April 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Money isn't real—but if you don't master its rules, you'll forever remain trapped in the matrix of financial struggle. This powerful truth forms the foundation of a transformative journey through financial literacy, cultural identity, and breaking generational curses.
The stark reality hits hard: only 24% of millennials demonstrate basic financial literacy, while communities of color face predatory lending at three times the rate of others. With the average Black household net worth sitting at just $17,150 compared to $171,000 for white households, the need for financial education has never been more urgent. But this isn't just about numbers—it's about reclaiming power.
We explore ten practical strategies to develop financial literacy, from free apps that track spending to shadowing successful business owners. The path to wealth building becomes accessible through learning about credit, investing, and creating passive income streams that work while you sleep. The message resonates clearly: you don't have to work your whole life for minimum wage when you can learn to leverage money as a tool for freedom.
Beyond finances, we dive into the profound connection between genealogy, identity, and breaking free from mental constraints. Discovering your true ancestral heritage—especially for those who identify as American Indigenous Indian (Niiji)—can radically transform your self-perception and confidence. This knowledge serves as the ultimate foundation for building wealth with purpose and pride in who you truly are.
The CDP formula—Consistency plus Discipline minus Procrastination—emerges as the framework for sustainable growth in any area of life. Whether through content creation, developing marketable skills, or pursuing education, breaking generational curses requires deliberate action starting today.
Ready to transform your relationship with money and reclaim your power? This episode provides the blueprint for your journey from survival mode to prosperity through knowledge, identity, and purposeful action. The world needs what you have to offer—don't wait another day to begin.
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Dr. Shon (00:00):
This is day 11 of Dr Shon's 365 Consistency Challenge
.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Hood to Hooded Broadcast
.
This is a place where we turnpain into power, poverty into
prosperity and dreams into areality.
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I'm , Dr.
Shon host, and I am a dentistby day, dream builder by night,
and this is day 11 of the 365day consistency challenge.
Tonight, this is what we'recovering.
We're covering financialliteracy for the culture and why
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it matters and how you can getstarted, my Niiji.
We're also covering genealogy,identity and escaping the matrix
, because the matrix is real.
And number three, oral health,equals real wealth.
The latest facts about oralcancer as this is April is oral
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cancer.
April is Oral Cancer AwarenessMonth and, as a dentist, every
podcast has to include some typeof oral health tip reminder to
brush and floss your teeth orsomething related to the oral
cavity.
And finally, tonight, guys,we'll wrap it up with the CDP
mindset and 10 ways to breakgenerational curses.
Today, let's go to segment one,which is financial literaries
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literacy for the culture.
When I was a student in highschool, middle school, all of
these grades we really didn'thave financial literacy.
In high school, I did take up aprogram called about face which
kind of taught me aboutbusiness.
They paid us like a weeklystipend of $60.
I was that kid from the hoodthat was most certainly trying
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to figure out a way to escapepoverty.
I joined the About Face programand we would go after school
and learn about profits.
Losses, won a couple awards forrunning the best little kiddie
business.
I had my friend gracie in theprogram and we just it was a way
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for me to make money.
I was always eager to learnabout financial literacy.
Even though I didn't have thattype of dialogue going on in the
home, I was eager to find outabout it.
I took it upon myself.
Sometimes you have to take itupon yourself to grow your mind,
to make you some change,because I'm like I gotta get me
some better school clothes, lookcute.
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I was a teenager.
I wanted my nails done.
I was just trying to get somemoney.
I was also intelligent.
These programs that you can findin your community.
Sometimes they can expose youto financial literacy.
But you must seek theseprograms out Now, even if you
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don't have it.
Nowadays you can go to YouTubeUniversity to learn so much
about money, how to grow it, howto invest, to help us break
those generational curses.
If you don't learn how moneyworks, money will work against
you, and that is the reality.
Money is a tool that everyonemust learn and it's such a shame
that they don't teach financialliteracy and even high school
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they don't teach it.
In high school you start makingmoney.
I got my first job on my 16thbirthday because I was
underserved and I needed money.
I did hair.
I was a little hustler as ateenager doing hair, pulling up,
catching the bus, going toother people's houses, braiding
hair until I got until my 16thbirthday where I started working
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for McDonald's.
But the reason why I wasworking was to buy nails and I
wanted to buy a car and stufflike that.
But we didn't learn aboutfinancial literacy in a sense of
investing.
It was just get a job, buy someclothes, move out pay bills.
It wasn't really taught toinvest and make your money work
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for you.
Even at Florida State Universityand shout out to the Seminoles.
It's a tragedy happenedyesterday.
So we definitely want to besensitive to that fact.
But even at florida state Itook a business minor.
So I took classes in economics,microeconomics, macroeconomics,
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personal financing, accounting101 and 102.
I took that minor because I wasinterested in business and
money and financing, even thoughmy major was mostly
science-based, so there wasalways a passion to learn.
So you want to keep thatfinancial literacy urge while
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you're young to make your moneygrow.
They say money doesn't grow ontrees, but money is made from
cotton, which is a plant andtechnically a tree is a plant,
but it's not technically a tree.
But money does grow on plantsand the thing about it is money
is the major topic right now,with the tariffs and the
government trying to controlthings.
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But we as people must know thatmoney is not backed by gold.
I can I repeat this becausethat's why all these things are
happening with the economybecause it's not backed by gold.
Other countries are pulling outand the money is losing its
value.
So we need to make more moneyto do the things you did
yesterday and that required lessmoney.
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We want to make sure we are ontop of the curve and absorbing
this information in high school,in college, as business owners,
as content creators, as justentrepreneurs.
I want to discuss 10 ways foryou to start learning financial
literacy.
The first way is to use freeapps like Credit, karma or Mint
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to track your spending, thefaster you learn how to budget
and where your money is going.
It will make your life so mucheasier so that you're not
blowing your money onunnecessary things that don't
contribute to your future.
You want to make sure you arelearning about credit and how it
can improve your life, andthere are so many other free
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apps out there Robin Hood, lotsof free apps that you can start
to learn to use to help themstay on track with money, so
that it doesn't float throughyour hands like water.
We don't want it to just flowthrough our hands and evaporate,
so that way you have to work sohard and have a job and live
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paycheck to paycheck or go topayday loan places.
I've been there.
I've been that student even incollege going to those payday
loan places.
I've been there.
I've been that student even incollege going to those payday
loan places because I was brokeand I couldn't ask people for
money.
You got to get it how you canand I had to really wean myself
off of that by just gettinganother job or making more money
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some kind of way, and back thenI didn't know anything about
investing and they didn't havethese apps.
It was different when I grew up, and then, if you are from an
underserved background, it'seven more difficult and unlikely
that you will even know aboutinvesting and spending your
money on things that pay you inyour sleep.
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That's the trick get paid inyour sleep.
Find you something that can payyou while you sleep.
Number two watch youtubechannels like earn your leisure
or the budget nista or listen tothe podcast, but these are
other sources earn your leisurein the budget nista.
They have a wealth ofinformation that you can go and
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learn for free.
You don't have to pay a tuition, you can learn for free.
I went to grab these two booksand this one is actually
Budgetnista the Tiffany Aliche.
Get good with money.
Get good with money.
Get good with money.
Another book that I think isgood for young people who are
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interested in financial literacyis it's About Damn Time how to
turn being underestimated intoyour greatest advantage, and
these are going to be on ourreading list.
