163 - Gabe Fugate the Inspirational Rapper

Gabe Fugate is the Inspirational Rapper. I personally watched him entertain a big audience and just bring them to their feet. He is someone who has taken a sincere passion for music and turned into something special. We discuss what that journey was like to help inspire others to take chances and follow your heart.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What does it take to be successful with my income,
my family, my health, and my.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Belief in myself?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
How can I do this by being who I am
at a very high level? These are the questions I
ask those who have gone through it. Welcome to the
Unleasha's Strengths Podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
All right, Hello everybody, welcome. All right.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
So, for those of you that are watching on the
replay comment below replay.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
So good to have you all here.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
My name is Eddie and this is the unleasha Strengths
Podcast interview with Gabe Gate. Gabe Fugate, super excited to
have you brother, Thanks for coming. We're gonna talk about
some cool stuff today. Absolutely, it's my pleasure to be here.
I'm honored.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Thank you, Eddie. Do that man?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, okay, so I gotta tell everybody just a little
bit how I got introduced to you. And it was
me kind of standing in the background watching somebody on
stage kind of rocking out, like really kind of getting
the crowd going. So for those of you, obviously everyone
here probably doesn't remember, but it was a while back,
we did a great.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Event called Shift. It was an essential.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oil event for men. We did it at convention. A
couple of years ago for Dota. Uh well, we didn't
do it for Doughtara. But anyway, long story short, we
were on stage and we had it was like one
guy after another doing their presentations and I was.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
There for a couple hours in the background.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I was at for a little while. After I was
done with my talk, I took off to go grab
some lunch.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I came back. I came back and there is this
guy on the stage.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Like just I hate to call it rapping because it's
like that doesn't even like it feels like it doesn't
really explain how awesome it is what you were doing.
But you were rocking the crowd. You were just had
the crowd going, and the crowd was just going with you,
and it was I was like, who was that? And
then everyone's all, that's Gabe. And I was like, well, okay,
because I had heard about you, and I heard about you, know,

(01:56):
your your talent and your abilities, and then so that's
how I got introduced. And it was so cool to
just kind of be able to be backstage and not
just to see you so much, but to see the
audience reacting to you. I'm sure you remember that moment, right, So,
so talk a little bit about what it was like

(02:16):
to be on that stage. I don't know if you've
been on a stage like that before, I don't know
your history on that.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
So if you could talk a little bit about that was,
I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I mean, thanks for bringing us back to that memory.
I mean that was such a cool event, you know.
I mean, like you said, you said it was four
do terra, but it wasn't. It was for men. It
was four men that are you know? Yeah, anyways, so
that was I Yes, I have some stage experience at
small stages, small venues usually, but the this kind of

(02:52):
I don't know how to explain it, the kind of
twist in the heart of that experience is that I
am wrapping this song that is about human trafficking, and
really this if you listen to the lyrics in my
in this song, it's really focused on one specific kind
of trafficking, which really is prostitution. And when I wrote it,

(03:16):
those were the feelings. That was what I was visualizing.
I was visualizing a woman who has been in this
kind of situation, and so here I am in front
of how many like there's a few hundred people. It
was about two hundred roughly. Yeah, I'm just guessing, yeah,
like two three hundred people, I mean two or three

(03:37):
hundred men, and I'm rapping about this subject about basically
about a woman who has gone through terrible experience. And
you know, it's a it's a good group of people,
for sure, but in any like section of three two
three hundred men, there's probably gonna be someone that that
hits on a level that it doesn't for other people,

(03:59):
if you know what I mean. So, I mean that was, like,
you know, I was very well received and everybody was
very It was an intense song. I mean, it's an
intense subject. It's intense, and I had people I was
extremely nervous, and I had people that I really respect
come up to me afterwards in tears, and so it

(04:21):
was a success for sure. But but wow, what a
huge experience. And that was like two or three years
ago now, I think. And the song has just came
out today. Actually, I don't know if you knew that, Eddie,
but the song we're gonna talk about that. Yeah, the
song came out today, the originally the finished version. But yeah,
I mean being on a stage like that, being in

(04:42):
front of people is something that I love. But I
and I've done many times, but I'm always nervous. I
always get heart rate gets up and just but you know,
when you love something and you want to share something,
and you know, you just do it. And all the people,
including you, all the men that spoke, were just a
brilliant I mean it was I had my heart opened

(05:06):
by that experience. I want to do it again.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, I made me too, I agree, And I remember,
you know, I was. I remember when Keith McCoy was
talking to me about this. I was like, this is
a brilliant idea. This needs to be done. We need
to have a place because and I just thought there's
so many men that we could put on that stage
that would inspire people that who aren't really given platforms.

(05:31):
They're just you know, or for some reason they're not
able to find their own or whatever, to be able
to have a stage that we could put men on
and have them just be real and vulnerable and honest
and just get brutal even as well. I thought my
advice to gay to sorry, my advice to Keith was
don't bring on the same guys every time, bring on

(05:51):
brand new men every time.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
That was my advice.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
After the event was over, I regretted that advice so badly, and.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I was like, I want to do this again. This
is awesome.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
And then then Keith was planning on doing another one,
and I, of course didn't get invited, while not because
I was it was my advice to not invite me,
and I was just a little like, oh, I want
to do that again.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
That was so cool.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
But yeah, and I'll give you my just quick on
this one. I'm curious about your experience. This is I've
spoken on stages many times at that point, so I
was pretty seasoned, and I've been on many stages and
I'm really good at recognizing patterns. But this was the
first time I'd ever been on a stage that was
like ninety eight percent men, maybe ninety nine percent men,

(06:39):
And I felt an intensity.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Coming from the audience.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Oh yeah, like it was.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It was not a feeling I had felt before being
in front of people. It was just like it was
the messages like you better inspire me because I need
this right now.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
That was the vibe I was getting.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know, did I mean, did you notice that anything
different with that event versus other events where it's pretty combined.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh, yeah, absolutely, it was like I mean, I don't
know if it was the testosterone or whatever, but you know,
there was an energy there. I think one of the
clearest memories I have of it was I don't remember
the gentleman that did it, but the Brave Heart clips
from the movie and he made everybody, you know, yell

(07:26):
at them and it was whoa man? That was everybody
yelling freedom and every like. It shook the entire theater.
It was like, oh, you know, and and I think
that I think that any group, you know, any large
group of people that are together for you know, a
common cause, there's going to be a charge. But for

(07:47):
men to come to a group that's big, that's just
for men to learn and grow and be vulnerable. Because
men aren't supposed to be vulnerable in our culture. You know,
supposed to not cry. You're supposed to be strong. You know,
you're supposed to suck it up and be the one
that carries the load and blah blah blah, and so emotionally,

