Harvest Success: Reaping the Blessings of Dedication & Blueprints Feat. Jay Hill

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All right, y'all, and firstof all, I apologize for last week
how I skipped out on the trackeights far as intro like this, but
you know, things happen anyway.We are back also, and forgive me
for last week we skipped an episode. I gave y'all an unexpected break.
Again, things happen, but we'reback for track nine with a hot fire

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one. This one I feel likealigns with the time because it's talking about
harvesting success and we're on the ninthtrack and the other stage of the plant,
and it features the one and onlyJay Hill. All Right, this
dude is killing the game. Amogul in the podcast industry. He's been
getting he's been getting all the hotfire interviews. This episode, we picked

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his brain about how to his dailyroutine, his goals of his network,
talked about how he even got intothe media field that he's in. What
was it like hosting college events toachieve fame with how to invest in personal
development, some tips and tricks onhow to do that so that even of
course, everybody not a podcast,but we all about personal development and growth,

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so he definitely talks about that.Also talking about you know, the
risk of having unrealistic you know,expectations and kind of things that our family
may try to challenge us on.Not even just our family, just us
in general. Sometimes we challenge ourselveslike do we think we can do that?
And sometimes you can do more thanyou realize. So we talk about
a lot in this episode, andI think it's great to also tie and

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hide all correlates with mental health,because personal growth is definitely mental health,
especially when it comes to growing thingsthat you want to do. So as
I always sit back, relax andenjoy, and it just phasees. Right.

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Faith is what you what You can'treally see what you believe in,
right, And that's just that's justwhat it is. Like this ain't This
wasn't an overnight thing. I meanwe're talking about like six seven years Like
this ain't just some you feel me? But I mean if that was to
come up, I can see itbeing frustrating because I do work. All
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on everybody. We hadn't been goingon what eight weeks strong. Last week
was a good one. We talkedabout finish up, talking about, you
know, just to where the menhave we don't feel that we have an
outlet, and we touched on shoutout to my boys, see your mikeel
who pulled up on us last weekand we talked about that. We talked
about you know, a lot ofthese alpha male podcast is how they right

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direction. Sometimes they their way ofgoing to buy it ain't the best.
But as I keep saying, ifwe don't have somebody to speak up for
the men who will, that's whythe society has been the way it is.
And unless people come to speak up, it's gonna keep being like that.
So keep that in mind. Thisone is gonna be a good one.
This one follow us off of lastweek's episode, and basically we're talking

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about this week producing harvesting all thatgood stuff when it comes to that part
of the plant industry. Plant tracknine and after this one, we only
got two tracks left. All right, I ain't gonna I don't know yet
if we're gonna do it deluxe.We may or we may not. We
gotta see. But let's get intothis week's mean. The meme reads for
the week, your time and hardwork and tire of you to enjoy the

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fruits of your labor, regardless ofwhether others recognize or approve of your efforts.
So keep that in mind whenever youfeel as though somebody trying to tell
you don't deserve it or you don'tfeel as though it is your time because
you didn't put it in the work, And now's the time, all right.
Inspirations for this week come from dueto rounding twenty eight twelve, the
Lord will open the heavens the storehouseof his bounty, to send rain or

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your landing season, and to blessthe work of your hands. You would
lend too many nations, and youwere barred from none. And also a
video I watched today talking about beingreplanted and all that good stuff. So
let's go ahead and jump into everybody'sfavorite segment, Happy Hour. All right,
So today it's Happy Hour. It'ssome things. I got to talk
about something I had just seen whatmaybe was it two hours ago? It

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was a topic about they're now sayingtrans racial. Now I saw something.
The first thing that popped it offwas his dude, and he decided that
he wanted to identify as a dog, and he got the surgery done to
do it. And when he gotit, he, I mean, it
was clear he wasn't a dog,but he identified as a dog. He

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made his family call on that,and I think he only responded in wolfs
and barks. He didn't respond byactual language, So I thought that was
interesting, and then it led intothe debate or the conversation about transracial which
some girl, fifteen year old girl, decided that she changed her name.
She felt that she identified better withbeing a Japanese girl, and she said
it was something that you could readand when you read it, it basically

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told you that if you keep readingthis every day, kind of like I
get some fake affirmations type stuff.And they said, if you keep reading
it every single day, that youreyes were gone. She said her eyes
started to slant in her job wasgonna start to like shrink and all types
of stuff so that she can becomea Japanese girl. I thought that was
interesting and that it's interesting to figureout where we're going in society now.

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Some people will say, like,because if you had an ass to people,
our parents and them thirty years ago, that people was gonna be able
to say I'm a man, identifyas a woman or a woman as identify
as a man, or that you'renow binary, that would they would have
told you that would never happened.And now the next step is we're seeing
the beginning stages of the transracial thing. Now I know Rachel what's her name,

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Rachel Dozela, Dezela something would havebe Rachel d the lady who pretended
to be a black woman out ofthem years ago it was an NAACP and
then she got busted. I betshe's somewhere talking about something. Told they're
gonna let her say nigga now,because that's gonna be the next battle.
That's gonna be the next battle,because now it's gonna be on some If
I identify as black but I'm reallywhite, then it's gonna be the battle

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of who can say the end wordor who came That's something we gotta keep
in mind because I'm interested to seewhere that goes. But that's just something
to think about. So if I'mblack and I just say one morning I
wake up and I said, oh, I want to identify as a white
man, how does that work like? And then and I'm telling y'all,
it's statistics for it, and it'sa whole board and it'll tell you how

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to go about it it literally,and I'm gonna find it. I'm gonna
ask up the clipping this video sayI and see it, and y'all gonna
look at it. It's crazy.It's like a legit thing, and it's
like, who be making this stuff. That's something to think about. Keep
that in mind because we're gonna getback on that later. Now other part
of Happy hour of the day,I want to talk about what I've been
doing. So basically, y'all knowPSA the met to a podcast, and

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then you know in the ad thatyou see every episode, PSA the ghost
writing Solution. So somebody asked mewhat I'll did that entail, and I
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for you. Whatever you need,we can do. It started off as
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and they didn't transferred in this wholething, and it's crazy how much
cliente I've been getting because of it. So I got we gotta keep the
ball rolling because I need more tryingto be real, but even with that,
I remember a story about what wasit? Years ago? I had
somebody when I was doing people homeworkfour full time, and I remember I

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had somebody who acted as if andthis is a lesson to somebody. Always
have evidence of everything that you're doing. Every business person, keep the receipts
of everything, because you just neverknow what might happen. So I guess
this girl decided that she was tryingto like get an assignment done. She
got it done this before I gotsterned. She got her assignment done,
and then I didn't hear from likeshe got done. She was like,

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Okay, I'm gonna pay you ina minute. So I'm hit her up,
like hey, okay, when you'regonna pay you know this before I
took half of not all at first, So then she was like okay,
I'm she said, I'm gonna sendyou the money a minute. She didn't
respond. End up being two dayslater. Right, So what idea was
I constructed? I screenshot it allof our text messages because obviously I was

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pretending to I was pretended to beher, so I was in her class.
I had to log in and everything, and so I sent her a
final screen. I kept text her. She wouldn't respond. I sent her
a screenshot of all of the messagesthat I have met between me and her,
and then sent her a template ofwhat I was about to say to
her teacher. That message was onlysent for not even five not even three

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minutes, and she texted back andthen sent and the cash if thing went
off. My issue is, whydo I have to do all that for
you to do that now? Again, y'all are you probably thinking, you
stupid? You shouldn't have got didassign at first? You're right, but
that was like four years ago.Even no matter what we do now,
we take at least half the moneyfirst, So keep that in mind.
But that's something that's also something elseto think about. And for all these

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business people out here who trying todo multiple things, always keep evidence of
everything. Learn from my mistakes andto that leads into today's guests. I
write your soul. This is somebodywho was going crazy in the podcast world.
He don't have I believe some tipsand tricks and you fee y'all in
some things about his life that ithelped y'all to advanced. When it's your

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personal development, all right, we'regoing crazy today and another virtual episode,
and I got to introduce my boy, the mogul, mister J. Hill.
What's going on? What up dog? How you feeling? Man?
Man, it's good good, Sothank you for pulling up. But you

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know what it is. Yeah,so I just introduced you, but I
have to do it again just formy audio people. So tell the people.
What's your name, where you're from, and where you live? Now?
Oh, man, what's good man? I'm J Hill from Baltimore.
I'm actually actually reside in Atlanta rightnow. You know podcaster h fiance father.

