July 8, 2025 • 34 mins
From the streets to Pioneer! Dr Glenn Toby joins the huddle to discuss things all sports and culture! Discover the incredible true story of an individual who defied the odds and rose to fame in the hip hop world. From living on the streets to making waves in the music and sports industry, this inspiring tale of perseverance and determination will leave you motivated and uplifted. Get ready to be moved by the rags-to-riches journey of a true pioneer!
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00:00 Introduction to Dr. Glenn Toby's Journey
05:08 The Impact of Community and Personal Growth
09:25 The Role of Faith and Spirituality
13:00 Transitioning from Hip Hop to Sports Management
16:35 Navigating the Modern Sports Landscape
21:53 Preparing Athletes for Life After Sports
26:00 The Book Bank Foundation and Its Mission
29:00 The Hidden Talents in Underserved Communities
31:33 Final Wisdom for Young People
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Welcome to The Huddle Within. Podcast where we go beyond the
surface to. Uncover the real impact.
Of sports on our lives, whether it's lessons of.
Resilience, the passion that fuels us, or.
The stories that connect us all.This is where the game gets
personal. I am Daniel, a regular sports
fan just like you, and together we'll.
Explore what sports truly means beyond the surface, so.
Step right into the huddle and let's get into it.
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What is going on everybody? And welcome to another episode
of The Huddle Within podcast today.
I've got a a man that's lived many lives in Australia.
We call it a Jack of all trades,someone that's been a pioneer in
hip hop, an NFL sports agent, and just the founder of one of
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the most impactful literacy foundations in America, Doctor
Glenn Toby, welcome to the pod. Please elaborate on that because
I'm sure I've missed a lot of things as well.
Absolutely. Thank you, Daniel for having me.
Hello everybody in Australia andall around the world.
Glad to be here. Well, I'm born in Brooklyn.
I was raised in Queens. I experienced youth
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homelessness. At 8 years old, Mother came home
with my brother and I and everything was in the street,
everything we owned from there with love in the family,
guidance, spirituality. We didn't miss much, you know,
we were never physically harmed,spiritually harmed.
We actually saw it as the world was our, was our window, you
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know, wherever we travel. We got a stable home about 7th
grade, you know, all the time bouncing around a little bit,
family, friends and the support of government. 7th grade I take
off, go to school, Senior High School, one O 9.
And then when I get to about high school, I become one of the
eminent rappers in pioneers of hip hop for Queens.
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Mr Sweetie G. This is just before Bismarcky
and I'd say before the fat boys Bismarcky before even Sugar Hill
Gang. I was one of the initial guys
going with the kings of of of hip hop, which we we call us the
the first tranche would be ol Herc Grandmaster Flash Africa,
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Bambaataa, Grandmaster Kaz and Eddie Chamber, DJ Hollywood, of
course, the fitting machine and cypher sounds and disco twins
and check that stuff out Hip hoplovers.
From there. I didn't sign with Sugar Hill
because they wanted to get my publishing.
So I went into the workforce. During that time I had the
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honour of working with LL Cool J, managing him with Brian
Latour and Charles Fisher. On that team we did the movie,
we did TV show in the house and this movie, the Mr. Smith album.
I was part of that. And then from there I also in my
hip hop and music career discovered Positive K, the
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rapper David Banner man in Saigon.
From there went into the National Football League.
After I stopped with hip hop fora while with Alonzo Shavers, we
did over $300 million in National Football League.
And I include some of that was boxing, working with Don King
and I represented God bless his soul, O'Neill Bell, the
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Supernova. I took him from unranked to the
undisputed cruiserweight champion in the world, first
time in 40 years. And then coming back on that
side into venture capital where I'm working with RCP, I'm a
partner with them with based outof Harvard, Harvard Square.
And we just launched with RakeemVictoria and of course Brady
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Jackson with what we call the winner's circle.
We're doing NIL, which is name, image and likeness.
And nobody knows this better than you, Daniel.
You're always ahead of the beat.And of course we're representing
anyone that's in National Football League, NHL, all
sports. So we launched that in the last
year and along with doing the book Bank, as you said, which
I've been doing for 28 years with amazing people, we have a
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flight programme that's coming up in two weeks where the youth
from the age of 15 to as much as19 actually fly aeroplanes and
learn about aviation. We have something called
Groceries to Grow where people who are every anywhere from
indigent to families who do really well, but they're just
having a tough time. We provide them with food and
then we have one block at a timeand we go into New York City and
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we tackle all five. I'm sorry.
We go into that's shelter from the streets when we go into New
York City during the holiday time and we bring food,
clothing, shelter, words of inspiration.
And one block of the time is what we do in several cities
throughout the country, cleaningit up.
And that's what I've been doing.And that's my story, people.
And every day we are striving todo better.
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That's what I'm talking about onmy new Ted Talk that I'm excited
about how to heal. And I reveal ways you can peel
back what you need to do to get ahead.
Wow, it's amazing back. To you.
I was gonna, I was gonna talk about your first Ted Talk.
So I listened to that and actually funny, as you say, I
did stumble across it before actually finding you and
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discovering you as well, which was amazing.
And I, I love how you bring it back to sort of your, your
trauma and your, your life with like the struggles that you had.
But what, what kind of captured me was the fact when you started
talking about, I guess having the fame, having all the money
and stuff, but still not gettingthat kind of satisfaction in
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life until you broke out and started reaching out to
community groups and stuff. And I, I find that really
powerful personally. So one, I've got to credit that,
but two, how can because I've got a younger audience and I
feel like a lot of us are very much focused on that instant
gratification that I talk about.And a lot of people want to
obviously make that money and feel like their lives will
change with that. Can you give us some kind of
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wisdom into that? Because obviously having that
gives you that sense of freedom and that kind of ability to do
things that you want to do and also have that sense of peace.
But I feel like it becomes more than that.
I feel like you're a proof and aliving example of that.
I. Pray I'm honoured with those
kind words. You know everybody I want to say
today, everybody wants money fast, success fast.
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They want the cheat codes, they want the hack codes, everything.
That's what it is. But the difference between a
meal that is microwaved and one that is baked in the oven with
proper preparation, fresh vegetables, fresh ingredients,
well prepared, plated properly, that's what life is.
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If that success comes faster then you, if the money comes
faster than the wisdom, it's nothow much money you make, it's
how much you keep. It's not how much you've done
and built and given and amassed.It's how many greater people.
If you're great, if you have a sense of greatness, a sense of
purpose. If you were travelling and you
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were the one tree in the middle of an acres, acres, acres and
acres of land, whether it's hundreds of lake acres or two or
three Lakers of you are the onlytree.
