S1:EP15 From Weeping to Warrior - Igniting Freedom with Roshawn Nicole ft Brandon "BP" Parker. Brandon Parker embodies Love, Grind, and Growth through every facet of his life. From his BP Brand to his inspiring journey, he uplifts others with positivity, resilience, and purpose. A motivational human, artist, and community leader, Brandon lives to empower, proving daily that self-development and love are the ultimate foundations for success.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
No shame, shame, stop finding me, hands and nobody nod.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my Warrior, Kings and Queens.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome to the show from Weeping to Warrior Igniting Freedom
with Roshannicole, where we talk about all things mental health.
We interview amazing guests from all over the world, sharing
their incredible stories of how they overcame obstacles and what
they're currently doing to maintain not only their mental health.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But their physical health.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
If you would like to be considered to be a
guest on the show, hit your girl up at info
at Roshannicole Wellness dot com. We would love to have
you on to share your Weeping to Warrior's story. So
why do I have this podcast? So if you know
my story? Back in twenty twenty one, I was in
treatment for two months.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I struggled in silence for nine years, y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I struggled with depression, anxiety, addiction and PTSD And at
the end of twenty twenty the beginning of twenty twenty one,
I was like, enough is enough, and so I finally
took the leap of faith to go and get the
professional help that I needed. So when I was in treatment,
I was writing music that I didn't know with my
music and when I left out, I was sharing my
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story through song, through speaking to the community, to schools,
to churches and letting them know that there is healing
and hope on the other side. And then I wanted
this podcast so others can share their opportunity.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is a safe space to share.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Your story, and I wanted others to know that there
is hope in there, there's healing, and also I wanted
to help you know shed light and help you know
ignite freedom and also for my guests to do that
as well. So help me on this journey. If you
are watching on YouTube like share comments. If you are
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watching while it's streaming, a comment as well, and also
share it to someone who might be encouraged by the
past episodes. I would love for you to help me
on this journey to help you shed some light. So
thank you if you have been watching and if.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You are also new.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So I always give a disclaimer at every episode. I
am not a licensed professional, so anything that we discuss
on how.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We overcame our challenges, please go.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Seek medical advice and also a trigger warning as well.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We talk about mental health topics and.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So we could be talking about something that might be triggering,
so I also want to share that as well. All Right, friends,
So I'm going to introduce our special guest today. I
am excited. I'm so excited for this amazing guest. He's
doing incredible work in the community. And we have traveled to.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Different cities here on the show.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We've been to Jersey, We've been to Colorado, We've been
to atl We've been to North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Chicago, Texas. But today we're just going to stay in our.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Seattle area, so we're putting Seattle on the map.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So I'm so excited for this guest here today.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So Brandon Parker, or VP, embodies love, grind, and growth
through every facet of his life. From his VP brand
to his inspiring journey. He uplifts with positivity, resilience, and purpose.
A motivational human artist and community leader, Brandon lives to empower,
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proving daily that self development and love are the ultimate
foundations for success. Let's welcome this Warrior King all the
way from Seattle to the show.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Appreciate it, highly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He love Hello, Hi VP.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Thank you, thank you for that, and thank you for
having me on here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yes Salute to you, Salute to your story, Salute to
what you're doing for me and for so many other
people that are just just watching just tap in ily
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Thank you so much, Brandon ur BP.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm so glad for your Yes, I'm so excited to
hear about just like all the incredible things that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So those who are listening are watching on today. BP.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We went to school together. We went to junior High.
At the time, it was called junior high. Now it's
called middle school now. So we went to junior high.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We went to high school together and graduated the same year.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We were talking that we were on prom court together,
and so I'm so excited just to see a classmate
that I've grown up with just doing amazing work in
the community.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And so that's what we're going to talk about today.
But BP, before.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
We talk about all the amazing things, give the people,
let them know a little bit more about who is VP,
Who was Brendan Parker, And yeah, let us know more
about you.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Absolutely everything that you just said, that's what it is.
So I represent love Brinan bro whenever y'all said love
his dope shirt and hoodies around through the grace of God.
I'm the founder of the BP brand, which the Love
is Dope brand, it's underneath. So every time you see
that slogan, it comes from the BP brand, and it
just it just represents what I really embody like every
day from home. I'm right here in my home right
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now from when I hit the office. So when I'm
doing anything that I do my real life and bodies
just love, brinding, growth, always just trying to figure out
more ways to produce more love to both self development
and so I know we'll dig into things that I
got going on, but it's really all about impact. Anything
that I'm anything that I'm involved in, it's just it's
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just about impact. How can I create more impact? Kind
of that's that's always the miss you on anything that
I touch or that anything I'm involved in. So that's
just what I read what I do.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Love it, love it creating impact.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
As you see those who are listening, I'm wearing Brandons,
I'm representing Brandon's clothing line and so just dope and
I see I'm wearing the yellow and you're wearing the brown.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You're wearing the brown, Brandon. Is that is that lovely?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yes? Awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes, we'll talk about that, but before we do, I
went Brandon on this show, we talk about you know,
weeping to warrior, and so I would love for you
to share with the audience you know you're weeping story.
You know a time that you went through, you know,
a major obstacle or you know, or challenges in your life.
Before we get to that warrior. We're going to save
the warrior for a minute. But let's talk about your
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your weeping moment, right.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, it's it's it's so many of them. A
drastic one would be min incarceration. I was incarcerated in
two thousand and eight. I went to federal prison since
its two month sentence out young, young, trying to make
fast money and it catches up to you. And during
that time, right there, I was having my firstborn daughter.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
She was stealing the wound.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
So I wasn't I wasn't even able to be there
to see her born at that time. So so so
just that time in my life right there, that was
that was a lot was built in that time. A
whole lot was built in that time to set a
lot of the foundation lot.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
What's crazy is that I don't I don't think.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
About it a lot at all until it's like brought
up until I'm about to do a podcast if something
whereas actually asked was crazy, because then I think back, like, wow,
I didn't realize how much foundation was set up during
that time to be able to create right now for
the warrior that you see right now.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
It's a it's a it's a blessing. It's a big,
big blessing.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, yes, wow.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So Brandon, I want you to talk to the audience,
you know, about during that time of you be incarcerated
maybe or what led up to it, like how was
your men health, you know, knowing that you're going to
be incarcerated, and then how were you how was that
during that time?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Right right at the beginning. The worst was at the beginning,
at the very beginning. You're young, don't know what's going on.
You know, you don't know what you done got yourself into,
Like wait, hold on, I'm thinking some months, y'all talking
five and ten years. It's just crazy. So your mind
is scrambling, and you're going and you going through the
process of the courts and everything. That part is very
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tough because it's just the unknown. You're just in the
other just like I don't want to know, I just
want to know. And then at the same time you're doing
everything legally with lawyers and everything, trying to just get
the best outcome.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Thank God, I had an incredible support system.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I mean across all communities, family and everything.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
And I was able to be able to to do my.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Time close to home, even though it was out of
state case, I was able to get back closer to home,
and once I know what time it was and what
I was sent in to through the grace of out that,
that warrior started to come out very very early, and
like very early and start recognizing like, hey, you still
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got a lot of purpose. And I started identifying that
purpose and identifying right now, like not waiting. I wasn't
waiting for a sentence for sixty two months to be over.
But I was growing through through that the whole entire time.
And it was that's that's that's where that warrior was.
I'm talking being like a diamond.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
He was being being together.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
In those moments. So I'm honestly always grateful for those moments.
I'm grateful for God allowing me to be able to
tap in in the spirit to come through me to
start growing in real time then not trying to wait
to think about what I'm gonna do when I come home.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
But what do you do right now? How can you
create the best version of yourself right now?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
How can you practice discipline right now in this moment
while he's going through this? And uh and that was
that was some of the best moments of my life
regard himself. That development and understanding how to dig deep
and go with.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
From within, learn learn. I learned the hell of a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And it's crazy to say those with some of my
best moments. But when I say that, I mean I
was really able to identify a different level of growth
of where I can tap into the spirit, really what's
coming through me from from spiritually, from from my Bible
studies to different religious studies, to just all kinds of
things that I was able to just to dwell and
just learn. I was a sponge to learning everything and
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self development.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I'm talking about sponge.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Sponge yeah, and uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And it yeah, yeah. I smiled.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's crazy that I can smile when I think about
times like that. Of course, there's a flip side to it,
the family not being there for my daughter of course
that that's there. It's it's it was a it's a
blessing when it's all said and done.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Wow, Wow brands and Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So you you were talking about You're like, man, the
Warrior was cultivating when you was incarcerated, You're like, it
was you was just like, Okay, what do I gotta do?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What do I gotta do?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I want you to talk a little bit more more
about like how that it was cultivating and like what
you were feeling and what was coming what was coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
To the surface, you know, So talk a little bit
more about that.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, I mean, you got when you're in a place
like that, there's so many people.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
That they just they talk.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
There's a lot of talking going on, and it's you know,
what people are going to do and what they want
to do. And if you really look close, if you
look close, it's like a lot of people aren't their
their habits that they have right then in that moment.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
They're not aligning to what they're saying they want to do.
And it's just very clear to me.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
And so I had to look in the mirror to
myself as well, Okay, these things that I'm saying, I
want to do I want to accomplish when I come
home in my habits right now, aligning with that person,
Like am I creating that person?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I want?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I want to be this person to have a home
like my parents, to be able to be the one
to have the house where the family can come to them.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
How am I going to make that happen?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
It's like, okay, well, what are you doing right now
to be the best version of yourself right now? Are
we disciplined to the small things right now while you
have all this time, because when you get on that
other side, it's going to be.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
A whole lot of more distractions.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So I focused strictly on discipline, on holding myself accountable
to to every single thing that I did in there.
I was I'm talking from from from every class to
following through to my readings to just being disciplined and
self growth.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And it was, it was, it was what really.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Created that warrior to say, hey, this is what it takes.
The tools are right now, not on that other side.
The tools are on this side.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You see beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know if you saw the fireworks going off,
I think, I mean know it really was on your screen.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So while you were talking about how it was just multipa.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So I don't know what it was.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Okay, I don't know where that came from either, but
it came.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It was like the right time, and you were talking
about just it was like it was perfect, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, while branding soul.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, So you talked, you know, about being incarcerated and
just feeling you know, like everything, like you lost everything
and so you missing the birth of your daughter. And
so now I want you to talk about you know,
so you went from your weeping. So how did you
go from weeping to warrior? Because now I'm seeing you,
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you know, posting on social media last week you were
motivating I think students, which I was like, yes, brand BP.
I was like yes, you know and just speaking and
you know your brand and your music. But you know,
so let's first before we get into all that, talk
a little bit about like how did you go from
your warrior, you know, being incarcerated to your weeping?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Like what was that transition? What does that look like?