Right now we are reading Eatthat Frog and we'll get back
into that book tomorrow.
Number three start a mockportfolio on apps like Public or
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Robinhood or TradeStation.
You can actually create mockportfolios or you can go on
TradeStation and have.
You can do trading, but in apaper account where it's not a
real trading, so you can learnhow to do it versus starting.
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There are so many resourcesthat you can use to just
practice playing with money andusing money as a tool before you
actually get the money.
Because when you get the money,you don't want to go and just
spend it on crazy stuff likebuying hair every month or
buying Jordans every week.
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You want to try to invest intosomething that's going to make
you the price of those Jordansevery week.
Maybe invest in the stock Ifyou like finish line and you
there all the time.
Maybe invest in the stock Ifyou like finish line and you're
there all the time.
Go invest in the stock so thatway you can get paid from the
people who buy the Jordans.
You got to think on the otherside of money.
Number four get a free copy ofyour credit report and study it
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while you're young.
Understand credit, understandthe numbers about credit.
With credit, if you haveexcellent credit, you can get a
lot of privileges that peoplewho don't have excellent credit
can't get approval for.
You can get approval for houses, cars, business loans, all type
of things, but if you come fromunderserved background, like me
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, from the hood, it's a highchance that you don't know about
credit.
And then when you get thecredit, you abuse the credit
because you don't know and itputs you into debt and this
creates a terrible cycle whereyou never learn how to leverage
your credit.
So learn about it.
Get a free copy of your creditreport, evaluate it and start to
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understand what your number isand grow it.
Don't stress about it, but justgrow it and pay attention to it
while you're young.
Number five shadow a businessowner or accountant.
Now this is something that I'vetalked about on this podcast
shadowing If you are pre-dentalor if you are pre-med or
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interested in any of thosedoctoral programs.
Nine times out of 10, shadowingis a requirement.
But if you are trying to get adoctoral program and you're
trying to start a business, youcan still shadow someone who is
in that industry and start tonetwork.
We'll take baking, for example.
If you want to start a bakery,you want to go and find people
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who already own a bakery.
Ask them can you work part time?
Can you work part time?
Learn the ins and outs, notjust, not just about what your
position is, but ask somequestions about ownership or
tell me your ideas.
Hey, I want to be in thisindustry as well.
Some people are going to say,hey, you are competition and
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some people will help youbecause they understand that you
have a passion.
You just want to find goodmentors who can help you in
whatever type of business orindustry that you are in.
For me, I shadowed a lot ofdentists before I became a
dentist.
Number one to make sure Iwanted to do it, and number two
because you're going to seeexactly what your future kind of
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looks like from outside,looking in.
You don't want to commit tosomething and go through all
those years of school and thenrealize this is something I
really don't like doing.
Yes, I complain about dentistryand being burnt out and don't
know if it's for me, but at theheart and soul of my body, mind
and spirit, dentistry is in myheart.
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There's no way you can gothrough that much schooling and
not have a passion for it.
Yes, those days get tough andyou feel some days I feel like I
don't know what the hell I'mdoing.
I just feel like I have so muchmore to learn.
But that's why it's thepractice of dentistry so you
want to just shout out businessowners and learn from them.
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Be a sponge.
Never stop learning.
Even now I'm still a learner.
There's so much I don't know.
That's why I read books, I tryto watch informative podcasts
and I try to teach what Ilearned so that way it sticks.
When you learn something andyou go and teach it, you learn
even more.
In dental school we have somuch information to absorb.
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A lot of the times we wouldteach each other just to make
sure we really knew theinformation.
That means that we have a bigtest coming up tomorrow.
I should be able to get up tothe whiteboard with my study
buddies and friends and practiceand teach them, and if I get
something wrong, that means Ireally don't know it.
Another thing is learn aboutroyalties and passive income.
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Can you write a book such asthis book here that I am in the
process of producing, the Hoodto Hooded story?
Can you create music, such asthe song that I have out now
called STFU it's my Birthday.
Hey, turn up.
Called STFU, it's my birthday.
Hey, turn up, shout out if it'syour birthday.
Create digital products, ebooks, guys, start an email list.
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There's so many things you cando to create passive income and
royalties.
So royalties, what you hear alot in the music industry when
you get signed to a label, theysteal your royalties.
What you hear a lot in themusic industry when you get
signed to a label, they stealyour royalties.
That means the music thatyou're making they're going to
get paid for and you get alittle check, but in return they
do a lot of the marketing.
But what happens is peoplebecome very famous, their music
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becomes very famous, but theygive up their rights.
We want to create royalties andkeep our royalties.
We don't want to give it up.
You see it so many times in themovies, with New Edition, with
Chaka Khan, with Michael Jackson, with a lot of people, angie
Stone but they all are upsetabout royalties or they were
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upset.
Number seven use cash stuffingor envelope budgeting.
Cash stuffing or envelopebudgeting.
This is a way for you to putmoney aside just to save, so
that you're not visually seeingyour money in the account or on
your car.
So that way you can put it awayand budget.
Or if you have fifty dollarsfor the week, you want to
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separate it.
That's not a lot nowadays, I'mjust we're gonna say if, say,
you have $200 for the week,because $50 is unrealistic.
You want a budget.
So you got $250 and you got toplan out the week.
Number eight play free stockmarket stimulator games.
That's like TradeStation youcan stimulate buying stocks on
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the market, playing in WallStreet.
All of that good stuff Practice, practice.
Practice makes perfect.
So that way we are not justspending money, we will be
investing money.
Number 10, read beginnerfriendly books.
Like Rich Dad, poor Dad that'sone of my favorite books is
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well-known book about the richdad versus the poor dad.
The rich dad he was an investor, he had property.
He was getting money in hissleep.
The poor dad thought work hard,make the fake money.
The money isn't even real.
So we don't want to be likethat, this money and state.
Guys, don't work your wholelife for a job for $8 an hour,
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struggling paycheck to paycheck,when you can go and create
something, invent something,start a YouTube channel,
Monetize your life, create somedigital products, sell something
, invest in the stock market,become a day trader.
There's so many options, butyou must learn about them.
Here's a hard truth, guys Moneyisn't even real.
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I'll repeat Money isn't evenreal.
I'll repeat money isn't evenreal.
It's not backed by gold anymore.
But if you don't master therules, you will always be a pawn
to the matrix.
Financial literacy is a cheatcode to escape survival mode,
something I didn't learn as ayoung adult, but it was a cheat
code.
If I had learned it, my liferight now would be stronger.
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But we can't go backwards.
We can only start here.
So that's why hood to hood isimportant.
It's a transition period.
You go from one state of mindto an elevated state of mind.
If you don't know it today, youcan always learn and add a new
skill to your life.
Now these stats really hit home.
For me, guys, it really hithome.
Only 24% of millennials showbasic financial literacy.
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If you're a young adult, it's ahigh chance that only one out
of four young adults have somesense of financial literacy.
This automatically excludeschildren growing up in the
projects in underservedenvironments or without parents.
I didn't have my mom, my dad,in the house.
I automatically had a doublewhammy against me.
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I was already had a doublewhammy.
If it had not been for mymindset to go and find those
little programs to get a littlechange and get a job, I wouldn't
have any knowledge about money.
I had to teach myself aboutmoney, which you don't really
teach yourself financialliteracy.
You have to go out and find theinformation, guys, and don't
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just quit and just startspending money and be paycheck
to paycheck for the rest of yourlife.