And the fruit from your tree falls to the ground and it
germinates and it and the seeds that come from the tree, it it
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starts to create other trees. There's other growth.
The magnanimity and the power isnot in the money.
It's in the man, the mountain and the mission.
And I speak of man as mankind. You know, we're talking about
the rudiment elements of life, right?
So here's the microwave, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, done real
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quick. Here's that beautiful oven, it's
baked in. Everything goes in all those
recipes. That's the same thing in life.
What you put in is what you get out, and as fast as you can earn
it, you may not be fast enough to learn it.
And somebody can come in and take what you have that you
don't even know the value of it.You put no research in it.
You haven't experienced any of the joy because it's all just
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keeping score. You're looking at the
scoreboard. You know this Daniel, you've
seen, we've seen the NFL playerswith guy goes to the ball and he
catches it and he celebrate before he gets to the end zone
and and fumbles it. That's what's going to happen
every time. We have to meet the timeline,
and the timelines have to have measurable actions, values, and
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purpose in order to add up to besustainable.
Because if it has no worth and it's spent like the money spent,
nobody else wants it, then you have nothing to transfer.
And quite frankly, if you have nothing to give someone that's
not transferable, you don't wantit in the first day of place.
So that's wow, that's just, yeah, I can see the literacy and
the and the pressure stuff that comes through that, but very,
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very powerful words. And I think something that will
bring a lot of value to people, and that's what I love about
what you do, is that not only are you a pioneer in so many
different aspects of life, you bring that to community and you
share that to the world. And I think that's that's really
powerful. You talk to me sort of about
kind of your upbringing and values.
Something that I did find is like, how do you find?
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And it's, it's a powerful question.
How does God kind of work in this for you?
Well, I think we need to God's speaking to us all the time.
So you know what? You are in Australia, you follow
world sports, you're still knowledgeable.
I can recognise, you can recognise greatness.
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I recognise the talent of you. I know what this show can do.
I know what this show is doing. It's 9:00 AM where you are right
now. For me it's 750.
It's 9:00 AM in the morning for you, 7:00 at night for me.
The difference is the time, not There's no difference in the
connection, there's no difference in the purpose.
There's no difference in how we're going to serve this global
audience. So God is always there.
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We have to listen long enough sothat it's loud enough.
When God whispers, that's when he's really delivering.
It's in the whispers. It's in the silent teachings,
the whisper of the pages of it. If it's the Torah, if it's the
Quran, if it's the Bible, if it's any book, when you're
turning those pages, they sound like this.
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That's the whisper. That's the wisdom.
When you're sleeping and we think it's a dream, that's the
whisper. When we're in the unconscious
realm, sleeping and within theseideas, the neuropathic
transformation of energy and thebrain, healing and regenerating,
all of that is the silent silence.
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God is in everything and everywhere.
We are if we can find it, if we can turn off the noise, if we
can be by ourselves for not justa hour, can you be by yourself
for a day. And I teach that in the four
boxes, the the ebook that drops in two weeks, giving it to
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everybody for free. Those four boxes, the healing,
the revealing and the sealing of1's fate.
What God had given us to work with, who and what and how do we
stare and distribute this? What we're giving away, we're
really giving away. We can't do it like a yo yo or
boomerang. Give it.
Give away our talent, our wisdom, our love, our joy, and
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expect it to come back. We have to give freely.
The gift of giving is immeasurable.
So if you want to live long, youhave to give strong.
That's it. And God will find you because
you'll find your good works. You know, it's we're finding
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God. I know people that are atheists.
I know people that are agnostic.I know people that are just in
pain. And I've never heard anybody say
Bentley when they're dying. I've never seen a guy run over
to their dying parent or child and go Barclays Bank, Citibank.
I've heard them say God, mother,dad, people get shot, they say,
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they say sometimes dad, but I'veonly heard people say Oh my God
and God. Even people who are devil
worshippers that don't believe in the Lord, People who are in
prison, many of these people whoare in incarcerated for the rest
of their life, they find a pieceof God.
Do they carry it and hold it? If you're holding God in your
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life, others will come to the Holy Grail.
If you have a peace of God and it's not to be transferred, then
there's purpose in your breathing, in your life, and
you're fulfilling others and theuniverse needs you in the cog of
chain. It's not just DNA doing now,
always that kind of DNA. I'm doing it right now and it's
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always going to be sustainable to the people I'm with.
I love it You have you have sucha way with words.
Oh well, it's great. But I think we we can sort of
transition into sort of obviously what the huddle is
about and we talk about sports, but we go through a deeper
meaning of that in our lives. So obviously starting with hip
hop. I can see that the Straight
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Outta Compton thing at the back as well.
Big fan of the movie. I wanted to know what was what
was your involvement on a so I? Managed Jason Mitchell, who was
one of the leads and he played Eazy E so I was his manager for
a few years and he was on the shy and he's done so many
incredible films. Advised him.
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Had the honour of also representing other actors.
Jason Weaver who played Michael Jackson and has been in other
movies. The great Lance Reddick who was
in so many HBO shows. And yeah, that's it in terms of
that. And I'm currently it's only you
would ask this, Daniel, such good timing for you to tell you
about The Courage to Thrive, a new film that I'm executive
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producing about an amazing lady.I mean, Samuel, she was the
first African American Navy either.
And she didn't just transcend equity, purpose, power and
principle through the armed forces, which we're talking
about a war. And she wasn't touching through
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the war, through just patriotism, defeating the enemy,
just winning and having this mindset.
She had a unified mindset and she didn't lose her
spirituality. And she's thriving now as a
professional coach and entrepreneur.
And this film is coming out and it is amazing.
We've just won 6 laurels and we're continuing to win, doing a
lot of screenings. And it's called The Courage
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Thrive. It's in my IMBD.
You can find more about that as well.
So that's something I'm excited about.
And you know, there's so many ways for us to transfer our
power, our talent and our ideals.
People pick up a pen draw. You can say it doesn't make
sense. I don't like it.
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Keep going. If you sing, if you talk, if
it's how you dress in the expression of your clothes, you
could be walking through the store.
I love that yellow shirt you have on today, ma'am.
Why did you wear it? My mother's favourite.
It's just an exchange, people. We have to die greater than we
lived. Live every second of your life.
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Make the world better. We're not really alone.
Somebody's looking for you. You may not want to be bothered
with people. You can make a record, you can
do a blog, you can go helps volunteer, express yourselves
while we're alive. The gift of life is just
priceless. And I'll tell you something, if
we don't practise living, we're going to actually just practise
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dying. Is that true?
We'll definitely link that movieinto the description for sure.