What does that feel like? Painting a picture for us?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Right?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, I mean we'll go back from the start, like
I said, where it started while I was incarcerated.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
So my transition on coming home.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, it was that attitude of still continuous self growth.
I wasn't too I wasn't too proud to go get
a minimum wage job at that time. I had never
had a minimum waste job in my life right, and
so I wasn't too proud for any of that to
start from scratch to say, hey, I'm gonna go do this.
Like when I came home, I had a contract waiting
over one hundred thousand dollar contract, me and my dad
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for another painting contract. But my mind wanted to get
into a different rhythm of work and a different rhythm
of discipline just for a time.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
So I literally turned that.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Down to just be able to get in a different
type of rhythm while I was studying, and I had
the opportunity I got brought on minimum wage worker at
a distribution center. Legitimate who's stilled my mentor to this day.
And I just came in with an attitude far as
the work attitude of I'm gonna do my best any
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I'm gonna speak up on anything that I see as
far as trying to make things better. That's just I
just had an efficient mind, and my mama business got
my headphones on. I was just studying this financial currency.
That's what I was doing, financial currency trading, trading.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That's for something that I learned. We were in that time.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
My leadership, my natural leadership of just speaking up and
helping making things better, just speaking on it transitioned into
me being able to be in different leadership roles of
the company.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Where I was at. Fast forward that whole story.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I end up being a director of operations for the
entire company, over one hundred million dollar company, just through
through just my just wanting to help just do better,
and I had.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
To incur incredible mentor was bringing me up. Fast forward.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
We got to shut that warehouse down because we need
to move it. During that time, I wasn't on social
media at all, maybe once a year or.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Anything like that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
But because we developed such a good family and I'm
giving opportunities, I got my opportunity. Now I'm hiring other
feelings and teaching them other other things, and it's like
we were a family. So I gave them my commitment
when we had to shut down the warehouse that I
would get on social media and I would just at
least say some encouraging words, just do some motivation talking
for my people to get such because I do what
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they did. And literally that's where it sparked this whole
VP brand thing coming from. Now I'm back at my
creative now, I'm trying to figure out ways to do
spoken word to create because creator and it all just
was a domino effect from there and and here we
are now. I mean, there's a lot more to it,
but that was the spark of saying, you know what,
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I'm going to motivate really because I was just doing
it in real life, never on social media, just really
like human and human for sure, yeah, you know, And.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It sparked that I'm like, okay, I'll get on social media.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And once I got on social media, I started understanding
that I can have an impact as well. And it
was just me being authentic to what I do. And
then the brand came and that was just dreamed in it.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I'm drenching it, can't stop, can't stop. Yes, yes, love it,
love it, VP, And I love how you are just
so consistent with your with motivating others on social media
and so like.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know, I'm scrolling and I'm seeing VP. You're like
Kings and Queen.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You know, you got your.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Word of the day, and I'm just like, yes, you know,
so like so you know people people are watching even
when you don't know it. And so I just want
to say I appreciate you just always just dropping something,
you know, some inspiring words for those who we know,
you know, in this world today we need more you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Inspiration and more hope.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And so I appreciate you just always just dropping some
nuggets and just some love, you know, to to your audience.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And so yes, thank you for that. So yes, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So now you talked about you know, how BP the brand,
how it you know, just the beginning of that, and
so I want you to talk about your music too,
because I know growing up, you know, in middle school
or at the junior high and then high school you
have you had a lot of music out, you know,
even after we graduated, you were dropping music with your
brother ra shot shout out.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To him as well, and so yes, and so I
just want.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You to talk a little bit about that, like, because
you're not just speaking about your story, but you're also
you know, sharing it through song, you know, like myself,
and so speaking about that as well. And I know
you have your single that you also dropped brick by brick,
So tell us a little bit about your music journey
and inspiring and giving hope to others through songs.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Coming up as a youngster, we were in I was
in music full time. Me and my brother ended up
creating a group called the Parker Brothers, who was very
very well known across the map. Actually when I got incarcerated,
So I know a lot of people knew me from
my music.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
When I was going in there and that journey right.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
There, we were a tour, lots of tours up the
biggest stage that you can probably ever imagine.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
The biggest artist. There's not an artist probably.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
That I haven't performed with from my era.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, And when I after, I actually did music.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
While I was on the yard the whole time did
music save throughing, music, save writing.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
But when I came home, I gave it a shot
for a second.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And what I realized really fast is that the way
I moved, I give my all that everything I do.
If I'm in it, I'm like truly in it, I'm
invested in it. And that's the reason we were able
to be on a level we were before I left.
I realized after I came home that I didn't. I
didn't want to give that level of investment in that
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because of the other things that I needed that I
knew I needed for my mind, for my foundation, for
me just coming home.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
It was the hardest.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Decision that I ever made, to be able to tell
my brother, to tell my friends, my family that supported
us all our life growing up in music that I got.
I genuinely got to step away. Nobody believed me when
I told them that. It was like, it's not impossible
because music is in me, and I really did. I
stepped away from music for ten years. I rarely, rarely
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even listened to music because anytime I get my car
anything at all, it's a podcast, it's financial literacy, it's
credit building, and business is spiritual, it's any time I
got so I literally fell apart from music to the
point my brothers tell me about artists who are the
biggest artist the world, and I don't know him.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
He's thinking, I'm joking.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I'm like, bro, I'm like, I'm like, it's not around.
It's not it's not in my algorithm. When I go
on social media, I program my own algorithms. I only
go so the things that I want feed my mind,
so I'm not round it.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't I don't see it.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm not around it. And I really wasn't interested because
I needed to. I was fueled by a different level
of building my foundation for my family.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Fast forward all that time, like I said, when I
got back into getting on social media, kind of started
being creative, doing some spoken word, just being my creative,
just flowing steady, just given messages that bled over to
me finally doing a little wrap here and.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
There, and they're like, oh, I knew you'll be back.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
And then when I just started getting back full fledge,
it was because the spirit. What happened is that he
aligned my soul with my everything that naturally authentically came
from me from writing for my brain was aligned with
what I refus it now. So every song it's loved
Ryan and growth, it's about I'm still giving jewels. We're
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not killing each other, we're not selling those drugs, we're
not talking about someting doing things that once a younger
mind would would do. And now that my mind can
I phentically do that and just automatically I can't even
think in that direction no more. And I'm loving doing
the music, it became a real source of self therapy.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Now back in my bag. Now my why is clear.
Now my message is.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Aligning with the brand. So I'm smiling and I'm happy
to do music again. And so now I'm back full fledged.
I did drop a project back during COVID okay, and
yet and then I kind of just free free did it.
You know, I'll get called for shows, I'll do shows,
and I won't. I didn't fully fledge merge myself into
the artist world. But it's like my creative bag was
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up there until just recently. Now, over the last couple
of years, I've been just writing just for self therapy,
and I've been recording for years just for myself for
the therapy, and it just feels a maze reason and
it's just it's just enhances my life. And I finally
got to a point just recently where it's like, you
know what, I'm about to go back full fledged because
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I'm so inspired by the music that I'm making myself.
Like literally when I listen what it does for me,
I said, Okay, it's time.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And so now it's time. My new project, Love Grinding Growth.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's so special that yeah, it gives me chills thinking
about it.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
And U and we're here now and I'm releasing it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yes, yeah, So and when is that dropping VP?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
You're it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay okay, yeah, yes, all right, okay, and.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
We'll have you to, you know, to talk about how
people can download it. We'll talk about all that after. Yes, yes, awesome, okay,
I'll be watching out for that. Absolutely, yes, yes, love it.
And so you said something. I want to highlight what
you said. You were talking about how writing was you know,
self therapy for you you, and so I want you
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to talk a little bit about more about that because
I absolutely understand because it was the same for me
where when I'm just writing, I was like, you know,
at first, I'm just writing down my feelings and then
just read going back and you know, uh, you know,
reading it and then like oh this is a song,
and then I'm like, okay, I'm.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Afraid to release this music.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
And then knowing that you know, this is therapy for me,
but also therapy for so many other people.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And so if you can just talk a little bit
about that as well, how you were just noticing that
you're writing is therapy for you?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Oh yeah, absolutely, it just so It's like with music.
Music to me, the way I live my life, it's
like it's not a priority until it's a priority. And
what I mean by that, it's like it's not a
priority until I feel that it has.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
To have that balance something I'm feeling a low off balance.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Sometimes it's me saying, Okay, let me get away from
everything that's going on, let me put my headphones on,
let me get this and just step away and just breathe.
And then when the spirit hits me like that, now
it's like I didn't went to my own world and
my creative bag, and it's like I'm fueling myself back
up to be able when I leave that studio, I'm
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higher as a human to be able to handle all
the other.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Pressures that were happening. And it was like.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Every time without a doubt. Like when I when I write,
I go right out to my garage. We call my
garage club love.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I got it. I gotta set up where it's just
you know, I can vibe out. But I'll literally go
out there.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I'll put on my good clothes, my jewelry, my cologne,
literally just to go right outside and the family. No,
I'll be like I'm going to club love and and
literally I just sown out and it just takes me there.
So when I'm in my creative bag and I know
that i'm and it's not like, oh, I'm about to
give this message, I'm about to write this message, it's like, nah,
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I'm about to just have a feeling. It's gonna be
a feeling my my authentic self. The words are going
to be aligned with the brand regardless, because that's just
what I what I do. But I'm creating feelings through
the music. So when you're hearing the music, like you
you literally feel it, like like really feel the music
like that feel good rather whatever. And I'm not not
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usually trying to give me emotion off the rip. I
just allow the production to talk to me and I talk.
It's like we communicate through through the energy until the
rhythms in my heads are just coming. And I don't
go to the studio until I'm in that song to
the point where I'm writing and I know it and
I'm hitting and we become one where so I'm so
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in tune with it, and then I'll go record after
I'm just all the way immersed in the song where
I feel that feeling, then I go recorded to be
able to actually get that feeling versus just read it.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
It's that process to me.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Iss yep, yep, it's all about the process. Yep. You
got to be in that zone.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
There's Yeah, everyone has their own different way, their own
you know, rituals are what they do before you know, recording,
making sure they're in that zon to really just let
loose and just you know, that's the night. Oh yeah,
love it, love it, love it. So BP, I want
you to share about I saw last week on social
media and I think I commented and everything, and I
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saw you, you know, speaking, and I thinking it's it's
it's children.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I don't know, you could let us know, just.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Dropping some you know, nuggets, some words, some encouragement, and
I was just like yes, And so I want you
to talk to the audience and tell us about you know,
what you're doing with with speaking.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Absolutely. Yeah. So that was at Highline College.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
It was through a program called the Promise Program, which
is an amazing program, and I got I got called
in to be a keynote speaker on one of the
programs they have speakers. I believe it's like quarterly or
and it's called King's Conversations. It's the name of their
name of what they have. So when I got called
to be a speaker, it was more, you know, come
in speak with a young man. They just know me
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and my brand speak. My mindset pretty much to have an
open floor to do what I would like to do
to the impact. And when I got called to do it,
what I what? I asked them and said, you know,
I told them I highly appreciate it, but it was something.
