March 1, 2024 • 43 mins
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"Helping you to transform your life from the inside out by healing your heart, reshaping your mind and unlocking your true potential so that you can begin to maximize on every opportunity."
Join me and special guest Michael Wright a God fearing husband, father, mentor, community leader and real estate investor as we talk about the importance of re-establishing or recoonecting with your Why.
Sometimes you have to change you ”Why” because it’s clearly not working for you anymore.
Some of you MUST change your “Why” because if it’s not motivating you to get up and go after it then you’re lying to yourself.
“Why” you started will oftentimes not be “Why” you continue.
The reason ”Why” millionaires and billionaires make it that status is because they upgrade their “Why”.
You’re still operating off the same “Why” that just wanted to get out of survival mode.
That “Why” wont help you to become a 7, 8, 9 figure earner, buy your mom house, help to rebuild your community, earn you financial freedom etc.
You’re still operating off the same “Why” that just didn’t want to be fat anymore.
That “Why” won’t help you sculpt your body.
You’re still operating off the “Why” that wanted a man/woman.
That “Why” won’t help you to have a happy, healthy, thriving relationship/marriage.
Take assessment FREQUENTLY if you want to continue to elevate your life.
What got you here wont get you there.
What new “WHY” will put you back in motion so that you can elevate to your next level?
-----------------------Follow me on IG @Lanasia.Angelina
----------------------Join my private community for women Black Woman Transform
"Helping you to transform your life from the inside out by healing your heart, reshaping your mind and unlocking your true potential so that you can begin to maximize on every opportunity."
Join me and special guest Michael Wright a God fearing husband, father, mentor, community leader and real estate investor as we talk about the importance of re-establishing or recoonecting with your Why.
Sometimes you have to change you ”Why” because it’s clearly not working for you anymore.
Some of you MUST change your “Why” because if it’s not motivating you to get up and go after it then you’re lying to yourself.
“Why” you started will oftentimes not be “Why” you continue.
The reason ”Why” millionaires and billionaires make it that status is because they upgrade their “Why”.
You’re still operating off the same “Why” that just wanted to get out of survival mode.
That “Why” wont help you to become a 7, 8, 9 figure earner, buy your mom house, help to rebuild your community, earn you financial freedom etc.
You’re still operating off the same “Why” that just didn’t want to be fat anymore.
That “Why” won’t help you sculpt your body.
You’re still operating off the “Why” that wanted a man/woman.
That “Why” won’t help you to have a happy, healthy, thriving relationship/marriage.
Take assessment FREQUENTLY if you want to continue to elevate your life.
What got you here wont get you there.
What new “WHY” will put you back in motion so that you can elevate to your next level?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, welcome back to another episode of Transform Your
Life with your favorite life coach, Glen Asia Angelina. The
podcast the safe space for you to transform your life
through intentional work, daily practice. And I have a special
guest in the studio today. This is our first official
guest on Transform Your Life since we changed it from
(00:24):
Black Women Transform to Transform your Life. I've had any
guest has just been me yelling at y'all, ranting constantly
from my iPhone. And I have somebody who I just
admire tremendously, somebody that I look up to, someone who
has a lot to say, y'all. I'm encouraging him to
start his podcast, and I need y'all to encourage him.
(00:46):
After this conversation to y'all gonna be like, we want
to hear some more from Mike. But I have a
great friend, a great brother of mine, Mike right in
the building, in the virtual building to day. Mike is
is godly, god fearing man. He's a husband, he's a
father of four. He's basically a sports coach to all
(01:09):
of them. He's a father to the community, you know,
which is a beautiful thing. He's not just you know, mentoring,
the mentorship the coaching, the support, the guidance. Doesn't just
stop with his boys. He's really about rebuilding the community
in every way, the men, the adult men, the young men.
It's all a part of his ministry. And now he's
(01:31):
a developer, real estate investor. He is just doing some
tremendous things to rebuild Detroit, one house at a time,
which is his new brand. Also got to plug that
the The Right the Right group is just doing some
some amazing things Right Choice Investments, and you all will
(01:52):
get to get to hear this, this voice of someone
who has been a sounding board for myself in a
lot of ways. So Mike, you want to, I'll get
off myself back first second, you can kind of, you know,
do your own intro, tell the people who you are,
where you're from.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What you do. Yeah, no, I was. I was joined
hearing that, you know, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know, first of all, thank you very much that
I was very gracious introduction. And I appreciate it because
I know coming from you, you know it's thorough, it's authentic,
and you know it's coming from the heart.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But I mean, honestly, I think you did a phenomenal job.
You know, you basically encompass who I am, who I represent,
you know, first and foremost, Like I'm, like you said,
I'm a man, a guy.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know, I'm somebody that I'm a native Detrader.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But I've lived in five different states, I've traveled, you know,
all throughout the world, and I came back to Detrait
to impact d trait and detraders and specifically, you know,
our urban youth.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And my main vessel of doing that is through real estate.
You know. But what always tell people is, you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Know that that tagline rebuilding Detroit one house at a time,
it doesn't just represent the brick and mortar. You know,
we were rebuilding the men that are supposed to lead
in those houses, the women that being holding those houses
down for centuries, you know, the kids that are coming
to the next generation. So in a nutshell, that's pretty
(03:20):
much who I am, you know. And and I just
try to be a friend to my people.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, I love it. I love it. So this
has spent a long time coming, y'all. Me and Mike
talk a lot, and uh, Mike talks the most.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Come.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I didn't think anybody could beat me, but I met
my match okay, And Mike has done a podcast with
me before myself, him and another brother of ours, Joe Robinson,
So check that out. It's on an earlier episodes Me
and with Mission. But I definitely, as I shared with you,
(04:00):
Mike is a sounding board for me. You know, he
has a lot of great insight, a lot of wisdom.
So when I have ideas great or small, you know,
I often. You know, we have banter. You know, his
opinion means a lot. And you know, something that's been
just on my mind and on my heart lately because
it's happening in real time for myself is changing your why.
(04:23):
It's not a constant, it's not a conversation that happens often.
You know, people often, you know, share the narrative of
like what's your why? Stick to your why and allow
that why to drive you. But what's missing is the
fact that your why changes. Your white changes the why
that I had as a sixteen year old in high school,
(04:45):
it's not the same why that I had as a
twenty one year old just trying to find my way.
The white that I had at twenty one, when I
was just trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
It's not the same why that I have at thirty three,
where I'm not just trying to figure out how to
make money, but I'm trying to figure out how to
multiply money, not just for my own benefit, but for
(05:06):
the benefit of other people, having a family, having a legacy,
being able to invest in my community. You know, these
are different conversations that happen within us and drive us
in a different way. And what happens for most people
that are recognizing my work as a life coach is
most people haven't reconnected with their new why. So they
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believe that the same why they got them up and
moving ten years ago is going to be the same
thing that gets the moving now. And they're constantly in
this cycle of starting and stopping and feeling demotivated, and
they're like, why can't I just stay motivated? I'm like,
because the truth is that same why that used to
work for you, that used to get you going hard,
that used to keep you hungry, that used to make
(05:48):
you thirsty, it just doesn't. It doesn't work for you anymore.
It just doesn't work for you anymore. And it's okay.
I think it's important for us to have these conversations
because it is nothing wrong with you. If the why
doesn't work, you just need to figure out which why
does work, because there is one that exists, but we
have to address it. And that's the missing part for
(06:09):
most people is that we're not having these conversations. We're
not taking the assessment to figure out what's changed. You know,
the inevitable thing in life is that things will change.
You cannot avoid change. It's happening regardless. That's the one
thing that there is nowhere around. Things are going to
change everything, and your why is on that list of
(06:31):
things that are going to change. When I had this conversation,
you know, a lot of a few people resonated with it,
and Mike was somebody that that I thought about when
having this conversation and sharing it on a public platform.
I was like, I think Mike will have a lot
of insights to share on this conversation because Mike's not
(06:51):
the single guy just trying to look good, you know
for the ladies. He's a married man building a legacy.
He's got four young men looking up to him, He's
got brothers and peers who also look up to him.
