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Episode #162 w/Mr. J'ai · Kickin’ It With KeKe: Life, Love, & MINDSET

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kicking In with Kiki. Kicking it you ki
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  Speaker 1: Ki kicking it the ki key for a.
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  Speaker 2: Little personality, switching up the storyline on God we making
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  Speaker 2: this story.
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  Speaker 1: And hooks changing frids one day at the time. Much
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  Speaker 1: problems to the side.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy yourself, free.
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  Speaker 1: Your mind, chickin it we ki kee.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome back to another episode of
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  Speaker 2: Kicking with Kiki. Life, Love and Mindset, the podcast where
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  Speaker 2: lifestyle meets movement, mindsets meet purpose, and conversations create transformation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Kicky Shanel, award winning author, lifestyle blother
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  Speaker 2: and owner of nineteen Lifestyle mag We talk about life, love, healing, growth,
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  Speaker 2: and mindset shifts that help you become the best version
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  Speaker 2: of yourself. On this podcast today we're diving into life,
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  Speaker 2: love and mindset as usual with a very special guest.
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  Speaker 2: And I will go ahead and do what I always do.
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  Speaker 2: Let the guests introduce themselves. So, hello sir, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for coming to kick it with me.
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  Speaker 4: Today, Oh problem, thank you for having me. My name
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  Speaker 4: is Aubrey mister J. Jones.
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  Speaker 5: People who are in the hip hop world, they might
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  Speaker 5: know me it's mister j But people in the real world,
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  Speaker 5: every day, day to day Arbora Jones. But I'm happy
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  Speaker 5: to be here with you and we're kicking it. We're
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  Speaker 5: gonna kick.
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  Speaker 3: It absolutely, so we start kicking it.
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  Speaker 2: We have some news.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we just are released.
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  Speaker 2: We've been a nineteen lifestyle magazine. Just release release the
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  Speaker 2: tenth issue, which is our poetry edition, and I have
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  Speaker 2: a copyright here. Yeah, you guys exclusive here on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You get to see what it looks like in print.
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  Speaker 2: We also have digital and this guy right here sitting
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  Speaker 2: next to me, he is one of the features of
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  Speaker 2: this issue.
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  Speaker 3: Mister j is featured. So I want to ask you
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  Speaker 3: a question.
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  Speaker 2: When did your first fall in love with words and poetry?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: I first fell in love with words and poetry, I'll
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  Speaker 5: be honest with you, probably in college at the University
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  Speaker 5: of New Orleans. I was a communications major along with
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  Speaker 5: some drama, but you know, I had to take many
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  Speaker 5: English classes, and so through studying that and having the
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to actually study a black authors, African American authors,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I really fell in love with a lot
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  Speaker 5: of the artists and writers from the Renaissance. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: that's that's kind of history, you know, just just hearing
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  Speaker 5: those stories or reading those stories, but also just seeing
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  Speaker 5: how somebody like the Lance and Hughes, you know, put
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  Speaker 5: his words together in those poems. That really made a
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  Speaker 5: move on me and you know, got me very interested
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  Speaker 5: or more interested and not only reading, but just inspired
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  Speaker 5: to just write and put my emotions down on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we all know that that is sometimes hard
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  Speaker 2: because people are mean. You're putting yourself out there as
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  Speaker 2: an artist, and just in the words of miss Erica Bad,
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  Speaker 2: we're sensitive about.
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  Speaker 3: It, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So I met you a couple of months ago at
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  Speaker 2: the Black Book and Film Festival in band Ruge, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to miss the Moon and Rebirth Magazine for
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  Speaker 2: putting on such an amazing event, and we just kind
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  Speaker 2: of vibed, and I was like, I gotta have him
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  Speaker 2: in this issue.
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  Speaker 3: So I wanted to let you see what you look
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  Speaker 3: like in print.
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  Speaker 4: Their okay ooh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why why Zoom does that?
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  Speaker 4: That's okay.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what's cool, that's actually my favorite print color.
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  Speaker 4: You know that the blue. You know, I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 5: Guy blue, but it's a cousin, but that's just as perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's what you look like in print. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta go ahead and get you a copy.
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  Speaker 2: You guys can get your copy at nineteen dash magazine
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  Speaker 2: dot com. We have digital and we have print, So
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  Speaker 2: going over and support us.
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  Speaker 6: This is our second year, number ten, volume number ten.