When does it come out? Do you know when it comes out
here in Australia? I will find that out and keep
you posted because you know I'vebeen checking you guys out.
I TuneIn, you know I get the repeats on YouTube and follow
through. So we'll be in touch, brother.
For sure we're pretty far, but we we're, we're around, so
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that's awesome. So when did like sports sort of
get transitioned into this? How did sport become something
that could be as a reality as well?
And how did you manage to balance all these things as
well? Because I, I, I ask because I, I
find myself going into two and three different things.
And I think it's amazing to havethat and also have that kind of
diversity. So how did sport become that
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consideration and part of this portfolio that you've got?
Well, for sport, I've met a gentleman by the name of Al.
I'm sorry, Alonzo Shavers. And Zoe was a young sports
agent. I was doing really well,
thriving well. Just came off the LL Cool J
campaign, was working with DavidBanner and he came here with an
investment opportunity. And I took the speed, the
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sexiness and the creativity in the independence of music and
matched it with the very firm, focused power of sports.
And we put that together and it exploded.
The sports I played was just pick up sports.
So we call it Sandlot. We're just guys in the
neighbourhood or playing in the field for fun.
But I was able to bring some creativity to it.
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And coming in not trying to be the expert, just trying to
operate X in an expert manner allowed me to have a different
view of things. Whether it was doing Asante $60
million deal, whether it was Damian Robinson from The Jets.
And you remember Hurley when he pulled the helmet, the face bar
during Monday Night Football, orGod bless Josh Evans and so many
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other players that have had a chance to help build their
careers, protect their careers, increase wealth, preserve their
capital and help them move into other spaces.
So sports has been amazing to me.
It represents spirituality as well for good athletes.
A true winner is someone that sustains losses.
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In order to win, you have to lose.
And all champions are professional losers, not they.
We and you watching and you listening.
And Daniel, we have lost at suchperilous heights and moments in
our life. We have had such sustained
losses that had many times. I'm sure we didn't want to get
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back up again. But once you start getting up,
it becomes a muscle memory. The spirit, the mind, the body
all come into what we call homeostasis, where the mind, the
body and the solar one sports represents it when it's played
well. And true champions are winning
not just for themselves, but forothers as well.
So true. And I feel like it always gets
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overlooked, especially in in ourmodern media.
There's so much pressure to perform.
There's so much pressure to succeed.
If you do fail, it's it's put onto the whole universe and we
kind of just get all that, especially now with social
media, it's more prominent nowadays.
So how do you kind of and if you're doing it now and sort of
in the past, it must have been abit different, but how do you
seen it change from back then inthose times where those things
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weren't as common to now where we're starting to see more of it
with social media and everythingthat I've?
Mentioned it's been really tough.
If you look at the emergence of the new sports, no one knows
it's better than you. More recently, the United States
Superior Courts have sanctioned and approved that the
universities can now pay studentathletes directly.
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So if you look at it on a macroeconomic level, we're
talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that are
available to people from the ageof 17 to 27.
With this emergence of money is an emergence of opportunity,
name, image and likeness. Kids wearing a, a watch or some
nice clothes or he's driving a certain car.
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He's becomes a pitch man. He's an, he's an, he's an
advertiser, he's a communicator.He has to deal with finance.
He's going to deal with KPI to see if he continues to keep
having the honour of being a spokesperson.
So there's such a dynamic in theworld of sports now.
We've never seen what or where it is like this.
We don't know how long this is going to last.
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Is it going to last? Is it going to break up?
Will there be no? Will it just be professional
sports in a unified manner? There's so many ways to look at
it and technology, to your point, it can be an asset to
where people are using it for recovery.
You know, a lot of times when you have to rehab, they have all
these machines and for the legs,the head, the brain, people can
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intuitively study on the computer, but also how much
distraction is there? These kids are on Instagram or
there's always something new. You know, the screen time on the
cell phone. This guy's supposed to be
studying game film and researching and trying to
enhance himself, but now he's managing his $1,000,000
portfolio at 19. I mean, sometimes the devil, the
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devil's in the digital. We'll find out.
Yeah, it's crazy how you how youlook into that and it's it's not
something that ever gets spoken about in that sense.
And when you really put it like that, it is really hard for a
student athlete to kind of manage all those things, but
also understand kind of what they're doing as well.
It's kind of that like ignoranceand it's a bliss sort of thing
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in that in that aspect as well. I'd have to kind of go into
more, I guess, stuff that happens after sports.
Obviously these athletes have a window of about 10 to 15 years
probably making a lifelong money.
Here in Australia. It is a little bit different in
our in our leagues, a lot of people only have that 10 year
window and they have to go back to doing normal, normal life and
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normal work because the money that they're getting is not
enough. How do you prefer for those sort
of athletes? Because I could imagine you
probably deal with athletes thatdon't have that lengthy careers
that can get as much money as certain superstars and whatnot.
Interestingly enough, again, theaverage professional athlete
here in America either has goes bankrupt or has economic issues
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and financial struggles within four years and no one thinks of
the league, no one discusses it.Many of those people struggle.
And if they are revered athlete,they can always go into public
life, whether it's selling, going to Wall Street, if they're
really intelligent and they havea academic proudness about them
or a gift for numbers or salesmanship, they can go in any
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form. Some are creatives, some get
into music, film and other things.
But being a popular American icon always gives you the
opportunity for autograph signing, going to shows,
appearances and having opinions.So they do really well.
It's the athlete that gets injured, it's the person that
doesn't make good communication with their core community, where
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they're going to go back to liveand what they're building with.
So we try to provide them with the best in class and prepare
preparation for tax investment, asset protection, and of course,
leaving a legacy for family and friends.
That's generally the first placethat we do is to protect the
assets of the athlete, protect their personal intellectual
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assets, how they look, speaking engagements, products,
businesses they want to go in. And then lastly, the legacy of
their life, which would lead theworld with something better and
have a good story. That's the goal.
Wow. That's a lot.
That's so detailed and stuff, and how did you sort of grow
into that and kind of as you continue to do it, like
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understand those intricacies andwhatnot?
I would say a lot of it was, youknow, I had an amazing
upbringing, you know, my grandmother, my mother, uncles,
aunts, taught us, you know, there's the core principles and
the values of life. And then along the way, having
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some good mentors and listening.You know, I talk a lot, but I
was listening. You can't tell.
Sometimes I talk so much, but it's stuck.
Some people do all of the listening and can't put it to
work. It's like somebody that has this
big library, library with tonnesof books and all kind of
computers and apps and get all the coaching and still can't get
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the job done. So I think for me it's been
looking at other examples from history.
