August 6, 2025 • 20 mins
What does it truly mean to fail? According to Damon from the DK and Tree Podcast, failure only happens when you give up completely. As long as you keep fighting, scratching, and crawling forward, success remains possible.
This powerful message emerges from two deeply personal conversations Damon had with close friends who were struggling with their mental health. Both expressed feeling like failures during difficult circumstances, prompting Damon to immediately challenge this harmful perspective. The discussions revealed a critical insight: many people suffer silently rather than utilizing their support networks, often with potentially dangerous consequences.
The podcast explores the vital importance of checking on your people regularly. A simple text message or call can uncover hidden struggles and potentially save lives. Damon shares how his casual check-ins revealed serious situations with two friends in the same weekend - what he calls a "double whammy" that underscored the importance of maintaining connections despite busy schedules.
Beyond supporting others through difficult times, Damon addresses the destructive tendency many have to tear others down rather than build them up. He advocates for freely sharing knowledge and celebrating others' successes instead of harboring jealousy or resentment. "If we all make it, we all good. If one don't make it, there's a chain that needs to be fixed," he explains, emphasizing that collective success benefits everyone.
Life's challenges are comparable to climbing Mount Everest - once considered impossible but proven achievable with perseverance. Whatever obstacles you face, they can be overcome with determination and support. Have you checked on someone you care about lately? That simple action might be more important than you realize.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Good evening, good evening,everyone.
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Good evening, how is everyone?
Good evening, how is everybodydoing this evening?
I hope today has been a greatday for everyone that is out
here listening in on this rightnow.
It's your boy, damon, and I'mhere with the DK and Tree
podcast.
How is everybody doing?
Where is everybody at?
I hope that this weather thatwe've been having around here
(01:07):
stays this way, because lastweek we was roasting.
Hey, like to come on.
Like I said, if there's thingson my mind, I love to come talk
about it, I love to come shareit, I love to just come, just
have a conversation.
I do so today's topic.
Today's topic um, don't give up, don't give up.
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Um, people that knows me aspeople that's tight with me.
We like, we're very tight, veryclose-knit, we're family.
I don't look at us as friends,we're family and sometimes you
know family just need to reachout to other people.
Hey, just check on someone,make sure they're okay, because
life be life and it's too muchstuff that's going on out here
and I'm going to give you aninstance.
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I got two, so I'm going tostart with the first one and a
friend of mine.
We're very tight and you know,was going through some stuff and
one thing about me is I try, Itry, I try I going through some
stuff and one thing about me isI try, I try, I try.
I'm not the best at it, but Itry to keep in touch with people
.
Just check on them, see howthey doing, you know, might send
them a message here and there.
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Hey, just check, know, you makesure you're good, this and that
.
But you know, when you don'thear from certain people like
okay, why haven't I heard fromyou?
What's going on?
Are you?
Okay, this net, so you get getthem on the phone, they get
talking, say, hey, you know, Idone went through a, b and Z and
I'm like, okay, let's go.
And you know this happened and,as a result of this happening,
(02:35):
this has happened and this hashappened.
And I said to him and say well,hey, why didn't, why don't you
reach out to me?
I said you know, when I look atyou and we tight, we family,
you know you don't have to gothrough things by yourself.
You don't have to hold thingsby yourself If you need to talk.
This is what we supposed to do.
We supposed to help each otherout.
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We supposed to talk to eachother, we supposed to make sure
each other is okay, especiallyif we call each other friends.
So you know, I just told him.
I said listen, I said we all gothrough things and, like I said,
one person struggle, someoneelse's struggle and someone
else's struggle.
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I ain't perfect, I struggled,but the simple fact that when
you have a support network,reach out to them, because the
simple fact that, again, somepeople just can't fathom
whatever they're going through,that they just can't get through
that situation.
So sometimes you just need help, need advice, need someone to
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talk to.
So and talking to them, I say,hey, listen, there ain't never a
time you can't pick up theirphone and call me.
Never a time.
You can pick up their phone andcall me, no matter what time it
is.
If you're going throughsomething, you need to talk
about it.
This is why I'm here.
That's what it is and that'swhat I do with my friends.
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If I'm going through something,I'll call them.