So for the last couple of years, something in my
spirit has been with the speaking, just not move that
hasn't been fueling me. I feel like I haven't been
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making the impact that I know I can make, even
though I give an amazing talks. Everything's always amazing, it's good,
but for me internally, it's like there's something missing. There
has to be I just want to make more of
an impact somehow, and for a couple of years I
haven't been able to figure out exactly how to expect
what that is. But when I got caught on this one,
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it was it was a moment. I called them back
and I said, Hey, what I want to do is
I want to do a full hands on workshop versus
just speaking. It was it was kind of like I'm
done talking. Like my whole mentality for the last six
months is like I'm done talking. It's all execution, it's
all impact. And so from with them. From that, I
end up creating a workshop and it's called Habits Overhype.
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I'm in the workshop. What it is is coming in
to be able. These are students sixteen to twenty four
years old. It's being able to come show them what
habits really are in a real way, a real way,
like what specifically, how habits are the foundation of your life,
Like when you can actually manage your habits and identify
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them and really understand what habits do to you, that's
what creates the navigation to your life.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
That part.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
So getting to understanding to know what serves you, what
habits are not serving you, and how to manage those
is a huge deal that we can do now. This
ain't no when I get older, when I get a
certain amount of money, this happens. These are things that
can happen right now. So I built this workshop catered
around that and build a second part of it, which
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is a commitment. It's a self commitment. I'm talking about
full blown contract that breaks down exactly what they're signing
up for. So I had every student identify just one,
just one habit that they've identified that's not serving them,
and they understand why it's not serving them because we've
went through the whole thing and now at the end
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they gotta make a decision, and I tell them clearly,
do not sign this contract. This is not a this
is not I'm going to try to do this. I'm
gonna try to make it work type contract. Yeah, this
contract is sent that I've identified something that's not serving
my life, and I've identified why and how, and I
know what to do to change that. So I'm going
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to sign and fully commit that I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
That's what this is.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
This ain't no trying about this. But I give them options.
It's a ninety day or one hundred and a day or
one year.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I don't say for life. I say you choose your options.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
We go ninety days, half month or six months or a year,
and at that point after you can choose if you continue.
But we're not playing those games with I'm just gonna
sign your name on it. I make sure I'm keeping
it one hundred percent of buck with these songs, letting
them know that this is a different level.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Of commitment that we make. So this work shop is.
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It was just a fact to see it have on
so many students afterwards, just tell me. Some of them
straight up to me, it was like, hey, like I
wasn't going to sign that, Like you made it clear
that we cannot play games signing this, and and I
just wasn't because I knew I couldn't make that type
of commitment. And I told them how much I respected that.
But then he was like, then something happened. He was like,
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something happened. What you said made me realize I do
have control over my destiny, Like I do have a
say so in this. And when he signed it, it's like,
I damned there dropped a tear hearing him say.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
That, say this is it.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, this is why this is what was missing. When
I'm saying I'm done talking, it's like, nah, I'm hens on,
I'm I'm I'm I'm connecting. I want to see what
can have the most impact. So so when it's all
said done, that's a part of what I have called IOE,
which is impact over everything. Workshops that's what that's what
stemmed from that. So now developing workshops, Brickball break mindset
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happens over hype.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's the first one that we've actually went full fledged with.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
That that led to me getting the booking agent immediately
after they seen it.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
It was it's just been it's been crazy, like right now,
A wow, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No shame, shame.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
H m hmmm.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That I'm love it.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Oh my gosh, that is awesome. I am so I'm speechless.
I'm so proud of you and just oh my gosh,
You're just you're doing incredible things. And so as you're speaking,
I was just getting chills because I was just like schools,
making connection to schools, to middle schools to high school.
I mean, there's just so much opportunities for you. This
guy is like you, there's so much for you, and
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I'm just wow, this is amazing. And yes, package your workshops,
Yeah you you're You're good for MVP.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So in fact.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I say that, yes, it's moving in a heavyweight a
blessing of blessing. And so I'm also seeing too that
you have you're writing a book to call habit Hacks. Correct,
that is that the so what you gave us some insight.
Is that from your book as well?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
You know what that's So when when I created the workshop,
originally created a different workshop, just more brick by brick mentality.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
That's what I was in the middle creating.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
And the spirit led me to say, hey, we're gonna
get to that hold on now, you need to come
and make formulate this around your book that you have
the things that you're so dwelt I'm talking about. So
that's what sparked the whole Habits over hype was the
book Habit Hacks. The book is completely finished. I just
got the manuscript back. It's one hundred percent done. So
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now I'm just going through the publishing phases, so we'll
be about forty five days out.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
But yes, the book, the book Habit had same thing.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Talks about the psychology behind actual your mind and how
the habits works and how to actually replace certain habits,
specific strategies on how to stack habits or remove habits,
and all the information came from my real life and
other books that I've been inspired by. Atomic Habits is
a book that I was so inspired by. That's what
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triggered me to write my book about this because I
started moving different, and I start actually using the strategies
that a lot of them already used in my life,
but I didn't have terminologies for them, and I didn't
understand in what I was doing. But it's like now
I can read that and understand and do that on
purpose and call it and call it.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Oh, I'm taking the driving.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, it's been just blessing after blessing at the.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Blessing, amazing, beautiful, this is awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
BP.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I am just oh my gosh. So friends, those who
are listening, are those who are watching. BP is doing
incredible things. Your book is gonna you said, it's gonna
drop in about forty five days.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Is that is that right?
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Once we give the contact everybody got when they get
my Instagram, everything they gonna say everything, pop up, make
sure they following, and it's absolutely.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Blessings, love it, blessing, unblessing.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So BP, A couple more questions for you.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So I want you to share, you know, because it
seems like you are doing a lot which is incredible,
which is great.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know, your your your father, your husband, You're.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Speaking motivation, motivational, you know words, and so I I
just want to know, like how do you balance your
mental health?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
So I want you to tell us, like maybe something
that you do on a daily maybe something if you
do use a holistic approach or diet, something in that realm,
and then maybe like a spiritual So like give us
some of your habits of what you do to help
keep your you know, to stay balanced.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Right. A few things.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
One of them are my Morning Mindset calls. So I
do Morning Mindset calls every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
And I'm not the host of them. I'm just a guest.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
The company's calls my god chrismus On, who's an amazing coach.
He does these live zoom calls every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
You tap in, you're just fly on the wall. You
ain't on video or nothing. I got, I got my head.
I work out while I'm listening to it. And that's
how I start every Monday Wednesday. It's just thirty minutes,
six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Every time.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's just does something and it's not like, oh, this
is how you should think in the mornings. It's like no,
it's just pure just mindset, everything just that you getting there.
So just the aren't your mornings off every time with
the fresh good workout, I'm exercising my body and that
that's like that's the ultimate fuel for me. That's the
ultimate fuel. The other two days for are scheduling going
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to the office. I don't do them on those days
because they don't offer them. But I'm still no matter what,
on my way to the office, nine times out of ten,
I'm listening to something motivational or music that's motivational, something
that's feed me. I purposely some of my habits, like
for even social media, I purposely don't scroll, and if
I did scroll, my algorithm because the only things I
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look at are one hundred percent going to be feed me.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
It's gonna be feed me.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Anything on myself it has to because if it's not
feed me, or if I'm not feeding it, to be
identify with it, like like my body's not comfortable. It's
like I can feel it, like I'm not serving you,
you're not serving me, okay either. I got to figure
out a way for something to get served, right, yeah,
you know. And that's and that's just on every the
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way I moved the conversations. I have regular conversations for
day to day at work, so I'm a director operations
for a bulk foods company as well. So that's what
I run. I run the state of Washington, organ and Alaska.
That's my salary sacary, that's what's allowing me to continue
investing into into what we're doing, making the impact that
we're making. And so even even there at work as
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a director, same attitude, same culture is there now because
it's hey, it's people first. It's it's always the approach
of how do we grow from this?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
What can we learn from this? And that's just just
every day theme.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
That's just literally the mindset and and and it's a
blessing to be able to have that mindset because it's
a it's like a domino effect around my house, around
friend's family, everything, you know, feeling.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
It or feeling it or feeling it, the energy, the love,
so yes, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
And then another another thing far as far as balance
is so much. What what I'm learning is it's because
everything I do is connected from music, love, grind and
growth the message about it. Every time I get on stage.
Every time I get on stage, I'm speaking something that
represents the brand. Every time I get on stage, I
never come without the store. We bring our business, we
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bring me as an artist, we bring our business. So
every time I move, move the people over here to
learn more about community. Of what I'm doing the workshops
is impact over everything. What I represent the book represents
self development because everything is connected. So it's not like
I'm trying to do this, I'm trying to do that.
It's like, no, everything is leading to impact. That's the
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only thing that matters is if it's making impact, then.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
That's what matters.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
And so now I'm just learning how to tie it
more in flesh, a lot of help from from a
lot of help from chatchingpt right now, understanding how to have.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
A lot more structure and putting it all together.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
So so all all of that is I love doing
that because it's like this makes more impact. So I
love doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
The branding, the packaging together. Yes, yep, yep, that's the
funny thing. Absolutely love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
So BP, what advice would you like to give the audience,
Maybe someone who's listening or watching, who you know may
feel hopeless, who needs some words of encouragement, or maybe
they just they were incarcerated. What advice would you want
to give to those who might be listening or watching today.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I will I will say a few things. One is
really go in on self development. Start with something simple. Okay,
the generic one is always going to be exercising. If
you're not exercising, I will say one hundred percent, start there,
because it's bigger than just exercising.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
It's not that go get some muscles. It's not to
lose weight.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
It's to practice a specific discipline to yourself that benefits
your health, your mind, and your spirit.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
The person that you are right now, once you.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Apply that type of discipline, you literally become a different
type of person.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You don't think the way that you were just thinking.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
So the place that you're at right now, you have
the staining roell to drive yourself.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Out of that place.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
And it's not a magic lotto ticket, it's not a
magic phone call from somebody. It's you saying, Hey, I'm
gonna start with one brick. I'm gonna start taking a
walk every day every morning, rangeleader snow because I want
to practice this muscle of discipline. Because if I can
prove that I have that type of discipline, I'm gonna
get to.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
A space where I think different.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
It's hard to tell somebody that if you you think
the way you think, you don't think that you can
think different.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Right, So, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Start start with something. Start with that one thing that
you continuously say that you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Start with that.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
One book, that one page, whatever it is. Start right
there and be consistent for yourself. And I promise you
the domino effect of what's about to happen with your mind,
You're literally gonna shift into a different person. And then
as you get to that different person, you literally continue
shifting and.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
You don't think the way you think.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
So right now, it's temporary and it's up to you
to make it out of that situation intentionally and on purpose.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Love it. BP is dropping some nuggets today. Love it.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
And so we said, develop one healthy habit, you know,
start with that, and I love that. And something that
you can commit to. You know, if it's just ten
minutes a day, that's you did that, that's awesome. Next
week maybe fifteen, and move up from their twenties, if
that's you know, working out ten minutes a day or
ten minutes three times a week.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
So developing that one healthy habit, love it.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Absolutely, And let me add one last thing to that.