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You know, just a good agood dude, I would like to
say, for sure, for sure. So now you got the podcast network,
You've got all your things you've beendoing. We're gonna get more into
it later, but you built aname for yourself and you definitely started to
see the results of it. Now, don't get too We're not gonna get

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too deep into it at the moment. But I want you to say,
if you could tell talk to yourself, or say maybe three words to yourself
from five years ago, what wouldyou say three words to myself? Uh,
five years ago? It's funny becauseit would probably be the same thing

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I would say to myself, now, take out your emotions. Take out
your emotions, man for sure.Okay, okay, bet so we don't
get into that a little letter too, But now you didn't made like I
just said, I'm gonna keep sayingit, made a name for yourself.
Entertainment holds, radio personality, motivationalspeaker. How do these very roles intersect?

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And what common threads have you foundand engage in and energizing audiences?
They intersect. It's funny not tosound too like arrogant and nothing like that.
I think they just intersect with me, right because like when even when
I hear you say motivational speaking,that's nothing that I do intentionally, Like
I never put that on my resume, right, but it's something that you

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saw in me by the grice ofGod. And I'm I'm arnored by you
even putting that as a title.But that's just something like you know,
when I go through something, Idon't want people to go through the same
thing I go through, So Ijust give the game so they don't have
to go through it, because Iwish somebody is death for me and hosting
h I think you said what entertainer, Yeah, right, So and and

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that is just, you know,being the host. It's just somebody I
am. Even if I wasn't hostingin the club, if I wasn't hosting
parties. I love to host thingsat my house at the crib, even
sometimes when my girl be like nottoday, like I don't want nobody over
here. I don't feel like it, Like I'm just naturally that's naturally who
I am. Like I always wantto be like that, not even want
to be I'm always naturally the lifeof the party, you know what I'm
saying, Like just just having fun. So I think they in the sect

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through me pause if that makes sense, because it's like those are all who
I am. So I'm really justbeing myself, you know for sure.
And that's the thing. And evenwhat you're talking about, how it's just
in you and some people guided assome people don't. So how did you
hone that skill that was already there? Bro Honestly, And I don't want

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to be too cliche, but Ilike I hone in on it just by
just not giving up because a lotof times, a lot of things,
a lot of skills we have,we have the skill, but we don't
nurture the skill, and only wayto nurture the skill is just continue to
grow. Right, That's why Iwant people ask me for advice and things
like that. Sometimes my advice cancome off as cliche, and I say

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it come off as cliche because itworks. It's cliche for a reason,
right, it's cliche, but becauseclearly it's been proven to work. So
a lot of times I don't liketo give people criticism because the same criticism
or the same critiques I can begiven to somebody can be the same reason
why they flourished, which was withme. Right, So to answer the
question, I hone then on thosegifts. But I just continue to go

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and as I continue to go,well, well, then I will continue
to grow as long as I keepgoing, right, because I learned from
my mistakes, I continue to failand I continue to fail forward. Right,
it ain't about failings about how youfeel. Right, I'm failing forward,
I make a mistake, I learnfrom it, and I keep going.
But if I don't keep going,then I can't really nurture that,
if that makes sense. So nomatter what place, no matter what stage

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I am in my life, Icould I always give, I always put
something towards my dreams each and everyday, if that makes sense. So
that's how I really nurture it.And of course studying looking at YouTube videos
and all that to as well.Oh yeah, yeah, and for sure
I got some notes on that lettertoo. But it's just kind of like
that hole. If it first youdon't succeed, it's sound coining to dust
yourself off. Right. So now, because there's the industry point series,

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and I'm gonna ask a few questions. There's no right or wrong guess,
but if you could be a plant, what point would you be? And
why? I don't know. Uh, I don't even know the name of
the plant. Uh, what's theI think, what's a tulip? That's
the first thing that came my mind. I don't know what that look like?

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Is that that's not the purple one, is it? It grows it,
It starts as white and it opensup in the blossoms, and it's
I think that's what I would bemaybe because like first, when you first
look at it just looks so plain, but then as it continues to grow,
become something beautiful, right, Andthat's you are what's inside of you,
not what's on you, Right,it's about what you got inside here.

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So I will say that because atfirst glisce. If it's not,
If it's not, if it didn'tgrow, you don't know what it's going
to be. It's just look likea white plant. It's like, okay,
and I think they stink and allthat. It's just it's not the
most appealing, right, But assoon as it blossoms, its beautiful.
It's like I want that in myin my house. I want that a
part of my aesthetic for sure.All right, bet So the next I

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got a few words, and Iwant you to tell me the first thing
that comes to mind. There's noright or wrong game. So you're ready,
all right? When you hear theword harvest, what's the first thing
that comes to mind? Of course, like a field, like a not
a corn field, but you knowwhen you're growing crop set and things like

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that, and when it's time toharvest, it's time that go get it
out. I think is ready.I'm assuming. I'm not really sure,
but that's what the first thing Ithink of. Now, you're right,
define success. Success. Success isreally what you make it. Man.
It's cliche as sad, but it'sreally about how you feel in the inside.
Man, It's really about how happyyou are. Because I can have

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I can have what everybody deemed tobe success. But if I'm not happy,
then am I really successful? Thatmakes sense. So the moment you
can find peace in yourself, that'swhen you really can be happy because you
will be okay with whatever you got. And even that's something that I'm striving
for. Like, yeah, Iwant the money, I want the freedom
that comes with success, for sure, But imagine if I could find entered

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peace with myself, if I gotthe money or not, I would be
happy. And I think that.I think that's really what success is.
Definitely, definitely all right. Andthen the last one's personal growth. What
comes to mind with you? Thatpersonal growth? It's all about you,
right. I've seen a video ofthe day and the guy was talking about
motion versus progress. Right. Alot of times you look at somebody.

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You can be walking in pace andyeah, I mean you got motion,
but what are you doing with thatmotion? But progress is I'm walking towards
something. That's what progress is.And that's what I think about personal growth.
It ain't know, it ain't aboutwhat nobody else doing. Because I
could look at you, and itcould look like you got motion. I
mean, it could look like yougot progress, but you really got motion.
But only I can determine my progress, right, because what my progress

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is to me might not be theprogress to you. Right, what my
progress is to me might be justmotion for somebody else. What somebody else
progress can be just motion for me. And I feel like I feel like
personal growth is tied into that one, like hand in hand, right whatever,
How as long as I am farthertomorrow than I was today, then

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that's personal growth. That's what Ithink about that, all right? Bet,
good stuff? All right? Sonow when you define, I've defined
all these words. So harvest isthe process or period of gathering crops.
So you was right with that.Success is the attainment of fame, wealth,
or social status. And then personalgrowth is or self improvement refers to
self guided improvement economically, intellectually,or emotionally, most frequently with substantial psychological

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or spiritual basis. So you wasin the ballpark. That was pretty easy,
ones, I think. All right, So let's move into the next
segment, which is what does thishave to do with mental health? So
before we get into that, Igot another question picking your brain. So
you do you believe that your initialrole on in radio acted as the foundation
for growth that's success of your currentprojects. Asked me that question one more

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time. Do you believe that yourinitial role in radio acted as the foundation
for the growth and success of yourcurrent projects? Yeah? Okay, so
now we're radio. Tell us howthat got started. I mean I started
on an internet radio shows, lovedthe culture radio. I started with a
close friend of mine named Raven Paris. She was doing like auditions to to

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have a co host on her internetradio show, and I was like,
I was hosting at the time,and I really didn't care to like do
radio. I didn't care to interviewpeople because I always thought I should be
interviewed, to be honest, andit's just I'm like, I don't.
I just ain't care enough about otherpeople to be honest, because I was
so concerned with myself and my successand trying to be successful. But a

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friend of mine named ink World waslike, bro, I think you should
give it a try. I thinkit would be good at it. So
I did an audition. She likedme, and then it started from there.
I was gonna love the Colts Radiowe had to pay like monthly rent
to be at the station every daywe had the I think we was charging
like people we've charging people like smallfees just so we can keep the lights

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on and things like that. Iknow it sounds crazy, but like we
really had to pay rent to doradio. So that's how it really started.
Yeah, no, for real.Now that's good stuff because, like
I said, that's how the beststories start. That's like the foundation.
Because let me look where you werenow. Okay, so now we don't
get back into that later. Soyour life and career are a testament to
resilience. And yeah, so yourlife testament. Your life is a testament

