May 20, 2025 • 9 mins
In this no-frills, no-thrills solo drop, Brother Ha2tim takes the mic to deliver a simple but powerful truth:
"You learn how to cut down trees by cutting down trees."
This episode breaks down why real growth doesn’t come from just reading or talking about it — it comes from doing the work. Whether it’s walking, speaking, leading, or living — experience is the real teacher.
This is the Gye-Nyame Journey — unfiltered, rooted, and real.
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"You learn how to cut down trees by cutting down trees."
This episode breaks down why real growth doesn’t come from just reading or talking about it — it comes from doing the work. Whether it’s walking, speaking, leading, or living — experience is the real teacher.
This is the Gye-Nyame Journey — unfiltered, rooted, and real.
🌍 Tap in, connect, or build with me at:
https://dot.cards/ha2tim
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gye-nyame-journey-show--179352/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Great day, family, great day. I want to thank you
for joining me, those of you who are following us
on Jammy Journey. I really appreciate you giving us the
time listening in. This is no frills, no thrills, just
(00:22):
brother hot Tim and I welcome you in. And I'm
so proud today because we don't This is episode two thousand,
nine hundred and something. You know, it get kind of
hard trying to keep track. But I had to put
this episode together quick because I was looking at the
itinerary of my programs and this date fell off. Somehow
(00:47):
mixed up this date, so I had to kind of
replace this so I keep things in order. So I
went back and I grabbed one of my old proverbs.
You know what I'm saying. This is from day three
in the Gimme Journey Tribal Quotes book, right, and I'm
pulling on this one. This is right now. What you
(01:09):
hearing is I am four days away, four days away
from being on a plane and on my way out
this country, you know, for vacation. I'm coming back. But
at the present time, in this time period, I am
seriously doing some self work. And one of the things
(01:32):
that I'm thinking about doing is a retreat. Of course,
one day I'm gonna do a mixed retreat, but I'm
thinking about a manhood retreat for warriors, people in the
high the high warrior level nation building. Now, then when
I say I ain't talking about fighting skills and shit
like that, I'm talking about age, you know, late twenties,
(01:54):
maybe early twenties, because I got some young young, mature
your men. But a manhood retreat because some of the
stuff that's popping up right now, it's showing me that
the time is ripe for re invigorating this discussion around
(02:14):
rights of passage, but not reinvigorating it around children. See,
because the first time it came out, it was about
boys and then we moved into the girls. But part
of the piece that's missing, I believe, of course, and
I've been I've been tooting this on for a long time,
is that is recognizing the process for adults. Because rights
(02:35):
are passage, it's a lifestyle. It's part of this quote
unquote what I call that, what we call the conscious,
the conscious movement, the affrocentric cultural movement. It's part of that.
It comes out of our deep in our tradition where
rights are what rights are given or rights are done
(02:57):
for people at certain stations of their life. So I
am thinking about doing stuff because right now I'm really
intense with the breath work far as the O shape breath,
I'm taking that to another level. I got we got
we got brothers in the community that are that that
are teaching yoga. We got brothers in our community or
(03:18):
elders in our community that are doing tai chi and
other martial arts. We got individuals that that are able
to bring some of the sacred medicines. We have individuals
who have the skill of teaching individuals how to set
up camps for groups impersonal and how to prepare and
(03:39):
how to serve the community and have those discussions around
building and protecting and truly doing some nation buildings. So
that's where I'm at right now. But back to the
podcast for the day, and of course it's called you
Learn by doing So Great day Fan. Of course you
(04:04):
know this brother Ho Tim and you are now rocket
with Giammi journey and this is no frills, no thrills,
just me and this mic and of course you with
your beautiful self. So let's get into it. Learn how
to cut down trees by cutting down trees. That is
(04:25):
the proverb of focus. I'm gonna be bringing more proverbs
to you. Of course, you know we got to travel
quote section, so I'm gonna have to go back and
be bringing the best episodes and some of the best
discussions up out of that. But you know, you learn
how to cut down trees by cutting down trees. That's it.
That's the message today, short, sharp, real, But of course
(04:50):
you know, brother, now, Tim, I want to break it down.
Let's break it down. Too many of us are getting
stuck in the learning phase, all always prepping, always studying,
always getting ready to get ready. But the truth is,
you don't master nothing by thinking about it. You master
(05:11):
it by doing it. You learn to walk by falling,
You learn to speak by trying and stumbling over your words.
