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Music Producer, Job Clarkson describes the seven essential mindsets that can lead to a lasting legacy. As a multifaceted artist and the visionary behind the Heart of Job Foundation, Job captivates us with his journey from collaborating with music icons like Ludacris and Rick Ross to founding his own record label, Black Box Entertainment. He shares personal anecdotes that emphasize the importance of making every moment count and reveals how an oversight with TI taught him the value of seizing opportunities. Through an interactive exercise, we reflect on how believing in dreams, leading with passion, and taking accountability can transform our lives and build a sense of community.
We explore the profound impact of passion, accountability, and gratitude on achieving true fulfillment. Job's insights underscore that happiness comes from pursuing what you love, not just chasing financial success. He recounts how honesty in a difficult situation led to a pivotal opportunity and discusses how adversity can be a catalyst for gratitude and resilience. As we wrap up, we're reminded of the importance of recognizing early chances, like becoming a YouTube partner, and acting with intention. Join us in embedding these mindsets into daily life, as we promise they will bring significant positive changes and help in crafting your own lifelong legacy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Be A Baller where we're building a
lifelong legacy for our families, communities and the world.
Your host, coach Tim Brown, isexcited for you to join him on
this journey.
On each episode, we'll betalking about how to be
intentional about building alasting legacy.
We'll be exploring what itmeans to leave a mark that goes
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beyond just our lives but has apositive impact on those around
us and even generations to come.
So if you're looking forinspiration, guidance and
practical tips on how to build alasting legacy that makes a
difference, then you're in theright place.
So grab your earbuds, getcomfortable and let's dive in.
It's time to be a baller.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Our next guest is a producer, a singer, a songwriter
, but most of all, he is thefounder of the Heart of Job
Foundation.
Just a little bit about him.
The Heart of Job Foundation wascreated by Job Clarkson in 2017
.
As a singer, songwriter andproducer, job has worked in the
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music industry for over 10 years.
In 2013, job established hisrecord label, black Box
Entertainment and later createdhis production company, music
Evolved.
He's worked in all facets ofthe business, working his way up
over the course of hisillustrious career.
Job's art has taken him in manyplaces, most notably his
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collaborations with Ludacris, ti, rick Ross and Grammy winner
Looney Tunes.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
He's here to share his story and share everything
about the Heart of JobFoundation.
So I want you all to give awarm, warm welcome to Mr Joe
Clarkson.
Man, it ain't cold.
It was freezing a week ago.
How y'all doing today?
All right, that's what I'mtalking about.
That's what I'm talking about.
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I had to figure out.
The hardest thing, I think,today was how to be able to get
to know y'all and let y'all knowwho I am at the same time.
So I came up with somethingthat's called a challenge.
Anybody ever heard of the sevenmindsets?
No, seven mindsets to success.
Anybody ever heard of it?
No, alright, so y'all got these.
Uh, every table has a card onit with lines that say B-A-B on
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it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Right there, you see that one.
Right there you got.
Can you hold it up?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Can you hold it up?
Everybody got one of those.
Everybody got one of those atthe table, so I need one person
from the table, one person fromthe table to write down what I'm
about to tell you, since y'allknow what it is.
This is the most importantthing.
This is what got me to where Iam.
First one is everything ispossible.
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Everything is possible, andthat means, believe me yourself,
dream big.
The second one is passion first, passion first.
Find what you love and pursue.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Let that lead your life.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Don't let the money lead your life Passion first.
Third one is we are connected,everybody's connected.
Six degrees is more like three.
We are connected 100%accountable, 100% accountable.
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100% accountable, that is, takeownership of your actions and
your future.
100%.
We ain't talking 90, we ain'ttalking 99 we ain't talking 95.
Attitude of gratitude focus onthe positives and be very, very
thankful.
That was a good prayer he said.
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He said thanks about ten times.
That's what we need to talkabout right there, alright.
The next one is live to give.
Live to give, help others andmake a difference.
It'll always come back around.
And the last one, which is themost important, is time is now,
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right now, act of urgency andmake every minute count.
Mine's going from an hour,actually from a day to an hour,
to a minute, and now I'm tryingto make every second count of my
life, because I've livedthrough some of the good times.
Alright, everybody got those ondown there to take them.
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Yep, got them.
Brother, which one?
You're going to have to speaklouder.
Three, alright, what's thethird?
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
See how that works.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's how connected we are, right here.
Here we go.
We have some next round, allright.
So what we're going to do isI'm going to get to learn y'all
and y'all get to learn me at thesame time and.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I'm going to tell my story through that, so we'll go
to every table right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I want one person at each table to pick one of those.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I'm going to tell you something about me and I want
you to tell me something aboutyou.
Alright.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Is that good?
Can we play that game?