Pause, take a break, chill fora second and let's learn some
things.
Another stat that hits home isless than 20% of US high schools
require personal finance.
I took personal finance incollege.
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I actually took a college classcalled actually personal
finance.
Take that in high schoolbecause it wasn't an option to
learn about money, to learnabout melanated history,
indigenous history, the thingsthat we, as Niiji, need to know,
as indigenous Ameri-Indiansneed to know.
And if you don't know, theyreclassify African-Americans as
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well from they reclassified theAmerican Indians, the melanin
original, copper, tone people toblack, negro, african-american.
So when I say Niiji, I'mtalking about the Indians, but
if you African-American, maybeyou don't know that you are from
Turtle Island and that's alittle deep, but we got to keep
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getting this through our heads,ok, guys.
Community this is another statthat hits home.
Communities of color are threetimes more likely to experience
predatory lending.
This means that when you do goto buy a home.
They're going to give you thehighest interest rate.
They're going to try to prey onyou and make give you, put you
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in a situation that doesn't makesense.
So you have to really becareful, no doubt about it.
Be very careful now.
The average black household networth is only seventeen
thousand five one hundred andfifty dollars, versus the white
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household $171,000.
Now, let that sink in, guys.
Now, if that ain't somethingthat is disturbing, which gives
us like a cry out for financialliteracy, a cry out for just
understanding money andreinvesting in ourselves.
Of course there has beenincidents like black wall street
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and all those bombings thathappened, where they destroyed
black wealth and then made thosepeople rely on the government.
This has been going on sincethe colonizers arrived here on
Turtle island.
They destroyed the homes, theyburnt things, they destroy
everything, rewrote history,told a bunch of lies, just like
Christopher Columbus.
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He was a one of the biggestliars ever and they made him a
hero when he stole things,renamed people.
Walter plecker reclassifiedeverything.
You can see how, over time,with so much war going on and
the creation of poverty to theAmerican Indians, was created,
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aka the black people.
That's why there's such awealth gap.
There's an urgency to close thiswealth gap and go from hood to
hood and break thosegenerational curses where we
don't have the mindset to wantmore or do more or be more or
strive for more, or just becreative and dreamers and gold
diggers.
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We gotta get out of thatmindset and be the best that we
can do and, every day, grow,learn, stand on business about
your mind, your knowledge andthe things that you allow inside
of your head, because you arenot a slave.
Your ancestors if you are Niiji, a lot of us are from America.
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Our ancestors were here.
They were inhabitants.
That's why on the censusborough we are listed as
inhabitants, not immigrants, notany of that shit.
And I was just so stunned I intears, I was disturbed last year
when I found this out, all thesecrets about who we truly are.
And I'm so happy that the veilis coming off and that we, as
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Niiji, are spreading the word,regardless of all the backlash
that we may face.
This segment is called genealogy, identity and escaping the
matrix.
It's the perfect time to be abutterfly and spread your wings
and get out of the matrix.
It's the perfect time.
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We can't stay stuck, we justcan't genealogy.
Y'all ready to get into it?
Let's get into it.
Genealogy.
I don't celebrate easter andhere's why I've learned too much
about our true history to keeppretending I identify as
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American indigenous indian,Niiji Amerindian a Aboriginal
to Turtle Island, coppertoneokay, not the label that the
government prescribed for us totake away our heritage, our
confidence and to make us feelless than I don't identify as
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that anymore.
No, because when I identify asthis slave and didn't know who
my ancestors were, it made mefeel low, it made me feel lost
and it made me feel like a kindof always sad and feeling less
than once.
I discovered that I wasAmerican Indian after doing my
genealogy on ancestry.
com and I realized, wow, I'mtracing all of my great uncles
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and all of my great aunts andgreat grandparents, names I
never knew before.
I started this journey ofself-discovery.
Let's give a truth about Easter.
Easter originated from Austria,a pagan fertility goddess.
The colonizers blended theindigenous traditions with their
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own to convert and trollcarpeton melanated indigenous
indian, the ameri indian, notthe native americans.
We are not talking about nativeamericans, we are talking about
the true american indians.
The Niiji Holidays were used tocontrol us, such as Christmas,
Thanksgiving, Easter.
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All the holidays are a form ofcontrol and it's crazy because I
came from a family where theholidays ruled.
The holidays were special.
The holidays were family time,and it's sad because every day
should be family time.
We shouldn't need an Easterbunny or a fat, colonized Santa
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Claus to help us feel closer tofamily, to give, to feel love.
Holidays like Easter were usedto disconnect us from our roots
and land cycles.
Now that's deep, to disconnecta group of people, indigenous,
sacred people from their land.
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It's mind-boggling, it's crazy,but it's true.
So the chocolate eggs and theEaster bunny are symbolic
fertility marketing, notspirituality.
It goes a little deeper thanthat, but I just wanted to touch
on genealogy, identity and howthe matrix works.
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They create these holidays thatbasically rob us blind.
Christmas comes, people spend alot of money on gifts and
making companies rich to meettheir quota at the end of the
year, when it's not even apositive holiday.
When I did the research onChristmas and you can find this
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on my YouTube channel the thingsthat I found out about
Sinterklaas and Black Pete andhow people were protesting in
the Netherlands about thehistory and how it was attached
to controlling melanated people,it's crazy.
When the colonizers came overhere.
They brought those holidays andforced those holidays and those
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holidays.
If you look at the originsthey're pretty new.
But the thing that ties thisall together is your genealogy.
When I trace my genealogy backand continue to find my
ancestors here decade afterdecade doing great things and
farmers and land owners, andnever found a slave, it just
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really threw me for a loop andall the information coming out
about the knee gene.
I know that so many of my familyis in the matrix.
They celebrate these things andit was difficult.
Last year I cried, I was like Ican't believe I've been lied to
and I didn't even know.
I was so sleep, I was so blindto a lot.
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But every day I wake up and Ilearned how to stand in my truth
period, unapologologetically.
I don't even get bogged down bythe propaganda, by the money.
I just continue to be needy.
Feathers up, crowns on chief,this status, baby, proud of who
I am, melanin, glowing in thesun.
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No longer do I feel down orless than or like I don't belong
.
I know who my ancestors are.
I'm actually their wildestdreams, like a butterfly, like
you see that butterfly spreadingmy wings, ready to fly Just
like a butterfly Fly, like abutterfly sting, like a bee baby
.
That's what's in my DNA.
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Once I learned the truth, itmade me that much more stronger
and confident and proud to bewho I am and not feeling like
I'm from this continent I don'teven know not one person there.
To do your genealogy isempowering guys.
It is so empowering and Iencourage all of my Niiji, if
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you are melanated and you arehere on Turtle Island, aka
America, aka America, to do yourgenealogy.
To discover that my ancestorswere Muscogee and Chahta,
seminole, Abalachi Creek, alldown there, the Mississippians
is mind-boggling.
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It's truly mind-boggling.
The mound builders and I'm fromTallahassee and just to hear
the tragic stories about how thecolonizers burnt villages and
kidnapped people and just did somany things that are horrendous
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that you couldn't believe.
When I read all these thingsand see how they use people and
just did so many things that arehorrendous that you couldn't
believe.
When I read all these thingsand see how they use
Christianity and the cross, allthese religions, to control us,
it's mind-boggling.
So many people are asleep, somany people attached to my
bloodline are asleep.