Last week so many of us are on social media.
Be conscious literally protect your fee for sure, protect protect
what you're If you're watching something and you could just
it's not feeding you literally right then what I do personally,
I literally can even go blocks when they come up
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and I know I want nothing to do with it. I'll
take the time because it's worth my energy to go
say hey, I don't want this on my feed. So
if it happens to pop up, be conscious about that.
Know that if you spend most of your time on
your phone, that's literally people feeding your mind, and that's
that's feeding you, that's your life, that's your future that
you're allowing other people to come dictate.
Speaker 5 (42:17):
So be very careful about what's on your feed.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
In monitor that tec that like with your life, that's
that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
It's beautiful, Yes, absolutely love it. Love a BP love it.
Love it so GP.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
So I want you to tell the audience you know
what is next for you. I know you did talk
about your book dropping, your project, is there anything else
you know? Let us know you know what's next for
you and what's what's coming up.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Absolutely, the main a lot of the main all of them.
All of them are main focuses. Yeah, study creating these
these workshops, not not the creation of the workshops, but
the placement other workshops, finding finding places and organizations that
places where these could benefit, and like because it's got
to be really really targeted to people who are ready
and want this information that I can come in and
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make sure that impact is happening. So a lot of
that is happening with my new book and agent I
have right now, we're working to just to figure out
a way that just have more impact on more people.
Outside of that, the Love, Grind and Growth Music Project
is just, ah, this is just my baby. When I
just I promise you this this is special.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Just put it like that. It's very special. It's moving.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
So when I'm doing with that, I'm doing ten separate
listening parties, all intimate that are yes and I'm gonna
you will be invited absolutely very small. I'm talking about
ten to twelve people where I'm gonna have an interviewer
in there where we can listen to the music real
intimately and answer questions and about the songs and how
they would develop that the process of the making of
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this project. So that's yeah, that's how we're starting it off,
and then we're gonna do a record release of course.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
And it's so much my due for Self music family.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
We formed a complete coalition, my music family that I've
been doing music with forever anyway, we perform together all
the time anyway, but now we've completely uh just connected.
So one hundred percent of my shows my due for
Self family, and with me one hundred percent of their
shows I'm with them. It's like a big wu tang,
you know, on stage with all these different flavors and
(44:29):
just energy.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Uh and it's just dope. It is dope.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
So oh yeah, yeah, just expanding the brand through real things,
the real real things.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
That I love.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
The only outliner of all that is is bowling. I know,
you see me on that line ball. I love bowling.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
Yes, yeah, that's one of the things that keep me
balanced as well. It's like we started that just a
little over a year ago.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
So now me and my childhood friends every week miss
a week because it's something we haven't common we love doing,
and now we just took it to another level. Now
we're competitive as hell, right, So it's fun. And now
we're filming it and making the show out. You know,
we always got a creative side to us, you.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Know, right last Oh I love that and you got
the trophies all right, are you the one who?
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, you was like I got the change.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yes, it's it's so fun doing doing just things that
you love to do and figuring out a way to
keep consistent with it.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
That that changed my life, ball and change my life.
I'm with childhood.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Friends every week and I we scheduled it and we
stay committed to it.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
I love that, but we all love doing it. And yes,
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Yeah. So surrounding yourself with positive people, you know, those
who love you, those who will you know, pour into
you and speak life into you. And you know, even
if it's competitive, it's fun. You know, we're still having
a good time. We're still connecting. And so yes, I
love that. I love that beautiful.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
So BP tell the audience where can we you know,
book you? Where can we find out more about you?
Where can we get your music, your book? All the
things that we were closing?
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Yes, yeah, so everything is is the BP brand. So
Instagram is the BP brand. Just the BP brand is
all together. When we're the BP brand, it's just all
together pop right up on Instagram, pop up on Facebook.
Just now starting to get the TikTok going. I hadn't
been on there. On One of my close buddies was like, listen,
you absolutely have to go over to TikTok. You're cheating yourself.
(46:36):
The people need this in fact, go over there. And
so I'm just now about to go over there and
go ahead and get in that audience as well. Everything
is at the BP brand, the BP brand email at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
It's the email as.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Well, but anything you can reach me directly as far
as the music coming out what not. The way we're
not doing your natural release and going to streaming platforms.
I'm a big app kid in regarding to entrepreneurship and
understanding artists and wages and things of that nature.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
So we're doing everything direct direct through the artists to
support the artistry.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Support the artists where I can give I can give
a little education really letting them know like, hey, this
is what it means if you went and streamed it
for me as an artist, and I want to allow
the people that want to support it, I want to
allow them to support it.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
And so we will end up streaming at a later time.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
You know, we'll get with that for sure, but starting off,
it's going to be all direct, all direct to artists,
support the artists that's created this. And you can just
literally on any of my platform to send me a
message and or just and when you see it pop up,
you're want to see all the links everything coming up.
But we're strictly independent, one hundred percent, and we want
to make sure we protect.
Speaker 7 (47:43):
The artists absolutely beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
So go and follow BP on your social media and
look out for his book coming up and his album release.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
So and I'll be looking at you know, I'll be
looking out.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
For that VP, you know, and supporting you and you know,
hearing to you to hear you drop some nuggets and
some motivation every single day and seeing what's next for you.
Because I'm just I'm just so proud of you and
just all the amazing things that you're doing. I just
want to say, keep on doing all of that, keep
on inspiring, motivating and just you know, giving love and
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light to everyone. You know, So thank you for what
you're doing, and thank you for your time today. But
I want to give you a chance to say some
last words, some shout outs and then we're gonna play
a quick little game and then we'll say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
So any shout outs and last words.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Just shout shout out to all the kings and queens
that are taking their life series that are that are
being intentional. Shout out to even if you're not being intentional,
shout out to you, because I know you're about.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
To start being intentional.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
So it's it's that's all My shout out are to
the people that are just working on self development. I
promise you It's changed my life. It's changed my perspective,
it's changed my my reality, it's changed my financials, it's
changed and everything. Just being very intentional about what we're
doing and understanding that everything that we're building is literally
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one brick at the time, is never a rush.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
It's understanding what win, lose or draw.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
What do we learn from that right there to be
able to keep building and keep climbing. Just know today
is today and it only gets better. But you have
a choice. We don't wait for opportunities. We create opportunities.
Speaker 7 (49:22):
Absolutely beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, all right, BP, And so now
we're gonna play this quick little game, and I you know,
all my guests I asked them my voic, excuse me,
I ask them you know this or that question.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Just to get to know a little bit more about
our guests.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
And so I there's a couple of them that I
was thinking of. When I was thinking of you, I
was like, okay, what can I ask you? Pe, So
you're gonna pick one choice and tell us why. So,
what is your preference Nike or Adidas?
Speaker 5 (50:00):
Nike?
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Nike? Okay, that's just you. Just that's just what you like.
Speaker 5 (50:06):
I just I just always read more Nikes. I got.
I got a real big feet. I were fifteen. It
was hard to find to these back there, so I
just always wear.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
Okay, all right, Nikes, it is okay. Now, what's your
preference for a night out?
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Would you prefer to go and see a comedy show
or poetry nights?
Speaker 5 (50:27):
I would say I would say a comedy show. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
I say that because I do I've done poetry. But
I actually a comedy show.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Okay, So you'd rather go see comedy? Okay, comedy show?
All right?
Speaker 3 (50:41):
These next two might be a little controversial, maybe I
don't know. So would you prefer MJ for Kobe?
Speaker 5 (50:51):
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
So the reason I'm gonna say the reason I'm gonna
say Kobe it is because I follow Kobe's story.
Speaker 5 (50:59):
Okay, so I gotta I got a connection.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
He has a different type of inspiration once I really
start following his story. Unfortunately, I'm one of the persons
that he had to be passed when I start following.
Speaker 5 (51:09):
As well, so I'll fall into that boat. I know
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
No, but once I understood his story, and I know
he gets a lot of it from from MJ. But
I didn't personally follow MJ and invest in understanding his
mindset and everything like I have with Kobe.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
So as a player, I just have no say so
in it.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
But my personal experience I've read and understand more about Kobe.
He inspires me. Michael Jordan's incredibly inspires me. I just
never took the timetact.
Speaker 5 (51:37):
Breathe more into his personal Okay. And that's the only
reason I say that.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
Okay, No, that makes sense. Absolutely, that makes a lot
of sense. Okay, awesome.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
And one more, This one is Tupac or Biggie Tupacac. Okay, yeah, yeah,
that's there.
Speaker 5 (52:01):
You're like, yeah, yeah, practice if I start talking on that,
all right, all right hours ago.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
You don't even have to explain. It's all good. It's
all good, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
So all right, BP, Well, thank you so much for
your time and for coming on today and sharing your
incredible story, your Weeping's Warrior story, and just letting others know.
You know, even if you have you know, a pat
if you you know, have adversity, you can still overcome
that and do all the amazing things that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
And so I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Keep on igniting freedom, my friend, and we will stay
connected and congratulations and all things that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
So thank you so much and thank you. Appreciate you.
Flowers to you, thank.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
You, Thank you so much. We'll see you.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
We'll stay in touch, all right, all right, all right,
my friends, you just heard my friend BP.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Go and follow him, Go and support him his music.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
He's gonna have his album's gonna drop, also his book,
So go and follow my friend BP.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Thank you so much for watching on today.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
I hope this episode was encouraging and inspiring for you.
Go out and check out the other episodes because I'm
sure there is inspiring for you as well. Thank you
to the producer of the show doctor Teresa Jordan, thank
you for listening and watching, and thank you VP for
being my amazing guest today. I want to send you
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some love and some encouragement to stay lit, to keep
shining and ignite.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Freedom, and we'll see you next time, my friends.
Speaker 6 (53:41):
Goodbye, Thank you for tuning in too. From Weeping to
Warriors Igniting Freedom with Roshawn Nicole. To be a guest
on the show, please contact us at info at Roshannicole
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Wellness dot com.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
We would love to.
