The Compass Chronicles: Finding Your Purpose and Leading With Heart with Mr Yu.

 In this episode, we sit down with Mr. Yu. to discuss the importance of aligning with one's purpose. We explore his transition from being a professional chef to helping people address life's bottlenecks. Mr. U shares the vision behind the "Men's Round Table" series, emphasizing the need for safe spaces where individuals can find accountability and support. We also discuss personal responsibility and the deep impact of supporting those within our immediate reach every day.

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Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Hey everyone, this is Javier from the Compass Chronicles podcast where fandom meets faith. We are so glad to have you here today. We are excited. Me and Mickey, we have a great uh guest on our show. Uh Mickey, I just want you to say hi, like you always do. Hi, Mickey.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Compass Chronicles. And yes, I'm super stoked about our guest today. I cannot wait till we dive into this conversation.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Yeah, I'm excited. So we have a wonderful guest. His name is Mr. You or Youssef Marshall. We all call him Mr. U. Uh, we're gonna let him introduce himself. Uh, and we're gonna have a great time. We're gonna talk about a lot of different stuff. So, uh, Mr. You, it's all you.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

I know I'm supposed to talk about myself, but I'm I'm never ever comfortable with that. But I in these circles, I know it's Mr. U, probably in my family. Nobody calls me Yoush Marshall, but that's my name. Everybody calls me Mr. U pretty much everywhere. Uh, I'm a high performance coach, multi-podcast host. I have three shows downgraded from tens, and I have three now, just trying to stay focused and streamlined. Um, beside that, I'm also a minister, a community, faith, and community leader here locally. And beside that, author, speaker, and a few other things I do as side hustle. So I stay busy, but my coaching is my uh my my biggest love, and it comes through in my uh media work here. So that's what I'm doing, and grateful to be here with you guys, Javier and Mickey, and great to meet you, Mickey, for the first time. And glad to be on compass. Thanks.

X-Men And Feeling Different

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Thank you so much, man. Uh I appreciate you coming on, taking the time to come on. So we sort of have a little bit of a of a setup when we do here at the sh uh at on the compass. We have a couple of questions and we asking you take it from there. So uh my first question for you is growing up, was there a comic, movie, TV show, or fandom you really connected with and looking back now, about that story or character stuck with you the most?

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Let's see. I was a huge comic book fan growing up. I had stacks from to be honest with you, I have no idea where they ended up. Uh that's another story for a different guy. Uh, but X-Men was the comic book that I was uh attached to the most. Uh be honest with you, I didn't know why until my adulthood. Because as you as you're an adult, you have more perspective, you see things like, ooh, that was in it the whole time. I didn't know that was that was that was back in the background, you know. You start uh analyzing a little bit more. But for me, watching X-Men as an adult, the movies, I realized that, you know, okay, now I know I relate to this. Not because I was a mutant growing up, but just because I always felt like I was different. So I didn't fit in my environment. I'm from New York City originally, and you know what it is, it's hustle and grind, all the things that go with it. That's how I lived. But I was always, I always felt like I had a heart. I didn't grow up around people who had a heart in New York. It was kind of like, you know, step over whoever you gotta step over to get to where you gotta get to, you know, mind your own business. Somebody's being beaten in the apartment next door. Mind your own business, stay out of it. And that and for me, that always felt weird to me. It felt like it was not uh it didn't fit it didn't fit me. It didn't fit who I felt like I was character-wise. So that comic book, I learned so much from that. I'm like, you know what? This person, these people are so different, and they struggle with their abilities, but they still have a place in the world. So that's kind of why X-Men uh stood up to me then and probably a little bit now, too. More Avengers now, but you know, yeah, definitely X-Men for sure.

DC Vs Marvel And Story Tone

SPEAKER_01 4:07

So you're just like Mickey, your mom.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

I'm a DC fan, man. Sorry. I tried, brother. I mean, I had I had comments I had I had both of them. I had Green Lantern and I had Flash, but something something about it, it just I don't know how to describe it, but maybe you guys can help me out with that. It just felt like it was like it felt like it was like the the B comic book. It was like it wasn't it wasn't A. It was never A, it was always B. And I don't know why. Do you do you guys know why DC seemed to fall behind?