They don't even know thatthey're indian, they don't even
know that they're native toturtle island, which is why I
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have to be bold, stand alonesometimes, be strong, really
strong, and get the word out.
Each one.
Teach one and hopefully I havemore people understanding the
matrix and understanding thatit's a money pit.
It has nothing to do withspirituality.
You gotta do your research,though Don't take my word for it
.
Just do a little.
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Challenge you guys to do just atiny bit.
Don't take my word for it.
Just do a little.
Challenge you guys to do just atiny bit of research.
This is a genealogy tip.
Start by asking your eldersquestions, then search public
records, the US Census and evenFreedmen's Bureau archives to
find your ancestors.
Knowing who you are helps youreclaim your power.
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It helps you reclaim yourconfidence, it helps reclaim
your royalty and you will feelso much better.
You will feel so elite andproud to be copper tone,
melanated, indigenous, makingyour ancestors so proud about
the magic that exists in yourmind, body and soul.
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And your spirit.
Your spirit is creative.
Your spirit is a leader.
Your spirit is entrepreneur.
Your spirit is agriculturalist.
Your spirit is connected to thesun.
This melanin is connected tothe sun.
It's so connected that it'sstill a mystery today.
It's still a mystery toscientists.
They can't crack it, they can'tdenature it.
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They've been trying.
They don't understand how itworks, they can't copy it, so
it's a secret, sacred piece ofus, my Niiji.
Okay, so this is a generationalcurse, reminder.
You don't have to celebratewhat colonized your people.
Celebrate your life, yourhealing, your own ancestral
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calendar.
You are the legacy.
You are the legacy.
Own that shit.
Stand on it Period.
You are the legacy.
Our oral hygiene spotlights.
Oral cancer awareness month isApril, okay, and it's deeper
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than just brushing your teeth.
It's life and death in somecases.
I want to give you guys somemore facts about oral cancer so
that we can keep this in ourmind and understand how to spot
it and know just in case we havefamily members, because the
earlier you find it, the better.
Over 54, 000 Americans arediagnosed each year with oral
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cancer.
That's number one.
Number two men are twice aslikely to develop it as women.
Number three women.
Number three it often starts asa sore or a patch in the mouth
that won't go away.
If you have a sore that isn'tself-eliminating, it's not
healing on its own, then youwant to have it checked out.
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If it doesn't go away, theearlier you have it checked out,
the better.
As dentists, we perform oralcancer screenings every time you
come into the dental office.
It's good to have thosesix-month checkups and be well
in with the provider so that youcan keep a spot a light on
these things.
Number four is a strong link tohuman papillomavirus, smoking
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and alcohol.
You drink a lot of alcohol oryou smoke cigarettes, a lot of
nicotine, tobacco, or if youhave human papillomavirus, this
is going to increase yourchances of having oral cancer.
If you do get a spot in yourmouth, if you're vaping any of
that stuff, go get it checkedout, don't wait.
The final thing early detectionis key.
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If you define something earlyand the dentist or the oral
surgeon is able to biopsy it,determine that it's oral cancer
and get rid of it, cut it outbefore it spreads, you have an
80 to 90% survival rate.
In the news recently with oralcancer, researchers are
developing a saliva-based testthat can detect oral cancer
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early.
It's non-invasive and it's fast.
So the future of dental healthis precision-based.
So hopefully they come out withthis so that way if you have
concerns about oral cancer sayyou were a smoker, you get a
lesion you don't know we can doa test to see if you have oral
cancer.
That's something that they'reworking on, that they don't have
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yet, and here's the pro tip ifyou feel pain, burning or
swelling that lingers, go seeyour dentist.
I just want to wrap it up andremind you guys about the cdp ,
not the cdp challenge, theconsistency challenge.
This is day 11 and I'm so proudof myself for growing and
showing up and growing andshowing up and growing, showing
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up, growing and showing up.
So, with the cdp formula, it'sconsistency, discipline minus
the lack of procrastination, andthat's what we on right now.
If you do consistency plusdiscipline minus procrastination
, it will be a glow up.
We're going to glow up right.
We're going to breakgenerational curses regardless.
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We're going to go from hood tohood, regardless of all the
difficult things that we mayface.
I just want to give you guys 10ways to break generational
curses.
Number one become a contentcreator and monetize your voice.
Number two learn a new skilllike editing, graphic designing,
copywriting, making music,recording music, making beats,
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doing nails, doing hair, doinglashes any skill.
Number three start a YouTube ora TikTok channel and monetize
those.
You can become a partnerthrough the Google AdSense or a
TikTok partner and make moneyevery month, versus going on a
job and feeling like I don'treally want to do this.
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I don't really want to be hereFeeling controlled and not like
your own boss and having noautonomy.
You can write an e-book or selldigital products.
We talked about this earlier.
E-books selling digitalproducts will help you break
generational curses.
Launch your own website or blog.
That's number five.
Number six start a podcast.
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Speak your truth.
So this is my podcast, the Hoodto Hooded podcast, and we speak
nothing but the truth on here.
It's a hard truth.
Everybody might not know.
Podcast, and we speak nothingbut the truth on here.
It's a hard truth.
Everybody might not know.
But if we spread it, nothingbut the truth, even if it hurts,
because knowledge is power, notpseudo knowledge.
But true knowledge is the power, my Niiji.
True knowledge is the power,not that fake that is teaching
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in high school to make kids feellike they were slaves and less
than like nothing, where theydon't even know their
great-grandparents or theirgreat-great-grandparents, and
it's right here in our face.
But we speak nothing butknowledge.
Start you a podcast and talkyour.
Number seven sell custom merch,such as teas, mugs or
affirmations, just to.
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If you get a brand, make somet-shirts, make some pencils, do
some and sell you some merch sothat you can monetize and escape
the paycheck to paycheck andpoverty.
Number eight shadow a careeryou're curious about.
Number nine invest in realestate, crypto or micro
businesses.
And number 10 go to school andtake a class that empowers you.
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My route, as you can see, fromhood to hood it graduation, baby
graduation.
That's the hard route.
There's so many routes that youcould take, depending on your
personality and who you are andthe things that you love.
All right, do something.
That way, you don't ever haveto feel like you're working a
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day in your life.
That's what you want to do.
Well, you don't have to work aday in your life.
Some final closing words is evenif you're broke today, you can
still be rich in resilience.
I'm not here to impress you.
I am here to impact you.
And if I become a doctor afterbeing homeless, grieving my
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mother, not really being raisedwith my father, who was battling
different type of substanceabuse and incarceration and all
types of things then and I feltlost as well, then you can do
anything.
Don't wait.
The world needs you now.
Accomplish that goal, startingnow.
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Take action now.
We're reading the Eat that Frogbook and one of the main things
that we have been learning sofar is taking action, writing
your goals down.
Remember, only 3% of adultshave written clear goals Only 3%
.
Even as a streamer, you have tohave written clear goals about
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what you want to accomplish.
You can't just show up and justlollygag and waste time.
We can't do that.
You can do anything you want todo, but you can't waste time.
If you want to do it, make sureyou are following the Hood to
the Podcast on all platforms.
Make sure you are subscribed toDr Shon Live YouTube channel
for the replays, and all thoselinks are in my about and in my
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bio.
And also I want to remind youguys to help me reach 100
followers on Twitch and onesubscriber on Twitch, and thank
you guys for tipping, donating,commenting and being here during
my growth era.
I really appreciate it.
