September 24, 2025 • 35 mins
In this episode, I sit down with Yusef “Mista Yu” Marshal — a multi-hyphenate storyteller, minister, and podcasting powerhouse who turned his life pivots into a movement. From growing up in Brooklyn to launching a media brand with multiple shows, Yusef shares how faith, accountability, and purpose shaped his voice behind the mic. We talk about breaking out of introversion, building authentic community, and why podcasting is more than content — it’s a calling. Check out what Mista Yu has to offer at https://theycallmemistayu.buzzsprout.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hi everyone. I'm so excited today we have a phenomenal guest.
Today's guest is a multi hyghenit storyteller, a purpose driven creator,
and podcasting powerhouse. Yusef Mister You. Marshall is the founder
of They Call Me Mister You, a bold podcast media
brand featuring four dynamic shows centered on faith, transformation and
(00:35):
authentic conversation. He is a native of Brooklyn. He brings
decades of experience. He's been a chef, state government leader,
or day minister, speaker, best selling author and certified high
performance coach, and the founder co founder of Save the
Children se and the heart behind Maritime Media. So mister
(00:56):
You's gonna share with us how he's turned his story
into a platform. And we are so happy to have
you here today. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Thank you for having me. And I got I guess
he does a lot of studies. He saw he sounds great.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes, you have been involved in a lot of things.
So we're gonna talk about everything today and I just yeah,
I can't wait to hear what you have to share
with us. Because we podcasters always need to have some
type of just encouragement of how to let our voice
be heard, and you're going to help us with that
connection piece. So yes, yes, yes, so I know you're
(01:34):
gonna do great and we're so excited. And so you
have lived through some life. You've lived life, You've had
some pivots in ministry, public service, maybe even some other
experiences that we might want to hear about today. So
for those who don't know your story, can you tell
us what moments shaped the man behind the mic?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Was to shape the man behind the MinC oh, I've
been I've had a used to epiphany that can't lean
on the introvert excuse me that I used to lean
on all the time, an introverse where I want to
do this.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm introvers I want to do that, And.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Like I'm sitting out here, I'm hearing people all across
the world who are listening to our episodes.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm like, can't you use to what need more? I'm
gonna give me a new verse.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I think one of the things that kind of
shaped that was just having to uh have a voice
at an early age, having to having to come out
a bit uh. Being raised in New York today, you
would think that you know, those kinds of things are common,
but you know, people have challenges and struggles there to uh,
(02:42):
It's it's a very outspoken place. People say their opinions
that the don't really care how you feel about it a.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Lot of the times.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But I lived in that place and hadn't really engaged
in or immerged myself a lot of the culture. But
I was the last key kid. I mean, I was
have my own key eleven towards me off. My mother
worked two jobs and went to school as well, so
she was super hard work and she was from she
from the Virgin hours. Just she had a hard work ethic.
(03:08):
She understood what that meant. So I was on my
own a good bit, managing things, even doing the household,
children stuff, just kind of learning how to how to
find myself.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And it was like I would couldn't find myself in
that place. Though.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
When I left New York that I really began to
find my voice because I didn't feel like I had
anything that mattered the whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was there out of the need to be in
a baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Player, and I didn't have anything that made me you know,
I think I was kind of coming out, you know,
I was austin entertainment.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
My mom was like no, you know, we can't do
that because it started.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
A stable job. Again, I work every thing. Again, you
want me to do engineering thing? You like that, And
I'm like, I wanted to go into acting, No she
didn't carry I wanted to go into music. No she
didn't curry that e because no.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So I had to learn how to find myself.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And it wasn't until I left me or she left
my hometowns did I realized, you know what, you had
something specially to offer.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I was remember to help people.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, and I think that's a big part of what's
happening with a lot of our shows. And you wouldn't
be guests on shows like yours. You know that I
get a chance to hear things cause were you sitting
there introduction. I wouldn't try to be facetious. I honestly,
I don't remember a lot of those things.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And it's not something you know, it's not in the
front of me. I don't talk about it something. It's
just something that I did tell myself. A jack of
all trades, and where it mayhas, I've done a lot
of stuff. Sometimes I didn't even wor like to remind
me what'd I do?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Again?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So when you said that, I'm not being I'm being serious, Like, wow,
I didn't remember that stuff. So yeah, I think a
real big pivot for me was just you know, beginning
to kind of you know, start taking time to stop
and look at reflect on what you've done, to look
at what you came through, and be appreciative because a
lot of folks, you know, having done half of those
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things and they wish today they did and like I put,
I'm showing disdain for it. And I'm like, so I'm
cheging you my life.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Damn, I'm doing better.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah that what I'm doing and what I have done
and being appreciative. I'm like, I've helped fuls along the way.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I didn't realize that I had.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Something special to offer a few years ago to figure
that out after all these years I've been living, I
didn't realize that in that I had something to offer,
not great, not paror of that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But but the thing is is that you figured out
along the way that Okay, So I maybe I don't
know what I'm doing right now, Maybe I don't know
what's in my heart and what I'm supposed to be doing.
I feel introverted. I feel like i'm trying to find
my way, but along the way you had enough faith
to to just try different things, right, because that's all
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we can do is put one foot in front of
the other. You tried different things, and as you were
trying those things, I love how you helped people around you.
And as you were helping people, you found your purpose.
And so it was like through helping your helping your community,
helping the people in your life, you found purpose and
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passion for it. And I would love to know, like, how, okay,
so you have a brand that just tell us about
your podcast. Tell us about your brand and what you
talk about on your shows? What is what is your
brand all about?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well they called me mister you started, and I only
know how you got the name if the name did
even come from me. It was kind of suggested. I
was struggling with the name. It took me a long
time to get a name. But that was the name
of the first show that we ever did, the first
podcast where we did. And you know, I didn't want
my name on it cause again, you know, an introvert,
same thing my name.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I can't have my name on it. But that's how
we started. We're just doing inspirational stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
At a time I was doing Bible teaching, I would
doing everyday inspirations. I will come out maybe four or
five days a week, and I would just do inspirational
stuff from what people were doing with in.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The world around.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Let's pulling stories on topics from the news and media
and everything, kind of just speaking to them, you know,
with an encouraging tone and kind of let them know,
you know what, even though this is going on on,
this is what the promising, this is what the legacy
is for you, you know, and and kind of just encourage that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And it began to just grow. Start here's some people
from places that.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I expect, and it just it started to grow in uh,
in listenership, and before you know it, it became their brand.
Because I had so many shows underneath it that I
couldn't keep it there in them. So now the brand
that they call me into you. I had like eight
shows at the time, Wow, And I was actually a panelist.
A weekly panelis on seven or eight different shows for
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five days a week, so it was amazing. I was
working that was a lot. So what you're seeing now
it's four different shows and I kind of feel like
that's this is where it needs to be. I said
that before, and look what happened. But I think where
it needs to be now is it's a happy medium
and a nice balance where I'm doing what I want
to do and I don't feel funny about what I'm doing,
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like I'm giving something back out. So they called me
with You the r Now, so we launch our flaship
show with just one one womanster you. That's our interview show.
That's probably our most popular show. We talk to people
like yourself across the world, literally from Norway to Florida
to everywhere, and We've been having some great conversations. I'm
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amazed at what I hear and I learned. I grow
from the interviews. I'm the wholesome. I learned so much.