Speaker 6 (54:03):
Connect with you, so please take a moment to two like, subscribe,
and follow us on all social media platforms. We look
forward to having you join us next time. For Weeping
to Warrior Igniting Freedom with Roshan Nicole
No shame, shame, stop finding me, hands and nobody nod.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my Warrior, Kings and Queens.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome to the show from Weeping to Warrior Igniting Freedom
with Roshannicole, where we talk about all things mental health.
We interview amazing guests from all over the world, sharing
their incredible stories of how they overcame obstacles and what
they're currently doing to maintain not only their mental health.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But their physical health.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
If you would like to be considered to be a
guest on the show, hit your girl up at info
at Roshannicole Wellness dot com. We would love to have
you on to share your Weeping to Warrior's story. So
why do I have this podcast? So if you know
my story? Back in twenty twenty one, I was in
treatment for two months.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I struggled in silence for nine years, y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I struggled with depression, anxiety, addiction and PTSD And at
the end of twenty twenty the beginning of twenty twenty one,
I was like, enough is enough, and so I finally
took the leap of faith to go and get the
professional help that I needed. So when I was in treatment,
I was writing music that I didn't know with my
music and when I left out, I was sharing my
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story through song, through speaking to the community, to schools,
to churches and letting them know that there is healing
and hope on the other side. And then I wanted
this podcast so others can share their opportunity.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is a safe space to share.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Your story, and I wanted others to know that there
is hope in there, there's healing, and also I wanted
to help you know shed light and help you know
ignite freedom and also for my guests to do that
as well. So help me on this journey. If you
are watching on YouTube like share comments. If you are
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watching while it's streaming, a comment as well, and also
share it to someone who might be encouraged by the
past episodes. I would love for you to help me
on this journey to help you shed some light. So
thank you if you have been watching and if.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You are also new.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So I always give a disclaimer at every episode. I
am not a licensed professional, so anything that we discuss
on how.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We overcame our challenges, please go.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Seek medical advice and also a trigger warning as well.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We talk about mental health topics and.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So we could be talking about something that might be triggering,
so I also want to share that as well. All Right, friends,
So I'm going to introduce our special guest today. I
am excited. I'm so excited for this amazing guest. He's
doing incredible work in the community. And we have traveled to.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Different cities here on the show.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We've been to Jersey, We've been to Colorado, We've been
to atl We've been to North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Chicago, Texas. But today we're just going to stay in our.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Seattle area, so we're putting Seattle on the map.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So I'm so excited for this guest here today.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So Brandon Parker, or VP, embodies love, grind, and growth
through every facet of his life. From his VP brand
to his inspiring journey. He uplifts with positivity, resilience, and purpose.
A motivational human artist and community leader, Brandon lives to empower,
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proving daily that self development and love are the ultimate
foundations for success. Let's welcome this Warrior King all the
way from Seattle to the show.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Appreciate it, highly appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He love Hello, Hi VP.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Thank you, thank you for that, and thank you for
having me on here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yes Salute to you, Salute to your story, Salute to
what you're doing for me and for so many other
people that are just just watching just tap in ily
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Thank you so much, Brandon ur BP.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm so glad for your Yes, I'm so excited to
hear about just like all the incredible things that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So those who are listening are watching on today. BP.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We went to school together. We went to junior High.
At the time, it was called junior high. Now it's
called middle school now. So we went to junior high.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We went to high school together and graduated the same year.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We were talking that we were on prom court together,
and so I'm so excited just to see a classmate
that I've grown up with just doing amazing work in
the community.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And so that's what we're going to talk about today.
But BP, before.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
We talk about all the amazing things, give the people,
let them know a little bit more about who is VP,
Who was Brendan Parker, And yeah, let us know more
about you.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Absolutely everything that you just said, that's what it is.
So I represent love Brinan bro whenever y'all said love
his dope shirt and hoodies around through the grace of God.
I'm the founder of the BP brand, which the Love
is Dope brand, it's underneath. So every time you see
that slogan, it comes from the BP brand, and it
just it just represents what I really embody like every
day from home. I'm right here in my home right
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now from when I hit the office. So when I'm
doing anything that I do my real life and bodies
just love, brinding, growth, always just trying to figure out
more ways to produce more love to both self development
and so I know we'll dig into things that I
got going on, but it's really all about impact. Anything
that I'm anything that I'm involved in, it's just it's
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just about impact. How can I create more impact? Kind
of that's that's always the miss you on anything that
I touch or that anything I'm involved in. So that's
just what I read what I do.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Love it, love it creating impact.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
As you see those who are listening, I'm wearing Brandons,
I'm representing Brandon's clothing line and so just dope and
I see I'm wearing the yellow and you're wearing the brown.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You're wearing the brown, Brandon. Is that is that lovely?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Yes? Awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes, we'll talk about that, but before we do, I
went Brandon on this show, we talk about you know,
weeping to warrior, and so I would love for you
to share with the audience you know you're weeping story.
You know a time that you went through, you know,
a major obstacle or you know, or challenges in your life.
Before we get to that warrior. We're going to save
the warrior for a minute. But let's talk about your
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your weeping moment, right.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, it's it's it's so many of them. A
drastic one would be min incarceration. I was incarcerated in
two thousand and eight. I went to federal prison since
its two month sentence out young, young, trying to make
fast money and it catches up to you. And during
that time, right there, I was having my firstborn daughter.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
She was stealing the wound.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
So I wasn't I wasn't even able to be there
to see her born at that time. So so so
just that time in my life right there, that was
that was a lot was built in that time. A
whole lot was built in that time to set a
lot of the foundation lot.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
What's crazy is that I don't I don't think.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
About it a lot at all until it's like brought
up until I'm about to do a podcast if something
whereas actually asked was crazy, because then I think back, like, wow,
I didn't realize how much foundation was set up during
that time to be able to create right now for
the warrior that you see right now.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
It's a it's a it's a blessing. It's a big,
big blessing.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, yes, wow.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So Brandon, I want you to talk to the audience,
you know, about during that time of you be incarcerated
maybe or what led up to it, like how was
your men health, you know, knowing that you're going to
be incarcerated, and then how were you how was that
during that time?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Right right at the beginning. The worst was at the beginning,
at the very beginning. You're young, don't know what's going on.
You know, you don't know what you done got yourself into,
Like wait, hold on, I'm thinking some months, y'all talking
five and ten years. It's just crazy. So your mind
is scrambling, and you're going and you going through the
process of the courts and everything. That part is very
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tough because it's just the unknown. You're just in the
other just like I don't want to know, I just
want to know. And then at the same time you're doing
everything legally with lawyers and everything, trying to just get
the best outcome.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Thank God, I had an incredible support system.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I mean across all communities, family and everything.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
And I was able to be able to to do my.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Time close to home, even though it was out of
state case, I was able to get back closer to home,
and once I know what time it was and what
I was sent in to through the grace of out that,
that warrior started to come out very very early, and
like very early and start recognizing like, hey, you still
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got a lot of purpose. And I started identifying that
purpose and identifying right now, like not waiting. I wasn't
waiting for a sentence for sixty two months to be over.
But I was growing through through that the whole entire time.
And it was that's that's that's where that warrior was.
I'm talking being like a diamond.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
He was being being together.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
In those moments. So I'm honestly always grateful for those moments.
I'm grateful for God allowing me to be able to
tap in in the spirit to come through me to
start growing in real time then not trying to wait
to think about what I'm gonna do when I come home.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
But what do you do right now? How can you
create the best version of yourself right now?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
How can you practice discipline right now in this moment
while he's going through this? And uh and that was
that was some of the best moments of my life
regard himself. That development and understanding how to dig deep
and go with.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
From within, learn learn. I learned the hell of a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And it's crazy to say those with some of my
best moments. But when I say that, I mean I
was really able to identify a different level of growth
of where I can tap into the spirit, really what's
coming through me from from spiritually, from from my Bible
studies to different religious studies, to just all kinds of
things that I was able to just to dwell and
just learn. I was a sponge to learning everything and
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self development.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I'm talking about sponge.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Sponge yeah, and uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And it yeah, yeah. I smiled.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's crazy that I can smile when I think about
times like that. Of course, there's a flip side to it,
the family not being there for my daughter of course
that that's there. It's it's it was a it's a
blessing when it's all said and done.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Wow, Wow brands and Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So you you were talking about You're like, man, the
Warrior was cultivating when you was incarcerated, You're like, it
was you was just like, Okay, what do I gotta do?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What do I gotta do?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I want you to talk a little bit more more
about like how that it was cultivating and like what
you were feeling and what was coming what was coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
To the surface, you know, So talk a little bit
more about that.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, I mean, you got when you're in a place
like that, there's so many people.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
That they just they talk.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
There's a lot of talking going on, and it's you know,
what people are going to do and what they want
to do. And if you really look close, if you
look close, it's like a lot of people aren't their
their habits that they have right then in that moment.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
They're not aligning to what they're saying they want to do.
And it's just very clear to me.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
And so I had to look in the mirror to
myself as well, Okay, these things that I'm saying, I
want to do I want to accomplish when I come
home in my habits right now, aligning with that person,
Like am I creating that person?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I want?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I want to be this person to have a home
like my parents, to be able to be the one
to have the house where the family can come to them.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
How am I going to make that happen?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
It's like, okay, well, what are you doing right now
to be the best version of yourself right now? Are
we disciplined to the small things right now while you
have all this time, because when you get on that
other side, it's going to be.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
A whole lot of more distractions.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So I focused strictly on discipline, on holding myself accountable
to to every single thing that I did in there.
I was I'm talking from from from every class to
following through to my readings to just being disciplined and
self growth.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
And it was, it was, it was what really.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Created that warrior to say, hey, this is what it takes.
The tools are right now, not on that other side.
The tools are on this side.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
You see beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know if you saw the fireworks going off,
I think, I mean know it really was on your screen.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So while you were talking about how it was just multipa.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So I don't know what it was.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Okay, I don't know where that came from either, but
it came.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It was like the right time, and you were talking
about just it was like it was perfect, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, while branding soul.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, So you talked, you know, about being incarcerated and
just feeling you know, like everything, like you lost everything
and so you missing the birth of your daughter. And
so now I want you to talk about you know,
so you went from your weeping. So how did you
go from weeping to warrior? Because now I'm seeing you,
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you know, posting on social media last week you were
motivating I think students, which I was like, yes, brand BP.
I was like yes, you know and just speaking and
you know your brand and your music. But you know,
so let's first before we get into all that, talk
a little bit about like how did you go from
your warrior, you know, being incarcerated to your weeping?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Like what was that transition? What does that look like?
What does that feel like? Painting a picture for us?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Right?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, I mean we'll go back from the start, like
I said, where it started while I was incarcerated.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
So my transition on coming home.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, it was that attitude of still continuous self growth.
I wasn't too I wasn't too proud to go get
a minimum wage job at that time. I had never
had a minimum waste job in my life right, and
so I wasn't too proud for any of that to
start from scratch to say, hey, I'm gonna go do this.