I'm getting over my fear ofgoing live, even though I like
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going live.
There's still some type ofanxiety, but preparation is key.
Remember the six Ps Properpreparation prevents poor
performance.
And I added a seventh one inthere proper preparation
prevents piss poor performance.
We don't want to fail toprepare.
We want to show up preparedshoulders, high head, high crown
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on, feathers on because we litlike that.
We can do anything.
We can come from anywhere.
We can go from hood to hood ifI can make it from Tallahassee,
Florida, to new york city,survive being homeless, go
through dental school andsurvive being broken, lost in a
terrible relationship, and youcan do anything that you want to
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do with no doubt,unapologetically.
Stop sleeping on yourself today, my Niiji.
Stop doubting yourself.
Stand on business aboutyourself and always level up in
every way possible.
You want to level up.
This is day 11 of Dr Shon's 365 Consistency Challenge
.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Hood to Hooded Broadcast
.
This is a place where we turnpain into power, poverty into
prosperity and dreams into areality.
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I'm , Dr.
Shon host, and I am a dentistby day, dream builder by night,
and this is day 11 of the 365day consistency challenge.
Tonight, this is what we'recovering.
We're covering financialliteracy for the culture and why
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it matters and how you can getstarted, my Niiji.
We're also covering genealogy,identity and escaping the matrix
, because the matrix is real.
And number three, oral health,equals real wealth.
The latest facts about oralcancer as this is April is oral
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cancer.
April is Oral Cancer AwarenessMonth and, as a dentist, every
podcast has to include some typeof oral health tip reminder to
brush and floss your teeth orsomething related to the oral
cavity.
And finally, tonight, guys,we'll wrap it up with the CDP
mindset and 10 ways to breakgenerational curses.
Today, let's go to segment one,which is financial literaries
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literacy for the culture.
When I was a student in highschool, middle school, all of
these grades we really didn'thave financial literacy.
In high school, I did take up aprogram called about face which
kind of taught me aboutbusiness.
They paid us like a weeklystipend of $60.
I was that kid from the hoodthat was most certainly trying
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to figure out a way to escapepoverty.
I joined the About Face programand we would go after school
and learn about profits.
Losses, won a couple awards forrunning the best little kiddie
business.
I had my friend gracie in theprogram and we just it was a way
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for me to make money.
I was always eager to learnabout financial literacy.
Even though I didn't have thattype of dialogue going on in the
home, I was eager to find outabout it.
I took it upon myself.
Sometimes you have to take itupon yourself to grow your mind,
to make you some change,because I'm like I gotta get me
some better school clothes, lookcute.
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I was a teenager.
I wanted my nails done.
I was just trying to get somemoney.
I was also intelligent.
These programs that you can findin your community.
Sometimes they can expose youto financial literacy.
But you must seek theseprograms out Now, even if you
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don't have it.
Nowadays you can go to YouTubeUniversity to learn so much
about money, how to grow it, howto invest, to help us break
those generational curses.
If you don't learn how moneyworks, money will work against
you, and that is the reality.
Money is a tool that everyonemust learn and it's such a shame
that they don't teach financialliteracy and even high school
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they don't teach it.
In high school you start makingmoney.
I got my first job on my 16thbirthday because I was
underserved and I needed money.
I did hair.
I was a little hustler as ateenager doing hair, pulling up,
catching the bus, going toother people's houses, braiding
hair until I got until my 16thbirthday where I started working
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for McDonald's.
But the reason why I wasworking was to buy nails and I
wanted to buy a car and stufflike that.
But we didn't learn aboutfinancial literacy in a sense of
investing.
It was just get a job, buy someclothes, move out pay bills.
It wasn't really taught toinvest and make your money work
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for you.
Even at Florida State Universityand shout out to the Seminoles.
It's a tragedy happenedyesterday.
So we definitely want to besensitive to that fact.
But even at florida state Itook a business minor.
So I took classes in economics,microeconomics, macroeconomics,
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personal financing, accounting101 and 102.
I took that minor because I wasinterested in business and
money and financing, even thoughmy major was mostly
science-based, so there wasalways a passion to learn.
So you want to keep thatfinancial literacy urge while
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you're young to make your moneygrow.
They say money doesn't grow ontrees, but money is made from
cotton, which is a plant andtechnically a tree is a plant,
but it's not technically a tree.
But money does grow on plantsand the thing about it is money
is the major topic right now,with the tariffs and the
government trying to controlthings.
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But we as people must know thatmoney is not backed by gold.
I can I repeat this becausethat's why all these things are
happening with the economybecause it's not backed by gold.
Other countries are pulling outand the money is losing its
value.
So we need to make more moneyto do the things you did
yesterday and that required lessmoney.
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We want to make sure we are ontop of the curve and absorbing
this information in high school,in college, as business owners,
as content creators, as justentrepreneurs.
I want to discuss 10 ways foryou to start learning financial
literacy.
The first way is to use freeapps like Credit, karma or Mint
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to track your spending, thefaster you learn how to budget
and where your money is going.
It will make your life so mucheasier so that you're not
blowing your money onunnecessary things that don't
contribute to your future.
You want to make sure you arelearning about credit and how it
can improve your life, andthere are so many other free
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apps out there Robin Hood, lotsof free apps that you can start
to learn to use to help themstay on track with money, so
that it doesn't float throughyour hands like water.
We don't want it to just flowthrough our hands and evaporate,
so that way you have to work sohard and have a job and live
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paycheck to paycheck or go topayday loan places.
I've been there.
I've been that student even incollege going to those payday
loan places.
I've been there.
I've been that student even incollege going to those payday
loan places because I was brokeand I couldn't ask people for
money.
You got to get it how you canand I had to really wean myself
off of that by just gettinganother job or making more money
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some kind of way, and back thenI didn't know anything about
investing and they didn't havethese apps.
It was different when I grew up, and then, if you are from an
underserved background, it'seven more difficult and unlikely
that you will even know aboutinvesting and spending your
money on things that pay you inyour sleep.
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That's the trick get paid inyour sleep.
Find you something that can payyou while you sleep.
Number two watch youtubechannels like earn your leisure
or the budget nista or listen tothe podcast, but these are
other sources earn your leisurein the budget nista.
They have a wealth ofinformation that you can go and
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learn for free.
You don't have to pay a tuition, you can learn for free.
I went to grab these two booksand this one is actually
Budgetnista the Tiffany Aliche.
Get good with money.
Get good with money.
Get good with money.
Another book that I think isgood for young people who are
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interested in financial literacyis it's About Damn Time how to
turn being underestimated intoyour greatest advantage, and
these are going to be on ourreading list.
Right now we are reading Eatthat Frog and we'll get back
into that book tomorrow.
Number three start a mockportfolio on apps like Public or
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Robinhood or TradeStation.
You can actually create mockportfolios or you can go on
TradeStation and have.
You can do trading, but in apaper account where it's not a
real trading, so you can learnhow to do it versus starting.
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There are so many resourcesthat you can use to just
practice playing with money andusing money as a tool before you
actually get the money.
Because when you get the money,you don't want to go and just
spend it on crazy stuff likebuying hair every month or
buying Jordans every week.
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You want to try to invest intosomething that's going to make
you the price of those Jordansevery week.
Maybe invest in the stock Ifyou like finish line and you
there all the time.
Maybe invest in the stock Ifyou like finish line and you're
there all the time.
