April 22, 2025 • 24 mins
Pushing past the bare minimum is where true growth happens. This raw, unfiltered conversation dives into the reality behind professional success stories that often gloss over the struggles along the way. My journey from "Hood to Hooded" wasn't the straight path many assume – it was filled with unexpected health crises, homelessness, and moments where giving up seemed like the only option.
After graduating from Meharry Medical College, I faced what should have been my triumph with an unexpected battle. During my final semester, emergency surgery for endometriosis left me with one ovary and medication side effects that nearly destroyed me physically and mentally. The assumption that crossing the graduation stage instantly transforms financial circumstances couldn't be further from my reality. With no family support system and severe illness, I found myself making impossible choices – eventually sleeping in my car during dental residency in New York while still showing up professionally each day.
What kept me going? The unwavering belief that consistency would eventually yield results. Today's "consistency project" represents my public commitment to show up for 365 consecutive days regardless of circumstances – not because it's easy (it's actually my greatest weakness), but because I've learned that pushing through when quitting seems reasonable is what separates dreams from achievements. The CDP formula – Consistency plus Discipline minus Procrastination equals Growth – became my lifeline through homelessness and continues guiding me through practice ownership challenges today. Your current circumstances don't define your potential; they merely test your determination to claim what you know is possible. Whatever dream you're pursuing, remember this: when you refuse to quit on yourself, nothing can stop you. How will you show up for yourself today?
Thanks for listening and growing with me on this journey towards the ultimate level of success. #Hood2hooded #drshon #drshonconsistencyproject #consistencyproject
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Dr. Shon (00:00):
even when the days are long and tough and hard, we
still show up for our dreams, westill show up for the things
that we want to accomplish.
And I have a hypothesis that ifI can push through all of my
difficult days of running adental practice and having
10,000 jaws and having a littlebackache right now and almost
(00:23):
feeling like I'm about to faildoing this shit because I don't
have a roadmap and because Icame from hood to hooded, then I
gotta show the up every day,dead serious.
I gotta show up every singleday and if I don't, I fail this
challenge.
And nobody may know that Ifailed this challenge, but me.
(00:44):
But I'm going to still do itfor 365 days to see if my
hypothesis is right.
You have to do some things, asthe Lulu, to see if you can push
past the bare minimum, andthat's what we're doing today
Pushing past the bare minimumand being grateful for the
ability to get on here andcommunicate with you guys and
(01:06):
talk to you guys and motivatepeople around the world to just
be positive and grateful Onthose days when you feel just
exhausted, like right now.
Let me just be honest beingconsistent is a weakness of mine
.
Honest, being consistent is aweakness of mine, so the fact
(01:29):
that I'm working on thisweakness publicly with my
audience is, at least, veryvulnerable.
It leaves me very vulnerableand I have to be transparent.
So I'm just trying to diversifymy message and diversify my
output to reach more people.
(01:50):
So being consistent and justshowing up is 100% of my goal.
As long as I can get on hereand chit chat with y'all, then I
have met my goal.
I have truly met my goal.
But let's talk a little bitabout why I'm so grateful today.
I was just watching videos ofdifferent cultures today and it
(02:13):
helped me put my own life inperspective.
Sometimes we can start tocomplain a little too often
about our situation.
We can complain about how farwe came and we can't forget
where we came from.
We can do that, you can do thatsometimes, and we don't want to
do that.
We want to always be gratefulevery day, wake up with
(02:37):
gratitude regardless, because itcould always be worse.
I mean people who are goingthrough things and it seems like
once life knocks you down, somany things keep happening here
in the us.
We are overstressed, we workourselves to death.
We don't spend time with family, spending time with family.
(02:58):
They have turning into thisrare thing that you only can do
when it's a family reunion, andthose are not that frequently.
So we are on our second week ofthis consistency project and
week one.
I felt the same way as I doright now, like it's really hard
to show up so late at nightafter a long day of running the
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dental practice and doing mybest with that and having that
stress me out.
I'm always so amazed at howpeople just feel like once I
crossed the stage at MeharryMedical College which was one of
the greatest days of my lifethat I just became some type of
boss millionaire.
Let's talk about it how theyfeel.
(03:39):
Like I'm just such a bossmillionaire and I just got money
laid out and I just I'm justrolling in dough and I got, I
can get, and all of this.
Let me tell y'all somethingthat's not the case.
Let me show y'all I'm gonnashow y'all, I want to show y'all
what was happening with meafter I crossed the stage and
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became a doctor, because itwasn't easy, and that's why I'm
just so shocked at how peoplethey'll want me to save the day
for them and I'm like dang guys,I'm still struggling.
I didn't get this far by havingrich parents.
My parents really didn't evenget to experience this with me.