Can we do?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
that challenge today?
Huh, alright.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Alright let's do it.
We're going to start right hereAt this first table right here.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, a matter of fact, yeah, this one right here,
this one right here, just oneof them.
Yes, thank you.
Say your name first to them all.
Right, pick one of thosechallenges and say how that's
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important to you.
Why is that important to you?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Because of running out of time.
Alright.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I like that.
I want to say that's importantto me because time I let things
go past me right.
One time I was invited to astudio.
I didn't make it to the studiobecause I thought I had
something going on that was moreimportant.
To be honest, I had my child totake care of, right, and I'm
like, oh man, I can wait, I canwait.
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I got to take care of my kid.
I got to take care of my kidand come to find out that was
the first time I wasn't able togo to a studio with TI, right,
and it was to myself, it waslike dang.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I didn't take the time to go do what I needed to
do right now, because guess whatthat time could have did
Changed the rest of my liferight?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
It took me five years again before I met him the next
time to change my life right.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So I encourage everybody to take the time right
now.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Every day is going to count every second is going to
count, and if you do it likethat, you're going to be able to
make the most out of it.
All right, thanks.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I chose everything is possible.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Everything is possible, and why is that
important to you?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
The reason why I chose everything is possible is
because I'm a high schoolstudent.
I'm going to be honest.
A lot of people told me thatthe brand SOPE was not going to
be successful, and yet, everyday, I tend to prove people
wrong and I'll tell you everytime by giving God the word, god
will make sure that I'mstraight and also, by giving my
life for others, make sure thatI have a given heart, make sure
that I'm giving back to mycommunity.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's it All right, all right.
So why everything is possibleto me?
And something that I livedthrough is I got a felony when I
was 18 years old.
Actually, I got 12.
Because I was in the wrongplace at the wrong time.
It took me 30 years, 30 years,but I finally got my passport
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and I was able to traveloverseas.
And the reason why that wasimportant to me is because it
told me that I never was goingto be able to do it.
So I grew up my whole lifethinking I didn't even try to
apply for it because I couldn'tget there.
All right, so don't ever letsomebody tell you that you can't
.
The other thing is I teach.
Now I'm a teacher, I teach, Iget up every day and I go to
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teach at schools every day, andI never.
I teach, I get up every day andI go to teach at schools every
day.
They told me that if I didn'tgo to school, I wouldn't be able
to teach, or if I didn't gothrough all these pathways, I
wouldn't be able to teach andgive back to my community.
I get up every day and I dothat.
Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Do you want to add anything else?
My name is Trezor and I picknumber two, passion, first.
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
is it?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
important to you.
You just gotta have passion forwhat you wanna do a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Alright, so instead of me saying something, about
myself.
I'm gonna tell to tell you whyyou should use passion first.
Right, if you find, if you tryto chase what I say, chase the
money.
Right, if you go after themoney and you try to make the
money what it is to take care ofyour life, or you got people
that you want to do somethingfor, or you got things that you
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want to do in your life.
You won't get to that point andthen, guess what?
You're still not going to behappy at what it is that you're
doing.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I know a lot of people that go take these jobs
they're doing all these thingsthat they aren't really going to
do, and they ain't never beenthere.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I mean, they get there and then they sit there
one more.
You know what I'm saying, andso for me it is if you lead with
the passion, the passion isgoing to bring the money to you
Some people chase the money andthen they ain't got the passion
with it.
So then when they get to it, itdon't mean as much as it's
supposed to you can always findsomething that you're passionate
about, and then you can findsomething to be able to make
that out of it.
An example of that is I'm inmusic and entertainment, right,
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and film.
There's music, film andentertainment in everything that
we do, right, and so if I justwere chasing the end with me a
doctor or something like thatthen I would like that.
You know, I mean I'm gonna getto the money, but that's not
something I want.
But actually is there anydoctors in here?
All right, okay, right, everydoctor I'll talk to say they
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wish they chose something else,because it's a lot of work, it's
a lot of time and too.
They don't get a lot of time toenjoy life.
You know what I'm saying, so Iwould just say use your passion
first, pursue something that'sgoing to make you happy, and
then you can get the money outof that come with that.
You know what I'm saying,alright, next, I'm 100%
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accountable.
Mr Gilbert, why is thatimportant to you?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
That is important to me because growing up I realized
the biggest part of solving aproblem is identifying the
problem and with that, as yousaid, sometimes you got to know
where you went wrong and whatyou did wrong to be able to fix
it.
And that is why you 100% got totake accountable before you
move forward with everythingelse.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's it.
Who else do we?
Got the thing that I had to dowhen I had to understand what
100% accountability was.