And we've we just we lont our inspiration stations or
other show where I just speak to the people, just
one on one talking to the people.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We talked about topics of the day.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And things that may be going on maybe in the
areas of ministry or in the community. We just kind
of just speak to those things and hopefully I try
to lead with some encourageon encouragement words for them to
start their day with it and move on with We
have a sports related show our hometown NFL team. We
just kind of have a show that we do for that.
It's our first year, so we're seeing how that looks.
(08:56):
It's just a fun opportunity from apart on the line
to kind of talk about our favorite team. So yeah,
And the last show was the one that was unexpected
because I did I'm gonna stop at three. I said,
it's enough for me to handle this. And then you know,
when you said you ain't gon do with nothing else,
something else happened. So it's funny how that happens.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But we started a man's roundtable.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sity, which I'm very very in love with. Wow, and
all the interviews on our flags from shore one on more,
mister you.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I've been hearing so.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Much from men, and I kept hearing the same consistent
crime from me. I'm like, they crying for community, they
crying for connection. They can't relate, they can't share and
be transparent, so much like, we gotta do something about this.
And I know that people have communities and their ministry,
they can do those kinds of things theoretically, but what
I'm hearing is that something is not enough I'm hearing
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like it's like lacking in some area. So I said,
you know what, it was a vision. It came on
real quick, like a hurricane. It came on real quick.
And we started this show and we did our premiere
last month and it was.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Very very successful, well, very very well.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Men from all over the country that jump into lound
tapers with us usually eight to ten people max per episode,
and we're hearing amazing stories of breakthrough people who are
learning how to connect transparency, men's feeling their lives on
the air.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's a movement. That is a movement.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You feel like it, Yeah, yeah, Oh, I wouldn't prepare
for it at first.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's amazing. And that's that's just what this is all about,
really using these platforms, using podcasting, using online radio, which
now we call podcasting and we syndicate it. That's what
it's really all about. And I know a lot of
people are thinking, yeah, but you know, we're in it
for the money, and yes, there can be money, it
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can be lucrative, can be, but it can take time
to build to that. And so a lot of us
are doing this for the purpose of bring giving back
to the community. And bringing encouragement and hope to people,
and like you saw having problems in your community, Like
you heard the cry of men saying, hey, we need community,
we need something, and you started that for them. And
(11:09):
I think that that's what podcasting is all about. It's
a solution. So I love that you just got in
there and did the work. What is your day in
the life look like? Because that's a lot of podcasting,
So I'm wondering what, like, how do you manage the
kind of the responsibilities of each of these shows, and
do you have like certain like maybe a boundaries or
(11:31):
cutoff times when you don't work certain times when you
know you work on this show one day and another
show a different day. Just kind of tell us a
little bit, walk us through your day in the life.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, that was That's I'm glad I'm doing it now
and not the other way.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I'll tell you when I had that thirteen different things
going every week, that was rough. I'll work at seven
near the week and I'll write letting me know just
like that's it pretty much. But now I think I'm
really taking the slow path to this. I know that
people are chasing analytics and lights and subs I get
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what's happening out there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We all can beat subject to it. I'm just not
doing that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, I just for the four shows here, and I
got to really plan around happen well I work, or
that there's three days a week that I work heavy,
working long hours those three days. The other four days
Thursday through Sunday, I'm not doing any of that stuff.
Can maybe some scheduling going off. I'm getting messages, I
gotta take few of those things, but I'm not having
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a lot of meetings or I'm not doing a lot
of broadcasts during that time at all because I'm not
trying to protect those days and make sure I can't
protect my piece. Yeah, I didn't do that in the
in the earlier stages since we started this in twenty twenty,
and I learned a hard couple of hard lessons from that.
So for me, and like Monday through Wednesday, I'm gonna
I'm working. I'm working long and late and it's okay.
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I'm up early.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, I'm into the I'm in the worst hour traffic,
I'm still working.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So yeah, I'm okay with that as long as as
long as I have those boundary set. The man's round
Table series is once a month, and it was it
was so I know that kind of that that was
the best route and this was not a big burden there,
inspiration decisions kind of exactly what the word says, but
what the name says, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's not happening every single week.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It's kind of like it's random throughout the month, because
I know, you gotta feel that work.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, yeah, I know that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I know that flies against the podcasting rules, but I
can't do that every day, so I have to. I
gotta feel that it's not gonna be off in it.
So right that pops up way, it pops up. The
Flashing show like Monday through Wednesday, one on woman, mister
Les just interviews throughout and those are always set and
they're usually always live, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And the sports shows one one day of a week,
so it's manageable.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, you're you're making it work. Obviously, you're making it work.
And I love what you said. I love what you said,
like the one of your shows, you gotta feel it
and you just do it when you can, whenever it
pops up. That's so important because there are no rules
of podcasting. I love that we can do it however
we need to, and the message still gets out there.
It doesn't have to be every once a week, once
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every two weeks, once a month. It's whenever we feel
led to upload a show. And the key is that
people are listening to our episodes from years ago, and
they will binge listen, and if they find it interesting, intriguing,
it something they want to hear, they will go back
into the archives and listen to something from seven years ago.
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So it's like the idea of being on a hamster wheel.
Not necessary. And so I love that that you said,
you know, it's just whenever it happens for that show. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well okay, let's kind of shift a little bit into
into personalities because I'm an introvert and I've heard you
talking about being introverted, and so I'm wondering, why do
you think introverts make powerful hosts?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What's what advice do you have for those of us
to maybe second guessing our voice.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I really, I really believe this, and I know that
introverts listened and be like, no, that's not me. I've
worn that introvert outfit for a long time, and even
nobody believes it.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Nobody ever really believed it because when they hear me
talk or see me in certain settings. I'm not showing that,
but I think I think part of it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And you got to decide where you are in this.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But some introverts they're like that because because of past
circumstances that have happened, and now it's a way to
self protect.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, that's true, So you have to have to decide
case for some people just like that, and they've grown up.
Maybe their parents didn't allow them.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
To express themselves in the home, right they they said,
so you know what, I'm not going to talk then,
and they go into life, into adulthood, well into teenagers,
inerteen teenage years, and it's oldithood not talking because that's
what they've learned. So there's a lot of things to
go with that. But I think they may.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Powerful hopes because they are super observer, that's true. And
it it's so much like somebody who's lost the sense
of the sense of sight. They're hearing magnified.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So if you're not talking like normal folks or the
extrovert does, you're probably gathering so much information. Your sense
of hearing and the sensitivity to that is so much
higher and you make you only make a great podcast,
make a great host because you learning to listen.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I've been on shows where people had.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Guests on my show that weren't great at listening. They
weren't great at you know, they kind of had their
next pitch.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Ready or their next.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Fancy line ready, and like, you didn't hear anything I say,
you don't remember what the question was, so it's like,
you know, those those are kinds of things I think
introverts they thrive at because you spend so much time
not talking and so much time listening that you make
a fantastic coach.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You probably probably made for it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
As far as gising your voice, I think that's the
part where for me, I had to allow myself to say,
you know what I got, I gotta do me even
if it does not uh, it's not great for analytics
or it's not great for listenership numbers. I got to
be me, and honestly, I stepped into this whole mister
you thing. I mean because people call me out across
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the country, even little kids.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That's where it came. It came from the little kids
talking about if they couldn't say my name, so they
called me mister you. That's where it came from.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And for me, I'm like, you know, when I talk,
if you listen to the show, I'm being me. I'm
not not trying to be flashy or trying to be
a shock jock, being me. And you know what, I'm
good with it. I've been good with it now for
about five years. I'm like, I'm good with what the
next five wouldn't look like. Yeah, And that's as our
self professed introvert, we got to just be us because
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we have something valuable to bring to the table. Even
in our introversion, that's valuable have been to the table
and we cannot let it die. And twenty twenty was
probably one of the worst times in our world's history.