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Mickey, I'm gonna let you answer that one because I can keep going. So you can't let you go.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

I mean, I guess for me, for me, it was just preference in what I liked versus you know what I liked more over the other. But I can see what you mean by that. Um, I'm I'm a super I I love Captain America. Like he's my hero. Like I have a lot of him in my in my house and stuff, but um, I love Avengers and I like those stories. And Hulk, I I really like Hulk too. I can relate with him as well. I I love that he gets called, you know, they he he they don't he doesn't want to get pushed into anger, right? But yet, you know, when he's in the Avengers and he I love the one part where he's smashing Loki and he's like puny God, and I'm like, yes, yes, you know, you know, that it's just some of the stuff that comes out that they say just really draws me to it. But as far as the differential, I think it's just a personal preference. Like Javier likes his preference and I like mine, and um, I'm okay with it either way. So I just think it's your, you know, what you choose is what you choose.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

Yeah, I'm just curious to know why it was it feels so different to me. I hope you guys can bring some insight to that. You guys sit on on your side of the house, you don't want to mess with it, but I'm asking for helping you guys and trying to help me out. I'm trying to understand why did DC feel like like it did.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

You know, I just so let me try and and and and on my my opinion on DC and Marvel. Now, as a kid growing up, I grew up in my first comic book was Sgt. Rock. Now that's I remember that. You know, I even I even tattooed him on my arm, so he's on my arm. But um I'm all comic booked up. I'm all tattoos, all my tattoos are comic books. Um, but the way I like DC was because DC had darker stories, there were darker stories like Batman is a dark story, um, even Superman's uh stuff he goes through is a dark story. Marvel to me was too kiddish or too like too many, too many mutants, and everyone was a mutant, and everyone was this, and it's too much for me. Now when it comes to movies, Marvel rocked it, DC animation movies, they got a lot of work to work on. But that's the way I I've always looked at DC and Marvel. Fair enough. But DC to me has always been dark. They they have DC uh dark now, they have adult dark comics, they have more, you know, and Marvel goes more towards, of course, Disney, so they go more towards the kids and and more to get that. But uh that's me. But anyway, we're not here about me, we're here about you. So Mickey, you have any questions or whatever you want to talk to them?

SPEAKER_00 7:11

I do, but I know you have a couple questions ahead of that, so I'm gonna let you take off with that, and then I'll jump in here in a little bit. All right, so I'm I'm I'm gonna hit you.

Practical Leadership Growth And Purpose

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Don't fart over me, guys. Don't fight over me. We're tag teaming you, brother. So um, I'm gonna hit you with not even a comic book one, I'm gonna hit you on where you're at. And so your work through Maritime Media, right? And your coaching focuses on helping people sharpen their edge. What are some practical steps someone listening to right now could take to start growing as a leader in their own life?