My mom she died in a caraccident when I was only eight
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years old and even before then Iwasn't living with her.
My dad he had his own personallife going on, just being a
victim of colonization and theykicked the fathers out of the
house and they kicked thefathers out of the house.
But after I graduated dentalschool, that was one of the most
(04:52):
hardest, unexpected times of mylife.
You just never know when anillness is going to set you back
.
The last semester of dentalschool I had to get surgery for
having endometriosis.
This surgery was an emergencysurgery.
Here I am, my last semester inmiddle school.
I have to study all day, allnight and just being so grateful
to get to the end.
And they said, hey, you need togo to surgery.
(05:14):
I'm like, no, I'm not going tono surgery.
We got carob belly ball.
We got graduation.
Y'all got to wait.
I got to turn up.
They said, hey, got to wait.
I got to turn up.
They said, hey, you gotta havean emergency surgery.
This was january of my lastsemester, my d4 year.
D4 is the fourth year dentalschool and I said, no, I can't
have no surgery.
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So I refused to have thesurgery.
Until I refused to have thesurgery, until they told me that
it was like kind of mandatory,I said I had a surgery, so I had
to take this time off because Iwas constantly missing school
for pain.
I mean endometriosis, and I hadthis chocolate cyst, I think it
was like 10 centimeters orsomething and they needed to
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take it out.
So they scheduled a surgery.
This is around my birthday,2016.
I didn't even get to celebratemy birthday like that Graduation
party, nothing that thatsemester was the most difficult
life changing semester I everhad.
I got sick, had the surgery,had to miss six weeks of school
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when I got back.
I'm behind on my myrequirements now.
And then they said, hey, we hadto take one of your ovaries.
I'm like what the?
So they took one of my ovariesduring the surgery, left me with
one ovary, stressed me to death.
Then they said endometriosis isso bad that you need to take
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this shot Call Lupron.
I'll take this Lupron shot andI didn't want to take it of all,
but they told me that it wasgonna help me.
Mind you, it's a $2,000 shot,so I feel like it was all about
the money.
They didn't know the sideeffects.
Took this shot, man y'all.
This shot nearly killed me.
This shot nearly killed me.
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It nearly killed me.
I started.
It puts you in clinicalmenopause temporarily.
I was having hot flashes, I wastired, I was weak, I was asleep
constantly in the er.
It made me go into rage andside effects were just like.
I was a whole, nother crazyperson.
And on top of that I had anissue with a professor not
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allowing me to finish my creditsthat I had already done, I had.
I had so much going on, andthat was the year where I should
have been like you know what.
I quit, but I had came too far.
Fourth year, at the very end,and that was my test to see if I
really wanted to be a doctor,because I could have gave up at
that moment moment being sick inthe bed, couldn't get out for
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two weeks With somebody on mytail acting like I'm not going
through something, with nofamily to help me, with nobody
to call for money, and then whenI call people, they're so used
to me being strong that theywon't help me, because when my
parents died.
I didn't really have anybody.
Even before, when my mom died,I had my grandmothers, but they
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come from poverty as well.
I'm thinking I got to get outof this, I'm going to be this
big doctor and just go back andhelp my nieces and nephews and
my family.
And then this happened, boom,and I realized who's going to
show up when you're down andwho's not going to show up.
My fiance was there, workingday and night to help me out
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during that time and that wassuch a miraculous thing because
I couldn't do nothing andwithout him I don't know if
anybody would have came to myrescue.
When I crossed that stage, Iremember this lady speaking to
me when I was going back intothe opry mills to go grab my
split pops that I love.
She said you a doctor, now youdon't need no slip pops, you can
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buy some.
You can buy some more.
As if I crossed the stage and Iwas instantly rich.
That wasn't the case.
Long story short, I was sick.
I took another shot and thatone really almost killed me.
Meanwhile I missed all my wholesenior year.
This doctor from the BrooklynHospital Center came down for
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one of the balls that we werehaving.
That I missed also.
And they had a spot at theBrooklyn Hospital Center and two
of my professors recommended meto go to this and I also got
accepted into Meharryry, eventhough I didn't apply to any
programs.
And this is how favor workswhen you're chosen, you just
chosen and even if you misssomething, you always gonna stay
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in the know and you alwaysgonna be in the loop, my Niji.
So I said I'm highly interestedin moving to Brooklyn, but I
didn't have the money, I didn'thave the family support to get
me there, I didn't even have thehealth to go to Brooklyn.
But in my mindset, as a dreamer,as you know what, I refuse to
fail, just like this consistencyproject.
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When you refuse to quit onyourself and you don't take no
for an answer, it is nothingnobody can do to stop you.
There is nothing they can sayto stop what you have going on.