If you look at a lot of the leading men, whether in film,
television, politics, religion, 75% of them have fallen because
of women, lust, love, or being LED in the wrong space,
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betraying their own families, their marriages, their community
or themselves. And then the other times of
people who have been too aggressive, like the Battle of
Troy or, you know, the, the Civil War, any, any war, I mean,
these internal wars that we struggle with ourselves are
enough. But if you look at the legacy of
life, the history of life, we can borrow from those things.
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That's why the Book Bank Foundation is so important. 28
years of feeding and taking careof the lost, the lonely and the
forgotten. And you can donate or see what
we're doing at the bbf.org 'cause we do believe education
or a lack of is a disease and it's the first step to mental
illness, incarceration, economicdivide, discrimination and all
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these other things. It is wisdom, it is being wise
that will provide us the rise sowe can tell these other girls
and guys that we don't have to be shy.
You can be fly. We can do it if we get to.
It and you've just segmented this perfectly into the next
kind of section and I was to deep dive the the book Bank
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foundation. So kind of what was that spark
that led you to that? I'm guessing all this experience
and all this wisdom is thrown into this book.
I'd love to get a copy and read it one day.
So something that I'm definitelygoing to do after this, but give
us a deep dive for those that you were you wanting to read
this book. Well, you know, the thing for me
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was I did really well, you know,having the house, the cars,
travel, the lifestyle. And I sat there one day and
said, hey, I've done all these things, you know, my
grandmother's not here anymore, You know, what will the world
think of me? What is the next best challenge?
Being a broker, Bring an agent. Being an artist, competing in
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every way #1 records, getting records placed, satisfying
clients who didn't do enough forthe soul.
Then I looked right behind me and looked at the trail that I
had travelled and said that it wasn't me that brought me here,
it was the ancestors, it was theprayers, it was the work.
It was the people that had mercyand empathy for me and people
that saw value in me. And I wanted to do more for me
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than they did for me. And the most I could ever do for
me is what I do for everybody else.
And do you believe that there isa hidden superpower in these
unserved communities that you are going to?
Well, it's funny enough to say the greatest.
Do you know where the greatest amount of talent is on this
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planet? I would say it in the most
hardest places. You mean like trend wise or
popular? No, like the opposite.
In the hood where people are disenfranchised, don't have
money, the trailer park hoods and everybody just just like
suffering. It's not in the state of
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America. I can't speak for American
hoods, but I can speak for the world and say anywhere that's
struggling because you go in a place where and my, my, my
family came from Albania, which is pretty poor.
When they migrated here, they had nothing and then they came
and then they had lived there, Australian dream and stuff.
And I always find that people inkind of this fortunate
communities just tend to have that more, more strength and
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willpower, and that's where the talent comes out because they
know what's the worst. That's true.
That is the finest talent does come from there.
The greatest talents in the grave.
The people that didn't reach their potential.
Mental illness, drugs, depression, lack of opportunity,
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health born into a situation that they couldn't recover from,
not having opportunities, procrastinating, being mean,
being evil, being selfish, not seeing the world bigger than it
is. A lot of these people die.
There is so much, so much talent.
Priceless, undiscovered, undelivered, unperformed talent
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in the grave. This is why I say the living.
Live every second of your life and don't try to do it all in
one day. Don't live your life in a
second. Live every second of your life.
I was going to ask as well, whatis that?
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What is the legacy that you hope?
Is there anything else that you want to leave behind with this
book? Well, I think it's the book of
life. And I do have another book.
This book is called The Asian Power League, which you guys can
get right now. I've heard about this.
It was a novel. Yeah, this was a novel.
And it's about a gentleman by the name of Michael Hye Young,
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who is a genius that goes to college, his families from Asia.
I don't say which country, because it's up to you, because
it's fiction. And then he goes to the
university and people don't treat him so well.
Little bit of bias, a little bitof racism, a little bit of
cynicism. And what he does is they give
him these crappy companies when he's working at a hedge fund
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company. It ends up becoming billions of
dollars as he's doing this during his internship, he goes
to university, a a school like aHarvard or Princeton, comes out,
goes overseas during the summer,meets with his cousin and his
cousins in a group called the Asian Power League, which by the
way, I just made this up is no such real organisation.
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And he meets some beautiful ladyand he gets romantic with her.
But the villain and the leader of the gang finds us out, wants
to kill him. He's drunk.
He's and his cousin comes in andsaves him.
Well, one day he runs for president of the United States,
Daniel, and listen to this. When he runs for president of
the United States, he gets a phone call and they say we've
finally done it. We can get revenge for America.
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We can take it over. This will be the greatest
leveraged buyout. Thank God, man.
This is what we do at the Asian Power League.
What are you talking about? I'm the US president.
He's elected. No, we swore you in.
You never swore me in. Yeah, when you were drunk, we
swore you in so they wouldn't kill you because you slept with
the leader's wife. So he comes back around and now
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he has to fight on whether he's going to fight so the rights of
America, the virtues and humanity, or is he going to make
the billions of dollars and keepthe pledge he made to evil,
which was the gang? Find out by picking it up on
Amazon or anywhere books are sold.
The way you you left that perfectly the the greatest
cliffhanger, I would say That's amazing.
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Yeah, we'll have a look. We'll also link that in the
description below as well. Get people to read it.
Those that do love fiction booksas well, but a lot of meaning
inside of it. I, I assume and, and I expect as
well. And I guess before we kind of
leave off here, I did want to kind of wrap up and guess what's
the one truth you want every young person listening to this,
My audience is very young, in their mid 20s, trying to figure
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out life, those that love sport as well, trying to get through
those mental barriers and stuff.What wisdom can you offer all my
listeners here? People find pop, find silence.
Slow the world down in meditation, in prayer, in
silence. If it's when you're laying in
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bed at night, if you're driving your car alone, take a walk.
Silence will bring the voice of God.
If everything you're doing isn'tworking, if everything you're
doing is so divine, never be toohigh, never be too low.
The voices in between will navigate you like GPS and GPS
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meaning God, please allow me to serve you and my purpose, the
true GPS. It's amazing.
It's a great way there to end this one.
Doctor Glen Tovey, thank you so much for coming in today,
sharing your wisdom, giving us your story.
Guys, please check out his website which I'll link in below
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has all the information and details of what he does, his
books, his music is Ted Talks, another one coming up and
another movie coming up as well.Very excited to to kind of get
into it more after this, this recording and sort of follow
your journey continuing and God bless you on that as well.
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God bless you brother. Wait a minute.