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Yeah, our coaching practice, everyday edge coaching, is dedicated to that. Uh, mirror time media is more about the podcast side of things. That's the uh, I guess the brand for our three shows. Uh, but they all work really work hand in hand. I I I designed it that way. I wanted the podcast to, and I didn't do that initially. If you go back and look at the episodes from 2020 up to maybe 2023, 2024, you'll see that I was in a lot of different things. I had a lot of sports going on at one time, I had a lot of uh worldviews and not politics per se, but just you know, life views and perspectives and stuff. This year, well, the end of I'd say mid to late last year was when I kind of had the epiphany that my coaching practice needed to be extended beyond just private clients, which I still do, beyond just group coaching, which I'm still gonna do be doing. Uh I felt like I had to extend out the podcast work because I'm talking and I'm speaking, and this stuff I can't I can't suppress the coach in me. He comes out at the supermarket. I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't shut that man down. He comes out at the baby shows. I mean, he I can't I can't get rid of him. So I said, why not go ahead and filter that into the podcast? So the podcast now, the new look, if you will, is all designed to be an extension of the coaching practice. I'm speaking to leaders, generally faith and community leaders, but people who are entrepreneurs, people who actually coach other people, and I'm trying to help them move the bottlenecks from their marriages, from their business ventures, their entrepreneurship, or just from their personal development. Every question that I got over the past 30 years has been centered around purpose. Nobody says that word out loud out loud, but that's that's the uh that's part of their queries. It's the reason why they have a question to ask me. It's the reason why they want to have insight and jump on a call or be at a coffee shop with me and have a 30-minute, 45-minute discussion because they're not sure of their purpose. They're not aligned with their purpose. Their value system is off. They've been doing this for 10, 15, 20 years and they don't know why they're doing it. It doesn't make any sense. They feel the pressure of trying to provide for their families, but they're not doing the things that they enjoy, the things that matter to them. So our practices and through the podcast as well, through our all three shows, it's just an attempt, my attempt, to try to help people with that in a more broader, broader way, where I can't physically reach people. I'm hoping a podcast can kind of help coach them from a distance and help them connect some dots and perhaps maybe some deeper conversations about where they are. When you go to purpose and leadership and entrepreneurship and things like that, family, etc.

Men’s Mentorship And Safe Conversations

unknown 10:25

Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Mickey?

SPEAKER_00 10:27

That's really good stuff, actually. I was um when I was watching one of your episodes um with um men's around the series with Rory, with Rory, and that's when Javier I think was on. Um I I want to say something that I think um um I want to hear your input on. I think it's amazing that you have this um courage that you want to actually um mentor men in being a father, being a husband, being a leader, being an entrepreneur, and stepping up to the plate for what God's given purpose is for what men are. And I know that there's this like stereotypical, like um, you know, we're like, oh, men are masculine, women are emotional, you know, men are physical, whatever. And you think, man, he's ministering to men. And I know there's a lot of women ministering to women, but I love that you actually are like, you know what? Men need to be talked to too. It's not just about, you know, women, you know, crying on each other's shoulders or whatever, but that real life stuff that you guys talk about, where you guys are bringing it to the table and you're like, hey, let's talk about what is what does it mean to be a good father? What does it mean to be a husband? What does it mean to live in, you know, such a diverse community? What does it mean to to do the things that you're doing? I'm actually really honored by that because of, you know, it it takes you to an actual different level of masculinity because a lot of people sometimes would think, man, you know, men don't like to talk about these things. They don't want to bring these things to the table, but here you are doing it. And the conversations I watched were amazing. And I was like, man, there's so many people out there that need to hear this, you know, like that it's okay for men to have these conversations and um get down to the heart of it because that's how you grow. I think that's how you grow. And that's what God does when He gives you that purpose in life. Um, when you get down to the root of everything, it brings the ability to produce that fruit when you can recognize, hey, I'm you know, this is what it takes to be a good dad, this is what it takes to be a good husband, a good leader. And you're doing that. So I I'm really honored by you. I'm I'm so excited that I'm I'm getting to meet you. I followed you with a couple episodes. Um, I will continue to follow you. But as a mentor to men, do you ever find it difficult at all with some of the topics that you discuss? Like, hey, this is what it takes to be a good dad. And maybe they're not kind of stepping up to the plate, but you're kind of just kind of drilling it home. Does is that does that seem to ever be a hard thing for you to deal with?