He's got other real estate developers and investors who are
looking up to him. He has people from his old
neighborhood who may not have a relationship with God looking
(07:14):
up to him. So the things that used to get
him up drive him in the morning as an eighteen
year old as a twenty five year old. You know,
they aren't the same. They aren't the same. And I
think it's important, you know, to hear your perspective about
the idea of changing your Why Number one, I want
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to know what wise for you have changed, Mike, And
then also what helped you to get to the point,
Like was it was it a conscious conversation that you
had or was it more unconscious And you know you
just adapted will to having you know, the new motivators
(07:56):
continue to drive you talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, no, definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I mean, once again, you did an amazing job of
framing the topic and kind of unpacking all the details.
And so as you were talking, I was kind of
reflecting on my own story, and like you said, I mean,
we talk about this stuff all the time, but I
do think it's important that we communicate these type of
(08:22):
conversations on a public.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Platform because I don't know, you know, just for the people.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
So I actually I have three biological sisters, right, and
I was I grew up as the only male in
my mother's household, which I was primarily raised in, and
so I'm used to having a lot of conversations and
looking out. I grew up looking out for women and
understanding like the importance of women and having healthy dynamics
(08:49):
with women. And so laen Asia and we actually met
at a high level networking event a few years ago,
and I mean literally every since that day, we've just
men just driving each other to be better, pouring into
each other. And it's just a beautiful example of having
(09:10):
a healthy brother and sister dynamic that I think everybody
needs to have. But going back to your question, you know,
it's it's been a process.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm gonna just be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You know, it's a really interesting process as far as
me identifying my true why and then being fluid enough
to change with it as it evolves, because you know
who I was as a young man. I mean, my
core characteristics are the same, but I'm very much transformed
(09:43):
into a more evolved version of myself because, like.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
As you mentioned, you know, I grew up not unlike
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Us where you know, I was exposed to a lot early,
and I chose to go down different paths.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Uh, just be because of the things I was seeing,
to be honest, you know. And one thing that I
can say, I.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Was always blessed to have this. I was blessed to
be around principal men, so I saw what it meant
to be a man. Not saying all these men did
all the right things though, and that's the part where
I was a little unbalanced early, to be honest. But
I knew principles was important, and I knew getting money,
(10:25):
being a provider was important, and that's kind of what
I based my life going early, to be honest, you know.
And as I started evolving, especially after I met my wife,
that's when all of my you know, unbalancedness started to
kind of expose itself. Where I was so heavily leveraged
(10:45):
on the providing and being a principal man, a man
that was respected in the street, that I never really
took inventories to the fact that I was so unbalanced
in like the emotional aspects of my wife or just
you know, just being there day to day to just
catering too emotions because what happened was even though my
(11:06):
early part of my life will spend with my mom
and my sisters, at thirteen, I moved across the country
and moved away from my mom to.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
My dad's house. So I had a brief stint.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
For about two or three years where I moved away
from Detrade and then I came back and it was
a totally different program. My dad kind of looked at
it like, look, hey, you thirteen, but I don't got time.
He was working for two full time jobs. You gotta
hold it down. I'm gonna hold it down. We'll figure
it out. So I had to grow up very quickly,
(11:39):
and to be honest, we didn't have that nurturing environment
and so through time I kind of just become unbalanced.
So going back to just you know, to answer that
question about my why evolving and why it's important to
be present enough to understand that it is evolving, I
think it's been a process.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You know, at the end of the day, the Holy
Spirit is downloading information to us daily, but we have
to be obedient and we have to be able to
sit in and receive that information.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And uh, never be ashamed of where you come from too.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I really want to say that because I remember Rob
said this one time on the prayer call, and he
was saying that God will allow certain people to be
in the world a little longer for a reason or
everything's happening divinely. And so to your point, now I
can speak to certain people that's still you know, in
(12:36):
the field or not where they're going to be, and
because they've seen my evolution, it's igniting them to really
search their soulf And that's that's really about what my WII,
that's my purpose, not get you're bringing along more people
for the ride.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I think that's so powerful, you know, just just
the fact that number one, you're recognizing that it's the
Holy Spirit that's changing this for you. We're spirit beings
having a natural experience. And I think that that's for
most of my network and the people that I'm around.
That's been the biggest shift is we went from this
(13:17):
this natural why to this spiritual why. You know, everything
was like, Okay, what do I need? And you know, like,
what are the basics that I need? Okay, I need
to get an education of some sort. I need to
have a roof over my head, I need like all
the whys. We're very surface level, and then as you grow,
(13:39):
when you start to get those basic level needs, I suppose,
then you start to realize it's deeper than this, Like
this was the reason why before, But now I have
kids that are looking at me, and other people's kids
that are looking at me, and people who need to
know God who are looking at me. So it's so
(14:02):
much deeper now. So I want to ask you too,
because a lot of people This is another conversation that
I have with people, especially new clients. Right, I will
ask the question, you know, of what people's why is,
just to hear what they say, because people will often say,
my kids are my why, Like your why is the
(14:23):
thing that actually makes you move, And this this is
what people don't get. Most people aren't even connected to
what their why is. Because if this is the thing
that you say is the reason, but it's not making
you move, then that's not your why. I know you
care about your kids, but if looking at your kids
every day no one they're struggling, knowing you can provide
(14:46):
a better life for them and you're not doing it,
then that's not your why. You need to connect with
something else that's going to get you up. Yeah, it
doesn't mean that you love your kids any less. It
just means that you have to actually articulate that thing
that's really going to get you an action. So and
it takes a lot of courage to say something like that,
especially not being a mom and challenging moms or challenging dads,
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you know, to just be for real and say those things.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I want to ask you, like what, like what makes
you move? Like knowing this is your why? Like what
keeps you motivated with it? Like what keeps you action?
What keeps you in motion? Because you could easily I
feel like, you want your family to have a good life,
(15:36):
You want people to know God, You want to rebuild
a community and have these ideas and do nothing. What
is what makes you connect and get emotion? What do
you think that is for you?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So for me, is it really is fulfiling what I
feel is my true purpose in life?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And what I tell people is when I was very
young and I talked to my son about this, my
oldest because I was around his age, like maybe eight
or nine, and I had a vision of who I
was going to become around my present day age like
thirty eight, and.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
To be honest, it kind of it scared me.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I didn't know what to do with it because I
didn't know anybody that was, you know, living as an
entrepreneur doing all these things.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I didn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And so basically, as I got older and I started
going through different wins and losses, just the whole gamut
of emotions, what I realized is, you know, and I
get it, like and somebody once said, like I wish
everybody could touch a million dollars just so they can understand,
(16:51):
like that is not fulfillment. Like you cannot look for
money to feel like all right, cool, once I get
this money, once I get that use to to be honest,
is it's never enough. I don't care how much money
you have, you're gonna want more because as soon as
you climb one mountain, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Look to your left or your right, and.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're gonna see another mount and you're gonna at some
point you have to realize you're addicted to just chasing things.
And so for me, that was the realization that I
had kind of I became a little bit of an addict,
to be honest, just you know, I was I was
on the money chase. I was a grinder and I
always camouflage it as well, you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Know, I'm a provider. I'm doing this. I'm providing for
this person, that person, this person, that person.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And that's how I kind of fueled myself. But what
it ended up doing was it left me feeling extremely
lonely because how can I talk to my people that
I'm saying, this is who I'm providing, this is why
I'm doing it. But they don't understand because they're always receiving.
They don't know what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
To be on the Senate and like, I mean, this
is a true story. Man. The first I received the
cash app, I was so confused as to like, man,
what Because I'm so used to sending it, I wasn't
not used to seeing no money from it tripped me up.
I had to call my people like what do I get?
And I was just like, man, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
So what happened was I had to I had to
really humble myself. I had to humble myself and just
and that's when you know, my faith, my faithor gear
really started kicking in and I heard God telling me
like listen, you.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Finally hear like, okay, you ready to listen? Though I
had to say, you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Know what, I'm ready because it got to the point, man,
I was on it. I felt lonely. Man, I'm not
gonna lie like you know. And so once I started
humbling myself and started asking these same exact question like
what you're saying, like what's my real wife? What's my purpose?
