October 6, 2020 • 33 mins
My next guest, Todd Johnson, has started or helped start businesses worldwide, including Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. Although much of Todd's financial success derives from business, he finds personal success in helping entrepreneurs; would-be entrepreneurs and business leaders maximize their earning potential through executive coaching and by partnering to help them execute their go-to market strategies. Todd's nHotPursuit program helps entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their ventures. They exist to serve and inspire our community by passionately and diligently creating product, content and services that matter. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Todd TJ Johnson.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rushan McDonald.
I recognize we all have different definitions of success for
some and suscisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up
and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their
very best life. These are my passions and that's what
I'm going to do for you. I want you to
stop tripping over small challenges and prepared to rise above
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the bigger obstacles that life will present to you. My
next guest, Todd Johnson, has started or helped to start
businesses around the world that include Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean,
and the United States. Although much of Tard's financial success
derives from business, he finds personal success and helping entrepreneurs
would be entrepreneurs and business leaders maximize their earning potential
(00:46):
through executive coaching and by partnering to help them execute
they go to marketing strategies. That's really important when I
say that taught in Hot Pursuit program helps entrepreneurs accelerate
the growth of their ventures. They exist to serve and
inspire our community by passionately and dillingently creating product, content
and services that matter. Please work with the money making conversation.
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He's straight out of Beverly Hills today Todd T. J.
Johnson had sorry about that. Good morning, Rashan. How you doing,
my friend? Uh l A, that's when some people doing
the pandemic it's goned to be pandemic, uh hot, pandemic
territory out there. How is living in Los Angeles or
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being in Los Angeles which is a part of Beverly
Hills being right now? And it's it's great. I've you know,
I've uh, you know, it's funny you say from Beverly
he knows, and that sounds sounds funny. Introduced me that
way because I'm from South Carolina and Columbia Casey, South Carolina,
low country. That's right, that's right, pokemon, you know. And
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uh and so uh and uh and and I've made
my most of my money. And while I was in Washington, DC,
but man, during this pandemic, I decided to come out
to l A and a lot of time out here
in Beverly Hills. And and you know, have a beautiful
place out here, and uh my team works from this place,
so we're able to quarantine with a group of people
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I love, like am productive with and so it's made
it a lot more fun. And you know, I'm really
into the car culture, love cars, so it's a it's
a great place to be because you can't get COVID
and you know, driving your cars around. Well, I'm gonna
tell you this, man, I've lived in Los Angeles fifteen years.
I always tell people you can stand on the carner
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of Doheny and Wilsha and see every popular car in
the world passed that street light within an hour. So
if you're a car junkie or car foodie or a
car guy who just wants to eat up some great
cars and look at them. Beverly Hills, California, my friend,
it's the place to be because they got the cars. Man,
they got car t J. Absolutely absolutely they do. So
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tell us a little bit going uh no, no, we
know you. But you said you're about to go going
you just going somewhere from completely. I was just I
was just no, no, I was just um, I was
just jumping down on what you said. No need to
do that, but yes we can just move forward. But
not no problem. Tell us about your brain, right quick, TJ.
From your words before I get in detail. You know,
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I've got my research, but I al would like people
to tell their story a little bit and let's, uh,
let's break it down and build it up and uh
and let everybody know the journey they got you here
to this interview. No, I appreciate that. So here's the deal.
I'm up again. I'm from like Casey, South Carolina. Some
of the guys man that's listening to this interview, they'll
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know when I say Pokemon, South Carolina. There's a little
area in Casey, South Carolina. I grew up on a
short bus. I grew up stuttering so badly that you know,
people made fun of me. And I was on the
short bus, so you know, the teachers and stuff didn't
think I was that smart, right, So I was on
this spot and it took a long time for me
to figure out that I just had a speech impediment
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and it wasn't that that I wasn't smart. So I
had to work really hard and and grew up to
like a teenage bomb and you know, poor and all
that sort of stuff where man, I didn't have any
bide that was mentoring or sharing knowledge specifically of how
to um achieve financial success, how to be an entrepreneur,
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how to build a business, how to think about things.
So my brand is about taking all the years of
experience that I've had and and a lot of different
ventures and helping other people do startups. How do you
take your business? Uh, take that skill, start your business
and start making money and scaling it so that you
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can build financial freedom and have a business that you're
still proud of. You feel successful because you own it
and something for that, you know, other people to look
at you. So, man, this guy's went okay and I'm
proud of. So that's what my friends about. You know.
You know, I'm very familiar with Columbia South Carolina, Charleston,
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that whole run uh syndicated radio with Steve Harvey for
sixteen years and when our first market was Columbia South
Carolina and so so I played with that many times,
went down and performed in the town town hall down there,
uh center to seats about three thousands. So I'm very
familiar with Columbia South Carolina and uh great people, great food.
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Let's go and put that out there and the great Atmisphere.
So how did you get out of Columbia South Carolina area? Now?
You know, you know, that is an extreme now Todd
Beverly Hills, California and Columbia, South Carolina. Now I know
because I came from fire Forth, which is a which
is the inner city. Six nisters, two brothers, to bedroom,
shotgun house. Father was truck driver. Mom graduated from high school,
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didn't pursue college. So I understand an atmosphere that doesn't
uh play well to opportunity. But opportunity does present itself,
and you were able to take it to take advantage of.
You told us about the short bus. You talked us
about the study. How did the evolution come off? Todd?
T J. Johnson, and man, you know? So for me,
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I was always uh uh, someone that wanted more than
what my environment had, right, I saw in my environment.
I wasn't happy in my environment. I wasn't satisfied with
my environment. And I think a lot of people are
that way. But I think the difference for people that
leave their environment is that they decide that there's something
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more somewhere else, there's something more in a different lifestyle,
even though they haven't experienced at first hand, they haven't
seen it. And so for me, I decided that I
just wanted something different and uh, at a very young age,
and again not knowing what that looks like, you don't know,
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not knowing where that would be. Um. I played basketball
in high school and I thought basketball would get me
through college. And I had a very bad car accident
when I was between my senior and junior year of
high school, and I had anesia and had problems with
my balance and had to be taught my class schedule
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all over again, my being the first Uh, you know,
there's people I didn't recognize. Ever. Again, a lot of
the stuff came back, but some stuff never came back.
But what what remains said fast was the fact that
that I wanted more, but I couldn't use basketball to
get me out of my situation. So I figured I'd
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go off to college and and uh, you know, can
I just be transparent with you here Ray making conversations?