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to resilience. Now you worked atthe radio station. How long did you
work at the radio station? Imean, well, like all together,
I had the Internet radio station,then I did DTL AL Radio, then
I did KYS. I think alltogether had to be like a combination of
like three maybe four years altogether,because I think I was at KY from

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maybe a year, DTLR from maybea year and a half maybe, and
with Love the Culture Radio, Ithink I did that for like a year,
So I would just if I hadto guess, maybe like three years
four years. Okay, and howdid you get out of radio? Did
you quit or so? With whatDTLR? I got fired? Oh and

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then I forgot. I was atWAA, at Morgen, at WAA,
I got fired. DTLR got fired. Love the Culture Radio. I think
we stopped doing it because we alllike was doing our things, own things.
So that really was Love the CultureRadio was really for us to branch
off and do our own thing andbe successful in our own ways. And
that's in that radio show with successfulin doing that and in k I think

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I just moved to Atlanta, Solike I just moved. I try to
get in radio here. I tryto say if they could transfer me,
but I was part of time.I ain't really care about doing too much
of that to be honest. Yeahfor sure. So now just get into
some how, just have to domental health. So I've got some statistics.
So the first one says self improvementand self effectacy. A study publishing

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A Journal of Youth and Adolescents foundin self improvement practices, including personal growth,
increased self effectacy among young men's selfeffectacy, or the belief in one's
ability to achieve goals, is linkedto lower rates of depression and anxiety.
The second one talks about mindfulness andstress reduction. It says mindfulness, a
popular personal growth practice, has linkedto twenty five to thirty percent reduction in

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symtoms of anxiety and depression. Andthen the third one says connection between career
development mental health. So, accordingto a blog in Men's Health and twenty
twenty, young millennial men often linkedtheir personal value with their career success.
Investing in career development a form ofpersonal growth, can lead to increase job
satisfaction, thus reducing the risk ofburnout and related to mental health challenges.

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Now you brought up you got fired. I think we've all been fired before,
so we all know there's a lightat the end of the tunnel being
fired. Why did you get fired? From which one? From which?
DTLR or from WA? What dothe parson with DTLR DTIL? I got

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fired for? Uh? I wasI was fighting actually one of my friends.
I was fighting somebody in the club. We had a misunderstanding. We
got into a fight and he wasa full time well he's a full time
worker there, so I mean,you know, they had to choose,
and even though it wasn't on itwasn't like in the building or on the
facility or anything like that. Iguess they had to make a They had

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to make a decision to show whothey stood by, if that made sense,
because the guy was fighting was afull time employee, and it was
like he had to make an exampleof me to show that this is unacceptable,
right, So like I think thatwas the real reason. Uh and
w A I got fired for Likeit was. It was a it was
a school radio station, so theschool was supposed to be dry campus and

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were drinking inside of the like theconference room, So like, yeah,
I had to get rid of mefor that. How did you find out?
I think they seen it on cameraor something, because like it wasn't
like we had a party nothing,because I didn't drink inside of the studio
because I knew better than that.So I just went into the conference room.

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And it's funny because I think somebodyI think I think somebody else brought
it and like they was doing itor something and they was like, yo,
y'all want to drink. I'm like, yeah, sure, but it
is what it is. When ithappened, I wasn't about to say anything
like that. I just took thefall and I lost my whole show.
For that, I actually hurt andI found out at my fiance's birthday party
at the time. That's crazy becauselike I wouldn't tell you went to Morgan.

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I went to Texas Southern Like peoplewould do stuff like that all the
time. That's why I'm like,yeah, but I think because it was
worked like at school, maybe youget away with it. But because I
was actually like I had a radioshow, so I was an employee of
the school. That made sense.Okay, yeah, it does make sense.
So now you didn't. So nowso you can you speak on how
you manage your mental health through theseups and downs and what advice could you

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offer to somebody who you know,maybe facing similar challenges like that. Man,
I managed my mental health just byI mean, of course, praying,
uh, talking to my my girl, my fiance. But it's funny
because like I always would say,it's not always, but I would say,
it's it's super important to be ableto to be good with yourself right,

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And that's something that I struggle withand that's why we need like therapy
and therapists and things like that.That's why it's so important because I'm paying
painting a picture. Like my myfiance is really good at uh, Like
it's something I wish I was good, like vice versus, but like she's
really good at talking me through someof my issues because like she's when it
comes to the job, like nineto fives and things like that, she's

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mastered that level. So when Icome to her about issues like that,
she has the right words to sayto make me feel good. Right.
But with that being said, let'ssay if we're not in a good space
and I can't talk to her sometimes, I can like hold my feminist
inside, and that's not a goodthing. So I think if I had
to give advice, I would definitelysay go to therapy. If you can

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get therapy, if you can affordit, if you can if you can
find the right resource to do it, I would say that. And it
definitely just so you can be ableto get with yourself so your happiness don't
depend on someone else, because ifyour happiness is depending on your relationship with
somebody else, then you can nevertruly be happy because the moment they do
anything that you don't agree with,you can't afford to let your happiness die.

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With them. If that makes sense. I would definitely say, like,
go to therapy, get the therapist. And I'm not just saying that
because it sounds good, but Idid therapy in it, man, it
was. It probably was some ofthe best conversations I had in my life.
No, for sure, definitely.I've been the therapist two different times,
one time through when I was atTSU, through the council department because
then most people don't I think theyknow now. But a lot of these

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colleges that's couldn't your feeds, becausethat's the thing with them colleges, they'd
be paying for stuff. It needsto a lot of feeds. I'll be
letting go to ways and don't realizeit. I ain't gonna know. Yeah.
Yeah, and especially the way theworld is not because that was back
in like twenty sixteen, but theneven the way the world is now.
For show now, you brought upyou bring up Baby Goud like maybe twice

(28:11):
now. So I'm a believer,but I want you to explain why do
you think it's important to keep Godfirst? Oh man, that's a deep
question, bro. I think itdepends on what you believe in. Right
For me, it's important to keepGod first, because that's the creative all
creatives, right, He's the kingof kings might so like he's the one,

(28:33):
and I mean, honestly, that'sjust why the way I was brought
up, right, But after that, just understanding that I want to live
a righteous life like I want tolive an obedient life. I want to
have a family, I want tobe successful, and I know I can't
attain these things without a good relationshipwith God, right and even if I
I mean, that's not true becausesome people attain them with without God.

(28:56):
And that's a different that's a differentconversation. But a lot of times we
a lot of times people praising thewrong things. They think they're they think
they're blessed because of God. Thewhole time it is the devil giving them
these would look like blessings. Butthat's just that. That's another conversation.
But yeah, you know, Godis just man, he's the head of
the household. Right before before Iam. He's dead first, and and

(29:18):
man, I hadn't seen some thingsthat wasn't supposed to be so and wasn't
supposed to be Uh survived through right, and and I just witnessed it right,
Like, I'm like, I'm awitness, I'm a believer of him
and it just faith, right flay. Faith is what you what you can't
really see what you believe in,right, and that's just that's just what
it is like, man, Godis like that's the most important thing to

(29:42):
be honest, absolutely all right.Still, now continue on with some more
statistics from Qua. How this therelates to the whole type of relasts and
mental health. So the next oneis fitness and mental wealth being physical fitness
is often considered in aspect of personalgrowth and studying. The link its Achaiatry
show the individuals engaged in regular exerciseat forty three percent fewer days of poor

(30:04):
mental health per month compared to nonexercises. The fifth one I really like
is social connections and support systems.Building social connections is a key aspect of
person of growth. Can't provide supportivecommunities for young men. The servant conducted
by the November Foundation found that seventypercent of millennium and said their friends are
essential to the overall mental well being. I agree with that and definitely going

(30:27):
to HBCU. If they ain't teachyou nothing else, they taught us how
to network. I still talk toto this day, like just based off
of it. And it's so crazyseeing like I graduated with Fall sixteen,
seeing like where I'm at now,seeing where they at. You know,
some people you know you don't see, but then it's some who are going
crazy. So it's like trying tosupport even if I don't even say I

(30:48):
wouldn't even your friend like that incollege, I'm gonna repulse your stuff just
off of me unless you're doing somelike wild stuff. But like if you
ain't doing it crazy, I'm annarepulst it because it's just like everybody want
everybody to succeed. It's and it'sa sense of like you know, like
just I don't want to say proudness, but just a different type of support
is it's say like it's a community. It's kind of like whatever whoever city

(31:10):
you from, when somebody went outof that city, especially even as a
small city's like, man, lookat my city, right, it's a
sense of like pride. Right.That's like saying without schools is like somebody
came out of out of Morgan andsomebody's doing good. That's a that's validation
that my school is even dope.This person came out of Morgan Man.
This person came what I'm saying.So I think it's definitely like HBCUs when
it comes to network and brood.I would pay everything I paid. If

(31:37):
I didn't have to have a degreeor whatever, I still would pay you
just for the networking experience. Ithink it's definitely worth it. No,
for real, I tell people allthe time, like, do I personally
believe that college was worthy? Yes, but most of my stuff I down
the hill. Most of my stuffcame from the people and the experiences that
was learned at their school. SoI agree with the whole hearty, wholeheartedly.