But that was a lot of people's coming out party.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
If that's the introverts.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
People sat the podcast, they start a small business, and
they started to start our ventures. A lot of stuff
happened in twenty twenty. And you know what, it's time
for you to shine, introverse. You come out, come out
of it, come out of the.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Come on out. It's time for you to shine. Yes, yes,
that's just the people. One thing that you should earlier.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I know, we kind of fall away from it now
about hopefully we can get back to it real quick.
We're talking about how people who are on the fence
and not really sure do want to do this and
not feeling great about it, and right, you know what, man,
some of that just be honest. Some of that it's
just people being selfish, to be honest with you. There's
a quote that I love. It says it's more blessed
to get and to receive. A lot of folks who
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really like that or get with that because everyone's counters
what the world says around us. But honestly, you feel
so much better when you give to other people. It's indescribable.
And in the podcast where as a matter of fact,
I'm I'm doing a teacher go on this sometime soon,
sometime this year from the same premise. But give that
to your fellow hosts, get back to your fellow podcast colleagues.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, jump onto this show.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Even if your show is not doing that great or
you don't like where things are going, why would that
limit you from giving to your show her show I'm
sole podcasting, and jump into some of the episodes that
she's that she's putting out there and allow her a
chance to rest.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It with you. You know her, She's been there for you,
supported you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Jump on her show, jump in the comments section, leave
her withview on Apple podcasts, Spotify.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
What have you let her? And people who are watching no,
you know what, she had had something awesome to give.
Those things come back to you sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Those are seeds for a harvest, and you know what,
we're sitting were sitting there waiting for hours to grow,
and we have something we can give to other people
and it just feels good. The shoes good to get
to other people. Support them. I mean, I do this
SUD all the time. I don't even know if people
see my comments. I'm not even sure if they ready
to reviews yet. I'm doing it because, you know what,
that's what I would want for myself. Yeah, or they
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had to give back. So encourage that, because that's you
can't sit there and wallowing the self pity.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Help somebody, support somebody with my wife and I want homeless.
We were homeless three times.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well still were in the giving business even though we
didn't have anything. While we had generosity in US. I
don't know where I know where it came from, but
I don't know where it came from. And we've been
we've been givings since I could remember, been married almost
thirty years now, we've been givers ever since I can remember. Wow,
we never felt bad about giving to somebody else. We
never felt bad by giving somebody our shoes or somebody
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clothes who didn't have it. We never felt bad about
paying for somebody's groceries on.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The line because the car wasn't working. We never felt
bad about that one time. We felt good every single time.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Just universal evidence that if we get back, we're gonna
feel good and somebody's gonna be blessed by it. So
for all you podcasters who are what we're in the face,
you're wondering why should you.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Be doing this?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Because if there's one person who's gonna appreciate what you
have to do and what do you have to offer
and to meet you, she's the one person. Then sew
back into her support her shows for the episodes she's
supporting yours.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So just being you know, encouraged one another.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Your situation is gonna be, it's gonna change, it's gonna
get better, it's gonna grow.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But this meanwhile, so some more seeds. I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I love it, so some more seeds.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, you draw it his own. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah. In other words, keep planting, keep sewing, keep growing,
you know, and don't give. Don't look at your circumstances
and say, well I don't have quite as many, because
this is not a This is not a place for
competition and and and being jealous and being all of
that stuff. You know. No, no, this, I absolutely love
what you're saying right now because that's what we need
(22:01):
to hear more of, you know, And and that that
kind of transcends beyond podcasting and beyond you know, business.
In other words, like this goes into two life skills
and and things that we need to do to be
able to receive in our lives. We have to give,
and and it feels good. It's not like, you know,
it's like pulling teeth, right we we when we want
(22:24):
to give, there's there's something behind the desire to help
other people. And then seeing the harvest eventually, you know,
it's beautiful. It's beautiful. And I believe that's what this
podcasting should be about, is helping people because we all
have a message, we all have something to share. But
if we're doing it because just because we're we're making
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it part of our business. You know that, you know
that that's it's that's its own thing. There are people
that only do it, you know, to accompany their business strategy,
and that's fine too, that that's what they want to do.
But I think there's some thing beautiful behind a magnetic
message that supports your ideal, your your ideal listener, the
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person that can be ministered to, who can be encouraged
through your podcast. There's just something beautiful about that. And
I love that's what you're that's what you're doing with
your shows right now. And I believe I read somewhere.
I'm not sure if I've read this, but I think
you have three core pillars. Is that accountability value in purpose?
(23:28):
Am I right? Okay? Awesome, Okay. I want to hear
a little bit about that and like how that affects
your when you're interviewing, when you're creating content, like whatever
you're doing, how to how do accountability, value and purpose
become sort of that core around which you work.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, those are huge for me, and not because I
feel like I need to teach the world these things.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
These are just things that I'm teaching myself that I'm
growing in.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I always felt like accountability and and but it be
in miniship in the leadership were always important. And you know,
on this journey of podcasting, yeah, I can see it
so clearly. It's like, how do I theoretically pour into
somebody's life if I'm empty?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know for me, so if you can't in any
in any possible ways, So for me, you know, I
want to make sure that I have a maniship and
leadership in my life.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
People who are seeing the things that maybe I'm too
blind to see.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Maybe they're in my blind spot and I can't see it,
you know, because I'm open in my mouth here.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I'm not just sitting record.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
This is just why I say, if you have even
if you have a story, it does not mean you
are a podcaster.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Don't go buy a whole bunch of.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Equipment and do this just because you got a story, right.
It doesn't mean go write a book and got a story.
It doesn't mean that you know there's a character that
you've got to have to do this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I know a lot of people have podcasting and they
don't have that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
They probably have more people watching them redo and then
talking about anything of any kind of value or any
kind of work, and.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I recognize that it's true, is the reality of our world,
you know.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
But for me, I'm like, I want to make sure
that I have something to give, something to offer that's
that's uh authentic and valuable.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I don't want to just be.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
There are times where I've been I won't call it
podcasters block, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What you call it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Where I anything stuff's going on in my life. I'm
to get a revelation in life. I'm still growing. But
for the podcasting space, I didn't have anything and I
didn't do anything but what it's time for me to
shut this down, take some time to sit and soak
a little bit, kind of deal with whatever's going on.