Please do so, man, I'll tell you what you know.
As visited a couple of colleges. I think I went
to William and Mary College and I went to have
to you and to visit and when I went to
Hampton You, I saw so many beautiful sisters that Hampton You.
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I was like, oh my god, if I go to
the school. There's no way I'm gonna get out of college.
I'm just not gonna get out of Coupe. I'm gonna
be get so distracted and it ain't gonna happen. So
I was like, you know what, I could not go
to Hampton You because I could see myself I had
I would always created this vision for my life. Right.
So when I visited hap Fro you thinking, wait a minute,
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I'm not you know, I don't. I don't have everything
together around basketball. So if I'm struggling, I'm gonna be
driving a little I don't know. I have to buy
uh six hundred dollar car, and I gonna have to
work like at my McDonald's and try to go to
college and try not to be distracted by all the
pretty girls. I knew that wasn't gonna work. I didn't
think that I was gonna be successful in that situation.
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So I ended up going in the military. And I
went in the military when I was seventeen years old,
and that was the thing that got me away from home.
But what I knew is I had to leave Pokemon Casey,
South Carolina. And if I left Pokemo Casey, South Carolina,
I knew there was gonna be more opportunity outside of
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the area then there was inside, So I was willing
to go find something different. I'm gonna can be transparent
with you now, let me just tell your story. But
I graduated from the University Houston. Uh I when I
fifteen years old, I had UH My father was a
truck driver. My first job, he sent me to UH
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this truck company and UH I was unloading boxes. So
my mentors were my early mentors of guys who unloaded
boxes and drove forklifts. So despite the high grades, when
I got graduated from high school, I wanted to be
a forklift driver. That's what I wanted to be. And
guess when I graduate high school, I became a forklift driver.
It was happy and then UH then, fortunately for me,
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I didn't know what I was doing and I dropped
the box on a young man's hand, broken and they
fired me. And so I went over the University of
Houston where I eventual graduated. And when I eventually attended,
and I saw those same beautiful women that you saw
at the Universe, it was wensday noon time, neon time,
not now out that inspired me dj to enroll in
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college that that inspired that that visit to that that
new time on the Wednesday at do you See that's
what they called the University center called it. Do you
see got me enrolled at the University Houston and made
me get my math degree. So we all had levels
of inspiration. So I was not I was not taking
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aback by when I saw I was just trying to
see how I can get closer. Uh. And that's how
life is for for for us. You know, we have
these different ventures that we we encounter and they always
affect us different ways. And when I hear your story,
that's why I want to hear the story, because the
story feeds different information when it's when it's uh, when
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it's presented to different people, and when you how we
achieved those different levels of success is what builds us
out and makes us successful overall and allows our dreams
to come true. Because like you, I am a dreamer too.
I just I would look at TV T J and
I'll go, wow, could I do that? And I would
tell you this, man, honest, letting I tell people, I
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pretty much have done most of the things I've dreamed
of in my life as a kid, and and and
I never when people here that they go, who do
you mean? I said, well, you know, when I saw it,
I didn't know how I was going to get there,
But I knew hard work was involved. I knew not
sitting on the sofa was not an option t J.
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I knew that I had to be able to have
people around me, they believed in me, and all those
things that played this self out with me ever since
I've been eighteen years old. What my problem was I
didn't respect the process. In other words, I didn't accept
the responsibility that God gives us these gifts and when
they when these things start, until you don't don't trivialize it,
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don't realize to realize that it's happening because you have
a unique talent. And that's and once I accepted the
fact that I have a unique I had a unique talent,
and these things are happening because of what I can
accomplish and who I am, this success came my way
at a very fast rate, and I understood the pattern
that I had to maintain, the consistency I had to
maintain to be successful. And when I did my research
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on you, you your life tells a very similar story.
Correct yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, I think.
But you know, and you talking to me just now
and telling me a little bit more about your story.
One of the things that jumped out of me is
just being self aware. You know, you saw those women
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you were like, look, I gotta get blows when I
told I'm too weak, I gotta move away just when
you you know, when you were like, um, you said, look, uh,
chief my thing. But now I want to do something different.
For me, I knew like going in the military, right
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was the way to being a different place, to see
some different things. And and you know, I started out
like doing a job that was like like cheap punch operator.
I was like typing in stuff right that that you know,
I thought was uh, just typing in like on these
little cheap punch cards. And then I had the innovator.
But but the other thing that I thought about when
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you were talking was was you said, you watch TV
and you'd be inspired and you would do different things,
and you saw that you sort of want to emulate
some of the success. For me, when I saw TV,
what I saw is very successful people that and I
was I was actually someone that wouldn't watch TV because
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I would see this success, and I would say, I'm
gonna spend already menace an hour or two hours watching
rich people when I'm poor. And so I was like,
you know what, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not
gonna watch rich people when I'm poor. I'm gonna invest
in myself and do some other things so that I
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can not be poor. Right, So to your point is
that the way we deal with these things are are different, right, right.
Way we deal with each circumstances are different. The way
it impacts us are different. And so the two things
in terms of how you dealt with um the inspiration
you saw in the University of Houston and and the
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way you dealt with the inspiration you saw in Houston
was very different than the way I dealt with television
and the way I saw the inspiration in h Hampton University.
So you're absolutely right, my brother, in terms of how
it impacts us differently and how we have to apply
to our own life differently. Absolutely, And that's a really
really deep thing to admit because of what I tried
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not to do is you know, when you work around talent,
and I consider your talent, I want to hear your
story because I, because I I, we're always annoyed me
and the entertainment business especially, we have super talented people
like just throw our name, like a Martin Lawrence or
Dave Chappelle. Just because they have the title of comedian
don't mean they do the same things. And so sometimes
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people try to put them in that same lane or
they're funny, they can do this script maybe not, maybe
not because they approached their thought process of being funny
is different, and so the same thing with you, I
thought press would be I thought process of being successful
is different, and we have to be respected along that
line and realize that our journey to get to the
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findesh line. You may be the tortos, I may be
the hair, but it doesn't matter because we're gonna be
successful because we approached with the mindset of pattern of
gold or being goal or in it. We're planned, driven
people and we're not just dreamers. That is what It's
important that I wanted people to take away from your
brand as well, right t J. Yeah, absolutely, and and
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and so you're you're right. The the what you do
when you when you're dealing with success or anything that
you study was common. Right. Everybody's gonna have a unique story,
a unique way, inspired differently, motivated differently. But the things
that's common are you know, focus, it's you know, setting goals,
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achieving those goals, having a high you know, a high
vision for your life. And I think some people suffer
from not creating a big enough vision for their life.
