Build It Before They Believe It!

What if the reason you’re stuck…
is because you’re waiting for the rain?

In this powerful episode of the Black Sheep Leadership Podcast, we break down the truth about faith, purpose, and why you must build before the opportunity arrives.

Using the analogy of a farmer, this episode dives deep into:

🔹 The difference between purpose and destiny
🔹 Why most people wait too long to start
🔹 The seed principle and unseen growth
🔹 How your story becomes your blueprint for success

If you’ve been waiting for:

✔ the right time
✔ the right audience
✔ the right opportunity

This episode will shift your mindset completely.

Because the truth is…

You don’t wait for momentum. You create it.

#ClarityIsPower
#StayFocused
#BuildInSilence
#TrustTheProcess

"INFORMATION IS EVERYWHERE EXECUTION IS RARE"

Transcript

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Hey, what's going on, everybody? It's your girl Thina Renee here back with another episode of the Black Sheep Leadership Podcast. This podcast is all about serving you strategy and tactics for the underdogs, misfits, and the black sheeps with no fluff, no filter, and no fear. Today we're going to be talking about why you gotta build it before people believe it. Alright? So grab pen and paper, y'all, because this is going to be one that is going to help you really, it's going to give you that gas you need if you one have not started whatever it is. If you said you want to clean your house, level up your career, start a business, nonprofit, go back to school, whatever it is. This episode is really going to give you that final push you need. And if you have already started and you feeling discouraged, this episode is going to give you the confirmation you need to keep going, keep moving forward. Okay. So grab pen and paper because you know, as usual, your girl is gonna drop three things on you that you can implement in your life today. Okay. I want to send a warm welcome out to my first time viewers. Appreciate you. What's up? Listen, you're gonna learn a lot on this podcast. Check out any of our work, download the free resources we have. Welcome to the community. Also, um, oh, let's do this vibe check. Yeah, because you know, guys, sometimes it gets really off the chain, and it's all it's always gonna be real here, but you know, something may slip up, come out, but it's all for the ascension of the black sheep. I've been teaching and training and mentoring black sheep for over 20 years through conversations, coaching, as well as over seven books all about the black sheep ascension, as well as small business growth. Okay, now with that being said, let's get into this episode. Oh, I'm sorry. Let's back that up because I'm ready for this one, y'all. This one is really good. Um, I did I did two days of research for this. Um, I had to go back actually and grab some more notes for this one. This is really, really a special episode, guys, and I just I'm praying. Whoever needs to hear this one, um, this is gonna really give you some insight on everything that's going on right now because we're living in a weird time. But one thing I want you to understand what's different about this podcast is, guys, we're not talking about that fluff out there. It's always gonna be something that comes out to get you distracted. We're dropping gems on you so that you can level up in any economy, any season. We want you to be good and set and straight. And everything that I'm sharing with you on this podcast, I'm already implementing it. Okay, so with that being said, that vibe check is this. Listen, if you easily trigger, sensitive, offended, you're looking for somebody to come save you, you wait on the best president, country, conglomeration, or whatever, this ain't it. So go ahead and slide. Everybody else, let's get into it. Now, listen, y'all. Most people wait for the rain before they bring an umbrella. But the smart ones pack an umbrella every day. Why? Because they know they can't predict every single day. Most people they wait for opportunity, they wait for the audience, they wait for the money and the confirmation before they move. But the truth is, if you wait for the rain, you're already too late. Because the ones who win, the ones who eat really good, they are the ones who build it before the storm ever shows up. See, when you want to talk about making it rain, how you gonna, if if we do make it rain, what you gonna catch it with? What system are you aligning and setting yourself up for the blessings, the lifestyle that you're at looking for andor asking for? So today, this episode is going to help you do everything I told you earlier, right? It's gonna give you that boost, it's gonna give you that confirmation and know that you're in the right, you're doing the right things, but also it's going to enlighten you about systems and really putting into play, guys, you have to prepare before you can prosper. Okay, it's so many quotes about preparing, but today is more so not just preparing because, guys, we're not planning and making wish lists, we really doing this thing, and this is all about action. Okay, so as you know, guys, a lot of my teachings I always give you guys very simple analogies. Why? Because I'm pro I want to prove to you, and I'm continuing to prove this to you over and over and over and over again. Everything we share on this podcast, they are rooted in principles that happens no matter what. Like what seasons, no matter what somebody tells you on the news, YouTube, no matter what, we know we're gonna have four seasons every year. Seasons come, seasons go, and that's the same thing as like with business, guys. Everything that we discuss here, these are going to be things that you can apply in your life for success. Because regardless, if you implement it in your life, it's gonna happen anyway. They're gonna work for somebody else, but we have to work them, all right? So, today we're talking about building these systems. We're talking about you building whatever it is that you see that you want in your future. Today, we're I'm telling talking to you about why you need to build it started before it comes. And