And I came back and some of my best episodes
(25:47):
were the ones that came back from those breaks from
because I was recharged. I was I had a renewed focus,
accountability to play. The big part of that purpose is
something I just talk about from my part. Probably had
a thirty year coaching career. I just wasn't getting paid
for except by four of those years. So but the
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purpose is the one thing every question I've ever heard
for nearly thirty years now, all different questions from all
different vantage points and perspectives, but they all were leading
to the same thing, my purpose.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Why am I here?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Should I be doing? And it was the It was
the foundation for every coaching venture I've ever had, even
though one that I'm gonna be started again soon. It's
been the purpose old mentor doctor Molesman world. He's going
on to be yeah, yeah, yeah, but he has tools
and love to quote all the time. I should get
credit for it. I called him not quoting, not coping
(26:43):
that much. But one of us says that, you know,
when the purpose of thing is not known, abuse is inevitable.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Whoa I just you know, I think about that not
only with what we're.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Doing, but not just for our business plans and our
entrepreneurship goals, but also with the life asked to You
don't know what you're doing and why you're here.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, you're gonna make a mess.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Of things, so true.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That that needs to be our focus. Why why are
you doing what you're doing? Why are you here? What's
what's what's the point of this?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Because if we're doing anything else other than that, they
kind of just you know, making a mess of things
and probably leaving a wake of destruction behind us is
the big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And the value part is just.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I'm hoping that when people hear our shows, any of
our shows, really think, even in our sports show, I
still got faith we've in there, I don't. It's just
just doing that. But I'm hoping that people get value
from that and it command. I know we're not in
the top top point five globally. That's fine, but then
we don't have the biggest numbers and everything. It's fine,
(27:44):
but I'm hoping when people hear it that they get
value from what we're putting out here and right, and
they at least at least create some questions. Are things
that maybe you know, Beff, we can start paying more
attention to that we've been ignoring. And I try to
highlight a lot of that stuff, and especially on two
of our shows specifically just to offer that value, because
at the end of the day, there's so much junk
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out here and people are people like junk.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Foodst just a reality you can try to offer you doodle,
but most folks want the other stuff that he need
you to taste good to get stuck on your fingers
that they know not good for them, but it just
tastes so good. Yeah, I'm from trying to offer something
that's not junk food, something healthier, something that is value added,
and hopefully it's making a difference in somebody's world.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah. Oh my goodness. Oh I love that. I'm gonna
have to go back and re listen to this a
few times, your accountability, value and purpose. And one thing
that really stood out to me that you just said
is how you marinated on you know, a podcast when
you felt like you just need to step back for
a minute, like I don't have anything to give right now,
(28:50):
and I'm just going to take a break and figure
it out. That's that's okay. We need to give ourselves
permission to take a break and recalibrate and see what
it is that's in our heart. Because if there's nothing there,
if we don't have that purpose anymore, or we just
are feeling a little bit empty and we need to refuel,
then we shouldn't just keep pushing because the message isn't
(29:13):
it's not inspired anymore. So I love that you are
giving us permission to take breaks when needed, and very
very important because we're coming to this with purpose, and
that's that's a key word for today's show. Purpose. So
I love that. Thank you for sharing that. One more
question and then I want you to share about how
we can reach you. But for those who are we're
(29:35):
talking a little bit about the messy behind the message.
So there's a lot of folks out here who we
have messy stories. We have a lot of things we
want to we want to put out there and share,
but we want to do it in a way that
you know, honors our our, you know, our path and
and helps other people to be encouraged in their path.
(29:58):
So what would you say to them to inspire them
to step behind the mic and get started making an
impact with their voice If they're feeling a little introverted,
they're feeling even if it's not even a personality thing,
they're just feeling like, who's going to listen to this?
Like this is just junk food, who's going to listen
to this? Some people aren't going to consider this the valuable.
(30:19):
How would you encourage them to go ahead and make
that impact?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Okay, well, if you're really really sold on the idea
that that using your voice in this way is the
best rock, Because people do blogs, to host, people do poetry,
people do a lot of different things, you know, you know,
I don't know what makes honestly that, to be fair,
I don't even know what it makes people that I
think about podcasting, even wanted to be podcast. I don't
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know what's far. I don't know a specific situation. Hope
it's not a fad they're trying to change, hopefully not.
But no, I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
But just in general, generally speaking, if you're pondering.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That, you know, they may be something to it. There
may be something that you have of value. And you
know what, one thing you can't do is look at
what you got right now and think, you know what
this is why I can't do this because this could
be a platform for something future down the line.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You could be a best selling offer down the line.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
You know, you haven't even thought about writing a book,
and the platform is already being prepared. So it's basically
just the early stages of seedsting.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yes, that's what this is. Because in twenty twenty I
had no intention of being a podcast. I wouldn't think
about that. Better I got fired from my job. My
cousin died. It was a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I wouldn't I wouldn't even think of my podcasting. Wow,
it was like that was always a lighter. It's just
six years old, so writing and journaling were normal for me.
I had so many thoughts and feelings and the stories
and instances. And in twenty twenty, I wasn't feeling the
therapy that I normally felt doing that they feel it
at all.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I'm like, the old ways not working anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I'm going to do now. And that's how the whole
podcast and things started happening. I had to have to
find a new way. So some of you guys that
are watching listen, they may be looking.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
For a new way, a new way to have.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
To express yourself, to a form of self expression, have
your voice being helped somebody else. Honestly, there's nothing else
to do but to begin to just start recording.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Give you all the little tips to talk about. I
know people who are planning right now. They've been planning
for about three years and you haven't hit record yet.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Wow, that's that's not gonna work. They can hear the record.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Some people have the idea that you know what they're
gonna write everything out.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
They have a kind of on the script. Some people
to use a teleprom to have you can get on
your on.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Your phone, so people just kind of have bullet points
and then they kind of just riff off of those
and kind of share stories and stuff. Whichever where it
works for you, get that set and start recording, because
once you start recording the first episode in the fifth
and it's hit, you'll find it's going to be a
lot easier as.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You as you move forward. But the hardest one is
their very first episode.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Got to start it and you have to go live.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
You and record it, look at it, edit it, see
if you like how it is, and do it over again.
Don't overdo it, but you do it over again if
you have to, and just start that process. Because I
really believe that if you're thinking about podcasting this much
and you believe it's something that we have of value
in you to say more than likely because of the
kind of world that we live in and kind of
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how we're all wired, somebody out there is waiting to
hear from you, and you're depriving them of the opportunity
by holding back.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Be lazy by constantly changing your mind and not being decisive.
You're keeping them from receiving something important.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
If you think it's not important to podcasts, it's probably
important for somebody to hear it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wow, Wow, that's a mic drop moment right there. Well,
there's somebody out there that wants to hear it because
you've been thinking about saying it for a while and
just spin on the edge. But thank you so so much.
That was good. That was good. And again I'm gonna
have to go back and listen a few times to
this because it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
More I went wrong?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Now you're perfect, perfect, and we want to hear how
we can reach you because you have a lot of shows,
but we want to be able to reach you and
see the work you're doing and the impact you're making.
So how can we find out more?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Normally, I'm on all the socials.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I do have accounts to everything, but I'm not emphasizing
every social anymore. This is a recent development. So Facebook, LinkedIn,
and YouTube are the primary areas we can find me.
But if you go to they call me mister you
dot but brought dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You can find all of.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
The links there and easy ways to get man, you
can send me a private message of have any questions
regarding coaching or purpose or if you want a free conversation,
happy to do that for you.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I mean, well you dot but broad dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And of course as we evolve, you start seeing more
stuff on the posts coming out, the new culting practice.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
All the things that you can't really get into and
yet be exciting. I'm excited about the new, the.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
New uh, the new beginning, the new inventions that are
getting ready to happen.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
But you call me just excited dot buspot dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
They called me mister U dot bus sproute dot com.