And I think most of us do, no matter where
we are, uh in terms of our level of success.
A lot of times I look at myself to say, man,
I could have done a lot more if I was
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completed hard, if my vision would have been grander, you know,
even though people might look at me and say, hey, man,
you created some su Yeah, but you know I could
have done there's a lot faster. I could have done
this a lot different if I wasn't scared ear year,
I wasn't having a bigger vision, you know. I I wow,
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you know that statement you just said. I thought about
that so many times. But I often think about it
because of the fact that was already And that's why
I go back to the fact that I said earlier
in our conversation. Sometimes you don't understand who you are.
Sometimes you don't really respect what you can do, and
so I don't so much. Call it fierce growth, and
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so we all grow. That's why I admire when you know,
President Barack Obama ran for presidency of the United States
and he won, but he had to plan on that
when he was in his teens, because he had to
do certain things that they couldn't back and go back
and find. And so people visionaries who get it early.
I always always like, you know, I always get excited
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because Wow, they figured it out so young, and that's amazing.
Where I basically accepted who I was in my faulties
despite all the success I had, t J. I, I
didn't really buy into Rashad McDonald until I was in
my authorities. And when I bought in, boar that that wall,
that that door could not stay closed when I bought in.
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And so so I'm speaking to Todd t J. Nick Mill,
I just call him t J. Todd Johnson. Here's a
program called in High Pursuit. It helps entrepreneurs accelerate the
growth of their ventures. Tell us about that, Todd. Yeah,
So you know, I have. What I do is I
coach people that are building their businesses, trying to scale
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their business, trying to grow their business. Right and uh
a lot of people. Uh, they'll see either getting ready
to start, never starting, waiting waiting for things to be
perfect before they get going, waiting for things to be
perfect before they make an offer to the world. And
you know that's a that's a big problem, right, it's
a big are A lot of other folks they got
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their business is going, but they really created sort of
uh uh eliminates hand and they don't know it means
that they have to go in and open the store
every day, be their selling stuff. And if they're not,
they're not gonna make any money. And when they stop
doing it, the money stops doing. So I want to
make sure that people learn how to work on their
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business and not just in their business right, so that
they can build financial success for the long haul, that
they can feel they can they can make money while
they sleep, so that they can take their spare equity
and their ingenuity and creativity to create something that's going
to allow them to live the way they want. Because
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sometimes people want to build a business and they think,
because I have this business i'm living, I'm gonna build
this lifestyle the we want. Not necessarily, you just don't
eliminated sing. So when they help people scale their business
and so my my, uh, what I do is I
have something called the Success Club. And in the Success
Club is where I meet with folks every couple of weeks,
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you know, face to face as a group, and we
have another terry. Terry then helping people with some of
the technical aspects of marketing. And uh, I'm helping with
the strategy stuff and and obviously the technical stuff as well,
you know, talking through stuff and helping people solve their
problems so that they can grow their businesses and scale
it and so and and it's unique because getting access
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to people that have built businesses, you know, in different industries.
I mean I've had a uh commercial construction business that
I built from scratch, and all the businesses that I've built,
I'm not gone out and gotten people's money in and
and and and build something. I've built businesses that's been
very successful, and I build businesses that spailled and all
of that experience helps me help other people move things
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along a lot faster. So it's called a success club.
And when when you have the word success and and
that that that means a lot to a lot of
different people. You know, there are people who eat who
we need a lot of food that's successful for them
and a buffet, you know. And so you know, athletes,
it could be a forty yard time, you know, lifting weights,
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it could be a dunk. Uh. What is your definition
of success in the entrepreneurial or the business or the
business space when you're talking to individuals who are trying
to get a vision for success. Yeah, So there's levels
to it, right in terms of success that you've already mentioned.
And so I think a sort of a quick, sort
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of uh version of that for me is that, you know,
having building enough financial freedom where you may have ability
to make choices for your life and your family that
prioritizes your happiness and lifestyle over simply surviving. The degree
that you have the ability to do that, like a
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lot of people have to get up and do things
just because they have to do it to pay the
bills and take care of family. Right, So, so because
you know, and so to the degree that you go,
you know what, I can make decisions. I can take
this job, I can move to this location, and and
I have the type of freedom that allows me to
do what makes me happy and takes care of my family,
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makes my family happy and as far as that over over,
you know, just simply surviving. Uh, to the degree that
I can do that, I'm successful. And so there's a
few levers when you look at that. There's the happiness level.
How happy am I doing what I do? And what
my life and and and what my life looks like?
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How much of an impact am I'm making? You know,
I think that's important because we want to be able
to do that. The other one is how much abundance
do I have? You know, a lot of times people
want to think about success and want to take that
out of it, right, And I'm let no man put
abundance in it because abundance is an important thing and
it's something you know that that is, Uh, having an
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abundance versus having lack's really important as well, right, And
so um um, I think those are some of the
levels that are important to move up the skill to
figure out what success is, at least for me and
from a business standpoint, in a business mindset, you know,
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when I when I listened to you talk, and first
of all, thank you for calling the show money making
conversation and sharing your story and your inspiration. And I
I've had an amazing life when I look at the
ability to be able to you know, hanging hanging into
a conversation with a with a motivational coach, and you're
a success coach, and that's something I cannot do. That's
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something I wouldn't pursue. That's just not my lane of
opportunity for me. And as far as important to say,
I may know your conversation tod that on me, I
can do what you do, Okay? What enables you to
do what you do in that lane of being a
success coach? And what what makes you different? What? What? What? What? What? When?
When when I look at you and I come to you,
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and because you have people who come there for stress
coaches and they did athletes who are trying to overcome
depression a lot of times, and but success because a
lot of people fail at it. They fell in life
and they fell in business. How do you how do
you affect people like that and get them going down
the right path? Yeah, So a couple of things. I
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focus on the fund of medals. Just like you know,
if you played basketball, you do anything, well, you know
the thing that you have to do at the fund ofmentals. Now,
when you sit there and you tell somebody, here's what
it takes to be successful. They go, wait, where's the
magic where you know? You know? You know no, and
the secrets are? You know. You gotta focus, you gotta
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you gotta have a clear vision for your life. You
have to focus. You have to have faith that you
can do this thing beyond measure. You know, you can
get this thing done. I was talking to someone, yes
the other day and uh, you're going through a coaching session,
and I was talking of out how expensive it was
to do what he did and how much uh you
know money he was making, but how little went to
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the bottom line. And I said, well, you know, let's
we say, now, let's look at this differently. How can
we do this without spending amount of money. There's no
way to do it. There's no way to do it. Absolutely,
you can't because other people are doing it. Right. So
we talked about it and said, I said, bro, how
about it. How about if you're you know, how about it.