It may take me a little bit tocall them, but I'll call them
and say, hey, look, this is whatI'm going through, blah, blah,
blah, this and that.
And you know, it's just to keepthe communication open because,
again, you never know whatsomeone's mental psyche is and
you just never know what canhappen, what they may go through
and what extremes they mayresort to.
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And, like I said, it was like Isaid, it was two instances, but
in both instances they both saidthe same thing to me and it
just bothered me.
It both said I felt like afailure and I had a problem with
the statement.
And the reason I had a problemwith the statement is because of
the simple fact that forsomeone that's struggled and
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whatever, the only time you're afailure is when you give up.
As long as you don't give up,you'll never be a failure.
If you have to fight, scratchand crawl, as long as you keep
doing something, you will neverbe a failure.
And I told them that.
I said when you quit, that'swhen you become the failure.
As long as you don't quit,you'll never become a failure.
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And I told them that.
I said when you quit, that'swhen you become the failure.
As long as you don't quit,you'll never become a failure.
I said we're not going to speakthat into existence and we're
not going to talk about that atall.
I said because you're not afailure.
I said you're here for apurpose and I said your purpose
ain't up.
So you haven't failed inanything.
We have setbacks in life.
Yes, we do.
We have plenty of setbacks, butyou're never a failure.
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So what I did was I was like, no, we need to change that
philosophy.
You're not a failure Again.
You are not quitting at all.
You're going to get throughthis.
And I say it's going to be OK.
And you know, wherever youbelieve in your higher power,
power, you got to trust andbelieve that process with them,
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because you don't let this, butgod don't let his people fail.
And again, if you don't give up, you won't fail.
So you know, when I like I saidjust reaching out to both of
them and I was just saying y'allnot failures, y'all got this,
this.
And in the other instance, myother friend and you know just,
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I'm just text messages back andforth, just say, hey, you know,
look at this, look at this, andthat text message back and text
message pretty much said I'm ina little trouble, and I
automatically picked up thephone.
I'm like what's wrong?
Because of the simple fact thatagain, you can't, you just
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can't quit anything.
You do when you quit when yougive up, that's, that's when
there's no hope, but as long asyou quit.
So I listened to what was goingon, listen to the problem.
I said, well, hey, look, let'sabc to get this resolved, and
whatever.
And person was like, hey, youknow, I was really in the dark
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spot and pretty much I'm I'mgonna say this the turtles that
she saw was her angels and Iappreciate the turtles, I really
do.
They were her angels and it wasplenty of turtles.
It was protecting her.
They're saying hey, there's noreason for you to go down this
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road at all.
And I appreciate those turtles.
And I told her.
I said, nah, we got to changeyour program.
I said we can't sit here andjust allow you to even go down
that road.
We're not going down that road.
I said let's think about this,let's put this plan together and
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let's get you through this.
I said because that's not theway to go at all.
And again, just like the firstinstance, she said I felt like a
failure.
And again, I had a problem withthat because of the simple fact
that, again, we all go throughthings in life.
We do, we all go through thingsin life, but you're not a
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failure unless you quit.
And one thing about me is I'mnot going to quit, I'll find a
way, I'll scratch, I'll crawl.
Mount Everest, they said, amountain that could never be
climbed.
It's been climbed plenty oftimes.
Just imagine life is your MountEverest and you're going to
climb it, you're going toconquer it, you're going to
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defeat it.
So what I'm saying is this Ifyou got somebody that you're
close to or whatever, check onthem, please.
The reason I say check on themis because you never know what
someone's going through.
And if it wasn't for me justsitting up there just sending a
random text about anything, Iwouldn't have never known what
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was going on.
Yep, absolutely, I see the.
I see you, amen, and figure itout.
Um, and so, yeah, you alwaysfigure it out.
There's always a better way,there's always a better way.
But again, like I say, if you'rewith someone, it check on them.
Check and're with someone,check on them.
Check.
If somebody's close to you,check on them Because, again,
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you just never know whatsomeone's going through.
And for me to deal with thatover the weekend not one, but
two people, that's close to me Iwas like, wow, double whammy.
So it was just so good that Ireached out to them.