Don't forget I'm also doing the dance show, the Global Dance
Party, which comes on. It's dance music, R&B, soul, hip
hop, classics, remixes, house, and I'm there 8:00 PM Eastern
Time here in the States every Saturday and this is this is the
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show. Yeah, I love it.
I'll I'll make. It live the global dance party
only Daniel can bring you here to the United States of America
while he's in Australia bringingyou the best of everything right
here. Make sure you tune in on the
global dance party and stay pleasant in this podcast.
See you soon. So that's a wrap for this week's
episode of The Huddle Within podcast.
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What is going on everybody? And welcome to another episode
of The Huddle Within podcast today.
I've got a a man that's lived many lives in Australia.
We call it a Jack of all trades,someone that's been a pioneer in
hip hop, an NFL sports agent, and just the founder of one of
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the most impactful literacy foundations in America, Doctor
Glenn Toby, welcome to the pod. Please elaborate on that because
I'm sure I've missed a lot of things as well.
Absolutely. Thank you, Daniel for having me.
Hello everybody in Australia andall around the world.
Glad to be here. Well, I'm born in Brooklyn.
I was raised in Queens. I experienced youth
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homelessness. At 8 years old, Mother came home
with my brother and I and everything was in the street,
everything we owned from there with love in the family,
guidance, spirituality. We didn't miss much, you know,
we were never physically harmed,spiritually harmed.
We actually saw it as the world was our, was our window, you
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know, wherever we travel. We got a stable home about 7th
grade, you know, all the time bouncing around a little bit,
family, friends and the support of government. 7th grade I take
off, go to school, Senior High School, one O 9.
And then when I get to about high school, I become one of the
eminent rappers in pioneers of hip hop for Queens.
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Mr Sweetie G. This is just before Bismarcky
and I'd say before the fat boys Bismarcky before even Sugar Hill
Gang. I was one of the initial guys
going with the kings of of of hip hop, which we we call us the
the first tranche would be ol Herc Grandmaster Flash Africa,
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Bambaataa, Grandmaster Kaz and Eddie Chamber, DJ Hollywood, of
course, the fitting machine and cypher sounds and disco twins
and check that stuff out Hip hoplovers.
From there. I didn't sign with Sugar Hill
because they wanted to get my publishing.
So I went into the workforce. During that time I had the
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honour of working with LL Cool J, managing him with Brian
Latour and Charles Fisher. On that team we did the movie,
we did TV show in the house and this movie, the Mr. Smith album.
I was part of that. And then from there I also in my
hip hop and music career discovered Positive K, the
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rapper David Banner man in Saigon.
From there went into the National Football League.
After I stopped with hip hop fora while with Alonzo Shavers, we
did over $300 million in National Football League.
And I include some of that was boxing, working with Don King
and I represented God bless his soul, O'Neill Bell, the
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Supernova. I took him from unranked to the
undisputed cruiserweight champion in the world, first
time in 40 years. And then coming back on that
side into venture capital where I'm working with RCP, I'm a
partner with them with based outof Harvard, Harvard Square.
And we just launched with RakeemVictoria and of course Brady
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Jackson with what we call the winner's circle.
We're doing NIL, which is name, image and likeness.
And nobody knows this better than you, Daniel.
You're always ahead of the beat.And of course we're representing
anyone that's in National Football League, NHL, all
sports. So we launched that in the last
year and along with doing the book Bank, as you said, which
I've been doing for 28 years with amazing people, we have a
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flight programme that's coming up in two weeks where the youth
from the age of 15 to as much as19 actually fly aeroplanes and
learn about aviation. We have something called
Groceries to Grow where people who are every anywhere from
indigent to families who do really well, but they're just
having a tough time. We provide them with food and
then we have one block at a timeand we go into New York City and
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we tackle all five. I'm sorry.
We go into that's shelter from the streets when we go into New
York City during the holiday time and we bring food,
clothing, shelter, words of inspiration.
And one block of the time is what we do in several cities
throughout the country, cleaningit up.
And that's what I've been doing.And that's my story, people.
And every day we are striving todo better.
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That's what I'm talking about onmy new Ted Talk that I'm excited
about how to heal. And I reveal ways you can peel
back what you need to do to get ahead.
Wow, it's amazing back. To you.
I was gonna, I was gonna talk about your first Ted Talk.
So I listened to that and actually funny, as you say, I
did stumble across it before actually finding you and
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discovering you as well, which was amazing.
And I, I love how you bring it back to sort of your, your
trauma and your, your life with like the struggles that you had.
But what, what kind of captured me was the fact when you started
talking about, I guess having the fame, having all the money
and stuff, but still not gettingthat kind of satisfaction in
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life until you broke out and started reaching out to
community groups and stuff. And I, I find that really
powerful personally. So one, I've got to credit that,
but two, how can because I've got a younger audience and I
feel like a lot of us are very much focused on that instant
gratification that I talk about.And a lot of people want to
obviously make that money and feel like their lives will
change with that. Can you give us some kind of
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wisdom into that? Because obviously having that
gives you that sense of freedom and that kind of ability to do
things that you want to do and also have that sense of peace.
But I feel like it becomes more than that.
I feel like you're a proof and aliving example of that.
I. Pray I'm honoured with those
kind words. You know everybody I want to say
today, everybody wants money fast, success fast.
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They want the cheat codes, they want the hack codes, everything.
That's what it is. But the difference between a
meal that is microwaved and one that is baked in the oven with
proper preparation, fresh vegetables, fresh ingredients,
well prepared, plated properly, that's what life is.
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If that success comes faster then you, if the money comes
faster than the wisdom, it's nothow much money you make, it's
how much you keep. It's not how much you've done
and built and given and amassed.It's how many greater people.
If you're great, if you have a sense of greatness, a sense of
purpose. If you were travelling and you
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were the one tree in the middle of an acres, acres, acres and
acres of land, whether it's hundreds of lake acres or two or
three Lakers of you are the onlytree.
And the fruit from your tree falls to the ground and it
germinates and it and the seeds that come from the tree, it it
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starts to create other trees. There's other growth.
The magnanimity and the power isnot in the money.
It's in the man, the mountain and the mission.
And I speak of man as mankind. You know, we're talking about
the rudiment elements of life, right?
So here's the microwave, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, done real
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quick. Here's that beautiful oven, it's
baked in. Everything goes in all those
recipes. That's the same thing in life.
What you put in is what you get out, and as fast as you can earn
it, you may not be fast enough to learn it.
And somebody can come in and take what you have that you
don't even know the value of it.You put no research in it.