(08:09):
you know, men that vulnerability isn't isn't there. Women have
been doing it forever, you know, they've been getting in
circles and since you know, the stone age or whatever
and talking about their feelings. But men are a little
bit more stubborn that way, and so to have to
have that many men sign up and pay to be
it a thing, to be vulnerable, there's gonna be a

(08:30):
different you know, feeling and different energy in the crowd.
And I felt it. I felt intensity. I remember very distinctly,
like you know, I'm wrapping these parts, and I remember
looking in the crowd and seeing like people's faces like
like just aghast, you know, they're just like and I'm like, okay,

(08:52):
well they're they're hearing me. Nobody's moving because it's not
that kind of song. It's not a song you're going
to move to, really, but and that's kind of most
my songs are not like a dancy party song. I
like message music. But they stop and they just kind
of go yeah, it's like deer in headlights kind of
like they're just take you know, like, whoa, what's going
you know, Wow, he's really saying something. And then I

(09:15):
remember finishing. I remember finishing the song and there was like,
you know, it felt like thirty seconds, but it was
probably half a second pause of just complete silence and
then screaming just men screaming, which you can't always hear that,
because I was like, whoa, that was really like a

(09:37):
powerful room to be in. For sure, this is this.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Is one of the reasons why I would love to
be on that stage again. So I tagged Keith McCoy
and is like, hey, you know what my advice sucked.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Please have me on that stage again.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I would love to be in front of an audience
of all men again because that was so different. It
was so different and so unique, and I would love
to be a part of that. But even if I
get to be there, because that was awesome. So I'm anyway,
so everybody will maybe maybe Keith.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Will do it again.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't know, I'm praying, but because we definitely need it.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And for those of you who don't know Keith McCoy,
go listen to his Shift podcast is really good.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I don't know if you've if you've heard of his podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
At all, I haven't. No, No, I didn't. Yeah, I
should go check that out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
In fact, I'll say, Keith, if you're watching this, get
Gabe on your podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Man, this is great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Okay, So I'm I want to transition because I'm curious
about rapping.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
So I want to if you could.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Just tell me a little bit of history of like
where do where does rap come from? For you?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Where where did it start?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
And and how did it kind of get to this
point where you've got I'm not going to give it away,
You've got a really cool name. I would just I'll
let you kind of tell us the story of how
you came to that point. Does that mean you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I want to hear curious?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, So like in my life personally, yeah, yeah, great question.
I I you know, as far back as I can remember,
I always was interested in music, always loved music. The
you know, I'm an emotional person, you know, and music
is like it's emotion, you know, That's what it is

(11:17):
to me. And so you you play a song and
you feel it, and you play a different song, you
feel that emotion, and and I and growing up, you know,
I grew up in in uh northern California, humbold County, Arcada, Eureka,
that area, small coastal community, predominantly white community. There's a

(11:38):
strong Portuguese you know community there, but you know it's
kind of white coastal northern California community. And so there
wasn't a lot of culture of rap and hip hop around,
but I can remember I can remember being, uh, you know,
one of the first hip hop songs I think I
ever heard was a Walk This Way, you know, Aerosmith

(12:02):
and Run DMC. That was the first. Is that your
earliest memory of rep You know, I'm not sure because
it's around that time. It was there was that, but
then you know, I think the like I you know,
I watched MTV and stuff, so I probably heard some things.
But the first thing I really remember is an it's
a it's a song by too short and it's I

(12:25):
won't repeat the title of the song, extremely extremely derogatory
the whole song. I mean, that's super different. And I
mean I was like probably eleven or twelve when I
heard it. It was very sexually explicit and and I knew
what he was talking about on some level, but I
was also like, I can't relate to this, like as
an eleven year old boy, I can't relate to this

(12:48):
song at all. So I just kind of was like
not interested in that kind of music. I was really
into like punk rock and SKA and that kind of stuff,
and uh, and there was there was a culture of
that going on. My older brother, we'd go to concerts.
There was stuff happening like in that genre in our community,

(13:08):
and that was really fun. I remember like stage diving,
crowdsurfing that, you know, mosh pits. That super fun even
when you're like twelve thirteen years old. But then I was,
you know, really into skateboarding and all this stuff. And
I remember I was a freshman in high school at
bleach blonde spike tips, you know, wallet chain, polo shirts

(13:32):
and carbians. It's awesome and uh right, yeah, yeah, and
uh and I remember freshman in high school and I
went to school one day and we had a big
like assembly in the auditorium and they were announcing stuff
and whatever, and there was there was a performance. This
guy who's a senior who I recognized because he was

(13:54):
always at the skate spots because he was a really
good skateboarder. He came and he brought his turntables. This
guy's name is a DJ JETI, like Jedi but black
jet I, right, So dj Jeti it's a cool name.
And he's actually he's a DJ and he went on
actually later in life to be a trumpet player and

(14:16):
he's in a band and he tours the world actually,
But anyways, this guy he had turntables and he was
scratching and I'd never seen that. Like i'd heard some
like you know stuff and whatever, I've never seen it done.
And it blew me away. And I the next time
I saw him, I went up to like at the
skate the skate spot. I went up to him and

(14:37):
I was like, basically, I was like, yo, I'm you know,
I got my my dad's old record player and I
bought a cheesy mixer on eBay or something, and I'm
you know, I got my first setup. I'm gonna start DJing.
And he's like, oh, let me come check out your setup,
you know. So he's like, yeah, you know, you should
come and practice on my like my real turntables. They're
you know, twelve hundreds or the real technics twelve hundreds.

(15:00):
And I was like, yeah, dude, and so he kind
of said his wing. And then right at that same time,
I was getting really into I had just started to
discover hip hop music that I could really relate to.
It was there. There was this mixtape called sound Bombing Too,
and uh, it had eminem on it. Before he was famous.

(15:20):
It had most deaf taalib quality, Pharaohmond Shit, had all
these all these musicians, all these rappers, and there were
concepts in there that they were talking about that I
felt like I could relate to and resonate with, and
and some of it was a little bit more heart
centered too, and and and so that kind of music

(15:42):
started coming into my awareness. And I really always had
this desire to be a musician, to be in a band,
or be a frontman, or be a singer. But I
never really saying I never really played an instrument for
long enough to master it or get super good. But
I always loved and I always love poetry. All through school,
I was eager to read, Like I remember being in

(16:05):
kindergarten and being like, when are we going to learn
how to read? I want to read, you know. And
so I've always wanted that words, you know. And I
always felt like I was better able to express myself
through writing than any other thing. And so when I
found hip hop and lyricism and and you know, lyrics

(16:25):
and rap, uh, it just made sense to me. It
was I could do that, I could do something like that.
So I started, you know, I started DJing and scratching,
but also I started writing rap songs. I still probably
have my notebook with like my first you know, I'm like,
I bought a notebook. I'm like, this is my rhyme
pad dog, you know, at this point fourteen fourteen?