And they reached out to mebecause something just told me
hey, reach out to them.
And that's what I did.
And even with family.
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I just saw my cousin.
She liked the post.
There's someone here and allthat.
And, like I said, I need to getbetter with reaching out to
people because sometimes we getwrapped up with work, consumed
with things, and we just letthings fall by the wayside.
But life is precious.
Life is very, very precious.
You live for today, becausetomorrow we might not be here.
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You live for that minute,because the next minute we may
not be.
You just never know what isgoing to happen.
That's just going to be, that'sit, and there's nothing else we
can do.
When the man calls us home.
Everybody's been in trafficbefore.
The traffic sometimes takes awhile to get out, but you get
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out of it absolutely becauseagain, everybody gets into
traffic.
We do, we all get into traffic,but we just got to get ourself
out of it.
Like I said, with traffic jams,with anything like this, we
will make a way because again wegot to stick together for each
other.
Again we got to reach out.
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Like I said, I'm I'm guilty ofit.
Sometimes I don't reach outright away too, and I get better
.
It's just for those two that Igot in touch with this weekend
and they laid the whammy on me.
I was like man, that's okay.
But guess what?
We got a plan.
We're going to get through this.
So I wanted to come on here andjust talk about that.
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But hey, don't give up.
That's my title, don't give up,because if you give up, it's
nothing you can do.
But if you keep fighting, youkeep pushing forward.
And I tell everybody this allthe time no storm lasts forever
at all.
Guess what?
The sun is always out over topof those clouds.
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So when that storm is over,that storm is over and you will
get out of that.
You will get out that storm andyou're going to look at this
and you're going to be like Inever thought that I could
actually be on the other end ofthis.
And you look back at it andyou're like, wow, I made it
through that.
And that's where your strengthcomes from, because you are a
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stronger person because of this.
You are a much, much strongerperson because of this, much
stronger person because of this.
But again, if they're listening,just know hey, listen, I can
see your family, not justfriends.
I can see you family, and ifyour family to me, we can.
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I see you.
Auntie, you need to make it upthis way.
I got you, yeah, I got you,yeah, yeah, I get you down here.
Come on down.
But, um, yeah, another thing Iwant to harp on also.
All that is this people outhere, why do we want to knock
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each other or why do we want toput each other down?
I'm the type of person likethis.
I'll give you a shirt off myback if I think it'd help you
better.
I would never try to knocksomebody or hold somebody down
or feel as though I'm betterthan someone else, because I'm
not.
I'm living for me and me only.
That's it.
But you got people out here thatwill hate on other people for
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no reason.
And what's the reason for?
Why do you?
Why do you have to throw shadeat someone else?
Or why you got to hate onsomebody else?
Why can't you be happy for thatperson?
And then you just try to behappy in yourself and you find a
lot of people out here just nothappy with themselves.
So you try to hate on otherpeople.
Absolutely auntie and stophating on someone else.
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I'm not gonna hate on you, hey.
If you did something to get towhere you were or you shine in
where you were, congratulationsto you again.
I ain't trying to hate on you.
I reminded myself that I'm thelittle girl that pulled my pants
down and told my daddy to beatme.
Uh, boldly, I bet on myself inthe face of danger, laughing out
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.
Now I see ron comment offinstagram.
But here's, here's my thing.
Here's my thing again.
Why are we hating on each other?
And that's, that'sself-destruction in the biggest
form.
Listen, if I want to help yoube successful, I'm going to try
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to help you be successful.
I'm not going to sit here andtry to knock you, hold you down.
If I've got some informationthat can help you be better, I'm
going to share it with you.
I'm not selfish withinformation.
I'm not a selfish person.
Listen, I love when we all makeit.
If we all make it, we all good.
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If one don't make it, there's achain that needs to be fixed.
Plain and simple.
It's just like when I teach.
I teach different classes andstuff like that, and I tell my
students, I tell my class, I say, if one fails, I didn't do my
job.
If you didn't get something, Ididn't do my job, because the
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simple fact that I'm here toteach you, you're here to learn
it, and if you didn't getsomething, I didn't do something
right.
So that's where I have to lookat myself.
So why would I try to holdsomething to try to make someone
else better?