There's a bass drop us, there's some your wife was
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kidnapped and you had to gether out of this situation.
The way you can get it out of the situation
to double your business and in sixty days, how would
you do it? What would you do? What changes would
you make? You have to do this, you have no choice.
Life and death depends on it, right, And so sometimes
when we frame things differently, we can then start to
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different Yeah, they do this all the time because they
have they have you know, they have to respond and
pressure situations. Our business people respond to pressure situation where
the business is gonna God, U gonna fail. It's covid.
Oh man, I gotta do something different otherwise I'm gonna fail.
But sometimes we have to create the pressure so that
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we can come up with the answers that we need
to grow our stuff. But the thing that makes me
different and the things that allows me to to help
people in a different way, is that why I've been
in a lot of different businesses. All of them have
been startups. And because they've been start ups, and it's
been in construction businesses, you know, on the hotel and
restaurant and UH mobile detail and car wash business and
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and obviously detect services and stuff UM and and and
retail and online business. So I've done a lot of
different things, and not all of those things have been successful.
But I can leverage all of that experience to help
other people, and I understand what it needs to kind
of half leaving yourself sometimes or not have other people
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believe in yourself and to be able to break something
down into the small parts and get people to do
a few things. One that's creative vision for themselves, that
that they can believe that, absolutely believe that, and sometimes
those are baby steps and then move them along the
path and then to help them do uh, focus and
eliminate all that other things. A lot of times, especially
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as black people, man, we always want to be mobiles.
Nobody wants to be a millionaire or everybody wants a
good billionaire. It's like, bro, how about we start with
you're making six figures first, and then we should move on,
you know, I want to we start there. And so
everybody wants to be a mobil before they get one
thing going. So people starting three or four different things, right,
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So let's start with one and being successful there and
then and so helping people do that and put the
steps in place and having the constant contact with them
to there to say, okay, brother, you're on the right path. Okay, sister,
now that ain't working. I hear you, but that doesn't
make sense to me and keep will will go around
and circles on an idea that that makes sense to
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anybody but themselves for a long time talk about this
idea and they can't execute on it because it doesn't
make sense, you know, to to anybody. A lot of
times people trying to sell people things they think they
need as opposed to things that people want right and
already know they need. Don't convince them that they need something.
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Tell them stuff that they know they want and that
they need, you know. So So those are some of
the things, man, I know that that was all over
the place, But those are some of the things that
that that I do to help people move along and
stay focused and build their businesses. Awesome, ton, How can
we reach out to your? What social email? Uh? Website?
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How can we reach you? How can we find you? Yeah?
On on social media it's uh t J Millionaire mentor
on Instagram, on Facebook, um even on on YouTube? And
uh for email it's Todd kildd at and hot pursuit
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dot com. That's, uh, I don't know how you's and
is then Nancy and then hot dot com. That's that's
what I got on my paper small in Hot Pursuit
dot com. This is the website. I'll tell you what, Todd,
can you come back on my show? May I've enjoyed this.
You know. I love talking to you because we you know,
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I'm from Houston, you're from South Carolina, where Texas and
Talth Carolina were both from the South. Now we both
have different journeys, but I love the story we tell
because it's very similar, and I approach it just different
decisions we made at different moments that we would ask
to make a decision, and that's what success is all about.
And I also love the fact that you made a
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statement about that person who just coln't see a way
to get past the bottom line. This year, I brought
a young lady into my life, Angel Rich. She was
just working on my brand and she said, we you
need to have a YouTube channel for money making conversation.
That's what it's all there. I don't think that makes
any sense at all. She said, you you, you will
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really excel at that and your brand will hit a
younger demo. And it was the same story. She just
had to tell it to me different where. I launched
it in February and I have to with thirty seven
thousand subscribers of YouTube and my age demo was eighteen
or forty four of them are in that age range,
so it made my my my age demo just went
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way low. Six of my followers on the YouTube channel
or female. So when you made that statement, I found
it very relatable. Sometimes you have to talk to successful
people a different way to let them understand the opportunity.
It's possible. They just have to change the way they think.
That's all you do, and that's what you're doing, and
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it makes you such an amazing success as a success coach.
And I just wanted to share that moment and say
I appreciate how you about what you do because it
happened to me and it made a difference in my life.
It made a difference in my brain and made a
difference in my income. I appreciate that. Man. That's awesome,
And let me say this to you. Thank you for
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what you've done and what you do. People don't know
about people like you, and not enough people know about
people like you. Right my first name. More people should
know your first name. You know, especially people in terms
of you know you're you're the You're the rainmaker. He's
in the rain maker behind the brand, and people don't
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know the strategy and the thought and nuance that goes
into that stuff. So I appreciate what you've done, and
you've done for a long time for for the seeds
of the world and other people. So I appreciate that, man,
And uh and uh. At some point, I'm gonna have
to get your your your restaurant lists for the different
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areas of the country. You know your absolute it. Absolutely
we're gonna talk, man. Like I said, I gotta go
out in l A coming up because of doing some
productions out there, some television ideas and concepts are coming
out there, so I may be out there next month,
So I'll definitely connect with you, man while I'm out there,
just to talk. Man. Like I said, I just love
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fascinating people. I find you'd be a very fascinating person,
a very articulate person. About what it means to be successful,
I've told people many times sometimes success is not defining dollars,
is what you can accomplish, and that's how I shop.
But people say, I said, I I define my success
when I go in the store. If I go in
there and said I want that, and I can pick
it up and I can walk out of the store
with it. Then guess what that's the success level that
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I've achieved to be able to do that, not how
much it costs that I could actually go in there
and say I want that I want with several of
those shoes or that that Taylor shoot or that particular car,
that house. And so you don't define it whether it's
a million or five million, is defined on if you can,
if you can achieve it, and that's what you do
as a success coach, and keep doing what you're doing.
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And you have a fan in me talk. Okay, thank you,
thank you so much for Sean and we talked to it. Okay,
you'll be safe out there, and Beverly Hills Man and
stay after and keep watching them cars because I might
be driving by and one open and the g T
and the g T. Alright, we'll be safe now. Thank
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you for coming on the Money Making Conversation. If you
want to hear more Money Making Conversation interviews, please go
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I am your host.