(32:00):
You can't even get the word outall right, And then the last
one is talking about what was it? Brogo? Digital detox and mental health.
So many personal growth programs advocate fora digital detox that blog posts by
the good Man Project cited research thatMillennius who spend more than five hours per
day on mobile devices are seventy onepercent more likely to exhibit risk factors for

(32:21):
mental disorders. That's an interesting thingto keep up. But my thing is
I feel like with me, Iain't gonna I'm glued to my farm.
I'm glued to this whole for real, Like I ain't gonna cat but it's
I definitely want to take a break. I did do a liquor clints for
thirty days, and I tell peopleall the time, even if you go
back to drinking like you do,that's fine, but I say people need

(32:45):
to do it because you need toregain control of your life. And sometimes
we get too caught up in like, oh, I can have a drink,
I can have it days, Ican have that. But I honestly,
my relationship with alcohol ain't need nowherenear the same as it was.
It's crazy how like them thirty days? And also we we talked about earlier
YouTube. I keep up with alot of YouTubers and podcasts and a dude
on my show shout out to JamesSwanwick who's over the Alcohol Free podcast.

(33:09):
He was a person who talked abouthow he's been cleaned from alcohol thirteen years
and he went on the It startedoff as a thirty day cleans. He
said he lost thirteen pounds and hesaid he had opportunities with ESPN, met
the woman of his dreams, movedinto all this stuff happened in thirty days,
and for me, it was somuch that happened in them thirty days,

(33:29):
it was like maybe I should goback, you know what. It
was just like it was crazy.So even with that, let's go to
the next question I got for you. So you definitely a businessman, but
you just stated already that you wasthe life of the party. It's what
you said running back. He wasthe life of the party. He was

(33:49):
the man who was you know,the spokesman probably wanted a lot everything.
It's like every HBC was the samewith different people in different accents. It's
weird. It's hard to explain,especially when I hear stories some other people.
Now I know you can do it. So how are you able to
distinguish between business and personal aspects inyour professional life? M man? That's

(34:14):
something that's still hard to this day, right, Like we always hear you
gotta be to separate the personal fromthe business. And ideally, I feel
like we all tracing this dream orthis audiology of being able to like do
business with friends and it be perfect, But sometimes that's just not reality,
right Like I would love for thatto be, but a lot of times
the business mess up the personal,right and and as unfair as it is,

(34:37):
it's not unfair because I mean,it's it's some things are just right
there set in stone. It's clearas day right, and we always try
to go against this, but italways shows to do is wrong right.
I mean, I mean not always, because we have some examples of people
having personal and really good business,but for the most part, I just

(34:58):
I have to contain. It's aconstant strug, constant counciation with myself to
say, listen, when things don'thappen my way with somebody that's personal and
it's business related, I have tosay, like, like man's business.
You know what I'm saying, it'sjust business, just business. Like for
example, I have a couple offriends that have like really dope platforms,
and I would let it be onthat platform, but I haven't yet.
But that doesn't mean that they don'tlove me any less, or that they

(35:21):
love me any less or they don'trock with me the same. It's just
that I probably wouldn't make sense tobe on that platform right now. Just
so I have a lot of friendswho don't make sense to be on my
platform. That doesn't mean that Idon't love them, that don't mean I
don't love them. I don't rockon them like I always rock with them.
It's just it just doesn't make sensefor my business. And that's okay.
But I have to continue to tellmyself that or even coach myself that,

(35:44):
coach myself through that, because Imean, think about bro, it's
we're humans. It's so easy tofeel, but we can't allow our emotions
that can to dictate our actions.And I think that's the most important,
right, So, like I mean, just being honest to answer the question.
It's really just talking myself through it, bro, Just staying level headed
always and understanding that, yo,everything not gonna be business and personally,

(36:07):
when you do have it, cherishit and appreciate it. But when it's
not that just understand that that's okay. Yeah, No, definitely I'm big
on that. Like I tell peoplea telling people, I would be like
you got your stuff going and friendsalways hit me up like you always got
something going, something new going on, And I actually went off on one
of my friends. I'm a toughlove person. I was a teacher for

(36:28):
six years. I finally was ableto move away from that, but thank
god, but I remember one ofmy friends. She got dope content,
like dope content, and I senther a text with that. But she
keeps something keep happening because she keepsrelying on somebody else to getting to her
stuff. And I text he oneday and I was like, you you
excited to go back to school anddo this all over again. And here's

(36:49):
the thing. It's not knocking educationas a teacher because some people I met
with some people the other day thatwas like, they love it. And
one of my home girls, shetold me, she said, and she
said, you don't even need toreapply for nor teaching job. She said,
even like teaching careers. She said, you love the kids, you
don't like the teaching professional. Isaid. She said, you're basically a
mentor. I said, no forreal. But I was telling her like
you don't want to be there,and you keep making excuses not to do

(37:13):
your stuff, like, oh,you waiting on somebody to do this.
Like I told you, I said, people are making millions of dollars in
their house with these virtual episodes.I said, you do not have to
do everything in the studio. I'llget it twisted. It looks better.
And if you got the resources forward, then cool. But you got Carlos
King, you got so many ofthese people out here making millions of dollars.
My boy shot Anthony in their house. So that's something I want people

(37:36):
to give your mind to and hopefullyif don't learn nothing else from that,
keep that in mind. Like youdon't have to be you don't have to
look like everybody else stuff. NowI don't. And honestly, man's long
if it's good, bro, youknow, that's one thing I'll be telling
people man Like when people ask toadvice. Bro, if you don't have
it, I'm gonna tell you aprevious and while so if you don't have
it, I say, pick upyour eye phone, get your little yettie
Mike. It's like one hundred dollars. You can get you up some ear

(38:00):
phones. Right. I didn't didan interview on it off the earphones.
And I'm gonna tell you why.Because if you have good content, people
are going to catch on to it. They're gonna like it, They're gonna
pick it up no matter no matterwhat it looked like. Right, that's
one, and then that can thatcan that can measure to see how good
you are, right, because ifyou if it's getting some looks when it's
not so good all right, bad, Imagine when it do look good right,

(38:22):
that's one. Two. It alsohelps you show show yourself the consistency
thought to see if you're even readyfor it, because think about it like
this, I invested. I'm Imean, like, I don't know,
maybe fifty thousand in or my equipment. Imagine if you spend ten thousand only
equipment just to go for six weeksand say, nah, I don't really
like it. See what I'm saying. Now, you just spend so much

(38:42):
money, you get yourself, youuse what you got, and then you
progress on the way. Right,you see it. Okay, this works
for me, this doesn't work forme. Then you learn and you you
do your research and then you thenyou pick up one piece at a time.
That's just what I would say.But yeah, you don't have to
have the best quat bro perfect.Another example Ademics. Some of my Academics
episodes looked trash, Like if youlook at early on and not even earlier

(39:04):
on, I'm saying earlier on thisyear some of his episodes was trash.
He's still at the biggest pinnacle offor me. I love Academics. But
it's like he motivated me a littlebit because he would have episodes who as
the audio was messed up, wherehe didn't have the perfect lighting, where
the camera didn't look the best,he still put it out, still got
millions, like hundreds of thousands ofviews, millions of views, and that
showed me that it don't always haveto be the crispiest. Just get it,