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Okay, all right, so you're writing at fourteen.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
You're just I mean, I wrote songs before, Like I
wrote punk rock songs and stuff before that. They even
dabbled in like a band for a minute. But I
got really serious when I got into hip up and
that's how that's kind of that's how I kind of
got into it. And then after high school I went
to college to study music and study recording and uh

(17:11):
and just kind of further went along that path from there.
Which college did you go to? I went to California
State University, Chico Checho State.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, and you went to Chico State like to learn music.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah. Well, I wasn't sure what I was going to do,
but my friends were going to Chico State, and I
just wanted to be my at that time in my life,
I just wanted to be with my friends. And I
knew if I took like a break from school and
I was gonna do college later I would never go back.
Like I knew that I just had to get it done.
So so I went to and you know, after the
first semester, I kind of was trying to figure out

(17:47):
what I wanted to major in. And it just so
happens that Chico State has a really fantastic recording program
with a really great studio, really good teachers, professors that
you know, I use the stuff I learned to this day.
It was I kind of got lucky. I kind of

(18:07):
fell into like a really good program.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah so this okay, So while you were at Chico State,
were you taking all your basic classes or was it
all just math?

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah? So I had like general ed classes because I
saw a Bachelor of Arts, so general ed classes are
in there. And I minored in sociology too, and uh
so yeah, I was taking all those all kinds of
different classes, music, philosophy. You know. I didn't have to
do any math or science for a Bachelor of Arts.

(18:39):
So that's cool. I like, yeah, And I managed to.
I managed to get a sociology minor that I finished
like I started it. And I finished four years of
college at Chico and then I did a study abroad
program where I went to India, to South India, and
I lived in Bangalore, Bangalore for a year and went

(19:01):
to college there, and I was able to get my
courses there to count for my sociology minor. So I
was very lucky to be able to do that. And
I went into some really crazy music stuff there. It
was really how long were you in Bengalore? A year?
Actually a little over year. At that point, I was,

(19:21):
you know, in my twenties twenty wow, you yeah, I
think I'd have to do some math to really figure
that out. But early twenties, yeah, and in in in
in India, I you know, I got there and became
friends right away with a lot of my Indian classmates,

(19:43):
and uh, I ended up falling into this like they have.
It's very big in the culture there where they have
like every everybody in India can either sing or dance
or play an instrument or something creative like really well,
it's just a heart of the culture. And there there's

(20:03):
a big thing in the universities where they have these
like a cappella teams, like like kind of like Glee Club,
right if you've ever seen the movie Glee or the show, right,
And so these my friends like you got to try
out for the you know, for the a cappella team.
You got to try out. I'm like, you guys don't understand,
Like I can't sing, Like I'm not a singer. I

(20:24):
can't hit a note. I had in my recording class
or my recording arts degree, I had to take classes
where you had to sight sing, which is where you
have music notes like a sheet of notes. It could
be very simple and you get the start like you
get the note, like the starting note like they get
like play it, and then you have to from there

(20:44):
with no accompaniment. You have to sing what you see.
I can't I mean I probably can't do that to
this day. And I barely passed that class that was
required to get through, so you know, so I was like,
not a singer. But they're like, you should just try
out anyway. Man, we know you do some rapping or something,
just just come try out. I'm like, okay, I'll do it.
And I tried to. They asked me to sing scales

(21:06):
and I failed on the scales. But I can beat
box because I've been into hip hop, so I can
do some vocal percussion, and so I beatbox for them,
and it was like it was pretty clear that there
wasn't a lot of people that could do that there.
So this is like shock and astonishment for them, is
that what happened. I mean, they've seen it. There's people

(21:26):
that can do it, but like at that university, there's
maybe like a handful of people that could even kind
of beatbox if that, you know. And so so they're like, okay, yeah,
we need you.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
So we started. I So our group was called Acoustic Chutney,
and you know, it's like seven voices, and I was
one of them. I was the beatboxer, and I rapped
a little bit too, And so we practiced a bunch
and had like three songs that we did. We did
I Feel Good by James Brown, and we did Don't

(22:00):
Funk with My Heart by the Black Eyed Peas, which
kind of has like an Indian vibe if you've ever
heard that song. And then we did a song that
was our own creation that like had me rapping and
some some of my lyrics they took and sang, and
then there was a like a Hindu like prayer to
gannet or something that was fused in there and very beautiful,

(22:22):
kind of like Bollywood style. And so those were like
our three songs. We and then we we competed against
the other teams at our university and we won, and
so that we became like the university's a team, and
they sponsored us to go travel around South India and
compete at intercollegiate music competitions and we did like over

(22:45):
a dozen of them, and we won all of them
except like one or two we got second place in.
So it was it was a fantastic experience. I had
no idea that was gonna happen when I was going
over there, and it was one of the best parts
of the whole time I had there, travel with that group,
those people, I have such fond memories of them, and
it was a great learning experience. And yeah, so this

(23:08):
is they talk.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
About experts have to put in a thousand hours. Sure
the expert, would you say that that's where you did it?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Right there? I thought it was ten thousand or ten thousand,
I don't I don't know, I don't know, doesn't matter,
I don't care. What's the difference really, right after a thousand,
it might as well be a million. Who cares, right, right? Yeah?
I mean that was that helped me to get extremely comfortable.
I wouldn't say extremely comfortable. It helped me get slightly

(23:35):
more comfortable with being on stage and being in front
of people, and there were usually fairly small, you know, audiences,
and I actually have found over the years that I'm
more nervous in a smaller setting. It's more intimate. If
you're on a big stage and there's lights and there's

(23:56):
you know, hundreds of people, it's not for me. It's
it's not as nerve wracking if I'm if I'm performing
for five people that I really are that I know, well,
it's much more like, you know, they know me, so
I gotta be like, I gotta be on point. They're

(24:17):
gonna know if I mess up, you know, like I
don't know, there's something about for me that's how I work.
It's like, you know, I still get nervous if it's
a big thing, but it's like there's something more when
it's more intimate and smaller, there's it's a little bit more.
I get a little bit more nervous.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, well you've got You've You've done something right. Because
there are like tons and tons of comments coming in
right now on Facebook all right, people like requesting you
to start doing something right now, Like I not at
all what I would normally suggest during we're just having
a conversation and talking about cool stuff. But you've got

(24:54):
some fans watching this right now. Holy cow. Uh yeah,
there's some people who are just like who I mean,
either they've heard you do it before or they've never heard.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
You and they want to hear you. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
It's pretty cool anyway, So I mean, it's obviously showing
that you've you care about this so much, and people
get to experience just I think, I think what's more
exciting to watch or be a part of is your
own personal joy with what.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
You're doing, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I mean, And then when you're good at it, which
obviously you are, and I watched it, I was like
blown away. You know, it just makes it ten times
more and entertaining and exciting. You know, it's different than
just listening and listening to our recording. When you're watching
a person perform their passion and they're good at it, Yeah,