Go invest in the stock so thatway you can get paid from the
people who buy the Jordans.
You got to think on the otherside of money.
Number four get a free copy ofyour credit report and study it
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while you're young.
Understand credit, understandthe numbers about credit.
With credit, if you haveexcellent credit, you can get a
lot of privileges that peoplewho don't have excellent credit
can't get approval for.
You can get approval for houses, cars, business loans, all type
of things, but if you come fromunderserved background, like me
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, from the hood, it's a highchance that you don't know about
credit.
And then when you get thecredit, you abuse the credit
because you don't know and itputs you into debt and this
creates a terrible cycle whereyou never learn how to leverage
your credit.
So learn about it.
Get a free copy of your creditreport, evaluate it and start to
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understand what your number isand grow it.
Don't stress about it, but justgrow it and pay attention to it
while you're young.
Number five shadow a businessowner or accountant.
Now this is something that I'vetalked about on this podcast
shadowing If you are pre-dentalor if you are pre-med or
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interested in any of thosedoctoral programs.
Nine times out of 10, shadowingis a requirement.
But if you are trying to get adoctoral program and you're
trying to start a business, youcan still shadow someone who is
in that industry and start tonetwork.
We'll take baking, for example.
If you want to start a bakery,you want to go and find people
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who already own a bakery.
Ask them can you work part time?
Can you work part time?
Learn the ins and outs, notjust, not just about what your
position is, but ask somequestions about ownership or
tell me your ideas.
Hey, I want to be in thisindustry as well.
Some people are going to say,hey, you are competition and
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some people will help youbecause they understand that you
have a passion.
You just want to find goodmentors who can help you in
whatever type of business orindustry that you are in.
For me, I shadowed a lot ofdentists before I became a
dentist.
Number one to make sure Iwanted to do it, and number two
because you're going to seeexactly what your future kind of
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looks like from outside,looking in.
You don't want to commit tosomething and go through all
those years of school and thenrealize this is something I
really don't like doing.
Yes, I complain about dentistryand being burnt out and don't
know if it's for me, but at theheart and soul of my body, mind
and spirit, dentistry is in myheart.
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There's no way you can gothrough that much schooling and
not have a passion for it.
Yes, those days get tough andyou feel some days I feel like I
don't know what the hell I'mdoing.
I just feel like I have so muchmore to learn.
But that's why it's thepractice of dentistry so you
want to just shout out businessowners and learn from them.
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Be a sponge.
Never stop learning.
Even now I'm still a learner.
There's so much I don't know.
That's why I read books, I tryto watch informative podcasts
and I try to teach what Ilearned so that way it sticks.
When you learn something andyou go and teach it, you learn
even more.
In dental school we have somuch information to absorb.
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A lot of the times we wouldteach each other just to make
sure we really knew theinformation.
That means that we have a bigtest coming up tomorrow.
I should be able to get up tothe whiteboard with my study
buddies and friends and practiceand teach them, and if I get
something wrong, that means Ireally don't know it.
Another thing is learn aboutroyalties and passive income.
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Can you write a book such asthis book here that I am in the
process of producing, the Hoodto Hooded story?
Can you create music, such asthe song that I have out now
called STFU it's my Birthday.
Hey, turn up.
Called STFU, it's my birthday.
Hey, turn up, shout out if it'syour birthday.
Create digital products, ebooks, guys, start an email list.
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There's so many things you cando to create passive income and
royalties.
So royalties, what you hear alot in the music industry when
you get signed to a label, theysteal your royalties.
What you hear a lot in themusic industry when you get
signed to a label, they stealyour royalties.
That means the music thatyou're making they're going to
get paid for and you get alittle check, but in return they
do a lot of the marketing.
But what happens is peoplebecome very famous, their music
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becomes very famous, but theygive up their rights.
We want to create royalties andkeep our royalties.
We don't want to give it up.
You see it so many times in themovies, with New Edition, with
Chaka Khan, with Michael Jackson, with a lot of people, angie
Stone but they all are upsetabout royalties or they were
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upset.
Number seven use cash stuffingor envelope budgeting.
Cash stuffing or envelopebudgeting.
This is a way for you to putmoney aside just to save, so
that you're not visually seeingyour money in the account or on
your car.
So that way you can put it awayand budget.
Or if you have fifty dollarsfor the week, you want to
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separate it.
That's not a lot nowadays, I'mjust we're gonna say if, say,
you have $200 for the week,because $50 is unrealistic.
You want a budget.
So you got $250 and you got toplan out the week.
Number eight play free stockmarket stimulator games.
That's like TradeStation youcan stimulate buying stocks on
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the market, playing in WallStreet.
All of that good stuff Practice, practice.
Practice makes perfect.
So that way we are not justspending money, we will be
investing money.
Number 10, read beginnerfriendly books.
Like Rich Dad, poor Dad that'sone of my favorite books is
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well-known book about the richdad versus the poor dad.
The rich dad he was an investor, he had property.
He was getting money in hissleep.
The poor dad thought work hard,make the fake money.
The money isn't even real.
So we don't want to be likethat, this money and state.
Guys, don't work your wholelife for a job for $8 an hour,
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struggling paycheck to paycheck,when you can go and create
something, invent something,start a YouTube channel,
Monetize your life, create somedigital products, sell something
, invest in the stock market,become a day trader.
There's so many options, butyou must learn about them.
Here's a hard truth, guys Moneyisn't even real.
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I'll repeat Money isn't evenreal.
I'll repeat money isn't evenreal.
It's not backed by gold anymore.
But if you don't master therules, you will always be a pawn
to the matrix.
Financial literacy is a cheatcode to escape survival mode,
something I didn't learn as ayoung adult, but it was a cheat
code.
If I had learned it, my liferight now would be stronger.
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But we can't go backwards.
We can only start here.
So that's why hood to hood isimportant.
It's a transition period.
You go from one state of mindto an elevated state of mind.
If you don't know it today, youcan always learn and add a new
skill to your life.
Now these stats really hit home.
For me, guys, it really hithome.
Only 24% of millennials showbasic financial literacy.
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If you're a young adult, it's ahigh chance that only one out
of four young adults have somesense of financial literacy.
This automatically excludeschildren growing up in the
projects in underservedenvironments or without parents.
I didn't have my mom, my dad,in the house.
I automatically had a doublewhammy against me.
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I was already had a doublewhammy.
If it had not been for mymindset to go and find those
little programs to get a littlechange and get a job, I wouldn't
have any knowledge about money.
I had to teach myself aboutmoney, which you don't really
teach yourself financialliteracy.
You have to go out and find theinformation, guys, and don't
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just quit and just startspending money and be paycheck
to paycheck for the rest of yourlife.
Pause, take a break, chill fora second and let's learn some
things.
Another stat that hits home isless than 20% of US high schools
require personal finance.
I took personal finance incollege.
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I actually took a college classcalled actually personal
finance.
Take that in high schoolbecause it wasn't an option to
learn about money, to learnabout melanated history,
indigenous history, the thingsthat we, as Niiji, need to know,
as indigenous Ameri-Indiansneed to know.
And if you don't know, theyreclassify African-Americans as
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well from they reclassified theAmerican Indians, the melanin
original, copper, tone people toblack, negro, african-american.
So when I say Niiji, I'mtalking about the Indians, but
if you African-American, maybeyou don't know that you are from
Turtle Island and that's alittle deep, but we got to keep
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getting this through our heads,ok, guys.