You learn to live by living. And yeah, you're gonna
mess up. You're supposed to. That's part of it. We've
been trained to believe the more books you read, the
(05:32):
more qualified you are. But when the rubber hits the role,
people still acts. Do you have experience? I want you
to think about that, won't you think about that? They
push you to read more books about shit, But when
(05:54):
it really comes down to it. The cheap question is
do you have experience with all this study, Because at
the end of the day, experience is the real teacher.
I don't care what filled you in. Nobody wants the
person who only read about it. We want the ones
who's stunned, the ones who have skin in the game.
We constantly talk about that, right even in surgery the
(06:19):
classroom main enough course, I hope not. You trust a
doctor who's been in that room, not just read about
that room. So here's my challenge for you today. Whatever
you've been putting off, waiting till you feel ready, stop waiting,
start doing. That's how you grow. You want to speak, speak,
(06:42):
you want to write, sit down, get to writing or typing.
You want to build, build, want to lead? Start leading
or first start following, then start leading. Don't overthink it,
just swing the acts. Of course, you know this is jammy, Johnny,
(07:07):
I'm brother, how to tell remind you you learn how
to cut down trees by cutting down trees. Keep pushing,
keep practicing, keep showing up, and I'll catch you on
the next mic drop no frills, no thrills is brother, Damn,
(07:27):
I'm out, But hold on before I go, I need
to find out something, so I'm give me a second.
I'm back, y'all, even though I was gone, but I
felt that I needed to do some more research because
I wanted. I didn't mention where the proverb was from,
but when I found the proverb, it is attributed to
(07:50):
a people called the Bataki, But doing some more research
saying Pataki is a small island in Fiji, part of
the Lamontov group in the South Pacific South Pacific. The
population is relatively small and culturally unique with deep oral traditions.
But there isn't a widely document collection of proverbs from
(08:12):
Bataki that appears in mainstream proverb databases or anthology. So
while the quote is attributed to them in my original material,
it's more likely that the proverb it is part of
broader indigenous or traditional wisdom that has universal residents, and
attribution to the Bataki may reflect a specific collection of sources.
(08:38):
But I just wanted to send shots out or send
shots out to where that proverb came from. I hope
you got the lesson, family, be sure to hook up
with me in the in the notes, or in where whatever, whatever,
wherever you get your wherever you heard this podcast. Look
in there. I'm gonna make sure there's a way you
(08:59):
could contact me if you're interested in and possibly participating
in one of our self Mastery camp trips. You know
what I'm saying, When these camp trips, you just want
to come and get away. Let us know we gook
something up. You know what I'm saying, Maybe you might
be a catalyst around which we build this. Brother Tim,
I am out
Great day, family, great day. I want to thank you
for joining me, those of you who are following us
on Jammy Journey. I really appreciate you giving us the
time listening in. This is no frills, no thrills, just
(00:22):
brother hot Tim and I welcome you in. And I'm
so proud today because we don't This is episode two thousand,
nine hundred and something. You know, it get kind of
hard trying to keep track. But I had to put
this episode together quick because I was looking at the
itinerary of my programs and this date fell off. Somehow
(00:47):
mixed up this date, so I had to kind of
replace this so I keep things in order. So I
went back and I grabbed one of my old proverbs.
You know what I'm saying. This is from day three
in the Gimme Journey Tribal Quotes book, right, and I'm
pulling on this one. This is right now. What you
(01:09):
hearing is I am four days away, four days away
from being on a plane and on my way out
this country, you know, for vacation. I'm coming back. But
at the present time, in this time period, I am
seriously doing some self work. And one of the things
(01:32):
that I'm thinking about doing is a retreat. Of course,
one day I'm gonna do a mixed retreat, but I'm
thinking about a manhood retreat for warriors, people in the
high the high warrior level nation building. Now, then when
I say I ain't talking about fighting skills and shit
like that, I'm talking about age, you know, late twenties,
(01:54):
maybe early twenties, because I got some young young, mature
your men. But a manhood retreat because some of the
stuff that's popping up right now, it's showing me that
the time is ripe for re invigorating this discussion around
(02:14):
rights of passage, but not reinvigorating it around children. See,
because the first time it came out, it was about
boys and then we moved into the girls. But part
of the piece that's missing, I believe, of course, and
I've been I've been tooting this on for a long time,
is that is recognizing the process for adults. Because rights
(02:35):
are passage, it's a lifestyle. It's part of this quote
unquote what I call that, what we call the conscious,
the conscious movement, the affrocentric cultural movement. It's part of that.