You haven't experienced any of the joy because it's all just
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keeping score. You're looking at the
scoreboard. You know this Daniel, you've
seen, we've seen the NFL playerswith guy goes to the ball and he
catches it and he celebrate before he gets to the end zone
and and fumbles it. That's what's going to happen
every time. We have to meet the timeline,
and the timelines have to have measurable actions, values, and
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purpose in order to add up to besustainable.
Because if it has no worth and it's spent like the money spent,
nobody else wants it, then you have nothing to transfer.
And quite frankly, if you have nothing to give someone that's
not transferable, you don't wantit in the first day of place.
So that's wow, that's just, yeah, I can see the literacy and
the and the pressure stuff that comes through that, but very,
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very powerful words. And I think something that will
bring a lot of value to people, and that's what I love about
what you do, is that not only are you a pioneer in so many
different aspects of life, you bring that to community and you
share that to the world. And I think that's that's really
powerful. You talk to me sort of about
kind of your upbringing and values.
Something that I did find is like, how do you find?
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And it's, it's a powerful question.
How does God kind of work in this for you?
Well, I think we need to God's speaking to us all the time.
So you know what? You are in Australia, you follow
world sports, you're still knowledgeable.
I can recognise, you can recognise greatness.
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I recognise the talent of you. I know what this show can do.
I know what this show is doing. It's 9:00 AM where you are right
now. For me it's 750.
It's 9:00 AM in the morning for you, 7:00 at night for me.
The difference is the time, not There's no difference in the
connection, there's no difference in the purpose.
There's no difference in how we're going to serve this global
audience. So God is always there.
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We have to listen long enough sothat it's loud enough.
When God whispers, that's when he's really delivering.
It's in the whispers. It's in the silent teachings,
the whisper of the pages of it. If it's the Torah, if it's the
Quran, if it's the Bible, if it's any book, when you're
turning those pages, they sound like this.
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That's the whisper. That's the wisdom.
When you're sleeping and we think it's a dream, that's the
whisper. When we're in the unconscious
realm, sleeping and within theseideas, the neuropathic
transformation of energy and thebrain, healing and regenerating,
all of that is the silent silence.
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God is in everything and everywhere.
We are if we can find it, if we can turn off the noise, if we
can be by ourselves for not justa hour, can you be by yourself
for a day. And I teach that in the four
boxes, the the ebook that drops in two weeks, giving it to
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everybody for free. Those four boxes, the healing,
the revealing and the sealing of1's fate.
What God had given us to work with, who and what and how do we
stare and distribute this? What we're giving away, we're
really giving away. We can't do it like a yo yo or
boomerang. Give it.
Give away our talent, our wisdom, our love, our joy, and
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expect it to come back. We have to give freely.
The gift of giving is immeasurable.
So if you want to live long, youhave to give strong.
That's it. And God will find you because
you'll find your good works. You know, it's we're finding
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God. I know people that are atheists.
I know people that are agnostic.I know people that are just in
pain. And I've never heard anybody say
Bentley when they're dying. I've never seen a guy run over
to their dying parent or child and go Barclays Bank, Citibank.
I've heard them say God, mother,dad, people get shot, they say,
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they say sometimes dad, but I'veonly heard people say Oh my God
and God. Even people who are devil
worshippers that don't believe in the Lord, People who are in
prison, many of these people whoare in incarcerated for the rest
of their life, they find a pieceof God.
Do they carry it and hold it? If you're holding God in your
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life, others will come to the Holy Grail.
If you have a peace of God and it's not to be transferred, then
there's purpose in your breathing, in your life, and
you're fulfilling others and theuniverse needs you in the cog of
chain. It's not just DNA doing now,
always that kind of DNA. I'm doing it right now and it's
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always going to be sustainable to the people I'm with.
I love it You have you have sucha way with words.
Oh well, it's great. But I think we we can sort of
transition into sort of obviously what the huddle is
about and we talk about sports, but we go through a deeper
meaning of that in our lives. So obviously starting with hip
hop. I can see that the Straight
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Outta Compton thing at the back as well.
Big fan of the movie. I wanted to know what was what
was your involvement on a so I? Managed Jason Mitchell, who was
one of the leads and he played Eazy E so I was his manager for
a few years and he was on the shy and he's done so many
incredible films. Advised him.
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Had the honour of also representing other actors.
Jason Weaver who played Michael Jackson and has been in other
movies. The great Lance Reddick who was
in so many HBO shows. And yeah, that's it in terms of
that. And I'm currently it's only you
would ask this, Daniel, such good timing for you to tell you
about The Courage to Thrive, a new film that I'm executive
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producing about an amazing lady.I mean, Samuel, she was the
first African American Navy either.
And she didn't just transcend equity, purpose, power and
principle through the armed forces, which we're talking
about a war. And she wasn't touching through
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the war, through just patriotism, defeating the enemy,
just winning and having this mindset.
She had a unified mindset and she didn't lose her
spirituality. And she's thriving now as a
professional coach and entrepreneur.
And this film is coming out and it is amazing.
We've just won 6 laurels and we're continuing to win, doing a
lot of screenings. And it's called The Courage
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Thrive. It's in my IMBD.
You can find more about that as well.
So that's something I'm excited about.
And you know, there's so many ways for us to transfer our
power, our talent and our ideals.
People pick up a pen draw. You can say it doesn't make
sense. I don't like it.
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Keep going. If you sing, if you talk, if
it's how you dress in the expression of your clothes, you
could be walking through the store.
I love that yellow shirt you have on today, ma'am.
Why did you wear it? My mother's favourite.
It's just an exchange, people. We have to die greater than we
lived. Live every second of your life.
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Make the world better. We're not really alone.
Somebody's looking for you. You may not want to be bothered
with people. You can make a record, you can
do a blog, you can go helps volunteer, express yourselves
while we're alive. The gift of life is just
priceless. And I'll tell you something, if
we don't practise living, we're going to actually just practise
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dying. Is that true?
We'll definitely link that movieinto the description for sure.
When does it come out? Do you know when it comes out
here in Australia? I will find that out and keep
you posted because you know I'vebeen checking you guys out.
I TuneIn, you know I get the repeats on YouTube and follow
through. So we'll be in touch, brother.
For sure we're pretty far, but we we're, we're around, so
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that's awesome. So when did like sports sort of
get transitioned into this? How did sport become something
that could be as a reality as well?
And how did you manage to balance all these things as
well? Because I, I, I ask because I, I
find myself going into two and three different things.
And I think it's amazing to havethat and also have that kind of
diversity. So how did sport become that
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consideration and part of this portfolio that you've got?
Well, for sport, I've met a gentleman by the name of Al.