(25:42):
that's inspiring, right, And I would bet I'd be willing
to bet that when you saw the guy do his
turntable stuff, you saw someone who absolutely loved what they
did and.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
They were good at it.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, right, that that's inspiring? Does that? I mean?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh, by the way, here here, here's the thing that
we always get with, you know, when you're life performing
and you're doing something and people start shouting, do this,
come on, let's here, dance monkey.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
How do you handle that? Because I'm sure you must
get that a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hey, Gabe, will you will you do some some beatboxing
and some wrapping here for us?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
We would love to hear it now, Yeah, come on,
come on, do it, do it? Perform? You know, to
be honest, Eddie, that really hasn't happened when I'm actually
doing a perform, like I'm at a show and I'm
supposed to be performing, right, that's it never really happens.
But but it's like in the you know, in in

(26:41):
ordinary life, when I'm not on stage, I sometimes get
you know, you do the thing, Gabe, do it? You know?
Well she never seen this, let's show her like you know,
and usually I'm yeah, let's do it. Why not? You know,
But it's like I also think, you know, there's something
to be said about being prepared. You know, if yes,

(27:04):
if you have a dream and you have a passion
and you have something, you have a gift. I mean,
I believe everybody has gifts. Yeah, if you have a
gift that that you want to give to the world,
be ready show show the world that you're ready by
being ready, because you never know when someone's gonna be
you know, hey, can I you know, I heard you
do this thing like this happened to me. It's happened

(27:27):
to me before, you know, and I've got to be like, Okay,
let's switch into wrapper mode, you know, and like I
got to just do it, and it could be not
the greatest performance ever, or it might be you never know,
it might be the person that that you know there,
they might be a gatekeeper, you know, that an influential
gatekeeper that they then hear that and they're like wow,

(27:48):
and then you never know what happens. So I think
it's you know, uh, I think it's easy to forget
that like we should be ready, you know, like because
I've always had this dream of of rapping and and
and being a part of music, and it's easy to
just kind of get bogged down in the day to
day of life. And but anytime I hear live music,

(28:12):
anytime I'm a live I'm around live music. I'm like
I'm watching it and I'm listening, and I'm like, that's
where I would come in and start, Like I could
rap right there and this would I have the like
this one song would be so good with what they're
those guys are doing, and like I'm always just kind
of like if you watch me watch live music, you

(28:32):
can see like if you look in my eyes, I'm
like rap. I'm usually rapping in my head over whatever's going.
Like I'm just that's how I function because it's because
it's a it's a conversation. Like I feed off of
the energy of what that musicians doing. So it's it's yeah,
it's important to be ready. You know, we forget uh.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Watching Yeah, anybody can be watching it and so on. Yeah,
well so I'm I wanted somebody had brought up a
story or asked, uh man brought up a story about
the time where you got had We're asked to perform
in front of Emily Wright. For those who don't know,
Emily Wright is she's the owner co owner of Dotera.

(29:13):
It's one of the most amazing people on the planet.
So I don't I don't want you to tell that
story just yet, We're gonna hold off on that story.
I'm gonna have you tell that story in a minute,
so everybody watching, we're gonna get to the Emily Right story.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
But what I'm what.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I'm curious about right now is this You're going to
You're going to school, and you're you're having all these
amazing experiences. There's a connection between music and sociology for you.
Sure there's a major connection there. And this uh so,
this connection of sociology and and and music, I would

(29:46):
imagine then led to you kind of what I'm getting
the feeling of you discovering your purpose. And if you
can kind of tell a little bit why why for you?

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Where what does.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Music and sociology have to do with each other for you?
And obviously rap and is the vehicle right? And then
how this name that you got here in the bottom
right left corner of your screen here, where did that
come from?

Speaker 2 (30:09):
And so if you can kind of connect those two together.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Well, you know, my fifth strength is individualization. So you know,
I've always been interested in people like I love people watching.
You know, when I was in college, I would like
when I had time between classes and stuff, I would

(30:33):
like to find a bench that was in a populated
area where people are walking by, and I just I
just like to watch people. It's it's I know it
might sound weird, but it's like I'm interested in people,
how they move through their life. You know, the energy
they carry, you know, what's what they're watching. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Do you ever go to like theme parks and just
want to watch people walking?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, I mean I haven't been to a theme park
in a long time, but yeah, I mean that's that thing. Like,
it's it's really interesting to me. And I've always been
interested in what, like what motivates people and why are
some people like successful and others aren't. And I just
have and I've also I'm also interested, like in the

(31:17):
sociology spectrum of this, Like I am interested in societies
and how, you know, how a culture is organized and why,
and and that was part of what you know, being
a student at Chico State. It's like used to be
I don't know where it is now, but it used

(31:38):
to be the rated the number one party school in
the country, and every year someone would die from hazing rituals.
And that one of the years I was studying there,
there was a person there was an arsonist that was
burning down frat houses and they took down of several.

(32:03):
So it's like all you know, those I bring this,
I bring that up because it's like, this is you know,
this is people. People are doing these things. People are
doing hazing rituals, even though every year somebody dies from
it and the university has tried to restrict it. And
you know, it's this the brotherhood of the fraternities. You know,

(32:27):
they're not gonna it's like this, you know, decades old practice.
And so it's just interesting. Those things are interesting to me.
And uh so, yeah, I mean I've always been curious
about people, what motivates them, what moves them? Why do
we organize our cultures these ways? This way? That's part
of why I you know, living in the reason I

(32:49):
brought up all the stuff about Chico State is because
in that environment with the not necessarily the greatest of humanity,
in that party school environment, I also living there, I
also found incredible education. Like I had professors. You know,
it's like this weird contrast, you know, like going out

(33:11):
and I'm watching my peers just destroy themselves with alcohol
and drugs, and then and then I'm going to class.
The next day and having professors blow my mind.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Wow, Okay, that's so cool, you know, it's like that's amazing.
So it's like, so it's almost like you're getting the
experience the equal the capacity that people.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Have for good and evil. Sure, right in the same spot.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
And I can I can already see and I'm sure
people watching and listening that there's a tie, there's a
there's a connection to trafficking here, you know. Being it's
almost like it's this fascination of how a person be
so capable of one thing and at the same time
capable of the direct opposite. Yeah, to inspire people or

(33:55):
to destroy them. Right, pretty uh and intense, And I
mean I get I get the fascination.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
I really, I really do.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
This is one of the reasons why I love strengths
so much, is because it helps me see everyone's capacity
for good, regardless of whatever evils they're committing to themselves
or to other people. Right, this is something that you're
you're fascinated with as well. And I love this concept
of being interested in something and just kind of being

(34:25):
curious about it, and that curiosity is like every day, right,
and when it's every day you're curious one could argue
that it's no longer curiosity, it's now obsession. Sure, right,
see that look on your face. It's like, yeah, Gabe,
you own it, right, We get to own it.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
We're obsessed.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, and that's why we're here because we're obsessed with
these concepts and we know that people can benefit from them.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Yeah, and that's cool.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
So you're in this place in Chico State and you're
seeing the capacity for good and evil and you're connecting
music to that.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
So so how does how does that Where does music
come into this concept?

