Episode 5 | Quit Your Job

On this episode we discuss what it takes to be an entrepreneur, the pros and cons of a 9-5 lifestyle, and what it takes to see your vision become reality., TUNE IN

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:20

Episode five, man. Hey, we done made it. We done made it to the fifth episode, man. Shout out to all of our viewers. Shout out to everybody that's been tuning in, that's been seeing us out in public, seeing us at work, seeing us at the gym, um, somewhere Wade has not been since episode one.

SPEAKER_06 0:38

Well, Wade has never been to the gym. Hey, but when it's not at one, hey, minute time one time Wade came to the gym and he had that little uh back on back brace on the biggest thing. That's the way. That's the way hang on to that, bro. He's there. He's there, he's there, man. I'm I'm trying, bro. I'm really trying.

SPEAKER_04 1:01

No boy, Britt stop. I ain't seen him since that day. Might see him since that day. When he seen the way he said 2025 in jail, bro.

SPEAKER_06 1:09

Episode five, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

He was the part of the Episode. Episode Bob Britain, man. And y'all can find us on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, man. All you gotta do is search. If I knew then, what I know now, the podcast, man. So episode five, what are we talking about today, Johnny? Oh, we didn't do the intro.

SPEAKER_06 1:34

Yeah, this is your boy Johnny Gladdy, Mr. Hip Hop Cardio, Mr. Gladi Photography. Can't we take your picture? We'll be glad to. Let's get it.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

Yeah, sir. This is your boy Corey Davis, man. Stick to the code. God birds, man. Consistency, obedience, determination, and effort, man. It's core with a C cord in your dig me. Say that. We want to welcome y'all to the fifth episode of If I Knew Then. What I know now.

SPEAKER_06 1:54

The podcast.

SPEAKER_04 1:56

The podcast. We late. I was gonna say at the same time. That's all right. That's crazy, boy. That's all right.

SPEAKER_06 2:01

Let's go. Today we're gonna be talking about, you know, that nine to five versus that entrepreneurship. You know, a little bit of finances as well. But I'm sitting here with a good entrepreneur myself, my boy Corey Davis. It's the work right here, Johnny Gladdy. You know what I'm saying? Yes, sir, yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 2:15

We're talking about the entrepreneurship.

SPEAKER_06 2:16

Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir. Hey, man. So we all know that working the nine to five, boy, be stressful. Facts. Why is it stressful, bro? What do you think?

SPEAKER_04 2:24

Shoot, for a thousand reasons. We can just keep naming them all. Why folks be stressed out at work? Because they really don't want to be there. Go. Really don't want to be there. Go, you next.

SPEAKER_06 2:33

And we always we go for just the money only.

SPEAKER_04 2:35

Okay, we we getting told what to do. Left or right.

SPEAKER_06 2:38

They bossing us around.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

Treat us any kind of way. The pay low.

SPEAKER_06 2:42

Boy, I'm gonna run out of reasons.

SPEAKER_04 2:44

Nah, go ahead. But we can name them up ways.

SPEAKER_06 2:47

But it's several reasons, though. It's several reasons, man. And I think a lot of people, you know, we get, we get, it's so many people that that when I when you think about that nine to five versus entrepreneurship, bro. We always taught, go get a job. Go get a job. You get out of school, go to college, go get a job. Go get a job. Go get a job. And so many people are content in jobs, bro, that they don't even want to be yet.

SPEAKER_04 3:07

They don't want to be there. They can't wait. They can't wait for something to happen. They can't wait, but they can't wait for the day they can just get up out of there, man. Yeah. But I done been there like, you know, for those that don't know, I am an entrepreneur right now. I own two businesses with two uh different partners, A64 Legends Gym and A64 Mover. So I got a gym and a moving company. But before all that, I was just like, shoot, I like a lot of y'all. Yeah. Going to work every day, not wanting to be there. You know what I'm saying? And ain't nothing, ain't nothing worse than waking up every day going so well, you do not want to be, boy.

SPEAKER_06 3:44

Yeah. And it's like, even though, even though we can say, you know, and I ain't bashing jobs. Cause, you know, even me, I work right now, working nine to five, and I and I like what I do, but it's still that sense that you be like, man, I gotta go in here and cluck in on somebody else's claw. I gotta go in here and be on somebody else's time. I gotta go in here and and do the things that that I wouldn't choose to do if I had my own way, man. Yeah. And so it's like, it's crazy like the mindset we get stuck in. Because I was telling telling a young cat the other day, I was like, hey, your life is a blank check. You just gotta write it. And a lot of us that we get, we get so warped in those nine to five job positions that we make that become our our um our goal. Yeah, we made that become our purpose. And then when that does happen, we don't even realize that we got something deep on the inside of us that we need to work on.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

We don't, yeah, we don't got we done lost it really. We we so far gone in that nine to five, we done forgot what our goals and our dreams and aspirations is. And really, man, when it comes to that nine to five life, bro, it's like uh they just dangling like they dangling you know their salary or dangling their money in front of you. You know what I'm saying? But at the same time, it's like a a huge, it's like a bigger world that's out there beyond that. But we don't really grow up, we don't really grow up knowing how to transition out of that life. Yeah. Because a lot of our parents work in nine to fives. And like you said, this ain't this ain't no knock to people who do work in nine to five because nine to fives, nine to fives are necessary. And if I had to go back to one, I would. I'm not too I'm not too good for that. You know what I'm saying? Um, but it's it's isn't it's needed. I believe working a nine to five has a lot of pros and cons, but it also it can it can help you with your with your entrepreneurship. Yeah because it's gonna show you a lot of the the ins and outs of whatever job you in. You're gonna you're gonna see how your supervisor is. You're gonna learn how to be a supervisor versus what not how not to be a supervisor. You're gonna go through different little stages of customer service. Like you're gonna you're gonna see how that employees treat people and versus how you treat people, and it's all different little avenues you're gonna you're gonna pick up and a lot of game you're gonna pick up and soak up in the 9 to 5 world before you transition into the entrepreneurship world. But don't get it twisted, boy. That entrepreneurship is a beast within itself as well.

SPEAKER_06 5:54

Yeah, and that's the thing because a lot of people don't know, like even with your um entrepreneurship.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

Who got caught up?

SPEAKER_04 6:04

You're right.

SPEAKER_06 6:06

But it's a water.

SPEAKER_04 6:09

Boy, ain't got no neck.

SPEAKER_06 6:11

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 6:12

Boy, okay, over there.

SPEAKER_06 6:15

Nah, real though. We're real talk, man. It's just like because with that that nine to five, you just do your job and you go home. And that's the easy part. But when it comes to umbreneurship, you work in 24-7. That's what it feels like. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:31

You should have a cutoff time, but it'd be hard to do that.

SPEAKER_06 6:33

It'd be hard to-in balance.

SPEAKER_04 6:35

Yeah, it'd be hard to have a cutoff time when you that's one thing I'm still learning and trying to figure out like when to shut it off for real. Like, really shut it off and be like, I'm not answering no phone calls, I'm not responding back to no messages, I just deal with it tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? But when you the boss, but you got a lot of hats within the company, yeah, and it's and it's your baby. You know what I'm saying? This they their entrepreneur dream or whatever it is that you are trying to bring into the world, it's like think of it like your child. You birthing it, you, you, you, you physically ain't birthing it the woman is obviously, but you know what I'm trying to say. Like, you birthing something new to the world that the world ain't seen, and it's gonna take a lot of time and attention, a lot of watering, a lot of nurturing. You know what I'm saying? You you you want to see this thing crawl, walk, and grow up and blossom to be this beautiful business.

SPEAKER_06 7:22

And that's not that's not an easy process because you know, us in a 95, we guarantee that check. You know what I'm saying? We go we go to work every day, we know they're gonna pay us. Yeah. But you're entrepreneurs, you like, you're talking about balancing the cutoff time, it's kind of like, dang, how do I cut this off when I gotta make sure that my next check coming? Yeah, yeah. You know, y'all, we work for these jobs these nine to five and they're paying us, paying us silently. But I feel like a person who does choose to go the entrepreneur route, well, it just takes a lot of more, a lot of more consistency, obedience, determination, effort. Like what you say all day. Think to the code, yeah. Things to the code, because it's like you gotta be consistent every day. You gotta be determined. Like, what if you what if you woke up and was like, I don't just feel like going in today?