Like when I came home, I had a contract waiting
over one hundred thousand dollar contract, me and my dad
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for another painting contract. But my mind wanted to get
into a different rhythm of work and a different rhythm
of discipline just for a time.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
So I literally turned that.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Down to just be able to get in a different
type of rhythm while I was studying, and I had
the opportunity I got brought on minimum wage worker at
a distribution center. Legitimate who's stilled my mentor to this day.
And I just came in with an attitude far as
the work attitude of I'm gonna do my best any
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I'm gonna speak up on anything that I see as
far as trying to make things better. That's just I
just had an efficient mind, and my mama business got
my headphones on. I was just studying this financial currency.
That's what I was doing, financial currency trading, trading.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That's for something that I learned. We were in that time.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
My leadership, my natural leadership of just speaking up and
helping making things better, just speaking on it transitioned into
me being able to be in different leadership roles of
the company.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Where I was at. Fast forward that whole story.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I end up being a director of operations for the
entire company, over one hundred million dollar company, just through
through just my just wanting to help just do better,
and I had.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
To incur incredible mentor was bringing me up. Fast forward.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
We got to shut that warehouse down because we need
to move it. During that time, I wasn't on social
media at all, maybe once a year or.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Anything like that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
But because we developed such a good family and I'm
giving opportunities, I got my opportunity. Now I'm hiring other
feelings and teaching them other other things, and it's like
we were a family. So I gave them my commitment
when we had to shut down the warehouse that I
would get on social media and I would just at
least say some encouraging words, just do some motivation talking
for my people to get such because I do what
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they did. And literally that's where it sparked this whole
VP brand thing coming from. Now I'm back at my
creative now, I'm trying to figure out ways to do
spoken word to create because creator and it all just
was a domino effect from there and and here we
are now. I mean, there's a lot more to it,
but that was the spark of saying, you know what,
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I'm going to motivate really because I was just doing
it in real life, never on social media, just really
like human and human for sure, yeah, you know, And.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It sparked that I'm like, okay, I'll get on social media.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And once I got on social media, I started understanding
that I can have an impact as well. And it
was just me being authentic to what I do. And
then the brand came and that was just dreamed in it.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I'm drenching it, can't stop, can't stop. Yes, yes, love it,
love it, VP, And I love how you are just
so consistent with your with motivating others on social media
and so like.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You know, I'm scrolling and I'm seeing VP. You're like
Kings and Queen.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You know, you got your.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Word of the day, and I'm just like, yes, you know,
so like so you know people people are watching even
when you don't know it. And so I just want
to say I appreciate you just always just dropping something,
you know, some inspiring words for those who we know,
you know, in this world today we need more you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Inspiration and more hope.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And so I appreciate you just always just dropping some
nuggets and just some love, you know, to to your audience.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And so yes, thank you for that. So yes, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
So now you talked about you know, how BP the brand,
how it you know, just the beginning of that, and
so I want you to talk about your music too,
because I know growing up, you know, in middle school
or at the junior high and then high school you
have you had a lot of music out, you know,
even after we graduated, you were dropping music with your
brother ra shot shout out.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To him as well, and so yes, and so I
just want.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
You to talk a little bit about that, like, because
you're not just speaking about your story, but you're also
you know, sharing it through song, you know, like myself,
and so speaking about that as well. And I know
you have your single that you also dropped brick by brick,
So tell us a little bit about your music journey
and inspiring and giving hope to others through songs.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Coming up as a youngster, we were in I was
in music full time. Me and my brother ended up
creating a group called the Parker Brothers, who was very
very well known across the map. Actually when I got incarcerated,
So I know a lot of people knew me from
my music.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
When I was going in there and that journey right.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
There, we were a tour, lots of tours up the
biggest stage that you can probably ever imagine.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
The biggest artist. There's not an artist probably.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
That I haven't performed with from my era.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, And when I after, I actually did music.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
While I was on the yard the whole time did
music save throughing, music, save writing.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
But when I came home, I gave it a shot
for a second.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And what I realized really fast is that the way
I moved, I give my all that everything I do.
If I'm in it, I'm like truly in it, I'm
invested in it. And that's the reason we were able
to be on a level we were before I left.
I realized after I came home that I didn't. I
didn't want to give that level of investment in that
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because of the other things that I needed that I
knew I needed for my mind, for my foundation, for
me just coming home.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
It was the hardest.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Decision that I ever made, to be able to tell
my brother, to tell my friends, my family that supported
us all our life growing up in music that I got.
I genuinely got to step away. Nobody believed me when
I told them that. It was like, it's not impossible
because music is in me, and I really did. I
stepped away from music for ten years. I rarely, rarely
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even listened to music because anytime I get my car
anything at all, it's a podcast, it's financial literacy, it's
credit building, and business is spiritual, it's any time I
got so I literally fell apart from music to the
point my brothers tell me about artists who are the
biggest artist the world, and I don't know him.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
He's thinking, I'm joking.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I'm like, bro, I'm like, I'm like, it's not around.
It's not it's not in my algorithm. When I go
on social media, I program my own algorithms. I only
go so the things that I want feed my mind,
so I'm not round it.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't I don't see it.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm not around it. And I really wasn't interested because
I needed to. I was fueled by a different level
of building my foundation for my family.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Fast forward all that time, like I said, when I
got back into getting on social media, kind of started
being creative, doing some spoken word, just being my creative,
just flowing steady, just given messages that bled over to
me finally doing a little wrap here and.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
There, and they're like, oh, I knew you'll be back.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
And then when I just started getting back full fledge,
it was because the spirit. What happened is that he
aligned my soul with my everything that naturally authentically came
from me from writing for my brain was aligned with
what I refus it now. So every song it's loved
Ryan and growth, it's about I'm still giving jewels. We're
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not killing each other, we're not selling those drugs, we're
not talking about someting doing things that once a younger
mind would would do. And now that my mind can
I phentically do that and just automatically I can't even
think in that direction no more. And I'm loving doing
the music, it became a real source of self therapy.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Now back in my bag. Now my why is clear.
Now my message is.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Aligning with the brand. So I'm smiling and I'm happy
to do music again. And so now I'm back full fledged.
I did drop a project back during COVID okay, and
yet and then I kind of just free free did it.
You know, I'll get called for shows, I'll do shows,
and I won't. I didn't fully fledge merge myself into
the artist world. But it's like my creative bag was
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up there until just recently. Now, over the last couple
of years, I've been just writing just for self therapy,
and I've been recording for years just for myself for
the therapy, and it just feels a maze reason and
it's just it's just enhances my life. And I finally
got to a point just recently where it's like, you
know what, I'm about to go back full fledged because
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I'm so inspired by the music that I'm making myself.
Like literally when I listen what it does for me,
I said, Okay, it's time.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And so now it's time. My new project, Love Grinding Growth.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's so special that yeah, it gives me chills thinking
about it.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
And U and we're here now and I'm releasing it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yes, yeah, So and when is that dropping VP?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
You're it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay okay, yeah, yes, all right, okay, and.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
We'll have you to, you know, to talk about how
people can download it. We'll talk about all that after. Yes, yes, awesome, okay,
I'll be watching out for that. Absolutely, yes, yes, love it.
And so you said something. I want to highlight what
you said. You were talking about how writing was you know,
self therapy for you you, and so I want you
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to talk a little bit about more about that because
I absolutely understand because it was the same for me
where when I'm just writing, I was like, you know,
at first, I'm just writing down my feelings and then
just read going back and you know, uh, you know,
reading it and then like oh this is a song,
and then I'm like, okay, I'm.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Afraid to release this music.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
And then knowing that you know, this is therapy for me,
but also therapy for so many other people.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
And so if you can just talk a little bit
about that as well, how you were just noticing that
you're writing is therapy for you?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Oh yeah, absolutely, it just so It's like with music.
Music to me, the way I live my life, it's
like it's not a priority until it's a priority. And
what I mean by that, it's like it's not a
priority until I feel that it has.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
To have that balance something I'm feeling a low off balance.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Sometimes it's me saying, Okay, let me get away from
everything that's going on, let me put my headphones on,
let me get this and just step away and just breathe.
And then when the spirit hits me like that, now
it's like I didn't went to my own world and
my creative bag, and it's like I'm fueling myself back
up to be able when I leave that studio, I'm
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higher as a human to be able to handle all
the other.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Pressures that were happening. And it was like.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Every time without a doubt. Like when I when I write,
I go right out to my garage. We call my
garage club love.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I got it. I gotta set up where it's just
you know, I can vibe out. But I'll literally go
out there.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I'll put on my good clothes, my jewelry, my cologne,
literally just to go right outside and the family. No,
I'll be like I'm going to club love and and
literally I just sown out and it just takes me there.
So when I'm in my creative bag and I know
that i'm and it's not like, oh, I'm about to
give this message, I'm about to write this message, it's like, nah,
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I'm about to just have a feeling. It's gonna be
a feeling my my authentic self. The words are going
to be aligned with the brand regardless, because that's just
what I what I do. But I'm creating feelings through
the music. So when you're hearing the music, like you
you literally feel it, like like really feel the music
like that feel good rather whatever. And I'm not not
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usually trying to give me emotion off the rip. I
just allow the production to talk to me and I talk.
It's like we communicate through through the energy until the
rhythms in my heads are just coming. And I don't
go to the studio until I'm in that song to
the point where I'm writing and I know it and
I'm hitting and we become one where so I'm so
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in tune with it, and then I'll go record after
I'm just all the way immersed in the song where
I feel that feeling, then I go recorded to be
able to actually get that feeling versus just read it.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
It's that process to me.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Iss yep, yep, it's all about the process. Yep. You
got to be in that zone.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
There's Yeah, everyone has their own different way, their own
you know, rituals are what they do before you know, recording,
making sure they're in that zon to really just let
loose and just you know, that's the night. Oh yeah,
love it, love it, love it. So BP, I want
you to share about I saw last week on social
media and I think I commented and everything, and I
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saw you, you know, speaking, and I thinking it's it's
it's children.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I don't know, you could let us know, just.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Dropping some you know, nuggets, some words, some encouragement, and
I was just like yes, And so I want you
to talk to the audience and tell us about you know,
what you're doing with with speaking.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Absolutely. Yeah. So that was at Highline College.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
It was through a program called the Promise Program, which
is an amazing program, and I got I got called
in to be a keynote speaker on one of the
programs they have speakers. I believe it's like quarterly or
and it's called King's Conversations. It's the name of their
name of what they have. So when I got called
to be a speaker, it was more, you know, come
in speak with a young man. They just know me
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and my brand speak. My mindset pretty much to have an
open floor to do what I would like to do
to the impact. And when I got called to do it,
what I what? I asked them and said, you know,
I told them I highly appreciate it, but it was something.