You're gonna make it regardless, through the homelessness,
through the sickness, throughthe depression, through the
anger, through the shifts inyour balance and people
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poisoning you with medicine thatyou don't even know the side
effects.
You will overcome that.
I don't know who I'm talking totonight, but whatever it is,
you will overcome that.
You just have to keep adetermination to win period.
You need to make a decision,stay disciplined and be
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determined to win and work onthat CDP formula.
We've been talking about it allweek and if you don't know, go
to the hood to hood podcast or,dr sean, live on youtube and
catch up on a cdp formulaconsistency plus discipline
minus the lack ofprocrastination equals your go
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up.
And when I was going through allof this, graduating and there's
this instant stigma that youjust got it like that, and I
felt, damn, when I graduated,I'm gonna have some type of
money and I wanted to really goto work after graduation.
I didn't want to go toresidency, let me be honest.
But I had to go to residency.
You want to know why?
Because I was too sick to evenget the job.
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I had to go to another safehaven.
I made it a way to go toresidency.
I had to sell all my stuff,give away all the stuff because
it couldn't fit in the car.
I could only take what couldfit in the car out of a two to
three bedroom house.
I cried, lost my apartment.
I got so sick I couldn't evenpay bills.
I couldn't do nothing.
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It was like once they put themedicine in me.
I became a different person.
I lost my edge.
I lost who I was before that.
I lost something and I had tofight like hell to get it back.
And I refuse to ever quit,regardless of who don't believe
in me, regardless of what peoplesay, your haters, your
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naysayers.
People don't know your story,baby.
They don't know your story.
They don't know that I'm hoodto hood.
They don't know how I got thisbook right here.
They don't know why it's sothick.
They don't know what yousurvive.
They don't know all the thingsyou overcome being in poverty,
being broke, being confused,wanting to be loved, wanting
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your parents, people mistreatingyou, feeling like you ain't
nothing because you don't haveyour parents.
People will make you feel likeyou are nothing, make you feel
like you're going to be astereotype.
I was supposed to be thatstereotype and I knew this, but
they didn't know that I was agenius and I knew that they
didn't know what they wastalking about.
So that's why I'm here today,guys, to tell you, from hood to
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hood it, you can surviveanything.
Just show up for yourself.
Tonight we realizing it's allabout consistency and showing up
for your dreams.
Now, what I want to do is showyou guys a video that I made
when I was homeless.
I just want to react to itbecause I haven't seen it in a
while.
I want to react to my emotionsand how much I have grown since
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watching this video.
I recorded this on July, the15th 2018, in Brooklyn, new York
, during my general practiceresidency at the Brooklyn
Hospital Center, and it says DrSean documents journey from
homeless to six figures as afirst year dental resident and I
had 11 days left to graduateand I discussed the ins and outs
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of going from homeless to sixfigures.
I was trying to get my storyout then, and the title of this
was there is no excuse to giveup on your dreams life goes on.
Back then, I was in mychristian identity.
Right now, I identify as americindian.
I'm niji chakta muskogen,seminole abalachi.
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I have a different spiritualsystem with the creator.
My mindset was different.
Back then, I under uncoveredthe truth about who I am through
my genealogy and realized thatmy ancestors are indigenous to
America and that I'm not fromAfrica.
It's a lot of things that I'vebeen uncovering and learning in
addition to becoming a doctor,in addition to learning how to
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run a practice every day on thebrink of failure, because people
just don't understand that youneed support.
I'm in a whole nother statethat there's no family up here
in new york.
It's just me, fiance, wholenother state doing this out the
mud.
No loans, for god's sakes.
I didn't even get acongratulations card when I
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opened up my dental practice.
Now I don't know why I have tobe the person to go through
these lowest of the low spotsand the homeless to the six
figures in the positions,because I know that I represent
somebody out there who do notbelieve in itself, because they
got to show up for themselvesalone.
You got to do it, sometimes byyourself, with just you and one
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other person who supports you,one other person who's going to
be your ride or die there, rain,sleep or snow.
I remember during this timewhen I was homeless, sleeping in
my car, I called a familymember and I'm working, but it's
so expensive that I can't payrent in New York and plan to
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move and save for a place.
We had a place.
It was so expensive but the oneroom was like fifteen hundred
dollars a month and we got aboot on a car and if you know
about new york parking and itjust threw us in a it's keep the
house or the car.
We got to keep the car, we gotto maintain the car and then
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that story is crazy.
It's in the book, but eitherway, it was like this is the
decision we got to make becausethe money ain't adding up and we
need to save, so it was adecision that we had to make.
Sometimes that's how it is youhave to go homeless to
accomplish your dreams, and thisis in 2018.
It's 2025.
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This is seven years ago.