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Is it partly that, Hey, I can see these things
and I want to contribute to the solution, and I
feel like music is my gateway.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Is that? Is that part of it or is it
something else?

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I would say that that is part of it, Like
you know, I don't want to be on like you know,
preach from the mountaintop or stay on my high horse
of like you know, I can save the world with
the song. But in my experience, so in in that
mess of my college life, there was some moments that

(35:45):
were some of the hardest times I'd ever experienced in
my life. And there was also some times that were
extremely joyous too, and in those hard times, music was
the thing that kept me going. I wouldn't have made

(36:05):
it through college if I didn't have the right music.
I just it wouldn't have It wouldn't have happened. And
so I I have a I just yeah, I have because,
like I said before, it's emotion. Music is emotion for me,
and so if I'm experiencing an emotion, I can listen

(36:27):
to a song to help affect me into a different emotion,
or I can listen to a song that's a similar
emotion to help me feel like someone understands what I'm
going through. Yeah, And that's It's like I wouldn't be
I wouldn't be rapping if it wasn't for the rappers
that came before me that inspired me, and I wouldn't

(36:49):
have I wouldn't have studied music, you know, I wouldn't.
I don't know if I would have finished or gone
to college. You know. It's like it's for me, it's
been this driving thing. And does that answer your question?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
I can, yeah, yeah, but well the feeling, here's the
feeling I'm getting give it is not a driver for
you to be the one who's front and center leading
the charge. The driver for you has already seen how
other people have already led the charge, and you want
to contribute to it.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Keep going, Yeah, that's not the feeling I'm getting.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, you're right. And I would say my greatest aspiration
as a rapper, as a musician is that I can
provide that for someone else too, Like so, like those
hard times, having a song that that I can listen
to that helps me. I mean, I'm sure everybody that's

(37:45):
listening to us right now is thinking of the music
that they listen to that help them through the divorce,
or help them through the whatever, you know. And and
so if so, that's my greatest aspiration is to be
able to give back, to be able to music that
that other people can get something out of that that
might help them through a hard time, or it might

(38:07):
help them celebrate a good time. Whatever. But like having
that that music available, I mean, and it's if someone
is if someone is listening to a song of mine
and it helps them that way, then you know, that
is a great joy for me, you know, and that

(38:30):
that is what I love the most When I get
the feedback from somebody that you know, this song made
me cry because it made me think about my dad passing,
Like I have a song where I kind of talk
about my dad when he passed, and so you know,
like that that's the that's the mission for me.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, all right, I get the feeling that connectedness is
another high strength for you.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm I'm probably.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Wrong, let me see, I have them.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
I don't try to put you on the spot.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
You know, it's since you knew you're number five, I
thought maybe you might know.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Not in the top five, it's ten. It's ten, all right.
That's that's how all right? So, uh, just to help everybody.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Understand what we're Gabe is shining right now, is like
knowing how his part to play is part of a
bigger picture, as part of a bigger plant. Like being
you know, Gabe, I'm just gonna put my own word
on this. It's like being a soldier for good mhm,
you know what I mean, and you're picking up your
weapon in this case, it's music.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, and you are like that.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
I can I can already tell you. I mean, you're
like a like an ace ninja sniper with that music.
You know, when when there's a feeling that needs to
be felt, you know, the song. Right, you know what
I'm thinking, Batman, it's your belt of different songs.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
What do we need right now?

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Let's put on the turntable, let's.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Grab the mic. Yeah, you pretty much hit it. Yeah,
that's cool. All right.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
At what point did you just say I'm the inspirational rapper?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
You know, I have a background in UH in network
marketing and personal development, and uh, I think I was
coming out of a I think I was actually at
a dotera convention and before the convention, we were in

(40:41):
Salt Lake City, Utah, and we went to uh uh
Tiffany Peterson, she's a success coach, speaker fantastic material, and
it's just I don't know, I don't want to say
any one person thing, but it was like I've been

(41:01):
through so much personal development. I've sat through so many
courses that for fantastic I've been very fortunate to get
the education that I've gotten, and it was every time,
every time, it was like those questions like what do
you really want to do? Like if you had all

(41:22):
the money in the world and all the time, like
what would you do? And all those kinds of questions
that kind of get like that chip down into like
your soul, like what's really what do you really want?
It was always about what we're talking about with music.
It was always that And I think as a product
of being around so many inspirational speakers, I was just like,

(41:45):
I should just be the inspirational rapper. I have another
name that I that I started making music with, and
it was a nickname that my Indian friends gave me
when I was living in India. And I like it,
but it's not I didn't. It just wasn't quite the
fit I wanted for. And I, you know, to be honest,

(42:06):
I struggle with the name thing. Like I've thought like
for a while that maybe I shouldn't be the inspirational
rapper and I should just be like, just be Gabriel Fugue,
just be myself. I don't know, but I like I
like the inspirational rapper. I think that it speaks to
what I'm trying to do. I think that from a
like marketing standpoint, it points people that would be interested

(42:29):
in what I'm hearing, you know, versus like, you know,
there's so many like little Baby, Little Wayne Little you know,
like that's not my style. Like I'm just I'm not
gonna be like litt g or something, you know, like
you know, not not to like cupoo on those artists
are great. It's just not you. Yeah, but yeah it's
not it's not like that's yeah yeah, like it's it's hard.

(42:52):
It's hard to take encapsulate like your creativity and and
your passion and and be like what's the name for
this that you know? And I think you have to
like build the name too, Like I could be the
inspirational Rapper and nobody really might know what that means
until they hear it, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
So what I'm what I'm what I want people to
see is that these kinds of things you don't just
wake up and go, Okay, that's what going to be now,
let me go figure out how to make that come.
It's more of a it's just like, you know what,
I've been asked this question so many times?