So for the last couple of years, something in my
spirit has been with the speaking, just not move that
hasn't been fueling me. I feel like I haven't been
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making the impact that I know I can make, even
though I give an amazing talks. Everything's always amazing, it's good,
but for me internally, it's like there's something missing. There
has to be I just want to make more of
an impact somehow, and for a couple of years I
haven't been able to figure out exactly how to expect
what that is. But when I got caught on this one,
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it was it was a moment. I called them back
and I said, Hey, what I want to do is
I want to do a full hands on workshop versus
just speaking. It was it was kind of like I'm
done talking. Like my whole mentality for the last six
months is like I'm done talking. It's all execution, it's
all impact. And so from with them. From that, I
end up creating a workshop and it's called Habits Overhype.
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I'm in the workshop. What it is is coming in
to be able. These are students sixteen to twenty four
years old. It's being able to come show them what
habits really are in a real way, a real way,
like what specifically, how habits are the foundation of your life,
Like when you can actually manage your habits and identify
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them and really understand what habits do to you, that's
what creates the navigation to your life.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
That part.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
So getting to understanding to know what serves you, what
habits are not serving you, and how to manage those
is a huge deal that we can do now. This
ain't no when I get older, when I get a
certain amount of money, this happens. These are things that
can happen right now. So I built this workshop catered
around that and build a second part of it, which
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is a commitment. It's a self commitment. I'm talking about
full blown contract that breaks down exactly what they're signing
up for. So I had every student identify just one,
just one habit that they've identified that's not serving them,
and they understand why it's not serving them because we've
went through the whole thing and now at the end
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they gotta make a decision, and I tell them clearly,
do not sign this contract. This is not a this
is not I'm going to try to do this. I'm
gonna try to make it work type contract. Yeah, this
contract is sent that I've identified something that's not serving
my life, and I've identified why and how, and I
know what to do to change that. So I'm going
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to sign and fully commit that I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
That's what this is.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
This ain't no trying about this. But I give them options.
It's a ninety day or one hundred and a day or
one year.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I don't say for life. I say you choose your options.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
We go ninety days, half month or six months or a year,
and at that point after you can choose if you continue.
But we're not playing those games with I'm just gonna
sign your name on it. I make sure I'm keeping
it one hundred percent of buck with these songs, letting
them know that this is a different level.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Of commitment that we make. So this work shop is.
It was amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It was just a fact to see it have on
so many students afterwards, just tell me. Some of them
straight up to me, it was like, hey, like I
wasn't going to sign that, Like you made it clear
that we cannot play games signing this, and and I
just wasn't because I knew I couldn't make that type
of commitment. And I told them how much I respected that.
But then he was like, then something happened. He was like,
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something happened. What you said made me realize I do
have control over my destiny, Like I do have a
say so in this. And when he signed it, it's like,
I damned there dropped a tear hearing him say.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
That, say this is it.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Yeah, this is why this is what was missing. When
I'm saying I'm done talking, it's like, nah, I'm hens on,
I'm I'm I'm I'm connecting. I want to see what
can have the most impact. So so when it's all
said done, that's a part of what I have called IOE,
which is impact over everything. Workshops that's what that's what
stemmed from that. So now developing workshops, Brickball break mindset
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happens over hype.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's the first one that we've actually went full fledged with.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
That that led to me getting the booking agent immediately
after they seen it.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
It was it's just been it's been crazy, like right now,
A wow, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
No shame, shame.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
H m hmmm.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That I'm love it.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Oh my gosh, that is awesome. I am so I'm speechless.
I'm so proud of you and just oh my gosh,
You're just you're doing incredible things. And so as you're speaking,
I was just getting chills because I was just like schools,
making connection to schools, to middle schools to high school.
I mean, there's just so much opportunities for you. This
guy is like you, there's so much for you, and
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I'm just wow, this is amazing. And yes, package your workshops,
Yeah you you're You're good for MVP.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So in fact.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I say that, yes, it's moving in a heavyweight a
blessing of blessing. And so I'm also seeing too that
you have you're writing a book to call habit Hacks. Correct,
that is that the so what you gave us some insight.
Is that from your book as well?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
You know what that's So when when I created the workshop,
originally created a different workshop, just more brick by brick mentality.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
That's what I was in the middle creating.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
And the spirit led me to say, hey, we're gonna
get to that hold on now, you need to come
and make formulate this around your book that you have
the things that you're so dwelt I'm talking about. So
that's what sparked the whole Habits over hype was the
book Habit Hacks. The book is completely finished. I just
got the manuscript back. It's one hundred percent done. So
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now I'm just going through the publishing phases, so we'll
be about forty five days out.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
But yes, the book, the book Habit had same thing.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Talks about the psychology behind actual your mind and how
the habits works and how to actually replace certain habits,
specific strategies on how to stack habits or remove habits,
and all the information came from my real life and
other books that I've been inspired by. Atomic Habits is
a book that I was so inspired by. That's what
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triggered me to write my book about this because I
started moving different, and I start actually using the strategies
that a lot of them already used in my life,
but I didn't have terminologies for them, and I didn't
understand in what I was doing. But it's like now
I can read that and understand and do that on
purpose and call it and call it.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Oh, I'm taking the driving.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, it's been just blessing after blessing at the.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Blessing, amazing, beautiful, this is awesome.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
BP.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I am just oh my gosh. So friends, those who
are listening, are those who are watching. BP is doing
incredible things. Your book is gonna you said, it's gonna
drop in about forty five days.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Is that is that right?
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Once we give the contact everybody got when they get
my Instagram, everything they gonna say everything, pop up, make
sure they following, and it's absolutely.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Blessings, love it, blessing, unblessing.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So BP, A couple more questions for you.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So I want you to share, you know, because it
seems like you are doing a lot which is incredible,
which is great.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know, your your your father, your husband, You're.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Speaking motivation, motivational, you know words, and so I I
just want to know, like how do you balance your
mental health?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
You know?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
So I want you to tell us, like maybe something
that you do on a daily maybe something if you
do use a holistic approach or diet, something in that realm,
and then maybe like a spiritual So like give us
some of your habits of what you do to help
keep your you know, to stay balanced.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Right. A few things.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
One of them are my Morning Mindset calls. So I
do Morning Mindset calls every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
And I'm not the host of them. I'm just a guest.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
The company's calls my god chrismus On, who's an amazing coach.
He does these live zoom calls every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
You tap in, you're just fly on the wall. You
ain't on video or nothing. I got, I got my head.
I work out while I'm listening to it. And that's
how I start every Monday Wednesday. It's just thirty minutes,
six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Every time.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's just does something and it's not like, oh, this
is how you should think in the mornings. It's like no,
it's just pure just mindset, everything just that you getting there.
So just the aren't your mornings off every time with
the fresh good workout, I'm exercising my body and that
that's like that's the ultimate fuel for me. That's the
ultimate fuel. The other two days for are scheduling going
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to the office. I don't do them on those days
because they don't offer them. But I'm still no matter what,
on my way to the office, nine times out of ten,
I'm listening to something motivational or music that's motivational, something
that's feed me. I purposely some of my habits, like
for even social media, I purposely don't scroll, and if
I did scroll, my algorithm because the only things I
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look at are one hundred percent going to be feed me.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
It's gonna be feed me.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Anything on myself it has to because if it's not
feed me, or if I'm not feeding it, to be
identify with it, like like my body's not comfortable. It's
like I can feel it, like I'm not serving you,
you're not serving me, okay either. I got to figure
out a way for something to get served, right, yeah,
you know. And that's and that's just on every the
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way I moved the conversations. I have regular conversations for
day to day at work, so I'm a director operations
for a bulk foods company as well. So that's what
I run. I run the state of Washington, organ and Alaska.
That's my salary sacary, that's what's allowing me to continue
investing into into what we're doing, making the impact that
we're making. And so even even there at work as
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a director, same attitude, same culture is there now because
it's hey, it's people first. It's it's always the approach
of how do we grow from this?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
What can we learn from this? And that's just just
every day theme.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
That's just literally the mindset and and and it's a
blessing to be able to have that mindset because it's
a it's like a domino effect around my house, around
friend's family, everything, you know, feeling.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
It or feeling it or feeling it, the energy, the love,
so yes, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
And then another another thing far as far as balance
is so much. What what I'm learning is it's because
everything I do is connected from music, love, grind and
growth the message about it. Every time I get on stage.
Every time I get on stage, I'm speaking something that
represents the brand. Every time I get on stage, I
never come without the store. We bring our business, we
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bring me as an artist, we bring our business. So
every time I move, move the people over here to
learn more about community. Of what I'm doing the workshops
is impact over everything. What I represent the book represents
self development because everything is connected. So it's not like
I'm trying to do this, I'm trying to do that.
It's like, no, everything is leading to impact. That's the
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only thing that matters is if it's making impact, then.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
That's what matters.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
And so now I'm just learning how to tie it
more in flesh, a lot of help from from a
lot of help from chatchingpt right now, understanding how to have.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
A lot more structure and putting it all together.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
So so all all of that is I love doing
that because it's like this makes more impact. So I
love doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
The branding, the packaging together. Yes, yep, yep, that's the
funny thing. Absolutely love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
So BP, what advice would you like to give the audience,
Maybe someone who's listening or watching, who you know may
feel hopeless, who needs some words of encouragement, or maybe
they just they were incarcerated. What advice would you want
to give to those who might be listening or watching today.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I will I will say a few things. One is
really go in on self development. Start with something simple. Okay,
the generic one is always going to be exercising. If
you're not exercising, I will say one hundred percent, start there,
because it's bigger than just exercising.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
It's not that go get some muscles. It's not to
lose weight.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
It's to practice a specific discipline to yourself that benefits
your health, your mind, and your spirit.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
The person that you are right now, once you.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Apply that type of discipline, you literally become a different
type of person.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You don't think the way that you were just thinking.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
So the place that you're at right now, you have
the staining roell to drive yourself.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Out of that place.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
And it's not a magic lotto ticket, it's not a
magic phone call from somebody. It's you saying, Hey, I'm
gonna start with one brick. I'm gonna start taking a
walk every day every morning, rangeleader snow because I want
to practice this muscle of discipline. Because if I can
prove that I have that type of discipline, I'm gonna
get to.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
A space where I think different.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
It's hard to tell somebody that if you you think
the way you think, you don't think that you can
think different.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Right, So, yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Start start with something. Start with that one thing that
you continuously say that you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Start with that.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
One book, that one page, whatever it is. Start right
there and be consistent for yourself. And I promise you
the domino effect of what's about to happen with your mind,
You're literally gonna shift into a different person. And then
as you get to that different person, you literally continue
shifting and.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
You don't think the way you think.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
So right now, it's temporary and it's up to you
to make it out of that situation intentionally and on purpose.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Love it. BP is dropping some nuggets today. Love it.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
And so we said, develop one healthy habit, you know,
start with that, and I love that. And something that
you can commit to. You know, if it's just ten
minutes a day, that's you did that, that's awesome. Next
week maybe fifteen, and move up from their twenties, if
that's you know, working out ten minutes a day or
ten minutes three times a week.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
So developing that one healthy habit, love it.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Absolutely, And let me add one last thing to that.