Right, everybody when I'm introuble.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Right, I'm good All my friends are like oh man,
we're going to see this judge.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
we're going to see this judge you know you got to
be able to try and get slick wayto get out of it and do all
these different things.
I mean, you're going to see thejail for a long time and all
this.
I didn't have a lot of tip.
I went in and the first thing Isaid was you know what?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You know how a lot of people are like man I'm not
guilty, I'm not guilty, I'm notguilty, I'm not guilty right and
then they get found guiltylater because they actually
didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I just went in and said I was guilty and he said
you know what?
For your honesty, for yourhonesty, I'm going to give you a
chance, I'm going to put you onprobation Right.
That that was a change in mylife, because if I wasn't on
probation and I would haveactually went to trial, I would
have got 20 years, which meansmy whole life would be different
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than it is right now.
And so that was the early lessonI got of being 100% accountable
, also being humble in my lifeand being able to say you know
what?
I did something wrong it iswhat.
It is my fault, my, my bad.
I'm able to go to the nextthing, alright, next.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I chose attitudes of gratitude.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I believe it's a positive and what else you
believe?
What else is there?
It's a positive to be able tobe thankful, right, alright.
So when it comes to being, whoelse are you thankful for waking
up today?
Y'all want to know what I sayto myself.
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I was raised in foster care andchildren's services, three
years old all the way until Iwas 18.
I had an, a job right.
Then this was out.
I had no programs, no, nothing,right.
And my mom still is dealingwith addiction today.
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So just because you're dealingwith it right now, or if anybody
knows anybody's dealing with it, don't mean you're ever going
to get over it, right?
You're just not going to knowhow to deal over it, right?
Because?
I don't know how to deal with it, right, but what I will say is
I had some friends that theydidn't know what I went through
when I was younger right, but alot of them is in prison and
dead right now.
So I'm thankful that my momtook me through what she took me
through, because it made mestronger.
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So I wake up every day, insteadof me being upset at her and
trying to you know what I meando something to make her feel
like she ain't right if she everdid nothing right.
I wake up every day and I tellher I'm thankful for her, for
making me who I am, because I'mstanding here today.
Thank you, thank you.
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Thank you, alright, youdefinitely came in there better.
There's a couple days that Idefinitely didn't get that back.
There's a couple of days that Idefinitely didn't take it
forward that I was supposed toright.
Alright, so one of them is Iwas a YouTube partner early in
my life Anybody who's my olderhomies right, who was around
when YouTube came out?
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You're right Like we justthought of whatever right we
didn't take.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, like I was like man they should be.
A YouTube came out.
You're right Like we juststarted with whatever right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
We didn't take no like man, they should be a
YouTube partner.
All this man, I never reallyused it.
Man I said there's nothing Iwasn't gonna learn on.
Man.
I got two friends that chose todo like teach music on YouTube.
Man, they make $50,000 a monthoff of YouTube and I just showed
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them how to do it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I did it later I'll pay money off of it now but, it
ain't $50,000 a
Speaker 3 (14:28):
month Because they came in as a YouTube partner
earlier and they got theroyalties and stuff that every
time they played the advertisinghit to it.
They made money off of it everytime.
And they got probably hundredsand hundreds of videos and I
don't got that many videos, sothat's just a story for me Going
to y'all.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Next, right here a little bit, if you was cool with
that.
I put it instead of um time isnow.
I said live in the now you feelme.
So like cause, then I don'tlike to look on my past, on my
failure.
You know I like to come backoff of that.
You know what I'm saying?
Like grind a little bit, youknow.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Nah, that's going to be one important thing.
We say live it now right, liveit now.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Live it right now, forget about yesterday Basically
, but not all the way, but likeuse that as a motivation to push
yourself for the next time thatyou do it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I'm like who else believe that?
Who else believe that that'sgood, right, that's really good
to do?
Because, dang, somebody getthat's good, right, that's
really good to do.
Because then somebody can wrongyou today.
Right, they can wrong you today.
They can do some wrong to youtoday and then tomorrow you can
be upset about it and the nextday you can be upset about it
and it's bothering you whentechnically it happened
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yesterday it happened yesterday.
If you don't, if you leave ityesterday, then it stays
yesterday and it's not going tobother you the next day.
For real, you know, what I mean.
If it ain't hurt you or harmyou or you know, take that
somebody, take words.
This is what's happening rightnow.
This is why the streets outhere is messed up right now.
Right.
Somebody did something wrong toyou yesterday, it was yesterday
, it was over with.
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Yeah, I'm going to hold it untiltomorrow or next week, and then
y'all get into it.
And then now we got all theseproblems, just because you
couldn't let something go forthe next day, so I'll look at
that as that.
I definitely had to learn thatover time.
I ain't saying that that'ssomething that's easy to do, but
what happened to somebody islike.