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Who am I?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
What do I do?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
What is my passion? What is my calling? I? You know,
I We've been asked these questions so many times. At
some point you just kind of get frustrated with not
having an answer, Like you don't even have to have
a great answer, just an answer would be nice. Right
when I when I first started doing videos. I'll share

(43:48):
this with you.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
I people.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Gave me nicknames too, and I remember, this is so
cheesy and corny. It was the Wellness Deadvocate.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Oh yeah, I remember that. Oh. I like like at
the time, I was like, oh that was cool. What
was advocate? That's clever? Right? Yeah? People like it, And
after a while I just kind of like, I don't know,
that's not really me.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
So then I got other nicknames, like somebody once called
me the why Whisperer because I could find the depths
of a human soul and help them see it, like look,
this is you, and I just go, oh, that's me
and they start crying and I could do that, So
I became the why Whisperer.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
For a while, I was like, all right, I think
I think I'm not that anymore. What am I? I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
And then it became one day the Strengths Guy. And
like to me, as stupid as that sounds, it's so
much more clever and interesting to me now. Because it
was the name that I rejected.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
I hated it. I really didn't like it at all.
I was like, the strains guy, don't want to be
the strengths guy. That's so dumb.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
It doesn't even explain at all what I do. And
then I just kind of like, all right, I'll own it,
but I'll never put it in where but people can
call me that. And that's where people introduce me, like, hey,
you got to talk to Eddie.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
He's the Strengths guy.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
It works, right.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
It works whatever, honestly, down when it comes down to it,
it like, to me, I love these names. They're fun
and we can wear them for a while, like the
chain in the wallet. Yeah, until we're like I'm done
with the chain in the wallet. I'm good Now I'm

(45:31):
gonna take another step, you know. So I love the
inspirational rapper. I mean obviously because it helps people understand
why you're doing what you're doing. But obviously, hey, just
I would say this to everybody. You don't have to
marry it. Just live with it for a while, right,
and the people and people will always remember these names.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
It's just kind of cool, all right.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
So so tell me this story about Emily, right, so
just everyone understands like this is a big deal. Like
when you're around Emily, which I'm sure you've been around
her many times. When you're around Emily you feel like
this person's important and it's not just like just to

(46:12):
kind of if maybe you can share your thoughts on
Emily a little bit. For me, I'm like, this person's amazing,
this person's important and and and and whenever I'm around her,
it's like, it's just Emily. But your brain is kind
of going, but but it's it's it's Emily, right, She's amazing,
she's incredible, like she's changing the world and blah blah blah,
all these incredible things for people will know her, googled

(46:34):
her please. But so I don't know have you felt
that or had those thoughts when you're around them? Are
you See? I get kind of weird when I'm around celebrities.
I get goofy and silly and like, uh, you're famous,
you know what I mean. I don't know, have you
had any thoughts or I mean, I mean, have you
been around Emily much? Or what is your story with that?
And then kind of tell the story about how you
had to sing in front of her or rap I should.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Say sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't really get like
starstruck is you know too much? It happens sometimes, But
I think if there's a like if there's a real
charge like you've idolized, Like if it's a musician or

(47:14):
something that you've like idolized and listened to everything you know,
of course you're gonna just freak out when you meet him,
you know. So I didn't have that with the first
time I met Emily. I knew that she was important,
and I knew that, you know her, what her position was,
but I hadn't like followed her, and I didn't like

(47:34):
I hadn't listened to her speak very much before I
met her. But I would like to say that, you know,
you were talking about how you can tell one year
around her that she's important, and I absolutely agree. But
I also went to ad and I'm sure you would
agree with this too, whether she's speaking on stage in

(47:56):
front of you know, fifteen thirty thousand people at convention,
whether she's speaking to you directly, just one on one.
I cannot stress enough that she makes you feel important. Yes,
that is what I've always experienced every time I've seen
her speak in front of a group, every time I've
met her in person, she gives hard time, and man,

(48:22):
she knows everybody's name. I don't know how she does that.
I don't know how like I've never seen her stumble
and be like remind me of your name, you know,
I do that all the time. But so, but yeah,
I've met Emily a few times and I've seen her
speak several times, and she's always wonderful and super inspiring.

(48:47):
If if you've been around her, you you probably have cried.
You know she's and she probably cried too, and that's
just how we get down. That's just it's awesome. And
uh so, yeah that when I rapped for her, so,
uh so was it planned or was this like, well,

(49:11):
I don't know, I don't I wasn't planning. Somebody else
might have had an agenda, but so I'm sure you
know Simony right, Yes, I love him. So yeah, so
Simony wraps a little bit. Yeah, And he had he
had come to my area for Dotera post convention tour

(49:36):
and he was doing he was presenting, and I wrapped
at it because I have this like, you know, this
rap that's you know, involves health and wellness and you know,
taking your health in your own hands and all that
kind of stuff. And he really liked it. And so
he's been like telling, you know, Emily and and Dave
and you know, everybody, you guys gotta check this out.

(49:58):
And then we were all together in and in Hawaii
at the I don't remember exactly which event it was.
It was the I think it was the Bloom Presidence
of Presidential Diamonds Summit for Delta a couple of years ago,
and we're all We're all there and Simony had been like,
I don't know, we'd have to ask him. He might
have been like scheming on making this happen. I don't know,

(50:18):
but he'd been plugging it to Emily, like you got
next time you see Gabe, I can't do his accent,
but you know, next time you see Gabe, Emily, you
gotta ask him to rap. I can do it.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
It's like, okay, so next time you see Gabe have
to hear it.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
You have to. You have to just just go with me. Okay,
just go with me, man. And that's what I love.
I love Simoni so much.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
The people I love I can get on impression.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Sorry, go ahead, I'm just saying, I'm really sorry, Simony,
if you're listening to I'm not. I know he loves it.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
He's one of my favorite people on the Planet's like
it's okay, it's okay, man, he's talking about me.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
That's all right.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Oh good. I love it so much. His voice really
is like very calm. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah. Anyway, So,
so did he put you?

Speaker 1 (51:10):
And is that so he was plugging you, because that's
being Simonie right there.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Yeah, he'd been plugging me. And then I was I
can't remember exactly what happened, but if you if you,
I can't remember he was there or not when it happened.
But I was walking through the lobby at the at
the hotel and and Emily right was was there. She

(51:36):
was like walking by her standing and there was like
a bunch of people with her, important people, it felt like,
you know, and she just saw me and and she
she went up to me like she's you know, she
with all these people and she saw me, and she
just went to me and looked at me in the
eyes and she was like, I heard them supposed to

(51:56):
ask you to wrap for me. And I was like, uh, yeah,
of course. And so just in the middle of the lobby,
you know, I just had no music or anything. I
just did this thing that's like a three minute long verse.
It's just like non stop and she she it was cool. Yeah,

(52:22):
people liked it. The people everybody else that was around
was like, oh, we got to watch this whatever. People
start gathering, people start gathering, phones came out, you know,
all that stuff, and I'm like, okay, here we go,
and uh, what's happening happening right now. It's raw, it's real,
it's live. And uh, yeah, she was very gracious. She

(52:43):
she she looked looked me in the eyes afterwards, and
you know, uh, she just said I think she said,
that's a gift. That is a gift. Thank you for
sharing that right on and so well, to ask Emily
what she what she thought?

