboudy. I'm not trying to replace anybody. I'm
trying to be the best secone that I can be
(16:12):
because I know me showing up at my best is
going to inspire, motivate, and to courage somebody to do
the same.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Now, your latest book, Heal, which is h E A
L Help Elevate and Learn a God to Healing your
Inner child again, is about that person. See one thing
I love about you in my short term or just
doing my research. You keep putting the burden of responsibility
back on that person, and I think I've never heard that.
(16:39):
See people always talk about come here, relax, come here
with a group of people, you meditate together, but you
go to write. Look in that mirror, we're talking about you.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
When you wake up.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You're looking at you when you go to bed. Is
about you? What thought proce got you there? Because you're
starting a three D animation. Then you went on stage
at the George Fraser event. You went you know, so
these people are looking at me different. They're not really
looking at what I'm doing. They're looking at what listen
to what I'm saying yes, And in the process of
(17:13):
listening to what you what you're saying. You said, I'm
gonna let you know that I can only get you
there if you get yourself there correctly. Talk to me
bout exactly I'm getting on the prints train now.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, well listen. I know how critically important it is
for us to be able to work on ourselves, because
I tell people all the time, no matter where you go,
you're there. No matter where you go, you're there. And
(17:46):
if you never develop yourself, you take the same thing
and from one relationship to the next, from one job
to the next, from one project to the next, from
one goal to the next, from one diet to the next.
So if you never change you, you're gonna wind up
getting the same results. One of the latest I had
on my podcast, in fact, she said that some people
(18:08):
are dating the same person with a different face. And
it's like wow, because that really blew me away, because
it's like, we tend to keep gravitating towards the same thing,
but we need to change our appetite. So that starts
with us, That starts with us working and looking in
the mirror and say, my really, my personal development journey
(18:29):
started when I was in college in Atlanta, and I
was dating this young lady. Everything was going good, great
and fine and wonderful until it wasn't. And whenever relationship
was over, instead of me blaming her and instead of
me you know, talking it down to her, I started
asking questions, but not of her, of me. I started
trying to understand and figure out why did I do
(18:50):
to some of the stuff I did, Seconia, why is
it that? And most of the relationships you've been in
it was a woman that ended it. Why is that?
And I started to do my own personal, my own
research to understand me better. And it wasn't until I
stepped into the motivation of speaking arena that I realized
how much more work I needed to do. And so
(19:12):
that's my thing. So many people we'll ask questions of
everybody else, but rarely do we do it of ourselves.
So that's my goal to help people to say, Okay,
why it's not just what you do, it's why you
do it. Some people ain't well again, but that's just
the way I am.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So what is that inner child that you're trying to
get us to allow to grow? And I'm assuming that's
the whole angle growth Internally, you let that person or
that in the child mature and accept responsibility, then you'll
be a better person for it. That was my takeaway
from the book.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Okay, well, and that is definitely true. We want to
do what I call an inner child check up. A
couple of years ago, I had a chance to speak
at a focused women's conference here Mobill and I finished
my presentation with an exercise, and I had all of
the ladies in the room. I said, Okay, first of all,
(20:07):
secure belongings, because everybody ain't saved. Make sure your person
you're phoned right next to you. But then I had
them to close their eyes and put their hand over
their heart, and I told them to think about the
little girl that's still in them and how proud she
is of the woman that she's become. But then I
(20:27):
also told him, I said, I want you to thank
that little girl for the strength that she had to
go through everything she went through for you to be
here today. And you will not believe how many women
of different ages and stages ethnicities came up to me
afterwards and thanked me. Some of them were tears in
their eyes for that exercise of just reminding them of
(20:48):
who they still had in them and I think that
was the catalyus for me writing this book, because it
is so important for us to understand the things that
went into making us who we are, and if we
have current day behavior that was seated in our childhood,
especially if it's negative, we need to address that. We
(21:10):
need to spend some time discovery. Now you can start
this process on your own, and the book is a
great starting point, and even my podcast helps with that
as well. But I've had therapists and psychologists and psychologists
on my podcast to help frame up a lot of
stuff I put in the book because my slogan for
my podcasts I'm not here to end the conversation. I
(21:31):
just want to start it. Because a lot of people
don't really realize that they have current day behavior that
was seated in their childhood. They're trying to impress or
trying to please somebody that may not even be here anymore,
and they need to just take a step back and
look at why they do what they do and understand that. Okay,
you can change that, you can rewire your brain, but
(21:53):
you have to first identify what it is that's negatively
impacting your life. And once you will to do that,
then you can take the necessary steps, get the necessary
help you need in order to unpack and repack your life.