SPEAKER_04 8:03

Or if you or if you go in with that type of attitude. Yeah. And how how they can taint the environment. Yeah. And the people that's coming, and there's people that's coming to pay you. You know how many days I went to the gym, ain't feel good, or not in the mood, but you can never tell. Because it's because I cause I'm the face. And I and I'm and I'm I'm the face of my brand. I'm the face of my my my clientele.

SPEAKER_06 8:25

Us, not explained.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

And they want to do it.

SPEAKER_06 8:28

We get tired of it, but nah, I'm a nah for real though.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

I'm gonna take y'all down, I'm gonna take y'all down memory lane, man. You and Johnny, you can talk about your jobs that you done had in the past too. But you know, just you know, I started working when I was 16 years old, bro. So 15, 16 years old, I started working at Bolo. Yeah. What was your first job? You said on your podcast. McDonald's. You was at McDonald's. Had to be fast food.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

I'm loving it. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

So he was at McDonald's. I was at Bolo. You 16?

SPEAKER_06 8:55

Well, I was 15.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

You 15?

SPEAKER_06 8:56

Yeah, Shadow Santa. I said hook me up early. See, I wasn't even supposed to be working yet.

SPEAKER_04 9:01

See, you wasn't even supposed to look. I was at Bolo. Y'all know, see y'all know if you live, if you if you're from Anderson, where we from, you know what Second Chance Church is. Now there used to be a Bolo grocery store. What second chance church is right now, besides planning fitness, for my people that's in the city, know what I'm talking about. There used to be a grocery store called Bilo. Bilo. Bro, I can I can throw up a clip, bro. This that was my first job. I'm 16 years old. But I'm already knowing at a young age, like, okay, I'm like, this, this, this ain't it. You know what I'm saying? I'm young, I'm 16, 7, I'm you know, I'm 16, 17 years old, thinking to myself, like, but folks waking up every day doing this.

SPEAKER_06 9:37

Bro, and I used to think, and it's crazy that you say that because I used to think the same thing, because bro, our managers used to cuss us out like crazy. But he was like, These are the older, I ain't trying trying to call them by names, but these are the older ones. And I'm just like, dang, I used to think, I'm like, dang, are you? How mad and bitter yet?

SPEAKER_04 9:54

You already really get a taste. Bro, bro, that's what I'm saying. 16 years old. That's my first job. Yeah. So from Bolo, I'm trying to think. I think I went from Bolo, and then my next job I want to say was, dang, what was my next job? I had to go to Advanced Auto Parts. I think that was my next job.

SPEAKER_06 10:15

Nah, with KFC Taco Bay.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

You went to KFC next? Yes, sir. I went there. I went from Bolo to Advanced Auto Parts. Knew nothing about cars.

SPEAKER_06 10:21

That boy changed enough career like crazy. Zero percent.

SPEAKER_04 10:24

Knew nothing about cars. If it wasn't for, it was if it wasn't for my um fam, Siobhan up there that was the manager at the time. Shout out to Siobhan for hiring.

SPEAKER_06 10:32

She's a good person.

SPEAKER_04 10:33

And helping me, like, and the people that worked up there helping me, like, in that, I would have never survived at that job. Because I know, I knew absolutely nothing about cars, and I still know nothing about cars. So they'll my they're my second job. So I'm just I'm just gonna take you, I'm taking y'all through the course because a lot of times people, this the reason why I'm taking y'all through this, the whole memory lane, is because a lot of people look at me right now and think that it was overnight.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:55

And that's not how entrepreneurship works. It ain't it ain't nine times out of ten, this is not no overnight unless you are born into something. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm first generational business owner in my family. And if I'm not, I don't know anybody else that got a business going on because they ain't never said nothing and reached out to me about it. So, you know, Bolo to advanced auto parts, you went from McDonald's to where? McDonald's cage, type of thing. So fast food to fast food. Yeah, fast food to fast. So this is this trend. Y'all want y'all to see the trends on these own? So I went. So from so from advanced auto parts, I went to Academy Sports.

SPEAKER_06 11:31

It sounds like you just unsured about what you want to do.

SPEAKER_04 11:35

I'm definitely not sure. At this time, at this time, you know, I'm still trying to I'm trying to figure out life. You know what I'm saying? At this time, I'm at this time, you know, this is this is over 15, 16 years ago. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Then it became, you know, 10 years ago, eight years ago. But I'm I'm trying to figure it out. All I know is I like to play basketball, I like to work out a little bit, and I like video games. That's all I'm that's all I'm really knowing right now was going on with me. I don't really have no, I don't really I I remember growing up just asking myself, like, damn, I wonder how like, how am I ever gonna get a house on my own? Or how am I ever gonna get a car and all these things my mom and daddy them got? And you know, it started, I started to think like, okay, cool. So now I'm at advanced auto parts. Boom, I leave advanced auto parts. Now I'm at Academy Sports. And you so you you went three straight fast foods?

SPEAKER_06 12:22

No, sir. I thought you said Taco Bay.

SPEAKER_04 12:24

All Taco Bell and KMC were together. So after you left KMC, I thought I left there. What was your third one?

SPEAKER_06 12:29

I went to Always Money.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

So now you at Always Money.

SPEAKER_06 12:32

That's when I that's that's when I stepped into the finances. So I still still am in today.

SPEAKER_04 12:36

And we're gonna touch on finances too, because finances are big when it comes to transitioning into the entrepreneurship. So from advanced auto parts to academy sports and academy sports, I went to I want to say new foundations, home for children. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 12:50

What's the funny man? Y'all wear it. I wear the new foundations. Oh, that's why he laughed.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Oh, yeah. He tried to try to come up there when I was up there.

SPEAKER_06 13:00

Hey, boy, how's I go?

SPEAKER_04 13:01

Hey Johnny wear the new foundations for six months. They asked that what they what they asked you to work on New Year's Day when you quit.

SPEAKER_06 13:06

That was dead. She said, please don't do me like this. Please don't do me like this. I said, I ain't gonna be there. I'm sorry, lady man. I'm sitting on the toilet. You go home. Yep, calling out.

SPEAKER_04 13:21

So yeah, he he so Johnny lasted six months up there. But the easiest, easiest, easiest job you could ever have. East job you ever can get. Now, there was the one job I felt like, okay.

SPEAKER_06 13:29

Take a nap.

SPEAKER_04 13:29

This is the one job I felt like this don't feel like a job. Yeah. All the other jobs I named, they became so, what they say, mundane. They came so repetitive. It just became so like going through the motion type. You know what I'm saying? I can see why people don't be wanting to like be here for real. Yeah. Because it's like you just be feeling like, God darn, like, it's gotta be more than life. And that's what I started to think and tell myself, I'm like, God, ain't no way I was created just to pay bills and die.

SPEAKER_06 13:55

And I'm gonna speak to the people, bro, that that you say that go through the motions. Like, I want to directly tell y'all, like, you ain't gotta settle for that. And I think a lot of people just, we do we do that because we like, man, is this just it? Yeah. But the good thing what you did, bro, is you realize and you woke up. A lot of people I love love to talk about they so woke. But you literally woke up and said, Okay, I'm not gonna go through the motions anymore. I'm gonna change my perspective on how I'm gonna do this. And then you only you not only not only change your perspective, but you put some action behind it.

SPEAKER_04 14:23

And it ended up changing my life.

SPEAKER_06 14:24

It ended up changing your life. And I think a lot of times we just go, certain people who are settled, like, don't get me wrong, and I'm not saying everybody, because there are some people who are in their nine to fives and they're comfortable with that.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

And nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_06 14:34

And nothing wrong with that. There's so many, and there's so people, so many people in their nine to fives who are just revolving in a circle because they know, like, I got so much more inside of me, but I don't know what else to do.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

They stuck, they stuck. The book I'm reading, Riz Dad, Poor Dad, they call that stuck in the rat race. Wow. You just you just going through the most, like it's just repetitive, you know what I'm saying? You just going over and over and over. And you can't you can't realize that all you gotta do is stop, slow down, and step out of the cage.

SPEAKER_06 15:00

Bro, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 15:01

But they just And you'll go somewhere. I'm saying breach. Stuck in the rat race, bro. So, um, new foundation home for children. Woo! Which I still say Hold on pre-late a little bit. Let it breathe a little bit. Stuck in the rat race, bro. Stuck in the rat race, bro.