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  Speaker 6: Y'all see your girl on the cover as usual, and
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  Speaker 6: I was excited about it. So now that you see
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  Speaker 6: what it looks like in.
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  Speaker 4: Print, how I mean, I feel I feel great.
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  Speaker 5: I really, I feel honest to just be a part
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  Speaker 5: of the tenth issue and I'm gonna actually come flatter.
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  Speaker 4: Did a great job. Yeah, did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's talk a little bit about the Black Book
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  Speaker 2: and Film Festival.
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  Speaker 3: Why were you there? Tell the people? Why were you there?
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  Speaker 3: It's big.
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  Speaker 6: I loved it and yes, so go ahead and tell
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  Speaker 6: them and again there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Minie me. All right.
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  Speaker 5: So this was our premiere for the Live from Government
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  Speaker 5: Street the Story of Mister J my own documentary, and
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  Speaker 5: it's actually a student film that was directed and co
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  Speaker 5: produced by Errol Lutrell, who is a graduate graduating senior
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  Speaker 5: from Bato's High School. So we've been working the past
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  Speaker 5: almost like sixteen months on the project. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's just been an honor to somebody wants to do
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  Speaker 5: a documentary on me on my musical journey and you
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  Speaker 5: know we'll say DJ journey too, just art the art
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  Speaker 5: journey all all wrapped up together, right, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's not a very long film, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: a very authentic film about you know, my travels coming
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  Speaker 5: out of Baton Rouge, going to New Orleans and all
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  Speaker 5: the other places I've traveled, you know, with music and
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  Speaker 5: where music.
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  Speaker 4: Is taking me.
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  Speaker 5: And so I'm just very honored to be ready to
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  Speaker 5: put this this piece out for the masses. But it
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  Speaker 5: just felt really good to debut it with you all
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  Speaker 5: at the the Rebirt Black Book and Film Festival, but
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  Speaker 5: also just from my hometown in Baton Rouge. Beautiful library,
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  Speaker 5: the weather was great, just everything was was well.
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  Speaker 4: It was good.
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  Speaker 5: It was good, and so it just helps us really
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  Speaker 5: just kick off the promotion that we're going to be
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  Speaker 5: doing because we're going to hit some other festivals. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, for Starters, it was it was an honor
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  Speaker 5: just to be a part of it. So yeah, this
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  Speaker 5: is this is a cover and so we're coming soon,
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  Speaker 5: coming soon.
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  Speaker 2: I love it and it was amazing. The film is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Just to see all of the people that came out
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  Speaker 2: to support.
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  Speaker 3: You guys, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was beautiful because you know how it is sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we plan for people and they don't show up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but the show must go on. But we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: that issue. You guys had a packed house.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, we missed a couple of people.
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  Speaker 5: But I mean, the beauty of it is not only
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  Speaker 5: was it Black History Month. We know down South Louisiana
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  Speaker 5: it's Modigras season, so a lot of people who wanted
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  Speaker 5: to be there haad of the obligations with either balls
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  Speaker 5: or actually riding in parades that they in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 4: And stuff like that. So you know, that's why.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this was one of many screenings, but it
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  Speaker 5: worked out to where many people did come out and
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  Speaker 5: you know, they got to see other authors and other
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  Speaker 5: directors and to meet you guys too. So it was
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  Speaker 5: it was. It was good for the city, great for
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  Speaker 5: the our community.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it definitely was.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was amazing. I was like, Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: We're in the building, in.
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  Speaker 2: The building, and it's always amazing to have us in
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  Speaker 2: the building, Like we build the building we are the building.
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  Speaker 4: We're the building.
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  Speaker 3: We are the building.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's start about Let's start with the mindset moment.
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  Speaker 2: When we talk about mindset, that shapes how we experience life, right,
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  Speaker 2: and as an artist, I know it takes a different
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  Speaker 2: type of mindset two do what you've done thus far
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  Speaker 2: and still have the love for it.
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  Speaker 3: So what mindset shift.
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  Speaker 2: Change the way you approach life when it came to
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  Speaker 2: your music.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough question.