We'll get that in the show notes. And can't wait
to see your journey unfold and where where God is
leading you. And it's gonna be awesome. So thank you
for being here, thank you for having
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Me appreciate it,
Hi everyone. I'm so excited today we have a phenomenal guest.
Today's guest is a multi hyghenit storyteller, a purpose driven creator,
and podcasting powerhouse. Yusef Mister You. Marshall is the founder
of They Call Me Mister You, a bold podcast media
brand featuring four dynamic shows centered on faith, transformation and
(00:35):
authentic conversation. He is a native of Brooklyn. He brings
decades of experience. He's been a chef, state government leader,
or day minister, speaker, best selling author and certified high
performance coach, and the founder co founder of Save the
Children se and the heart behind Maritime Media. So mister
(00:56):
You's gonna share with us how he's turned his story
into a platform. And we are so happy to have
you here today. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Thank you for having me. And I got I guess
he does a lot of studies. He saw he sounds great.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes, you have been involved in a lot of things.
So we're gonna talk about everything today and I just yeah,
I can't wait to hear what you have to share
with us. Because we podcasters always need to have some
type of just encouragement of how to let our voice
be heard, and you're going to help us with that
connection piece. So yes, yes, yes, so I know you're
(01:34):
gonna do great and we're so excited. And so you
have lived through some life. You've lived life, You've had
some pivots in ministry, public service, maybe even some other
experiences that we might want to hear about today. So
for those who don't know your story, can you tell
us what moments shaped the man behind the mic?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Was to shape the man behind the MinC oh, I've
been I've had a used to epiphany that can't lean
on the introvert excuse me that I used to lean
on all the time, an introverse where I want to
do this.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm introvers I want to do that, And.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Like I'm sitting out here, I'm hearing people all across
the world who are listening to our episodes.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm like, can't you use to what need more? I'm
gonna give me a new verse.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I think one of the things that kind of
shaped that was just having to uh have a voice
at an early age, having to having to come out
a bit uh. Being raised in New York today, you
would think that you know, those kinds of things are common,
but you know, people have challenges and struggles there to uh,
(02:42):
It's it's a very outspoken place. People say their opinions
that the don't really care how you feel about it a.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Lot of the times.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But I lived in that place and hadn't really engaged
in or immerged myself a lot of the culture. But
I was the last key kid. I mean, I was
have my own key eleven towards me off. My mother
worked two jobs and went to school as well, so
she was super hard work and she was from she
from the Virgin hours. Just she had a hard work ethic.
(03:08):
She understood what that meant. So I was on my
own a good bit, managing things, even doing the household,
children stuff, just kind of learning how to how to
find myself.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And it was like I would couldn't find myself in
that place. Though.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
When I left New York that I really began to
find my voice because I didn't feel like I had
anything that mattered the whole time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was there out of the need to be in
a baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Player, and I didn't have anything that made me you know,
I think I was kind of coming out, you know,
I was austin entertainment.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
My mom was like no, you know, we can't do
that because it started.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
A stable job. Again, I work every thing. Again, you
want me to do engineering thing? You like that, And
I'm like, I wanted to go into acting, No she
didn't carry I wanted to go into music. No she
didn't curry that e because no.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So I had to learn how to find myself.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And it wasn't until I left me or she left
my hometowns did I realized, you know what, you had
something specially to offer.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I was remember to help people.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, and I think that's a big part of what's
happening with a lot of our shows. And you wouldn't
be guests on shows like yours. You know that I
get a chance to hear things cause were you sitting
there introduction. I wouldn't try to be facetious. I honestly,
I don't remember a lot of those things.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And it's not something you know, it's not in the
front of me. I don't talk about it something. It's
just something that I did tell myself. A jack of
all trades, and where it mayhas, I've done a lot
of stuff. Sometimes I didn't even wor like to remind
me what'd I do?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Again?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So when you said that, I'm not being I'm being serious, Like, wow,
I didn't remember that stuff. So yeah, I think a
real big pivot for me was just you know, beginning
to kind of you know, start taking time to stop
and look at reflect on what you've done, to look
at what you came through, and be appreciative because a
lot of folks, you know, having done half of those
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things and they wish today they did and like I put,
I'm showing disdain for it. And I'm like, so I'm
cheging you my life.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Damn, I'm doing better.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah that what I'm doing and what I have done
and being appreciative. I'm like, I've helped fuls along the way.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I didn't realize that I had.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Something special to offer a few years ago to figure
that out after all these years I've been living, I
didn't realize that in that I had something to offer,
not great, not paror of that.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But but the thing is is that you figured out
along the way that Okay, So I maybe I don't
know what I'm doing right now, Maybe I don't know
what's in my heart and what I'm supposed to be doing.
I feel introverted. I feel like i'm trying to find
my way, but along the way you had enough faith
to to just try different things, right, because that's all
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we can do is put one foot in front of
the other. You tried different things, and as you were
trying those things, I love how you helped people around you.
And as you were helping people, you found your purpose.
And so it was like through helping your helping your community,
helping the people in your life, you found purpose and
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passion for it. And I would love to know, like, how, okay,
so you have a brand that just tell us about
your podcast. Tell us about your brand and what you
talk about on your shows? What is what is your
brand all about?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well they called me mister you started, and I only
know how you got the name if the name did
even come from me. It was kind of suggested. I
was struggling with the name. It took me a long
time to get a name. But that was the name
of the first show that we ever did, the first
podcast where we did. And you know, I didn't want
my name on it cause again, you know, an introvert,
same thing my name.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I can't have my name on it. But that's how
we started. We're just doing inspirational stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
At a time I was doing Bible teaching, I would
doing everyday inspirations. I will come out maybe four or
five days a week, and I would just do inspirational
stuff from what people were doing with in.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The world around.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Let's pulling stories on topics from the news and media
and everything, kind of just speaking to them, you know,
with an encouraging tone and kind of let them know,
you know what, even though this is going on on,
this is what the promising, this is what the legacy
is for you, you know, and and kind of just encourage that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And it began to just grow. Start here's some people
from places that.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I expect, and it just it started to grow in uh,
in listenership, and before you know it, it became their brand.
Because I had so many shows underneath it that I
couldn't keep it there in them. So now the brand
that they call me into you. I had like eight
shows at the time, Wow, And I was actually a panelist.
A weekly panelis on seven or eight different shows for
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five days a week, so it was amazing. I was
working that was a lot. So what you're seeing now
it's four different shows and I kind of feel like
that's this is where it needs to be. I said
that before, and look what happened. But I think where
it needs to be now is it's a happy medium
and a nice balance where I'm doing what I want
to do and I don't feel funny about what I'm doing,
(07:56):
like I'm giving something back out. So they called me
with You the r Now, so we launch our flaship
show with just one one womanster you. That's our interview show.
That's probably our most popular show. We talk to people
like yourself across the world, literally from Norway to Florida
to everywhere, and We've been having some great conversations. I'm
(08:18):
amazed at what I hear and I learned. I grow
from the interviews. I'm the wholesome. I learned so much.