here's the thing, guys. In your mind, you can already see the end, you can already see it finished, but the thing about it is a lot of us get discouraged when we're in that middle phase because we're like, I'll wait until people come, I'll wait until somebody needs the help. No, it's quite the opposite, and I'm about to prove to you why. First and foremost, as I was talking to you guys about the different principles that I always use on this podcast, and I'm going back to my favorite one. This is the law of the seed. The law of the seed. Okay, and what what am I what do I mean by the law of the seed? Well, in case this is your first time here and hearing about the analogy of the law of the seed, everything you need, even you are a seed, and within us one little seed, it can it contains a huge future, but it requires a few things, and the cool thing about it is when you look at a seed, a seed requires this no matter what it is. So anytime you need to grow something, you need to think about a seed. What seed do I need to grow it? However, the first step is you must understand what exactly do you want to grow? When you think about your life, your business, everything, your family, look at look at your children, look at your pets, look at your life in general. Okay, you everything around you, it started as a seed, and before it became an actual seed, someone or something had to be planted. So that also means someone or something had to take the action, the initiation to say, you know what, this is what I want. Let's do it. Even though sometimes we might plant seeds that we didn't even want, regardless. We got the seed, we got the uh we have the principle of the seed. Okay, so what I want you to think about is what is it that you truly want? You know, in this day and age, guys, listen to me very carefully as a black sheep, because if you resonate with black sheep, misfit, underdog, or any of that, man, like this message and all the messages that I'm dropping on you guys, they so very important to you. Whoever this reach, whenever it reaches you, don't ever let these are timeless messages. That's why I specifically use strategies and principles and tactics that have been roaming around since the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire has left, guys. I got uh today in this particular episode, I'm gonna be dropping knowledge on you from the richest person in the world and um, or the richest person that ever lived, okay. And the crazy thing is, this was thousands of years ago, number one, but number two, the principles still work today. That's the crazy part about it. So this is not something that is it might work. This is something that works, however, you got to be the farmer behind it to work it. Okay, so I hope y'all grab that pen and paper. So, like I was saying, guys, you know, a lot of times you have to, when you think about what you want, what harvest do you want? You're gonna hear me talk about this a lot. What harvest do you want? What do you want in your life? Even when you look at your life in different scenarios home, personal, family, business, whichever segment of your life you're working on right now, if you resonate with a misfit black sheep or underdog, start and think about what is it that you want in those areas. Okay, and so once you understand what you want, now you can come with the master plan, the master uh structure, tactic, or principles to get it. Right? So now that you know what you want, like the farmer, the farmer doesn't say, Oh, I want something, and then just go off into a manifestation realm. If a farmer only used positive thinking, we would never have crops, we would never have bacon, hamburger, chicken, fruits, vegetables, soybeans for all my vegans. If we did not have the farmer who said, you know what, let me go drop these seeds and work this land. They did not sit there and manifest and have positive thoughts all day long. So we know for a fact that just thinking positive and thinking things to come through, we know that is not the only thing that is required for you to get the result. You have to sow the seed. So, what does that mean to you? I'm always gonna tell you guys as a black sheep, your life number one. The troubles that you have are unmatched as black sheep and misfits. It is so crazy. I'm talking about it's always something going on. I told my friend that the other day. I say, you know, it's always something. You know, you could get you could get your PhD today. Guess what? It's gonna be something that's gonna be there to aggravate you from another area of your life, because that's what life does. This is why emotional intelligence is very important. Why? Because if you don't have it, you're gonna be swayed left and right, life gonna have you out here just hanging on by a thread, because it's always something going on, right? But when we start thinking about this principle of sowing the seeds as a black sheep because of everything you've gone through, there is something within you, it's precious seed that you're carrying. Some of you know what it is, and some of you have not discovered it yet, but there's something that you have gone through and made it through, and have survived and thrived that you can help someone else with. Okay, this is your precious seed, and it's time for you to sow that so that you can reap that harvest. Okay, so let's think about it. Noah didn't build an ark because it was raining, right? Even if you're not a believer, think about this though. I just told you about the farmers, they don't plant the seeds because they know fruit is already there, they plant the seed because they know in due time they will have the fruit that they want. So Noah he built it because he was told something was coming. That's what you call faith, too. See, guys, a lot of people don't have faith in themselves first, so they don't like to uh they don't like to put themselves out there because one to two things. Number one, they don't want to be wrong, but number two, they don't even believe in themselves. So you gotta have a certain type of faith in your own abilities to plant something before you see it actually happen. Anybody