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  Speaker 5: I went through a couple of shifts, and I'll be honest,
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  Speaker 5: the most important one for the musician and the artist
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  Speaker 5: that I am today was shifting from saying hey, I
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  Speaker 5: really want to do this music or be money driven,
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  Speaker 5: because if your money driven, then sometimes you end up
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  Speaker 5: chasing trends. And you know, listening to people who aren't
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  Speaker 5: in that art studio or the studio with you, right
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  Speaker 5: and that creation phase, they're just focusing on marketing and
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  Speaker 5: promotion only. And so you know that changed. People's tastes
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  Speaker 5: changed frequently, and so if you're changing your style and
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  Speaker 5: your art to appease those taste makers, then you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: burn out. And I reached the point where I was
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  Speaker 5: signed to a deal and it didn't work out in
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  Speaker 5: my favor. But we were doing some things to try
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  Speaker 5: to get some more mainstream radio play and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we'll say early two thousands, and so I
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  Speaker 5: had a shifting point where I stopped doing music altogether.
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  Speaker 5: I was kind of over the industry, if that makes sense, right,
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  Speaker 5: and I did. I'll say I forgot a few of
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  Speaker 5: my underground roots along the way. And so being away
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  Speaker 5: from creating and taking in other you know, I started
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  Speaker 5: going to other people's concerts. You know, when you're in
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  Speaker 5: your own lane, you're like everybody's competition. I don't have
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  Speaker 5: time to worry about what's going on over here, what's
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  Speaker 5: going on over there, And so then you lose your
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  Speaker 5: art appreciation for the peeriods and your peers and other
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  Speaker 5: artists who are just in the ecosystem, right. And so,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I went back to just going to concerts.
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  Speaker 5: I went back to just listening to anything that caught
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  Speaker 5: my ear, and you know, I started doing that appreciation phase.
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  Speaker 5: I started missing the creation. And so I told myself,
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  Speaker 5: but if I'm going to do this again, because I
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  Speaker 5: was out for about two years, I'm going to do
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  Speaker 5: it because I love it. I'm going to do it
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  Speaker 5: for the people who I know appreciate, you know, my
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  Speaker 5: talents and how I do my music, and that's it.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna and I'm not going to chase money.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to do it because I just truly want
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  Speaker 5: to do it right, kind of like treating it like
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  Speaker 5: a hobby. And so that was my big mindset shift.
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  Speaker 5: And so you know, I also know my core supporters.
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  Speaker 5: They're still with me, you know, and they actually helped
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  Speaker 5: spread the good news and the word to others who
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  Speaker 5: are like minded. So I never have to like go
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  Speaker 5: outside of myself, you know, as far as in that
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  Speaker 5: creative face and just enjoying it, just kind of getting
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  Speaker 5: out of just I mean, you get into like a
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  Speaker 5: rat race, just like any other job.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I don't want that. If I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to do music again, I want.
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  Speaker 5: To truly enjoy it and enjoy the journey and enjoy everybody,
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  Speaker 5: you know, who I meet alone this journey, good, bad
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  Speaker 5: and ugly. But you know, if it's not about the money,
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  Speaker 5: then I can enjoy it so much more. And that
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  Speaker 5: was the best thing I could have ever done.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And as a creative I think that when you
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  Speaker 2: do anything chasing money.
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  Speaker 3: It takes out.
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  Speaker 2: The love for sort of definitely, you kind of like
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  Speaker 2: lose yourself to that's what that's what, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: a rat race.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want. I need to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here, I'm here because I'm getting paid this, this
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  Speaker 2: and this and that, creating that burnout.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then.
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  Speaker 2: You just have all type of other chaos, chaos that ensues.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm glad that you had that mindset shift.
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  Speaker 3: Are multiple shifts.
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  Speaker 2: I think that when you're a creative, you have to
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  Speaker 2: have multiple mindset shifts so that you can stay true
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  Speaker 2: to who you are and keep the love for what
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  Speaker 2: it is that you're actually striving to do.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, definitely, And you know, I was blessed because around
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  Speaker 5: that same time, I had my first child, and so
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  Speaker 5: I was really slowing down. I had a whole career
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  Speaker 5: shift to go along with that too. You know, I
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  Speaker 5: answer my call to go into education full time.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it's just there was a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: Shifting going on, you know, fatherhood being more responsible, you know,
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  Speaker 5: with my craft, with my art being more I guess
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  Speaker 5: aware of my time, you know, because when you have kids,
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  Speaker 5: you know your time is really not yours, right, and
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  Speaker 5: so everything has to be meaningful, you know, even like
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  Speaker 5: changing the way I scheduled the venues that have performed at,
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  Speaker 5: you know, doing more park shows, doing more family oriented
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  Speaker 5: you know events versus late night you know, club events,
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  Speaker 5: things like that, and so that's a whole that's a
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  Speaker 5: different mind ship. But it's great because that helps with
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  Speaker 5: just preservation and longevity. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 5: other people who are looking for something pure they appreciate that,
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  Speaker 5: you know. I mean, I've been invited to go to
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  Speaker 5: so many places that I probably wouldn't have been invited
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  Speaker 5: to before I had that ship, so you know, and
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  Speaker 5: I try to encourage others to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: consider some other avenues too, because you know, there's many
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  Speaker 5: other avenues and so it's not just one way to
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  Speaker 5: do it, and it's not just one way to enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's almost kind of like that no new friends
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  Speaker 2: type deal. Why not you might miss out on something
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  Speaker 2: that you would never have considered or came across. We're
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  Speaker 2: ever evolving, and people, whether we want to believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not, people teach us stuff because they're always watching
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  Speaker 2: and if they're always watching. We're always watching, or at
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  Speaker 2: least we should be pay attention.