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I recognize we all have different definitions of success for
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and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their
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I'm going to do for you. I want you to
stop tripping over small challenges and prepared to rise above
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the bigger obstacles that life will present to you. My
next guest, Todd Johnson, has started or helped to start
businesses around the world that include Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean,
and the United States. Although much of Tard's financial success
derives from business, he finds personal success and helping entrepreneurs
would be entrepreneurs and business leaders maximize their earning potential
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through executive coaching and by partnering to help them execute
they go to marketing strategies. That's really important when I
say that taught in Hot Pursuit program helps entrepreneurs accelerate
the growth of their ventures. They exist to serve and
inspire our community by passionately and dillingently creating product, content
and services that matter. Please work with the money making conversation.
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He's straight out of Beverly Hills today Todd T. J.
Johnson had sorry about that. Good morning, Rashan. How you doing,
my friend? Uh l A, that's when some people doing
the pandemic it's goned to be pandemic, uh hot, pandemic
territory out there. How is living in Los Angeles or
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being in Los Angeles which is a part of Beverly
Hills being right now? And it's it's great. I've you know,
I've uh, you know, it's funny you say from Beverly
he knows, and that sounds sounds funny. Introduced me that
way because I'm from South Carolina and Columbia Casey, South Carolina,
low country. That's right, that's right, pokemon, you know. And
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uh and so uh and uh and and I've made
my most of my money. And while I was in Washington, DC,
but man, during this pandemic, I decided to come out
to l A and a lot of time out here
in Beverly Hills. And and you know, have a beautiful
place out here, and uh my team works from this place,
so we're able to quarantine with a group of people
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I love, like am productive with and so it's made
it a lot more fun. And you know, I'm really
into the car culture, love cars, so it's a it's
a great place to be because you can't get COVID
and you know, driving your cars around. Well, I'm gonna
tell you this, man, I've lived in Los Angeles fifteen years.
I always tell people you can stand on the carner
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of Doheny and Wilsha and see every popular car in
the world passed that street light within an hour. So
if you're a car junkie or car foodie or a
car guy who just wants to eat up some great
cars and look at them. Beverly Hills, California, my friend,
it's the place to be because they got the cars. Man,
they got car t J. Absolutely absolutely they do. So
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tell us a little bit going uh no, no, we
know you. But you said you're about to go going
you just going somewhere from completely. I was just I
was just no, no, I was just um, I was
just jumping down on what you said. No need to
do that, but yes we can just move forward. But
not no problem. Tell us about your brain, right quick, TJ.
From your words before I get in detail. You know,
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I've got my research, but I al would like people
to tell their story a little bit and let's, uh,
let's break it down and build it up and uh
and let everybody know the journey they got you here
to this interview. No, I appreciate that. So here's the deal.
I'm up again. I'm from like Casey, South Carolina. Some
of the guys man that's listening to this interview, they'll
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know when I say Pokemon, South Carolina. There's a little
area in Casey, South Carolina. I grew up on a
short bus. I grew up stuttering so badly that you know,
people made fun of me. And I was on the
short bus, so you know, the teachers and stuff didn't
think I was that smart, right, So I was on
this spot and it took a long time for me
to figure out that I just had a speech impediment
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and it wasn't that that I wasn't smart. So I
had to work really hard and and grew up to
like a teenage bomb and you know, poor and all
that sort of stuff where man, I didn't have any
bide that was mentoring or sharing knowledge specifically of how
to um achieve financial success, how to be an entrepreneur,
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how to build a business, how to think about things.
So my brand is about taking all the years of
experience that I've had and and a lot of different
ventures and helping other people do startups. How do you
take your business? Uh, take that skill, start your business
and start making money and scaling it so that you
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can build financial freedom and have a business that you're
still proud of. You feel successful because you own it
and something for that, you know, other people to look
at you. So, man, this guy's went okay and I'm
proud of. So that's what my friends about. You know.
You know, I'm very familiar with Columbia South Carolina, Charleston,
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that whole run uh syndicated radio with Steve Harvey for
sixteen years and when our first market was Columbia South
Carolina and so so I played with that many times,
went down and performed in the town town hall down there,
uh center to seats about three thousands. So I'm very
familiar with Columbia South Carolina and uh great people, great food.
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Let's go and put that out there and the great Atmisphere.
So how did you get out of Columbia South Carolina area? Now?
You know, you know, that is an extreme now Todd
Beverly Hills, California and Columbia, South Carolina. Now I know
because I came from fire Forth, which is a which
is the inner city. Six nisters, two brothers, to bedroom,
shotgun house. Father was truck driver. Mom graduated from high school,
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didn't pursue college. So I understand an atmosphere that doesn't
uh play well to opportunity. But opportunity does present itself,
and you were able to take it to take advantage of.
You told us about the short bus. You talked us
about the study. How did the evolution come off? Todd?
T J. Johnson, and man, you know? So for me,
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I was always uh uh, someone that wanted more than
what my environment had, right, I saw in my environment.
I wasn't happy in my environment. I wasn't satisfied with
my environment. And I think a lot of people are
that way. But I think the difference for people that
leave their environment is that they decide that there's something
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more somewhere else, there's something more in a different lifestyle,
even though they haven't experienced at first hand, they haven't
seen it. And so for me, I decided that I
just wanted something different and uh, at a very young age,
and again not knowing what that looks like, you don't know,
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not knowing where that would be. Um. I played basketball
in high school and I thought basketball would get me
through college. And I had a very bad car accident
when I was between my senior and junior year of
high school, and I had anesia and had problems with
my balance and had to be taught my class schedule
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all over again, my being the first Uh, you know,
there's people I didn't recognize. Ever. Again, a lot of
the stuff came back, but some stuff never came back.
But what what remains said fast was the fact that
that I wanted more, but I couldn't use basketball to
get me out of my situation. So I figured I'd
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go off to college and and uh, you know, can
I just be transparent with you here Ray making conversations?
Please do so, man, I'll tell you what you know.
As visited a couple of colleges. I think I went
to William and Mary College and I went to have
to you and to visit and when I went to
Hampton You, I saw so many beautiful sisters that Hampton You.
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I was like, oh my god, if I go to
the school. There's no way I'm gonna get out of college.
I'm just not gonna get out of Coupe. I'm gonna
be get so distracted and it ain't gonna happen. So
I was like, you know what, I could not go
to Hampton You because I could see myself I had
I would always created this vision for my life. Right.