Seven years ago.
Seven years ago.
What's going on video?
I'm just trying to get it towhere I want to react to this
video.
I never really did a reactionvideo.
(16:24):
I think that'll be really coolto react to this video now that
we're doing the hood to hood it.
This isn't really the hood tohood it challenge.
This is more like the dr seanconsistency project.
So I want to pull this up andshow y'all what it looked like
when you just on the ground.
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I mean, in this video, I amgoes on life, I am, life goes on
.
In this video, I am justfighting for my dreams.
So we're going to pull it up,what's called there is no excuse
to give up on your dreams andwe gonna let it roll.
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This is me when I was a residentin dental school in New York.
Like I said, june 15, 2018,homeless.
Let's see what my mindset wasthat guys, as I was about to
graduate from residency, what'sgoing on video diary?
This is dr sean, motivationaldentist.
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This is day, and I had to leavework early today because I
wasn't feeling good.
So, yeah, life goes on.
That's what happens in lifewhen you, life just goes on.
That's all I have to say abouttoday.
Life goes on and it's alwaysunexpected.
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You just never know.
So I'm out sick.
I'm working on Project.
It's gonna be very big, isprobably gonna be released.
Christmas time.
That's what I'm doing with timetoday.
I'm happy it's Friday, though.
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Kudos for that.
I wish I felt a little bitbetter, but, as promised, I'm on
this vlog every day because Iwant to document my mood, my
emotions, how I'm feeling,everything about today.
Not too many if you reach out.
That's me completely care, notalways here.
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That's the most important thing.
I know that there are so manypeople who sacrifice all.
They will sacrifice the commentmy sacrifice, oh
congratulations.
But not too many will reallymake that sacrifice.
Sacrifice a prayer, sacrificingfunds, none of that.
And it's so weird that whenyou're broke, people don't
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really pay you any attention.
It doesn't matter why you'rebroke even if you're broke
because whatever but when you'renot broke, people pay you
attention.
I don't know why that is.
It's like the rich get richerand the poor get poorer, all
because of mentality.
You know what I mean.
And we don't know how to investin one another.
And that's the big word.
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A lot of people throw that wordaround oh you ain't investing
me.
No, yes, no, get this caranyway.
We didn't invest in me.
No, invest means reallyinvesting, believing in
someone's business, believing insomeone else's dreams.
If you're not going to go outand get your own self, it's just
believing in someone other thanyourself.
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That's what investing in isactually putting money behind it
, saying I believe that you arecapable to do what you say
you're going to do in yourbusiness plan to action.
I'm going to be investing youand you just pay me back.
I mean, that's how you invest.
So today and every day isdefinitely growing me as a queen
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, because it doesn't matter ifI'm in this car, or it doesn't
matter if I'm on the top of amountain.
That does not negate the factthat you have to treat yourself
as royalty every day.
It doesn't matter if I'm on thetop of a mountain.
That does not negate the factthat you have to treat yourself
as royalty every day.
It doesn't matter.
You know what I mean.
You must feel like royaltyevery day.
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Your situation, what's in youraccount, what's on your mind,
what you're doing in life shouldnever make you negate the fact
that you're supposed to haveyour crown on head tied at all
times.
And this is what you establishas the foundations.
And the character of a queenand a king is when, even at your
lowest or even at your highest,you never waver in god's
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standards for your life.
You never forget why he putsyou on this earth.
So even when you feel thelowest, he's always there to
remind you, with your crown on,that you are the highest in his
book.
You might not have all thematerial things that don't mean
a thing when you leave here, butas long as your spirit is good,
your mind is good, your heartis clear and you still have
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kindness and you don't letsituations make you mad.
This is when you prosper.
This is when you can feel thatroyalty exuberating through your
bones, exuberating through yourblood vessels and your mind,
and then your spirit will leapfor joy.
It will be so happy of thethings and the knowledge and the
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wisdom that you gain from yourexperiences.
Whether that's sleeping in acar, whether that's going and
working so hard day to nighttill your feet ache and your
bones ache, your hands ache,whether that's fighting for your
dreams, studying all times ofday when other people don't get
it, whether that's being in NewYork City city on june, the 15th
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2018, as a real life dentisthere dealing with life.
You know, I mean, it doesn'tmatter what you go through,
kings and queens, it doesn'tmatter what you go through.
You should never have an excuseto give up on god.
You should never, ever have anexcuse to give up on God.
You should never, ever have anexcuse to give up on your dreams
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.
No matter how big or how downyou think you are, you always
have the opportunity to digyourself out of that.
You always have the opportunityto get yourself and your spirit
and your mind in check andnever letting anybody or
anything or your situation makeyou feel worthless or that
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you're not worthy enough.