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  Speaker 4: Pay attention, be mindful, like you have to you have
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  Speaker 4: to be in the moment.
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  Speaker 5: And awareness is so people like stay woke, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: you got to be mindful first, and you got to
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  Speaker 5: be aware of you know where you are, and you
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  Speaker 5: know just the whole surrounding, you know. And so we
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  Speaker 5: can apply that to many different ways. You know, you're
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of New York City, stuck on your phone,
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  Speaker 5: but everybody else's moving, right, can't miss the moment?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't missed the moment absolutely, But what belief
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  Speaker 2: did you have to unlearn to grow and change your mindset?
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  Speaker 5: Kind of like there's one way thinking because all right,
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  Speaker 5: so when I was studying in the in the nineties
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  Speaker 5: of just hip hop music and just the industry, because
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  Speaker 5: I mean back then, it's like, yeah, you gotta get
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  Speaker 5: a record deal, you gotta do this, do that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: go here, go there, got to go to La gotta
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  Speaker 5: go to New York.
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  Speaker 4: Just those I guess norms. You know, I have to
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  Speaker 4: learn a lot of that.
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  Speaker 5: I do want to thank my boy master P you know,
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  Speaker 5: because I was actually in New Orleans between New Orleans
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  Speaker 5: and Bad Roots around the time when people was in
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  Speaker 5: that rooms and doing things all around like really blowing up.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, he helped many of us think independently
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  Speaker 5: and think about you don't have to do what the
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  Speaker 5: book said can You can make your own lane.
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  Speaker 4: You can do whatever you want to do your own way.
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  Speaker 5: You just have to apply, you know, some thought and
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  Speaker 5: a lot of effort into you know, the avenue that
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna push it in. And so a lot of
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  Speaker 5: that kind of came back to me when we'll say
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  Speaker 5: two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight, when I
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  Speaker 5: was reevaluating what I wanted to do and how I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to do it, you know, and just knowing that
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  Speaker 5: it's okay not to be like everybody else, because really
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  Speaker 5: it's not everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: It's like five percent, right, you know, everybody else is.
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  Speaker 5: Really trying and trying to like, you know, front of
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  Speaker 5: their market or just make a name or you know,
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  Speaker 5: be heard, make some noise.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So and so then that ship comes to with just
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  Speaker 5: to change of technology, you know, and the way consumers
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  Speaker 5: consume music and.
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  Speaker 4: All that good stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Because right now, I mean, musicians don't make any money
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  Speaker 5: off of like the actual music, right. Everything else is
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  Speaker 5: around opportunities and sponsorships and festivals and you know, and
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  Speaker 5: that's if you are doing it on your own and
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  Speaker 5: not linked to somebody else who pays you after they
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  Speaker 5: get paid, right, So all of those good things, you know,
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  Speaker 5: or contributors.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what life experience forced you to grow the most?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we'll say probably probably parenting.
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  Speaker 4: Same probably parenting.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I think my first child was definitely playing, you know,
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  Speaker 5: but it's like it's a lot of thought that goes
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  Speaker 5: involved with that, and you know, you're trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out how to mode or or care for this new
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  Speaker 5: individual without dropping them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so that's the first one that comes
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  Speaker 4: to mind.