I was at the school teachingyesterday and the little guy was
like well, he called me this,this, this.
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I said well, it was 10 minutesago.
Does it matter if it was 10minutes ago?
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
So I like that my next line.
That's fine, hello, my name isLaKhia.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm from Gahama.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Lincoln and.
I say everything is possiblebecause suffering doesn't have
to be the end.
Suffering can be your beginning.
Oftentimes you have to look atwhere you've been or where
you've come from.
Sometimes you just have to begrateful for where you are and
the situation you came through.
At any moment, you can changeyour life around.
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You can choose, you want betterand it's not very good.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's a good one.
I like how you brought it up.
I never seen a picture of myfather.
I never knew who my father wasgrowing up.
I never even heard his voice atall.
I had to go through this inlife and be able to say, man,
I'm never going to know whatit's like to have a father.
Now I've got a and I get achance to learn how to be a
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father and what a father is frombeing with my son.
So I look at that, as you knowwhat I mean everything is
possible, because I had allgirls until I had my son, which
is you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So everything can always come around just how you
look at it you know what I'msaying and what you make of it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So your suffering could be early which is what you
just said, right and then lateron, you could be able to make
the best out of what's going on.
So, yeah, right, so.
I started running a foundationbecause somebody seemed that I
was doing a little bit of stufffor kids and they was like oh
man, you need to make afoundation out of it.
They actually took me to make myfoundation and I was just
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telling somebody this when I'vedone music and film and all that
, I've met a lot of people, I'vedone a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
But when I started, doing my nonprofit.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It took me farther than I've ever been with anybody
else.
I'm sitting with Jamie Foxx.
I'm sitting with Stevie Wonder.
I'm sitting with Princess fromAfrica.
I'm sitting with billionaires.
I'm sitting with Rick Ross.
I'm sitting with these peoplebecause they care about the
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foundation and giving to others.
I never thought that I wouldget farther in life than I was
in here.
And the second thing is I'm nowmaking just as much money as I
was when I was making music andso this is something that I you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I never really did it for that, but I found out that
this is what it is, so I'm withthat.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Alright, one more, make it a good one.
I go to South by.
I didn't choose.
We were connected.
I just heard that, but Ithought we connected because
everything we do somehow likekind of connects to each other.
Like, for instance, at schoolwe got what we can.
That's low-key, connected toevery school.
Every school has what we can.
I mean I know I can LikeMidlands, I know I can, just
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came to learn from them.
Or I know I can, I can onlyjust all connect to someone.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, there, it is right.
So we got all right.
So my thing, when we areconnected, is how many Ohio
State fans have got here?
Woo O-A-N.
I know are connected is howmany Ohio State fans are
connected.
Oh wait a minute, I know.
Alright, now I know.
So that's how we're connected.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You would be surprised at how many Ohio State
fans there's?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
all over the world.
Right, I go to Los Angeles.
I moved to Los Angeles withoutknowing nobody.
I drove from here to LosAngeles.
I landed with $400 in my pocket$400.
In Los Angeles, $400 gets you30 days on somebody's couch.
Just letting y'all know, $400to sleep on somebody's couch for
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30 days, guess what they'redoing after those 30 days.
Hey, what you about to do,because I got somebody else on
this couch Right, so I get there.
What happened is it was around.
Ohio State.
It was Ohio State when they wonthe championship Right the last
time they won the championship.
It's a bar in a pub, right.
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It's like a pub sports bar,whatever they had the.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Ohio State game.
The owner was an Ohio State fan.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Right, he actually graduated from Ohio State and
was an Ohio State fan.
So I go there and as many peopleas there is in here right now.
It was this many people, OhioState fans, right?
One of them worked for anadvertising marketing company.
I go in there and I starttalking to them about what was
going on, just to come to findout they was an Ohio State
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alumni, right, and I told themthey wasn't from Columbus, right
.
So one thing about a lot ofpeople that go to Ohio State a
lot of them ain't from Columbus.
So I got to tell them about mebeing born on Ohio State campus
and the conversation went so farthat they ended up knowing
somebody that I knew that wentto Ohio State.
They gave me a job and Istarted getting paid $5,000 a
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month from that one conversation.
Right, and that was whatstarted me, if I never had got
that job guess what?
I would have had $400?
.
I was going to be outside onthe street and that literally
was like the day before I had tobe here.
So I was able to go home andtell the guy give me another 30
days, but give me two weeks topay.
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He gave me them two weeks, andso that's how God always worked
in my life, right?
So I appreciate everybody foropening up, speaking about you,
know yourselves, and I wanty'all to know those seven key
mindsets.
If you use those mindsets andcontinue to get them every day
and embed them in your brain,that I guarantee the next time I
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see you or you'll see me later,15 years down the road, I
guarantee the change of life forthe rest of your life.
