Dropping 100 Pounds and Finding Purpose: A Story of Discipline and Determination

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What happens when you decide to completely transform your life against all odds? Eric's journey from self-hatred to self-empowerment is a masterclass in resilience and reinvention.

Growing up in Albany, Georgia, Eric Seay was always "the fattest kid" in any room. At 325 pounds, he couldn't bear to look at himself in photos or videos – a profound disconnection that followed him into young adulthood. Football became his escape route, his ticket out of a small town with limited opportunities. Despite being told he was "too short" for Division I schools at 6'1", Eric refused to give up, eventually earning a starting position at Middle Tennessee State through sheer determination and transforming his body enough to catch his coaches' attention.

When COVID-19 hit, Eric and his brother discovered Forex trading, triggering a series of life-altering decisions. Frustrated by unfulfilled scholarship promises and unsafe pandemic practices, Eric made the bold choice to opt out of football and eventually drop out of college entirely – a decision that temporarily fractured family relationships but forced him to stand on his own principles. For three years, he cycled through jobs at FedEx, DoorDash, and furniture moving, all while pursuing trading and fitness with unwavering commitment.

The breakthrough came when Eric discovered personal development coach Wes Watson, whose message of self-improvement resonated deeply. Investing in himself yielded dramatic results – dropping from 260 to 220 pounds in just three months and continuing his transformation. Now 100 pounds lighter than his heaviest weight, Eric has found purpose beyond trading or football. At just 25, he's channeling his experiences into helping others achieve their own transformations through mindset, fitness, and nutrition.

What makes Eric's story so compelling isn't just the physical transformation, but how he converted self-hatred into self-empowerment. Have you been waiting for permission to transform your own life? Follow Eric's journey and discover what's possible when you refuse to quit on yourself.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We went 24 hour days smoking weed and just locked in
on the same computer, going upand down, just going through the
course, the course, the course,the course, trying to figure
out the basics and how to tradeand make money.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now I'm ready to risk my of the Journey to Freedom
podcast.
I'm Dr B on your host and whenwe think about what life brings
us and we think about all thedifferent things we could be
doing and how blessed we trulyare to be able to wake up every
single day.
Today I was walking thismorning.
I'm here in Denver, colorado,and the temperature is like, I

(00:54):
don't know, 28 or 27 orsomething like that.
Wind chill is like 13 or 14.
And I was just thinking abouthow fortunate I am to be able to
wake up this morning, howfortunate I am to be able to get
up and go out on a walk and tohave two legs that are still
working.
You know, the older I get, themore I start thinking about.

(01:17):
you know, 120 years from now youknow, none of us are here,
right, and so all we can do isthe legacy, and you know what we
can leave behind.
And the older you get, thecloser that comes to saying, wow
, what am I going to do?
And it was so neat to you know.
Just ask you.
You know, what are you excitedabout?
You sold me working on me, youknow.

(01:38):
And there's so many people whodon't do that, people who don't
do that.
There's so many people who justexist that, just, they don't
progress because they get stuckin spots where you just go wait
a minute.
Well, what are you going to do?
Well, you know.
And then they start complaining, right, they complain about you
know where they live.
They complain about how muchmoney they make.
They complain about their job.
They complain about and then Iwant to say, well, what are you

(02:01):
doing to make it better?
Well, I can't do nothing, Ihave no time to do nothing, but
we always got time right.
If you're watching TV or youknow, like, how many basketball
games did you watch in the last,you know, in the last two
months?
Because all of those guys are,you know they're living their
dreams right.

(02:21):
They travel all over thecountry and they're playing
games and enjoy.
You know, if they're baseballplayers, they're playing a
hundred-some game or whatever.
It is a season left and we'rewatching them, which I'm not
saying is a bad thing and I'mnot saying don't go to.
I love watching football, Ilove watching basketball, I love
watching baseball, but not atthe expense of me working on me,

(02:43):
not at where I take that awayfrom me so that I can.
Sometimes I have thoseconversations.
I go to the barbershop or I gowherever we're hanging out and
they'll know all the stats ofwhoever the player is.
Right, lebron.
I can tell you everything I knowabout LeBron.
Then you ask about their kids.

(03:04):
You know they lost, right?
Yeah, it's just sad, and so Ijust love the fact that you're
on and you're willing to talk tous about some of the things
that you're doing and you know,I know I've asked you to tell
your story and you know, andthen we'll just kind of go from
there and chop it up.
But it's just so neat becauseyou know the journey to freedom.

(03:25):
I don't know if you've beenable to watch any of these
podcasts, but we're at about 150episodes now and it's all black
men who are doing things towork on themselves, doing things
to make our world a betterplace, doing things to make sure
that they leave those legacies.
And so let me hear your storyand where you're at and we'll

(03:46):
just chop it up after that.
So thanks.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Hey, well, my name is Eric C and I'm from a small
town named Albany, georgia, andmy journey started when I first
wanted to play football.
I was always a football type ofguy, sports type of guy, but I
gravitated and fell in love withfootball and I was always a

(04:11):
bigger kid.
I was always the fattest kid Ina friend group, any group, any
association, I was always thebiggest.
So from five years old, from mebeing able to walk to now, I've
always been the biggest, likethe biggest kid ever, and that
was my biggest problem with me,because I never.

(04:34):
I'm 25 years old and from thetime I could talk and walk to 24
years old, I never, I've never,found love for myself and I
hated looking at myself in themirror.
That was my biggest problem.
I never recorded myself, Inever took pictures.

(04:55):
I hated pictures only because Ihated looking at that person in
that picture or in that videoand knowing that person was me.
I didn't like that.
That image, me and that image.
We never got along.
So, me being a bigger kid, allI did was put all my focus into
something I was good at, whichwas football.

(05:17):
So I put my focus in thefootball through middle school
and high school and I made it adream and a goal of mine to use
football as a way out, usefootball as an escape to get
away from that small town,because back in town there's
nothing but violence and drugsand this and that the normal
black person is from the hood,ghetto.

(05:39):
Yeah, I know everybody, everyblack person, not every black
person but if you're from thehood or the ghetto, they tell
you to use sports to get out.
So I was like, okay, I'm goingto use sports to get out of my
situation better my situation,because my family, we weren't
poor, but we weren't rich either.
So we were good middle classand my people did everything

(06:01):
they could and their power tomake sure me and my brother had
everything we needed and to stayout the streets.
So we use sports to stay outthe streets and I use football
all the way up.
I use football to get me tohigh school.
I got to high school and Iwanted to go play D1 football.

(06:25):
I felt like I was good enoughto play D1 football, but
everybody told me I was tooshort because I'm 6'1 and I was
around 315, 300, 315 pounds.
Everybody told me I was tooshort, but I had all the skills
and the requirements that theywanted, except for the height.
That was the only thingstopping me from going to
Alabama or Ohio State orMichigan or anything like that.