And even in my book I talk about having a
second childhood. We can actually get to the place to
(22:14):
where life is fun again. But we have optimism and
hope and we have dreams. Because again, I think so
many people are locked in a box, and they have
the key, they lock themselves in. My thing is I
want you to take the key and unlock and let
yourself out and become the type of person that you
dreamed of when you were younger.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I love it. We're talking Seconi Prince, the arthor of
heal h e a L stands for help Elevate and
learn a guide to healing. You're in a child now
the whole process of how can we find out where
you're speaking? How can we find out and stay in
touch with you. You mentioned your podcast, tell us your podcast,
(22:57):
but more importantly, how we can get you your next
speaking engagement? See you do your thing. All these are
private engagements that are structured around events that people invite
you to.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well. Actually, I have an event coming up in Dallas
on October the Trough, so I'm excited about that. I'm
gonna be speaking there along with some other incredible men.
But the easiest way to find out, in fact, what's
going on with me as you can check out my
podcast Fact, which is on my website seconiprints dot com.
Slash here that's c I C O N E p
(23:31):
R E I n CE dot com forward slash h
T A L. Then I think there's another forward slash. Uh.
You can also follow me on all social medias. I'm
on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and even YouTube. In fact,
YouTube you can go and see all of my podcasts
there there. You can watch all of them. You can
(23:54):
listen to them on Spotify and iHeartRadio as well. But uh,
the the easiest way to get in contact with me
is you go on my website. My email is there
at scone asseconiprins dot com. Even my phone numbers there,
you know. So I am here to help everybody that
I meet understand their value, see what value their value brings.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Two. A couple of things. How old you when you're
in college?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I was in my early twenties, early.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Twenties, okay, And your name of your and your company
basically you found it on personal development and leadership development
specialized in real world business leadership and personal accountability approaches. Right, yes, sir, okay,
in their early twenties, when you're in college, that's when
you started understanding personal development about yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Correct. Correct, I actually saw the need for it.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Right, So you did have this internal develop between the
ages of eighteen and twenty four that you are now
making money on. Now, it's all I'm saying, brother, All
I do is just wrap it up and let you know.
I hear when people talk again, our gifts are discovered
(25:16):
early in life. If we have to listen and understand,
that's the journey and the journey you live in.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You started a brother in college, you became a three
D animator. You went on stage and it started letting
you know, giving you moments of saying that ain't what
you do, brother, that ain't what you do. Now, what
you're doing is what you do. I'm going to tell
you right now to go on it. I'm impressed by you, brother,
and I want to thank you for taking the time
to fill out that farm and come on my show.
(25:43):
And I want to give you another opportunity to speak
to another side of our audience, because the more people.
I believe hear your story, the more your brand will
be able to impact the people that you're trying to impact.
And I think it really is I feel it really
is true. It is all about you. I will tell
people stop that stop sign, that stop signs that hand
we kind of put in our face. When you look
(26:04):
in the mirror, that's you. When you go to sleep,
that's you. There's a responsibility along the way. You need
to hold yourself accountable, and that's the journey that you're
trying to impose on us.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yes, sir, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Thank you, sir. You're a wonderful brother, and I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Man. Thank you. I appreciate you too as well.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass
posted by me Rashaun McDonald. Thank you to our guests
on the show today and thank you our listening to
audience now. If you want to listen to any episode
I want to be a guest on the show, visit
Moneymakingconversations dot com. Our social media handle is money Making Conversation.
Join us next week and remember to always leave with
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your gifts. Keep winning.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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