So when I visited hap Fro you thinking, wait a minute,
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I'm not you know, I don't. I don't have everything
together around basketball. So if I'm struggling, I'm gonna be
driving a little I don't know. I have to buy
uh six hundred dollar car, and I gonna have to
work like at my McDonald's and try to go to
college and try not to be distracted by all the
pretty girls. I knew that wasn't gonna work. I didn't
think that I was gonna be successful in that situation.
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So I ended up going in the military. And I
went in the military when I was seventeen years old,
and that was the thing that got me away from home.
But what I knew is I had to leave Pokemon Casey,
South Carolina. And if I left Pokemo Casey, South Carolina,
I knew there was gonna be more opportunity outside of
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the area then there was inside, So I was willing
to go find something different. I'm gonna can be transparent
with you now, let me just tell your story. But
I graduated from the University Houston. Uh I when I
fifteen years old, I had UH My father was a
truck driver. My first job, he sent me to UH
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this truck company and UH I was unloading boxes. So
my mentors were my early mentors of guys who unloaded
boxes and drove forklifts. So despite the high grades, when
I got graduated from high school, I wanted to be
a forklift driver. That's what I wanted to be. And
guess when I graduate high school, I became a forklift driver.
It was happy and then UH then, fortunately for me,
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I didn't know what I was doing and I dropped
the box on a young man's hand, broken and they
fired me. And so I went over the University of
Houston where I eventual graduated. And when I eventually attended,
and I saw those same beautiful women that you saw
at the Universe, it was wensday noon time, neon time,
not now out that inspired me dj to enroll in
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college that that inspired that that visit to that that
new time on the Wednesday at do you See that's
what they called the University center called it. Do you
see got me enrolled at the University Houston and made
me get my math degree. So we all had levels
of inspiration. So I was not I was not taking
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aback by when I saw I was just trying to
see how I can get closer. Uh. And that's how
life is for for for us. You know, we have
these different ventures that we we encounter and they always
affect us different ways. And when I hear your story,
that's why I want to hear the story, because the
story feeds different information when it's when it's uh, when
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it's presented to different people, and when you how we
achieved those different levels of success is what builds us
out and makes us successful overall and allows our dreams
to come true. Because like you, I am a dreamer too.
I just I would look at TV T J and
I'll go, wow, could I do that? And I would
tell you this, man, honest, letting I tell people, I
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pretty much have done most of the things I've dreamed
of in my life as a kid, and and and
I never when people here that they go, who do
you mean? I said, well, you know, when I saw it,
I didn't know how I was going to get there,
But I knew hard work was involved. I knew not
sitting on the sofa was not an option t J.
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I knew that I had to be able to have
people around me, they believed in me, and all those
things that played this self out with me ever since
I've been eighteen years old. What my problem was I
didn't respect the process. In other words, I didn't accept
the responsibility that God gives us these gifts and when
they when these things start, until you don't don't trivialize it,
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don't realize to realize that it's happening because you have
a unique talent. And that's and once I accepted the
fact that I have a unique I had a unique talent,
and these things are happening because of what I can
accomplish and who I am, this success came my way
at a very fast rate, and I understood the pattern
that I had to maintain, the consistency I had to
maintain to be successful. And when I did my research
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on you, you your life tells a very similar story.
Correct yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, I think.
But you know, and you talking to me just now
and telling me a little bit more about your story.
One of the things that jumped out of me is
just being self aware. You know, you saw those women
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you were like, look, I gotta get blows when I
told I'm too weak, I gotta move away just when
you you know, when you were like, um, you said, look, uh,
chief my thing. But now I want to do something different.
For me, I knew like going in the military, right
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was the way to being a different place, to see
some different things. And and you know, I started out
like doing a job that was like like cheap punch operator.
I was like typing in stuff right that that you know,
I thought was uh, just typing in like on these
little cheap punch cards. And then I had the innovator.
But but the other thing that I thought about when
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you were talking was was you said, you watch TV
and you'd be inspired and you would do different things,
and you saw that you sort of want to emulate
some of the success. For me, when I saw TV,
what I saw is very successful people that and I
was I was actually someone that wouldn't watch TV because
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I would see this success, and I would say, I'm
gonna spend already menace an hour or two hours watching
rich people when I'm poor. And so I was like,
you know what, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not
gonna watch rich people when I'm poor. I'm gonna invest
in myself and do some other things so that I
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can not be poor. Right, So to your point is
that the way we deal with these things are are different, right, right.
Way we deal with each circumstances are different. The way
it impacts us are different. And so the two things
in terms of how you dealt with um the inspiration
you saw in the University of Houston and and the
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way you dealt with the inspiration you saw in Houston
was very different than the way I dealt with television
and the way I saw the inspiration in h Hampton University.
So you're absolutely right, my brother, in terms of how
it impacts us differently and how we have to apply
to our own life differently. Absolutely, And that's a really
really deep thing to admit because of what I tried
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not to do is you know, when you work around talent,
and I consider your talent, I want to hear your
story because I, because I I, we're always annoyed me
and the entertainment business especially, we have super talented people
like just throw our name, like a Martin Lawrence or
Dave Chappelle. Just because they have the title of comedian
don't mean they do the same things. And so sometimes
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people try to put them in that same lane or
they're funny, they can do this script maybe not, maybe
not because they approached their thought process of being funny
is different, and so the same thing with you, I
thought press would be I thought process of being successful
is different, and we have to be respected along that
line and realize that our journey to get to the
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findesh line. You may be the tortos, I may be
the hair, but it doesn't matter because we're gonna be
successful because we approached with the mindset of pattern of
gold or being goal or in it. We're planned, driven
people and we're not just dreamers. That is what It's
important that I wanted people to take away from your
brand as well, right t J. Yeah, absolutely, and and
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and so you're you're right. The the what you do
when you when you're dealing with success or anything that
you study was common. Right. Everybody's gonna have a unique story,
a unique way, inspired differently, motivated differently. But the things
that's common are you know, focus, it's you know, setting goals,
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achieving those goals, having a high you know, a high
vision for your life. And I think some people suffer
from not creating a big enough vision for their life.
And I think most of us do, no matter where
we are, uh in terms of our level of success.
A lot of times I look at myself to say, man,
I could have done a lot more if I was
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completed hard, if my vision would have been grander, you know,
even though people might look at me and say, hey, man,
you created some su Yeah, but you know I could
have done there's a lot faster. I could have done
this a lot different if I wasn't scared ear year,
I wasn't having a bigger vision, you know. I I wow,
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you know that statement you just said. I thought about
that so many times. But I often think about it
because of the fact that was already And that's why
I go back to the fact that I said earlier
in our conversation. Sometimes you don't understand who you are.