SPEAKER_06 15:17

I wish I would have highlighted some of the things. How many people are going somewhere without going somewhere?

SPEAKER_04 15:21

Moving, moving, moving fast, but ain't going somewhere. Moving fast, but ain't going nowhere. Motion, but really.

SPEAKER_06 15:27

But they go along with it.

SPEAKER_04 15:28

Going fast, but ain't going nowhere.

SPEAKER_06 15:29

Stuck in the rat race. And I think a lot of us in our in our in our in our careers that you know that we're in, it's like we we we see where we going, but we don't really know where we're going. Yeah. Come on, somebody. Yep. You know what I'm saying? That's real. Stuck in the rat race, bro. That was good, though. I like that. Stuck in the rat race, bro.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

So I um I I think maybe, maybe before events, uh, I mean before New Foundation, I used to I used to drive up to Spartan Bird too. I worked at this group home in Spartanburg. You know, and all these jobs, bro. Bro, I don't work at this group home in Spartan Bird out there because Mr. Bobby got Mr. Bobby got me a job out there. Mr.

SPEAKER_06 16:02

Bobby, shout out to Mr. Bobby.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

So um, and I'm and I want to say after that, I think that's when I oh, the disability board. Yep. I worked at a disability board too. So all three of them was kind of like back to back to back. I think I worked at New Foundation for a couple years, and then I did them other two for like a couple years. But it was really when I was at, it was really when I was at uh um what's what you call it, disability board, when I started to like really like pick up with this fitness thing. And I started to really, that's when I got my notebook. I'm getting my notebook, and I'm like, okay, if I charge this much for this, and I start looking at how much money I was making with these nine to fives, I'm like, bruh, all I gotta do is get 10 clients. I get 10 clients, but I'm making what I'm making here. Okay, I sell, I I do that times two, I get 20, but I don't need a job no more. And I'm telling myself, I'm telling myself, but I can get 20 clients. I know I can do this.

SPEAKER_06 16:55

And let's not forget about the grind you was putting in already before that. Facts. And I ain't even talked about that. You ain't even talk about that as well.

SPEAKER_04 17:01

I'm just talking about the 9 to 5 jobs. I ain't talking about the behind the scenes yet.

SPEAKER_06 17:04

Yeah, because there's so many times that there's so much before you even got to the point where you started writing down, you was already working toward that.

SPEAKER_04 17:10

I already was working toward that.

SPEAKER_06 17:12

Already training people, I already getting clients.

SPEAKER_04 17:14

And even before I was training people, I was just training myself.

SPEAKER_06 17:16

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

So a good a good rule of thumb to remember, a good rule of thumb to remember, and take this with you so far that we've been talking. This is this is this one of them legim droppers right here. Man, you gotta start building your credibility now. Like you gotta start building some type of portfolio for yourself. Like back when I was working out, I started working out when I was 19 years old. So a year after I graduated high school, that's when I started working out. I didn't know that I was gonna be a gym owner or a personal trainer. But the fact that I started at that age and I started to build myself up, what started to happen in between the times of me working at Bilo and well not Bilo, but working at Advanced Auto Parts and working at Academy and working at the disability board, since I had been working out so consistently on my own, it started to attract people towards what I was doing. So what happened was while I was working my nine to five, I was building my own body up, and people started to see it because I would post about it, post little clips here and there, and people like, hey man, you a trainer? Boom. Gotcha. That's when the light bulb clicked on.

SPEAKER_06 18:18

Because when purpose when purpose is your de when purpose is your destiny, bro, you started to reflect that. You know what I'm saying? So If you started walking your purpose walking your when you started walking your purpose, bro, you started to reflect that. So it's not only could people, not only that you believe that you was gonna be whatever you was gonna be, your actions and your body and everything else start to line up with that. Exactly. And people see the fruit of what you do what you was already doing. So that's why it's so easy for people to rock with you. Because I always say, you know what I'm saying, you got favor on you, because even when you ain't trying to promote your hardest or whatever, because you take care of your family, you know, working, all these things, God still sending people your way. Still sitting there, and it'd be and it'd be effortless at this point. Looking out, yeah, looking out.

SPEAKER_04 18:58

So, you know, I'm working out on my own, working out on my own, you know what I'm saying, just building my body up for sports or whatever. It might have been a little bit for sports, or it might have just been look for the look, really, because now I'm like, I'm liking how my body's changing. Because I went from a stream brink. Y'all see the y'all see this mic? That's how skinny I this mic stand, this is how skinny I was right there. You know what I'm saying? People that know me back in the day when I was at West Side and stuff, they knew I used to be small. Like these muscles y'all see right now on the screen, they ain't always been here. So when I started to build myself up and build my body up, it I say this all the time too. Consistency, consistency attracts people. And my consistency started to attract people to what I was doing, and I was able to turn it into dollars. You see what I'm saying? So, and that's what and that's what happened, man. So, and my last job I had after the t-shirt.

SPEAKER_06 19:45

Turn your consistency into dollars.

SPEAKER_04 19:47

Turn your consistency into dollars.

SPEAKER_06 19:48

Yes, sir. T-shirt.

SPEAKER_04 19:49

I turned my t-shirt. And my last job from the disability board, I went from the disability board, then I went to Piloton High School. Yeah. That was my last nine to five job I had. And I still got the video of when I sent the email saying, hey, this is gonna be my last month, or this is my two-week notice. I I I purposely recorded it. Yeah because I knew I was like, well, I ain't coming back. You ain't going back. And by this time, by that time it's 2021. Yeah. By that time it's it's it's like 2021. My clientele was was was booming. I was I was pretty much training before I went to work. You know what I'm saying? Like, I was working before I was working. And it's and it like that that's that's the type of grind it's gonna take for all my people that's trying to come out that 9 to 5 lifestyle. I was working before I was working. Don't let it go over here now. I was putting in work before I went to go put in work.

SPEAKER_06 20:40

But it reminds me of like, you know what I'm saying, writing the vision, making it plain. You know what I'm saying? Writing down the goal, writing down the dream. It's something about when you write down the paper. When you write down those goals, because like even me, like, you know, I do I do photography, photography now, but I'm in the state, I'm in the in-between stage, you know, where you where you was. Yeah. I'm like, I know I want more for me, but I don't I don't got, you know, uh uh uh family now. I got bills, I got mortgage, I got all these things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's a whole other thing. But it was just like I got to get to the now I'm getting to the stage where I'm like, okay, I'm writing down the vision, making the plan because I I'm believing that myself also I'm gonna come out of 95. Because it's about having making up your mind before you get it. You know what I'm saying? I always say, you gotta see it before you see it, or you never will see it. You know, and that's the same thing you did. You know what I'm saying? You you went on ahead and started walking in your purpose and it's like a lot of people.

SPEAKER_04 21:32

You gotta see it before you see it, or you never will see it. Say it again, say it again.

SPEAKER_06 21:36

You gotta see it before you see it, or you never will see it. I'm telling people like that, you gotta let that be something you that that manifests in your mind because it's just like some some so many times we we get caught up in our mental and we block we block the path that we need to go, and we only can concentrate on what we got.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

And we think and we think it's so far we can't even attain it. We feel like it's out of our reach. We feel like it's we feel like it's so far gone. Like Bro, a lot of people feel like coming out nine to five is like trying to hit the lottery.

SPEAKER_06 22:03

And I've been there, bro. You see what I'm saying? I'm like, man, I'll be in.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

It's like, bro, this ain't no, bro. I ain't gonna never forget this, man.

SPEAKER_06 22:08

Bro, true, true moment, bro. How many times have I called you and be like, man.

SPEAKER_04 22:11

Every day.

SPEAKER_06 22:12

I need to.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

That boy Johnny called me every morning. Wow, right. That boy wanna be full-time photographer so bad. That boy ready to go.

SPEAKER_06 22:24

But I don't I don't call so many times because it get discouraging, bro. And I and I know I ain't by myself. I know there's some people that working 9 to 5 to right now, and they say, man, I gotta take care of my kids. I gotta, I got bills to pay. I gotta live. But I'm discouraged.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:39

I'm broken. I'm down. Right. I don't want to do this.

SPEAKER_03 22:41

Right.