(06:48):
So I ended up getting a callfrom one of my teammates and he
told me that this school wouldallow me to come play with him,
me and my teammate.
We would be able to come playat the school Middle Tennessee
State as preferred walk-ons,because they liked it our film

(07:10):
and they didn't have enoughscholarships for us so we would
be able to earn a scholarship.
So we said, okay, cool, we'llgo do that.
Knowing us, knowing our grind,knowing how we perform, we were
good to go.
We get to school 2017, I'd saysummer, late summer fall, right

(07:30):
before fall, because we had notfall break, what we had.
It's called fall camp.
We went in fall camp, so wedidn't go work out with them and
it was just straight us untilfall camp.
We got fall camp 2017 andthat's when college started.
We got adjusted.
I didn, and that's when collegestarted.
We got adjusted.
I didn't play the first year.
I sat in Murfreesboro,tennessee, the whole year on the

(07:54):
practice squad and just puttingin reps, trying to figure out
how am I going to get on thefield and earn a scholarship.
So my people didn't have to payout of pocket for school.
First year went by.
They were still overlooking me.
I was doing everything rightthat they wanted to see in the
rooms, but I never got a shot ora chance.
Because to me I felt like itwas favoritism, because they

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wanted all the seniors.
The seniors came in together,the first five offensive line,
because I played offensive line.
So the seniors, they came intogether so they wanted them to
lead together on a good, highnote.
Starting stats looking good.
I was like, okay, I get that, Iget that.
You go to the NFL, you fillyour drinks, okay, cool.
Second year came around and I'mlike the same thing was going on

(08:41):
.
They were looking at me, theywere throwing me out there,
giving me a chance, but nothingreally was popping off how I
wanted to and I'm like my peoplestill coming out of pocket for
school, so I can't, I got tomake some shit.
I got to make something happenright now.
So I got on the phone with mymom during the season, like

(09:01):
beginning of the season, and I'mlike, yeah, this ain't working.
I'm going.
Yeah, this ain't working.
I don't have to go to anotherschool because I know I'm better
than all these guys that theyputting up over me.
It's just they got scholarshipsso they finna invest in their
money first before they look atme and give me a shot.
And she told me she said justsit down, trust God and this is
your plan.

(09:22):
Just stay down, put the work inand it all happens for you.
If you put the work in, you dowhat you're supposed to do.
So I listened to it.
I took the advice.
I said, okay, cool, I went.
I first got into college.
I came into Middle TennesseeState fall camp at 325 pounds,
325, 6'1, my third year.

(09:42):
Going into my third year, Iended up dropping down to like
290, 295.
Because I knew I was too fat tomove around, I wasn't doing and
taking the precautions and thesteps that they wanted to see
and they wanted to take, becauseI was too slow, I was out of
shape, always coming in lastplace and something other than

(10:04):
lifting weights.
So I was just locked in on me.
Everything was about me.
I went to classes just becausemy parents paid for classes and
stuff like that to make sure Istayed on the field, but
everything was about me gettingin shape, getting to the best of
my ability to become my highestself so I can get on the field,
perform and get to my dream,which was the NFL.

(10:26):
So I got on the 295, and theystarted bragging towards the
linemen offense and defenselinemen.
How Eric C got in shape just toget on the field, how Eric C
did, is to get our attention.
So I got their attention withme getting my body right,
getting in shape, because nobodyelse was getting their body
right.
It was just, yeah, onscholarship, trying to do what

(10:49):
they do perform.
So, after I got my body right,well, while I was getting my
body right, I'm constantly afterpractice.
I'm the one standing longestafter practice, I'm the one
putting in the work, I'm the onegoing into detail on what they
want to see.
Become phenomenal at what theywant to see, become phenomenal
at what they want to see andexecute what they want to see on
the field and on tape.

(11:09):
So I'm doing that while losingweight, getting in shape.
This that is that.
And I finally came around thefall camp and I'm still prefer
walking.
I came around the fall camp andthey started progressing me into
the lineup.
I was.
I was like fourth field stringscout team.
They moved me up the lineup.
I was like fourth, fifth stringscout team.
They moved me up to thirdstring, they moved me up to
second string and eventually Ibeat out the first string guy

(11:33):
and my offense coordinator.
He told me we had a bigoffensive meeting Because we
played Michigan, we played theUniversity of Michigan,
september 2nd and I think thatwas the first Saturday game of
the season and we had anoffensive meeting, like it was a
week before the game.

(11:54):
I think it was that Friday, twoweeks before the game, that
Friday night and we had a bigoffensive meeting and the
offensive coordinator, he wastalking to us about the game and
how people done developed this.
That just primed us up for thegame.
And he ended up calling me outlike out of the blue.
He called me out.
He said ARC, stand up.
I stood up in front ofeverybody and he was like this

(12:17):
is the definition of discipline,consistency and putting in the
work and the action to get to astarting job.
And he told me in front ofeverybody that I was going to be
starting against the Universityof Michigan.
My first game, my first snapever at Middle Tennessee State
against Michigan in front of120,000 fans.

(12:40):
Like it broke the season record10-D record.
Yeah, it was 120,000 there.
That was the first game andeverybody congratulated me.
They was like you ready, youready, you nervous.
I'm like nervous.
Why would I be nervous?
I've been training for thismoment.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I've been working my whole life.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've been working my whole life.
For this moment I'm ready, ifanything.
So before the game I say thatMonday or Tuesday before the
game, my head coach called me inand he was telling me about a
scholarship.
He was telling me to just keepgoing.
We don't have any scholarshipsright now, but eventually,
before the year is over, you'llget your scholarship and you'll

(13:23):
be good to go.
So I played the first game, hada phenomenal game.
The next game, we had Duke.
The next game we had Iowa.
We went to Iowa playing all theNFL prospects and I'm just
doing my thing.
I'm doing my thing.
The season go on and I'm still.
I start the whole season.
The season go on.

(13:44):
You playing guard yeah, leftguard, left guard and the season
went on.
This was my junior year ofcollege, but my redshirt
sophomore year Okay, because Igot redshirt the first year.
So my redshirt, sophomore year,but I'm a junior in the school.
So it's three years in thecollege and the whole season go

(14:08):
by and it's like every month ortwo the head coach calls me and
he tells me the scholarship'scoming, the scholarship's coming
, just keep working.
All my teammates coming up tome hey, bro, you still not on
scholarship.
What's going on?
You not on scholarship yet.
I'm like bro, I don't knowwhat's up with the scholarship
thing, but scholarship not evenon my mind anymore.
I'm like bro, I don't knowwhat's up with the scholarship
thing, but scholarship not evenon my mind.
No more, I'm just focused onperforming on this film.