Sometimes you don't really respect what you can do, and
so I don't so much. Call it fierce growth, and
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so we all grow. That's why I admire when you know,
President Barack Obama ran for presidency of the United States
and he won, but he had to plan on that
when he was in his teens, because he had to
do certain things that they couldn't back and go back
and find. And so people visionaries who get it early.
I always always like, you know, I always get excited
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because Wow, they figured it out so young, and that's amazing.
Where I basically accepted who I was in my faulties
despite all the success I had, t J. I, I
didn't really buy into Rashad McDonald until I was in
my authorities. And when I bought in, boar that that wall,
that that door could not stay closed when I bought in.
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And so so I'm speaking to Todd t J. Nick Mill,
I just call him t J. Todd Johnson. Here's a
program called in High Pursuit. It helps entrepreneurs accelerate the
growth of their ventures. Tell us about that, Todd. Yeah,
So you know, I have. What I do is I
coach people that are building their businesses, trying to scale
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their business, trying to grow their business. Right and uh
a lot of people. Uh, they'll see either getting ready
to start, never starting, waiting waiting for things to be
perfect before they get going, waiting for things to be
perfect before they make an offer to the world. And
you know that's a that's a big problem, right, it's
a big are A lot of other folks they got
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their business is going, but they really created sort of
uh uh eliminates hand and they don't know it means
that they have to go in and open the store
every day, be their selling stuff. And if they're not,
they're not gonna make any money. And when they stop
doing it, the money stops doing. So I want to
make sure that people learn how to work on their
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business and not just in their business right, so that
they can build financial success for the long haul, that
they can feel they can they can make money while
they sleep, so that they can take their spare equity
and their ingenuity and creativity to create something that's going
to allow them to live the way they want. Because
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sometimes people want to build a business and they think,
because I have this business i'm living, I'm gonna build
this lifestyle the we want. Not necessarily, you just don't
eliminated sing. So when they help people scale their business
and so my my, uh, what I do is I
have something called the Success Club. And in the Success
Club is where I meet with folks every couple of weeks,
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you know, face to face as a group, and we
have another terry. Terry then helping people with some of
the technical aspects of marketing. And uh, I'm helping with
the strategy stuff and and obviously the technical stuff as well,
you know, talking through stuff and helping people solve their
problems so that they can grow their businesses and scale
it and so and and it's unique because getting access
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to people that have built businesses, you know, in different industries.
I mean I've had a uh commercial construction business that
I built from scratch, and all the businesses that I've built,
I'm not gone out and gotten people's money in and
and and and build something. I've built businesses that's been
very successful, and I build businesses that spailled and all
of that experience helps me help other people move things
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along a lot faster. So it's called a success club.
And when when you have the word success and and
that that that means a lot to a lot of
different people. You know, there are people who eat who
we need a lot of food that's successful for them
and a buffet, you know. And so you know, athletes,
it could be a forty yard time, you know, lifting weights,
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it could be a dunk. Uh. What is your definition
of success in the entrepreneurial or the business or the
business space when you're talking to individuals who are trying
to get a vision for success. Yeah, So there's levels
to it, right in terms of success that you've already mentioned.
And so I think a sort of a quick, sort
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of uh version of that for me is that, you know,
having building enough financial freedom where you may have ability
to make choices for your life and your family that
prioritizes your happiness and lifestyle over simply surviving. The degree
that you have the ability to do that, like a
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lot of people have to get up and do things
just because they have to do it to pay the
bills and take care of family. Right, So, so because
you know, and so to the degree that you go,
you know what, I can make decisions. I can take
this job, I can move to this location, and and
I have the type of freedom that allows me to
do what makes me happy and takes care of my family,
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makes my family happy and as far as that over over,
you know, just simply surviving. Uh, to the degree that
I can do that, I'm successful. And so there's a
few levers when you look at that. There's the happiness level.
How happy am I doing what I do? And what
my life and and and what my life looks like?
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How much of an impact am I'm making? You know,
I think that's important because we want to be able
to do that. The other one is how much abundance
do I have? You know, a lot of times people
want to think about success and want to take that
out of it, right, And I'm let no man put
abundance in it because abundance is an important thing and
it's something you know that that is, Uh, having an
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abundance versus having lack's really important as well, right, And
so um um, I think those are some of the
levels that are important to move up the skill to
figure out what success is, at least for me and
from a business standpoint, in a business mindset, you know,
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when I when I listened to you talk, and first
of all, thank you for calling the show money making
conversation and sharing your story and your inspiration. And I
I've had an amazing life when I look at the
ability to be able to you know, hanging hanging into
a conversation with a with a motivational coach, and you're
a success coach, and that's something I cannot do. That's
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something I wouldn't pursue. That's just not my lane of
opportunity for me. And as far as important to say,
I may know your conversation tod that on me, I
can do what you do, Okay? What enables you to
do what you do in that lane of being a
success coach? And what what makes you different? What? What? What? What? What? When?
When when I look at you and I come to you,
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and because you have people who come there for stress
coaches and they did athletes who are trying to overcome
depression a lot of times, and but success because a
lot of people fail at it. They fell in life
and they fell in business. How do you how do
you affect people like that and get them going down
the right path? Yeah, So a couple of things. I
(24:22):
focus on the fund of medals. Just like you know,
if you played basketball, you do anything, well, you know
the thing that you have to do at the fund ofmentals. Now,
when you sit there and you tell somebody, here's what
it takes to be successful. They go, wait, where's the
magic where you know? You know? You know no, and
the secrets are? You know. You gotta focus, you gotta
(24:43):
you gotta have a clear vision for your life. You
have to focus. You have to have faith that you
can do this thing beyond measure. You know, you can
get this thing done. I was talking to someone, yes
the other day and uh, you're going through a coaching session,
and I was talking of out how expensive it was
to do what he did and how much uh you
know money he was making, but how little went to
(25:06):
the bottom line. And I said, well, you know, let's
we say, now, let's look at this differently. How can
we do this without spending amount of money. There's no
way to do it. There's no way to do it. Absolutely,
you can't because other people are doing it. Right. So
we talked about it and said, I said, bro, how
about it. How about if you're you know, how about it.
There's a bass drop us, there's some your wife was
(25:29):
kidnapped and you had to gether out of this situation.