SPEAKER_06 22:42

But it's easy. Don't.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:45

I know that sounds easier said than done, but it's not it's not me telling you to quit your job. But it's me saying, have a plan in place. You gotta have a plan. So that you can obtain the things that you need. Right the vision and make it plan.

SPEAKER_04 22:57

You gotta have like, like you said, you gotta you gotta see the vision before you see the vision. And once you once you once you once it's once once it's here, it can be here, but it's gonna take a lot of unseen hours. Bro, you know how I don't even know how many, you know how many push-ups I done did that folks ain't seen?

SPEAKER_06 23:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

You know what I'm saying? We got a gym and everything now. 300 plus members. Before all of that, you know how many reps I did before that y'all didn't see? People be looking at me now like, damn, but how you get your body like that? Damn, bro, you ain't but you got a gym. Boy, did you y'all weren't with me when I was sitting in that ISS chair making a thousand dollars a month or barely making eleven hundred dollars a month, but I got my notebook open saying to myself, God, this can't be it. This can't be it. This can't, I know there's more than life. What I got this fitness thing going, we gotta we gotta uh monopolize this thing, we gotta multiply this thing. We gotta how can I do it, guy? I got the notebook out right and like like let me think of some ideas to do do do do. Man, I thought of so many different things while I was at uh while I was at uh uh Peter High School, the ISS teacher, bro. Like, for example, I'll give you I give you one thing that that really helped boost my clientele and helped me boost my um my name in the city and just helped me build my credibility and help me take that foot forward to becoming an entrepreneur. Yeah, I did a uh challenge where it was a hundred dollar entry fee and I was giving away a thousand dollars to the winner. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about you remember that?

SPEAKER_06 24:25

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

Now look, now look, now I did a hundred dollar entry fee. $100 entry fee. With your $100, it was a 90-day run. That $100 covered your training for three months.

SPEAKER_06 24:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

I had 70 people sign up. What's 70 times 100? I was waiting for somebody to add it. I know. What is it, bro? $7,000. So, no, I'm telling you, this y'all gotta catch this now and $7,000, right? You fat check me. Well, you fat deal with $7,000, right?

SPEAKER_06 25:06

Wait, the way you do, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:07

No, but look though, y'all gotta catch this now. Because these are the little tips and tricks you're gonna have to figure out with your own brand and your own business and figure out how this can catapult you above people that might be in your industry that's in the city with you. Yeah, yeah. I did a hundred dollar entry fee. We did three workouts per week. One of the workouts was online, and two of the workouts was in person. You remember this now? Because Johnny was in it.

SPEAKER_06 25:31

I was in there.

SPEAKER_04 25:32

It was three, it was uh three workouts per week. It was either for it was either for 60, it was either for 60 or 90 days. It was either, it was for real though. It was either 60 or 90 days, I can't remember. And um, somebody I trained right now won. Brian.

SPEAKER_06 25:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:49

But anyway. Brian. I gave it to me. So look though, look though, look though. It was it was it was uh thousand, I gave away a thousand dollars. I made seven thousand. So what was my profit? Six K. My profit was six K. Bro, when I saw that much money coming in at one time, I made a Facebook post. $100 boom. People comment. I want in, I want in, I want it. This is all confirmation. Yeah, all the nights I done prayed and talked to God, I'm like, God, like, it's more than life, it's more than life. I know, I know I can get you, I know you can get me out of this situation. Yeah, your words say faith without works is dead. Yeah. So I started putting, I so I'm not like I'm not testing God, I'm not, I'm not like challenging him, like, hey, do what you said you're gonna do now. But I'm like, I'm I'm more so like, okay, let's activate your scripture. Because I believe in your word. So let me activate, let me activate, let me go ahead and use this gym, let me use this key that you done gave us to open up these doors. Yeah. Faith with the core, you said, you see, I mean, God, you said faith without works is dead. So I'm putting in the work. God, you see me at my nine to five, yeah, trying to figure out, God, matter of fact, you see me before I go to my nine to five training. You see me when I get off my nine to five, training. So God is seeing me do this six, seven days a week, every every week. Yeah. I'm putting in the work every week. Yeah. So what is that showing him? That's showing him that I I really want this. Yeah. Yeah. So many times we say we want it with our lips, but we don't, we don't show it with our axes.

SPEAKER_06 27:16

Don't show it our accent. Ooh, say it again.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

So many times we say we want it with our lips, but our axes ain't following our words. And you sitting here wondering why you still stuck in the same situation you stuck in, is because you're not really putting in that work you think you're putting in. I was at Pennington High School from 7:30 a.m. or 8 a.m. to 2, 3, 4 p.m. before I went in, training. When I got off, training. 10, 11 o'clock at night, six, seven days a week. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to sacrifice that time from your wife and your husband? Are you willing to sacrifice that little time for your people? Are you willing to do that? Because it's easy to say it. But when it's time to really sit down and kiss your wife goodbye, I think I'm gonna be home around 10, 11 o'clock at night. Is she gonna be able to understand that?

SPEAKER_06 27:59

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

Um, the husband standpoint, if your wife's the entrepreneur, are you gonna be able to hold it down at home?

SPEAKER_06 28:04

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 28:05

You know what I'm saying? Because that's the that's the level of dedication it's gonna take for you to get to where you're trying to get to. This is not finna be no handed, hand, it's not gonna be no handout. You are literally trying to create a whole business that funds your whole entire lifestyle.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:19

But you know how much work you're finna have to put in. You're gonna have to put in a lot of work. And then then speaking of that, I thought about something else too. It's like when you building, when you coming out at 9 to 5, you gonna tell you gonna have people tell you that you're crazy. How many times you have people tell you that you crazy? I wouldn't do that. But my daddy said, My daddy said. I wouldn't do I wouldn't I wouldn't do it like that. For real.

SPEAKER_04 28:43

Nah, my daddy said that. It's not on knock on my daddy, but he did say that. I remember my daddy said when I was about to quit New Foundation. Yeah. When I was about to quit New Foundation or Penning High School, I was finna, when I was finna stop working. Yeah, I said, man, I'm finna start working, man. My daddy's words was I wouldn't leave that job. Cause it's it's easy money. It's easy money. It's just there. But I knew, okay, you say, I hear I see I hear what you're saying, daddy. And there's some people out there, y'all parents or close friends or whoever might be saying the same thing to y'all, but in my mind, I'm thinking like, the vision that God gave me, he didn't get it, my daddy. Yeah. So he can't see what I see. What you just said, you gotta be able to see it before you see it.

SPEAKER_06 29:23

Or you never will see it.

SPEAKER_04 29:24

Or you never will see it. Never will see it. So stop taking advice from people who ain't seeing what you seein'.

SPEAKER_06 29:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:31

Why would I take the advice from somebody who ain't seeing what I'm seeing? Cause they can't see what I see. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? So when he said, but I want to leave that job, that motivated me to show him and prove to him, to him, really, and to myself, like, oh, but I'm finna make it. I'm finna show it. And I'm I'm not saying he was saying it to be like a downer or put me down, nothing like that, but you gotta think about it, bro. Yeah. If we look at look at our parents' lives, all they did was work. All they did was work. If we look at our grandparents' lives, all they did was work. I remember my granddaddy, I remember spent night on my grandma and granddad in the house, and my granddaddy waking up early, early in the morning, four or five o'clock in the morning, grabbing that brown sandwich bag, walking out the door with his overalls on, with his Michelin shirt on, every day. Or every night I spent the night over there.

SPEAKER_06 30:15

Because they that's how they knew. Because that's what they was taught. That's what they did. But it comes at there comes a time where you have to start training yourself and um teaching yourself that I can do better than that. I can do that. I can I can do that. You know what I'm saying? And not saying you're better than anybody, not saying you're above nobody, but it's just like if I don't do it, who's gonna do it? If you think about the box that we put ourselves in when we work the these certain nine to five, these set incomes, these set, oh, I'm gonna work for you, but I'm not gonna pay you this much. When you work for yourself, you got the potential to make so much more. Bro, it's the systems they have set in place. Yeah, you know, and don't get me wrong, these sit some of these systems work for the economy and things like that. Yeah. But it's like if you take the initiative to really do what you love, bro, I'm talking about you'll be better, your blood pressure be dying. It's that mental.