How do I want to be remembered? All of these
things started coming to me, like I did, look at
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my family. That is a part of my wife. My
key is my wife, my standing family. But like you said,
it can't be my only wife because their kids, they
can never understand what I'm going through. And the end
of the day, I gotta be their father. I gotta
lead the charge. I got to be the example, be
the evidence for them to look at and see, like, man,
(19:22):
I know, you know my pops has some tough times,
but he kept going and that's what can help, you know,
motivate them. But I would say, my true why is
just really being able to inspire and motivate people. And
it comes in different forms. Sometimes it comes in mentorship,
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you know. Sometimes it comes in real estate tutorials. Sometimes
it comes in, Hey me, just picking up the phone
and nature, how you doing, how you feeling, checking in
with your people, pouring into your people's cup. Like, I
really truly believe that. That's one of my main purposes,
is my ability to motivate and inspire people, but to
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also be that one that completely shifts our famili's legacy
because somebody has to restore order. A lot of us
come from broken homes, missing pieces, and somebody has to
step in and say, you know what, this stops here,
not saying we're going to live perfect lives, but we're
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willing to do our part to restore some order for
future generations.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, what's so powerful as I'm listening to you, even
bringing it back to the conversation of like challenging someone
and saying your kids aren't true. Why. It's not to
say that you don't care about your kids, it's to say,
if your kids are your why articulate what that means?
And that's what you just did. Like I'm not just
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it's just not this vague idea of my kids are
the reason why? No, what are you trying to show
your kids? What are you trying to bring to your family?
You can't just say like financial freedom as your wife, Okay, articulate,
break that down what financial freedom even means. I want
you to articulate when you say financially free, because people
don't really connect with these vague ideas of a concept. Right.
(21:13):
But when you say when you talk about legacy, right,
I was, I was at my family's house, some things
given and it was no kids there. That was a problem.
Most people wouldn't even recognize that as a problem. I
did because there are several people available that can have children.
According to like you know, like we have no limitations
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outside of the fact that the relationships aren't there, the
marriages aren't there. That's a problem. So my will started
spending like yo, I gotta actually keep the family alive.
And I joked about it, but it's actually something that's
like no, I've really got to like break whatever curse
is happening here because this is not healthy. This shows
(21:59):
a good sign of health is fruit. You see fruit,
when you see growth like that means that there's a
healthy system in place. But if there's no growth, if
there's no fruit, if there's no newness, then that's a
sign of death. There there's not enough health and people
don't look at things that way. So, you know, just
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being able to articulate the reason why, not just saying
like family, what about family? Not just saying money, what
about money? Because everybody needs money, but why do you
need the money? What's the money gonna allow you to do?
When you get it? That's your why? Not just money,
not just freedom? Not okay, when you have the freedom,
what are you allowed to do. I'm able to spend
(22:42):
time with my family. I'm able to you know, spend
time with my wife, with my husband, with my kids.
I'm able to be present really help to build them
into the young men or young women that they need
to become. Like it becomes more personal, and most people
aren't connected with their why. It's a distant idea of
like why they should start or why they should continue,
(23:05):
and that's why there's no motivation there. So I think
that's super powerful and also what sets you apart, you know,
because the question was about the motivation, and you can
articulate it, you can break down into smaller pieces what
it really means. So now it helps you to get
more laser focused on what it's going to take to
(23:27):
get it, as opposed to just this broad idea of family. Okay, cool,
Like what direction do we go to get blacking these
things accomplished for family? You don't know because you haven't
articulated what the things are you need to get.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, And to your point, a lot of people when
they say things like financial freedom work, they're really they
want the feeling that they think that's going to bring them.
And what happens is they think they need this thing
to to start experiencing that feeling, which is really it's
(24:04):
so backwards where you gotta really live in that like now,
and eventually that's going to come if you stay diligent enough.
We were just having a conversation before we press record
today and we were just talking about, you know, just
doing it every day, like reps, Like we always talking
about reps, reps, REP, And that's the part where people
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don't realize, like listen, for you to get this feeling,
like you gotta believe this is where you at now
mentally and.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Spiritually, the physical will catch up, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Like when we was going through when I went through
my life coaching program with you, one of the things,
I mean, it was a lot of jewels, but one
of the main jewels that I really appreciated. I don't
think I've ever been asked this question either. Is it
was like early you were like, listen, describe like your
perfect day, and I kept kind of one the gloss
(24:59):
saw and it's like you kept digging deeper, and it
really forced me.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
To pack that.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
And so what it did was I had to go
down to the filling level, to the point where I'm
seeing it so clear and it's so realistic. Spiritually, I'm
already there. The physical is going to catch up if
you believe it true enough.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Absolutely, you just got me. You know, I'm excited because
you just went off into my lane, Like this is
where I get excited, because that's the missing element for
most people we have. I just literally right before we
got on this call, I made it post like feel
grateful for that thing today like most people are waiting.
(25:45):
I think about when I was creating my perfect day.
The reason why I asked that question and I've implemented
in to my coaching, is because someone asked me that
in twenty seventeen. Someone asked me, what did your perfect
day look like? And I've never even I never even
thought about a perfect day, Like I'm too busy managing
my circumstances. I'm too busy reliving the same day to day, tomorrow,
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the next day, the next day, because I'm in the
same feelings. Right now, I'm listening to a book called
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe just spends On,
one of my favorite thought leaders in neuroscientists. He also
wrote the book Becoming Supernatural, which changed my life in
twenty twenty two, and amongst many books, a lot of
books changed my life that year. But he talks about
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the fact that we think we're living a different day,
but subconsciously you're not. You're in the same emotions, You're
in the same thought patterns, which causes you to do
the exact same things. Your environment is telling you who
you are. You're going to the same places, you're in
the same food, you're listening to the same things, and
you think it's a new day, but it's all the same.
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And then you start to put yourself in this energetic space,
a frequency that matches something that you don't actually have yet,
right like whenever anything is going wrong in my life,
and we talked about this before the call, I tap
into the spirit, like whenever something's not right, I know
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number one, it's me. I accept full responsibility for every
ebb and flow. And that's one problem for most people
is that they don't accept that it's them that's the
power we have. It's like you, you have the power
for good things to happen, but you don't want to
accept when it's when things aren't going well that it's
your fault. No, it is, which is good news because
if it was somebody else's fault, you would have to
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wait on them. But nevertheless bringing it back well.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
That's important though. That's because that's what comes with the territory.
And that's the part. Like you said, most people you
want to have the big role. You want to be
the chief, you want to be the boss. But that
what they're doing is they focus on what they feel
are the good aspects of that. We talk about living
(28:01):
the entrepreneurial life. I get asked all the time, man,
I want to be.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like you dog, you you left your job? You doing this?
I say, listen, bro, this is a full contact sport.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
This is not for everybody because what you're doing is
you're focusing on what seems you know to be public wins.
You don't see the day to day grind that it
took to get there, and that is taken to keep
sustaining it and building out, because that's the thing where
you can never be stagnant and feel like you've arrived,
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because the moment you do, that's when you're declining.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Inflation is real aspects.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Of neutrality, there's no such thing as neutrality. You're never
just standing still. You're getting better or you're getting worse.
And like you just said, not to cut you off,
like I cut you off early, but inflation, like the
price is going up, so you go with the Eric
thomasin have talked about this on Secret to Success podcast
(29:03):
a week ago. Inflation is rising, and the reason why
you feel it is because you're not rising. You think
you're staying the same as gonna be okay, and it's
not all right.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You're getting you get I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I had a coach when I was in I think
it was our Michigan camp or something, and they said, basically,
every day when you're doing your nightly routine, you got
to look yourself in the mirror as a man or
a woman, and you got to ask yourself like did
I get better today? Because if you didn't get better,
you got worse and you got it. Like you said,
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you have to be real with yourself and saying okay, cool,
because the reality is we're going to have some days
that we we get a little a little worse today
instead of us getting at the day to day, got
at us.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know what I'm saying straight up? Like some days
you wake up from the top of the world. Some
days you wake up for like the world on top
of you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Ye, that's the human experience. But what matters is how
do you react to that? Absolutely you fold up?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Or do you step up? You know, to the challenge?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
And are you checking in frequently enough? My ideal framework
assessment is non negotiable the biggest problem for most people,
and we all fall victim to it. Like like I
talked to you about before we hit record, like you
chip away at it every day, right. And the thing
is I caught myself in a week's in a few
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weeks time, whereas most people don't check in for a year.
Most people don't check in for three, four or five, six,
seven months, like and you look back over your life,
you're like, oh my gosh, three years went by. Yeah,
and all I did was talked about how I was
going to improve and I never did anything.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Wasn't checking in. I wasn't in relationship enough with myself
that I could get get back in order.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I checked in with my private community the first week
in February, and I wanted them to really look at
how quickly January went by. I was like, yeah, January
seemed like forever when we was in it. I was
out of it, and it was a blink, wasn't it.