The way you can get it out of the situation
to double your business and in sixty days, how would
you do it? What would you do? What changes would
you make? You have to do this, you have no choice.
Life and death depends on it, right, And so sometimes
when we frame things differently, we can then start to
(25:54):
different Yeah, they do this all the time because they
have they have you know, they have to respond and
pressure situations. Our business people respond to pressure situation where
the business is gonna God, U gonna fail. It's covid.
Oh man, I gotta do something different otherwise I'm gonna fail.
But sometimes we have to create the pressure so that
(26:15):
we can come up with the answers that we need
to grow our stuff. But the thing that makes me
different and the things that allows me to to help
people in a different way, is that why I've been
in a lot of different businesses. All of them have
been startups. And because they've been start ups, and it's
been in construction businesses, you know, on the hotel and
restaurant and UH mobile detail and car wash business and
(26:38):
and obviously detect services and stuff UM and and and
retail and online business. So I've done a lot of
different things, and not all of those things have been successful.
But I can leverage all of that experience to help
other people, and I understand what it needs to kind
of half leaving yourself sometimes or not have other people
(26:59):
believe in yourself and to be able to break something
down into the small parts and get people to do
a few things. One that's creative vision for themselves, that
that they can believe that, absolutely believe that, and sometimes
those are baby steps and then move them along the
path and then to help them do uh, focus and
eliminate all that other things. A lot of times, especially
(27:21):
as black people, man, we always want to be mobiles.
Nobody wants to be a millionaire or everybody wants a
good billionaire. It's like, bro, how about we start with
you're making six figures first, and then we should move on,
you know, I want to we start there. And so
everybody wants to be a mobil before they get one
thing going. So people starting three or four different things, right,
(27:42):
So let's start with one and being successful there and
then and so helping people do that and put the
steps in place and having the constant contact with them
to there to say, okay, brother, you're on the right path. Okay, sister,
now that ain't working. I hear you, but that doesn't
make sense to me and keep will will go around
and circles on an idea that that makes sense to
(28:03):
anybody but themselves for a long time talk about this
idea and they can't execute on it because it doesn't
make sense, you know, to to anybody. A lot of
times people trying to sell people things they think they
need as opposed to things that people want right and
already know they need. Don't convince them that they need something.
(28:23):
Tell them stuff that they know they want and that
they need, you know. So So those are some of
the things, man, I know that that was all over
the place, But those are some of the things that
that that I do to help people move along and
stay focused and build their businesses. Awesome, ton, How can
we reach out to your? What social email? Uh? Website?
(28:44):
How can we reach you? How can we find you? Yeah?
On on social media it's uh t J Millionaire mentor
on Instagram, on Facebook, um even on on YouTube? And
uh for email it's Todd kildd at and hot pursuit
(29:05):
dot com. That's, uh, I don't know how you's and
is then Nancy and then hot dot com. That's that's
what I got on my paper small in Hot Pursuit
dot com. This is the website. I'll tell you what, Todd,
can you come back on my show? May I've enjoyed this.
You know. I love talking to you because we you know,
(29:26):
I'm from Houston, you're from South Carolina, where Texas and
Talth Carolina were both from the South. Now we both
have different journeys, but I love the story we tell
because it's very similar, and I approach it just different
decisions we made at different moments that we would ask
to make a decision, and that's what success is all about.
And I also love the fact that you made a
(29:48):
statement about that person who just coln't see a way
to get past the bottom line. This year, I brought
a young lady into my life, Angel Rich. She was
just working on my brand and she said, we you
need to have a YouTube channel for money making conversation.
That's what it's all there. I don't think that makes
any sense at all. She said, you you, you will
(30:08):
really excel at that and your brand will hit a
younger demo. And it was the same story. She just
had to tell it to me different where. I launched
it in February and I have to with thirty seven
thousand subscribers of YouTube and my age demo was eighteen
or forty four of them are in that age range,
so it made my my my age demo just went
(30:31):
way low. Six of my followers on the YouTube channel
or female. So when you made that statement, I found
it very relatable. Sometimes you have to talk to successful
people a different way to let them understand the opportunity.
It's possible. They just have to change the way they think.
That's all you do, and that's what you're doing, and
(30:52):
it makes you such an amazing success as a success coach.
And I just wanted to share that moment and say
I appreciate how you about what you do because it
happened to me and it made a difference in my life.
It made a difference in my brain and made a
difference in my income. I appreciate that. Man. That's awesome,
And let me say this to you. Thank you for
(31:13):
what you've done and what you do. People don't know
about people like you, and not enough people know about
people like you. Right my first name. More people should
know your first name. You know, especially people in terms
of you know you're you're the You're the rainmaker. He's
in the rain maker behind the brand, and people don't
(31:34):
know the strategy and the thought and nuance that goes
into that stuff. So I appreciate what you've done, and
you've done for a long time for for the seeds
of the world and other people. So I appreciate that, man,
And uh and uh. At some point, I'm gonna have
to get your your your restaurant lists for the different
(31:57):
areas of the country. You know your absolute it. Absolutely
we're gonna talk, man. Like I said, I gotta go
out in l A coming up because of doing some
productions out there, some television ideas and concepts are coming
out there, so I may be out there next month,
So I'll definitely connect with you, man while I'm out there,
just to talk. Man. Like I said, I just love
(32:17):
fascinating people. I find you'd be a very fascinating person,
a very articulate person. About what it means to be successful,
I've told people many times sometimes success is not defining dollars,
is what you can accomplish, and that's how I shop.
But people say, I said, I I define my success
when I go in the store. If I go in
there and said I want that, and I can pick
it up and I can walk out of the store
with it. Then guess what that's the success level that
(32:39):
I've achieved to be able to do that, not how
much it costs that I could actually go in there
and say I want that I want with several of
those shoes or that that Taylor shoot or that particular car,
that house. And so you don't define it whether it's
a million or five million, is defined on if you can,
if you can achieve it, and that's what you do
as a success coach, and keep doing what you're doing.
(33:02):
And you have a fan in me talk. Okay, thank you,
thank you so much for Sean and we talked to it. Okay,
you'll be safe out there, and Beverly Hills Man and
stay after and keep watching them cars because I might
be driving by and one open and the g T
and the g T. Alright, we'll be safe now. Thank
(33:23):
you for coming on the Money Making Conversation. If you
want to hear more Money Making Conversation interviews, please go
to money Making Conversation dot com. I am Roshan McDonald.
I am your host.
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