that's not willing to plant something, they don't even believe in themselves. This is why I always tell you guys to be very careful who you're telling your dreams to, your vision. I don't care if you say you didn't want to get a new pickup truck, be careful who you tell your visions and dreams to. Why? Because some people don't even have any. So if they don't have visions and dreams, and even if they have dreams, they don't believe in themselves to make them come true. Why do you think they're gonna give you support on yours? This is why I always also tell the black sheep, move in silence. I don't care if you start over for the 25th time, move in silence. And guess what? If you have to start over for the 25th time, if you're moving in silence, it makes it so much better. It makes everything so much better. Why? Because you don't have to be bothered with the ridicule and the disbelief and the the uh kiki keen about oh, I said it didn't work and all of that. Only thing you need to do is decide and feel proud that you're gonna get back up again and keep going. That is the benefit of moving in silence. But like I said, guys, some people don't even have faith in their own abilities. You gotta have faith to build something before there's evidence of it. You have to, you have to have faith to build something before there's evidence of you seeing that thing, and even to believe that you need it down the line. So that's for my innovative folks, right? So, for an example, the car. If the car had never been invented, invented, and you going out here and you talking about you know what, man, ain't gonna be gonna ride on a horse their whole life. We're gonna have to get a car. You don't even call it a car at that time, but I'm just saying, you're like, we're gonna need something more than that, more than just a horse and buggy, right? And then here you start talking about a car. It hadn't we had never had cars before, so you gotta understand the ridicule that he had. It wasn't Henry Ford, I believe it was a Mercedes guy. He was the first person that invented a car. Henry Ford changed the game. Okay, that's the difference. And so, what I'm saying is, remember when they were doing all of these different works, whether it was Henry Ford, because they laughed at him as well. And one other thing about Henry Ford, he didn't start, he was in his 40s. I believe it was between 39 and 40. So I'm saying that to you because a lot of times our faith goes down as we get older, we start to count ourselves out. But I want you to understand sometimes that is the best time for you to come through with your fruit, with your seed, because you have a different level of wisdom. Okay, but check it out while you're building and people haven't seen it, right? Because even if you're building in silence or not, people want to laugh. Sometimes your inner you might be laughing at you, like, see, look at you. I told you not to start because see, a lot of times when you're doing something different, you pushing yourself forward. It's just like, let's say, for instance, if you said you want to just lose some weight, that that's the lane you want to fruit. So you want to sow some seeds of looking great, looking better, feeling good, right? So you sow seeds of I'm gonna start a lifestyle of being active, and you want to consistently do it. Okay, you have to sow seeds of consistency, that's first and foremost, right? But guess what? You're gonna do all of those things right, and then what'll happen is you'll be a week down the line and you won't lose weight, and you'll be like, and then your inner you, right? The inner enemy is say, Oh, look, you haven't even lost any weight. Why are you going? Why are you doing all this for? You might as well just forget about it, right? So sometimes you have to quiet the noise that you make that you bring to yourself. Why? Because it's something that you haven't done before, but you got to push on through, and because this is the part where a lot of black sheep quit, they quit because we don't like the building without the validation, but that is the requirement. Okay, you got to have the faith in yourself to say, I don't see it right now, but soon I will see something. Okay, purpose. Let's talk about this. Is what also makes it divine purpose versus destiny. I want to clear something up because people confuse these all the time, and I've probably even confused them as well. However, nothing has ever diverted me from my whole mission in life is to help black sheep discover, excuse me, discover their purpose in life. Okay, because purpose is what you are called to build, what you are called to do, the reason you were born, the people you are called to serve. Okay, and the destiny is where that purpose takes you. The destiny is like the journey of it, okay. Where that purpose takes you, excuse me, the destiny is where the purpose takes you, the impact it creates, the legacy it builds. Right? That's the journey. The destiny is that's why destiny is a root word of what destination. While you're on the way, you were destined to make those pit stops and make those certain things happen, and you made those happen because of why you are in the pursuit of your purpose, what you are called to build, because the building of it that is the actual end of the destination, right? You might call to build that, then you call to build something else, but the destination is when you are finally done with that particular project. But until then, you are on your destiny, you want you're making moves and all. Your life purpose will build up to all of these projects. Here's a quick way to remember: your purpose is the assignment, the destiny is the outcome or the journey to the outcome. And most people want destiny without committing to the purpose because you got to commit to the purpose first. The purpose is the overall outcome, but it starts as a seed. You can't even get started on your destiny if you don't sow a seed in it. And it don't have to be a money seed, it could be just you speaking it out, you writing it down, you deciding and telling yourself, you know what, I'm gonna go back to school and get my