SPEAKER_04 30:54

Mental, make more money. It's bigger. And you will make it sick. You'll make more money, but honestly, bro, think about it. If you could pay your bills, if you could pay your bills comfortably, pay your bills comfortably, but make less money but doing what you love, would you do it? That's a no-brainer. I'm out of there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But most people, okay, if you say you can make $100,000 a year, but you hate your job, or you can make $50,000 to $60,000 a year and you love your job. Most people are gonna take that $100 and just deal with the stress that's gonna wear. But that $50 to 60 that's gonna be a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 31:27

And then it'd be an ERK blood pressure up.

SPEAKER_04 31:28

Yep, and it but that $50 to 60 that you're making, you're gonna wake up loving doing what you're doing. So that one is gonna be more enjoyable to you. Yeah. It ain't always about the dollar amount. Do you love what you do? You love what you do. Yep. Do you love what you do, man?

SPEAKER_06 31:41

Because when you love what you when you love what you do, bro, I believe that that's what's gonna promote you to the next level to make the money you need to make. Exactly. Because when you love what you do, you give your best, you get you bring your best self every day. You give your all tools. How many times we be in our job twilling these nine to five, twilling our thumbs, or on the phone and not really invested? I don't hear people say, I ain't doing that. I ain't doing that. I'm like, how you ain't doing that? You work for these people. Bro, you know what I'm saying? You mean to go in there and say what you're gonna do in the air. And that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 32:05

When I was working in working these nine to five, bro, I'm sitting there on my phone half the time. I'm just sitting there like, bro, like scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. I'm just I just feel like I'm wasting my time.

SPEAKER_06 32:15

Because how are you being challenged?

SPEAKER_04 32:17

I'm not being challenged. You know what I'm trying to say? And I just feel like I'm just sitting here in life. I'm just uh just another number, just another badge number. Yeah, taking up space, waiting for be waiting to be replaced. Yeah, because you're not being challenged. I'm not adding no value. Yeah. So we we we not speaking with this type of podcast, we already know we're not speaking to everybody. Everybody ain't meant to be an entrepreneur.

SPEAKER_06 32:35

And they're not.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

And that's okay. And that's okay.

SPEAKER_06 32:37

We need we want to I want to let y'all know that that is okay. You know, for anybody like they trying to gotta be an entrepreneur, we're not saying that. If you work at McDonald's, you work at McDonald's and that's your passion, your purpose, and your drive, and it gives you fulfillment, do your thing.

SPEAKER_04 32:50

If you're a cashier at Walmart, that's okay. If you stock groceries, if you if you drive, if you drive Fort Lift, if you if you pack trucks, if you work in UPS, fit it, we need our.

SPEAKER_06 33:02

If you serving tables, we need to. If you're an Amazon driver, because Way gotta eat. I'm glad you're serving tables and Way gotta eat. We need y'all. Facts. Obviously, obviously somebody serving. Nobody back there cooking. What you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 33:19

Yeah, I'm telling you, they're checking law. Every episode for real. He's not even adjusting it. It just like on his own.

SPEAKER_06 33:28

About looking like a fresh batch of chicken gizzards.

SPEAKER_05 33:34

Right now, the jungle look like a Pillsbury dope boy looking like a white jerk on with a Pillsbury dope boy looking boy.

SPEAKER_06 33:41

Somebody told me they exhaust the other day. Yeah, she said, hoo-hoo. I said, wow. She did it for real. Woo-hoo. Oh, that's that's wild. That's wild. Tell us you don't look like Pillsbury today.

SPEAKER_04 33:57

She killed you. But no, we need we need we need gas station workers. We need these people. We need them. You know what I'm saying? And it's a time and place for. But who this podcast is for, it's for that person that's looking at us and listening to us. And it's something that's in your spirit is telling you that there's more. There's more. This is this the this is the podcast for you. This is what we talking about. We're talking directly to you. If you feel like it's more, it's because there is more. In order for you to find out how to To make that more become your life.

SPEAKER_06 34:25

Gotta get off that wheel. You gotta get out of the wheel. What's that book we said? What is it saying? Rich Dad, poor dad. What'd it say about the wheel? Hey, you gotta get off that wheel. You gotta get out that consistent, that consistent. You running, you tired, but you ain't going nowhere.

unknown 34:39

Jackie Chan?

SPEAKER_05 34:41

Wow. They do like Jackie Chan, though.

SPEAKER_04 34:45

This is Robin. Jackie Channel wrote a book. Kiyasaki. Bro, he got so many gems in here, bro. I wish I I wish I would've, man.

unknown 34:57

Marlon Jackson.

SPEAKER_06 34:58

That's wild, bro.

SPEAKER_04 34:59

I wish I would've uh that boy said Marlon Jackson. Bro, I wish I would've highlighted some of the stuff that's gonna be. That was a good one, bro. That was that was hilarious, though.

unknown 35:33

Alright, so I mean, what about people that try to afford things and like their jobs?

SPEAKER_04 35:37

Finances. What do you mean try to afford what you're talking about?

SPEAKER_05 35:40

But what if people with these jobs, right? And you know, they're happy, they love their job, but they can't afford nothing going into finances. So how y'all feel about that?

SPEAKER_04 35:48

You you gonna you need to find you another stream of income. That's right. You need to find you another way to make some money. If you you say they love their job, but they can't afford other things, then that means you don't really want to leave your job, but you're gonna have to find out some more money or ask or ask.

SPEAKER_06 36:01

Find out some more money. Find out how to make some more money. I do these things a lot in financial, because I am a financial counselor. I ain't gonna tell anybody where I work at, but I'm a financial counselor. Um, and that's what I do in my everyday life. And I do have clients with that, that their debt-to-income ratio is out of whack because they're comfortable where they are, but they got they their bills and stuff are high. So that's when you gotta find ways to, like Corey said, you gotta either make more money or you gotta eliminate some of the things that you got.

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Yo, yo, you gotta decrease your liabilities. And this, bro, I'm telling you, bro, man, I'm man, sponsor me, man. Where's that porta at? Where's that port? You gotta limit your liabilities. What's liabilities? Stuff that's taking money from you. Yep. So car payments, that hard, that hot car you might got, you might need to let that go. Everybody don't need that high car payment. And car payments are hot now, bro. Bro, I drove the same car now for 10 years. People that know me, bro, I had a two, I had a 2001 Seven A Malibu.

SPEAKER_06 36:51

There are people out there paying right now $1,100 car payment.

SPEAKER_04 36:54

And wondering why you stuck in the city. And I know this for a fact because I'm a lender. And wonder why you stack stuck in the rat race and you can't get out. Bro. Imagine if you was putting $1,100 towards your dreams.

SPEAKER_06 37:03

Toward your dreams.

SPEAKER_04 37:04

You're gonna be out of there within a year, six months, two, and see that and I ain't talking about that part. I taught I told y'all about the behind the scenes. I told y'all how about how I was working out or training people before I went to work. Yeah. Cool. But I ain't tell you what I was doing with my money. I was saving it. You was saving it. I wasn't out here. Oh, I got an extra. Shoot, I'm making, I'm making an extra two, three thousand dollars a month on top of the little $1100 I'm getting from Pendleton High School. I'm like, I could have easily mismanaged that money. So not so not only So not only am I showing God my faithfulness with my physical activity.

SPEAKER_06 37:39

But you've been a good steward.

SPEAKER_04 37:40

I'm being a good steward over my money. Over your money. What you make, hold on, hold on. What's the scripture? Be faithful over the few.

SPEAKER_06 37:46

He'll make you rule over many.

SPEAKER_04 37:48

Find the scripture, wait. Hey. Be faithful over the few, he will make you ruler over much. Yeah. And I and I kept that scripture close to me.

SPEAKER_05 37:54

I'm so glad y'all talking about church right now. Because you know what?

SPEAKER_06 37:58

What you about to say?

SPEAKER_05 38:00

Ties in the church.

SPEAKER_04 38:03

Oh, we're talking about an episode. Ooh. That's a whole nother episode. That's a whole nother, whole nother episode. Hold another episode. That's a whole nother episode. That's a great, bro. I'm glad you're about to talk about it. But it's great. We definitely need to talk about it. It is great. It is great. And we can't. That's gonna give us something to study too. Yeah, yeah. Let's wait a couple weeks for the episode. That's a great one. The scripture that says uh be faithful over the few. It said Matthew. Make you ruin over the bro.