(14:29):
So these scouts can come checkme out, that's all I want.
They just need to see what Ican do, give me a chance, and
that's all I need, just like Idid here.
That's all I need, just achance.
So everybody coming in thescholarship buddy tripping the
trip, it's way out there.
I'm like, bro, it's straight,bro, it's straight.
So I go a whole season noscholarship, no scholarship.
I still prefer to walk on,still paying everything out of

(14:52):
my pocket meals and classes.
So the whole season went by.
I'm starting okay cool.
I got a season full of fame.
After that it was the 2020season came up.
The 2020 season was coming upand that's when COVID hit.
Covid started coming around.

(15:14):
They gave us this volunteeryear where you could play or you
could opt out, but it wouldn'tcount against you.
And around that time we had abreak, right before they told us
about the COVID, because wewent shut down and then it was
come back into school.
So, during the shutdown, me andmy little brother because I have
a little brother, he's twoyears younger than me we at home

(15:36):
playing a game during theshutdown, we all playing 2K all
day, all day and night, all dayand night Playing 2K, trying to
be the best, trying to be thebest, trying to get on YouTube
and streams, and just playingthe game.
And one day it's just this oneparticular day we just lose
every single.
We played like 20 2K games andwe lost every single game.

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And I was in the back room.
He was in the living roombecause we stayed with our
grandparents.
I stayed with my grandparentsmost of my life and my mom moved
in with my grandparents.
So it was my grandma, mygrandma and my brother.
Yeah, me and my brother.
It was five people in a whatfour three-bedroom house.
So me and my brother slepttogether throughout middle

(16:20):
school and high school, togetherin one room and they had their
own separate room, but we allstayed in one household.
So that was the biggestmotivation for me to get to the
NFL and change all these,because we'll never do this
again, We'll never feel likethere's none of that.
So during the COVID, during theCOVID, everybody you know
everybody at home, all the kidson the game and we lost 20 games

(16:40):
straight.
So I'm in the back room, he inthe living room, he, he said,
bro, we got to figure out a wayto make some money or something.
I'm like, bro, you ain't neverlie because the game getting old
, later on that day I kid you,not two hours later on that day,

(17:02):
because it was like 9, 10o'clock in the morning I say
later on that day, about two,three hours later, he gets a
call from his friend, childhoodfriend.
He was like hey, bro, you everheard about Forex?
You ever heard about Forex?
And he was like nah, and he gavehim the rundown about Forex and
then he brought me the phone.
He was like he said Eric man,he put him on speaker.

(17:24):
He said you got a list to do?
He talking about making somemoney in Forex trading.
I'm like trading.
I said I heard about it before.
It was like stocks, right.
He was like yeah, so I gave him, I gave him my opening ill, and
he gave me the rundown abouttrading in the forest market and
come to find out they the mark,the thing that he was selling,

(17:44):
the product that he was selling.
It wasn't about trading for us,it was about it was really a
pyramid scheme called imlInternational Markets Live and
it was like I get on the phoneand I recruit you to be on my
team.
And then you get on the phone,you recruit people and the more
people I get, that's a weeklyand a monthly check that I get

(18:06):
coming in weekly just for havinga team.
And then you and how manypeople I'm using.
So pretty much a pyramid scheme.
But at the grand scheme ofthings, I never cared about the
pyramid scheme and making moneythat way.
I just wanted to know about howto trade and make money on my
own Because they told me you canmake money from a blink of an

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eye and a blink of an eye, justwith a click of a button.
And I'm like I said what?
So I go?
They gave us courses to gothrough to learn how to trade.
And, man bro, we smoke weed.
We didn't do no other drug, wesmoked we and we was drinking.
So during covet, playing thegame, we'll be drinking drunk,

(18:48):
playing the game, smoking, gethigh.
Playing the game.
I finally found something thatI could lock in and play.
I can play just like the gameand learn and master, but make
money with it.
I kid you not, we went 24-hourdays smoking weed and just
locked in on the same computer,going up and down, just going

(19:09):
through, course to course, tocourse to course, trying to
figure out the basics and how totrade and make money.
I finally figured out how to doeverything, from the basics to
what a candlestick is, to how toread a chart, this, that, and
now I'm ready to risk my moneyto try to make even more money.

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Day by day, day, we just day byday.
We just put money in taking thetrade losing, put money in
taking the trade losing.
But I kid you, not the firstday, the first day we made a
little profit.
We probably made five dollars.
Okay, cool, made five dollars.
And every single day after Imade that five dollars, that was
like an adrenaline rush, like,okay, it's for real, like I can

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pull, I pulled it out and I putit in my bank account.
I'm like, okay, so the moneyreally came to my bank account
and it's real.
I said, okay, that's all Ineeded to see.
So where?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
were you?
Were you working to get themoney to be able to invest in,
or where were you getting?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
I was asking my grandparents for the money.
I asked them for $50 here, $50there, $50 there, $50 there.
I wasn't betting the whole $50,cop, I knew about risk
management.
I was risking this much moneyto make this much money.
But I wasn't going to use thewhole $50, just so I could have
more in the tank just in case Ilose.

(20:29):
Just in case I lose, I got morein the tank to keep trying.
$50 get added up, $50 get addedup.
And they're like all right, nowwe're not giving you no more
money.
I'm like all right, cool, cool.
Thank y'all, but it's all right, I'm finna, do it big now.
And another way the money wascoming in was with the people

(20:50):
who were recruiting, because wehad a team.
I had my own team, my brotherhad his own team on the one
bigger person and we had weeklychecks coming in because one
person was like $230.
You get five people on the team.
That's like what I think $400to $500 every week.
You get 10 to 20 people.

(21:11):
That was like $1,000 a week.
So we had that type of moneycoming in finally.
So I have to ask them for the$50 number.
So I'm blowing those checksweekly, trying to trade every
single day, putting the wholecheck in, trying to trade, make
money every single day.
Nothing Losing, losing my twothird, lose my two third, lose
my two third.
So while I'm not studying, I'mon the phone trying to get

(21:33):
people hey, yeah, bro, yeah, yougot to come join.
Who is that you got to comejoin?
I get them to join.
I get 230.
I get 230.
I'm like, okay, cool, it's timeto trade again.
And I'm constantly in that cycle, constantly in that cycle for
about a good month and I had agirlfriend at that time, first

(21:56):
love.
I was 325 and I've never beenin any relationship no, nothing.
Only because I was fat and Ihated myself.
I was with my first girlfriendat the time when COVID hit.
During that time I'm learninghow to trade and I'm on the
phone constantly, all day andnight.
Females, they don't like that.
They want attention.
And she wasn't getting noattention and she had went into

(22:17):
the Air Force.
So she was in the Air Forcedoing her thing, working, and
I'm constantly trying to learnhow to trade so I can provide
for me, just in case footballdon't work and we still got a
life, just in case you want toget out of the Air Force and I'm
trading, so you and we stillgot a life.