PhD. I don't care how long it takes me, I don't care if I'm 70 years old and I'll finally get it. Guess what? I'm gonna get it. And on your way there, there's gonna be certain things in that destiny and journey that you're gonna learn that you can share amongst what people all across the world, and when you finally get that PhD, right? Everything that you've gone through to get it is going to impact and change lives. Okay, this is why you have to make the commitment first, all right? So let's bring it to real life. Your boat, when I talk about building the boat, building the system, or sowing the seed, it could be your business, it could be a system, your message, your content structure. It's the thing that will hold weight when the opportunity shows up, guys. This is why they always say you gotta be ready, you gotta stay ready. Stay ready. Okay, stay ready so you don't have to get ready. You want to shift jobs, right? Start looking for the new shift before it shows up. Don't wait for it to show up. Start studying it and seeing what it is, and it's such a beautiful thing because we have all of these different search engines and um artificial intelligence tools that can help us stay ready. You must stay ready for the thing that you want, and it's not even about you being ready in a um, it's not about being ready like in a point of perfection. Okay, let me because I want to make sure I clarify that. It's not about being ready at a space of perfection. Because here's the thing, guys, nobody has it all together. We just step out in faith and we believe in ourselves to know that hey, when it's time to grab another skill, I'll learn it, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Now, before you obviously, and this is like a farmer, right? Obviously, that farmer, before he sow a seed, he's going to count the cost, though, right? You're not gonna just say, I want to sow a seed and just throw it out there. Okay, you're gonna think about it. Well, what do I need? I got the seed. How do I need to grow it? What environment it needs to be in, what nutrients do it need? So you're gonna count the cost first, okay? So you make your decision on it, you count the cost, and then you decide, let me go ahead and put in the action, let me go ahead and put in the work. But if you don't build it, you won't be able to sustain the success because everybody wants everybody wants the flood of blessings, but nobody wants to build the system. This is something I've really been getting deep into because don't get me wrong, guys, I am naturally the type of person that will initiate something and get started. That's one thing about me. I have no problem getting things started, even pushing through to the middle. But sometimes my mind just works so crazy on a creativity level because when you think about it in the world, the creators are the ones that they live a fruitful life because they continue to create things. You don't have to be something that changes the whole world, like Google or cars, but it could just be something that changes your life, your family life out of the creativity of your hands is so amazing, and what makes it so overwhelming almost is because we have so many tools that will help us do it to create the um to create the things of our mind. Think about it. Some of you might have wanted to be an artist, right? And you just could never get into it. He said, I don't know what it is about artwork, but guess what? You literally have uh artificial intelligence where you can master the prompts and create beautiful designs that people will literally purchase, right? So the thing about it is you don't want to wait for the opportunity to show up because you ain't you're not gonna be able to maintain it. But here's the other thing if you wait for it to show up, you you're not gonna have the system to support it, and you're not going to be able to manage it and keep it. Three things that's three different levels because remember, nobody cares about you when you don't have much, right? This is this is why once a lot of times, guys, when I always hear people jumping on the backs of people that are wealthy and got the money, everybody got opinions. But be but when they were a nobody in the college dorm, when they were a nobody to everybody else, they were somebody to themselves, obviously, because they paid the price, right? But when they were a nobody, nobody was coming on their life. When these comedians that slept in their cars, folks like Tyler Perry and all these different folks, when they were sleeping in their car, nobody cared. But as soon as they got money or influence or built it for themselves, everybody and their grandma got an opinion. Okay, and this is why it's like, wow, it's crazy because you must understand, guys, and people will never admit it, but when you step out there and then you start to make things happen, you trigger something in people that never liked you. Not only that, you trigger something in them because it highlights what they're not doing, so they want to pick your stuff apart. But guess what, guys? When you align something with a destiny with a reason that you were born, you don't even care, you get to a point where you don't even care what people say. If you've noticed a lot of successful channels, they don't even have the comments on, and you may not even have a YouTube channel, but you gotta turn the comments off in your mind. Sometimes when people will say little different things, and guess what, guys? If it's good feedback, take it. But if not, you gotta turn it off. Why? Because a lot of times you're building something that they've never built before, and you definitely haven't built it before, you have no context to doing it, and you have to build it as you go, you have to build it as you go, okay. And so, as I was saying, you might map out a few things, do your research because obviously, when you do your research and you prepare before the blessing shows up, you're better equipped, you're better equipped. Now, guess what? Sometimes the thing that you're gonna impact the world with um is gonna be so big that it's gonna be bigger than what you think. And then in