SPEAKER_02 12:51

Uh absolutely for a lot of reasons. Uh, firstly, thank you for the compliment. I I love hearing that. Believe it or not, I hear from more women than I do men about the men's round table series podcast. You can figure it out when I on your own time. I have no idea how that's happening. But I get messages from people who are wives, daughters, sisters, and and and and and whatnot, and and they and mothers, and they appreciate it. They appreciate me speaking to the men. They want their husbands to be more involved, but they're not. They want their brothers to be involved, or they're not, and they really appreciate it. So thank you for seeing what you're saying. It's it's definitely a hard conversation. A lot of times I I put and I won't take it lightly, the topics that we talk about. I do call it a safe space for men, and I try to keep it that way. That's why I recently allowed women to come into the chat. That was not a thing before we first started. We were on a monthly broadcast. That wasn't happening. I just had them barred from I didn't want them to come in and attack. Okay that could happen. I didn't want it to happen. So now they're allowed in the chat, and we moderate to make sure we filter out who's uh comment that needs to be on on center stage. So women could you can you can be in the chat now and I'll and I'll I'll speak to you what you what you put in the chat if it's a viable question for the for the topic that we're talking about. But it's always a hard topic. I mean, because I mean men are complex, and I and I'm not saying that we're not emotional because we I think we already dispelled that myth on plenty of shows recently. But we are we're a little bit complex, and we have some stuff to stuff to deal with, and we need the accountability and the clarity, and a lot of times we don't have it. So I'm answering the question without being clunky, I'm already clunky as it is, I think. But I mean I'm I'm answering the question uh in two ways. One, I put everything that we talk about through the filter of Mr. You. I'm putting it through my life first. I don't come out here. Well, you know, here's a topic. Oh, chat GPT, what should we talk about this week? It doesn't happen. I put it through the filter first. If it's something I'm dealing with, I'm probably guessing, you know what? Somebody else is probably dealing with it too. I don't hold it back and think, oh, I'm so unique and so special. It's only happened to me, me, me. No, I put it out there, and usually those topics are they hit home, they hit they hit dead center where I'm at in life, and and the men respond to it because they're feeling the same thing. So I'm I'm I'm grateful that I can be transparent and it's opening up transparent doors for other people as well. As far as the coaching part, it's funny because I've been coaching for 28 years, about 28, 28 and a half years, and I was coaching men and women up until last year, or technically January of this year. Uh and it wasn't because I don't want to, I guess I kind of felt like you know what, I needed to kind of niche down and focus on uh specific areas. I know there's specific women out there specifically that would like me to coach them. They're ponging the idea, they gotta convince me. One, they're gonna do the work because I'm gonna put you to work. One that you're gonna do the work, and two, that you're gonna you're gonna be okay with being coached by a man. That's important because your husband's not if he's coming up, if he's coming up short in some areas when it comes to being a father and a husband, but talk to you about that kind of stuff. Are you are you are you willing to take that? You know, it's it's different when talking to the husband himself or the father himself, but now I'm talking to the spouse of the father, the husband, or the daughter of the dad that's not, you know, he's hiding out in the garage and he ain't showing love to the rest of the family. I gotta I want to have uh have an NDA. I want to make sure I have your consent to be able to coach you and talk through some stuff. So that's why we're doing men specifically, but definitely a challenge because I gotta put it through the filter of myself and make sure that I'm being honest and forthright with me before I try to put out here for the whole world. A lot of podcasts don't even care about that kind of stuff. They hit record and they just blah give you whatever they got, you know. And it's like I don't want to do that, so I'm I'm very, very careful and deliberate about every single topic. And I moderate it so much that I don't even get a chance to talk on our on our show. I barely speak. People are like, we need to hear from you more. I'm like, I'm I'm trying, but I gotta make sure that you know things are taken care of. So did I answer the question? Because I feel like I went up in it on a tangent. A couple of yes.