I want to make someone better.
I want to make sure that theybe successful.
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I've taught many, many, manyclasses and everyone has said
the same thing in reviews thatwe loved it, we love the way you
taught.
Because the simple fact thatI'm going to teach you
everything I got because, guesswhat, if I keep this knowledge
to myself, who's it benefiting?
No one.
It ain't benefiting me to keepit to myself.
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So I want to try to helpelevate you.
Stop hating on people.
Okay, try to be great yourselfor try to get the knowledge to
be great, but you just sittingthere hating on someone or
hating on us, and that you theone with the problem.
You're the one with the problem, and my thing with this is that
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, again, I prefer to helpsomeone than hurt them.
Have I done my fair share?
Have my fair share of mistakesin life.
Yes, I have.
I'm not perfect, but I learnedfrom it and I kept it moving
because it's made me a betterperson.
Today, I'm not going to hate onyou If I say I got your back, I
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got your back and there's acouple of people on here that
knows that firsthand If I say, Igot your back, I got your back.
But again, I just wanted tocome on here and share those
couple of things.
Please check on your peoples.
If you close to them, check onthem, because you never know
what they're going through.
And stop hating on people.
It makes no sense.
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What we hating on each otherfor.
I'm just trying to figure thatone out.
Why are we hating doing eachother for?
I'm just trying to figure thatone out.
Why we hate doing each otherwhen you're going to make a
revenue stream.
Teaching is a God-given role.
Hey, you know something, ron?
Yeah, I'm going to call you onthat.
Yeah, we'll definitely get that.
Absolutely, that's love.
Absolutely that's love, becausethe simple fact that, again, if
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you are in my circle, everybodyknow how I roll with people,
that's love.
Because the simple fact that,again, if you are in my circle,
everybody know how I roll withpeople is in my circle.
We tight, we thick as thieves,and I love them, they love me
and we're gonna keep that goingand that's facts.
Yes, it is.
What I'm saying is is this andI've preached this plenty of
times before and I did a podcaston this about what family means
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to me If I say you family, youare family.
They ain't know.
Oh, you may be here, no, you,just if you are.
If I say you are family, youare family.
And a lot of people don'tunderstand that concept.
And then some people arejealous of the concept that how
can somebody be this tight withsomeone and not be this way?
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I love you too, auntie.
And my thing is this again ifwe family, we family.
I've had friends in my circlethat's 20 plus years 20 plus.
That's 20 plus years 20 plus.
We've been through thick andthin together and that will not
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change ever, ever.
But my thing with it is thisI've never hated on them and
they've never hated on me.
They've checked on me.
I checked on them Again, please.
If you got somebody you'retight with, check on them,
please.
And again, we supposed to besticking together.
This is one of the big thingsthat we don't do is stick
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together.
And when they don't sticktogether, look what the chaos
and air is going on Cause we'renot sticking together.
Stick together, tell yourfamily that you love them.
If you got somebody that'stight that you call family, tell
them that you love them.
Tell your friends that you'retight with that, you love them.
But check on them also because,again, you never know what
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they're going through.
That was weighing heavy on me.
Like I said, those two, thosetwo friends of mine, was
weighing heavy on me after theytold me what was going on with
them.
And I always try to come and geta message out Everything Love
you too, bestie.
I always come in here and get amessage out because simple fact
that this is just not just here, it reaches way beyond me, and
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I try to get a message out thereto say, hey, we need to check
on each other, we need to makesure we're okay.
We need to make on each other,we need to make sure we're okay.
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We need to make sure that welift each other out and not drag
each other down, which a lot ofpeople seem to do these days.
They want to drag you down.
But again, I thank you, eachand every last one of you, from
Instagram to every otherplatform that I'm on here
speaking on, that have listenedto my voice and, if you't
comment, thank you for listening.
I appreciate you all.
I'm gonna sign off here, butagain, you know, football season
is here and we watching thesepreseason games and it's on and
popping.
You see that baltimore ravenslogo behind me.
Always rep them.
So again, football scene aboutto ramp up again.
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Um, I got a couple more showsjust coming up.
Um, domestic violence show.