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  Speaker 5: I got off the phone with my youngest son right
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  Speaker 5: before we got on today, so just thinking about okay,
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  Speaker 5: like they' see okay, all right, good, you know, making
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  Speaker 5: sure that I continue to just guide and you know,
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  Speaker 5: without being too harsh, but also empathize and be understanding too.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, that's that's probably the biggest, the biggest factor,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, outside of that, really just you know, trying
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  Speaker 5: to be just just an independent young adult, you know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: I think about when I was twenty two to twenty three.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: I thought I knew a whole lot. Run into some walls,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: you might burn the bridge here or there, but at
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: the same time you got all this energy, and so
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: learning how to channel that energy to be sustainable, you know.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: So like that young people say like you don't want
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: to crash out, like it can happen.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: It happens, you know, and it could be emotional, it
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: be physical.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: I mean I went through bankruptcy at a very young age,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: had a really interesting sequence of events that caused me
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: to just hit the wall and then have to do
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: a hard restart quickly. And so you know, that's some
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: other a group of another group of lessons that I've
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: learned from. But just being resilient and knowing that you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I know my purpose and I know you know, every
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: season isn't going to be.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Dismal, right m hm.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And so just learning from that and really telling myself
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: like it's truly like I'm never going to be broken again,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: and this is this is how I know this. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: have to make sure that I'm mindful and I make
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: good decisions financially no matter how much money I had, right,
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: And so that's that's a part of being a responsible
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: for adult you know.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I'm glad that you say that, because somebody
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: really needs to hit it. Every season is not going
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to be a winning season, not in the way you think,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: because sometimes our winning season is just.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Being able to get up in our right mind every day.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Amen, Amen, being able to.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Buy this gas that's hot, and so you got going
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: from Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: You know, just it's just so many things that we
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: overlook that we looks as small with their massive.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: In the grand scheme of things. So I challenge you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: to be grateful, wake up each day that you are
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: blessed to have with an attitude of gratitude, and see
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: how your life would change from day to day. Like
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to get up this morning and go
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: work out, but I'm like, you're training for a marathon.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: You gotta get your body in condition because it's a marathon.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: You got you gotta be able to Yeah. So I
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: did that and I felt great after that.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's you have to challenge yourself because
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: being in that comfort zone, growth doesn't happen there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we're gonna go to.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: The reality check, right, okay, because growth sounds good but
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: truth behind If there's no truth behind it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: It can be uncomfortable.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But it's sometimes meant to be uncomfortable, you know, because
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: you know, growth happens when you're uncomfortable.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: It has happened for me that way.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: If you're if you're growing and you ain't uncomfortable, let
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: us know how you're doing it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: We want to know you're not You might not be
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: growing as as rapid as you think you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Are, right, So what's an uncomfortable truth people need to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: hear about when it comes to personal growth and mindset?
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, we'll talk about friends since we're since we're
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: having conversation about people. You know, if y'all not going together,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: you can all grow someone. And that's okay because some
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: people are very comfortable and where they're at and where they.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Are right and they're okay with that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: People like you and I like, we're always pushing the envelope,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: you know, because not only were artists, but you know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: we just think differently. Everybody didn't understand why we do
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the things we do, but it's not for them to understand, right,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: and so as we, I guess get older in adulthood,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I understand why with my parents. It was a certain
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: point in time where they had a lot of friends.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Now I remember seeing all these people. I know that person,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: and then it came to a time where they didn't
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: see them anymore. Might see one or two and every
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: now and then. So it's just like, okay, what happens?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Did your parents get more white as they're on their spending?