unknown 17:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

No, I think it's I think what you're saying is perfect and straight on, but um, I just think it's interesting, like you said, and and I can see how women could definitely have a lot to say about what you're doing for this minute, especially for the ministry for the work of the Lord, because you know what it says in the Bible that men are, you know, you know, where men are and where men women are, we all have our place in the in the in the word of God. And I think it's there's some people that are like, oh, the men has to be in control and the head, and la. And the women have to just be quiet, sit down, and you know, and then there's and then there's the opposite, because I know I I haven't met too many women that have actually done any of that. So I I I see men that are like trying to fulfill the role that God plays on them, and they don't do it because they get sometimes they get shut down by women, or we just, you know, we stomp on them, and I feel bad. Um, God's really worked on on my life and you know, um, with my upbringing, which is a whole another episode for another time. But um as I was watching some of your episodes and I was just I was just admiring um the communication and the words that people were bringing to the table, and they they were being honest and talking about it, and they're like, well, you know, this is how, you know, this is what's resonating, this is this isn't resonating with me. I don't understand what this means. I do understand what this means. And it just it makes you feel good to know that um like like in a relationship status, because I know you're married, and or even being for me, I'm single, but I've been married. It's like when you're trying to find that other connection, you kind of know you want to be able to resonate. And I see that you're doing that with men, and it's just it just amazes me. So I I I loved it. I actually enjoyed watching it. I didn't know I wasn't, I didn't know that you didn't accept comments because I think I commented on one, so I don't know if you ever commented that if it's if it's a recent one, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

You you already you already uh not grandfather name, but you already in the loop because it this happened probably about uh two months ago where we didn't. Okay, so it was about a couple weeks ago, yeah. So you you you already in already, so no problem. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Um, so I'm gonna tell you from the men's side because I'm getting benefit from that show and from that podcast and that men's group. Um they don't understand when we had that conversation about um in the show when we talked about isolation and that whole aspect. I think that was so real to me. It was so like you guys were talking to me, and God was talking through you guys to me, like talking, like it felt like these were friends or brothers telling me you gotta snap out of this, we gotta do something to work with it, let's do it, let's go. And uh, I appreciated that, especially coming from men, from a person who's pretty much isolated. I I'm in my place in my world, and uh, but I do appreciate when we have that openness and there's that safe space. That's why I tell people here when we come on this show, uh, yeah, we're about comics and we're about fandom, but it's a place where we can talk about anything, it doesn't matter. Uh, I don't like to pigeonhole if God directs the the topic to somewhere else, then that's where we'll go. Of course, we want to keep it in in a in a good way, but uh, like you know, the men's show, we we just it's just something about that connection that men need to show that there are people out there, there are men out there that are dealing with the same exact issues you're dealing with, or never even thought about because you did bring up subjects like hmm, never thought about like isolation to me is like normal thing. I'm from New York. We isolate, we don't really commiserate with everyone around us, it's just our nature, but um, so yeah, I and I want to say that I appreciate uh the men's round table a lot, and uh, and you know, I you know, I blow it up, I put everything in there for it because I think it's a benefit not just to men but to women and to families. Uh, I think uh, like you said, when the women start to come in and start to understand where we're coming from in a way, or where God is telling men to do, because like Mickey said, God, we're the head of the household, we have a different way of responsibility than what women have. And I think it's held to a higher standard.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

And uh what more ways to learn.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Yeah, and what Mr. U is doing and and and the men's group, I think it's holding all of us in there. So, but anyway, enough about it.