Haven't been able to get thatone because, um, the schedule
has been kind of off with me andthe person, but I got two
people that's going to talkabout some domestic violence
stuff.
Again, we're going to get thatmessage out there because, again
, that's not cool, domesticviolence is not cool and it's
not talked about enough, sowe're gonna get this message out
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here.
Again, thank you for turning in.
I appreciate each and everylast one of you and in my last
note I'm going to say this go,ravens.
See y'all later.
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Good evening, good evening,everyone.
(00:44):
Good evening, how is everyone?
Good evening, how is everybodydoing this evening?
I hope today has been a greatday for everyone that is out
here listening in on this rightnow.
It's your boy, damon, and I'mhere with the DK and Tree
podcast.
How is everybody doing?
Where is everybody at?
I hope that this weather thatwe've been having around here
(01:07):
stays this way, because lastweek we was roasting.
Hey, like to come on.
Like I said, if there's thingson my mind, I love to come talk
about it, I love to come shareit, I love to just come, just
have a conversation.
I do so today's topic.
Today's topic um, don't give up, don't give up.
(01:29):
Um, people that knows me aspeople that's tight with me.
We like, we're very tight, veryclose-knit, we're family.
I don't look at us as friends,we're family and sometimes you
know family just need to reachout to other people.
Hey, just check on someone,make sure they're okay, because
life be life and it's too muchstuff that's going on out here
and I'm going to give you aninstance.
(01:50):
I got two, so I'm going tostart with the first one and a
friend of mine.
We're very tight and you know,was going through some stuff and
one thing about me is I try, Itry, I try I going through some
stuff and one thing about me isI try, I try, I try.
I'm not the best at it, but Itry to keep in touch with people
.
Just check on them, see howthey doing, you know, might send
them a message here and there.
(02:11):
Hey, just check, know, you makesure you're good, this and that
.
But you know, when you don'thear from certain people like
okay, why haven't I heard fromyou?
What's going on?
Are you?
Okay, this net, so you get getthem on the phone, they get
talking, say, hey, you know, Idone went through a, b and Z and
I'm like, okay, let's go.
And you know this happened and,as a result of this happening,
(02:35):
this has happened and this hashappened.
And I said to him and say well,hey, why didn't, why don't you
reach out to me?
I said you know, when I look atyou and we tight, we family,
you know you don't have to gothrough things by yourself.
You don't have to hold thingsby yourself If you need to talk.
This is what we supposed to do.
We supposed to help each otherout.
(02:56):
We supposed to talk to eachother, we supposed to make sure
each other is okay, especiallyif we call each other friends.
So you know, I just told him.
I said listen, I said we all gothrough things and, like I said,
one person struggle, someoneelse's struggle and someone
else's struggle.
(03:16):
I ain't perfect, I struggled,but the simple fact that when
you have a support network,reach out to them, because the
simple fact that, again, somepeople just can't fathom
whatever they're going through,that they just can't get through
that situation.
So sometimes you just need help, need advice, need someone to
(03:38):
talk to.
So and talking to them, I say,hey, listen, there ain't never a
time you can't pick up theirphone and call me.
Never a time.
You can pick up their phone andcall me, no matter what time it
is.
If you're going throughsomething, you need to talk
about it.
This is why I'm here.
That's what it is and that'swhat I do with my friends.
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If I'm going through something,I'll call them.
It may take me a little bit tocall them, but I'll call them
and say, hey, look, this is whatI'm going through, blah, blah,
blah, this and that.
And you know, it's just to keepthe communication open because,
again, you never know whatsomeone's mental psyche is and
you just never know what canhappen, what they may go through
and what extremes they mayresort to.
(04:23):
And, like I said, it was like Isaid, it was two instances, but
in both instances they both saidthe same thing to me and it
just bothered me.
It both said I felt like afailure and I had a problem with
the statement.
And the reason I had a problemwith the statement is because of
the simple fact that forsomeone that's struggled and
(04:45):
whatever, the only time you're afailure is when you give up.
As long as you don't give up,you'll never be a failure.
If you have to fight, scratchand crawl, as long as you keep
doing something, you will neverbe a failure.
And I told them that.
I said when you quit, that'swhen you become the failure.