Speaker 1 (53:02):
This is a great example of what you were talking
about with Emily, which is, you know, she can make
you feel this way, like she can look at you
in a way that makes it easy for you to go,
I am important, I've got an important part.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
To play, I am special, and so on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
I had a similar experience with her where when I
read her strengths report in front of a bunch of
other diamonds at one of the diamond retreats, and I
broke down her strengths after looking at it for two seconds,
and I broke down who she is, like on like
a very deep level, as you've heard me do, I'm
sure many times. And she came to me afterwards and

(53:38):
said something very similar, which is like, You've got a gift.
So Tara needs this right now. Please be this, do this,
this is who you were meant to be, those kinds
of things. And I was like, that's all I needed, like,
you know, like the way I would I would tell you, Gabe,
And I'm sure anybody else is like if God's given
you this gift, and He's obviously made it obvious that
this is what you're supposed to do, your creator. And

(53:59):
then you've got Emily Wright saying, you know, like what else.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
Do you need? You know what I mean? You need
the signs people signs Eddie read the signs. Gabe, all right, So.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Well this has been awesome and and there's so much
I want to ask and I think I want to
have you come back for more because I would love
to hear you talk a little bit about your you know,
you mentioned your dad. I would love to ask you
questions about your dad and and other things. But we're
running a little alone time and so I really want
to get to this this project or you know this
song really, so if you could talk a little bit

(54:32):
about what this song is, what's the purpose, how can
people get it? You know, all these just help help
everybody get a sample of this or get this and
contribute to this cause that you're working for, and talk
about why this is important for you.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Thank you. Yeah, I I let's see. A few years back,
I started to learn partly because of doTerra, but other
organizations as well. I started to learn about human trafficking
and the issue not only around the world but also

(55:07):
in our backyard right here in all over the US,
and I started to really uh you know, I was
I knew that this happened on some level, but once
I really learned about the reality and the staggering statistics,
quite frankly, I was shocked. I was very moved and shocked.

(55:34):
And it just became apparent that there was a song
there for me to write. And the lyrics to this
song I wrote really right away. They came out really fast.
This was probably like three years ago, maybe four that

(55:55):
I wrote the lyrics and I then I went through uh,
you know, there's so I went through this. I don't
want to talk about this process too much. Because I
know we're out of time. But but I I struggled
tremendously because I wrote a chorus that needed to be sung,

(56:17):
and like I mentioned, I'm not a great singer. Well
I wasn't then, but as partly as a result of
the song and partly as a result of like, I
couldn't really find someone that I wanted to sing the chorus,
and I didn't want to like just wrap it. It
needed to be sung, and it was my It was
really my expression too. It's very personal, uh deep, it's

(56:43):
deep emotional in my thoughts and my feelings. And so
I actually went to a voice coach for two years regularly,
like like every week, and practice pretty consistently throughout that time,
and and I'm okay, I can hit some notes if

(57:05):
I practice a bunch and so so that so then
I finally it's kind of like I struggled with this song, right,
wrote the lyrics really easy, but then the singing and
then putting the whole thing together and actually recording it.
I struggled with it. Man, I wanted to quit a
bunch of times. I was like this, you know, this
is too hard. I'm not a good singer. People aren't
gonna like me. You know, there's that voice in my

(57:28):
head that kept saying, you know, I'm not enough, I'm
not good enough, I'm not a singer I have, you know,
blah blah blah. And I finally just you know, I
have very supportive people. My wife Aaron, super supportive. She
I think I took more takes on this course. It's
only like a two bar course and maybe like five notes.

(57:48):
I took more takes on that than like anything I've
ever worked on. Like it was it just and I
would like, I'd be like, okay, this is what I got,
and then I play it for Aaron and then she'd
be like, well, well, you know it's all right like
this like the singings, I mean, it's you and then
be like, oh, re record. I'm like, you're right, I

(58:11):
know it's not. But that's the best I could do
that day. And then I finally, just I finally what
I did was I just practiced the notes over and
over and over of the chorus, just just hitting them,
recognizing them, and then I got it and I got
it down good, and then I went and recorded and
it turned out really really I'm really happy with it.
But Anyways, the project. So this song is about human trafficking.

(58:33):
It's about what's going on in our country, both on
and the world. But like the statistics are there, it's
a huge problem. There's also like a little bit of
story of like how this affects people. There's a lot
of concepts in the song. And I wanted to I

(58:53):
want I wanted to raise awareness and also I'm very
fortunate to be in the position where we're going to
be raised funds too. And so there's a there's a
local nonprofit that's here in Medford area, southern Oregon called
Ride My Road, and Ride My Road has a program

(59:18):
that it does called Disruptors University where they educate a
group of people about human trafficking and what's going on,
and then that group then does a fundraiser. And so Aaron,
my wife, is in Disruptors University, and so we were like,
this is perfect, Let's get this song done and we
can then release the song and use it to help

(59:40):
raise money. So we're gonna raise We have till the
end of July so to finish the fundraiser. And then
of course we partnered with Healing Hands through Doughterra which
if you're not aware of anybody listening. Healing Hands is
completely paid for by doTerra, so no donations that go
to them. Hey, the donations are one hundred percent go

(01:00:02):
to the place they're being donated to. But Healing Hands
is a matching grant. So we're gonna raise fifteen thousand,
but Healing Hands is gonna however much we raise, they're
gonna double it and throw that in. So that's I mean,
it's fantastic. I can't believe that. It's so easy too, Like, yeah,
the process that's set that up not hard. Oh my gosh,

(01:00:23):
it's just like a form you fall out online and
then they'll either prove it or they won't. It's like
more people that are in do Terra should definitely be
taking advantage of working with Healing Hands because it's just
it's just money. It's just free money to help the world.
Like it's so cool. So so we're doing that. And
so the song actually came out today. It's you can

(01:00:45):
listen to it on Spotify, It's on iTunes, anywhere, Amazon,
wherever you find music online, you can hear the song
and any sale, like if you buy the song on
iTunes for ninety nine cents that I'm any of that
will go straight into the donations. I'm not going to
take any of percentage of it, and then we're gonna

(01:01:07):
be rolling out. Well, no, it's available now. So so
you can donate and if you donate twenty dollars, you're
gonna get a resert, you're gonna be you're gonna get
my next album when it comes out. You're gonna get
a copy of that if you donate twenty and then

(01:01:29):
if you donate fifty or more, you get the album
plus a special limited edition T shirt. Nice. Yeah, so
we're so we're doing that. We're using a hashtag, hashtag
find good People. It's actually one of the lyrics that
I'm singing directly to a survivor. And so because and

(01:01:52):
quite frankly, there's a lot of focus in the trafficking
world when you start to dive in and look at
it on fighting trafficking and doing steaing operations and busting
up and that's that's important. But people that are trafficked
are usually often trafficked by people that are family or friends,

(01:02:13):
and a lot of times it's adopted children, and so
those are the only relationships they know and a steing
operation can be traumatic, very traumatic. And then if that happens,
oftentimes the kids go right back or the adults too,
you know, whoever it is, just go right back into
that relationship and get right back into a trafficking situation.