Community this is another statthat hits home.
Communities of color are threetimes more likely to experience
predatory lending.
This means that when you do goto buy a home.
They're going to give you thehighest interest rate.
They're going to try to prey onyou and make give you, put you
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in a situation that doesn't makesense.
So you have to really becareful, no doubt about it.
Be very careful now.
The average black household networth is only seventeen
thousand five one hundred andfifty dollars, versus the white
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household $171,000.
Now, let that sink in, guys.
Now, if that ain't somethingthat is disturbing, which gives
us like a cry out for financialliteracy, a cry out for just
understanding money andreinvesting in ourselves.
Of course there has beenincidents like black wall street
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and all those bombings thathappened, where they destroyed
black wealth and then made thosepeople rely on the government.
This has been going on sincethe colonizers arrived here on
Turtle island.
They destroyed the homes, theyburnt things, they destroy
everything, rewrote history,told a bunch of lies, just like
Christopher Columbus.
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He was a one of the biggestliars ever and they made him a
hero when he stole things,renamed people.
Walter plecker reclassifiedeverything.
You can see how, over time,with so much war going on and
the creation of poverty to theAmerican Indians, was created,
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aka the black people.
That's why there's such awealth gap.
There's an urgency to close thiswealth gap and go from hood to
hood and break thosegenerational curses where we
don't have the mindset to wantmore or do more or be more or
strive for more, or just becreative and dreamers and gold
diggers.
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We gotta get out of thatmindset and be the best that we
can do and, every day, grow,learn, stand on business about
your mind, your knowledge andthe things that you allow inside
of your head, because you arenot a slave.
Your ancestors if you are Niiji, a lot of us are from America.
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Our ancestors were here.
They were inhabitants.
That's why on the censusborough we are listed as
inhabitants, not immigrants, notany of that shit.
And I was just so stunned I intears, I was disturbed last year
when I found this out, all thesecrets about who we truly are.
And I'm so happy that the veilis coming off and that we, as
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Niiji, are spreading the word,regardless of all the backlash
that we may face.
This segment is called genealogy, identity and escaping the
matrix.
It's the perfect time to be abutterfly and spread your wings
and get out of the matrix.
It's the perfect time.
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We can't stay stuck, we justcan't genealogy.
Y'all ready to get into it?
Let's get into it.
Genealogy.
I don't celebrate easter andhere's why I've learned too much
about our true history to keeppretending I identify as
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American indigenous indian,Niiji Amerindian a Aboriginal
to Turtle Island, coppertoneokay, not the label that the
government prescribed for us totake away our heritage, our
confidence and to make us feelless than I don't identify as
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that anymore.
No, because when I identify asthis slave and didn't know who
my ancestors were, it made mefeel low, it made me feel lost
and it made me feel like a kindof always sad and feeling less
than once.
I discovered that I wasAmerican Indian after doing my
genealogy on ancestry.
com and I realized, wow, I'mtracing all of my great uncles
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and all of my great aunts andgreat grandparents, names I
never knew before.
I started this journey ofself-discovery.
Let's give a truth about Easter.
Easter originated from Austria,a pagan fertility goddess.
The colonizers blended theindigenous traditions with their
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own to convert and trollcarpeton melanated indigenous
indian, the ameri indian, notthe native americans.
We are not talking about nativeamericans, we are talking about
the true american indians.
The Niiji Holidays were used tocontrol us, such as Christmas,
Thanksgiving, Easter.
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All the holidays are a form ofcontrol and it's crazy because I
came from a family where theholidays ruled.
The holidays were special.
The holidays were family time,and it's sad because every day
should be family time.
We shouldn't need an Easterbunny or a fat, colonized Santa
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Claus to help us feel closer tofamily, to give, to feel love.
Holidays like Easter were usedto disconnect us from our roots
and land cycles.
Now that's deep, to disconnecta group of people, indigenous,
sacred people from their land.
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It's mind-boggling, it's crazy,but it's true.
So the chocolate eggs and theEaster bunny are symbolic
fertility marketing, notspirituality.
It goes a little deeper thanthat, but I just wanted to touch
on genealogy, identity and howthe matrix works.
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They create these holidays thatbasically rob us blind.
Christmas comes, people spend alot of money on gifts and
making companies rich to meettheir quota at the end of the
year, when it's not even apositive holiday.
When I did the research onChristmas and you can find this
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on my YouTube channel the thingsthat I found out about
Sinterklaas and Black Pete andhow people were protesting in
the Netherlands about thehistory and how it was attached
to controlling melanated people,it's crazy.
When the colonizers came overhere.
They brought those holidays andforced those holidays and those
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holidays.
If you look at the originsthey're pretty new.
But the thing that ties thisall together is your genealogy.
When I trace my genealogy backand continue to find my
ancestors here decade afterdecade doing great things and
farmers and land owners, andnever found a slave, it just
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really threw me for a loop andall the information coming out
about the knee gene.
I know that so many of my familyis in the matrix.
They celebrate these things andit was difficult.
Last year I cried, I was like Ican't believe I've been lied to
and I didn't even know.
I was so sleep, I was so blindto a lot.
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But every day I wake up and Ilearned how to stand in my truth
period, unapologologetically.
I don't even get bogged down bythe propaganda, by the money.
I just continue to be needy.
Feathers up, crowns on chief,this status, baby, proud of who
I am, melanin, glowing in thesun.
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No longer do I feel down orless than or like I don't belong
.
I know who my ancestors are.
I'm actually their wildestdreams, like a butterfly, like
you see that butterfly spreadingmy wings, ready to fly Just
like a butterfly Fly, like abutterfly sting, like a bee baby
.
That's what's in my DNA.
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Once I learned the truth, itmade me that much more stronger
and confident and proud to bewho I am and not feeling like
I'm from this continent I don'teven know not one person there.
To do your genealogy isempowering guys.
It is so empowering and Iencourage all of my Niiji, if
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you are melanated and you arehere on Turtle Island, aka
America, aka America, to do yourgenealogy.
To discover that my ancestorswere Muscogee and Chahta,
seminole, Abalachi Creek, alldown there, the Mississippians
is mind-boggling.
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It's truly mind-boggling.
The mound builders and I'm fromTallahassee and just to hear
the tragic stories about how thecolonizers burnt villages and
kidnapped people and just did somany things that are horrendous
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that you couldn't believe.
When I read all these thingsand see how they use people and
just did so many things that arehorrendous that you couldn't
believe.
When I read all these thingsand see how they use
Christianity and the cross, allthese religions, to control us,
it's mind-boggling.
So many people are asleep, somany people attached to my
bloodline are asleep.
They don't even know thatthey're indian, they don't even
know that they're native toturtle island, which is why I
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have to be bold, stand alonesometimes, be strong, really
strong, and get the word out.
Each one.
Teach one and hopefully I havemore people understanding the
matrix and understanding thatit's a money pit.
It has nothing to do withspirituality.
You gotta do your research,though Don't take my word for it
.
Just do a little.
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Challenge you guys to do just atiny bit.
Don't take my word for it.
Just do a little.
Challenge you guys to do just atiny bit of research.
This is a genealogy tip.
Start by asking your eldersquestions, then search public
records, the US Census and evenFreedmen's Bureau archives to
find your ancestors.
Knowing who you are helps youreclaim your power.
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It helps you reclaim yourconfidence, it helps reclaim
your royalty and you will feelso much better.