It's gonna be a lot of peoplearound you who are gonna ignore
situations that come aboutbecause they don't want that
type of responsibility, forinstance, me.
No one wants the responsibilityof raising a doctor unless
they're your parents, and thenwhen your parents don't do it,
it's only you to do it.
So my mom employed me to do thisdream.
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I did it like I tell people Iwould not do this again,
probably wouldn't do this again,but I did it nevertheless.
I did it.
So god makes dreams possible.
That's the moral of the storyfor this blog today is god makes
dreams possible and for thatreason and that reason alone,
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you do not give up on yourdreams and, most importantly,
you do not give up on god.
Amen.
Oh, I had my mic off this wholeentire time.
Oh no, you guys, I had my micoff this whole entire time.
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Now, that's a terrible mistake.
That's a terrible mistake.
even when the days are long and tough and hard, we
still show up for our dreams, westill show up for the things
that we want to accomplish.
And I have a hypothesis that ifI can push through all of my
difficult days of running adental practice and having
10,000 jaws and having a littlebackache right now and almost
(00:23):
feeling like I'm about to faildoing this shit because I don't
have a roadmap and because Icame from hood to hooded, then I
gotta show the up every day,dead serious.
I gotta show up every singleday and if I don't, I fail this
challenge.
And nobody may know that Ifailed this challenge, but me.
(00:44):
But I'm going to still do itfor 365 days to see if my
hypothesis is right.
You have to do some things, asthe Lulu, to see if you can push
past the bare minimum, andthat's what we're doing today
Pushing past the bare minimumand being grateful for the
ability to get on here andcommunicate with you guys and
(01:06):
talk to you guys and motivatepeople around the world to just
be positive and grateful Onthose days when you feel just
exhausted, like right now.
Let me just be honest beingconsistent is a weakness of mine
.
Honest, being consistent is aweakness of mine, so the fact
(01:29):
that I'm working on thisweakness publicly with my
audience is, at least, veryvulnerable.
It leaves me very vulnerableand I have to be transparent.
So I'm just trying to diversifymy message and diversify my
output to reach more people.
(01:50):
So being consistent and justshowing up is 100% of my goal.
As long as I can get on hereand chit chat with y'all, then I
have met my goal.
I have truly met my goal.
But let's talk a little bitabout why I'm so grateful today.
I was just watching videos ofdifferent cultures today and it
(02:13):
helped me put my own life inperspective.
Sometimes we can start tocomplain a little too often
about our situation.
We can complain about how farwe came and we can't forget
where we came from.
We can do that, you can do thatsometimes, and we don't want to
do that.
We want to always be gratefulevery day, wake up with
(02:37):
gratitude regardless, because itcould always be worse.
I mean people who are goingthrough things and it seems like
once life knocks you down, somany things keep happening here
in the us.
We are overstressed, we workourselves to death.
We don't spend time with family, spending time with family.
(02:58):
They have turning into thisrare thing that you only can do
when it's a family reunion, andthose are not that frequently.
So we are on our second week ofthis consistency project and
week one.
I felt the same way as I doright now, like it's really hard
to show up so late at nightafter a long day of running the
(03:19):
dental practice and doing mybest with that and having that
stress me out.
I'm always so amazed at howpeople just feel like once I
crossed the stage at MeharryMedical College which was one of
the greatest days of my lifethat I just became some type of
boss millionaire.
Let's talk about it how theyfeel.
(03:39):
Like I'm just such a bossmillionaire and I just got money
laid out and I just I'm justrolling in dough and I got, I
can get, and all of this.
Let me tell y'all somethingthat's not the case.
Let me show y'all I'm gonnashow y'all, I want to show y'all
what was happening with meafter I crossed the stage and
(04:03):
became a doctor, because itwasn't easy, and that's why I'm
just so shocked at how peoplethey'll want me to save the day
for them and I'm like dang guys,I'm still struggling.
I didn't get this far by havingrich parents.
My parents really didn't evenget to experience this with me.
My mom she died in a caraccident when I was only eight
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years old and even before then Iwasn't living with her.
My dad he had his own personallife going on, just being a
victim of colonization and theykicked the fathers out of the
house and they kicked thefathers out of the house.
But after I graduated dentalschool, that was one of the most
(04:52):
hardest, unexpected times of mylife.
You just never know when anillness is going to set you back
.
The last semester of dentalschool I had to get surgery for
having endometriosis.
This surgery was an emergencysurgery.
Here I am, my last semester inmiddle school.
I have to study all day, allnight and just being so grateful
to get to the end.
And they said, hey, you need togo to surgery.
(05:14):
I'm like, no, I'm not going tono surgery.
We got carob belly ball.
We got graduation.
Y'all got to wait.
I got to turn up.