those cases, what happened is for an example, remember when um Kai Sennet or whatever his name is, that streamer dude, when he opened up Streamer University, and I'm sure he had it together, I'm sure he had his web specialists and everybody put everything together for him, right? To hold the people coming to the site. Well, guess what? It blew up so big that it shut the website down. Why? Because it was bigger than what he thought, it was bigger than what he expected, even though he had planned for a lot of people to come in. This is why it's important for you to get prepared before it arrives. So let's talk about, let's continue on with this seed analogy. Everything starts at the seed, small, unnoticed, undervalued, and most people don't respect small beginnings anyway. But let me tell you something, guys. That's the time when you need to see how people are acting when they think it's something small. Growth happens in the dark, just like a seed. You don't see it at first, but underneath it's building roots. This is how you can tell when people really fool with you or not, because they can't see it, they just see you as you. That's it, the raw you. And in those moments when they don't believe in you, when they jump shit, you have the answers that you need. That's when at that time when you're building, that's when you're posting, nobody's engaging with your post, you're building with no audience, you're creating with no applause, you're not losing, guys. You're rooting, you're building a foundation. You might be thinking you're building one tree, but when I told you earlier, remember the seed that you have, it can turn into an orchid, it don't have to just be one single tree. Okay, because the thing that you're building, it has the potential to build and to feed more people than you've ever imagined. Now, listen, check this out. I thought this was really, really, really powerful. I was looking at some information when I was telling you about the richest man in the world, I mean, that they ever lived, and this is King Solomon, okay? And this is some scene, this is some King Solomon wealth code information I'm gonna give you. Now, this is what I thought that was really interesting because we're talking about a seed, and a seed has a potential to be a plant, a tree, and to go out and be a huge orchard, okay. But check this out. According to King Solomon, he says that a farmer, a wise farmer, will go out and sow his seeds in multiple different areas and multiple different grounds. Okay, what does that mean? He has seed in him, everybody got seed, and even if you say we only got one thing, you take a lot of your seed and you sprinkle it on different grounds. Okay, and I'm gonna break this down so you can get it. He said, That is a farmer that is wise. He said, a farmer that takes his seed and only put it in one area, one ground. This is a farmer that believes in perfect conditioning, he believes that the world is perfect and everything will go as planned. And you and I both know things don't hardly ever go as planned. So, what are what am I saying to you when you think about the wealth code of King Solomon with a farmer that takes his seed and put it on different grounds, guys? This could be your message, right? Let's say, for instance, if you have a message for single fathers after divorce, okay? That's your message, that's your main seed. You got a lot to give, you've learned so much, it was so crazy. It's different phases to it, right after the divorce, or whatever it is that you went through that got you to be single right after the divorce. That's a phase. Then, you know, depending on how old your child was, right? Depending on how many you have. So, guess what? When you think about your whole story, this is all your C, but guess what? With all of those different things that I just said with that one C, you can sprinkle that on the ground of life right after the divorce. That could be on that ground. What do I do about the kids in school? That could be in that particular round, right? Uh, what about when um it's dating time? That's that particular round. What about when they're this age? It's time to go to the doctor. That and that particular ground. What if you had uh you was a single dad and you was a father of a boy and a girl? Now you got the girl stuff going on, that's particular ground, guys. Those are all different grounds. What am I saying? Those are all different streams of income that you could sprinkle your seed to. Why? Because we know life is never perfect, so just in case three of those areas don't work out, I still got seed on the other grounds where two other ones did work out. Because we want to set ourselves up for as much success as possible, and we're only using we're only using principles of the wisest people on earth that's ever lived, that's been there and done that. That's what we're using here. We're not doing this as a guest game, like the trade market and all of that. And don't get me wrong, guys, even with that, you can do your research because because everything has patterns to it. Let's be clear. So I'm not knocking that at all because I've been doing studies on that one. It's just not heavy in my particular uh portfolio, even though I own stock, but it's not heavy for my teaching because I truly believe that every single person on earth was born with a set of gifts and talents that we can use to become a trillionaire if that's our destiny, if that's our life purpose, if that's what we're supposed to be doing. But regardless of the dollar amount behind it, your God-given talents is everything you need to get started, to become the person you were born to be that will take care of everything that you need above and beyond expectations. That is my belief system. Because a lot of people they like to say, um, you know, jobs is just to trick you and all of these different things, right? But even the wisest man in the world said, if you cannot handle the business of another man, you cannot handle your own. Do you know why? Number one, the way you work for somebody else shows the way you'll work for yourself. Number two, it's harder to work for yourself than to