(39:28):
just get the work done. Butthat's just a testament of the show
must go on. And that's whatthese people don't have at they don't have
to day like they just give up. They fold at the first the wind
blow too hard off the court.Oh you know, I remember I first
started, like when I first startedto a podcast in twenty eighteen, and
that's how I knew when, becausewhen when the enemy start trying to do
stuff, that's that's his way oftrying to saying it's gonna pop. So

(39:50):
I'm trying to get you off early. Like my mic had went missing,
and then I lost my voice.Then I fell out with somebody and they
attacked. And mind you, thepodcast literally was on the like three episodes
in and I got dragged like itwas all stuff happening and I'm like,
bru, don't know I even knowme yet. I'm going to buy alias
and it's and then you're doing allthis stuff is happening. That was the
proof that I needed to see,like, oh, I'm home. I'm

(40:13):
gonna get on at some point,man, take go right away. But
it's definitely gonna when it's supposed to. That's a fact, all right.
So let's move to the next segment, which is I challenged that he and
as we know, we got achallenge what we're talking about. And so
before we get into that, youhave a unique way of podcasts, and
I'll give you that. I talkedthere for a while now, and you

(40:36):
know, we got so many peoplewho do the same stuff, but your
way of going about it is different. So how do you approach discussing popular
trends in a manner that reflects youryour unique perspective or your certain voice.
I mean it's no for me,it's no. I wouldn't say it's no
tactic, but I guess let me, let me let me think, Uh,

(40:59):
how do I approach certain trends withmy unique perspective? I guess,
yeah, Like, how do youyou you talk about the stuff everybody else
talking about, but how do youadd your own flare to it so that
they don't even realize you're talking aboutwhat everybody else talk about. So honestly,
bro, that's I'm glad you askedthat because I don't really I don't

(41:20):
have no tactic with that. That'sjust me. So for example, I
mean not for example, like,just to be honest, I really don't
care about the things that's trending,but the thinking behind it. I can
challenge that because I don't think likethat, right, So for example,
let's say what's trending. Uh,let's say for us, I did an

(41:42):
interview with Jess Hilarious, and youknow, Christian Rock was trending. Yeah,
and Christian Rock and Blue Face.Me personally, I don't care that
much or at all about Christian Rockand Blue Face. But the world they
got the world in a chokeo Iinterview Jess Hilarious. That's a perfect that's
a perfect that's a perfect place.That's a perfect person to talk about Chris
Sian Rock because they're both from Baltimore. Right. So instead of me saying,

(42:05):
yo, like that girl, ChristianRock is crazy and I don't know,
I'm like, Yo, have youever reached out to Christian Rock?
Because clearly something that's going on,right, that's a real conversation. But
Chris Sian Rock and Blue Face isstill trendy. Right, that's still a
trendy conversation. I can put theI can do the little click bait,
but the conversation is realer than ChrisSian Rock and Blue Face. It's about

(42:28):
yo. Yes, I can onlyimagine as a black woman coming from Baltimore,
you wish you had mentors and somebodyto reach out to you and show
you the way. Yo. Yougot Christian Rock out here. And it
seems like she's hurt, she's she'sa woman. It's so easy to judge
this woman. It's so easy tosay what she should and shouldn't be doing.
But I'm pretty sure you can relate. Have you ever reached out to
her? She said yes or no? Then we had that conversation and yeah
we Yeah, it started off fromChristian Rock and Blue Face, but it's

(42:51):
really about her, right, andnow she can go to it like man,
she almost cried like I felt thesame way when I wasn't when I
was married, or I mean whenI when I was in a relationship,
right, and I ain't want toreach out to him because you couldn't tell
me nothing at that time. Right. So now it's a trendy conversation saying
with I don't know. Let's say, ab samone, I think I asked
about what's the baby? Old girlfriend? I forgot the chick name. She

(43:15):
don't even know his name, butI know they got into it. What's
her name? Yeah, Danny Lay. So it's not the conversation not really
about her versus Danny Lay. Butit's like, yo, if you know
in your heart you really ain't dosomething and she got you messed up,
let's put you put yourself in hershoes before put yourself in her shoes.
That for once, right or notfor once, But let's say you put

(43:37):
yourself in her shoes. Imagine thatthat girl, instead of going back and
forth with each other, imagine ifshe just reached out to you and say,
y'all apologize for I apologize if youever thought it was something. But
I'll sure you wasn't nothing right withthat hurt. Because if y'all a woman,
and forget about if y'all friends andnot y'all woman, right, we
should want out people to win.So if you see, if you if
you hear that, if you seeshe's upset with you about that, even

(43:57):
if you didn't say anything, evenif you didn't mess with him. Instead
of feeding into the negativity, whynot just be like, yo, man,
I apologize, you know what I'msaying, Like not saying she did
or didn't. I don't know.That's just that's just me bringing it up
right, Like that's a trendy conversation. But instead of being messy, I'm
trying to I'm asking real questions becauseI'm curious. I don't really care about
Yo, if you see it,you're gonna fight or something like, I

(44:19):
mean, I don't care about that, Like me saying the name itself is
clickbait, But if you tune in, it's a good It's an actual good
conversation. If that makes sense.That's how I That's just how I look
at it, that I just beme. That makes sense. No,
But I mean you keep saying I'mjust being me. But what you fail
to realize this, that's what somebodyneeds to hear. Buying what you do
that works? Because which you somethingyou do that works? You know what

(44:42):
I'm saying, it is not totry to fix and trying to be like
all mixing this person that person together. And there's nothing wrong with that,
but in the in a sense,but you can't make it to where your
personality is just a fusion of tendifferent people and you have nothing about you
that you know what I mean?So okay, good somebody capital and off
of themselves. So now with allthat stuff, all of good stuff,
you gotta be a little pay Whatis your response to the hats and people

(45:08):
calling you an industry plant? Ohshit, I mean I heard I think
I heard something about that one time, but I never That's not really a
conversation I hear. Have you heardthat? Not really? But you know
what they typically said about all thesepodcasts that are because I've said this many
times before, a podcast is thenew rap game. You know, they

(45:29):
got people in these podcasts that getstuck in these three sixty deals. You
know, PEP podcasts have beef.I'll be trying to tell my homeboys,
I'm like, brou these podcasts bereally realized beef and throwing this is at
each other in these episodes. Iain't can do all that, but people
do it. But and also thefact that the whole industry plant thing that
was a rap thing, but it'sa podcast thing. To the girl Bobby
y'all, I like her. Shefun, but you know they said she's

(45:52):
an industry plant. So she said, you only heard it like one time,
So yeah, I mean I heardsomebody said it. Somebody said like,
I'm not got an industry connected somethingsomething like that. But I mean
it's I don't know, like's Ithink it would maybe make me upset or

(46:12):
frustrated, I guess, but notreally like I mean, because I feel
like my whole story is online likeeverybody. No. I think a part
of the reason why people rock withme, the people that do rock on
me because they literally seen me comefrom the bottom, Like this ain't This
wasn't an overnight thing. I meanwe're talking about like six seven years,
Like this ain't just some you feelme. But I mean, if that

(46:34):
was to come up, I cansee it being frustrating because I do work
hard for this, and like theseinterviews are not easy to get. Even
when people give me compliments, I'mlike, bro, you get all the
celebrities. That'd be frustrating because it'slike that's what people expect. Now and
it's like and it's still it's stillhard. Like I mean, I don't
want to exaggerate, but I don'twant to say you but like, let's
say your average podcast or an interview, it's just as hard for me to

(46:58):
get them than it is for them. I probably just got a good resume
of getting them, so it mightbe easier for me to pitch it.
But bro, it's just as hard. Like I beam in people a million
times, like it's it's just ashard. So yeah, I mean I
can see how it would be likewait, what are you crazy? But
I probably wouldn't pay no mind becauselike I don't that's not the majority,

(47:19):
if that makes sense. Now,if it was the majority, I definitely
be frustrated, like I probably hurtmy feelings, like, man, you're
crazy, Like I'm the last thingof the Yeah, yeah, for sure.
All right. So when we talkabout personal growth and we challenge it,
there's there times where with our personalgrowth that we maybe shouldn't invest or
can we overdo so with statistics,there's an over emphasis on career development.