SPEAKER_06 38:28

I forgot what I was going with. Yeah, we gotta be good stewards of over the money that we got. And I tell people, I tell people all the time in finances that you gotta have a plan with your money. You know, like you said, you saving it because we're spending money on X, Y, and Z thinking we need these things, trying to keep up with the Joneses. Your money needs an assignment. Your money does need an assignment. Your money needs to be. I tell people that all the time.

SPEAKER_04 38:48

Your money needs, don't do if I knew my assignment was turning it into a gym. Yeah. I didn't necessarily say this is how much we're gonna spend on equipment, this is how much we're gonna. I just knew all of this money we was we was making, I was making, was for us to be full-time personal training gym owners. So my money had an assignment, that's why I didn't blow it. Yeah. So what's over the script?

SPEAKER_05 39:09

Everybody turn your Bibles to Matthew 25.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Wow, wow, wow.

SPEAKER_05 39:16

And 21. His Lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

SPEAKER_03 39:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:26

Thou hast been faithful over a few things.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 39:29

I will make thee ruler over many things. Yes, sir. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.

SPEAKER_04 39:38

Talk to a weight. Being faithful over the few, I'll make you ruler over much. Yeah. So in order for us to be rulers over much here on earth, we gotta be faithful of the few that we do that we got on earth. So that don't mean be hating on another man. That don't mean be envying on another man. Enjoy what you got. It's another scripture. You gotta put us one though. But it you know it talks about how God gave what two bags of money to this person, five bags to this person, ten bags to this person. It didn't say why. It didn't say why this person only got this amount of bags. It just said, and then they had to bring it back, and the and the people that doubled their crop was blessed. But it was somebody who was salty and that they didn't have what the other person had and ended up perishing. So be faithful over what you got. I knew it was going to eventually become a time to where I was gonna be able to write that email that I wrote and step out because I said I'm gonna take this money and I'm gonna be faithful over it. Just how this how that's how I moved out of my mama daddy's house. You know what I'm saying? That's a whole nother topic. But I I was able to move move out of my mama daddy's house because I was working two jobs, yeah, and I was engaged, thinking about my future. Your future. I'm like, okay, I can't just spend money on food or going out to eat or clothes and stuff like that, even though I'm not a materialistic person. So it was easier for me to say I need to spend money on food. So so it was easy for me to save money. So my goal, my goal moving out my mama daddy's house, my goal moving out my mama daddy's house, I wanted to save up like 10,000 or something like that. That was my goal. Yeah. So what did I do? What did I do? I calculated how much rent was. Yeah. I times it by 12. Yeah. So rent back then was like 725. Three bed, uh two-bedroom on the third floor. I was we was on we was a two-bedroom on the third floor. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Finna be newlyweds. Yeah. 725 times 12. What's that way? What's 725 times 12? But what I did was I I said, okay, whatever that number was, I'm gonna make sure I got that in my bank account. Yeah. This is this is what you call financial literacy. This is what you call setting yourself for financial success. What is it? $8,688. Yeah, so about $10. So look, I save, I say, I said to myself, I'm going to save up at least a year's worth of rent. Yeah. Why did I do that? Because I didn't want to have to go back home. So many of us try to jump the gun. You're not ready yet.

SPEAKER_06 41:51

It's all about it's all about structure, bro. It's structure. And I was that was me because I was I was one of them people that I left early. I left home early. And you and didn't know what I was doing. Went out without a plan. Went ahead and bumped my head because I when you when you move without structure and you're not and you don't have the organization piece to the puzzle, you're gonna miss parts of it. And so that's why I was struggling. I was I was I live in paycheck to paycheck. I ain't I didn't know how to pay my bills. And that's when I had got on the got made the fine uh the conscious decision is that I'm gonna be faithful over what God have given me. I'm gonna learn money, I'm gonna learn how to steward money, I'm gonna learn how to be responsible with my money. I'm gonna give my money an assignment, I'm gonna make it, you know what I'm saying? I'm gonna I'm gonna give my money destiny, you know. And then I prayed over my money. You know what I'm saying? God, show me what to do with this, how to handle this, how to prepare. And a lot of us we get we get coins, but we don't prepare. You know what I'm saying? We don't prepare for what to do with them, like you said. So I'm glad that you was able to save up money for a whole year because we don't think about that.

SPEAKER_04 42:49

People ain't even got the discipline to say that.

SPEAKER_06 42:50

We want they're right. They don't have about to say that. That's why I was going with it. Nobody has discipline anymore. We want what we want, and we want it now. We want a quick, fast life. That's why people. But what it was that scripture that says uh uh um getting getting uh rich um I can't even think of get rich, quick schemes. Yeah, get rich, quick schemes, proverbs, yeah. Isn't that man people want to get people want to get wealthy and rich so fast, man, that they're not even thinking about the process of how responsible they need to be with it.

SPEAKER_04 43:17

Get rich quick schemes fail over time, but hard work through wealth is gonna grow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Promotes growth. Wealth through wealth through hard work is gonna promote growth. Yeah, promote growth.

SPEAKER_06 43:26

Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Can can can get it. But I know people like I know I know I know a couple of people, I I know people who have been successful, may I mean I I know I know somebody who made it in a millionaire status and and because they weren't responsible with their money, they didn't know how to manage money, they lost it. Because you 'cause you don't you gotta take you you can't take it for granted because you can lose what you get. Yeah, facts. And we don't think about that part.

SPEAKER_04 43:54

It ain't about how much it ain't about how much you it ain't about how much you get, is how much can you keep. Yeah. Knowledge behind it. The financial literacy. Knowledge is where? Power. The financial literacy behind money, bro. So that's what I did. I saved my money. So I'm not, I'm not saying, I'm not, cause, because people are gonna be having questions already about the podcast. So I want to kind of like try to answer them before the episode over. I know like a question I can think somebody might be asking is, well, what do I really like like give me a step by step? What do I really need to do to step out my nine to five?

SPEAKER_00 44:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:26

What do I let's let's answer that before we leave. What do I really need? What do I really need to do to step out of my nine to five? Step one, God first. Pray about it. Pray about it. That's number one. Like talk to him about it. What does prayer look like? I'm not necessarily saying you gotta be on your knees praying to God. Like, man, it could be in a car ride to your nine to five. It could be on your lunch break.

SPEAKER_06 44:49

You gotta get to a place where you where you're you gotta get to a place, and when you pray about your money, that your that your your heart becomes your prayer closet. Yeah. So you gotta you gotta start purposing that thing in your heart. Purpose. Meditate on it.

SPEAKER_04 45:01

Saying it on the way to work. You know what I'm saying? Saying it on the way back home from work. Like God, like help me. Show me you know what I want. These are these are my interests. You know what I'm saying? So figure out your interests. Johnny like photography. Johnny likes the bait. You know what I'm saying? He got different different gifts that he likes to do. Like to cook. Let me show my way to eat. Find your gifts. What is your gifts? What has God purpose in your heart to do? Is it speaking? Is it preaching? Johnny preached too. Like it's different it's a lot of different things that you can do. For me, the working out just took hold. Like I said, I didn't grow up wanting to be this. But I wanted to get out of my lifestyle. And I wanted to show my family and my friends and my loved ones and myself and prove it to God that if you activate his scripture, his word, your life can start to reveal what it says. You know what I'm saying? So and that's so that's what I started to do. That's what I started to do. I started to apply what I was reading in the scripture in the real life. You know what I'm saying? So I was like, yeah, I know my daddy said what he said about, but you better not leave the job, but daddy, this job requires my time, Monday through Friday, from eight to four, seven to three. I can't do what I really want to do because I'm stuck here doing this. So some of y'all gonna have to let your hand, you're gonna have to take your hands off of it. You gotta let you have to jump off that cliff.

SPEAKER_06 46:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:14

I'm not saying jump off without a parachute.

SPEAKER_06 46:16

Well, I'm about to say. Now I'm about to jump.

SPEAKER_04 46:18

I didn't jump off without a cliff.

SPEAKER_06 46:19

With a parachute.