(01:02:36):
So it's really important to help survivors of trafficking to
get on their feet. And so all of our fundraising
with this song and with Disruptors University, it's all going
to support survivors to get back on their feet, to
get therapy, to get help, to get a safe place

(01:02:56):
to be able to recover. And and that's big what
dot has been doing, Like they they built those housing
units and all that stuff to help everybody. So yeah,
so that's the song is called I can't imagine the
inspirational rapper. Just look me up anywhere. There's only one

(01:03:17):
out there and uh uh yes, love that. Yeah. And
and then there's a there's there's a link. I'm not
great at this stuff, Eddie, to be honest, though, I'm good.
I'll help you. It's all good. Some bolts. There's a
there's a link that you can go to do to donate.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Is there a website like a name or is it
one along kind of complicated.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
It's it's.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Because I can see that Aaron is watching live on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
And and she is just oh there is she just
put here?

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Donate here. Okay, it's a bit ley link b I
T dot.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
L y forward slash, r m R disrupt, r m
R disrupt. So I go to my Facebook or if
you're for those of you listen to the podcast a
little bit in the future, you're I'll put the link
in there as well. This is and I love that
find good people. This is really cool. Sorry, I think

(01:04:15):
I cut you off. Is there anything else we need
to hear? So obviously I can't imagine the name of
the song Inspirational Wrapper. They can buy it on iTunes,
listen to it on Spotify. The money that they pay
go will go towards uh this this program and then
Dote sorry healing Hands will match it, which is incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Holy cal this is amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
And so for those of you that are watching, if
you're watching on Facebook right now, or you're listening to
this podcast, share this content with other people like so Gabe,
just like me and so many of us, we've been
exposed to how much evil a person is capable of
and when you get exposed to that, you know, you

(01:04:56):
start to you start to make the the small things
become not important anymore, and it kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Gives you a focus, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
You know, it's something that funny how we go through
life and we sweat small stuff because we don't really
know how big and how you know, how like how
in how much the world is, what's going on and
what's the real world and so on. But when you
get exposed to it, I for me, it focused me.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
When I got exposed to these kinds of concepts which
I had to, I was dragged. I was dragged to
a movie theater to watch The Abolitionist. I don't know
if you remember when that was out. Yeah, I was
dragged to that theater. Didn't want to see it, but
when I saw it, it gave me hope because I
saw that there was not just there was obviously evil,
but there were people of that were good, that were

(01:05:47):
on the side of fighting this, and then we could
join them. We could lock arms, you know, we could
pick up a weapon. We can pick up a social
media site, or we can pick up a song. We
can fight, fight with who we are right so that's
the thing I would tell you gave it. I'm tell
anybody fight with what you got, Yeah, with what you

(01:06:11):
are good at. And that's that's what this is. So
do we do we want to give people a sample
this right now? Or do we want to just tell
them to go get it? How do you want to
roll on this one? You're really artist here?

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Yeah, let's let's I can do a little bit of
the song just acapella, and so people hear some of that. Yeah,
and then you know, you can go and listen to
the full song with all the music and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
All right, brother, Well I'm gonna mute my microphone so
I interrupt this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
So this, by the way, I'm so grateful to you
just sharing your story because like I'm feeling this major anticipation.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Wanting to hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
Yeah, and when I hear about the work you put
into the singing part, after you talked about you know,
telling me about like this interview has been amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
So I'm excited. Let's hear your pair you do.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
This, and everybody just enjoy my friend here and I'll
be quiet.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Thank you. Eddie. He's still talking even though he's muted.
I know, I'm still talking. I'm just like I'm excited.
You go ahead, all right, all right, the Land of
the Free, Home of the brave, where today we house
about sixty thousand slaves. If you don't believe me, you
can google the statistics or Betty Yet check your local

(01:07:28):
red light district. But keep your eyes open. It's easy
to miss it because even your daughter could get Craig's
listed starve for approval. How does this get started? They
look for daddy issues. Those girls are easy targets. Others
come from overseas or border countries, sold in the servitude
and torture for money one hundred billion or more worldwide.

(01:07:49):
How does this industry have that kind of supply? I
guess the money's too attractive and fantasy's too strong. Even
cops get it on. Damn, where did we go wrong?
But I can't understand how there's such a high the
man if you buy child for sex, you were not
h man, Oh there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
And that was I don't know if I hope nobody
saw me because I wanted to focus.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Me on you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
But when there was some lyrics in there, I was
just like, oh, you said it, and that needs to
be said.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Okay, so no more.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
That's it. That's all you all get.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Go get the song, and I'm going to challenge everybody
share it with one person. Come on, like, how many
songs are out there that are just crap? And like
in comparison to the message here, the message is important.
That's being shared. This is this is that was good?

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
Anyway, I'm gonna stop talking about it. So good, everybody
go get it, all right, Gabe, you've inspired me.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Brother.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
We've obviously got the website. Aaron has shared it on
my Facebook, and we'll make sure this gets shared out.
I'm gonna blast us to my email List've got a
pretty big, big email lesson.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
I'll make sure everybody gets it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Thank you for doing what you did.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
And I would ask anybody that's watching this on Facebook,
should should I have gay back? I already know the
answer to that, but I want to hear. I want
Gabe to see your responses. Should I have gay back
on the podcast so we can go in more because
there's so much more, so much more to talk about.
Gave any final thoughts on what you've talked about here,
anything you want us to remember you by, and then

(01:09:26):
we'll wrap up.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
I just think that I would just encourage anybody who's
listening that has gifts or dreams inside of them, which
we all do, to just don't give up on that.
You know, follow your follow your passion, follow your dream.
You know, we get caught up in the details of
everyday life, and you know, the legacy that you leave

(01:09:50):
with your art or whatever your gift is is really important.
Our world desperately needs people to live their authentic pass
and desires and it's not easy. It's not easy to
do in our culture. But we need you. We need
you to do it. And when you see I mean
that's how I operate. When I see someone doing their thing,

(01:10:12):
I want to do my thing. So I hope that
seeing me do a little bit of what I did
today and you go in and listen to the song,
I hope that inspires you to do your art or
do your passion, whatever that is it doesn't have I mean, yeah,
we need it, We need you. The world needs you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
You're not alone, my friends, You're not alone. There are
so many of us out there fighting. And I love
that you said the world needs more, so much more
of people just owning and honoring who they are Gabe.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Thank you brother.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
I have a pleasure. Thank you so much. Eddie.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
All right, Well, for those of you that are listeners
are the podcast. I hope you love this. I hope
you share this with other people. Get involved in this cause.
Follow this inspirational rapper everywhere he goes. He's going to
bring ALUs and inspire other people would do the same.
So thank you all very much. We'll see you on
the next podcast. Hi everybody, Bye guys. Thank you for
listening to the Unleash your Strengths podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
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