All right.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Anybody else got any questions.
I'm out of here.
I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm moving on.
I'm here, I'm here, I'm here,I'm here, I'm here.
Thank y'all, thank y'all somuch.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
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Be sure to come back next weekas we continue to discuss on how
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Until then, don't forget to bea baller.
Welcome to Be A Baller where we're building a
lifelong legacy for our families, communities and the world.
Your host, coach Tim Brown, isexcited for you to join him on
this journey.
On each episode, we'll betalking about how to be
intentional about building alasting legacy.
We'll be exploring what itmeans to leave a mark that goes
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beyond just our lives but has apositive impact on those around
us and even generations to come.
So if you're looking forinspiration, guidance and
practical tips on how to build alasting legacy that makes a
difference, then you're in theright place.
So grab your earbuds, getcomfortable and let's dive in.
It's time to be a baller.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Our next guest is a producer, a singer, a songwriter
, but most of all, he is thefounder of the Heart of Job
Foundation.
Just a little bit about him.
The Heart of Job Foundation wascreated by Job Clarkson in 2017
.
As a singer, songwriter andproducer, job has worked in the
(01:07):
music industry for over 10 years.
In 2013, job established hisrecord label, black Box
Entertainment and later createdhis production company, music
Evolved.
He's worked in all facets ofthe business, working his way up
over the course of hisillustrious career.
Job's art has taken him in manyplaces, most notably his
(01:27):
collaborations with Ludacris, ti, rick Ross and Grammy winner
Looney Tunes.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
He's here to share his story and share everything
about the Heart of JobFoundation.
So I want you all to give awarm, warm welcome to Mr Joe
Clarkson.
Man, it ain't cold.
It was freezing a week ago.
How y'all doing today?
All right, that's what I'mtalking about.
That's what I'm talking about.
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I had to figure out.
The hardest thing, I think,today was how to be able to get
to know y'all and let y'all knowwho I am at the same time.
So I came up with somethingthat's called a challenge.
Anybody ever heard of the sevenmindsets?
No, seven mindsets to success.
Anybody ever heard of it?
No, alright, so y'all got these.
Uh, every table has a card onit with lines that say B-A-B on
(02:27):
it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Right there, you see that one.
Right there you got.
Can you hold it up?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Can you hold it up?
Everybody got one of those.
Everybody got one of those atthe table, so I need one person
from the table, one person fromthe table to write down what I'm
about to tell you, since y'allknow what it is.
This is the most importantthing.
This is what got me to where Iam.
First one is everything ispossible.
(02:54):
Everything is possible, andthat means, believe me yourself,
dream big.
The second one is passion first, passion first.
Find what you love and pursue.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Let that lead your life.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Don't let the money lead your life Passion first.
Third one is we are connected,everybody's connected.
Six degrees is more like three.
We are connected 100%accountable, 100% accountable.
(03:28):
100% accountable, that is, takeownership of your actions and
your future.
100%.
We ain't talking 90, we ain'ttalking 99 we ain't talking 95.
Attitude of gratitude focus onthe positives and be very, very
thankful.
That was a good prayer he said.
(03:49):
He said thanks about ten times.
That's what we need to talkabout right there, alright.
The next one is live to give.
Live to give, help others andmake a difference.
It'll always come back around.
And the last one, which is themost important, is time is now,
(04:13):
right now, act of urgency andmake every minute count.
Mine's going from an hour,actually from a day to an hour,
to a minute, and now I'm tryingto make every second count of my
life, because I've livedthrough some of the good times.
Alright, everybody got those ondown there to take them.
(04:34):
Yep, got them.
Brother, which one?
You're going to have to speaklouder.
Three, alright, what's thethird?
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
See how that works.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's how connected we are, right here.
Here we go.
We have some next round, allright.
So what we're going to do isI'm going to get to learn y'all
and y'all get to learn me at thesame time and.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I'm going to tell my story through that, so we'll go
to every table right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I want one person at each table to pick one of those.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I'm going to tell you something about me and I want
you to tell me something aboutyou.
Alright.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Is that good?
Can we play that game?
Can we do?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
that challenge today?
Huh, alright.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Alright let's do it.
We're going to start right hereAt this first table right here.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, a matter of fact, yeah, this one right here,
this one right here, just oneof them.
Yes, thank you.
Say your name first to them all.
Right, pick one of thosechallenges and say how that's
(05:47):
important to you.
Why is that important to you?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Because of running out of time.
Alright.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I like that.
I want to say that's importantto me because time I let things
go past me right.
One time I was invited to astudio.
I didn't make it to the studiobecause I thought I had
something going on that was moreimportant.
To be honest, I had my child totake care of, right, and I'm
like, oh man, I can wait, I canwait.