SPEAKER_04 46:20

See, when I when I left. What did I say? I said 725 times 12. Yep. Jumping off without a parachute is leaving out of anger. Leaving out of anger. Bank account got thousand dollars in. Oh, you ain't got no plan, you ain't wrote that. I'm gonna start this business and I'm out here. Yo, you just out there. That's not. It might take you a year to really sit down and plan and organize yourself together and save money. But guess what? Who cares? Retirement age is what? 60 what? How old you gotta be retired?

SPEAKER_06 46:48

Well, 64, 64, 60, 62, then 65.

SPEAKER_04 46:52

If it took you two, if it took you two to three years to really, really, really lock in and save money and really take your job seriously, take your dream seriously. Yeah. And you was able to step out your nine to five, would it be worth it? Yes, it'd be worth it. But the thing is, you don't want to wait two to five years. You want to wait two to five months. And that's why you end up back at square one every time. Because you're not taking the time to save that.

SPEAKER_06 47:15

So you gotta let patience have its perfect work. You got to.

SPEAKER_04 47:18

You gotta be patient. You gotta be patient. You gotta be patient. And you gotta And you gotta let your faith produce evidence. Yes, and it's a lot of stuff that you, like you said, it's a lot of stuff that you gotta learn in the process. It's a lot of pros and cons you gotta go through. You gotta get your LLC. You know what I'm saying? You gotta get your insurances and stuff right. It ain't just, oh, I got a business. No, you gotta let the process teach you. You gotta let the process teach you. And they don't want to let that's that's what you're doing. And when you don't want and when you don't want to let the process teach you, you end up learning the hard way. Hard way. You end up learning the hard way. You end up losing a lot of money. Yeah, you end up losing a lot of you get your head bumped in ways that you could have avoided. But you wanted to jump out there and and and just risk it all. No, bro. So even when it came to leave when it came to me leaving my nine to five, because I talked about how I left my mom and daddy's house financially. This is what I did. I did the same thing with the the training money I was making. Yeah. So the training money I was making, I didn't touch. Yeah. I was saving it. If I might have, we might have bought a little equipment here and there, but it wasn't no thousands and thousands of dollars I was spending. It might have been a couple hundred dollars here, a couple hundred dollars there. So I'm making thousands and thousands of dollars, and I'm not even having to spend it because my um wife working, I'm working in 905, she's a school teacher, so I'm taking my check, she's taking her check, and we paying our bills with that. So all the side money that I was making, I was able to just keep stacking it, stacking it, stacking it. And I did that for like two years. See what I'm saying? Yeah. So now I got all this money saved up, and I want to say, and I want to say it was about 20,000. I want to say it was about close to about 20,000. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to say it was exactly 20,000. I'm gonna go back and look at my bank statement. But I want to say, I'm just giving y'all insight, transparency. I want to save up about I want to say I saved up about 15 to 20,000. Yeah. I looked at my account and I said, it's time.

SPEAKER_02 49:02

It's time.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

It's time. I done put in so much work. I done I done thought of ways to be creative and to get my name out there. I did the challenge where I gave a thousand dollars away. So I'm seeing this. So I'm like, all we gotta do is continue just to build off the momentum. Yeah. And that's what I did, man. Built off that momentum. And now here we are in 2026. A64 Legends is still a gym. I'm still training. The email that I sent in 2021, I have not had to go back home. I moved out of my mama's house when I was 22, 23 years old. I never had to go back home. So I'm not saying all this to brand, but I'm saying all this to get some game and some wisdom. Obviously, I'm doing something right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing something right. So I will just encourage people out there to take my advice on what I'm saying when it comes to this avenue. Yeah. But just know, man. And we ain't even really talk about this that much, but this entrepreneurship is real, boy. I'm waking up four or something in the morning every day. When I was going to Pillin' High School or all the other jobs, nine times out of ten, I ain't have to be there at eight, nine o'clock. When I worked there to uh take a lot of sacrifice. When I went to New Foundations, I will I only I ain't have to be there till 2 p.m., 1 p.m. Yeah. So when you but when you the boss, when you your boss, getting up early, late. All I'm gonna say is a lot of late nights, early mornings.

SPEAKER_06 50:15

Just know, just know if if it is for you to come out at 9 to 5, just know you're gonna have to give up some stuff. It's gonna take some sacrifices. Plenty of sacrifices. And you gotta wanna do that. You know what I'm saying? And like I said, you know, another question they may ask is, you know, how how do I get the help I need? You know, surround yourself with mentors and people, people that's gonna push you into destiny. You know what I'm saying? Don't be around nobody, no naysayers that's gonna tell you you can't do it. And if they do tell you you can't do it, you let that be your motivation to do it. Like Corey said. But surround yourself with, you know, anything wrong with getting help. I got a mentor right now. Shout out to my brother Um Brendan Gere, which is, yeah, shout out to him. Hey, that's my mentor right now. Yeah, my boy Danny. He helps me with photography, he shows me things, he shows me lighting, he shows me how to edit, he shows me how to do all these things, man. And because of him, I can say that, you know, my work is getting better, and I'm working toward, you know, where I want to be. So surround yourself with some people that can help build you up and take you to that next level for real. Yeah. Facts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

That's real, man. My brother.

SPEAKER_06 51:13

Yeah, Wade Brother, man, Brandon, man. Good dude, man. Hey, if you need some pictures, man, you need some videography done, man. Hit up Brandon here, man. Good dude, man. Yeah, shout out to him, man. Clap it up for Brandon, boy. Yes, sir. Hey. So, you know what I'm saying? That's that question we always ask. If I knew then what I know. If you knew Corey, if you do then what you know now, bro, what would be different? How would you, how, how, how would you change some things or or how would you how would you tell that person who's trying to go into it, if I knew then what I knew now, this is what I would do.

SPEAKER_04 51:45

When it comes to entrepreneurship, I mean I really do like how I did it though. I really do. I feel like I I feel like I really did do, you know, I'm not gonna say the only way you should could do it, but I feel like I did it the right way. You know what I'm saying? I didn't rush it. I would say just don't rush it, man. Really, really, you know, if this something you really, really wanna do, do it while you got a nine to five. Yeah. And see if you see if you wanna keep doing it for real. See if it keeps itching at you. See if it keeps pulling you towards that way. You know what I'm saying? Like that magnetic force. See if it if it if it keeps drawing you over there, then you're gonna know, like, okay, yeah, this this might be something I need to do, man. But if I knew it and what I know now, man, I I keep everything the same with this, you know. I keep everything the same with it because it cause it taught me a lot. It it showed me the pros and the cons of what I do, of business and partnerships and stuff like that. So, you know, I'm thankful for it. And shoot, what's 2026? So five years. You know, five years I'd have been an entrepreneur.

SPEAKER_03 52:49

Yeah. This year.

SPEAKER_04 52:50

I signed that lease October 2021. Signed that lease October 2021. So October 2026, it'll be officially five years since I've never had the since I've since I've uh October 21 to October 2026, it'd be five years where I didn't never had to clock in or, you know, work for somebody else. I've been working for myself. So I'ma say Shout out to my boy. We going for another five years, man. I gotta celebrate that. I gotta celebrate that. I'm gonna have to celebrate that five years, bro. Just sit back and think about that. Like, well, I remember, bro. But you remember? I done had to change, I done had to transfer my savings to my chickens to get a cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_06 53:28

I remember that.

SPEAKER_04 53:28

And I said I had to pull up on my boy. Hey man, what you good, boy?

SPEAKER_06 53:31

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 53:32

Not because I'm out here poor and desolate, ain't got nowhere to eat and sleep or nothing like that, but no, because I just was mismanaging my money. Yeah. Working and working a job, don't really got too many bills like that, but not saving my money because my money ain't got no assignment. So I had this, I had the light bulb, I had to click on, bro. I'm like, bro, what am I going to work every day for and I can't even go across the street to Walbert House and get a walk? Yep. Like for real.

SPEAKER_06 53:52

Like you gotta manage it. You gotta get me going on another room.

SPEAKER_04 53:58

Got to, bro. You got to.

SPEAKER_06 53:59

You gotta be a good steward of your time and your money. And you gotta make a plan. Yeah. Write a vision, make it plain, yeah, mimic and execute.