And we've we just we lont our inspiration stations or
other show where I just speak to the people, just
one on one talking to the people.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
We talked about topics of the day.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And things that may be going on maybe in the
areas of ministry or in the community. We just kind
of just speak to those things and hopefully I try
to lead with some encourageon encouragement words for them to
start their day with it and move on with We
have a sports related show our hometown NFL team. We
just kind of have a show that we do for that.
It's our first year, so we're seeing how that looks.
(08:56):
It's just a fun opportunity from apart on the line
to kind of talk about our favorite team. So yeah,
And the last show was the one that was unexpected
because I did I'm gonna stop at three. I said,
it's enough for me to handle this. And then you know,
when you said you ain't gon do with nothing else,
something else happened. So it's funny how that happens.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But we started a man's roundtable.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sity, which I'm very very in love with. Wow, and
all the interviews on our flags from shore one on more,
mister you.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I've been hearing so.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Much from men, and I kept hearing the same consistent
crime from me. I'm like, they crying for community, they
crying for connection. They can't relate, they can't share and
be transparent, so much like, we gotta do something about this.
And I know that people have communities and their ministry,
they can do those kinds of things theoretically, but what
I'm hearing is that something is not enough I'm hearing
(09:43):
like it's like lacking in some area. So I said,
you know what, it was a vision. It came on
real quick, like a hurricane. It came on real quick.
And we started this show and we did our premiere
last month and it was.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Very very successful, well, very very well.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Men from all over the country that jump into lound
tapers with us usually eight to ten people max per episode,
and we're hearing amazing stories of breakthrough people who are
learning how to connect transparency, men's feeling their lives on
the air.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's a movement. That is a movement.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You feel like it, Yeah, yeah, Oh, I wouldn't prepare
for it at first.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's amazing. And that's that's just what this is all about,
really using these platforms, using podcasting, using online radio, which
now we call podcasting and we syndicate it. That's what
it's really all about. And I know a lot of
people are thinking, yeah, but you know, we're in it
for the money, and yes, there can be money, it
(10:48):
can be lucrative, can be, but it can take time
to build to that. And so a lot of us
are doing this for the purpose of bring giving back
to the community. And bringing encouragement and hope to people,
and like you saw having problems in your community, Like
you heard the cry of men saying, hey, we need community,
we need something, and you started that for them. And
(11:09):
I think that that's what podcasting is all about. It's
a solution. So I love that you just got in
there and did the work. What is your day in
the life look like? Because that's a lot of podcasting,
So I'm wondering what, like, how do you manage the
kind of the responsibilities of each of these shows, and
do you have like certain like maybe a boundaries or
(11:31):
cutoff times when you don't work certain times when you
know you work on this show one day and another
show a different day. Just kind of tell us a
little bit, walk us through your day in the life.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, that was That's I'm glad I'm doing it now
and not the other way.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I'll tell you when I had that thirteen different things
going every week, that was rough. I'll work at seven
near the week and I'll write letting me know just
like that's it pretty much. But now I think I'm
really taking the slow path to this. I know that
people are chasing analytics and lights and subs I get
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what's happening out there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We all can beat subject to it. I'm just not
doing that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, I just for the four shows here, and I
got to really plan around happen well I work, or
that there's three days a week that I work heavy,
working long hours those three days. The other four days
Thursday through Sunday, I'm not doing any of that stuff.
Can maybe some scheduling going off. I'm getting messages, I
gotta take few of those things, but I'm not having
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a lot of meetings or I'm not doing a lot
of broadcasts during that time at all because I'm not
trying to protect those days and make sure I can't
protect my piece. Yeah, I didn't do that in the
in the earlier stages since we started this in twenty twenty,
and I learned a hard couple of hard lessons from that.
So for me, and like Monday through Wednesday, I'm gonna
I'm working. I'm working long and late and it's okay.
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I'm up early.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, I'm into the I'm in the worst hour traffic,
I'm still working.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So yeah, I'm okay with that as long as as
long as I have those boundary set. The man's round
Table series is once a month, and it was it
was so I know that kind of that that was
the best route and this was not a big burden there,
inspiration decisions kind of exactly what the word says, but
what the name says, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's not happening every single week.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It's kind of like it's random throughout the month, because
I know, you gotta feel that work.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, yeah, I know that.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I know that flies against the podcasting rules, but I
can't do that every day, so I have to. I
gotta feel that it's not gonna be off in it.
So right that pops up way, it pops up. The
Flashing show like Monday through Wednesday, one on woman, mister
Les just interviews throughout and those are always set and
they're usually always live, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And the sports shows one one day of a week,
so it's manageable.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, you're you're making it work. Obviously, you're making it work.
And I love what you said. I love what you said,
like the one of your shows, you gotta feel it
and you just do it when you can, whenever it
pops up. That's so important because there are no rules
of podcasting. I love that we can do it however
we need to, and the message still gets out there.
It doesn't have to be every once a week, once
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every two weeks, once a month. It's whenever we feel
led to upload a show. And the key is that
people are listening to our episodes from years ago, and
they will binge listen, and if they find it interesting, intriguing,
it something they want to hear, they will go back
into the archives and listen to something from seven years ago.
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So it's like the idea of being on a hamster wheel.
Not necessary. And so I love that that you said,
you know, it's just whenever it happens for that show. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well okay, let's kind of shift a little bit into
into personalities because I'm an introvert and I've heard you
talking about being introverted, and so I'm wondering, why do
you think introverts make powerful hosts?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What's what advice do you have for those of us
to maybe second guessing our voice.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I really, I really believe this, and I know that
introverts listened and be like, no, that's not me. I've
worn that introvert outfit for a long time, and even
nobody believes it.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Nobody ever really believed it because when they hear me
talk or see me in certain settings. I'm not showing that,
but I think I think part of it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And you got to decide where you are in this.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But some introverts they're like that because because of past
circumstances that have happened, and now it's a way to
self protect.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, that's true, So you have to have to decide
case for some people just like that, and they've grown up.
Maybe their parents didn't allow them.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
To express themselves in the home, right they they said,
so you know what, I'm not going to talk then,
and they go into life, into adulthood, well into teenagers,
inerteen teenage years, and it's oldithood not talking because that's
what they've learned. So there's a lot of things to
go with that. But I think they may.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Powerful hopes because they are super observer, that's true. And
it it's so much like somebody who's lost the sense
of the sense of sight. They're hearing magnified.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So if you're not talking like normal folks or the
extrovert does, you're probably gathering so much information. Your sense
of hearing and the sensitivity to that is so much
higher and you make you only make a great podcast,
make a great host because you learning to listen.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I've been on shows where people had.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Guests on my show that weren't great at listening. They
weren't great at you know, they kind of had their
next pitch.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Ready or their next.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Fancy line ready, and like, you didn't hear anything I say,
you don't remember what the question was, so it's like,
you know, those those are kinds of things I think
introverts they thrive at because you spend so much time
not talking and so much time listening that you make
a fantastic coach.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You probably probably made for it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
As far as gising your voice, I think that's the
part where for me, I had to allow myself to say,
you know what I got, I gotta do me even
if it does not uh, it's not great for analytics
or it's not great for listenership numbers. I got to
be me, and honestly, I stepped into this whole mister
you thing. I mean because people call me out across
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the country, even little kids.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That's where it came. It came from the little kids
talking about if they couldn't say my name, so they
called me mister you. That's where it came from.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And for me, I'm like, you know, when I talk,
if you listen to the show, I'm being me. I'm
not not trying to be flashy or trying to be
a shock jock, being me. And you know what, I'm
good with it. I've been good with it now for
about five years. I'm like, I'm good with what the
next five wouldn't look like. Yeah, And that's as our
self professed introvert, we got to just be us because
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we have something valuable to bring to the table. Even
in our introversion, that's valuable have been to the table
and we cannot let it die. And twenty twenty was
probably one of the worst times in our world's history.