(06:18):
I got to take care of my kid.
I got to take care of my kidand come to find out that was
the first time I wasn't able togo to a studio with TI, right,
and it was to myself, it waslike dang.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I didn't take the time to go do what I needed to
do right now, because guess whatthat time could have did
Changed the rest of my liferight?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
It took me five years again before I met him the next
time to change my life right.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So I encourage everybody to take the time right
now.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Every day is going to count every second is going to
count, and if you do it likethat, you're going to be able to
make the most out of it.
All right, thanks.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
I chose everything is possible.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Everything is possible, and why is that
important to you?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
The reason why I chose everything is possible is
because I'm a high schoolstudent.
I'm going to be honest.
A lot of people told me thatthe brand SOPE was not going to
be successful, and yet, everyday, I tend to prove people
wrong and I'll tell you everytime by giving God the word, god
will make sure that I'mstraight and also, by giving my
life for others, make sure thatI have a given heart, make sure
that I'm giving back to mycommunity.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's it All right, all right.
So why everything is possibleto me?
And something that I livedthrough is I got a felony when I
was 18 years old.
Actually, I got 12.
Because I was in the wrongplace at the wrong time.
It took me 30 years, 30 years,but I finally got my passport
(07:43):
and I was able to traveloverseas.
And the reason why that wasimportant to me is because it
told me that I never was goingto be able to do it.
So I grew up my whole lifethinking I didn't even try to
apply for it because I couldn'tget there.
All right, so don't ever letsomebody tell you that you can't
.
The other thing is I teach.
Now I'm a teacher, I teach, Iget up every day and I go to
(08:06):
teach at schools every day, andI never.
I teach, I get up every day andI go to teach at schools every
day.
They told me that if I didn'tgo to school, I wouldn't be able
to teach, or if I didn't gothrough all these pathways, I
wouldn't be able to teach andgive back to my community.
I get up every day and I dothat.
Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Do you want to add anything else?
My name is Trezor and I picknumber two, passion, first.
Why?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
is it?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
important to you.
You just gotta have passion forwhat you wanna do a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Alright, so instead of me saying something, about
myself.
I'm gonna tell to tell you whyyou should use passion first.
Right, if you find, if you tryto chase what I say, chase the
money.
Right, if you go after themoney and you try to make the
money what it is to take care ofyour life, or you got people
that you want to do somethingfor, or you got things that you
(09:02):
want to do in your life.
You won't get to that point andthen, guess what?
You're still not going to behappy at what it is that you're
doing.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I know a lot of people that go take these jobs
they're doing all these thingsthat they aren't really going to
do, and they ain't never beenthere.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I mean, they get there and then they sit there
one more.
You know what I'm saying, andso for me it is if you lead with
the passion, the passion isgoing to bring the money to you
Some people chase the money andthen they ain't got the passion
with it.
So then when they get to it, itdon't mean as much as it's
supposed to you can always findsomething that you're passionate
about, and then you can findsomething to be able to make
that out of it.
An example of that is I'm inmusic and entertainment, right,
(09:38):
and film.
There's music, film andentertainment in everything that
we do, right, and so if I justwere chasing the end with me a
doctor or something like thatthen I would like that.
You know, I mean I'm gonna getto the money, but that's not
something I want.
But actually is there anydoctors in here?
All right, okay, right, everydoctor I'll talk to say they
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wish they chose something else,because it's a lot of work, it's
a lot of time and too.
They don't get a lot of time toenjoy life.
You know what I'm saying, so Iwould just say use your passion
first, pursue something that'sgoing to make you happy, and
then you can get the money outof that come with that.
You know what I'm saying,alright, next, I'm 100%
(10:21):
accountable.
Mr Gilbert, why is thatimportant to you?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
That is important to me because growing up I realized
the biggest part of solving aproblem is identifying the
problem and with that, as yousaid, sometimes you got to know
where you went wrong and whatyou did wrong to be able to fix
it.
And that is why you 100% got totake accountable before you
move forward with everythingelse.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's it.
Who else do we?
Got the thing that I had to dowhen I had to understand what
100% accountability was.
Right, everybody when I'm introuble.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Right, I'm good All my friends are like oh man,
we're going to see this judge.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
we're going to see this judge you know you got to
be able to try and get slick wayto get out of it and do all
these different things.
I mean, you're going to see thejail for a long time and all
this.
I didn't have a lot of tip.
I went in and the first thing Isaid was you know what?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You know how a lot of people are like man I'm not
guilty, I'm not guilty, I'm notguilty, I'm not guilty right and
then they get found guiltylater because they actually
didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I just went in and said I was guilty and he said
you know what?
For your honesty, for yourhonesty, I'm going to give you a
chance, I'm going to put you onprobation Right.