And I asked them on January third or fourth, whenever
the day was, I was like, everybody wrote down and
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chat some some things that they said they was start
this year, did you? And you know we had some
yet we had some no, some overthinking, right, yes, right,
And I'm like, you gotta understand, another month is going
to pass you by. Like I'm promising you this. I''s
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if God willing, if God allows you to live another month,
it's going to pass you by. You're going to be
in the same place, and then three months are going
to pass, and then ninety days are going to pass.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Me jump in on that, though, because it's an important.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
God willing that's I just had a high school teammate
that just passed.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
He wasn't He's not even forty years old.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
It's the third teammate that and maybe yeah, I think
the third teammate that I know about that has passed.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So going back to that God willing, we don't know
our time.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
And the thing is to be honest, we shouldn't be
overly concerned with that. Only thing we should know is
is coming. So all we can do is control our controllables.
Like you said, man, today, if this was my last day,
I pray with my family this morning. Matter of fact,
my son prayed for us last two days. It goes
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back to that why and bringing people closer to God.
The last two days, my son has just out the blue, Dad,
I want to. I want to pray, and I could
tell like the pride that he's having leading prayer. And
what I'm showing as my nine year old is praying
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my two year old is he's in that stage where
he's learning how to talk. He's repeating everything. So I'm
connecting the dots. I'm like, look at what's going on.
You were praying, your baby brother is walking in your footsteps.
And for the record, I want to I want to
let everybody know it's never too late to start where
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you are. I didn't grow up in the house where
we prayed every day. To be honest, I don't know
if we ever did it like this, like like what
we're doing. I didn't grow up in a household where
we were overly like. I wasn't a church kid, you know,
we went to church. I always knew God. I wasn't heaven.
I knew God, but I wasn't like a church boy either,
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you know. And that wasn't never even on them because
you know, looking at the history, it was some church
hurt and that my previous family, they was deep, but
it was it was some things going on.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And the reason why I want to talk.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
About that hurt and that pain is when you were
talking about people taking that daily inventory, look out fast
January January came and went. The thing is a lot
of people it's not that they don't check it. They
don't want to check in because it can be painful.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Absolutely, that's good.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That pain of knowing, you know, disappointing yourself is a
pain like no other. And what you have to do
is you gotta build trust with yourself and God before
you can start building with anybody.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Else.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
So small things like did I did I wake up
on time to day? Did I actually go to the
gym like I said I was gonna do? Did I
do something to impact somebody else's life? Like little things?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
If you can be faithful over small things, you could
be faithful over all things. But it got to start somewhere.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's good, man, that's powerful. That's so powerful, and I
kind of want to leave it there. I think that's
like a strong end everything you just said, just to
wrap it up, like man, that's and I'm taking that
when you're gonna hear that a lot. So if you
can be playful over small things, you could be faithful
over all things. And I'll always say, like today I
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share you know, the shortcut is starting now. The shortcut
is starting now because what's gonna happen is the distance
between one win and the next is not gonna get shorter,
but you'll be moving faster eventually, So the time it
takes to get there, it's gonna be a lot less.
You know, when you don't have momentum, when you don't
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have speed, it's gonna feel like forever you crawling you like,
you know, but eventually you'll be walking. Then you'll be jogging,
then you'll be running. The mile didn't change, The mile
didn't get shorter. Right, You change in the process, but
you only change because you started with crawling. Nobody starts
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at the top, but the problem is nobody gets to
the top until they start. Yeah, you have to be
willing to start. You have to be willing to check
in with yourself. You have to be willing to face yourself,
have those hard conversations with yourself. You know, obviously we
want to get to the level where we're having hard
conversations with other people, but we got to have them
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with ourselves first. We have to look at every single
aspect of who we are and our being and be
for real about where we are and why we're not
getting what it is that we want. It's always on you,
and that's good news. That's good news that it's on you. So, Mike,
what would you wrap it up with if you could
leave us with three pieces of advice? You know, obviously
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you know changing your why, but what three nuggets would
you leave The people that are listening to this conversation
just want to feel encouraged.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So the first piece of or the first nugget would
be just just to double downald what you just said,
like get starting today. Like we got to saying in
real estate, where the best time to buy real estate
was twenty thirty years ago, this best time is today.
It is what it is, because if you never invest
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in yourself, then you're never gonna yield that return on
your investment down the line. The second piece of advice
that I would give is make sure your circle reflects
where you're evolving. That's so important, man, because I can
honestly say, I mean, you're a part of this evolution.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
We talked about that where we randomly met at this
networking event.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
And we talked almost every day, we testing each other,
what's going on system, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And the thing was.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
I had to get to that point because before I
was I kind of had a loan with mentality.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I trusted my people, and that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You know, I knew it everybody, but I didn't trust me,
and I kind of had this loan with mentality. And
your energy speaks before you ever open your mouth. So
even though I would tell people, oh, yeah, I'm open,
let's collaborate, let's do this, my energy was kind of
closed up and my energy is so powerful it's gonna radiate.
Because now once I recognize that, I changed that, and
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now I'm seeing my circle evolved.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I'm not leaving my people behind. What I'm doing is I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Challenging them to rise up. Y'all want to meet me,
me and me at the top. I invite y'all to
come here, but I'm not coming down to y'all.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I can't do that. Y'all gotta come up here. I'm
gonna lift you up.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
I'll lift you up to a certain extent, but I
can't come down to get back to that level. And
then the third piece of advice is really the first
and foremost, but I just left it as the third
is just get that get that deep spiritual connection with
with with God man, you know, because honestly, everything's happening Bindley,
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and so I would just say, you know, speed is important,
but at the same time, understand like it's unfolding the
perfect time. You know, where you are right now is
where exactly you're supposed to be. Don't worry about that.
Just worry about what you can control. And if you
believe strong enough and you got that connection, you will
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be able to manifest you know and get on your journey.
But you got to start with self, and you have
to really work on developing that relationship with God. You know,
early and often start your day off with prayer.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
So going throughout the.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Day, in your day with prayer, get around godly people
because they're going to encourage you to get get to
that word yourself, you know. And that's what I had
to do. Where I'm on a fun ride right now.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
You know. I tell my kids, I said, I'm learning nobody.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I never you know, I wasn't sat down and going
to Bible study or nothing like that. So I'm enjoying
the journey though I don't look at that as a disadvantage.
It's like it's cool, you know, I get to learn
in real time with my kids.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
We go through difference. Hey, check this story.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I read them the story about Sampson Delilah the other
day and we were just talking about it because you know,
we always hear about Sampson Delilah, but it's more to
Sampson's story than just the Delilah. I had never known
that because I only got the snippets from other people.
You got to be able to go to the word
itself and get that directly. So that's that's my little nuggets.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
But I want to thank you for inviting me to
your platform. You know, I know you got a super
strong community, and I want to encourage you. Just just
keep doing what you're doing. You have a powerful voice.
You know, you want to mine my sisters. You know,
I'm really proud of what you're doing, man, for real,
because I see you pouring into others and I know
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it's not always the easy road, but when you're on
a mission, you know, it's fulfilling. You know, I always
feel like it's not easy, but it's fruitful. So I
want to I want to pray for you and just
keep that, you know, keep you hopefully you keep encouraged.
And when you not call me, you know, you know
I'm a poor.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And see your cup.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Absolutely I appreciate you, like truly, truly, truly. I know
that y'all like, bring him back. I know, y'all, I
know y'all, he wanted to come back already. So Mike
got a lot to say, and I know y'all like
he need a podcast like yesterday. Uh, he does have one. Uh.
He joins two other brothers that I also admire. Pastor,
(41:33):
Ronnie and Martel. Check out the Today for Tomorrow podcast
on YouTube. Also me and two point oh. Any brothers listening,
anybody got a husband or somebody that they're in relationship
with a brother or sibling, they do Me and two
point oh connect with Mike on social media. Mike drop
your what's your handles them in the chat? But how
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can I you?
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, social media? My ig is Detroit Investor Underscore w C.