work for someone else. Why? Because when you start off sowing that seed, you just because you sold the seed at 4 a.m. don't mean you're gonna see a harvest on Friday at 4 a.m. Right? So this is why I'm saying to you guys, listen, we're making smart moves. Number one, make the decision to go ahead and get started and plant that thing. Do your research to be prepared automatically. We know things may happen, we know it's not perfect in life, nothing is, so we're not gonna put all of our eggs in one basket. We don't have to be jealous, we don't have to compete and compare with other people. Why? Because we know for a fact, everybody. It's crazy because uh I was looking at some information about Adolf Hitler, and he was an artist, and it's crazy because a guy said, What if he would have got accepted in the art school? He would have been a completely different purpose or person, excuse me. And who knows? Who knows? Right? But what I'm saying is he could have still took his uh art because I the some of his work is out here, you can see it, and he was good, right? And what I'm saying is when you say Adolf Hitler, a lot of times people instantly be like, oh my gosh, they're like completely turned off and disdained and all of this stuff about them, right? But what I'm saying is, even he had gifts, and he didn't have to use them the way he used his other gifts, which was of communication and passion and bringing people together, he didn't have to use it in that way. But I'm just showing you guys everybody has gifts and talents, so you don't have to sit around and be jealous and compete and compare for other people because they have simply took the time to apply the laws of the universe, the law of reaping and sowing. You got to sow that seed, sow your seed. You are a seed, put yourself in that environment so you can grow. Sometimes you gotta move. I'm actually gonna be working on a series, it's coming out of my survival of the savvy series, with which we have um a lot of our um workshops and books and resources about surviving when you're in an area that is kind of suffocating. Like how to survive when you come from a negative family. A lot of people don't talk about that enough. How do you survive when you come from a negative uh neighborhood or negative community? That right there alone, people don't tell you how to do it, and sometimes there's really no rules, but there are things that help you move better. I'm a testament of it, right? But one thing that I know, I'm just highly convinced, when you attach yourself to something that's bigger than you, you can take this podcast and run, or you can go somewhere else and learn. But I'm telling you this: when you attach yourself to something bigger than you, you get a certain type of divine power attached. Because being a farmer, looking at it in from the eye of a farmer, sowing something before you see it, having blind faith, I'm gonna sow this seed that this marriage is gonna get better, I'm gonna sow this seed that my child will get better. You don't have an idea, you don't have a clue of when it will happen. You have a time frame that you want, but we know life does not happen on our timing, it happens in divine timing. But regardless, you have to start at having the faith to get out there and do it. Okay, because let's be honest, you know, as a black sheep, people will always underestimate you, they always do it, but like I always tell you guys, this is our power. Don't underestimate your seed just because it's small. People will always underestimate you as a black sheep. They do it to us all the time, and then when we come back winning, they're looking like they never knew. You probably did, but most of the time you knew you just didn't care, you just didn't believe in it because you don't believe in yourself. See, like I told you guys, people can believe in you, they don't believe in themselves. And like I said, guys, people already don't expect you to win, they doubt you, they question what you're talking about, they'll lurk your accounts, they'll watch you, they're waiting for you to fail. So, why not build in the dark the way growth intended? That's what I love about building in silence. Let people think what they think. Let them think that. Let them have all the stereotypes they want. You know what you do? You build in the dark, you don't say nothing. Let me tell you something as a black sheep. People will use us, they'll come plug up to our energy source, and then they'll use us, and you won't hear from them again. They treat us like we're not valuable. But guess what? Plug into something that's bigger than you. And regardless of they come or go, you stay tapped in and you detach and let people do whatever they got going on out there in the world. Build in silence, you have less interruptions because the same people laughing at your seed will be asking for fruit later. They're gonna be want to plug into your energy source again because they're gonna tell you that first line, I remember you, or I remember when. Okay, what you must understand is, guys, you can't start with the crowd. You build, then the crowd will come. You create, then the attention will follow at some point. We're not even doing it for attention, but we do want to catch the attention of the right people, and we believe and we want to serve them so much, therefore, we build it before they come. We're planting it, then the harvest will grow. We don't have to wait for momentum. We're not waiting to ride nobody else's wave. We're gonna build our own. We're building our own, we're gonna create our own wave. Listen, I don't even hardly get offended, but I was so mad and offended, but I was really pissed that this girl that's never done nothing for me but hold conversations. You know, some people really think if they hold you on the phone for a long time, they really think you'll get confused with action and talking, you know. And she had the nerve to tell me that oh, I I only need to deal with I don't need to deal with people that's trying to use me to come up. And I stopped her right then and there. Like, girl, I don't know who you're talking to or who you thought you were