(22:38):
Just in case you want to getout of the air force and I'm
trading so you don't have to do.
You don't have to do that, youjust wake up, live life.
I got the money, I'm provider,I'm good.
It ain't go like that.
It went more like her telling meshe she felt like she was
getting neglected and I'mtelling her, like this is for,
this is for us, so we can have abackbone and I won't have to
ask for no money, because Ihated asking for anything.
I would be dead broke, I wouldgo hungry and I would starve.

(23:00):
Even in college I would gohungry and I would starve, just
so I wouldn't ask nobody foranything.
That was always me.
I hated asking for anything.
She was telling me how she wasfeeling neglected, this, and
that she wasn't feelingappreciated.
I'm like you have amoney-making machine and a cycle
because you go to work here inthe Air Force so you're

(23:20):
automatically good.
As long as you wake up, you'regood Me.
If football don't work for me,I can have trading to rely on
because it's constant money.
All you're doing is using yourmind to make money.
So I'm putting all my time andall my effort into making money,
getting people on my team so Ican learn how to make money and

(23:42):
make money.
So when she told me that I goto my mentor and I'm like, hey,
bro, this trading thing is notworking out.
I'm going to need some help andI need some reinforcement so I
can start making some money andshow like I'm not just doing
this for show, I'm really makingmoney, and he was like, okay,
yo, bro, just give me the runaround, come to find out.

(24:03):
He never knew how to trade.
Cause, you know, the universeor God, whatever, everybody
believes in the truth gonna showeventually the truth going to
show Whatever's in the darkgoing to come to light.
It finally came to light.
It finally came to light andall he wanted was just a huge
team so he can be makingmillions of money.

(24:25):
Me and my brother, we told himwe was like, bro, we don't care
about the money coming in weeklylike that, we want to know how
to trade.
Remember, we need money.
We can go in, open his laptop,click a button and wait and wait
for our money to be made.
And he never could give us thesigns or the tools or the road

(24:49):
to get to that place.
So we cut him out of all ties.
We cut him out of all ties.
We finally found somebody offInstagram, another black dude
who was from the ghetto, workedat Burger King, worked at all
these fast food chains.
He found out about trading.
He made a living off trading.
We got in his course, stilltrying to learn how to trade,

(25:13):
get money, get money to learnhow to trade.
It still don't work out.
We started jumping from courseto course to course and
nothing's working at all.
Nothing at all is working,nothing.
My girlfriend, she finally getsfed up with me.
She just tells me she's like,bro, yeah, this is what we got

(25:35):
going.
It's not going to work out.
And I'm like, what you mean?
Like I'm doing this for us?
And she's like, no, I'm feelingI'm neglecting, I'm not feeling
appreciated.
This and that All the emotionsthat a female go through.
She's not hearing it.
So she cut me off in therelationship, all ties gone.
So now me and bro, we go back.

(25:57):
We back in middle Tennessee.
Now we go back up to middleTennessee because it's time the
football season is going tostart.
Coming back in, they're goingto tell us what we're going to
do.
So we start having thesemeetings like, okay, this is
what's going on right now, thisis how it's going to work.
You either can play or you cansit out for the year.
We're up here in the collegedorms, we're in the college

(26:22):
dorms.
I finally tell my coaches yeah,I'm not playing this year, I'm
just going to take this year off.
I ain't tell them about thetraining.
I just told them I was justgoing to be training getting
ready for next season.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
So this is 2021, then the 2021-2022?
.
You already had a freshmanredshirt year and now you're
going to take it, so you're justgoing to play two full years as
you're playing.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's correct.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
So now I told them yeah, I'm not playing this year
COVID, I'm not to 100% with it.
It's cool because when we cameback up to school we had
volunteer workouts and we hadvolunteer meetings.
So now we're having voluntaryfilm sessions.
They're not really voluntary,but they just say volunteer but

(27:15):
they're not really voluntary.
So we have to be in there andCOVID going around, people
getting their shots and stuff,people getting tested, we
getting tested each and everyday, throughout everything.
And people start coming outwith COVID on the football team.
Everybody started coming outwith COVID on the football team.
Everybody started coming outhaving COVID.
And if you got COVID, they sendyou to a whole other home by

(27:38):
yourself, like you're still inMurphree, bro, but you're in a
house abandoned house byyourself, brand new, but
abandoned house by yourself,until you get cleared.
You get cleared after a weekthey say five to seven days
you're cleared to come back withthe team.
I kid you not, it's 17offensive linemen in the room.
I'm sitting in the front.

(27:58):
I'm right here in front of thePromethean board where we watch
film at.
It's the first five offensivelinemen, the starting five, the
second stream behind them, thethird stream behind them and on
and on.
I kid you not.
We came out of workouts in thefilm room one day and one of my

(28:18):
buddies in the offensive lineroom, he told me he said, bro,
you know Michael, just forexample, you know Michael had
COVID.
They said Michael had COVIDlast week, at the beginning of
this week, and I'm like if hehad COVID, why he in the meeting
room with us DJ, going to getall sick, you feel me?
And I'm like, yeah, that ain'tit.

(28:39):
And offensive linemen.
We always touching.
We always have to be touching,forming each other up, putting
pad on pad, pretty much becausewe're in the trenches.
So that's what we do and cometo find out is more people, more
people start coming out withCOVID, but they not telling them
or sending them home, they justkeeping them in practice,

(29:00):
keeping them in flow.
Yeah, and one day, one day inthe film room, I see it's, it's
17 offensive linemen in the filmroom and from the stories that
I hear going around the lockerroom, out of all the names that
I heard, me and my locker mate,we counted how many people had
COVID on the offensive line.

(29:21):
It's 17 people in the room and10 had COVID.
And I'm like I said, oh no, no,no, no, I'm not getting COVID.
If I get COVID, it's just goingto be because I got it.
I call it, but intentionally,oh no, I said no, no.

(29:42):
So that's what led me toleaving the football alone for
them telling the coach yeah, I'mnot doing it this year, I went
the next year.
It's cool, I'll just take thisyear off, but I'll be training.
That's what gave me the greenlight for training.