They said, hey, got to wait.
I got to turn up.
They said, hey, you gotta havean emergency surgery.
This was january of my lastsemester, my d4 year.
D4 is the fourth year dentalschool and I said, no, I can't
have no surgery.
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So I refused to have thesurgery.
Until I refused to have thesurgery, until they told me that
it was like kind of mandatory,I said I had a surgery, so I had
to take this time off because Iwas constantly missing school
for pain.
I mean endometriosis, and I hadthis chocolate cyst, I think it
was like 10 centimeters orsomething and they needed to
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take it out.
So they scheduled a surgery.
This is around my birthday,2016.
I didn't even get to celebratemy birthday like that Graduation
party, nothing that thatsemester was the most difficult
life changing semester I everhad.
I got sick, had the surgery,had to miss six weeks of school
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when I got back.
I'm behind on my myrequirements now.
And then they said, hey, we hadto take one of your ovaries.
I'm like what the?
So they took one of my ovariesduring the surgery, left me with
one ovary, stressed me to death.
Then they said endometriosis isso bad that you need to take
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this shot Call Lupron.
I'll take this Lupron shot andI didn't want to take it of all,
but they told me that it wasgonna help me.
Mind you, it's a $2,000 shot,so I feel like it was all about
the money.
They didn't know the sideeffects.
Took this shot, man y'all.
This shot nearly killed me.
This shot nearly killed me.
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It nearly killed me.
I started.
It puts you in clinicalmenopause temporarily.
I was having hot flashes, I wastired, I was weak, I was asleep
constantly in the er.
It made me go into rage andside effects were just like.
I was a whole, nother crazyperson.
And on top of that I had anissue with a professor not
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allowing me to finish my creditsthat I had already done, I had.
I had so much going on, andthat was the year where I should
have been like you know what.
I quit, but I had came too far.
Fourth year, at the very end,and that was my test to see if I
really wanted to be a doctor,because I could have gave up at
that moment moment being sick inthe bed, couldn't get out for
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two weeks With somebody on mytail acting like I'm not going
through something, with nofamily to help me, with nobody
to call for money, and then whenI call people, they're so used
to me being strong that theywon't help me, because when my
parents died.
I didn't really have anybody.
Even before, when my mom died,I had my grandmothers, but they
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come from poverty as well.
I'm thinking I got to get outof this, I'm going to be this
big doctor and just go back andhelp my nieces and nephews and
my family.
And then this happened, boom,and I realized who's going to
show up when you're down andwho's not going to show up.
My fiance was there, workingday and night to help me out
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during that time and that wassuch a miraculous thing because
I couldn't do nothing andwithout him I don't know if
anybody would have came to myrescue.
When I crossed that stage, Iremember this lady speaking to
me when I was going back intothe opry mills to go grab my
split pops that I love.
She said you a doctor, now youdon't need no slip pops, you can
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buy some.
You can buy some more.
As if I crossed the stage and Iwas instantly rich.
That wasn't the case.
Long story short, I was sick.
I took another shot and thatone really almost killed me.
Meanwhile I missed all my wholesenior year.
This doctor from the BrooklynHospital Center came down for
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one of the balls that we werehaving.
That I missed also.
And they had a spot at theBrooklyn Hospital Center and two
of my professors recommended meto go to this and I also got
accepted into Meharryry, eventhough I didn't apply to any
programs.
And this is how favor workswhen you're chosen, you just
chosen and even if you misssomething, you always gonna stay
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in the know and you alwaysgonna be in the loop, my Niji.
So I said I'm highly interestedin moving to Brooklyn, but I
didn't have the money, I didn'thave the family support to get
me there, I didn't even have thehealth to go to Brooklyn.
But in my mindset, as a dreamer,as you know what, I refuse to
fail, just like this consistencyproject.
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When you refuse to quit onyourself and you don't take no
for an answer, it is nothingnobody can do to stop you.
There is nothing they can sayto stop what you have going on.
You're gonna make it regardless, through the homelessness,
through the sickness, throughthe depression, through the
anger, through the shifts inyour balance and people
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poisoning you with medicine thatyou don't even know the side
effects.
You will overcome that.
I don't know who I'm talking totonight, but whatever it is,
you will overcome that.
You just have to keep adetermination to win period.
You need to make a decision,stay disciplined and be
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determined to win and work onthat CDP formula.
We've been talking about it allweek and if you don't know, go
to the hood to hood podcast or,dr sean, live on youtube and
catch up on a cdp formulaconsistency plus discipline
minus the lack ofprocrastination equals your go
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up.
And when I was going through allof this, graduating and there's
this instant stigma that youjust got it like that, and I
felt, damn, when I graduated,I'm gonna have some type of
money and I wanted to really goto work after graduation.