It comes out of our deep in our tradition where
rights are what rights are given or rights are done
(02:57):
for people at certain stations of their life. So I
am thinking about doing stuff because right now I'm really
intense with the breath work far as the O shape breath,
I'm taking that to another level. I got we got
we got brothers in the community that are that that
are teaching yoga. We got brothers in our community or
(03:18):
elders in our community that are doing tai chi and
other martial arts. We got individuals that that are able
to bring some of the sacred medicines. We have individuals
who have the skill of teaching individuals how to set
up camps for groups impersonal and how to prepare and
(03:39):
how to serve the community and have those discussions around
building and protecting and truly doing some nation buildings. So
that's where I'm at right now. But back to the
podcast for the day, and of course it's called you
Learn by doing So Great day Fan. Of course you
(04:04):
know this brother Ho Tim and you are now rocket
with Giammi journey and this is no frills, no thrills,
just me and this mic and of course you with
your beautiful self. So let's get into it. Learn how
to cut down trees by cutting down trees. That is
(04:25):
the proverb of focus. I'm gonna be bringing more proverbs
to you. Of course, you know we got to travel
quote section, so I'm gonna have to go back and
be bringing the best episodes and some of the best
discussions up out of that. But you know, you learn
how to cut down trees by cutting down trees. That's it.
That's the message today, short, sharp, real, But of course
(04:50):
you know, brother, now, Tim, I want to break it down.
Let's break it down. Too many of us are getting
stuck in the learning phase, all always prepping, always studying,
always getting ready to get ready. But the truth is,
you don't master nothing by thinking about it. You master
(05:11):
it by doing it. You learn to walk by falling,
You learn to speak by trying and stumbling over your words.
You learn to live by living. And yeah, you're gonna
mess up. You're supposed to. That's part of it. We've
been trained to believe the more books you read, the
(05:32):
more qualified you are. But when the rubber hits the role,
people still acts. Do you have experience? I want you
to think about that, won't you think about that? They
push you to read more books about shit, But when
(05:54):
it really comes down to it. The cheap question is
do you have experience with all this study, Because at
the end of the day, experience is the real teacher.
I don't care what filled you in. Nobody wants the
person who only read about it. We want the ones
who's stunned, the ones who have skin in the game.
We constantly talk about that, right even in surgery the
(06:19):
classroom main enough course, I hope not. You trust a
doctor who's been in that room, not just read about
that room. So here's my challenge for you today. Whatever
you've been putting off, waiting till you feel ready, stop waiting,
start doing. That's how you grow. You want to speak, speak,
(06:42):
you want to write, sit down, get to writing or typing.
You want to build, build, want to lead? Start leading
or first start following, then start leading. Don't overthink it,
just swing the acts. Of course, you know this is jammy, Johnny,
(07:07):
I'm brother, how to tell remind you you learn how
to cut down trees by cutting down trees. Keep pushing,
keep practicing, keep showing up, and I'll catch you on
the next mic drop no frills, no thrills is brother, Damn,
(07:27):
I'm out, But hold on before I go, I need
to find out something, so I'm give me a second.
I'm back, y'all, even though I was gone, but I
felt that I needed to do some more research because
I wanted. I didn't mention where the proverb was from,
but when I found the proverb, it is attributed to
(07:50):
a people called the Bataki, But doing some more research
saying Pataki is a small island in Fiji, part of
the Lamontov group in the South Pacific South Pacific. The
population is relatively small and culturally unique with deep oral traditions.
But there isn't a widely document collection of proverbs from
(08:12):
Bataki that appears in mainstream proverb databases or anthology. So
while the quote is attributed to them in my original material,
it's more likely that the proverb it is part of
broader indigenous or traditional wisdom that has universal residents, and
attribution to the Bataki may reflect a specific collection of sources.
(08:38):
But I just wanted to send shots out or send
shots out to where that proverb came from. I hope
you got the lesson, family, be sure to hook up
with me in the in the notes, or in where whatever, whatever,
wherever you get your wherever you heard this podcast. Look
in there. I'm gonna make sure there's a way you
(08:59):
could contact me if you're interested in and possibly participating
in one of our self Mastery camp trips. You know
what I'm saying, When these camp trips, you just want
to come and get away. Let us know we gook
something up. You know what I'm saying, Maybe you might
be a catalyst around which we build this. Brother Tim,
I am out
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