(47:42):
A blog on Force highlight the riskof over focus on career personal success can
lead to burn out and neglecting otheraspects of one's life. So keep that
in mind. People not to alwaysoverdo it with your work. Take your
breaks. And I took a lotof time. If you don't take a
break, your body gonna take itfor you, and it's gonna be longer,
and it's gonna be worse mental healthstruggles. And report by the American
Psychological Association indicated that personal growth initiativescould sometimes exa exaggerate existing mental health problems

(48:07):
if not approached with caution. Forexample, someone dealing with a serious mental
disorder might find some improvement techniques orcounter techniques triggering or kind of productive.
The third one is unrealistic expectations andpressures to succeed. The cultural pressure to
continually drop a personal growth can leadto unrealistic expectations and even disillusionment. A

(48:29):
study publishing a journal Personality and SocialPsychology linked the pursuit of unattainable goals with
increased stress and depression. Millennial manifacingthis pressure might need to reassess whether invest
in their personal growth a lines withtheir genuine needs and values. So who
has been just two? Top threebecause I want to buy feeling away?
Top three who has been your favoriteinterviews? Just hilarious. Let's see,

(48:54):
let me see. He gotta lookat the stuff. Yeah, gotta probably
fat trail. Okay, Uh,just hilarious, fat trail and ah it
has to be between like Zonique orChanning Crowder. Yeah, I think they

(49:20):
would be my top three and weadn't gotta go to do deep. But
what what makes them three or fullthree four whatever stand out? Why did?
Why are they your faith? Imean I think they were the most
authentic, authentically themselves right Like JessHilarious, she was herself. She didn't
keep up getting count she used tobeen just being super vulnerable. Channing Crowder,
he was himself. Was allowed meto be myself, which allowed us

(49:43):
to like bump heads so much.He would think he was about to fight
in an interview, but it wasgreat because he was him. I was
me and we could have a greatconversation. Uh. Same with Zonique and
who else? I said, uhfat trail? Yeah, Like like I
think Zonique would just authentically herself andeven though she didn't want to answer some

(50:06):
of the questions, she was hewas able to articulate in a way for
me to understand. Like man youknow, I want to answer these questions,
but you gotta understand, no matterhow good or how how good of
a conversation that we're having, andhow vulnerable I can be to you,
and you understand, the world willalways weaponize my vulnerability. And that's and
that's a scary thing to see.But her her being able to articulate that

(50:30):
in a way for me to understandit just it just showed a lot about
who she was. So I thinkfor sure those three four for sure,
easy, all right, bet allright. Continuing on with the list for
with the challenges SOLF Neglecting other liferesponsibilities, invest in time and resource and
personal growth at the expense of othervital responsibilities such as family and relationships can
lead to imbalance. The fifthlness lackof personalization and personal growth strategies. Generic

(50:54):
personal growth strategies might not suit everyone, and that's something I want people to
understand too, Like we can putall these blurbs out in these little posts,
but everything don't work for everybody.That's why I'm glad I'm in this
space doing what I'm doing and havingso many different guests that are just so
versatile, because everybody brings the uniqueness. Everybody brings some different We got you
one week, we didn't had acall them like explay display a white Caucasian

(51:19):
older sleep therapist one week. Youknow what I'm saying. You just never
know. But everybody the goal isto help somebody, go to help my
target audience, of course, andit says that the next one again,
I'm bringing up physical health, physicalhealth implications. Over emphasis on physness or
physical personal growth can lead to injuriesor health issues if not approach with moderation
and proper guidance. Them help gurules, I'm gonna get that second. A

(51:43):
twenty seventeen report by the National Instituteof Health highlighting the risk of over training,
particularly young man who may be susceptibleto side the pressures to achieve certain
physical standards. Remember them health gurrules that you be seeing. Let me
tell you something about content real quick. Polsted On understand sometimes your favorite content
creator, even if it don't looklike it, they may change clothes,

(52:05):
change hats, and rich cord fourdifferent things in the same day, so
you wouldn't know, and it lookedlike they upload on different days. It
look like they're doing it every day. They're not doing that then't fitness people
that probably they might be a twoday They put different angles, they can
change clothes. So don't think thatthese people working out that intense every day,
because I think a lot of uswill see them be like, also,
be at the gym right now,now you pull something. Now you're

(52:29):
laying up with your your ham stringtorn, and you out for three weeks
and even got fat again. Ididn't seen it happen. I'm for real,
Okay, So great segue. Producea content. Take us on an
average day in your life of producingcontent. What is your typical inspiration motivation?
Do you see some old TV onYouTube and like I got an idea

(52:50):
that you see somebody on the blogsand you'd be like, what's the email?
How does it go? How doesit work? I mean, well,
it's two different things. So like, yeah, I'll see something on
YouTube and like I have an idea. For example, I've seen Sidney.
I always mess her name Sydney,Sydney mcgloughlin, McCloughlin, I think that's
her name. She's a track runnerfor the for the Nine States. She's
a four hundred meeted track runner.And heard a runner and so I was

(53:15):
watching her vlog and it was justsuper dope, and I'm like, man,
this is fire, and like Isaw, I'm into like production and
behind the scenes. It's weird becauseas much as I'm on camera at the
more time, the more I investedmyself, the more I invested, I
am into what it takes to makethis stuff happen right, to make it
how it looked. So I've seenthe blog and then I've seen the vlog

(53:37):
or the video of the person thatshot her blog, and I was just
super like blown away because it wasjust so dope because I just watched the
vlog and I wasn't looking for it, and it was like, I don't
know, twenty four I was shootingwith Sydney McLoughlin or something, and he
was showing what was like the processit took to shoot the vlog, what
he was thinking about, what hedid, how he shot it, and

(53:58):
I'm like, man, that's superdope. So I will see that line
when I when I when I vlog, I want this to happen. I
want this to happen. I wantedto be like this. So research is
definitely number one when they come tointerviews. You know, if I see
somebody that's interesting, I'll just DMthem probably similar email, send them follow
up. I mean a hundred timesover, but like just a day in
a life when it's recording or recordingor a week, I might, you

(54:21):
know, stay up, do myresearch, write my own questions down.
Uh. Then I try to likeorder the questions in a in a in
a way I could tell a story. And then I'll try to like build
thoughts on things even and if Idon't have thoughts, I probably like look
at videos or whatever is around thatconversation that I'm the question that I'm asked,

(54:43):
and I will look at comments orwhatever. Then I'll get ideas from
other people, and then I'll challengethat with my own thoughts and I create
my own perspectives and then I'll bringthat forth to the conversation to make for
a great conversation. And yeah,I think that's pretty much it bro just
staying invested in my own craft,watching my interviews, watching other people interviews,
watching just behind the scene thing soI can make it look good all

(55:05):
of that, to be honest,Like even like with this, it's like
I know how to set this upbecause of what I saw on YouTube,
right, just being able to justhave this on hand, right, just
to set up this, ain't Idon't even use this for the studio.
So it's just it's always invested inlearning. Self investment is the best investment.
Absolutely, That's that's one of thequotes for the episode, Now reveal,

(55:29):
because I'm all about working in privateor working in silence. And you
know a lot of people said they'reworking in silence, but then they're telling
everybody what they're doing in their story. And just because you said in your
close friends, don't mean they don'tcount, that still count. Now reveal
as much of as little as youwould like. What is one of the
goals of your network that you buildwith your two hands? Oh man,

(55:51):
a lot of So I want tobear to create financial freedom for myself and
my family and for the people thatwork for me. Right, So,
just being completely honest, I wantto be able to have this pay all
my bills. I want to beable to just live off not well,
yeah, I live of it,to be honest. I want to be
able to have my YouTube replace myfull time jobs, right, that's one

(56:15):
I want to be able to.One of my small goals is get one
hundred thousand subscribers. I want toeventually bring on other shows on a network.
I want to average upwards of onehundred thousand on up per video.
I dropped right. I want tobe able to bring on a random person
and you don't see a drop ordiminish in my in my my numbers,

(56:38):
and even if it is a diminish, it's not that much because they come
for me in a conversation, notthe person or the guest. I mean,
it's a lot of goals, bro, I think that's for now.
That's pretty much it. Yeah,I like that too, and that stuff,
and I definitely want to do likeI of course connect with other people
and use it, and then ofcourse their platforms help mind grow. But
I wouldn't be the person that then. And I never, no matter how

(57:00):
many big guests I get on mystuff, I never want to forget people
who are up coming, because Ithink we've all been there and you just
never know how even if that personended up quitting that, that that that's
specific, whatever or whether or notthey you know, or whatever, they'll
never forget that and you could havejust really made their moment with that,