So that goes back to the real estate aspect. But
like Lenagia was saying, it's much more than that. I'm
so glad you brought up the podcast too, Today for Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
You can YouTube it all the sisters.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
If you have young men, sons, even your spouses, you
want them to start having these conversations, watch a couple
episodes and if you feel like it resonates to you,
send it to some brothers.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
And like Lenaja mentioned, we do meet in person once
a month for me and two point zero. And what
we're doing is we pouring into other brothers man, you know.
And what we're doing is we're uplifting each other. We're
strengthening the word, and we're making sure that brothers understand
and know that you not fighting this fight by yourself.
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You know, this is something that our fathers and grandfathers
really didn't have. They didn't have this platform, but we do,
and we're making the most of you.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Absolutely, and that's in the Metro Detroit area. I know
we have listeners all over, so we love y'all. But
this is for men that are in the Metro Detroit
area and maybe men two point o Mike needs to
be on the move. Who knows might get a little
nugget in somebody's ear or y'all get on the move.
But I just thank you. I appreciate you. With all
you have going on, you always make time to show up,
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so that means a lot. That means a whole lot.
So make sure that you saved this podcast. Share with
somebody that you love, that you care about, and connect
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that are grown with God qrushing their goals thirty four
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day through Thursday. I'm yelling at y'all. And you also
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have a community of sisters that are just supporting you
every step of the way. So join the community. You
do not have to do this by yourself. I'll talk
to y'all so peace.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Peace,
All right, welcome back to another episode of Transform Your
Life with your favorite life coach, Glen Asia Angelina. The
podcast the safe space for you to transform your life
through intentional work, daily practice. And I have a special
guest in the studio today. This is our first official
guest on Transform Your Life since we changed it from
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Black Women Transform to Transform your Life. I've had any
guest has just been me yelling at y'all, ranting constantly
from my iPhone. And I have somebody who I just
admire tremendously, somebody that I look up to, someone who
has a lot to say, y'all. I'm encouraging him to
start his podcast, and I need y'all to encourage him.
(00:46):
After this conversation to y'all gonna be like, we want
to hear some more from Mike. But I have a
great friend, a great brother of mine, Mike right in
the building, in the virtual building to day. Mike is
is godly, god fearing man. He's a husband, he's a
father of four. He's basically a sports coach to all
(01:09):
of them. He's a father to the community, you know,
which is a beautiful thing. He's not just you know, mentoring,
the mentorship the coaching, the support, the guidance. Doesn't just
stop with his boys. He's really about rebuilding the community
in every way, the men, the adult men, the young men.
It's all a part of his ministry. And now he's
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a developer, real estate investor. He is just doing some
tremendous things to rebuild Detroit, one house at a time,
which is his new brand. Also got to plug that
the The Right the Right group is just doing some
some amazing things Right Choice Investments, and you all will
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get to get to hear this, this voice of someone
who has been a sounding board for myself in a
lot of ways. So Mike, you want to, I'll get
off myself back first second, you can kind of, you know,
do your own intro, tell the people who you are,
where you're from.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What you do. Yeah, no, I was. I was joined
hearing that, you know, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You know, first of all, thank you very much that
I was very gracious introduction. And I appreciate it because
I know coming from you, you know it's thorough, it's authentic,
and you know it's coming from the heart.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I really appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But I mean, honestly, I think you did a phenomenal job.
You know, you basically encompass who I am, who I represent,
you know, first and foremost, Like I'm, like you said,
I'm a man, a guy.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know, I'm somebody that I'm a native Detrader.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
But I've lived in five different states, I've traveled, you know,
all throughout the world, and I came back to Detrait
to impact d trait and detraders and specifically, you know,
our urban youth.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And my main vessel of doing that is through real estate.
You know. But what always tell people is, you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Know that that tagline rebuilding Detroit one house at a time,
it doesn't just represent the brick and mortar. You know,
we were rebuilding the men that are supposed to lead
in those houses, the women that being holding those houses
down for centuries, you know, the kids that are coming
to the next generation. So in a nutshell, that's pretty
(03:20):
much who I am, you know. And and I just
try to be a friend to my people.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, I love it. I love it. So this
has spent a long time coming, y'all. Me and Mike
talk a lot, and uh, Mike talks the most.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Come.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I didn't think anybody could beat me, but I met
my match okay, And Mike has done a podcast with
me before myself, him and another brother of ours, Joe Robinson,
So check that out. It's on an earlier episodes Me
and with Mission. But I definitely, as I shared with you,
(04:00):
Mike is a sounding board for me. You know, he
has a lot of great insight, a lot of wisdom.
So when I have ideas great or small, you know,
I often. You know, we have banter. You know, his
opinion means a lot. And you know, something that's been
just on my mind and on my heart lately because
it's happening in real time for myself is changing your why.
(04:23):
It's not a constant, it's not a conversation that happens often.
You know, people often, you know, share the narrative of
like what's your why? Stick to your why and allow
that why to drive you. But what's missing is the
fact that your why changes. Your white changes the why
that I had as a sixteen year old in high school,
(04:45):
it's not the same why that I had as a
twenty one year old just trying to find my way.
The white that I had at twenty one, when I
was just trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
It's not the same why that I have at thirty three,
where I'm not just trying to figure out how to
make money, but I'm trying to figure out how to
multiply money, not just for my own benefit, but for
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the benefit of other people, having a family, having a legacy,
being able to invest in my community. You know, these
are different conversations that happen within us and drive us
in a different way. And what happens for most people
that are recognizing my work as a life coach is
most people haven't reconnected with their new why. So they
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believe that the same why they got them up and
moving ten years ago is going to be the same
thing that gets the moving now. And they're constantly in
this cycle of starting and stopping and feeling demotivated, and
they're like, why can't I just stay motivated? I'm like,
because the truth is that same why that used to
work for you, that used to get you going hard,
that used to keep you hungry, that used to make
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you thirsty, it just doesn't. It doesn't work for you anymore.
It just doesn't work for you anymore. And it's okay.
I think it's important for us to have these conversations
because it is nothing wrong with you. If the why
doesn't work, you just need to figure out which why
does work, because there is one that exists, but we
have to address it. And that's the missing part for
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most people is that we're not having these conversations. We're
not taking the assessment to figure out what's changed. You know,
the inevitable thing in life is that things will change.
You cannot avoid change. It's happening regardless. That's the one
thing that there is nowhere around. Things are going to
change everything, and your why is on that list of
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things that are going to change. When I had this conversation,
you know, a lot of a few people resonated with it,
and Mike was somebody that that I thought about when
having this conversation and sharing it on a public platform.
I was like, I think Mike will have a lot
of insights to share on this conversation because Mike's not
(06:51):
the single guy just trying to look good, you know
for the ladies. He's a married man building a legacy.
He's got four young men looking up to him, He's
got brothers and peers who also look up to him.
He's got other real estate developers and investors who are
looking up to him. He has people from his old
neighborhood who may not have a relationship with God looking
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up to him. So the things that used to get
him up drive him in the morning as an eighteen
year old as a twenty five year old. You know,
they aren't the same. They aren't the same. And I
think it's important, you know, to hear your perspective about
the idea of changing your Why Number one, I want
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to know what wise for you have changed, Mike, And
then also what helped you to get to the point,
Like was it was it a conscious conversation that you
had or was it more unconscious And you know you
just adapted will to having you know, the new motivators
(07:56):
continue to drive you talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, no, definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I mean, once again, you did an amazing job of
framing the topic and kind of unpacking all the details.
And so as you were talking, I was kind of
reflecting on my own story, and like you said, I mean,
we talk about this stuff all the time, but I
do think it's important that we communicate these type of
(08:22):
conversations on a public.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Platform because I don't know, you know, just for the people.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
So I actually I have three biological sisters, right, and
I was I grew up as the only male in
my mother's household, which I was primarily raised in, and
so I'm used to having a lot of conversations and
looking out. I grew up looking out for women and
understanding like the importance of women and having healthy dynamics
(08:49):
with women. And so laen Asia and we actually met
at a high level networking event a few years ago,
and I mean literally every since that day, we've just
men just driving each other to be better, pouring into
each other. And it's just a beautiful example of having
(09:10):
a healthy brother and sister dynamic that I think everybody
needs to have. But going back to your question, you know,
it's it's been a process.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm gonna just be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You know, it's a really interesting process as far as
me identifying my true why and then being fluid enough
to change with it as it evolves, because you know
who I was as a young man. I mean, my
core characteristics are the same, but I'm very much transformed
(09:43):
into a more evolved version of myself because, like.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
As you mentioned, you know, I grew up not unlike
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Us where you know, I was exposed to a lot early,
and I chose to go down different paths.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Uh, just be because of the things I was seeing,
to be honest, you know. And one thing that I
can say, I.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Was always blessed to have this. I was blessed to
be around principal men, so I saw what it meant
to be a man. Not saying all these men did
all the right things though, and that's the part where
I was a little unbalanced early, to be honest. But
I knew principles was important, and I knew getting money,
(10:25):
being a provider was important, and that's kind of what
I based my life going early, to be honest, you know.