I'm sorry, Alonzo Shavers. And Zoe was a young sports
agent. I was doing really well,
thriving well. Just came off the LL Cool J
campaign, was working with DavidBanner and he came here with an
investment opportunity. And I took the speed, the
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sexiness and the creativity in the independence of music and
matched it with the very firm, focused power of sports.
And we put that together and it exploded.
The sports I played was just pick up sports.
So we call it Sandlot. We're just guys in the
neighbourhood or playing in the field for fun.
But I was able to bring some creativity to it.
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And coming in not trying to be the expert, just trying to
operate X in an expert manner allowed me to have a different
view of things. Whether it was doing Asante $60
million deal, whether it was Damian Robinson from The Jets.
And you remember Hurley when he pulled the helmet, the face bar
during Monday Night Football, orGod bless Josh Evans and so many
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other players that have had a chance to help build their
careers, protect their careers, increase wealth, preserve their
capital and help them move into other spaces.
So sports has been amazing to me.
It represents spirituality as well for good athletes.
A true winner is someone that sustains losses.
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In order to win, you have to lose.
And all champions are professional losers, not they.
We and you watching and you listening.
And Daniel, we have lost at suchperilous heights and moments in
our life. We have had such sustained
losses that had many times. I'm sure we didn't want to get
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back up again. But once you start getting up,
it becomes a muscle memory. The spirit, the mind, the body
all come into what we call homeostasis, where the mind, the
body and the solar one sports represents it when it's played
well. And true champions are winning
not just for themselves, but forothers as well.
So true. And I feel like it always gets
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overlooked, especially in in ourmodern media.
There's so much pressure to perform.
There's so much pressure to succeed.
If you do fail, it's it's put onto the whole universe and we
kind of just get all that, especially now with social
media, it's more prominent nowadays.
So how do you kind of and if you're doing it now and sort of
in the past, it must have been abit different, but how do you
seen it change from back then inthose times where those things
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weren't as common to now where we're starting to see more of it
with social media and everythingthat I've?
Mentioned it's been really tough.
If you look at the emergence of the new sports, no one knows
it's better than you. More recently, the United States
Superior Courts have sanctioned and approved that the
universities can now pay studentathletes directly.
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So if you look at it on a macroeconomic level, we're
talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that are
available to people from the ageof 17 to 27.
With this emergence of money is an emergence of opportunity,
name, image and likeness. Kids wearing a, a watch or some
nice clothes or he's driving a certain car.
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He's becomes a pitch man. He's an, he's an, he's an
advertiser, he's a communicator.He has to deal with finance.
He's going to deal with KPI to see if he continues to keep
having the honour of being a spokesperson.
So there's such a dynamic in theworld of sports now.
We've never seen what or where it is like this.
We don't know how long this is going to last.
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Is it going to last? Is it going to break up?
Will there be no? Will it just be professional
sports in a unified manner? There's so many ways to look at
it and technology, to your point, it can be an asset to
where people are using it for recovery.
You know, a lot of times when you have to rehab, they have all
these machines and for the legs,the head, the brain, people can
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intuitively study on the computer, but also how much
distraction is there? These kids are on Instagram or
there's always something new. You know, the screen time on the
cell phone. This guy's supposed to be
studying game film and researching and trying to
enhance himself, but now he's managing his $1,000,000
portfolio at 19. I mean, sometimes the devil, the
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devil's in the digital. We'll find out.
Yeah, it's crazy how you how youlook into that and it's it's not
something that ever gets spoken about in that sense.
And when you really put it like that, it is really hard for a
student athlete to kind of manage all those things, but
also understand kind of what they're doing as well.
It's kind of that like ignoranceand it's a bliss sort of thing
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in that in that aspect as well. I'd have to kind of go into
more, I guess, stuff that happens after sports.
Obviously these athletes have a window of about 10 to 15 years
probably making a lifelong money.
Here in Australia. It is a little bit different in
our in our leagues, a lot of people only have that 10 year
window and they have to go back to doing normal, normal life and
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normal work because the money that they're getting is not
enough. How do you prefer for those sort
of athletes? Because I could imagine you
probably deal with athletes thatdon't have that lengthy careers
that can get as much money as certain superstars and whatnot.
Interestingly enough, again, theaverage professional athlete
here in America either has goes bankrupt or has economic issues
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and financial struggles within four years and no one thinks of
the league, no one discusses it.Many of those people struggle.
And if they are revered athlete,they can always go into public
life, whether it's selling, going to Wall Street, if they're
really intelligent and they havea academic proudness about them
or a gift for numbers or salesmanship, they can go in any
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form. Some are creatives, some get
into music, film and other things.
But being a popular American icon always gives you the
opportunity for autograph signing, going to shows,
appearances and having opinions.So they do really well.
It's the athlete that gets injured, it's the person that
doesn't make good communication with their core community, where
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they're going to go back to liveand what they're building with.
So we try to provide them with the best in class and prepare
preparation for tax investment, asset protection, and of course,
leaving a legacy for family and friends.
That's generally the first placethat we do is to protect the
assets of the athlete, protect their personal intellectual
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assets, how they look, speaking engagements, products,
businesses they want to go in. And then lastly, the legacy of
their life, which would lead theworld with something better and
have a good story. That's the goal.
Wow. That's a lot.
That's so detailed and stuff, and how did you sort of grow
into that and kind of as you continue to do it, like
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understand those intricacies andwhatnot?
I would say a lot of it was, youknow, I had an amazing
upbringing, you know, my grandmother, my mother, uncles,
aunts, taught us, you know, there's the core principles and
the values of life. And then along the way, having
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some good mentors and listening.You know, I talk a lot, but I
was listening. You can't tell.
Sometimes I talk so much, but it's stuck.
Some people do all of the listening and can't put it to
work. It's like somebody that has this
big library, library with tonnesof books and all kind of
computers and apps and get all the coaching and still can't get
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the job done. So I think for me it's been
looking at other examples from history.
If you look at a lot of the leading men, whether in film,
television, politics, religion, 75% of them have fallen because
of women, lust, love, or being LED in the wrong space,
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betraying their own families, their marriages, their community
or themselves. And then the other times of
people who have been too aggressive, like the Battle of
Troy or, you know, the, the Civil War, any, any war, I mean,
these internal wars that we struggle with ourselves are
enough. But if you look at the legacy of
life, the history of life, we can borrow from those things.
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That's why the Book Bank Foundation is so important. 28
years of feeding and taking careof the lost, the lonely and the
forgotten. And you can donate or see what
we're doing at the bbf.org 'cause we do believe education
or a lack of is a disease and it's the first step to mental
illness, incarceration, economicdivide, discrimination and all
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these other things. It is wisdom, it is being wise
that will provide us the rise sowe can tell these other girls
and guys that we don't have to be shy.