SPEAKER_04 54:08

And and and cut you, like I will say though, I feel like even though I did make it this far, I still had a lot of distractions along the way. So, what would I say to people, like, really, really, really try to like kill your distractions. Yeah. Really, really, because you can do it faster than I did it. If you really like sit back and just focus wholeheartedly and lock in on what you need to lock in on and really minim like minimize your distractions, it can happen faster than you. But the way the world is now and technology is and social media is booming the way it's booming, it's gonna be harder for you to not be distracted. But if it's something that you really want to do, work on your craft, honey on your craft, believe God that Hebrews 11:1, faith without works is dead. You know what I'm saying? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen. So have that faith that it's gonna work because it's gonna work.

SPEAKER_06 54:57

It's gonna work. It's gonna work. Hey, man. Beautiful, man. Good show, man. What you got? What are you about to say? Oh, if I knew then what I know now.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

What you what you would you know?

SPEAKER_06 55:10

If I knew then what I knew now, man, um, I would have cast down the spirit of procrastination, my boy. Ooh, because procrastination so many like distractions that I allow myself. I've been knew what I want to do. I've been knew that these things give me joy. But it's so many distractions along the way where we entertain so much other stuff rather than the purpose in our lives. And I feel like them, them that that procrastination where I could be, there's plenty of times Courtney hit me up, I'm like, hey man, well, you got this done, you got that done. You know what I'm saying? That's why I said it'd be good to be around people that are gonna push you because that procrastination is serious. And a lot of people deal with procrastination. I feel like a lot of us could be so much further if we just utilize our time. I'm talking about, and I and when I talk about managing your time, I'm talking about that from experience. I ain't just saying it to call nobody out and say, Oh, y'all should do this. No, I shouldn't do that.

SPEAKER_04 55:59

Talking about ourselves.

SPEAKER_06 56:00

Because I talk we talking about on this podcast, we talk about ourselves.

SPEAKER_04 56:02

I still procrastinate, even as an entrepreneur.

SPEAKER_06 56:04

I don't find myself countless hours wasting time when I could have been doing something else.

SPEAKER_04 56:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 56:08

So if I knew then what I know now, I would I would, I would, I would get rid of procrastination and lock in for real, for real. Yeah. And locking in doesn't look like getting it right, but lock in looks like trying again. Right. Every single every single moment of my life. Yeah. Give it giving giving my my craft and my goal, my goals the time it needs to be effective, to be efficient. You know what I'm saying? That's that's what I would do.

SPEAKER_04 56:29

And I and last thing before we go, man, I will say that. God! Let's play. Oh, yeah. Oh, name. We talked about longer than I thought we were talking about. Yeah, we did. I know I just talked. But I would just say, like, it's it's it's like a never-ending ladder. Like, even once you start to climb the ladder of success or the mountain of success, it seems like the mountain is never ending. Because like now that I I'm at where I'm at, I don't I'm making, I'm making the most money I've ever made in my life. Yeah. Money I make now is is is triple what I was making, quadruple what I was making as a you know, a nine to five employee. But I'm just like, I'm just like, I'm still wanting more. It's like I still find that that hunger, like, so keep so keep that hunger.

SPEAKER_06 57:15

For the love of money? The love of money. That is black. Nah, my boy, nah. That's drive, bro.

SPEAKER_04 57:22

You're gonna see like once you start to make money and the photography and stuff like that, like, you wanna keep getting booked. Yeah. So I'll be wasting my money, y'all. On what? On what, bro?

unknown 57:33

Food.

SPEAKER_06 57:33

Go to the corral. Dairy Queen. Buffet. Coming to you live from Burger King.

SPEAKER_05 57:40

What did you waste your money on, way? Like, I I'm in sales, so you waste your money on, boy.

SPEAKER_06 58:00

Hey.

SPEAKER_04 58:01

Hey man, not for real, though, way. What'd you boycott your money on? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 58:03

Big Wade International. Okay. Food critic. Coming to you live.

SPEAKER_05 58:07

What'd you waste your money on, Wade?

SPEAKER_04 58:08

Because you might hear somebody with it for real, though.

SPEAKER_05 58:14

Chief. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 58:17

Bye bye.

SPEAKER_05 58:19

Y'all missed the topic.

unknown 58:20

Y'all miss a great conversation.

SPEAKER_05 58:22

Go ahead, Wade. Tell us. Black people like to splurge on nonsense. Yeah, people do.

SPEAKER_06 58:27

Yeah, they do. And not me though.

SPEAKER_05 58:28

That's why I'm glad I went like that. Can we see your statements? And I was okay. The problem with me, bruh, like, I would waste money, like, I bought cars for no reason. Cars? Cars.

SPEAKER_06 58:41

Okay. Just wasting.

SPEAKER_05 58:43

No, just wasting money on like dumb stuff. Like, and one thing too, man, you gotta put your family first when it comes to this money stuff. Knowing that we y'all got kids, we married. I made a mistake, right? So I told my wife, I I promise I'll take, we go, we go out, go out of town, do whatever. I end up buying $3,000 worth of uh gaming equipment. Stupid. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to talk about real life problems. Go ahead. Go ahead. Why are you laughing? These are real life problems, bro, that people go to. Alright, you know what?

SPEAKER_06 59:19

Wait now, bro. We got you, bro. We hear you. We hear you, my boy.

SPEAKER_04 59:24

It doesn't listen to it. You're my boy, boy. I'm listening, bro. You said you brought $3 million worth of gaming equipment. Like my whole gaming remote.

SPEAKER_06 59:34

I'm laughing because we don't we don't been there. But we wasted pointless money. I remember that. Go ahead. I'm gonna tell you about a story, bro.

SPEAKER_04 59:40

Yeah, we're using this money I spent.

SPEAKER_06 59:44

Go ahead, bro.

SPEAKER_05 59:45

No, I mean it's it's better. Go ahead, go ahead, bro.

SPEAKER_06 59:51

Say it, bro. You got you gotta say what you gotta say.

SPEAKER_05 59:52

All right. Yeah, no, it's just a main thing that a lot of people, you know, deal with is like wasting money.

SPEAKER_04 59:57

Blowing your brain on places that you could have utilized it somewhere else to really catapult you to get to this level.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:03

Oh, it's just the point of selfishness. Like you know, you know, and as a as a man, we can't be we do we say these things, but we don't commit. You know, it's a certain thing that a lot of people fail to realize, but that's one thing I had I had to learn. So y'all shared y'all's story.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:19

I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad you were able to learn that, man, because it's like now you can now you can learn from those moments so that you can uh make good sound decisions to help your family and yourself. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:32

$3,000 gaming equipment. If I'm his wife, nigga, you better be in there every day making a video. So we're gonna do it. I need 3,000 videos, boy. What we need to do. I need 3,000 videos.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:41

When he said that I wasn't gonna laugh, but like you look the way you look, cause I because me, I know Wade. He used to do gaming and stuff, right? Used to do all that, yeah, you do all that. So I was like, oh, he, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:52

I did it just to get like uh uh I wanted my own gaming room. Like in there.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:56

No, I thought about that time, Corbin. When you um uh y'all, I mean Corbin know each other for a long time, but I do. Remember you had hey bro, you remember you had bottom shoes?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:06

Oh, when I talk about hanging out my refund check for school. Yeah, that was first see that was first time I had a lot of money in one. You see what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:14

We have the mentality we gotta have, we gotta have a new girlfriend. Oh, come on, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:19

And a new girlfriend. I got a refund check at school. That was like the tech, it was like my team. It felt like my text money came back. I went and bought like three, four pairs of phones. You know, phones high. Hey, you know phones high. How much was the young chick? I'm like two pairs of shoes. Some phone posits, bro. You know, phone posits, but these like this one phone posits is like kind of popular for real. And I have to do it. I had bought them gone fish, I bought them gone fish, and them gold phone posits.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:49

It's okay. It's okay to go to Goodwill and all these other little places, bro.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:53

Just saying. Yeah, I'm I'm materialistic, bro. I'm materialistic, bro. So lower your liabilities, lower whatever it is that's taking money from you and increase your assets. What is bringing money to you?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:04

And think about what you're doing before you do it. Make good sound decisions. Facts. Y'all gonna be straight. Hey man, want to thank y'all for tuning in to episode five. If I knew then, what I know now, the podcast.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:14

Man, entrepreneurship versus 95 lifestyle, man. Shout out to all the 95 workers out there. We love y'all. Keep doing what y'all are doing. It's a time place for everything. But if this podcast folds to you, go do it. You know what you need to do, go make it happen.