That that was a change in mylife, because if I wasn't on
probation and I would haveactually went to trial, I would
have got 20 years, which meansmy whole life would be different
(11:51):
than it is right now.
And so that was the early lessonI got of being 100% accountable
, also being humble in my lifeand being able to say you know
what?
I did something wrong it iswhat.
It is my fault, my, my bad.
I'm able to go to the nextthing, alright, next.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I chose attitudes of gratitude.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I believe it's a positive and what else you
believe?
What else is there?
It's a positive to be able tobe thankful, right, alright.
So when it comes to being, whoelse are you thankful for waking
up today?
Y'all want to know what I sayto myself.
(12:33):
I was raised in foster care andchildren's services, three
years old all the way until Iwas 18.
I had an, a job right.
Then this was out.
I had no programs, no, nothing,right.
And my mom still is dealingwith addiction today.
(12:54):
So just because you're dealingwith it right now, or if anybody
knows anybody's dealing with it, don't mean you're ever going
to get over it, right?
You're just not going to knowhow to deal over it, right?
Because?
I don't know how to deal with it, right, but what I will say is
I had some friends that theydidn't know what I went through
when I was younger right, but alot of them is in prison and
dead right now.
So I'm thankful that my momtook me through what she took me
through, because it made mestronger.
(13:15):
So I wake up every day, insteadof me being upset at her and
trying to you know what I meando something to make her feel
like she ain't right if she everdid nothing right.
I wake up every day and I tellher I'm thankful for her, for
making me who I am, because I'mstanding here today.
Thank you, thank you.
(13:38):
Thank you, alright, youdefinitely came in there better.
There's a couple days that Idefinitely didn't get that back.
There's a couple of days that Idefinitely didn't take it
forward that I was supposed toright.
Alright, so one of them is Iwas a YouTube partner early in
my life Anybody who's my olderhomies right, who was around
when YouTube came out?
(13:59):
You're right Like we justthought of whatever right we
didn't take.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, like I was like man they should be.
A YouTube came out.
You're right Like we juststarted with whatever right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
We didn't take no like man, they should be a
YouTube partner.
All this man, I never reallyused it.
Man I said there's nothing Iwasn't gonna learn on.
Man.
I got two friends that chose todo like teach music on YouTube.
Man, they make $50,000 a monthoff of YouTube and I just showed
(14:24):
them how to do it.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
I did it later I'll pay money off of it now but, it
ain't $50,000 a
Speaker 3 (14:28):
month Because they came in as a YouTube partner
earlier and they got theroyalties and stuff that every
time they played the advertisinghit to it.
They made money off of it everytime.
And they got probably hundredsand hundreds of videos and I
don't got that many videos, sothat's just a story for me Going
to y'all.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Next, right here a little bit, if you was cool with
that.
I put it instead of um time isnow.
I said live in the now you feelme.
So like cause, then I don'tlike to look on my past, on my
failure.
You know I like to come backoff of that.
You know what I'm saying?
Like grind a little bit, youknow.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Nah, that's going to be one important thing.
We say live it now right, liveit now.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Live it right now, forget about yesterday Basically
, but not all the way, but likeuse that as a motivation to push
yourself for the next time thatyou do it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I'm like who else believe that?
Who else believe that that'sgood, right, that's really good
to do?
Because, dang, somebody getthat's good, right, that's
really good to do.
Because then somebody can wrongyou today.
Right, they can wrong you today.
They can do some wrong to youtoday and then tomorrow you can
be upset about it and the nextday you can be upset about it
and it's bothering you whentechnically it happened
(15:39):
yesterday it happened yesterday.
If you don't, if you leave ityesterday, then it stays
yesterday and it's not going tobother you the next day.
For real, you know, what I mean.
If it ain't hurt you or harmyou or you know, take that
somebody, take words.
This is what's happening rightnow.
This is why the streets outhere is messed up right now.
Right.
Somebody did something wrong toyou yesterday, it was yesterday
, it was over with.
(16:00):
Yeah, I'm going to hold it untiltomorrow or next week, and then
y'all get into it.
And then now we got all theseproblems, just because you
couldn't let something go forthe next day, so I'll look at
that as that.
I definitely had to learn thatover time.
I ain't saying that that'ssomething that's easy to do, but
what happened to somebody islike.
I was at the school teachingyesterday and the little guy was
like well, he called me this,this, this.
(16:21):
I said well, it was 10 minutesago.
Does it matter if it was 10minutes ago?
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
So I like that my next line.
That's fine, hello, my name isLaKhia.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm from Gahama.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Lincoln and.
I say everything is possiblebecause suffering doesn't have
to be the end.
Suffering can be your beginning.