You can be fly. We can do it if we get to.
It and you've just segmented this perfectly into the next
kind of section and I was to deep dive the the book Bank
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foundation. So kind of what was that spark
that led you to that? I'm guessing all this experience
and all this wisdom is thrown into this book.
I'd love to get a copy and read it one day.
So something that I'm definitelygoing to do after this, but give
us a deep dive for those that you were you wanting to read
this book. Well, you know, the thing for me
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was I did really well, you know,having the house, the cars,
travel, the lifestyle. And I sat there one day and
said, hey, I've done all these things, you know, my
grandmother's not here anymore, You know, what will the world
think of me? What is the next best challenge?
Being a broker, Bring an agent. Being an artist, competing in
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every way #1 records, getting records placed, satisfying
clients who didn't do enough forthe soul.
Then I looked right behind me and looked at the trail that I
had travelled and said that it wasn't me that brought me here,
it was the ancestors, it was theprayers, it was the work.
It was the people that had mercyand empathy for me and people
that saw value in me. And I wanted to do more for me
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than they did for me. And the most I could ever do for
me is what I do for everybody else.
And do you believe that there isa hidden superpower in these
unserved communities that you are going to?
Well, it's funny enough to say the greatest.
Do you know where the greatest amount of talent is on this
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planet? I would say it in the most
hardest places. You mean like trend wise or
popular? No, like the opposite.
In the hood where people are disenfranchised, don't have
money, the trailer park hoods and everybody just just like
suffering. It's not in the state of
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America. I can't speak for American
hoods, but I can speak for the world and say anywhere that's
struggling because you go in a place where and my, my, my
family came from Albania, which is pretty poor.
When they migrated here, they had nothing and then they came
and then they had lived there, Australian dream and stuff.
And I always find that people inkind of this fortunate
communities just tend to have that more, more strength and
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willpower, and that's where the talent comes out because they
know what's the worst. That's true.
That is the finest talent does come from there.
The greatest talents in the grave.
The people that didn't reach their potential.
Mental illness, drugs, depression, lack of opportunity,
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health born into a situation that they couldn't recover from,
not having opportunities, procrastinating, being mean,
being evil, being selfish, not seeing the world bigger than it
is. A lot of these people die.
There is so much, so much talent.
Priceless, undiscovered, undelivered, unperformed talent
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in the grave. This is why I say the living.
Live every second of your life and don't try to do it all in
one day. Don't live your life in a
second. Live every second of your life.
I was going to ask as well, whatis that?
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What is the legacy that you hope?
Is there anything else that you want to leave behind with this
book? Well, I think it's the book of
life. And I do have another book.
This book is called The Asian Power League, which you guys can
get right now. I've heard about this.
It was a novel. Yeah, this was a novel.
And it's about a gentleman by the name of Michael Hye Young,
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who is a genius that goes to college, his families from Asia.
I don't say which country, because it's up to you, because
it's fiction. And then he goes to the
university and people don't treat him so well.
Little bit of bias, a little bitof racism, a little bit of
cynicism. And what he does is they give
him these crappy companies when he's working at a hedge fund
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company. It ends up becoming billions of
dollars as he's doing this during his internship, he goes
to university, a a school like aHarvard or Princeton, comes out,
goes overseas during the summer,meets with his cousin and his
cousins in a group called the Asian Power League, which by the
way, I just made this up is no such real organisation.
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And he meets some beautiful ladyand he gets romantic with her.
But the villain and the leader of the gang finds us out, wants
to kill him. He's drunk.
He's and his cousin comes in andsaves him.
Well, one day he runs for president of the United States,
Daniel, and listen to this. When he runs for president of
the United States, he gets a phone call and they say we've
finally done it. We can get revenge for America.
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We can take it over. This will be the greatest
leveraged buyout. Thank God, man.
This is what we do at the Asian Power League.
What are you talking about? I'm the US president.
He's elected. No, we swore you in.
You never swore me in. Yeah, when you were drunk, we
swore you in so they wouldn't kill you because you slept with
the leader's wife. So he comes back around and now
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he has to fight on whether he's going to fight so the rights of
America, the virtues and humanity, or is he going to make
the billions of dollars and keepthe pledge he made to evil,
which was the gang? Find out by picking it up on
Amazon or anywhere books are sold.
The way you you left that perfectly the the greatest
cliffhanger, I would say That's amazing.
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Yeah, we'll have a look. We'll also link that in the
description below as well. Get people to read it.
Those that do love fiction booksas well, but a lot of meaning
inside of it. I, I assume and, and I expect as
well. And I guess before we kind of
leave off here, I did want to kind of wrap up and guess what's
the one truth you want every young person listening to this,
My audience is very young, in their mid 20s, trying to figure
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out life, those that love sport as well, trying to get through
those mental barriers and stuff.What wisdom can you offer all my
listeners here? People find pop, find silence.
Slow the world down in meditation, in prayer, in
silence. If it's when you're laying in
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bed at night, if you're driving your car alone, take a walk.
Silence will bring the voice of God.
If everything you're doing isn'tworking, if everything you're
doing is so divine, never be toohigh, never be too low.
The voices in between will navigate you like GPS and GPS
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meaning God, please allow me to serve you and my purpose, the
true GPS. It's amazing.
It's a great way there to end this one.
Doctor Glen Tovey, thank you so much for coming in today,
sharing your wisdom, giving us your story.
Guys, please check out his website which I'll link in below
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has all the information and details of what he does, his
books, his music is Ted Talks, another one coming up and
another movie coming up as well.Very excited to to kind of get
into it more after this, this recording and sort of follow
your journey continuing and God bless you on that as well.
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God bless you brother. Wait a minute.
Don't forget I'm also doing the dance show, the Global Dance
Party, which comes on. It's dance music, R&B, soul, hip
hop, classics, remixes, house, and I'm there 8:00 PM Eastern
Time here in the States every Saturday and this is this is the
(33:19):
show. Yeah, I love it.
I'll I'll make. It live the global dance party
only Daniel can bring you here to the United States of America
while he's in Australia bringingyou the best of everything right
here. Make sure you tune in on the
global dance party and stay pleasant in this podcast.
See you soon. So that's a wrap for this week's
episode of The Huddle Within podcast.
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I appreciate you for tuning in and being part of this community
where we go beyond the game and into what really matters.
If this episode resonated with you, make sure to subscribe,
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Just the way that we do. And hey, I'd love to hear from
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even be part of a future episode.
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Until next time, keep that passion alive, stay in the
huddle, and remember it's alwaysdeeper than the game.
Cheers.
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