But that was a lot of people's coming out party.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
If that's the introverts.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
People sat the podcast, they start a small business, and
they started to start our ventures. A lot of stuff
happened in twenty twenty. And you know what, it's time
for you to shine, introverse. You come out, come out
of it, come out of the.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Come on out. It's time for you to shine. Yes, yes,
that's just the people. One thing that you should earlier.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I know, we kind of fall away from it now
about hopefully we can get back to it real quick.
We're talking about how people who are on the fence
and not really sure do want to do this and
not feeling great about it, and right, you know what, man,
some of that just be honest. Some of that it's
just people being selfish, to be honest with you. There's
a quote that I love. It says it's more blessed
to get and to receive. A lot of folks who
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really like that or get with that because everyone's counters
what the world says around us. But honestly, you feel
so much better when you give to other people. It's indescribable.
And in the podcast where as a matter of fact,
I'm I'm doing a teacher go on this sometime soon,
sometime this year from the same premise. But give that
to your fellow hosts, get back to your fellow podcast colleagues.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah, jump onto this show.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Even if your show is not doing that great or
you don't like where things are going, why would that
limit you from giving to your show her show I'm
sole podcasting, and jump into some of the episodes that
she's that she's putting out there and allow her a
chance to rest.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It with you. You know her, She's been there for you,
supported you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Jump on her show, jump in the comments section, leave
her withview on Apple podcasts, Spotify.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
What have you let her? And people who are watching no,
you know what, she had had something awesome to give.
Those things come back to you sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Those are seeds for a harvest, and you know what,
we're sitting were sitting there waiting for hours to grow,
and we have something we can give to other people
and it just feels good. The shoes good to get
to other people. Support them. I mean, I do this
SUD all the time. I don't even know if people
see my comments. I'm not even sure if they ready
to reviews yet. I'm doing it because, you know what,
that's what I would want for myself. Yeah, or they
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had to give back. So encourage that, because that's you
can't sit there and wallowing the self pity.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Help somebody, support somebody with my wife and I want homeless.
We were homeless three times.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well still were in the giving business even though we
didn't have anything. While we had generosity in US. I
don't know where I know where it came from, but
I don't know where it came from. And we've been
we've been givings since I could remember, been married almost
thirty years now, we've been givers ever since I can remember. Wow,
we never felt bad about giving to somebody else. We
never felt bad by giving somebody our shoes or somebody
(20:49):
clothes who didn't have it. We never felt bad about
paying for somebody's groceries on.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
The line because the car wasn't working. We never felt
bad about that one time. We felt good every single time.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Just universal evidence that if we get back, we're gonna
feel good and somebody's gonna be blessed by it. So
for all you podcasters who are what we're in the face,
you're wondering why should you.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Be doing this?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Because if there's one person who's gonna appreciate what you
have to do and what do you have to offer
and to meet you, she's the one person. Then sew
back into her support her shows for the episodes she's
supporting yours.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So just being you know, encouraged one another.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Your situation is gonna be, it's gonna change, it's gonna
get better, it's gonna grow.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
But this meanwhile, so some more seeds. I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I love it, so some more seeds.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, you draw it his own. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah. In other words, keep planting, keep sewing, keep growing,
you know, and don't give. Don't look at your circumstances
and say, well I don't have quite as many, because
this is not a This is not a place for
competition and and and being jealous and being all of
that stuff. You know. No, no, this, I absolutely love
what you're saying right now because that's what we need
(22:01):
to hear more of, you know, And and that that
kind of transcends beyond podcasting and beyond you know, business.
In other words, like this goes into two life skills
and and things that we need to do to be
able to receive in our lives. We have to give,
and and it feels good. It's not like, you know,
it's like pulling teeth, right we we when we want
(22:24):
to give, there's there's something behind the desire to help
other people. And then seeing the harvest eventually, you know,
it's beautiful. It's beautiful. And I believe that's what this
podcasting should be about, is helping people because we all
have a message, we all have something to share. But
if we're doing it because just because we're we're making
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it part of our business. You know that, you know
that that's it's that's its own thing. There are people
that only do it, you know, to accompany their business strategy,
and that's fine too, that that's what they want to do.
But I think there's some thing beautiful behind a magnetic
message that supports your ideal, your your ideal listener, the
(23:08):
person that can be ministered to, who can be encouraged
through your podcast. There's just something beautiful about that. And
I love that's what you're that's what you're doing with
your shows right now. And I believe I read somewhere.
I'm not sure if I've read this, but I think
you have three core pillars. Is that accountability value in purpose?
(23:28):
Am I right? Okay? Awesome, Okay. I want to hear
a little bit about that and like how that affects
your when you're interviewing, when you're creating content, like whatever
you're doing, how to how do accountability, value and purpose
become sort of that core around which you work.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, those are huge for me, and not because I
feel like I need to teach the world these things.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
These are just things that I'm teaching myself that I'm
growing in.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I always felt like accountability and and but it be
in miniship in the leadership were always important. And you know,
on this journey of podcasting, yeah, I can see it
so clearly. It's like, how do I theoretically pour into
somebody's life if I'm empty?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know for me, so if you can't in any
in any possible ways, So for me, you know, I
want to make sure that I have a maniship and
leadership in my life.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
People who are seeing the things that maybe I'm too
blind to see.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Maybe they're in my blind spot and I can't see it,
you know, because I'm open in my mouth here.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I'm not just sitting record.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
This is just why I say, if you have even
if you have a story, it does not mean you
are a podcaster.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Don't go buy a whole bunch of.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Equipment and do this just because you got a story, right.
It doesn't mean go write a book and got a story.
It doesn't mean that you know there's a character that
you've got to have to do this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I know a lot of people have podcasting and they
don't have that.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
They probably have more people watching them redo and then
talking about anything of any kind of value or any
kind of work, and.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I recognize that it's true, is the reality of our world,
you know.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
But for me, I'm like, I want to make sure
that I have something to give, something to offer that's
that's uh authentic and valuable.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I don't want to just be.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
There are times where I've been I won't call it
podcasters block, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
What you call it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Where I anything stuff's going on in my life. I'm
to get a revelation in life. I'm still growing. But
for the podcasting space, I didn't have anything and I
didn't do anything but what it's time for me to
shut this down, take some time to sit and soak
a little bit, kind of deal with whatever's going on.