(30:05):
I'm not playing football.
Jay broke up with my first love.
It's just me and my brother inan apartment complex on campus
Every day.
We've always been the fitnessmen, my brother.
We always want to act.
We always want to bang poppingout of the air.
We always want to be in shape,phenomenal shape.
So we told ourselves.
We said, okay, we're going toget in shape and we're going to

(30:28):
be trading, so we're going tohave the best of both worlds.
We're going to have the body,we're going to have the look and
we're going to be trading, sowe're going to have the best of
both worlds.
We're going to have the body,we're going to have the look and
we're going to have the money.
So we can do whatever we wantto do whenever we want to do it.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
And ain't nobody going to tell us different.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, so it was one day every, all right.
So, yeah, let me see how can Iput this.
So I was okay, I opted out ofthe football season and he was a
freshman coming in.
It was right before fall, soI'd say spring or summer workout

(31:01):
.
I know he was going tovolunteer workouts while I was
at home trading and making money.
I trade between 9 and 11 am.
He was going to work out.
It's around 7 o'clock, so hewas going to work out.
I wake up, I'm trading, waitingon my setup to happen each and

(31:21):
every day.
By the time he come on, I donemade $100.
I done made $100.
I done made $100.
I'm like, okay, cool, it wasone day he came home.
And it was one day he came home, and it was one.
It was one morning.
It was about 6 AM.
I got up for early trade set upand the trade was around, like
it was at like $40, $50.

(31:42):
He went to practice for twohours, came back and the, the
$40, $40, $50 jumped up to $500.
And I'm he walked in the houseand I'm like yo, yo, yo, bro,
bro, hey, $500 is on the screenright here, my boy.
Hey, ain't no more football.
And he was like bro, you justmade $500?

(32:03):
Why was that practice for twohours?
Oh, I'm not going to practice,no more.
It's all with football.
We finna work on trading Everysingle day.
From that point on, what he told?
He told the coaches that he wasout and out of trading.
I mean, he was out and out offootball for the year and we was
just going to be trading.
So every single day we doingthe same thing waking up,

(32:27):
working out trading, waking up,working out trading.
But the workouts was just itworking out trading.
Waking up, working out trading.
But the workouts was just, itwas just go to the weight room,
get a pump and come on back home, eat and then trade, eat and
then trade.
It was a repetitive cycle.
And, remind you, we're not onscholarships, so we just we're
paying for the rooms on campusand we're still paying for meals

(32:48):
.
So this guy a coach, he's acoach, but he's from Albany,
georgia.
He comes to us and a week laterhe's like hey, y'all boys, if
y'all not playing football thisyear, y'all not going to be able
to stay on campus in this room.
And we're like what you mean?
We're paying for this room, sowe going to be able to stay on
campus.
He's like, no, this room, thisroom gonna be for somebody

(33:20):
that's playing this year.
That's not opting out, so y'allgonna have to move out by
friday.
What they told her.
And that day it was what?
Wednesday.
Oh gosh, it was wednesday.
They told we had to be out byfriday.
So we like we said, okay, cool,we call.
I call my mom and I'm like, hey, they say we got to be out of
here by Friday.
And she's like, okay, tell themto get you to Saturday.
We'll come up, we'll get y'alland bring out Beth Alvin.
I said, beth Alvin, we ain'tfinna do that.
So we ended up calling my momand we got the extension to

(33:43):
Saturday.
So they gave us the extensionto Saturday.
We found the apartment complexto stay in.
Actually, I had an apartmentcomplex being cleaned out for me
for the year, but it wasn'tready yet.
I had to move all my stuff inthe storage and I was staying on

(34:03):
campus with my brother I'msleeping on the couch and he in
his room and then they tell usthis information.
We're like, dang bro, okay, wegot to go somewhere.
Now we either go back to Albanyor we find an apartment complex
we can move into.
Now I'm like I'm not going backto Albany, bro, I just stay

(34:24):
with somebody.
He was like, bro, we can't staywith somebody, right?
Our parent, my mom, she told usshe was like, yeah, y'all, just
put y'all stuff in the storageand you just go stay with a
teammate, see if you can find ateammate or a friend and just
stay with them until your roomopens up, because my room ain't
open up until about another two,three weeks.

(34:45):
So the two, three weeks go by,saturday come up and we get
everything out of the apartmentcomplex and we move in with a
friend.
We got two air mattresses, theygot an open room and we doing
our thing, they going topractice each and every day and
we waking up, we go get aworkout, we drinking, we smoking

(35:07):
, but we done made money or wedone lost money.
Nine times out of ten we donelost money.
So we trying to smoke, drinkand work out to get that out of
our mind, because we need tofocus on winning instead of
losing, because we're tradingthem losses and them emotions
that each of us have.
That's the only way we can copewith it with a workout and with

(35:28):
smoking Every day for the nexttwo, three, four weeks.
We're waking up, losing money,losing money, losing money.
But it was some days we mademoney and we'll show our
teammates like, hey, y'all boygoing to practice, we're making
money $200 on the screen, $300on the screen, $200.
But come to find out we're justmaking money and losing it,
making money and blowing it.

(35:48):
We finally move to ourapartment company to open up.
We tell them thank you.
We moved to our apartmentcompany.
This around 2022.
2022.
We're still enrolling inclasses and things like that,
but everything is still onlinebecause COVID is still in effect
and we're just by ourselves.

(36:10):
Now we moved into a two-manbedroom, two-man apartment
bedroom, and we're doing onlineclasses, but we still focus all
on trading.
We got so locked in and focusedon trading that all we did we
was running 24-hour days.
So if we wake up and we stoptrading live money just so we

(36:32):
can start practicing andstudying and implement what we
were studying, we'll wake up at7 am, eat breakfast and we'll
start studying from 8 am andwe'll run the whole day from 8
am to the next 8 am of the nextday on this computer studying,
just going all in trying tofigure out 8 am to the next 8 am

(36:53):
of the next day on thiscomputer, really Studying, just
going all in trying to figureout how can we make money.
What are we going wrong at?
Why is it going wrong?
We doing this occasionally dayon day off, day on day off, and
in between we done started doordashing so we don't have to ask
about it for money and we stillhave online classes and stuff.
So we're doing door dash onlineclasses, day trading, door dash

(37:16):
online class day tradingbecause we don't want to ask our
people for their money.
We're like we've grown, we needy'all help now.
We got to stand up.
I didn't like asking fornothing, he didn't like asking
for nothing, so that was a no-no.
He ain't like asking fornothing, so that was a no no.
So we door dashing one day.
We probably do a door dashingone day.
We start doing 5 hours in theAM and then 5 hours at night, 5

(37:42):
hours in the AM, 5 hours atnight, making $100 or $200, just
so I have enough money to daytrade with.
He have enough money to daytrade with.
So we got to run the whole dayof door dashing multiple days
just to make money to day tradewith.
He have no money to day tradewith.
We got to run the whole day ofdoor dashing multiple days just
to make money to trade and eat.
Man, we make them $200 one day.