And as I started evolving, especially after I met my wife,
that's when all of my you know, unbalancedness started to
kind of expose itself. Where I was so heavily leveraged
(10:45):
on the providing and being a principal man, a man
that was respected in the street, that I never really
took inventories to the fact that I was so unbalanced
in like the emotional aspects of my wife or just
you know, just being there day to day to just
catering too emotions because what happened was even though my
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early part of my life will spend with my mom
and my sisters, at thirteen, I moved across the country
and moved away from my mom to.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
My dad's house. So I had a brief stint.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
For about two or three years where I moved away
from Detrade and then I came back and it was
a totally different program. My dad kind of looked at
it like, look, hey, you thirteen, but I don't got time.
He was working for two full time jobs. You gotta
hold it down. I'm gonna hold it down. We'll figure
it out. So I had to grow up very quickly,
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and to be honest, we didn't have that nurturing environment
and so through time I kind of just become unbalanced.
So going back to just you know, to answer that
question about my why evolving and why it's important to
be present enough to understand that it is evolving, I
think it's been a process.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You know, at the end of the day, the Holy
Spirit is downloading information to us daily, but we have
to be obedient and we have to be able to
sit in and receive that information.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And uh, never be ashamed of where you come from too.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I really want to say that because I remember Rob
said this one time on the prayer call, and he
was saying that God will allow certain people to be
in the world a little longer for a reason or
everything's happening divinely. And so to your point, now I
can speak to certain people that's still you know, in
(12:36):
the field or not where they're going to be, and
because they've seen my evolution, it's igniting them to really
search their soulf And that's that's really about what my WII,
that's my purpose, not get you're bringing along more people
for the ride.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I think that's so powerful, you know, just just
the fact that number one, you're recognizing that it's the
Holy Spirit that's changing this for you. We're spirit beings
having a natural experience. And I think that that's for
most of my network and the people that I'm around.
That's been the biggest shift is we went from this
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this natural why to this spiritual why. You know, everything
was like, Okay, what do I need? And you know, like,
what are the basics that I need? Okay, I need
to get an education of some sort. I need to
have a roof over my head, I need like all
the whys. We're very surface level, and then as you grow,
(13:39):
when you start to get those basic level needs, I suppose,
then you start to realize it's deeper than this, Like
this was the reason why before, But now I have
kids that are looking at me, and other people's kids
that are looking at me, and people who need to
know God who are looking at me. So it's so
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much deeper now. So I want to ask you too,
because a lot of people This is another conversation that
I have with people, especially new clients. Right, I will
ask the question, you know, of what people's why is,
just to hear what they say, because people will often say,
my kids are my why, Like your why is the
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thing that actually makes you move, And this this is
what people don't get. Most people aren't even connected to
what their why is. Because if this is the thing
that you say is the reason, but it's not making
you move, then that's not your why. I know you
care about your kids, but if looking at your kids
every day no one they're struggling, knowing you can provide
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a better life for them and you're not doing it,
then that's not your why. You need to connect with
something else that's going to get you up. Yeah, it
doesn't mean that you love your kids any less. It
just means that you have to actually articulate that thing
that's really going to get you an action. So and
it takes a lot of courage to say something like that,
especially not being a mom and challenging moms or challenging dads,
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you know, to just be for real and say those things.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I want to ask you, like what, like what makes
you move? Like knowing this is your why? Like what
keeps you motivated with it? Like what keeps you action?
What keeps you in motion? Because you could easily I
feel like, you want your family to have a good life,
(15:36):
You want people to know God, You want to rebuild
a community and have these ideas and do nothing. What
is what makes you connect and get emotion? What do
you think that is for you?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So for me, is it really is fulfiling what I
feel is my true purpose in life?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And what I tell people is when I was very
young and I talked to my son about this, my
oldest because I was around his age, like maybe eight
or nine, and I had a vision of who I
was going to become around my present day age like
thirty eight, and.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
To be honest, it kind of it scared me.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I didn't know what to do with it because I
didn't know anybody that was, you know, living as an
entrepreneur doing all these things.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I didn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And so basically, as I got older and I started
going through different wins and losses, just the whole gamut
of emotions, what I realized is, you know, and I
get it, like and somebody once said, like I wish
everybody could touch a million dollars just so they can understand,
(16:51):
like that is not fulfillment. Like you cannot look for
money to feel like all right, cool, once I get
this money, once I get that use to to be honest,
is it's never enough. I don't care how much money
you have, you're gonna want more because as soon as
you climb one mountain, you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Look to your left or your right, and.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You're gonna see another mount and you're gonna at some
point you have to realize you're addicted to just chasing things.
And so for me, that was the realization that I
had kind of I became a little bit of an addict,
to be honest, just you know, I was I was
on the money chase. I was a grinder and I
always camouflage it as well, you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Know, I'm a provider. I'm doing this. I'm providing for
this person, that person, this person, that person.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And that's how I kind of fueled myself. But what
it ended up doing was it left me feeling extremely
lonely because how can I talk to my people that
I'm saying, this is who I'm providing, this is why
I'm doing it. But they don't understand because they're always receiving.
They don't know what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
To be on the Senate and like, I mean, this
is a true story. Man. The first I received the
cash app, I was so confused as to like, man,
what Because I'm so used to sending it, I wasn't
not used to seeing no money from it tripped me up.
I had to call my people like what do I get?
And I was just like, man, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
So what happened was I had to I had to
really humble myself. I had to humble myself and just
and that's when you know, my faith, my faithor gear
really started kicking in and I heard God telling me
like listen, you.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Finally hear like, okay, you ready to listen? Though I
had to say, you.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Know what, I'm ready because it got to the point, man,
I was on it. I felt lonely. Man, I'm not
gonna lie like you know. And so once I started
humbling myself and started asking these same exact question like
what you're saying, like what's my real wife? What's my purpose?
How do I want to be remembered? All of these
things started coming to me, like I did, look at
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my family. That is a part of my wife. My
key is my wife, my standing family. But like you said,
it can't be my only wife because their kids, they
can never understand what I'm going through. And the end
of the day, I gotta be their father. I gotta
lead the charge. I got to be the example, be
the evidence for them to look at and see, like, man,
(19:22):
I know, you know my pops has some tough times,
but he kept going and that's what can help, you know,
motivate them. But I would say, my true why is
just really being able to inspire and motivate people. And
it comes in different forms. Sometimes it comes in mentorship,
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you know. Sometimes it comes in real estate tutorials. Sometimes
it comes in, Hey me, just picking up the phone
and nature, how you doing, how you feeling, checking in
with your people, pouring into your people's cup. Like, I
really truly believe that. That's one of my main purposes,
is my ability to motivate and inspire people, but to
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also be that one that completely shifts our famili's legacy
because somebody has to restore order. A lot of us
come from broken homes, missing pieces, and somebody has to
step in and say, you know what, this stops here,
not saying we're going to live perfect lives, but we're
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willing to do our part to restore some order for
future generations.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, what's so powerful as I'm listening to you, even
bringing it back to the conversation of like challenging someone
and saying your kids aren't true. Why. It's not to
say that you don't care about your kids, it's to say,
if your kids are your why articulate what that means?
And that's what you just did. Like I'm not just
(20:49):
it's just not this vague idea of my kids are
the reason why? No, what are you trying to show
your kids? What are you trying to bring to your family?
You can't just say like financial freedom as your wife, Okay, articulate,
break that down what financial freedom even means. I want
you to articulate when you say financially free, because people
don't really connect with these vague ideas of a concept. Right.
(21:13):
But when you say when you talk about legacy, right,
I was, I was at my family's house, some things
given and it was no kids there. That was a problem.