And I came back and some of my best episodes
(25:47):
were the ones that came back from those breaks from
because I was recharged. I was I had a renewed focus,
accountability to play. The big part of that purpose is
something I just talk about from my part. Probably had
a thirty year coaching career. I just wasn't getting paid
for except by four of those years. So but the
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purpose is the one thing every question I've ever heard
for nearly thirty years now, all different questions from all
different vantage points and perspectives, but they all were leading
to the same thing, my purpose.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Why am I here?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Should I be doing? And it was the It was
the foundation for every coaching venture I've ever had, even
though one that I'm gonna be started again soon. It's
been the purpose old mentor doctor Molesman world. He's going
on to be yeah, yeah, yeah, but he has tools
and love to quote all the time. I should get
credit for it. I called him not quoting, not coping
(26:43):
that much. But one of us says that, you know,
when the purpose of thing is not known, abuse is inevitable.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Whoa I just you know, I think about that not
only with what we're.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Doing, but not just for our business plans and our
entrepreneurship goals, but also with the life asked to You
don't know what you're doing and why you're here.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, you're gonna make a mess.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Of things, so true.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That that needs to be our focus. Why why are
you doing what you're doing? Why are you here? What's
what's what's the point of this?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Because if we're doing anything else other than that, they
kind of just you know, making a mess of things
and probably leaving a wake of destruction behind us is
the big deal.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And the value part is just.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I'm hoping that when people hear our shows, any of
our shows, really think, even in our sports show, I
still got faith we've in there, I don't. It's just
just doing that. But I'm hoping that people get value
from that and it command. I know we're not in
the top top point five globally. That's fine, but then
we don't have the biggest numbers and everything. It's fine,
(27:44):
but I'm hoping when people hear it that they get
value from what we're putting out here and right, and
they at least at least create some questions. Are things
that maybe you know, Beff, we can start paying more
attention to that we've been ignoring. And I try to
highlight a lot of that stuff, and especially on two
of our shows specifically just to offer that value, because
at the end of the day, there's so much junk
(28:04):
out here and people are people like junk.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Foodst just a reality you can try to offer you doodle,
but most folks want the other stuff that he need
you to taste good to get stuck on your fingers
that they know not good for them, but it just
tastes so good. Yeah, I'm from trying to offer something
that's not junk food, something healthier, something that is value added,
and hopefully it's making a difference in somebody's world.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah. Oh my goodness. Oh I love that. I'm gonna
have to go back and re listen to this a
few times, your accountability, value and purpose. And one thing
that really stood out to me that you just said
is how you marinated on you know, a podcast when
you felt like you just need to step back for
a minute, like I don't have anything to give right now,
(28:50):
and I'm just going to take a break and figure
it out. That's that's okay. We need to give ourselves
permission to take a break and recalibrate and see what
it is that's in our heart. Because if there's nothing there,
if we don't have that purpose anymore, or we just
are feeling a little bit empty and we need to refuel,
then we shouldn't just keep pushing because the message isn't
(29:13):
it's not inspired anymore. So I love that you are
giving us permission to take breaks when needed, and very
very important because we're coming to this with purpose, and
that's that's a key word for today's show. Purpose. So
I love that. Thank you for sharing that. One more
question and then I want you to share about how
we can reach you. But for those who are we're
(29:35):
talking a little bit about the messy behind the message.
So there's a lot of folks out here who we
have messy stories. We have a lot of things we
want to we want to put out there and share,
but we want to do it in a way that
you know, honors our our, you know, our path and
and helps other people to be encouraged in their path.
(29:58):
So what would you say to them to inspire them
to step behind the mic and get started making an
impact with their voice If they're feeling a little introverted,
they're feeling even if it's not even a personality thing,
they're just feeling like, who's going to listen to this?
Like this is just junk food, who's going to listen
to this? Some people aren't going to consider this the valuable.
(30:19):
How would you encourage them to go ahead and make
that impact?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Okay, well, if you're really really sold on the idea
that that using your voice in this way is the
best rock, Because people do blogs, to host, people do poetry,
people do a lot of different things, you know, you know,
I don't know what makes honestly that, to be fair,
I don't even know what it makes people that I
think about podcasting, even wanted to be podcast. I don't
(30:46):
know what's far. I don't know a specific situation. Hope
it's not a fad they're trying to change, hopefully not.
But no, I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
But just in general, generally speaking, if you're pondering.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That, you know, they may be something to it. There
may be something that you have of value. And you
know what, one thing you can't do is look at
what you got right now and think, you know what
this is why I can't do this because this could
be a platform for something future down the line.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You could be a best selling offer down the line.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
You know, you haven't even thought about writing a book,
and the platform is already being prepared. So it's basically
just the early stages of seedsting.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yes, that's what this is. Because in twenty twenty I
had no intention of being a podcast. I wouldn't think
about that. Better I got fired from my job. My
cousin died. It was a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I wouldn't I wouldn't even think of my podcasting. Wow,
it was like that was always a lighter. It's just
six years old, so writing and journaling were normal for me.
I had so many thoughts and feelings and the stories
and instances. And in twenty twenty, I wasn't feeling the
therapy that I normally felt doing that they feel it
at all.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I'm like, the old ways not working anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I'm going to do now. And that's how the whole
podcast and things started happening. I had to have to
find a new way. So some of you guys that
are watching listen, they may be looking.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
For a new way, a new way to have.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
To express yourself, to a form of self expression, have
your voice being helped somebody else. Honestly, there's nothing else
to do but to begin to just start recording.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Give you all the little tips to talk about. I
know people who are planning right now. They've been planning
for about three years and you haven't hit record yet.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Wow, that's that's not gonna work. They can hear the record.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Some people have the idea that you know what they're
gonna write everything out.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
They have a kind of on the script. Some people
to use a teleprom to have you can get on
your on.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Your phone, so people just kind of have bullet points
and then they kind of just riff off of those
and kind of share stories and stuff. Whichever where it
works for you, get that set and start recording, because
once you start recording the first episode in the fifth
and it's hit, you'll find it's going to be a
lot easier as.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You as you move forward. But the hardest one is
their very first episode.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Got to start it and you have to go live.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
You and record it, look at it, edit it, see
if you like how it is, and do it over again.
Don't overdo it, but you do it over again if
you have to, and just start that process. Because I
really believe that if you're thinking about podcasting this much
and you believe it's something that we have of value
in you to say more than likely because of the
kind of world that we live in and kind of
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how we're all wired, somebody out there is waiting to
hear from you, and you're depriving them of the opportunity
by holding back.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Be lazy by constantly changing your mind and not being decisive.
You're keeping them from receiving something important.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
If you think it's not important to podcasts, it's probably
important for somebody to hear it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
You.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wow, Wow, that's a mic drop moment right there. Well,
there's somebody out there that wants to hear it because
you've been thinking about saying it for a while and
just spin on the edge. But thank you so so much.
That was good. That was good. And again I'm gonna
have to go back and listen a few times to
this because it's very inspiring.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
More I went wrong?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Now you're perfect, perfect, and we want to hear how
we can reach you because you have a lot of shows,
but we want to be able to reach you and
see the work you're doing and the impact you're making.
So how can we find out more?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Normally, I'm on all the socials.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I do have accounts to everything, but I'm not emphasizing
every social anymore. This is a recent development. So Facebook, LinkedIn,
and YouTube are the primary areas we can find me.
But if you go to they call me mister you
dot but brought dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You can find all of.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
The links there and easy ways to get man, you
can send me a private message of have any questions
regarding coaching or purpose or if you want a free conversation,
happy to do that for you.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I mean, well you dot but broad dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And of course as we evolve, you start seeing more
stuff on the posts coming out, the new culting practice.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
All the things that you can't really get into and
yet be exciting. I'm excited about the new, the.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
New uh, the new beginning, the new inventions that are
getting ready to happen.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
But you call me just excited dot buspot dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
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