The Bridge Story And Responsibility

SPEAKER_02 21:24

It's it's it's it's good stuff, man. And I'm glad you guys are uh getting something out of it, man. Because the whole the whole point is there's a uh I tell a story from time to time, and I don't mean to make light of it. I never truly try to do that, but on on our way to where we go to church now, there's a bridge, and every once in a while, somebody's standing on it. Every once in a while, it's not every week or anything, every once in a while, somebody's standing on it, mainly because they feel like nobody cares about their voice, nobody cares about what they have to say. They don't have anybody that wants to hear their hurt and their anguish, and they usually get talked down. I don't know what happened after that. I mean, it's kind of outside of my page, but I don't know what happens there. But I that was a big part of why I started the Men's Round Table Series podcast. Because I wanted men to know, not just nationwide, but worldwide, that somebody, if there's only one person, they care about what you have to say. If you're not here, they're gonna miss you. They I don't care if it's a store owner that's usually you coming in and buying a buying a Coca Cola, you you you you're impacting somebody. Somebody's accustomed to you and gonna miss you when you're gone. You don't have to be five and ten and twenty people. That's um a myth, that's that's weird uh social mythology. We don't need to lean into that. If it's just one person, that's enough to hang around, that's enough to not shortstrip it your life. So I told everybody that comes to the Men's Round Table Series podcast as a guest, or as a panelist, really, or you're in the chat helping us out because we need help in the chat big time. So we always need that. Uh, or you just watch it from a distance. I tell folks, the whole point of this is not for me to get analytics and to build up a YouTube channel. That's not even that's not even where I want to be at right now. It's not even where the numbers are not where I want them to be, not what I expect they should be. And that's a different story for a different day. I'm not mad about that. It is what it is. But the point is that I want you to take what we're talking about and apply it where you have influence. There's three to five guys that you walk past every single day and you keep right on stepping, and you don't find out how they're doing, you don't take the time to stop your schedule, your routine, and just to stop and say, You doing good, man? That person could be the next one on the bridge or the one with the bottle of pills in their hands. And we got a responsibility. I'm I'm making it our responsibility because I think it is. Some folks should shrink back from that. Oh, that's too much for me to handle. Fair enough. You ain't gotta be on my show. I'm gonna sleep tonight, it's all good. But the whole point is that we have a responsibility, whether you want to take it or not. So I want people, and it's guys who have been on our earlier shows when we started in June and July, they started managed groups in their garage at the local coffee shop. They're starting it, they're taking a vision and they're winning with it. It's really all I want. If you won't subscribe to my YouTube channel, if you don't want to share our show other people, okay. I won't be asking you, but what only I am asking is that you take the time to stop and reflect who you can influence within your experience, where you are. If you get your YouTube channel and trying to reach the globe, just in your community, it's three to five guys you see every day. I don't think it's the male man, they work at the supermarket, the dude at the gym, they might not be okay. Take the time to extend yourself. That's all I want to do through this show is to keep uh communication flowing and let folks know they're not by themselves. That's it. Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Um, there's so when you when you say that, um, I think about um, and I think Mickey, I've told the story before. Um, there was uh a preacher, and uh he was outside, you know, preaching to everyone, you know, like they do the round tables, everybody's talking and they're debating, and a gentleman came up to him and he asked the gentleman, he asked the the announcer, what uh what do you think about uh suicide? You know, and he bought him that question. And what happened was this gentleman wanted to prove his point so much that he didn't, you know, he he he won the argument per se, and the man walked away. And a friend came to me and said, Do you know why that man asked you that question? He goes, Why? Because his wife just killed herself a day ago, killed himself. So the whole point is that you're not there to win the argument, you're there to listen, understand, and you know, at that moment that man was asking for help. And we were so busy trying to prove a point and to win an argument that you know, and I think that's where the men's round table is, where we all can just say what we say, and if we don't understand, we ask. We don't understand, or you know, and and I think that's one of the beautiful things about having a men's group and a woman's group and a family's group and a children's group, all that stuff that can coincide and make the family life well. Um, so I have a question for you, unless Mickey, you have a another question.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

I just have one quick question. It's a little bit off track. I always have to be the oddball, but that's okay. I don't mind. It's got the way God equipped me. I love it. Um, so used to used to be a chef. Absolutely. Okay, I thought, what is your favorite thing to cook? I just had to I have to ask you. I used to be a chef, so I kind of want to know what your favorite thing to cook is, and if it still is.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