talking to. But I don't have to ride nobody wave. Number one. Number two, you haven't even done anything to show me you got a wave. You just talking. You out networking, but anybody could do that. See, when you really believe in what you're doing, guys, I've been to New York City on my own to promote my stuff. So here you are in Dallas, Texas, and there's no hate on Dallas, but I'm just saying, if I went out to New York City to put my stuff on, what makes you think I'm incapable of coming to Dallas, Texas to get my own wave started? There's nothing in between. So, like I said, guys, a lot of people think that you need to ride their wave. And as a black sheep, this is why I say detach and build in silence and don't say nothing. Just let the results show them. They already know anyway. They know. But guess what? Ain't nothing to seal the deal like your results. All right. So let's get into these three action items so that you can go ahead and start to build what you're building. I'm just so excited for you guys because in this day and age, you know, people talk a lot about what they want to do and all these different things. And people will get you clouded. They will get you confused and off of your track because they don't have any um, they don't have any um, what do you call it? They don't have any direction, they don't have any clarity. But one thing I want you to get when you come here is get some clarity about what you're doing and where you're going in life. Because people that's going nowhere will drag you with them. They don't mind wasting your time because it's not their own. And as a black sheep, you gotta be a savage about it. We've taken too much, man. All that benefit of the doubt crap. Oh, I know you since second grade, guys. That's done. That's done and over with. People will continue to try to treat you like you're second best, and they know you're top tier. But here's the thing: you gotta show people how to treat you. You gotta teach people to treat you like precious metal because you are. You're too precious, you're building something that the world has not seen before. You about to impact a people, a group, a city that's gonna change the world. This is what's so cool, guys, about connecting to something that's bigger than yourself is you're not trying to be Beyonce a Joe Rogan, or maybe you are and bigger than them, right? I say dream real big, but what I'm saying to you is you don't even know it. You might say, I just want to help a hundred people, and out of that hundred, they are called to serve a hundred million, and it's all because of the hundred that you helped. This is the power of the seed. So let's get into this action. Number one, build something before you feel ready. Sometimes you just gotta stop waiting for comfort, man. Just get in it, just start creating. I dare you. If you at the phase where you have not started, I want you to think about right now, writing down the top three things of things that you've always wanted to do. I don't care if you start a history channel. I don't care if you said you want to do Sunday school for teenagers, I don't care if you said you want to do a non-profit for people just getting back out of society from prison. I don't care what it is. I don't care if you in high school or you got a daughter that was in high school and got pregnant and it was hell, but you made it through. Now you want to, you're like, man, I don't know what to do. Guess what? If that's a story that you think you could help another parent out that went through that, listen. Write it down. Write those top three things down, and then I want you to number them because what I want you to do is I want you to understand is that as a black sheep, a lot of you are multi-talented, and sometimes when we have multi-talents, it takes away our focus, and we feel overwhelmed, we are all over the place. But trust and believe me, everything that you were truly meant to do, it all will be used at a certain point in time, so don't feel overwhelmed. You might start one thing right now, but in due time, you'll be able to weave it back in to what your complete life purpose is. Okay, so stop waiting for confirmation. Go ahead and start building that system, the content, your structure. When you write those three things down, hop on Chat GPT or Claude and ask it. Hey, act as a brand manager and tell me which one of these ideas is the simplest way to get started so that I could eventually make this amount per month in less time without with minimum overhead. Okay, put a prompt in there like that. Put a prompt in chat GP just like that, and I'm gonna include this in the worksheet. Don't even worry about it, I got you. But put a prompt in chat GP like that, chat GP or Claude. It's so many out there, okay? And just see what it gives you. Okay, next, you well, first of all, you don't need visibility to start, you just need vision. Start where you are. Number two, commit to one seed. I just covered that, guys. You can write down multiple things, but commit to one. A lot of people stay stuck because they're trying to plant 10 seeds and watering none. Pick one, one message, one idea, one direction, one business, and build on it daily. Water it daily, nurture it daily. Because trust me, you'll be able to come back around, and some of the other seeds you want to plant with it, that might be the fertilizer for it to make it grow even bigger. But you want to get your foundation started, you want to get it rooted, and when you get something rooted, just because some type of storm or something comes by you, it won't just sweep you out the way, it won't blow you down. But see, scattered seeds don't grow, the focused ones do. You gotta be focused. Number three, create it before you're called. Oh, listen, y'all. Don't wait for the interview, the opportunity, the platform. Act like it already exists. Plant your seeds like it's already there for you because truth, truthfully, it is already there, it's waiting on you, it's waiting on you to step up to the plate and be able to come towards your divine appointment. Everything that you need, want, and could have dreamed of is really waiting on