You will feel so elite andproud to be copper tone,
melanated, indigenous, makingyour ancestors so proud about
the magic that exists in yourmind, body and soul.
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And your spirit.
Your spirit is creative.
Your spirit is a leader.
Your spirit is entrepreneur.
Your spirit is agriculturalist.
Your spirit is connected to thesun.
This melanin is connected tothe sun.
It's so connected that it'sstill a mystery today.
It's still a mystery toscientists.
They can't crack it, they can'tdenature it.
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They've been trying.
They don't understand how itworks, they can't copy it, so
it's a secret, sacred piece ofus, my Niiji.
Okay, so this is a generationalcurse, reminder.
You don't have to celebratewhat colonized your people.
Celebrate your life, yourhealing, your own ancestral
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calendar.
You are the legacy.
You are the legacy.
Own that shit.
Stand on it Period.
You are the legacy.
Our oral hygiene spotlights.
Oral cancer awareness month isApril, okay, and it's deeper
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than just brushing your teeth.
It's life and death in somecases.
I want to give you guys somemore facts about oral cancer so
that we can keep this in ourmind and understand how to spot
it and know just in case we havefamily members, because the
earlier you find it, the better.
Over 54, 000 Americans arediagnosed each year with oral
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cancer.
That's number one.
Number two men are twice aslikely to develop it as women.
Number three women.
Number three it often starts asa sore or a patch in the mouth
that won't go away.
If you have a sore that isn'tself-eliminating, it's not
healing on its own, then youwant to have it checked out.
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If it doesn't go away, theearlier you have it checked out,
the better.
As dentists, we perform oralcancer screenings every time you
come into the dental office.
It's good to have thosesix-month checkups and be well
in with the provider so that youcan keep a spot a light on
these things.
Number four is a strong link tohuman papillomavirus, smoking
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and alcohol.
You drink a lot of alcohol oryou smoke cigarettes, a lot of
nicotine, tobacco, or if youhave human papillomavirus, this
is going to increase yourchances of having oral cancer.
If you do get a spot in yourmouth, if you're vaping any of
that stuff, go get it checkedout, don't wait.
The final thing early detectionis key.
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If you define something earlyand the dentist or the oral
surgeon is able to biopsy it,determine that it's oral cancer
and get rid of it, cut it outbefore it spreads, you have an
80 to 90% survival rate.
In the news recently with oralcancer, researchers are
developing a saliva-based testthat can detect oral cancer
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early.
It's non-invasive and it's fast.
So the future of dental healthis precision-based.
So hopefully they come out withthis so that way if you have
concerns about oral cancer sayyou were a smoker, you get a
lesion you don't know we can doa test to see if you have oral
cancer.
That's something that they'reworking on, that they don't have
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yet, and here's the pro tip ifyou feel pain, burning or
swelling that lingers, go seeyour dentist.
I just want to wrap it up andremind you guys about the cdp ,
not the cdp challenge, theconsistency challenge.
This is day 11 and I'm so proudof myself for growing and
showing up and growing andshowing up and growing, showing
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up, growing and showing up.
So, with the cdp formula, it'sconsistency, discipline minus
the lack of procrastination, andthat's what we on right now.
If you do consistency plusdiscipline minus procrastination
, it will be a glow up.
We're going to glow up right.
We're going to breakgenerational curses regardless.
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We're going to go from hood tohood, regardless of all the
difficult things that we mayface.
I just want to give you guys 10ways to break generational
curses.
Number one become a contentcreator and monetize your voice.
Number two learn a new skilllike editing, graphic designing,
copywriting, making music,recording music, making beats,
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doing nails, doing hair, doinglashes any skill.
Number three start a YouTube ora TikTok channel and monetize
those.
You can become a partnerthrough the Google AdSense or a
TikTok partner and make moneyevery month, versus going on a
job and feeling like I don'treally want to do this.
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I don't really want to be hereFeeling controlled and not like
your own boss and having noautonomy.
You can write an e-book or selldigital products.
We talked about this earlier.
E-books selling digitalproducts will help you break
generational curses.
Launch your own website or blog.
That's number five.
Number six start a podcast.
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Speak your truth.
So this is my podcast, the Hoodto Hooded podcast, and we speak
nothing but the truth on here.
It's a hard truth.
Everybody might not know.
Podcast, and we speak nothingbut the truth on here.
It's a hard truth.
Everybody might not know.
But if we spread it, nothingbut the truth, even if it hurts,
because knowledge is power, notpseudo knowledge.
But true knowledge is the power, my Niiji.
True knowledge is the power,not that fake that is teaching
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in high school to make kids feellike they were slaves and less
than like nothing, where theydon't even know their
great-grandparents or theirgreat-great-grandparents, and
it's right here in our face.
But we speak nothing butknowledge.
Start you a podcast and talkyour.
Number seven sell custom merch,such as teas, mugs or
affirmations, just to.
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If you get a brand, make somet-shirts, make some pencils, do
some and sell you some merch sothat you can monetize and escape
the paycheck to paycheck andpoverty.
Number eight shadow a careeryou're curious about.
Number nine invest in realestate, crypto or micro
businesses.
And number 10 go to school andtake a class that empowers you.
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My route, as you can see, fromhood to hood it graduation, baby
graduation.
That's the hard route.
There's so many routes that youcould take, depending on your
personality and who you are andthe things that you love.
All right, do something.
That way, you don't ever haveto feel like you're working a
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day in your life.
That's what you want to do.
Well, you don't have to work aday in your life.
Some final closing words is evenif you're broke today, you can
still be rich in resilience.
I'm not here to impress you.
I am here to impact you.
And if I become a doctor afterbeing homeless, grieving my
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mother, not really being raisedwith my father, who was battling
different type of substanceabuse and incarceration and all
types of things then and I feltlost as well, then you can do
anything.
Don't wait.
The world needs you now.
Accomplish that goal, startingnow.
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Take action now.
We're reading the Eat that Frogbook and one of the main things
that we have been learning sofar is taking action, writing
your goals down.
Remember, only 3% of adultshave written clear goals Only 3%
.
Even as a streamer, you have tohave written clear goals about
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what you want to accomplish.
You can't just show up and justlollygag and waste time.
We can't do that.
You can do anything you want todo, but you can't waste time.
If you want to do it, make sureyou are following the Hood to
the Podcast on all platforms.
Make sure you are subscribed toDr Shon Live YouTube channel
for the replays, and all thoselinks are in my about and in my
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bio.
And also I want to remind youguys to help me reach 100
followers on Twitch and onesubscriber on Twitch, and thank
you guys for tipping, donating,commenting and being here during
my growth era.
I really appreciate it.
I'm getting over my fear ofgoing live, even though I like
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going live.
There's still some type ofanxiety, but preparation is key.
Remember the six Ps Properpreparation prevents poor
performance.
And I added a seventh one inthere proper preparation
prevents piss poor performance.
We don't want to fail toprepare.
We want to show up preparedshoulders, high head, high crown
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on, feathers on because we litlike that.
We can do anything.
We can come from anywhere.
We can go from hood to hood ifI can make it from Tallahassee,
Florida, to new york city,survive being homeless, go
through dental school andsurvive being broken, lost in a
terrible relationship, and youcan do anything that you want to
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do with no doubt,unapologetically.
Stop sleeping on yourself today, my Niiji.
Stop doubting yourself.
Stand on business aboutyourself and always level up in
every way possible.
You want to level up.
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