It's it's it's gonna be anticlimactic. But it's a tough one. I mean, because I I've done the way I was trained, I learned how to do like royal cuisines and things from different places, Italian, Mediterranean, so on. Okay, so it's kind of a cross between because I tried to perfect uh a dish that my mother, she from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barbados specifically, and I try to uh master this West Indian dish. It's like a curry chicken dish. I try to master that, but I think that the thing I enjoy the most, I see the most joy of in front of me is when I make homemade Chinese food. I grew up in New York and the Chinese food on every corner. You know, we ate it. I mean, I'm not sure if we knew what we were doing, but we were, you know, but but we but we ate it and we and we were good. I don't know what happened after that. That's left to your imagination. But you know, I always felt like, you know, why happen if I make some Chinese food that's actually good for you? It's not gonna hurt me afterwards. So I've done that for our family for many years, and they always seem to enjoy it so much and want more and more. Like, make it again, make it again. So it's kind of cross between those two, but I probably would lean toward the Chinese food because I just seen so much joy come out of it. The other one's more of a project to try to perfect something knows that mom can be proud. But I think Chinese food, uh the homemade Chinese food is what go all out with all of the uh all the fixings and everything, I'll do it all.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

So wow, nice, yeah. Nothing like Hut Chinese food in New York, nothing like Hut Chinese food.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Yeah, I know. It is nothing, yeah. What what is it?

SPEAKER_01 28:33

Yeah, exactly. Uh and yeah, especially now the stuff. I mean, the rice is yellow instead of brown. I mean, I don't even understand that myself, so we'll leave that alone. But um, so I have one question we ask every single one of our guests before we end the show. So we want to ask you this. By the way, all of Mr. Yu's stuff will be in our show notes. Every link, every page he has, everything will be on there for you to follow him. I recommend, as a man, follow the group, follow the the the uh men's round table. I'm telling you, it's gonna be a blessing. Um, so if someone is listening right now and feels stuck, discouraged, or unsure about their direction in life, what is one piece of encouragement or wisdom you'd want to leave with them today?

SPEAKER_02 29:27

That's that's tough because I don't ever want to say anything that's gonna sound like it's cliche.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

You know what? It may be cliche to you, but somebody may hear it and say, Oh so feel for you, brother.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

I mean, uh I think I think about just where we are right now because I I I can't think about okay, go to this place, go do this. I don't have a formula, but right here, right now, if you're watching and listening to this show and you're listening to Haggini and Mickey, and you appreciate what they do, you appreciate the heart behind what they do, reach out to them. They may not be able to uh have the bandwidth to handle what you what you're dealing with. Maybe they can connect you to somebody else who can do that. Maybe somebody who has the ability to deal with uh with you what you're challenged with. So reach out to them, send Javi and Mickey a message. Say, you know what? I listened to the show, I heard this, I love to talk to somebody. And I feel just I just feel like we, you know, it's not just a men thing. People do it on both sides of the of the gender aisle, but I just feel I just feel like we have, yeah and I mean this, I hope this comes out right. Sometimes I say some of the craziest things, but it's in my spirit. I feel like we have more opportunities around us than we think we do. Sometimes we're blinded to it because of what we got going on in our life, and we don't realize that you know what? It's not as it's not as dire as it looks. It gets blown up to capacity, and it's usually outside forces, voices, people just kind of speaking in it, it shouldn't be speaking into your life. No, everything's going on inside your head, on top of that. So it's a really crazy cocktail of a whole bunch of stuff. But I really feel like we have people around us that care and that will listen. You know, so but to keep it simple, if you're watching this show and you're listening right now, you got two people, well, three now, that actually care about where you're at and are willing to talk you through whatever you're dealing with, at least to some degree to get you to a place where if they can't help, but so far they can connect you to somebody that can. So reach out, send a message. But you can pick up the phone, reach everyone, and give yourself a chance to walk your destiny out and not forfeit it.