you. You know, one of my mentors, Mike Murdoch, Dr. Mike Murdoch always says the um, how did he the way he put it is the future, it's about your future. But he said the rate of your future is based upon the rate of your decisions, and that's basically saying the better the decisions you make, the quicker you'll get to where you're trying to go. And that all happens in routine, and that's what a farmer does. If you think about it, a farmer he puts those seeds out there, and every single day he works on them to water them, to nurture them, to cut down, prune out any weeds, looking out for any type of bugs and everything. Plant that one thing and nurture it, nurture it, nurture it, nurture it, and everything else that you have written down. Guess what? Later on in due time, you can use that as fertilizer, but act as all of these different opportunities, they already exist. That's why you're getting ready now. So when they call you up, so I'm gonna give you a perfect example of that, okay? Perfect example. Think about artists, music artists. I don't care if they're hip-hop, country, um rock, alternative, it doesn't matter, neo soul, guys. Those folks get out there and they start creating music. I mean, they just start creating it, they be years and years and years of music, and guys, then what happens? That one song catches on, and what happens? Now, all of a sudden, people want to hear about all of their other music that they planted, all the other music that they started as seeds for their career. It didn't pop off then, but one of those crops popped off. Now they're calling for all those other things. Now, guess what? Now you have your influence with that one particular thing, but now they're noticing other things about you, right? It might be uh fashion, so now you already have it written down on your on your um paper of things you want to do, how you want to have a t-shirt line. Now they're interested in other things in you, you can fertilize it with the t-shirts. Now, you see how that works. I mean, because I want to use people that you can see it right there before your eyes. They start to build it before people come. Think about Apple Computer, those guys, Steve Wozniak and um uh um and uh Steve Jobs. I forgot the other day. Is his name Steve too? Is it two Steves? Steve and Steve. Well, one thing I do know they started in the garage. Apple Computer in the garage. It wasn't at some fancy office in Silicon Valley or in Cali anywhere, it was in a garage. Okay, so what I'm saying is we have all of these different examples of how people believe in themselves and their ideas to start where they are, build it before the people are ready to receive it, build it as if the interview, the opportunity, and the platform is coming because that right there, that's that's what you call preparation, creating the positioning. And when you position yourself to win, your positioning is going to attract the opportunity. Okay, I want you to understand, guys. Your story is a blueprint. Your story is the blueprint, and your blueprint is your seed, your blueprint is your business. That thing you went through, that thing you survived, that thing you figured out, that's what you're gonna be building from. Because the cool thing about it is you don't need permission, you don't need perfection, and you don't need a crowd or a PhD, you just need the decision to do it, to build it, to start where you are, to move into the momentum, and then the opportunity will come. Because when it starts raining with opportunities, the only thing that matters is will you have the boat to catch all of it? Now, listen, if you're starting, if you're ready to stop waiting and you really want to start build something well, join our free masterclass, build a plan, but not a wish list. And I'm gonna give you the three-step framework on how to really, when you just jump out there and start where you are, I'm gonna give you the framework to do everything to at least get those things growing so you can have the systems ahead of time. You know, there's I don't have a lot of regrets, but one of the regrets that, and even when I say it's a regret, it's kind of weird for me even to say it because I know everything has a divine timing. But I was talking to one of my friends, and I said the only thing that I wish I would have jumped into earlier on was real estate. Real estate that was the only thing, and that was around the times when you could find homes for like 70,000, 50,000 and stuff like that in certain areas, and I'm sure you still can, but all I'm saying is um, I thought I said, Man, I wish I would have jumped in then, but the divine timing, because I was so dedicated to my work, I was still moving around, dedicated everything to get this done and putting this together. But all I'm saying is, regardless, your time will come back around for you on things that you feel you missed. It's only important for you to get started right where you are and build it because I'm telling you right now, we're in a time of shifting. Don't be concerned about the government, all these different things going on, guys. The government, the world has been in peril since the beginning of time. I've been doing the research. Every time you turn around, I was really getting frustrated thinking about the Middle East. I said, it seems like the Middle East always has turmoil, no disrespect, but it just does. And so when I did the research, guys, since the beginning of time, since the beginning of time, okay, what am I saying to you? The ways of the world will always be here, but it is our responsibility to make sure we have systems and structures in place to take care of ourselves first and everyone else that we love and are connected to us, okay? So listen, if you found this uh episode helpful, please share it with someone, but also check out that episode, guys, that free masterclass. Sign up for that guy. I'm telling you. I'm telling you, it will change your life. All right. Now, until next time, I want you to remember one thing information is everywhere, but execution is rare. It's your girlthina Renee, and I'm signing off with the Black Sheet Leadership Podcast.