I didn't want to go toresidency, let me be honest.
But I had to go to residency.
You want to know why?
Because I was too sick to evenget the job.
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I had to go to another safehaven.
I made it a way to go toresidency.
I had to sell all my stuff,give away all the stuff because
it couldn't fit in the car.
I could only take what couldfit in the car out of a two to
three bedroom house.
I cried, lost my apartment.
I got so sick I couldn't evenpay bills.
I couldn't do nothing.
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It was like once they put themedicine in me.
I became a different person.
I lost my edge.
I lost who I was before that.
I lost something and I had tofight like hell to get it back.
And I refuse to ever quit,regardless of who don't believe
in me, regardless of what peoplesay, your haters, your
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naysayers.
People don't know your story,baby.
They don't know your story.
They don't know that I'm hoodto hood.
They don't know how I got thisbook right here.
They don't know why it's sothick.
They don't know what yousurvive.
They don't know all the thingsyou overcome being in poverty,
being broke, being confused,wanting to be loved, wanting
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your parents, people mistreatingyou, feeling like you ain't
nothing because you don't haveyour parents.
People will make you feel likeyou are nothing, make you feel
like you're going to be astereotype.
I was supposed to be thatstereotype and I knew this, but
they didn't know that I was agenius and I knew that they
didn't know what they wastalking about.
So that's why I'm here today,guys, to tell you, from hood to
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hood it, you can surviveanything.
Just show up for yourself.
Tonight we realizing it's allabout consistency and showing up
for your dreams.
Now, what I want to do is showyou guys a video that I made
when I was homeless.
I just want to react to itbecause I haven't seen it in a
while.
I want to react to my emotionsand how much I have grown since
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watching this video.
I recorded this on July, the15th 2018, in Brooklyn, new York
, during my general practiceresidency at the Brooklyn
Hospital Center, and it says DrSean documents journey from
homeless to six figures as afirst year dental resident and I
had 11 days left to graduateand I discussed the ins and outs
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of going from homeless to sixfigures.
I was trying to get my storyout then, and the title of this
was there is no excuse to giveup on your dreams life goes on.
Back then, I was in mychristian identity.
Right now, I identify as americindian.
I'm niji chakta muskogen,seminole abalachi.
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I have a different spiritualsystem with the creator.
My mindset was different.
Back then, I under uncoveredthe truth about who I am through
my genealogy and realized thatmy ancestors are indigenous to
America and that I'm not fromAfrica.
It's a lot of things that I'vebeen uncovering and learning in
addition to becoming a doctor,in addition to learning how to
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run a practice every day on thebrink of failure, because people
just don't understand that youneed support.
I'm in a whole nother statethat there's no family up here
in new york.
It's just me, fiance, wholenother state doing this out the
mud.
No loans, for god's sakes.
I didn't even get acongratulations card when I
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opened up my dental practice.
Now I don't know why I have tobe the person to go through
these lowest of the low spotsand the homeless to the six
figures in the positions,because I know that I represent
somebody out there who do notbelieve in itself, because they
got to show up for themselvesalone.
You got to do it, sometimes byyourself, with just you and one
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other person who supports you,one other person who's going to
be your ride or die there, rain,sleep or snow.
I remember during this timewhen I was homeless, sleeping in
my car, I called a familymember and I'm working, but it's
so expensive that I can't payrent in New York and plan to
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move and save for a place.
We had a place.
It was so expensive but the oneroom was like fifteen hundred
dollars a month and we got aboot on a car and if you know
about new york parking and itjust threw us in a it's keep the
house or the car.
We got to keep the car, we gotto maintain the car and then
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that story is crazy.
It's in the book, but eitherway, it was like this is the
decision we got to make becausethe money ain't adding up and we
need to save, so it was adecision that we had to make.
Sometimes that's how it is youhave to go homeless to
accomplish your dreams, and thisis in 2018.
It's 2025.
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This is seven years ago.
Seven years ago.
Seven years ago.
What's going on video?
I'm just trying to get it towhere I want to react to this
video.
I never really did a reactionvideo.
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I think that'll be really coolto react to this video now that
we're doing the hood to hood it.
This isn't really the hood tohood it challenge.
This is more like the dr seanconsistency project.
So I want to pull this up andshow y'all what it looked like
when you just on the ground.
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I mean, in this video, I amgoes on life, I am, life goes on
.
In this video, I am justfighting for my dreams.
So we're going to pull it up,what's called there is no excuse
to give up on your dreams andwe gonna let it roll.
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This is me when I was a residentin dental school in New York.
Like I said, june 15, 2018,homeless.
Let's see what my mindset wasthat guys, as I was about to
graduate from residency, what'sgoing on video diary?