(57:22):
just from you having this platform andputting them on or getting on this stuff,
and you just never know what eyesare coming from it. So yeah,
all right, so now the episodeis about harvest, and this episode
we're talking about harvest and producing allthat good stuff, and we talked about
a lot of the different synonyms.So when it comes to the platform and
how it relates to personal growth,harvesting represents the final phase where the full

(57:43):
benefits of personal growth I realized theright and then enjoy it. I like
that part. It's accumulation of hardwork, persistence, and dedication, much
like harvesting crops after a season ofgrowth. The harvest and personal growth may
include achievements like career advancement, improvedrelationships, greater self confidence, or for
feeling up the personal goal. Andthen of course we're producing. This relates

(58:04):
to the continuous cycle of growth andcontribution. Just as well tended garden continues
to produce crops, ongoing personal growthleads to continue and self improve and ability
to contribute positively positively to others inthe society. Alright, so good stuff,
And yeah, we all know aboutproducing. I mean, we producing
like this too, but we alsoproducing fruit as far as metaphorically because we're

(58:27):
getting the views, we're getting thepeople that's enjoying the conversation, we're getting
the deals that you know what I'msaying, It ain't necessarily a three sixty
deal, which you may and man, I want that do your research on
three sixty deals, but it's justthe opportunities that come with it, brand
deals whatever. Alright, So let'smove into the next segment, which is
the weekly sabbatical, and then thistime this is the time where we just

(58:49):
kind of reflect. So could youdescribe your upbringing in Baltimore and explain how
contribute to your development into an emergingmedia mode. You know, Baltimore just
gave me the grit to be honest, bro, Like, it made me
tough. It taught me how togo through to deal with different adversities,

(59:09):
right. It really taught me tobe able to ass As painful as it
was and as hurtful as some thingswere, it was able to teach me
those things young, so I didn'thave to go through it at an older
age because that's when it's most themost detrimental. Right, So I think
definitely that, man, it preparedme for the hard times when when it
going gets tough. To keep going, right, I had I learned those

(59:31):
things early, and that's that's mainlywould it taught me man, And honestly
it taught me some positive things,like it taught me how to be,
to grow, how to grow intoa man, right, the characteristics of
a man. You know, wealways hear these things about like street code,

(59:51):
like not snitching and things like that, But it depends on how you
look at it, right. It'snot you change your mind, you change
the way you think you could changeyour life. So I was able to
differentiate what the street mean meant bythese things, right. So it ain't
about snitching. It's about being aman and taking your taking accountability for what
you did, right, not bringingsomebody else into a decision that you made

(01:00:12):
for yourself, right, being beingaccountable for your own self. Right's let's
let's let's not look at the negativeconnotation to it and with the streets color,
but just being a man right andbeing a man of your word.
Right. Some people might call itbeing a f boy or whatever, but
when you look at it and forwhat it's worth, at the core of
it, it's really about being aman of your word. Whenever you say

(01:00:36):
something, you your name is ona line, and you protect your name.
So, like, I think thisis what Baltimore told me. I
just had to learn. I hadto learn how to dissect it when I
got older, because when I wasyounger, I took it for what it
was worth and for face value andnot being a punk or or not being
a snitch. And then I grewup and I understood, like, yeah,

(01:00:57):
I can fight, but fight forthe right thing, right I might
not I don't have to fight theguy next to me or the person that
looked like me. But I canfight to stay at school when it go
and gets tough. I could fightto stay to continue to get good names
in my podcast when when it don'tseem like nobody is in in the forefront
to get it right. So like, I just had to learn how to
differentiate it in the way that canhelp me and benefit me and not hurt

(01:01:19):
me and be of my demandse Okay, And so you live in Atlanta.
You said that earlier out of allthe cities that you could have moved to,
when made you go to Atlanta,I mean, honestly, it was
easiest, and like I've been herea couple of times. People said this
is where everybody was at. Myfriend was here, you know, Like
I mean, there was a lotof opportunities. They said, like people

(01:01:42):
come here all the time. Isaw, so I was like, bro,
I just I'm gonna do it.Like I think I said it maybe
two years before I even did it, Like I was like, man,
Atlanta is the place to be becausethat's why everybody yet and it was proven
to be that, Like I camehere and you can literally just be in
the restaurant and you see a celebrityor whatever, and that's where to be.
So I made it happen. Okay, yeah, basically me. And

(01:02:04):
then it's crazy because like I said, I live in Houston and Houston and
they always say what they said Houstonand New Atlanta. I said, nah,
for it's just a little country,but it's And I've watched the transition
because I came out here for school, so I've been out here since twenty
twelve, and like you, Iliterally see have seen the transition and that's
crazy. But nah, definitely,that definitely makes sense. And you know
you're making it happen. You gottabe hustling. And I remember DJ Khalik

(01:02:27):
talked about when he worked that wasin finish line of champs and one of
them, and he talked about howhe was in there hustling. He would
be selling shoes, putting these mixtapesinto the shoe boxes. So I'm all
for the hustling, for the grind, so we love to see it.
And then this also leads to thenext part. So as to always,
I leave out with some tips thatI found from personal experience as well as
research. And so this week weretalking about personal development personal growth. So

(01:02:52):
I had four ways to invest inyour personal development, and my boy Joe
Hills gonna either co sign with itor or at his two cents. All
right, So the first one ismental health and mindful practices. So millennium
me in offic space societe or workand workplace pressures, Engaging in mindfulness and
mental health practices can increase emotional intelligenceand reduce stress, and they study publishing

(01:03:14):
Jama Internal Medicine in twenty nineteen foundthat mindfulness meditation led to a twenty five
percent reduction of anxiety. And thenother tools and websites like head space and
calm off for tools and practice specificallydesigned to cultivate mindfulness. So I think
that's a good one. The secondone is invested in continued education and skills
development. So the job market haschanged drastically, so you're gonna have to

(01:03:38):
give it the program with something anda lot of these things is gonna take
your jobs. And when I sayinvest in education, that ain't always school
because sometimes YouTube university. We hada boy in mic on some weeks ago
talk about that YouTube is a realthing. You can learn a lot.
Yeah nah, yeah, Like Isaid, man, self investment is the
best investment. Self development is thebest development for sure. A LinkedIn Learning

(01:04:01):
report found in ninety four percent ofemployees would stead of company longer if they
invested in their learning development. Andwhere websites like you didn't offer wide variety
of courses for skilled building, rangingfrom coding to leadership development. And then,
like I said earlier, YouTube,the third one is building strong social
connections and networking. We didn't winover that. I'm gonna just beat it
again. This is good. Itis body for personal growth and development.

(01:04:25):
You don't know, ever know,And it's not just getting in the club
for free, And weren't stepping theline like you just never know who would
be like hey, you're still doingthis, yeah, and we need somebody
over here. Can you do it? I got a job, you been
without a job, Like I said, I got a writing service. All
these businesses needs something written, evenif it ain't. Even though AI is
taken over, it's not gonna takeover writers fully. It just at not

(01:04:47):
this point. Maybe I still don'tsee it all the way, just because
it's just still stuff only certain thatpeople can do. But according to a
study by the American Sociological Review,individuals with more diverse social connections report at
higher levels of happiness and maintain betterjob opportunities. So see, we got
some statistics behind it. And thelast one is investing in one's passion in

(01:05:10):
life, pursuing one passionately to morefulfill and meaningful life. For millennial men,
align of personal growth efforts is whattruly inspires and excites a person,
and studied by Deloyd Founding, upto eighty eight percent of workers believe passion
is crucial to success. Websites liketed talk speachers numerous of inspiring speakers who
emphasize the importance of following one's passion, and books like The Passion Paradox by

(01:05:31):
Brad Stahlberg and Steve Maggots provide insightand findings. All right, So now
gotta ask this. You've done allthis stuff, you keep it going to
ball going, You've It's clearly you'vematured a lot. It's from where you
used to be to where you arenow. How would you define maturity and

(01:05:54):
how do you think it's played arole in your personal growth today? I
mean, you know already, howdo I define that? Again? I
would just saying with growth the samething, man. Just I think maturity
is patience as well. But Ialso think maturity is the ability to understand

(01:06:19):
that everything is not going to workthe way you wanted to work. Right.
And I think it played a rolein my life because it was at
a time where when things didn't workin my favor, I got upset about
it, and still to this dayI'll probably get frustrated, but I learned
how to to react differently. Right. I think maturity when when you are

(01:06:45):
mature, you are patient, youhave grace, and you just have like
love. Right, you understand whatyou can and what you cannot control.
Right. I think it is aserenity prayer. God grant me serenity to
acceptate things I cannot change. Thecares to change their things I can.
But the most important of all,h my favorite problem is the wisdom to
know the difference right. And Ithink that's what maturity is because not everything

(01:07:09):
you can change. And when thingsgo wrong and things don't go your way
and you get upset, it's howyou react to it. A lot of
times you get in trouble because ofhow you react to it, and it's
unfortunate. But even if you lookat sports, a lot of times the
person that reacted is the person thatgot caught. Same thing in school,
in school, same thing with relationships, And as unfair as that may seem,

(01:07:30):
that's that's life. That's the realityof life. And I know I
remember my mom telling me when Iwas young, you know, like she
used to say, when I gotin trouble, I wasn't why I wouldn't
got in trouble in school, shehad to come to school. She would
say, I'm not mad at you. I'm not. You're not in trouble
with me because you got in troublewith You're in trouble with me because you
because you got caught. And ascrazy as that sounds, it goes back
to, like, you know,being the second one to do it.