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: You know, when the when all the drinks stopped flowing
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: sometimes some of the friends stopped going, you know, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: that and that's real.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: You so you.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Got to know, like, okay, where everybody like comes in
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: at you know, some such and such aunties, such and
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: such house was the party house, but nobody goes there anymore.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: You know, Like what happened? Did she grow out of that?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Was that for that moment in time where that's what
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: we like to do but I don't like, I don't
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: like to do that anymore, or they don't like to
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: do that anymore, and I'm still hanging out alone right
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: So that I think that's that's that's big, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: in adulthood, just understanding when to say when and it's okay,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: you know, we're not twisting people's arm to come with
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: us or we're not twisting people's arm and knocking at
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: the door to come in to their home or wherever
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: they are. You know, if they wantn't be there, it'll
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: organically work itself out.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: That's what I truly believe in.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: And so you just have tears of friends and sometimes
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: it turned into acquaintances and back and forth. And I mean,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: like you said, they're no new friends. Really, I mean,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: if you're still growing and you have mentorship and all
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: these things that you inspired to do, I mean, your
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: new friend actually might be eighty.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Years old, right, you know, because you have.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: An old mind in the old spirit, and they want
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: to keep sprinkling seasoning on you.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: But we have to be open to receive that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: M Yeah, sprinkling seasoning.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I like that. I like that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's okay. Like everybody comes into
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: your life for a reason, a season, a less and
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a blessing, a lifetime or not. And I found that
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: within the last ten years my circle has become a
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: c mhm. I can see them, they can see me,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: and it's all good.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: And it's all good, yeah, all good.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: So what belief or habit keeps people stuck the lonest
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: in your opinion.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a habit, but I do,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: all right, So I'll go with the behavior first. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: think sometimes people get in their own way, and so
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I have a friend who always says, you know, you
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: have to speak things into existence, you know, because sometimes
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the habit is it just keep harping on are vocalized, verbalizing,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: you know, that feeling that you're feeling right here in
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: the present, and we know that's not going to last forever.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: But you can't keep saying that because now those sayings
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: and those spirits are blocking the new blessings. And so
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: the biggest challenge is, you know, really trying to look
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: over the mountain and understand you know, what you are
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: imagine or what you envision or what God has planet
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: you know in your spirit that the other.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Side might look like, you know.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: And that's that's just coming from I mean, yeah, from
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: a from a Christian walk, but also you know, just
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: in general. I mean I really think about you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: when they were walking with Moses, you know a lot
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: of the folks just didn't get it. You know, they
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: believe what they saw, but now what they heard and yeah,
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: and so that faith journey. That faith journey is a struggle.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: It is really is, you know.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: And so people just having habits of Okay, if you're
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: going to church, just going as a routine but.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Not having a solid purpose behind why you're going. And
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: if you're.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Going, are you bringing something to the community, you know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: because the service us for sharing. You know you're going
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: to receive something, but hopefully you bring something that way,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: you can you know, in that fellowship, right that's.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Important, or you leave with something that you can pour
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: into somebody else. Mm hmmm, yeah, And I think that you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Know, yep, you really do.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You really have to you have to have it all
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: about For me, it's all about having h a personal
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: walk with God. Mh you have you cannot have that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: You can't have anybody else's walk. You have to have
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: your relationship your walk. And it's not going to be easy.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: All the time.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: But we also have to know that even when we
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: get tired, He carries us through it. The journey is
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: not meant to be easy, but you have to keep going,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: keep pushing, keep fighting so that you can reach that
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: greatness that is inside of all of us.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Right, Like I mean, like you said, like he keeps
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: waking you up. That's the memo right there. It ain't
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: you got work.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Not over, you got work to do.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, So when it comes to life, what's one hard
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: life lesson that shaped who you are today?
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I just kind of told somebody this one, so, okay,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: give you some background. I'm a assistant principal of an
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: elementary school and we're doing really well, and so I
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: deal with young people who are on the brink of
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: greatness every day. Well, that'd be my pre paid babies
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: who are about to jump into kindergarten and be great
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: on my fourth fifth grade, babies who going to middle
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: school and never coming back. And so I can relate
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: to those those kids because I think about seeing them.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I think about things that my father.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: You know, told me when I was their age. I
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: was blessed to have my dad with me. He's still
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: with me, right. Everybody didn't have that. So that's sorts
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: of guidance, you know, from a from a man who
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: knows himself. That's that's rare sometimes, right, everybody's not blessed.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: And so people don't believe I was a very I
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: was a boy who liked wrestling and some violent stuff.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: You know, because at that you know, TV was interesting
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: back in the films were interesting back in the day,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Like PG wasn't the same PG that it is now.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Like they had guns and all kinds of stuff like
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: whatever you want to call it, right.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: You know, I had a I had a big hot temper,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: let's just say that. And you know I like to fight.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: I was I thought I was tough, and so my
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: dad put me deside one day he said, hey, listen,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: like you got to stop this, you know, and I
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: remember this this was late eight. She was like, hey,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: there are people out here who they don't like to
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: fight their and they just shoot.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: They will shoot you. And he kind of left it
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: at that, and that advice really stuck with me, you
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: know for a very long time.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: You know, It's something that I stared with with some
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: of my young people, you know, because I think that.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Has you know, that message goes a long way. Everybody
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: didn't grow up like me.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: Everybody who has grown up hadn't been introduced to spirituality
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: right and morel and things like that. And so because
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: in my heart I believe in Duson and I kill
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: the next man might have never heard that before. You
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: see what I'm saying.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: That's dangerous, but it's true.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: And it's real, and so you know, just those words
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: really just helped me to just kind of channel any
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: anger that I might have had and just learning how
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: to like, you know, do better for me myself in
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: situations with dealing with other people.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and people who don't fear God are dangerous, yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: because that means they don't care nothing about you.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's it's scary. It is scary.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: All right, Let's bring it home with the action step.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Because mindset without action doesn't create change, right, So what
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: is one action step one of our listeners are many
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: for that matter, can take today to shift their mindset.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: I think a big action step is to actually do
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: some research on emotional intelligence. And so most intelligence is
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: just you knowing. You know, what your triggers are are,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: How are you truly feeling at a particular time, you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: before you go into a conversation or a situation that
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: you know, like let's say you're going to work, right,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: but before you get to work, you need to do
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: some type of research on yourself. Take an account of
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: where am I today at seven am? You know, and
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: behind me you got these happy faces and stuff and
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: that that helps with that kind of stuff. I mean,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: it's apps for that, but just really kind of knowing
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: what are the ranges of emotions and sometimes we don't
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: talk about that, but you know, just having that conversation
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: with yourself and learning more about you know, what your
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: reds are and what your greens are, what makes you blue?