(38:03):
We wake up at 8 am to 11 amtrying to trade.
We lose $100.
It's a repetitive cycle overand over and over and over again
.
Now we're not even doingschoolwork, no more.
We and trading Door to action,working out trading Door to
action, working out trading.
That's all we know right now.

(38:24):
We start getting behind inclass, we start failing class.
My mom, she called and she'slike I got to start doing y'all
work now because we're stillpaying for classes.
We're like, yeah, all right,we'll do it, just brushing it
off.
We end up going to Brentwood,tennessee.
It's in the Nashville Tennesseearea.
We see all these big houses.

(38:48):
We meet all these famoussuperstars while we door dashing
.
We know when you go toBrentwood they'll give you extra
tips and stuff just forbringing their food because
they're nice.
We're like we're going to dothis.
We run the whole day inBrentwood and we on the way back
home one night and we listenedto NBA Youngboy that's my

(39:10):
favorite rapper, that's who Ilisten to.
And we listened to a song andwe just rapping.
We exhausted it because everyday, while we do it, we always
start off eating a pizza.
We split one big pizza, so Iget four slices, he get four
slices.
And then at night I get fourslices, he get four slices with
a whole nother pizza with themoney that I made.
So we eat pizza and we do it.

(39:31):
And one night we, on our wayback home, eat pizza and the
rapper, young boy, he say it's asong called Playing.
And he said he was telling.
He pretty much told me stopdoing what other people want you
to do.
You got a vision.
Speak your mind and just let itbe.
That's pretty much what thesong ought to be.

(39:52):
Say what you're feeling, saywhat you're feeling and just
live out your dream.
And I heard the certain versethat he said and I replayed it
and I said, bro, you should haveheard that.
I said, like I'm driving.
I said that's exactly what I'mgoing to do.
I said, bro, I'm going to dowhat I want to do, which is
trade and make money for aliving, and school is just a

(40:16):
distraction right now.
So I told my bro, I'm likebecause he in the car with my
little brother.
He's two years younger than me.
I said, bro, I'm going to callmy mom, I'm going to call my mom
and grandma and granddaddy andI'm going to tell them we're not
doing college.
No more, bro, like college isdead, it's over, we're driving
out Kids.
You know, I probably had what?
Two more years, had a year anda half left.

(40:45):
I had a year and a half left.
I didn't have a solidifiedcourse either.
I mean a solidified major.
Before I started playingfootball, my first year going
into school 2017, I majored inpsychology, general psychology.
I flunked psychology and I wentto the second year.
I went to what?
Electromechanical engineering.

(41:08):
I never got into theengineering classes, but I went
through all the core curriculumclass like algebra, the pre-cal,
the calculus, all that Rightbefore I started playing.
Remember, I told right before Istarted playing.
Remember, I told you rightbefore I started.
I got, I lost out of it and Igot in shape and the coach told
me I was going to play my um.

(41:31):
What?
What do you call those guys,the ones that look over the
academic advisors?
The um athletic academicadvisor?
They told me I didn't haveenough credit hours to play
football.
So they were going to have toput me in a major that would
allow me to play.
And I'm like okay, cool, youcan try my major.
I ain't got to solidify majorKid, you not, I never.

(41:54):
My first three years, my firsttwo to three years, I didn't go
to no classes with any footballplayer, no sport player, just
regular student.
They put me in a major calledLSTS.
It's called Leisure, sportsTourism Studies.
Never heard of it.
Lsts my first day in there Isee all the football players, I

(42:15):
see all the basketball players,I see the tennis and I'm like so
this is where y'all been.
Y'all been at LST, this iswhere y'all been.
Y'all been in LSTs Just doingy'all things.
Y'all ain't got to focus on anumber of sports.
Because when I got my scheduleit said intro to football, intro
to soccer, intro to golf, introto tennis.
I'm like, oh, y'all ain't beendoing nothing, y'all ain't been

(42:38):
stressing about nothing.
So all that came into play.
When I was listening to thatverse, that dude said and I'm
like yeah, bro, all this is justa distraction.
It's not going to get me nomoney in life, it's not going to
get me where I want to be.
So I'm finna cut out Kyler.
That same night we got homefrom Brentwood I FaceTimed my
mama.
I put up on FaceTime.

(43:00):
I said look, I love y'all.
I know y'all wanted us tofinish kyle, but we're not
finishing college, we'redropping that and we're gonna go
all in on trading.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
And she's like you didn't call her and tell her.
You put it on facebook no, Iput it up.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
I caught on face time oh, face time.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Okay, caught on.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
FaceTime oh, facetime .
Okay, I didn't see it.
I caught on FaceTime yeah.
I'm serious, I was like, yeah, Iain't playing, I'm serious, we
finna do this.
And I caught on tell.
I told him like yeah, it's oldway, we not, finna, do college
no more.
And she's like what, you meanyou not doing college no more?
Y'all, finna, graduate.
You only got a year and a halfleft.

(43:40):
And I'm like mom, I don't have asolidified major and I'm not
just finna, go to college justto get a sheet of paper for
validation that I finishedcollege and I'm just keep
spending money.
And she's like, no, you'regoing to do this.
And I'm like, okay, you'regoing to see.
And she go get my grandparents,put them on.
She's going to get mygrandparents.
She hangs up the phone.

(44:01):
We get my grandparents.
They call me hey, what's goingon here?
You finna, drop out.
I gave them a run down.
They're like this is thedumbest decision you ever made.
This is a stupid decision.
I'm just looking at my brotherlike, oh, they don't get it.
They don't get it.
I'm finna, use this asmotivation to get me where I
need to be in life.
My mama called me and she like,yeah, okay, if you drop out, if

(44:26):
you and your brother drop out,we're cutting y'all off like
we're having no ties with y'all,ain't nothing going on.
We're not paying y'all no, aslong as we in college.
They paying our rent and theymaking sure we good those in the
food and living in spaces.
They making sure we good withrent and water bill.
So they were like, if y'all dothis, we're not paying y'all

(44:50):
rent, we're not doing it.
They just giving us excuses onwhat they gonna do if we drop
out and we like, okay, time toman up.
So we do that.
We drop out.
Here we go the man maker.
So we drop out, we get thetrade in, we're doing our thing,
still going, going.

(45:11):
And my mom, she's not that typeof person.
She just wanted us to fulfill adream that they had of going to
college, working.
Yeah, definitely.
They wanted us to go to college, find a good job and work, make
sure we solidified in life andwe good.