Most people wouldn't even recognize that as a problem. I
did because there are several people available that can have children.
According to like you know, like we have no limitations
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outside of the fact that the relationships aren't there, the
marriages aren't there. That's a problem. So my will started
spending like yo, I gotta actually keep the family alive.
And I joked about it, but it's actually something that's
like no, I've really got to like break whatever curse
is happening here because this is not healthy. This shows
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a good sign of health is fruit. You see fruit,
when you see growth like that means that there's a
healthy system in place. But if there's no growth, if
there's no fruit, if there's no newness, then that's a
sign of death. There there's not enough health and people
don't look at things that way. So, you know, just
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being able to articulate the reason why, not just saying
like family, what about family? Not just saying money, what
about money? Because everybody needs money, but why do you
need the money? What's the money gonna allow you to do?
When you get it? That's your why? Not just money,
not just freedom? Not okay, when you have the freedom,
what are you allowed to do. I'm able to spend
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time with my family. I'm able to you know, spend
time with my wife, with my husband, with my kids.
I'm able to be present really help to build them
into the young men or young women that they need
to become. Like it becomes more personal, and most people
aren't connected with their why. It's a distant idea of
like why they should start or why they should continue,
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and that's why there's no motivation there. So I think
that's super powerful and also what sets you apart, you know,
because the question was about the motivation, and you can
articulate it, you can break down into smaller pieces what
it really means. So now it helps you to get
more laser focused on what it's going to take to
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get it, as opposed to just this broad idea of family. Okay, cool,
Like what direction do we go to get blacking these
things accomplished for family? You don't know because you haven't
articulated what the things are you need to get.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, And to your point, a lot of people when
they say things like financial freedom work, they're really they
want the feeling that they think that's going to bring them.
And what happens is they think they need this thing
to to start experiencing that feeling, which is really it's
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so backwards where you gotta really live in that like now,
and eventually that's going to come if you stay diligent enough.
We were just having a conversation before we press record
today and we were just talking about, you know, just
doing it every day, like reps, Like we always talking
about reps, reps, REP, And that's the part where people
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don't realize, like listen, for you to get this feeling,
like you gotta believe this is where you at now
mentally and.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Spiritually, the physical will catch up, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Like when we was going through when I went through
my life coaching program with you, one of the things,
I mean, it was a lot of jewels, but one
of the main jewels that I really appreciated. I don't
think I've ever been asked this question either. Is it
was like early you were like, listen, describe like your
perfect day, and I kept kind of one the gloss
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saw and it's like you kept digging deeper, and it
really forced me.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
To pack that.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
And so what it did was I had to go
down to the filling level, to the point where I'm
seeing it so clear and it's so realistic. Spiritually, I'm
already there. The physical is going to catch up if
you believe it true enough.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Absolutely, you just got me. You know, I'm excited because
you just went off into my lane, Like this is
where I get excited, because that's the missing element for
most people we have. I just literally right before we
got on this call, I made it post like feel
grateful for that thing today like most people are waiting.
(25:45):
I think about when I was creating my perfect day.
The reason why I asked that question and I've implemented
in to my coaching, is because someone asked me that
in twenty seventeen. Someone asked me, what did your perfect
day look like? And I've never even I never even
thought about a perfect day, Like I'm too busy managing
my circumstances. I'm too busy reliving the same day to day, tomorrow,
(26:09):
the next day, the next day, because I'm in the
same feelings. Right now, I'm listening to a book called
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe just spends On,
one of my favorite thought leaders in neuroscientists. He also
wrote the book Becoming Supernatural, which changed my life in
twenty twenty two, and amongst many books, a lot of
books changed my life that year. But he talks about
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the fact that we think we're living a different day,
but subconsciously you're not. You're in the same emotions, You're
in the same thought patterns, which causes you to do
the exact same things. Your environment is telling you who
you are. You're going to the same places, you're in
the same food, you're listening to the same things, and
you think it's a new day, but it's all the same.
(26:55):
And then you start to put yourself in this energetic space,
a frequency that matches something that you don't actually have yet,
right like whenever anything is going wrong in my life,
and we talked about this before the call, I tap
into the spirit, like whenever something's not right, I know
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number one, it's me. I accept full responsibility for every
ebb and flow. And that's one problem for most people
is that they don't accept that it's them that's the
power we have. It's like you, you have the power
for good things to happen, but you don't want to
accept when it's when things aren't going well that it's
your fault. No, it is, which is good news because
if it was somebody else's fault, you would have to
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wait on them. But nevertheless bringing it back well.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
That's important though. That's because that's what comes with the territory.
And that's the part. Like you said, most people you
want to have the big role. You want to be
the chief, you want to be the boss. But that
what they're doing is they focus on what they feel
are the good aspects of that. We talk about living
(28:01):
the entrepreneurial life. I get asked all the time, man,
I want to be.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like you dog, you you left your job? You doing this?
I say, listen, bro, this is a full contact sport.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
This is not for everybody because what you're doing is
you're focusing on what seems you know to be public wins.
You don't see the day to day grind that it
took to get there, and that is taken to keep
sustaining it and building out, because that's the thing where
you can never be stagnant and feel like you've arrived,
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because the moment you do, that's when you're declining.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Inflation is real aspects.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Of neutrality, there's no such thing as neutrality. You're never
just standing still. You're getting better or you're getting worse.
And like you just said, not to cut you off,
like I cut you off early, but inflation, like the
price is going up, so you go with the Eric
thomasin have talked about this on Secret to Success podcast
(29:03):
a week ago. Inflation is rising, and the reason why
you feel it is because you're not rising. You think
you're staying the same as gonna be okay, and it's
not all right.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You're getting you get I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I had a coach when I was in I think
it was our Michigan camp or something, and they said, basically,
every day when you're doing your nightly routine, you got
to look yourself in the mirror as a man or
a woman, and you got to ask yourself like did
I get better today? Because if you didn't get better,
you got worse and you got it. Like you said,
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you have to be real with yourself and saying okay, cool,
because the reality is we're going to have some days
that we we get a little a little worse today
instead of us getting at the day to day, got
at us.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You know what I'm saying straight up? Like some days
you wake up from the top of the world. Some
days you wake up for like the world on top
of you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Ye, that's the human experience. But what matters is how
do you react to that? Absolutely you fold up?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Or do you step up? You know, to the challenge?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
And are you checking in frequently enough? My ideal framework
assessment is non negotiable the biggest problem for most people,
and we all fall victim to it. Like like I
talked to you about before we hit record, like you
chip away at it every day, right. And the thing
is I caught myself in a week's in a few
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weeks time, whereas most people don't check in for a year.
Most people don't check in for three, four or five, six,
seven months, like and you look back over your life,
you're like, oh my gosh, three years went by. Yeah,
and all I did was talked about how I was
going to improve and I never did anything.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Wasn't checking in. I wasn't in relationship enough with myself
that I could get get back in order.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I checked in with my private community the first week
in February, and I wanted them to really look at
how quickly January went by. I was like, yeah, January
seemed like forever when we was in it. I was
out of it, and it was a blink, wasn't it.
And I asked them on January third or fourth, whenever
the day was, I was like, everybody wrote down and
(31:24):
chat some some things that they said they was start
this year, did you? And you know we had some
yet we had some no, some overthinking, right, yes, right,
And I'm like, you gotta understand, another month is going
to pass you by. Like I'm promising you this. I''s
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if God willing, if God allows you to live another month,
it's going to pass you by. You're going to be
in the same place, and then three months are going
to pass, and then ninety days are going to pass.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Me jump in on that, though, because it's an important.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
God willing that's I just had a high school teammate
that just passed.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
He wasn't He's not even forty years old.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
It's the third teammate that and maybe yeah, I think
the third teammate that I know about that has passed.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
So going back to that God willing, we don't know
our time.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
And the thing is to be honest, we shouldn't be
overly concerned with that. Only thing we should know is
is coming. So all we can do is control our controllables.
Like you said, man, today, if this was my last day,
I pray with my family this morning. Matter of fact,
my son prayed for us last two days. It goes
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back to that why and bringing people closer to God.
The last two days, my son has just out the blue, Dad,
I want to. I want to pray, and I could
tell like the pride that he's having leading prayer. And
what I'm showing as my nine year old is praying
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my two year old is he's in that stage where
he's learning how to talk. He's repeating everything. So I'm
connecting the dots. I'm like, look at what's going on.