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: And you know what makes you keeps you mellow? You know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: where do you where do you want to go to
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: you know, truly feel happy and not saying you have
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: to spend money to feel happy, but you know, just
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: what are those things? Because the more emotionally intelligence you
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: are for yourself, then that actually can help other people,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: you know. And I think when when in the community
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: talk about conflict and stuff like that, that's a big
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: part of it, you know. I mean we could be upset,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: we could be angry, be disappointed, but you know, how
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: does that really feel?
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: How does that really look?
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: And then like you said, what are the next steps
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: you know to getting too more balance?
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: You know? Place? Yeah?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I love that, Like take self inventory. You
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: might be having a bad day because it happened, but
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: don't go mess with somebody else's day. Yeah, you know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: live life on purpose. You have to look at the
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: right side of things. Yeah, I didn't sleep well last night. No,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't find my favorite shoes to wear today. But
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: go I'm still here. So ask yourself in that moment,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: what am I grateful for? Even though I'm missing those
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: things that I like to have every day to function.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: And when you take the time to do that, you
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: just see life different. But that goes with a healing journey.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: You have to have some type of mindset of prosperity
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: and abundance. And I just don't want to be an asshole.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: We have enough of that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: You're not contribute, please keep it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Think that the world don't need anymore. We have enough.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Trust me. Yes, but I'm glad about that.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: And we didn't talking about love too much.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna ask you this question.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: What's one thing someone can start doing today to build
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: healthier relationships? Are deep in self love?
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: So she went two sides.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: She said, build healthy relationships and deep herself up. I mean,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: I'll just I'll start off small. I think given compliments
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: is big. To give a compliment takes a lot of humility,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: takes a lot of vulnerability because everybody doesn't have to
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: accept the compliment, but just know that when you give
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: the compliment, it's coming from a pure place and the
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: person who you're giving the compliment to mate. Although you
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: might assume like, oh yeah, what they you know, they
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: know that you know they're doing well, and they know
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: that they look at certain way hybrid is. But if
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: it comes from you and your important person to them,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: they're gonna receive it, you know better, and it's going
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: to sound like new. And so that's going to actually
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: help you because you know, you really put some thought
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: into that, and nothing's wrong with putting good energy into
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: the atmosphere. I mean, I find joy in compliment complimenting
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: other artists all the time. Like I went to a
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: piano recital. I haven't been to a piano recital a
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: long time. I went to one Sunday, and you know,
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: I went just to just hear. I wanted to just listen,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: have have a ninety minute listening session just to clear
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: my mind. And you know, I witness some great some
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: great things, right, some great sounds from people I never met.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: You know, a knew one, but everybody else never met
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: and just to.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Just you know, let them know that I'm I'm grateful
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: to be in the house to observe your talent. But also,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: you know, keep up the good work. You know it
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: sounds great, good job. Things like that that makes people
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: feel good.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: You never know how right it does make people feel
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: like wow, yeah, yeah, you just have to everything ain't
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: about you. It takes nothing to smile at somebody to say, oh,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: that's a nice dress, girl, you wearing that dress?