(01:07:53):
A lot of times, you gotto be able to She's she's the point
one. She used to always say, I allow me to be there for
you, right, allow me totake up for you. Because what happened.
I would get in trouble in schooland I would just make a scene
when I felt like I was right. But by time she got there,
I made a scene. Now Iam wrong. Right, I didn't give
enough space to be there for me. So a lot of times, in
our relationships and business bitches and thingslike that, when something go wrong to

(01:08:16):
us, the first thing our mindgo to is to react in a negative
way. And now by time youreact in a negative way, even if
somebody wanted to apologize or make itright or make it better, because you're
because of how you treated them,not treated them, but because of how
you react it now is the onlyway you can go is down right.
The only way it can go isleft. And I think that's what maturity

(01:08:39):
is, just being slow to reactand understanding that everything might not be what
it seems to be in your eyes. Three your eyes, somebody can do
you dirty through your eyes, butthrough your eyes, it was a mistake,
and you should and and give youenough, give yourself enough time to
see if it really was a mistakeor if it was really them being petty.
But the moment when you react quickly, right, you don't really give

(01:09:02):
yourself that the chance to know ifit was meant or not if it wasn't
meant. If that makes sense.So I think like maturity is it's definitely
like just acting slow, being patient, uh, and and ability to change
change your mindset. And it workedfor me in my career because you can't
grow, you can't go far withwith with acting just out of emotions and

(01:09:26):
acting quickly when it kind of businessdeals again, let's get away from the
negative connotation around it. When itcomes to business deals. You gotta be
patient and saying yes, right,you gotta be saying okay, let me
talk to you tomorrow. So that'smaturity, right. I think maturity definitely
worked in a ton of ways whenit came to my career and my in
my growth as a man. Tobe honest, well no, but I

(01:09:49):
mean that's the truth. Because youdon't want to make a decision out of
haste. And we talked about yousaid you may have about the negative,
but even the positives too. Youdon't want to make a you got three
job offers, sleep on it,pray on, don't just make it right
now because you might. You justnever know, you know what I mean.
And even with you, you onthe ground, even though to everybody
look like you made it, andyou like, I still got I'm still

(01:10:11):
got more to do because sometimes youthink people think you own it, You
like I ain't even scratch the surfaceand you own some stuff like y'all talking
about me. I'm doing the samething y'all doing. I'm dming people.
I'm emailing people. That's why Itold one of my homeboys. He was
like, he was like, howyou get some? So you probably say
I emailed them, I DM them. I said, they don't respond.
You can't take that personal because youhave to understand they busy. Now what

(01:10:32):
you can't take personal as the niggasthat's just like you that you grew up
with you to know you personally thatpull you on your stuff. Then you
can get mad at But these bigyou just got accepted because they don't have
to do nothing for you. Soif they out there saying, yeah,
let's set it up. You knowwhat I'm saying, but you you you'd

(01:10:53):
rather say I try. And andalso this, let me say this too,
of being petty and mature. Wheny'all do get in the same room
as those people, whatever you're doing, don't be petty and actstank with him
like, oh I emailed you thatone time. You ain't respond, like
you know how many people they talkto, Like, come on, you
can't be like that. All right, y'all, it's been a great conversation.

(01:11:14):
So we're moving into the last segmentof the day, which is game
time. This game is called fruitor No Fruit, kind of like dealing
no Deal. I'm gonna name sixscenarios, and I want you to tell
me whether or not that scenario fruitwas produced. Well, even if it

(01:11:34):
was fruit, it was a goodfruit, or if it was bathroom so
fruit, good fruit or no fruit? If it was nothing good? You're
ready? Okay? All right.The first one is launching a community art
program in your neighborhood. M fruitfor sure? Wait, like did I
do that? Oh? Oh no, no, that's good. Yeah that's

(01:11:56):
good. Yeah, that's good forsure. Graffiti on pub buildings. It
depends where's that? Yeah? Imean, I've seen some some good graffiti
on some public buildings and it's supposedto be there, like in the Art
district in Baltimore. So shit,I'm gonna say fruit bro fuck it.

(01:12:17):
Well my thing is too. I'mlaughing because like in Houston, they got
the big thing on the on thefreeway that's like known when people using on
TV shows and everything and they saybeat someone or whatever. So that's graffiti,
and the graffiti technically bad, butI mean that it made it to
where it's like a a thing yeaart, Yeah for sure, high rent
forcing small businesses to close. NoFruit educational workshops and undeserved areas undeserved What

(01:12:48):
the hell is that? What dothat mean? So basically, you care
doing a workshop and like educational forpeople who don't when I say, when
I said don't deserve it, undeservedareas is like say, for instance,
you're doing an educational workshop for blackand brown youth, and like bel Air
like oh yeah yeah, yeah,nah, nah, I don't know.

(01:13:11):
No Fruit Local Podcast is collaborating Fruitfor sure. Yeah, of course,
all right, the Jhill Network networkcreating like Revolt and Daily Wire Fruit for
sure. Yeah, alright, betall right, let's move into the last
thing for the audience. So whatis one area in life that needs to

(01:13:34):
change? Tell me about the personalinvestment you plan to make this week.
All Right, y'all, remember youwin money when you do this stuff cash
shop. Alright, So you didn'tpopped up on me. We really got
everything going. You led into thenext episode for next week because you know,
we're keeping a story going which isabout maturity and the prime part of
the plant and it features my boyReginald. Alright, he got a good

(01:13:56):
story and we and him have beentrying to link for a long time and
we finally got a chance do so. So that episode is gonna be great.
But before you go, great episodeagain, anything you want to lead
the people with, man, justyou know, keep going. Man,
when people tell you stop, don'tdon't stop. Just keep going. I
know it sounds cliche, but forreal, man, keep going because that's

(01:14:16):
consistency is going to win every singletime. Consistency. Continue to be consistent.
Uh, you know, take everythingwith what people say. Take what
people say with a grain of salt, because what makes you special they just
might not see it yet, andthey might they might be so different that
they're going to challenge you and tellyou shouldn't do it, but don't continue
to be you but you know yougot it. As a thing line between

(01:14:39):
listening as well, so just understandthat not everything people say you gotta listen
to you, but at least keepan open ear to it for sure.
And also which I gotta understand,it's a special with creating content. It's
just all it takes is that onemoment to do it, and then it's
like being jail broken like on theTV. Like once you jail breaking,
this jail broke. It may takea minute to get it, but once
it's broke, it ain't no goingback to not you know what I mean.

(01:15:01):
So just make sure that when youropportunity comes, not only that you
know you get it and you canput you not that you can say you
can sustain it, and also thatyou ready for it eventually, eventually emotionally
and mentally, because you would hateto getting that platform and all the eyes
on you you were not prepared andtwo people trolling you and dragging you,

(01:15:21):
which they're they're gonna do, andyou can't take it because then what you're
gonna do ain't Nobody got time tobe going and hiding. All right,
y'all. So this has been agreat episode. Tune in to me next
week alright. PSA signing out.Always remember keep your head up, like
your neck hurt. Remember who youare, make your mind up, don't
let it make you And I loveus for real, all right, y'all,

(01:16:02):
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(01:16:23):
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