This is dr sean, motivationaldentist.
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This is day, and I had to leavework early today because I
wasn't feeling good.
So, yeah, life goes on.
That's what happens in lifewhen you, life just goes on.
That's all I have to say abouttoday.
Life goes on and it's alwaysunexpected.
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You just never know.
So I'm out sick.
I'm working on Project.
It's gonna be very big, isprobably gonna be released.
Christmas time.
That's what I'm doing with timetoday.
I'm happy it's Friday, though.
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Kudos for that.
I wish I felt a little bitbetter, but, as promised, I'm on
this vlog every day because Iwant to document my mood, my
emotions, how I'm feeling,everything about today.
Not too many if you reach out.
That's me completely care, notalways here.
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That's the most important thing.
I know that there are so manypeople who sacrifice all.
They will sacrifice the commentmy sacrifice, oh
congratulations.
But not too many will reallymake that sacrifice.
Sacrifice a prayer, sacrificingfunds, none of that.
And it's so weird that whenyou're broke, people don't
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really pay you any attention.
It doesn't matter why you'rebroke even if you're broke
because whatever but when you'renot broke, people pay you
attention.
I don't know why that is.
It's like the rich get richerand the poor get poorer, all
because of mentality.
You know what I mean.
And we don't know how to investin one another.
And that's the big word.
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A lot of people throw that wordaround oh you ain't investing
me.
No, yes, no, get this caranyway.
We didn't invest in me.
No, invest means reallyinvesting, believing in
someone's business, believing insomeone else's dreams.
If you're not going to go outand get your own self, it's just
believing in someone other thanyourself.
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That's what investing in isactually putting money behind it
, saying I believe that you arecapable to do what you say
you're going to do in yourbusiness plan to action.
I'm going to be investing youand you just pay me back.
I mean, that's how you invest.
So today and every day isdefinitely growing me as a queen
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, because it doesn't matter ifI'm in this car, or it doesn't
matter if I'm on the top of amountain.
That does not negate the factthat you have to treat yourself
as royalty every day.
It doesn't matter if I'm on thetop of a mountain.
That does not negate the factthat you have to treat yourself
as royalty every day.
It doesn't matter.
You know what I mean.
You must feel like royaltyevery day.
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Your situation, what's in youraccount, what's on your mind,
what you're doing in life shouldnever make you negate the fact
that you're supposed to haveyour crown on head tied at all
times.
And this is what you establishas the foundations.
And the character of a queenand a king is when, even at your
lowest or even at your highest,you never waver in god's
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standards for your life.
You never forget why he putsyou on this earth.
So even when you feel thelowest, he's always there to
remind you, with your crown on,that you are the highest in his
book.
You might not have all thematerial things that don't mean
a thing when you leave here, butas long as your spirit is good,
your mind is good, your heartis clear and you still have
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kindness and you don't letsituations make you mad.
This is when you prosper.
This is when you can feel thatroyalty exuberating through your
bones, exuberating through yourblood vessels and your mind,
and then your spirit will leapfor joy.
It will be so happy of thethings and the knowledge and the
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wisdom that you gain from yourexperiences.
Whether that's sleeping in acar, whether that's going and
working so hard day to nighttill your feet ache and your
bones ache, your hands ache,whether that's fighting for your
dreams, studying all times ofday when other people don't get
it, whether that's being in NewYork City city on june, the 15th
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2018, as a real life dentisthere dealing with life.
You know, I mean, it doesn'tmatter what you go through,
kings and queens, it doesn'tmatter what you go through.
You should never have an excuseto give up on god.
You should never, ever have anexcuse to give up on God.
You should never, ever have anexcuse to give up on your dreams
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.
No matter how big or how downyou think you are, you always
have the opportunity to digyourself out of that.
You always have the opportunityto get yourself and your spirit
and your mind in check andnever letting anybody or
anything or your situation makeyou feel worthless or that
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you're not worthy enough.
It's gonna be a lot of peoplearound you who are gonna ignore
situations that come aboutbecause they don't want that
type of responsibility, forinstance, me.
No one wants the responsibilityof raising a doctor unless
they're your parents, and thenwhen your parents don't do it,
it's only you to do it.
So my mom employed me to do thisdream.
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I did it like I tell people Iwould not do this again,
probably wouldn't do this again,but I did it nevertheless.
I did it.
So god makes dreams possible.
That's the moral of the storyfor this blog today is god makes
dreams possible and for thatreason and that reason alone,
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you do not give up on yourdreams and, most importantly,
you do not give up on god.
Amen.
Oh, I had my mic off this wholeentire time.
Oh no, you guys, I had my micoff this whole entire time.
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Now, that's a terrible mistake.
That's a terrible mistake.
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