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know the top.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: The sad part is there are many people, and I
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: don't know if it's just a twenty twenty sixteen or
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: just a generational thing, it's a lot of people who
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: don't know how.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: To even accept the compliment.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, you know, they take it as an offense,
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: like you know, you want something from me, or you know,
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: you have some type of ulterior motive, and like, no,
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: I'm just a genuinely you know, delightful person and that's it.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: But you know, that's the word we're living in right now.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Where we're living in, and it's sad because you have
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: people that has made that the new norm and I
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: hate it. I can I just pay you a compliment? No,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I don't want anything from you.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Okay, my own.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Right. Absolutely.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, So if if all of the listeners today wanted
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: to get acquainted with your work or find out who
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: you are as far as like an artist, how can
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: they get get get their hands on someone mister Jay's music.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I have the one stop shot www dot mister
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  Speaker 5: j dot bandcamp dot com. So it's spelled m r
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  Speaker 5: j a I dot bandcamp dot com. And so have
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  Speaker 5: over at this point twenty projects that are available for
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  Speaker 5: digital download streaming. You know, you really it's a name
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  Speaker 5: of your own price type model. The only price that's
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  Speaker 5: really listed, I believe if you want to buy the
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  Speaker 5: whole catalog of music in one shot, and so you
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  Speaker 5: have all of them in one click.
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  Speaker 4: But the cool part is you don't have to spend
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  Speaker 4: any money at all.
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  Speaker 5: So you put in zero, it's still going to send
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  Speaker 5: you a digital download and the format of your choice,
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  Speaker 5: and so you know it's direct the consumer. I if
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  Speaker 5: you're joined most of the time, even if you put zero,
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  Speaker 5: you can type in your email address and that'll put
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  Speaker 5: you in contact with me. And so anything I have
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  Speaker 5: going on, I let those supporters know about first, and
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  Speaker 5: so you'll get a text, you'll.
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  Speaker 4: Get an email and that's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 5: I got a lot of music there, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: newest project which is called before TikTok with My Baby,
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  Speaker 5: that's the newest one. And then we have this remixed
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  Speaker 5: album that's out right now for Infinite Thoughts, and so
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  Speaker 5: those are doing really well and I'm happy about them.
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  Speaker 5: And then those same tunes serve as the soundtrack for
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  Speaker 5: the Live from Government Street movie as well. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: just I'm really excited about what we have out there.
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  Speaker 5: But definitely go to you know, the band camp website
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  Speaker 5: and check out the tunes.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, So before we wrap up, I always ask for
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  Speaker 2: a mic drop moment. So when life challenges you and
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  Speaker 2: love stretches you, what mindset keeps you grounded?
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  Speaker 4: What life challenges you and love stretches you, what keeps
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  Speaker 4: you grounded?
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  Speaker 3: Mint keeps you grounded?
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  Speaker 4: Reminding myself that I'm good enough.
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  Speaker 5: And just you know, thanking God or you know strength
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  Speaker 5: to still be able to make a difference, and also
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  Speaker 5: you know, thanking him or just the opportunities. Oftentimes when
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  Speaker 5: we blessed with lots of good opportunities, people call people
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  Speaker 5: ask or not only favors, but you know, you just
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  Speaker 5: might be in demand because you're doing good things, but
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  Speaker 5: you just don't have enough time to you feel stretched,
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  Speaker 5: you don't have enough time to be everywhere at the
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  Speaker 5: same time, and so those are the times that I
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  Speaker 5: could really relate to where it's just like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you just sit back and even if you have to
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  Speaker 5: say no, you still thank God, like you know, thank
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  Speaker 5: you for putting me in a position to even have
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  Speaker 5: these conversations. And hopefully, you know, you'll provide time in
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  Speaker 5: the future where you know, I can attend those events
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  Speaker 5: or you know, do whatever I was being asked to do,
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  Speaker 5: because when people will stop falling or asking for you,
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  Speaker 5: then you might not be doing something right.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, that's a blessing.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: That has been the mic moment by mister Jay. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you guys for tuning into this episode. If this conversation
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  Speaker 2: spoke to you, made you feel a certain way or
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  Speaker 2: just you know, went a little deep at some point,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and subscribe, share with a friend, follow.
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  Speaker 3: And all the things right.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, your story has power, your voice has purpose, and
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  Speaker 2: your mindset can change everything. Keep growing, keep loving, and
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  Speaker 2: keep your mindset strong. See you next time. Couple hugs,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for tuning in.
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  Speaker 3: Again be ended with keep