As long as you don't quit,you'll never become a failure.
(05:06):
And I told them that.
I said when you quit, that'swhen you become the failure.
As long as you don't quit,you'll never become a failure.
I said we're not going to speakthat into existence and we're
not going to talk about that atall.
I said because you're not afailure.
I said you're here for apurpose and I said your purpose
ain't up.
So you haven't failed inanything.
We have setbacks in life.
Yes, we do.
We have plenty of setbacks, butyou're never a failure.
(05:26):
So what I did was I was like, no, we need to change that
philosophy.
You're not a failure Again.
You are not quitting at all.
You're going to get throughthis.
And I say it's going to be OK.
And you know, wherever youbelieve in your higher power,
power, you got to trust andbelieve that process with them,
(05:46):
because you don't let this, butgod don't let his people fail.
And again, if you don't give up, you won't fail.
So you know, when I like I saidjust reaching out to both of
them and I was just saying y'allnot failures, y'all got this,
this.
And in the other instance, myother friend and you know just,
(06:07):
I'm just text messages back andforth, just say, hey, you know,
look at this, look at this, andthat text message back and text
message pretty much said I'm ina little trouble, and I
automatically picked up thephone.
I'm like what's wrong?
Because of the simple fact thatagain, you can't, you just
(06:30):
can't quit anything.
You do when you quit when yougive up, that's, that's when
there's no hope, but as long asyou quit.
So I listened to what was goingon, listen to the problem.
I said, well, hey, look, let'sabc to get this resolved, and
whatever.
And person was like, hey, youknow, I was really in the dark
(06:50):
spot and pretty much I'm I'mgonna say this the turtles that
she saw was her angels and Iappreciate the turtles, I really
do.
They were her angels and it wasplenty of turtles.
It was protecting her.
They're saying hey, there's noreason for you to go down this
(07:13):
road at all.
And I appreciate those turtles.
And I told her.
I said, nah, we got to changeyour program.
I said we can't sit here andjust allow you to even go down
that road.
We're not going down that road.
I said let's think about this,let's put this plan together and
(07:36):
let's get you through this.
I said because that's not theway to go at all.
And again, just like the firstinstance, she said I felt like a
failure.
And again, I had a problem withthat because of the simple fact
that, again, we all go throughthings in life.
We do, we all go through thingsin life, but you're not a
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failure unless you quit.
And one thing about me is I'mnot going to quit, I'll find a
way, I'll scratch, I'll crawl.
Mount Everest, they said, amountain that could never be
climbed.
It's been climbed plenty oftimes.
Just imagine life is your MountEverest and you're going to
climb it, you're going toconquer it, you're going to
(08:19):
defeat it.
So what I'm saying is this Ifyou got somebody that you're
close to or whatever, check onthem, please.
The reason I say check on themis because you never know what
someone's going through.
And if it wasn't for me justsitting up there just sending a
random text about anything, Iwouldn't have never known what
(08:43):
was going on.
Yep, absolutely, I see the.
I see you, amen, and figure itout.
Um, and so, yeah, you alwaysfigure it out.
There's always a better way,there's always a better way.
But again, like I say, if you'rewith someone, it check on them.
Check and're with someone,check on them.
Check.
If somebody's close to you,check on them Because, again,
(09:06):
you just never know whatsomeone's going through.
And for me to deal with thatover the weekend not one, but
two people, that's close to me Iwas like, wow, double whammy.
So it was just so good that Ireached out to them.
And they reached out to mebecause something just told me
hey, reach out to them.
And that's what I did.
And even with family.
(09:27):
I just saw my cousin.
She liked the post.
There's someone here and allthat.
And, like I said, I need to getbetter with reaching out to
people because sometimes we getwrapped up with work, consumed
with things, and we just letthings fall by the wayside.
But life is precious.
Life is very, very precious.
You live for today, becausetomorrow we might not be here.
(09:48):
You live for that minute,because the next minute we may
not be.
You just never know what isgoing to happen.
That's just going to be, that'sit, and there's nothing else we
can do.
When the man calls us home.
Everybody's been in trafficbefore.
The traffic sometimes takes awhile to get out, but you get
(10:08):
out of it absolutely becauseagain, everybody gets into
traffic.