You were praying, your baby brother is walking in your footsteps.
And for the record, I want to I want to
let everybody know it's never too late to start where
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you are. I didn't grow up in the house where
we prayed every day. To be honest, I don't know
if we ever did it like this, like like what
we're doing. I didn't grow up in a household where
we were overly like. I wasn't a church kid, you know,
we went to church. I always knew God. I wasn't heaven.
I knew God, but I wasn't like a church boy either,
(33:52):
you know. And that wasn't never even on them because
you know, looking at the history, it was some church
hurt and that my previous family, they was deep, but
it was it was some things going on.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And the reason why I want to talk.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
About that hurt and that pain is when you were
talking about people taking that daily inventory, look out fast
January January came and went. The thing is a lot
of people it's not that they don't check it. They
don't want to check in because it can be painful.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Absolutely, that's good.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That pain of knowing, you know, disappointing yourself is a
pain like no other. And what you have to do
is you gotta build trust with yourself and God before
you can start building with anybody.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Else.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
So small things like did I did I wake up
on time to day? Did I actually go to the
gym like I said I was gonna do? Did I
do something to impact somebody else's life? Like little things?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
If you can be faithful over small things, you could
be faithful over all things. But it got to start somewhere.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's good, man, that's powerful. That's so powerful, and I
kind of want to leave it there. I think that's
like a strong end everything you just said, just to
wrap it up, like man, that's and I'm taking that
when you're gonna hear that a lot. So if you
can be playful over small things, you could be faithful
over all things. And I'll always say, like today I
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share you know, the shortcut is starting now. The shortcut
is starting now because what's gonna happen is the distance
between one win and the next is not gonna get shorter,
but you'll be moving faster eventually, So the time it
takes to get there, it's gonna be a lot less.
You know, when you don't have momentum, when you don't
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have speed, it's gonna feel like forever you crawling you like,
you know, but eventually you'll be walking. Then you'll be jogging,
then you'll be running. The mile didn't change, The mile
didn't get shorter. Right, You change in the process, but
you only change because you started with crawling. Nobody starts
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at the top, but the problem is nobody gets to
the top until they start. Yeah, you have to be
willing to start. You have to be willing to check
in with yourself. You have to be willing to face yourself,
have those hard conversations with yourself. You know, obviously we
want to get to the level where we're having hard
conversations with other people, but we got to have them
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with ourselves first. We have to look at every single
aspect of who we are and our being and be
for real about where we are and why we're not
getting what it is that we want. It's always on you,
and that's good news. That's good news that it's on you. So, Mike,
what would you wrap it up with if you could
leave us with three pieces of advice? You know, obviously
(36:42):
you know changing your why, but what three nuggets would
you leave The people that are listening to this conversation
just want to feel encouraged.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So the first piece of or the first nugget would
be just just to double downald what you just said,
like get starting today. Like we got to saying in
real estate, where the best time to buy real estate
was twenty thirty years ago, this best time is today.
It is what it is, because if you never invest
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in yourself, then you're never gonna yield that return on
your investment down the line. The second piece of advice
that I would give is make sure your circle reflects
where you're evolving. That's so important, man, because I can
honestly say, I mean, you're a part of this evolution.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
We talked about that where we randomly met at this
networking event.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
And we talked almost every day, we testing each other,
what's going on system, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And the thing was.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
I had to get to that point because before I
was I kind of had a loan with mentality.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I trusted my people, and that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
You know, I knew it everybody, but I didn't trust me,
and I kind of had this loan with mentality. And
your energy speaks before you ever open your mouth. So
even though I would tell people, oh, yeah, I'm open,
let's collaborate, let's do this, my energy was kind of
closed up and my energy is so powerful it's gonna radiate.
Because now once I recognize that, I changed that, and
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now I'm seeing my circle evolved.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I'm not leaving my people behind. What I'm doing is I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Challenging them to rise up. Y'all want to meet me,
me and me at the top. I invite y'all to
come here, but I'm not coming down to y'all.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I can't do that. Y'all gotta come up here. I'm
gonna lift you up.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
I'll lift you up to a certain extent, but I
can't come down to get back to that level. And
then the third piece of advice is really the first
and foremost, but I just left it as the third
is just get that get that deep spiritual connection with
with with God man, you know, because honestly, everything's happening Bindley,
(39:00):
and so I would just say, you know, speed is important,
but at the same time, understand like it's unfolding the
perfect time. You know, where you are right now is
where exactly you're supposed to be. Don't worry about that.
Just worry about what you can control. And if you
believe strong enough and you got that connection, you will
(39:22):
be able to manifest you know and get on your journey.
But you got to start with self, and you have
to really work on developing that relationship with God. You know,
early and often start your day off with prayer.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
So going throughout the.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Day, in your day with prayer, get around godly people
because they're going to encourage you to get get to
that word yourself, you know. And that's what I had
to do. Where I'm on a fun ride right now.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
You know. I tell my kids, I said, I'm learning nobody.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I never you know, I wasn't sat down and going
to Bible study or nothing like that. So I'm enjoying
the journey though I don't look at that as a disadvantage.
It's like it's cool, you know, I get to learn
in real time with my kids.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
We go through difference. Hey, check this story.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I read them the story about Sampson Delilah the other
day and we were just talking about it because you know,
we always hear about Sampson Delilah, but it's more to
Sampson's story than just the Delilah. I had never known
that because I only got the snippets from other people.
You got to be able to go to the word
itself and get that directly. So that's that's my little nuggets.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
But I want to thank you for inviting me to
your platform. You know, I know you got a super
strong community, and I want to encourage you. Just just
keep doing what you're doing. You have a powerful voice.
You know, you want to mine my sisters. You know,
I'm really proud of what you're doing, man, for real,
because I see you pouring into others and I know
(40:52):
it's not always the easy road, but when you're on
a mission, you know, it's fulfilling. You know, I always
feel like it's not easy, but it's fruitful. So I
want to I want to pray for you and just
keep that, you know, keep you hopefully you keep encouraged.
And when you not call me, you know, you know
I'm a poor.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And see your cup.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Absolutely I appreciate you, like truly, truly, truly. I know
that y'all like, bring him back. I know, y'all, I
know y'all, he wanted to come back already. So Mike
got a lot to say, and I know y'all like
he need a podcast like yesterday. Uh, he does have one. Uh.
He joins two other brothers that I also admire. Pastor,
(41:33):
Ronnie and Martel. Check out the Today for Tomorrow podcast
on YouTube. Also me and two point oh. Any brothers listening,
anybody got a husband or somebody that they're in relationship
with a brother or sibling, they do Me and two
point oh connect with Mike on social media. Mike drop
your what's your handles them in the chat? But how
(41:55):
can I you?
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, social media? My ig is Detroit Investor Underscore w C.
So that goes back to the real estate aspect. But
like Lenagia was saying, it's much more than that. I'm
so glad you brought up the podcast too, Today for Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
You can YouTube it all the sisters.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
If you have young men, sons, even your spouses, you
want them to start having these conversations, watch a couple
episodes and if you feel like it resonates to you,
send it to some brothers.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
And like Lenaja mentioned, we do meet in person once
a month for me and two point zero. And what
we're doing is we pouring into other brothers man, you know.
And what we're doing is we're uplifting each other. We're
strengthening the word, and we're making sure that brothers understand
and know that you not fighting this fight by yourself.
(42:48):
You know, this is something that our fathers and grandfathers
really didn't have. They didn't have this platform, but we do,
and we're making the most of you.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Absolutely, and that's in the Metro Detroit area. I know
we have listeners all over, so we love y'all. But
this is for men that are in the Metro Detroit
area and maybe men two point o Mike needs to
be on the move. Who knows might get a little
nugget in somebody's ear or y'all get on the move.
But I just thank you. I appreciate you. With all
you have going on, you always make time to show up,
(43:19):
so that means a lot. That means a whole lot.
So make sure that you saved this podcast. Share with
somebody that you love, that you care about, and connect
with the Black Woman Transform community, a community of women
that are grown with God qrushing their goals thirty four
dollars a month. We're on these calls five am my
day through Thursday. I'm yelling at y'all. And you also
(43:39):
have a community of sisters that are just supporting you
every step of the way. So join the community. You
do not have to do this by yourself. I'll talk
to y'all so peace.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Peace,
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