(45:31):
A week go by and that sameweekend she called me back and
she was crying.
She's like I know what I didwas wrong.
She pretty much was apologizingbecause she was like we men,
it's time for us to man up andwe're going to do what we need
to do.
Her and my grandparents on thephone telling us we back y'all

(45:54):
up.
We were just mad at the moment,but we back y'all up 110% and
we got y'all with anything y'allneed.
We were like, okay, thank you,but we got this on our own.
We stayed at DoorDash andtrading DoorDash, working out
trading DoorDash, working outtrading.
One day, while we were workingout, one day, while we were day

(46:18):
trading, we put on some musicoff a YouTube video and the
rapper Gucci Mane come up.
He's been locked up.
One day, while we day training,we put on some music off a
YouTube video and the rapperGucci Mane come up.
He been locked up for fiveyears and he come up with a
music video.
And kids you know, me and himwere both like the same size,
the same shape stomach hangingout here.

(46:38):
And he get on the music videoand I see this man in shape, he
like he six-pack ass.
He, he all ready, he tatted upthere.
And I look at my brother.
I'm like I say, bro, if he cando it, I know for a fact there
ain't no way I can't do that.
So, trading, I told myself thatI was going to get that
phenomenal look right, though.

(46:59):
That's what I'm working towardsthat phenomenal look Just like
he got, that's what I'm finnaget.
So I is focused on working thatbecause we always me and bro we
always work that hard.
We just want that look, wealways want that look.
But when we see him, that justkicked it up to another notch, a
whole new level.

(47:19):
So now we're going even harderon the fitness and the training,
fitness and training, fitnessand training.
We find us a job or two.
We find a job.
We quit the job because we daytrade and found a job, quit the
job because we day trade and Iwas around.
I got down to about duringduring the fitness journey.

(47:42):
I went through all the diets.
I'll tell you now.
I went through all the diets.
I went through the pescatariandiet for about six months.
I did the vegan diet for abouta year.
I did the fruit fasting forabout three to six months.
I did all the diets, thecarnivore diet.

(48:02):
I was trying all the diets justto get in shape, phenomenal
shape, like Gucci was looking,but I could never get it.
I do all this hard work and Icould never get it.
So I was still day training andwe was working at FedEx.
We were delivering packages forFedEx and one day before FedEx

(48:26):
came by no, one day before wewent into work.
It was like around 8 am.
We had to be there at 9 am.
It was a big news impact eventfor day trading and I watched
with a blink of an eye.
$200 turned into $5K in a blinkof an eye.
So it was a countdown three,two, one.

(48:49):
A new camera came up and mybrother, he yelled at me.
He said, bro, you still in thattrade?
I said yeah.
He said, man, go look at it.
I look at it.
It went from $200 to $5K.
We quit the job instantly, quit.
Look at it, it went from $200to $5,000.
We quit the job, instantly Quit.
We say y'all, we're not comingin, no more.

(49:09):
Thank y'all for hiring us, butwe're not coming in.
We finished.
Now I got some money.
I think I know what I reallyknow.
I know what to do.
It's just fitness and training.
The money run out and we got tofind a new job.
We started standing that cycleright there, working out, trying
to get in the best possibleshape Trading job, make some

(49:34):
money, trading.
Quit the job.
We went to FedEx.
We went to rooms to go movingfurniture making money.
We worked at rooms to go movingfurniture making money.
We worked at rooms to go aboutfour or five months, made a big
profit trading Quit.
We went to a plant site.
It was a temporary job, it'scalled temp service job.

(49:58):
We got hired on for about fiveto six months, made some big
profit quick.
We went to what is it calledGeneral Mills where they make
auto parts, working 12, 16 hourshift, 4 pm to 4 am.
Right after them jobs we gowork out in the weight room, go

(50:21):
to sleep, wake up, trade.
We end up getting fired fromthat job and we just go in it's
just a steady cycle trying toget in shape.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, so you're trying everything you possibly
can in order to pursue yourdream in trading.
At the same time, you'reworking out and fitness.
And then what blows up for youas you continue?
Where are you kind of at now?
What's happening as you'redoing this?

Speaker 1 (50:47):
So now I'm saying, I'm telling bro, like I said, I
don't know about trading, bro,but some got to work out for us.
We're not going to work all ourlife.
We're going to work to pay ourbills and to eat, but we're not
going to work all our life, bro,this is not us.
It don't even feel right justworking all our life.
Anytime we say that we'll makea big profit with trading and

(51:13):
they'll come in and they'll go.
They'll come in and they'll go.
They'll come in and they'll go.
Stay the cycle, stay the cycle,stay the cycle.
We ended up moving out of theapartment.
We came into this home andwe're still doing the same thing
.
Now we're back at FedEx butwe're not delivering packages.
We went back to FedEx likethree, four, five times
delivering packages, but nowwe're back at FedEx and we're

(51:37):
working a night shift and we'reloading the packages onto the
trucks during the night show.
Right at the night she will gowork out of the gym tree and
that's the cycle right there forabout another year, okay, and
I'm still out of shape, I know.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
You went to what you said you're out of shape, okay,
okay.
So now, during the years, Idon't stop playing football.
I'm going to drop out ofcollege.
It's around 2023, 2024.
We moved into the home, intothis home, around 2024.

(52:19):
So we did constant trading andworking out for three to four
years with a job, with differentjobs, cycling jobs for three to
five years, because we start in2022, 23, 24.
Yeah, so 22.
We dropped out in 22, 23, 24.

(52:39):
So three years is just straighttrading, trading, fitness and
job.
That's the steady cycle.
Each and every day, I keeptelling, bro, I know this,
trading over here.
I know trading over here.
I know trading over here.
I done.
Made up in my mind trading isfor me.
I am a day trader.
There's nothing else in theworld for me to do but day trade

(53:01):
.
Wake up, click a button, makemoney.
I'm not doing nothing else inthe world for me to do but they
trade.
Wake up, click a button, makemoney.
I'm not doing nothing else.
I don't care what happened,this is going to happen.
We're going to make this happen.
One day, I get home from FedExand working out and I'm like,
bro, something, it got to besomething.
I'm in a car by myself and I'mlike, bro, something got to give

(53:23):
, because I'm tired of thiscycle and I just want to be rich
.
I just want to make money, Iwant to be rich, I'm scrolling
on.
Instagram just sending the call.
This dude named Wes Watsoncomes across my Instagram.
I hear the intensity and whathe's giving out.
He's talking aboutself-improvement, personal

(53:45):
development, being yourself.
Right, it's starting out byfitness Pretty much fitness,
personal development andbecoming the best version of you
.
It just resonates the way he'sgiving off his message.
It just resonates.
It's him in.
I'm like I know it's myintuition, but I'm like
something's telling me to justsee what bro got going on and
maybe invest in him.
I listened to him for a coupledays.