We do, we all get into traffic,but we just got to get ourself
out of it.
Like I said, with traffic jams,with anything like this, we
will make a way because again wegot to stick together for each
other.
Again we got to reach out.
(10:29):
Like I said, I'm I'm guilty ofit.
Sometimes I don't reach outright away too, and I get better
.
It's just for those two that Igot in touch with this weekend
and they laid the whammy on me.
I was like man, that's okay.
But guess what?
We got a plan.
We're going to get through this.
So I wanted to come on here andjust talk about that.
(10:50):
But hey, don't give up.
That's my title, don't give up,because if you give up, it's
nothing you can do.
But if you keep fighting, youkeep pushing forward.
And I tell everybody this allthe time no storm lasts forever
at all.
Guess what?
The sun is always out over topof those clouds.
(11:12):
So when that storm is over,that storm is over and you will
get out of that.
You will get out that storm andyou're going to look at this
and you're going to be like Inever thought that I could
actually be on the other end ofthis.
And you look back at it andyou're like, wow, I made it
through that.
And that's where your strengthcomes from, because you are a
(11:33):
stronger person because of this.
You are a much, much strongerperson because of this, much
stronger person because of this.
But again, if they're listening,just know hey, listen, I can
see your family, not justfriends.
I can see you family, and ifyour family to me, we can.
(11:54):
I see you.
Auntie, you need to make it upthis way.
I got you, yeah, I got you,yeah, yeah, I get you down here.
Come on down.
But, um, yeah, another thing Iwant to harp on also.
All that is this people outhere, why do we want to knock
(12:18):
each other or why do we want toput each other down?
I'm the type of person likethis.
I'll give you a shirt off myback if I think it'd help you
better.
I would never try to knocksomebody or hold somebody down
or feel as though I'm betterthan someone else, because I'm
not.
I'm living for me and me only.
That's it.
But you got people out here thatwill hate on other people for
(12:41):
no reason.
And what's the reason for?
Why do you?
Why do you have to throw shadeat someone else?
Or why you got to hate onsomebody else?
Why can't you be happy for thatperson?
And then you just try to behappy in yourself and you find a
lot of people out here just nothappy with themselves.
So you try to hate on otherpeople.
Absolutely auntie and stophating on someone else.
(13:02):
I'm not gonna hate on you, hey.
If you did something to get towhere you were or you shine in
where you were, congratulationsto you again.
I ain't trying to hate on you.
I reminded myself that I'm thelittle girl that pulled my pants
down and told my daddy to beatme.
Uh, boldly, I bet on myself inthe face of danger, laughing out
(13:24):
.
Now I see ron comment offinstagram.
But here's, here's my thing.
Here's my thing again.
Why are we hating on each other?
And that's, that'sself-destruction in the biggest
form.
Listen, if I want to help yoube successful, I'm going to try
(13:44):
to help you be successful.
I'm not going to sit here andtry to knock you, hold you down.
If I've got some informationthat can help you be better, I'm
going to share it with you.
I'm not selfish withinformation.
I'm not a selfish person.
Listen, I love when we all makeit.
If we all make it, we all good.
(14:05):
If one don't make it, there's achain that needs to be fixed.
Plain and simple.
It's just like when I teach.
I teach different classes andstuff like that, and I tell my
students, I tell my class, I say, if one fails, I didn't do my
job.
If you didn't get something, Ididn't do my job, because the
(14:27):
simple fact that I'm here toteach you, you're here to learn
it, and if you didn't getsomething, I didn't do something
right.
So that's where I have to lookat myself.
So why would I try to holdsomething to try to make someone
else better?
I want to make someone better.
I want to make sure that theybe successful.
(14:47):
I've taught many, many, manyclasses and everyone has said
the same thing in reviews thatwe loved it, we love the way you
taught.
Because the simple fact thatI'm going to teach you
everything I got because, guesswhat, if I keep this knowledge
to myself, who's it benefiting?
No one.
It ain't benefiting me to keepit to myself.
(15:09):
So I want to try to helpelevate you.
Stop hating on people.
Okay, try to be great yourselfor try to get the knowledge to
be great, but you just sittingthere hating on someone or
hating on us, and that you theone with the problem.