Last week so many of us are on social media.
Be conscious literally protect your fee for sure, protect protect
what you're If you're watching something and you could just
it's not feeding you literally right then what I do personally,
I literally can even go blocks when they come up
(41:56):
and I know I want nothing to do with it. I'll
take the time because it's worth my energy to go
say hey, I don't want this on my feed. So
if it happens to pop up, be conscious about that.
Know that if you spend most of your time on
your phone, that's literally people feeding your mind, and that's
that's feeding you, that's your life, that's your future that
you're allowing other people to come dictate.
Speaker 5 (42:17):
So be very careful about what's on your feed.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
In monitor that tec that like with your life, that's
that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
It's beautiful, Yes, absolutely love it. Love a BP love it.
Love it so GP.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
So I want you to tell the audience you know
what is next for you. I know you did talk
about your book dropping, your project, is there anything else
you know? Let us know you know what's next for
you and what's what's coming up.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Absolutely, the main a lot of the main all of them.
All of them are main focuses. Yeah, study creating these
these workshops, not not the creation of the workshops, but
the placement other workshops, finding finding places and organizations that
places where these could benefit, and like because it's got
to be really really targeted to people who are ready
and want this information that I can come in and
(43:12):
make sure that impact is happening. So a lot of
that is happening with my new book and agent I
have right now, we're working to just to figure out
a way that just have more impact on more people.
Outside of that, the Love, Grind and Growth Music Project
is just, ah, this is just my baby. When I
just I promise you this this is special.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Just put it like that. It's very special. It's moving.
Speaker 4 (43:37):
So when I'm doing with that, I'm doing ten separate
listening parties, all intimate that are yes and I'm gonna
you will be invited absolutely very small. I'm talking about
ten to twelve people where I'm gonna have an interviewer
in there where we can listen to the music real
intimately and answer questions and about the songs and how
they would develop that the process of the making of
(43:59):
this project. So that's yeah, that's how we're starting it off,
and then we're gonna do a record release of course.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
And it's so much my due for Self music family.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
We formed a complete coalition, my music family that I've
been doing music with forever anyway, we perform together all
the time anyway, but now we've completely uh just connected.
So one hundred percent of my shows my due for
Self family, and with me one hundred percent of their
shows I'm with them. It's like a big wu tang,
you know, on stage with all these different flavors and
(44:29):
just energy.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Uh and it's just dope. It is dope.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
So oh yeah, yeah, just expanding the brand through real things,
the real real things.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
That I love.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
The only outliner of all that is is bowling. I know,
you see me on that line ball. I love bowling.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
Yes, yeah, that's one of the things that keep me
balanced as well. It's like we started that just a
little over a year ago.
Speaker 4 (44:55):
So now me and my childhood friends every week miss
a week because it's something we haven't common we love doing,
and now we just took it to another level. Now
we're competitive as hell, right, So it's fun. And now
we're filming it and making the show out. You know,
we always got a creative side to us, you.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Know, right last Oh I love that and you got
the trophies all right, are you the one who?
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, you was like I got the change.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Yes, it's it's so fun doing doing just things that
you love to do and figuring out a way to
keep consistent with it.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
That that changed my life, ball and change my life.
I'm with childhood.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Friends every week and I we scheduled it and we
stay committed to it.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
I love that, but we all love doing it. And yes,
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Yeah. So surrounding yourself with positive people, you know, those
who love you, those who will you know, pour into
you and speak life into you. And you know, even
if it's competitive, it's fun. You know, we're still having
a good time. We're still connecting. And so yes, I
love that. I love that beautiful.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
So BP tell the audience where can we you know,
book you? Where can we find out more about you?
Where can we get your music, your book? All the
things that we were closing?
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Yes, yeah, so everything is is the BP brand. So
Instagram is the BP brand. Just the BP brand is
all together. When we're the BP brand, it's just all
together pop right up on Instagram, pop up on Facebook.
Just now starting to get the TikTok going. I hadn't
been on there. On One of my close buddies was like, listen,
you absolutely have to go over to TikTok. You're cheating yourself.
(46:36):
The people need this in fact, go over there. And
so I'm just now about to go over there and
go ahead and get in that audience as well. Everything
is at the BP brand, the BP brand email at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
It's the email as.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Well, but anything you can reach me directly as far
as the music coming out what not. The way we're
not doing your natural release and going to streaming platforms.
I'm a big app kid in regarding to entrepreneurship and
understanding artists and wages and things of that nature.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
So we're doing everything direct direct through the artists to
support the artistry.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Support the artists where I can give I can give
a little education really letting them know like, hey, this
is what it means if you went and streamed it
for me as an artist, and I want to allow
the people that want to support it, I want to
allow them to support it.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
And so we will end up streaming at a later time.
Speaker 4 (47:24):
You know, we'll get with that for sure, but starting off,
it's going to be all direct, all direct to artists,
support the artists that's created this. And you can just
literally on any of my platform to send me a
message and or just and when you see it pop up,
you're want to see all the links everything coming up.
But we're strictly independent, one hundred percent, and we want
to make sure we protect.
Speaker 7 (47:43):
The artists absolutely beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
So go and follow BP on your social media and
look out for his book coming up and his album release.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
So and I'll be looking at you know, I'll be
looking out.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
For that VP, you know, and supporting you and you know,
hearing to you to hear you drop some nuggets and
some motivation every single day and seeing what's next for you.
Because I'm just I'm just so proud of you and
just all the amazing things that you're doing. I just
want to say, keep on doing all of that, keep
on inspiring, motivating and just you know, giving love and
(48:17):
light to everyone. You know, So thank you for what
you're doing, and thank you for your time today. But
I want to give you a chance to say some
last words, some shout outs and then we're gonna play
a quick little game and then we'll say goodbye.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
So any shout outs and last words.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Just shout shout out to all the kings and queens
that are taking their life series that are that are
being intentional. Shout out to even if you're not being intentional,
shout out to you, because I know you're about.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
To start being intentional.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
So it's it's that's all My shout out are to
the people that are just working on self development. I
promise you It's changed my life. It's changed my perspective,
it's changed my my reality, it's changed my financials, it's
changed and everything. Just being very intentional about what we're
doing and understanding that everything that we're building is literally
(49:06):
one brick at the time, is never a rush.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
It's understanding what win, lose or draw.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
What do we learn from that right there to be
able to keep building and keep climbing. Just know today
is today and it only gets better. But you have
a choice. We don't wait for opportunities. We create opportunities.
Speaker 7 (49:22):
Absolutely beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, all right, BP, And so now
we're gonna play this quick little game, and I you know,
all my guests I asked them my voic, excuse me,
I ask them you know this or that question.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Just to get to know a little bit more about
our guests.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
And so I there's a couple of them that I
was thinking of. When I was thinking of you, I
was like, okay, what can I ask you? Pe, So
you're gonna pick one choice and tell us why. So,
what is your preference Nike or Adidas?
Speaker 5 (50:00):
Nike?
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Nike? Okay, that's just you. Just that's just what you like.
Speaker 5 (50:06):
I just I just always read more Nikes. I got.
I got a real big feet. I were fifteen. It
was hard to find to these back there, so I
just always wear.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
Okay, all right, Nikes, it is okay. Now, what's your
preference for a night out?
Speaker 3 (50:21):
Would you prefer to go and see a comedy show
or poetry nights?
Speaker 5 (50:27):
I would say I would say a comedy show. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
I say that because I do I've done poetry. But
I actually a comedy show.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Okay, So you'd rather go see comedy? Okay, comedy show?
All right?
Speaker 3 (50:41):
These next two might be a little controversial, maybe I
don't know. So would you prefer MJ for Kobe?
Speaker 5 (50:51):
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
So the reason I'm gonna say the reason I'm gonna
say Kobe it is because I follow Kobe's story.
Speaker 5 (50:59):
Okay, so I gotta I got a connection.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
He has a different type of inspiration once I really
start following his story. Unfortunately, I'm one of the persons
that he had to be passed when I start following.
Speaker 5 (51:09):
As well, so I'll fall into that boat. I know
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
No, but once I understood his story, and I know
he gets a lot of it from from MJ. But
I didn't personally follow MJ and invest in understanding his
mindset and everything like I have with Kobe.
Speaker 5 (51:25):
So as a player, I just have no say so
in it.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
But my personal experience I've read and understand more about Kobe.
He inspires me. Michael Jordan's incredibly inspires me. I just
never took the timetact.
Speaker 5 (51:37):
Breathe more into his personal Okay. And that's the only
reason I say that.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
Okay, No, that makes sense. Absolutely, that makes a lot
of sense. Okay, awesome.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
And one more, This one is Tupac or Biggie Tupacac. Okay, yeah, yeah,
that's there.
Speaker 5 (52:01):
You're like, yeah, yeah, practice if I start talking on that,
all right, all right hours ago.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
You don't even have to explain. It's all good. It's
all good, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (52:17):
So all right, BP, Well, thank you so much for
your time and for coming on today and sharing your
incredible story, your Weeping's Warrior story, and just letting others know.
You know, even if you have you know, a pat
if you you know, have adversity, you can still overcome
that and do all the amazing things that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
And so I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Keep on igniting freedom, my friend, and we will stay
connected and congratulations and all things that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
So thank you so much and thank you. Appreciate you.
Flowers to you, thank.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
You, Thank you so much. We'll see you.
Speaker 3 (52:50):
We'll stay in touch, all right, all right, all right,
my friends, you just heard my friend BP.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Go and follow him, Go and support him his music.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
He's gonna have his album's gonna drop, also his book,
So go and follow my friend BP.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Thank you so much for watching on today.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
I hope this episode was encouraging and inspiring for you.
Go out and check out the other episodes because I'm
sure there is inspiring for you as well. Thank you
to the producer of the show doctor Teresa Jordan, thank
you for listening and watching, and thank you VP for
being my amazing guest today. I want to send you
(53:32):
some love and some encouragement to stay lit, to keep
shining and ignite.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Freedom, and we'll see you next time, my friends.
Speaker 6 (53:41):
Goodbye, Thank you for tuning in too. From Weeping to
Warriors Igniting Freedom with Roshawn Nicole. To be a guest
on the show, please contact us at info at Roshannicole
(54:01):
Wellness dot com.
Speaker 4 (54:02):
We would love to.
Speaker 6 (54:03):
Connect with you, so please take a moment to two like, subscribe,
and follow us on all social media platforms. We look
forward to having you join us next time. For Weeping
to Warrior Igniting Freedom with Roshan Nicole
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