Where To Follow And Final Thanks

SPEAKER_01 31:42

That's all you see that that touched me right there. I was like, whoa. But again, uh everyone, everything will be in our show notes. Uh, please like, comment, and leave a on the show, leave a remark on the show. Um, please share it. Uh, we appreciate the love that everyone has had for the show. Uh, we appreciate Mr. U for coming on. Thank you for having me. You have been awesome, Mickey. As always, you rock. And um, we will be coming on. Um, we have some amazing things coming soon. Uh, some amazing guests coming on, and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Uh, Mickey has a lot of stuff going on too. Uh, if you want to say whatever's going on with you, you can say it now, you can announce it. Uh, it doesn't matter, just we want people to get to know everyone and what they do. So tell them what your podcasts are and all that.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

You mean Mickey or me? Mickey, Mr. U, you can do it too.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

You can go ahead and go ahead and give me everything and then Mickey right after you got a lot going on. I'm like, I'm so sorry. You see? All right, this is all learning experience.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, I'm like, okay, what okay, okay, good.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

I messed that one up, and I'm not cutting that out either. It's coming in the video.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

It's all good. I don't think you're wrong. It is what it is. We got three shows. Uh, one is uh where I do a lot more of the teaching and the coaching one-to-one with the people, it's called the Inspiration Station. I'm really proud of it because it's the only place where uh about the three shows where I really my freestyle, which is a good thing in some situations. But if you're an excuse maker, it's gonna be really bad for you to watch the inspiration station. You're gonna you're gonna hate it because I I dig into that stuff and I call you to an account. I'm doing this to myself before I even hit record. So, the inspiration station, you can find that there, the men's roundtable series podcast. You heard it referenced a couple times already. Every Thursday night at 7 o'clock p.m. EST. Men get together in a safe space. We have uh panelists and folks in the chat helping us out, people watch us from a distance. We talk about issues that are germane to men, and we keep it real, real, real, really real. We're gonna pull punches on that show, even with the guys that are on the panel. I don't cut no slack with them, you know better. So we so I I hold them to hold their feet to the fire as well. And our third show is uh one-on-one with Mr. You it's our interview show, it's kind of our flagship. We interview folks from around the world, we get compelling stories, strategies, and tips on entrepreneurship, personal development, coaching, those kind of things. So coaching does come out in that show as well. But can it be some awesome people who have a lot to say and a lot of uh ways they want to change the world? So I want to share it with the world by doing it through that show. So those are all three shows right there. And of course, you have a link to our landing page if you want to reach out to me or find any of our work, the YouTube channel and Apple Podcasts. I can always get another follow and subscription is great. It helps us continue to put out great content. I'm I'm a little far away from my goal right now, but I want to get there, but I'm a little far off of doing some bigger things. But we have all that stuff in the show in the show notes, man. But thank you again for you both having me on today. I it's been really fun. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

It's it's been a pleasure for both of us. And like I like you said, everything will be in the show notes. Mickey's also, Mickey, go ahead, but her stuff will also be in the show notes.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

Even holding you back for a minute now.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Go ahead. Oh no, it's okay. I just I was kind of sure. I was like, should I speak or should I wait a second? So um, yeah, I'm the um the host um and CEO of uh Crushing Strongholds podcast. Um, I'm also a Christian breakthrough breakthrough coach where I help people overcome strongholds and obstacles and um get out of that stuff position that we all get into. Um I also have two other podcasts, which is faith builders and truth be told, their branches off from sort of the fruit to the crushing strongholds, where um I do have two uh co-hosts on each of those shows. One where we actually just bring the word of God and we just speak the truth. And the other one is where we want to build the people's faith and then help them to walk in God's given purpose. And then I have until my watch is over, and that is a podcast about dementia because I care for my grandma who um currently is on hospice right now, and we're kind of reaching the end of life. But um, I want to resonate with people and um let other caregivers know that they are not alone in the long goodbye. And so I I am a person with um many, many plates, but I, you know, and and I love to be a co-host on this show as well. So yeah, that's kind of what I do currently. So thank you for that.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

And uh, like I said, everything will be in the show notes. Uh Pumpus Chronicles podcast is under Grace and Grind Ministries, which I am CEO and president of. We also have Sasquatch Syndicate Studios, where we do all music, logos, any media asset you need, you can come and check us out. Uh, all that will be in the notes. Uh, we also thank you so much for listening, following, and uh, we hope we will catch you in the next show. And uh, we I say you have all a great week and God bless.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

Thank you. God bless you guys.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

Thank you guys.