You're the one with the problem, and my thing with this is that
(15:32):
, again, I prefer to helpsomeone than hurt them.
Have I done my fair share?
Have my fair share of mistakesin life.
Yes, I have.
I'm not perfect, but I learnedfrom it and I kept it moving
because it's made me a betterperson.
Today, I'm not going to hate onyou If I say I got your back, I
(15:52):
got your back and there's acouple of people on here that
knows that firsthand If I say, Igot your back, I got your back.
But again, I just wanted tocome on here and share those
couple of things.
Please check on your peoples.
If you close to them, check onthem, because you never know
what they're going through.
And stop hating on people.
It makes no sense.
(16:14):
What we hating on each otherfor.
I'm just trying to figure thatone out.
Why are we hating doing eachother for?
I'm just trying to figure thatone out.
Why we hate doing each otherwhen you're going to make a
revenue stream.
Teaching is a God-given role.
Hey, you know something, ron?
Yeah, I'm going to call you onthat.
Yeah, we'll definitely get that.
Absolutely, that's love.
Absolutely that's love, becausethe simple fact that, again, if
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you are in my circle, everybodyknow how I roll with people,
that's love.
Because the simple fact that,again, if you are in my circle,
everybody know how I roll withpeople is in my circle.
We tight, we thick as thieves,and I love them, they love me
and we're gonna keep that goingand that's facts.
Yes, it is.
What I'm saying is is this andI've preached this plenty of
times before and I did a podcaston this about what family means
(16:59):
to me If I say you family, youare family.
They ain't know.
Oh, you may be here, no, you,just if you are.
If I say you are family, youare family.
And a lot of people don'tunderstand that concept.
And then some people arejealous of the concept that how
can somebody be this tight withsomeone and not be this way?
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I love you too, auntie.
And my thing is this again ifwe family, we family.
I've had friends in my circlethat's 20 plus years 20 plus.
That's 20 plus years 20 plus.
We've been through thick andthin together and that will not
(17:46):
change ever, ever.
But my thing with it is thisI've never hated on them and
they've never hated on me.
They've checked on me.
I checked on them Again, please.
If you got somebody you'retight with, check on them,
please.
And again, we supposed to besticking together.
This is one of the big thingsthat we don't do is stick
(18:07):
together.
And when they don't sticktogether, look what the chaos
and air is going on Cause we'renot sticking together.
Stick together, tell yourfamily that you love them.
If you got somebody that'stight that you call family, tell
them that you love them.
Tell your friends that you'retight with that, you love them.
But check on them also because,again, you never know what
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they're going through.
That was weighing heavy on me.
Like I said, those two, thosetwo friends of mine, was
weighing heavy on me after theytold me what was going on with
them.
And I always try to come and geta message out Everything Love
you too, bestie.
I always come in here and get amessage out because simple fact
that this is just not just here, it reaches way beyond me, and
(18:52):
I try to get a message out thereto say, hey, we need to check
on each other, we need to makesure we're okay.
We need to make on each other,we need to make sure we're okay.
(19:21):
We need to make sure that welift each other out and not drag
each other down, which a lot ofpeople seem to do these days.
They want to drag you down.
But again, I thank you, eachand every last one of you, from
Instagram to every otherplatform that I'm on here
speaking on, that have listenedto my voice and, if you't
comment, thank you for listening.
I appreciate you all.
I'm gonna sign off here, butagain, you know, football season
is here and we watching thesepreseason games and it's on and
popping.
You see that baltimore ravenslogo behind me.
Always rep them.
So again, football scene aboutto ramp up again.
(19:41):
Um, I got a couple more showsjust coming up.
Um, domestic violence show.
Haven't been able to get thatone because, um, the schedule
has been kind of off with me andthe person, but I got two
people that's going to talkabout some domestic violence
stuff.
Again, we're going to get thatmessage out there because, again
, that's not cool, domesticviolence is not cool and it's
not talked about enough, sowe're gonna get this message out
(20:02):
here.
Again, thank you for turning in.
I appreciate each and everylast one of you and in my last
note I'm going to say this go,ravens.
See y'all later.
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