(54:08):
I'm watching his YouTube.
I'm watching his Instagram eachand every day.
It just starts sticking to him.
Sticking to him, he's prettymuch telling you and showing you
testimonials on how he gotpeople from fat and out of shape
to ripped up, peeled and inshape phenomenal shape and I'm

(54:30):
looking.
I'm like, bro, I know I can dothat.
I've been working At this time.
I'm like 260, 270, 260.
So I done went from 325 andover the time span of two, three
years, I done got down to 260,270.
So I'm like I still don't looklike Gucci man, so it ain't

(54:50):
right.
I ain't did something right.
So I'm like all I hear now ishim talking about investing
yourself so you can become yourbest self.
So I'm like okay, I alwaysinvested in myself with trading,
let me invest in myself and getmy body right, and maybe
trading will finally go rightyeah I ended up investing on the
three month and I did a yearly,a yearly transformation course.

(55:16):
I I bought his program for theyear and the first three months
in the first three months I wentfrom.
I went from 260 and I droppeddown to 220.
Whoa, I'm like, I said whoa,whoa.
I said whoa nah, whoa nah, no,yeah, the first three months.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Wow, okay, you're.
100 pounds less than you wereRight, yeah, the first two
months before you started.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Wow, okay, you're 100 pounds, less than so.
First, three months, right.
So two cents to the 230.
I hit 230.
I'm like three months, okay.
Six months roll around becauseI see results and change, so I'm
gonna keep doing it.
Six months roll around and I'mlike Six months roll around.

(56:01):
I'm like I see a wholedifferent child.
I go from 330 to 325, 320, 319,350.
I'm like, oh, this is right,this is it.
I'm feeling my best self.
Everything is going right inlife, all because I started
investing in myself Instead oflocking in on the messages of
him talking about creating yourbest self.

(56:24):
It's now time to create yourbest self and then give that
person to the world and starthelping people that you overcame
and went through.
Those messages start resonatingwith me.
I'm like I done overcame a lot.
I done dropped over 100 pounds.
I done got in shape.
Everybody that once knew me Iwas overly fat.

(56:44):
I was 325 pounds.
Now I'm 220.
That's the biggest jump ever.
I done went through heartbreak.
I done used heartbreak asmotivation to keep me
purpose-driven with training.
I done gained all this wisdom,all this knowledge from all
these people I done learned fromthrough jobs and just living
life.
I'm like bro, I can teachpeople anything I want.

(57:07):
I felt like, whatever anybodyin the world is going through, I
done been through it and I gotthe keys to help you get through
what you're going through,except for going to jail, going
to prison and doing hard drugsother than weed and drinking.
I got the keys.

(57:27):
I'm like yeah, bro, I feel likeI can teach and help people.
I invest in this program tostart helping people overcome
what they're going through.
What's mainly been attracted tome are people who going from
fat and that want to be fit,like I did, because that's my

(57:49):
instagram e2 fit, because I wentfrom fat to feet.
So now I'm out of moves, awayfrom trading, and now I'm more
focused on, and now I'm morefocused on self-development,
self-improvement,self-development,
self-improvement and fitness andnutrition.

(58:11):
So now I'm coming out on themat with self-development,
self-improvement, fitness andnutrition and helping people
become the best version ofthemselves, all through mindset,
fitness and nutrition.
And then, once you become yourbest self, you get that person
to grow and, whatever you wentthrough, you help others achieve

(58:37):
what you went through andovercome what you went through.
So that's my story.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Man, I love it.
Thank you for sharing, becausethere's so many people out there
that would love to be able tobecome the person that they need
to be.
One of the things that I dothrough my coaching and stuff is
help people become the personthey need to be in order to do
what God put them on this planetto do.
And I love to see that you'redoing that, that you're working
on that, that you have thetenacity, that you're not giving

(59:05):
up that you're.
You know there's just some fineline things to tune.
Now.
It's like, okay, so now how dowe create a business that would
then allow you to be, whetherit's podcasting, whether it's,
you know, coaching, whether it'sbecause you have all those
tools?
You know, and I know your dreamwas the trading and the day
trading and that kind of stuff,but to see that you won't quit,

(59:28):
that you won't stop, and sothere's so much of that that I
see in your future.
You said you're 25 now.
Is that what you said?
Or how old are you now?

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Yeah, yeah.
So we got to get you amillionaire by 30.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Right you're 25 now is that what you said, or how do
you know?
20, yeah, yeah, so we gotta, wegotta get you a millionaire by
30, right?
So you know that that is okay.
Yeah, no, you have a story totell and you have, uh, you've
done it right, because there'sso many people who talk about it
.
You know there's so many peoplewho said you know I would have,
could have, should I want to.

(01:00:02):
You know, I think, like youknow, b do have where you become
the person you need to be soyou can do the thing you're put
on the start to do.
Then you get to have, and whata lot of people try to do is
they try to have to be right.
They say I, I need to have this, I'm going to go do all this
stuff, but they haven't becomethe person that can do it yet.
And so by you working on yourpersonal development, by you
working on the things that youneed to do, you know to become

(01:00:25):
that person that's going to mayautomatically allow you to do
the things and then have thelifestyle that you want.
So so, yeah, I know we're out oftime on our podcast today, but
I can't wait to continue to haveconversations with you, talk
with you, follow up on you.
You know let's see what you'redoing in six months.
You know I got some.

(01:00:45):
I got some ideas and some booksand stuff that I'm going to,
you know, to send your way andyou know.
But I sure thank you for beingon today and just talking to us
and being vulnerable enough toshare your life because so many
people won't do that.
So many people will just say youknow, I'm doing good, I'm doing

(01:01:05):
good, I'm doing good, you know,and don't tell you.
You know, do I have an issuewith you dropping out of college
?
Absolutely not you know, if itwasn't the thing that you were
going to do.
You know, and you knew thatthat wasn't where your life
needed to go, and you know, Ijust, I guess, want to encourage
you to continue to keep up.

(01:01:25):
Whatever that is your destiny,keep up the discipline, keep up,
because anybody who knows howto lose 100 pounds knows how to
be disciplined, knows how to beconsistent, knows how to get
what they want.
And so we'll, you know, we'lltalk some offline, and so, for
those of you who just watchedthis, you're going to follow us,
we're going to follow back upwith Eric, and you know we're
going to talk some offline, andso, for those of you who just
watched this, you're going tofollow us.
We're going to follow back upwith Eric and we're going to

(01:01:45):
keep rooting him on and keepmaking sure that he gets the
things that he needs to be ableto have in order to do it.
So go ahead and subscribe, doall the things that you need to
do for YouTube, and then we'llbe back with you on the next one
.
So don't forget.
You are God's greatest gift.
He loves you.
If you allow him to and we, myfriend, will talk to you on the

(01:02:06):
next one.
So I have, oh my gosh, what'sgoing on with my computer here.
Oh my gosh, my computer's likelocked up.
So, oh, here we go.
We will take that part out.
We will see you on the next one.