Oftentimes you have to look atwhere you've been or where
you've come from.
Sometimes you just have to begrateful for where you are and
the situation you came through.
At any moment, you can changeyour life around.
(16:58):
You can choose, you want betterand it's not very good.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's a good one.
I like how you brought it up.
I never seen a picture of myfather.
I never knew who my father wasgrowing up.
I never even heard his voice atall.
I had to go through this inlife and be able to say, man,
I'm never going to know whatit's like to have a father.
Now I've got a and I get achance to learn how to be a
(17:26):
father and what a father is frombeing with my son.
So I look at that, as you knowwhat I mean everything is
possible, because I had allgirls until I had my son, which
is you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So everything can always come around just how you
look at it you know what I'msaying and what you make of it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So your suffering could be early which is what you
just said, right and then lateron, you could be able to make
the best out of what's going on.
So, yeah, right, so.
I started running a foundationbecause somebody seemed that I
was doing a little bit of stufffor kids and they was like oh
man, you need to make afoundation out of it.
They actually took me to make myfoundation and I was just
(18:08):
telling somebody this when I'vedone music and film and all that
, I've met a lot of people, I'vedone a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
But when I started, doing my nonprofit.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It took me farther than I've ever been with anybody
else.
I'm sitting with Jamie Foxx.
I'm sitting with Stevie Wonder.
I'm sitting with Princess fromAfrica.
I'm sitting with billionaires.
I'm sitting with Rick Ross.
I'm sitting with these peoplebecause they care about the
(18:41):
foundation and giving to others.
I never thought that I wouldget farther in life than I was
in here.
And the second thing is I'm nowmaking just as much money as I
was when I was making music andso this is something that I you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I never really did it for that, but I found out that
this is what it is, so I'm withthat.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Alright, one more, make it a good one.
I go to South by.
I didn't choose.
We were connected.
I just heard that, but Ithought we connected because
everything we do somehow likekind of connects to each other.
Like, for instance, at schoolwe got what we can.
That's low-key, connected toevery school.
Every school has what we can.
I mean I know I can LikeMidlands, I know I can, just
(19:26):
came to learn from them.
Or I know I can, I can onlyjust all connect to someone.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, there, it is right.
So we got all right.
So my thing, when we areconnected, is how many Ohio
State fans have got here?
Woo O-A-N.
I know are connected is howmany Ohio State fans are
connected.
Oh wait a minute, I know.
Alright, now I know.
So that's how we're connected.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
You would be surprised at how many Ohio State
fans there's?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
all over the world.
Right, I go to Los Angeles.
I moved to Los Angeles withoutknowing nobody.
I drove from here to LosAngeles.
I landed with $400 in my pocket$400.
In Los Angeles, $400 gets you30 days on somebody's couch.
Just letting y'all know, $400to sleep on somebody's couch for
(20:15):
30 days, guess what they'redoing after those 30 days.
Hey, what you about to do,because I got somebody else on
this couch Right, so I get there.
What happened is it was around.
Ohio State.
It was Ohio State when they wonthe championship Right the last
time they won the championship.
It's a bar in a pub, right.
(20:37):
It's like a pub sports bar,whatever they had the.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Ohio State game.
The owner was an Ohio State fan.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Right, he actually graduated from Ohio State and
was an Ohio State fan.
So I go there and as many peopleas there is in here right now.
It was this many people, OhioState fans, right?
One of them worked for anadvertising marketing company.
I go in there and I starttalking to them about what was
going on, just to come to findout they was an Ohio State
(21:04):
alumni, right, and I told themthey wasn't from Columbus, right
.
So one thing about a lot ofpeople that go to Ohio State a
lot of them ain't from Columbus.
So I got to tell them about mebeing born on Ohio State campus
and the conversation went so farthat they ended up knowing
somebody that I knew that wentto Ohio State.
They gave me a job and Istarted getting paid $5,000 a
(21:26):
month from that one conversation.
Right, and that was whatstarted me, if I never had got
that job guess what?
I would have had $400?
.
I was going to be outside onthe street and that literally
was like the day before I had tobe here.
So I was able to go home andtell the guy give me another 30
days, but give me two weeks topay.
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He gave me them two weeks, andso that's how God always worked
in my life, right?
So I appreciate everybody foropening up, speaking about you,
know yourselves, and I wanty'all to know those seven key
mindsets.
If you use those mindsets andcontinue to get them every day
and embed them in your brain,that I guarantee the next time I
(22:09):
see you or you'll see me later,15 years down the road, I
guarantee the change of life forthe rest of your life.
All right.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Anybody else got any questions.
I'm out of here.
I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I'm moving on.
I'm here, I'm here, I'm here,I'm here, I'm here.
Thank y'all, thank y'all somuch.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
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