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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ EPISODE _34_ HOST TRIVEDA HARRIS · DA CREW Podcast

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talk about trials and tribulations and overcoming any obstacle that you faced in life.
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But let's go to God in prayer, and then we're going to get started
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with talking to mister Charles Smith about making an impact. And that's very important
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because we all have the power to make an impact. So let's go to
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God in prayer. They're Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing us here today,
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within us everything that we need to overcome every obstacle that we face. And
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your precious and holy name, Jesus, I prayer. Amen. Now,
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let me introduce you to my guest. His name is Charles Smith. As
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I've said many times before, he is an award winning author, motivational speaker
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who has created waves in the industry by empowering people daily. And he knew
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that he needed to do that and the only way he could do that was
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by making an impact within himself, because in order to be impactful, you
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have to start with self first. So let's welcome my guest, mister Charles
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Smith. Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you. I am good,
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how are you? And thank you for being here, Thank you for
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having me, Thank you for having me. Of course. Now listen,
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the first question I am going to ask you, of course, is going
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to be about your books. Tell me about those and how did you get
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started with writing? So I started my first book probably like three maybe four
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years ago, and I know it was definitely around COVID. So so about
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three four years ago I started my first book. And when I started my
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book, I was basically really talking about my journey, you know, being
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an entrepreneur, you know how I got started, you know, just to
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help motivate others because a lot of times, you know, when it comes
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to being an entrepreneur, we have a lot of oppositions that us and I
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encountered some my positions, some in the physical aspect, you know, when
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it came to physical appearance. Some you know, just trying to navigate through
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high school and find my way, find my voice, and just you know,
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just to give people just some type of motivation, some type of confidence
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to know that that you know, in spite of whatever's going on in life,
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you can pursue your dreams. And then it kind of led to the
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Reboot, Reboot my Way of Thinking, which is my third published book,
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but this one, I'm not saying all of them are not special to me,
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but this one particular has a special place in my heart because this is
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the journey of my reboot, you know, booting me first before I can
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reboot the world, and I start off with rebooting my way of thinking.
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So with this one, it's it's it's really a plan of action, not
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only telling you how I became an entrepreneur, but showing your having you see
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yourself with your accountability and responsibility to yourself with a plan of action. So
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it's it's been an amazing journey with this book. So that's just a little
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bit of how I got started. Well, that's I mean that that takes
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a lot to look within self, and I think a lot of times we
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get distracted by the outside first, and when we start focusing on what we
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need to change outside, it gets so far to the left versus when you
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start from the inside, that outside really gets impacted that way. So I
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understand exactly what you're saying and taking a personal route. Did you find yourself
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learning more about yourself during that internalization to write the rebooting? Yes, it
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was a journey. It was a journey. But a lot of times,
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like I always teld people that I encountered, I really got a wake up
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call the end of last year. And it wasn't like a wake up call
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like something that was detrimental or something that just was just crazy that my eyes
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were open, But it was really when you know, I don't know whoever's
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watching, if you've ever been in a position where you already had what you
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needed to be successful, but a lot of times were blinded because we're too
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busy, there are other people's shadow or we're trying to look for affirmation from
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other people. So that's pretty much what my wake up call is. I
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was in a masterclass and with this masterclass, it was identity mapping, and
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I've never been in one of those class before, but it was it was
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super dope, and especially the coach was there because he used to be a
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pastor, which was which is dope, and so how he was doing it,
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it wasn't like he was trying to have you believe something. It was
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really you seeing you. So it was almost like you had a mirror and
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asserting a certain questions that only you could answer. Okay, he would throw
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the questions back to what the answer that you gave back at you, and
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he was like, oh, you know, like I answered my own questions.
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And it was like when you really got to dissect, you know,
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things that you already holding your nature, it was like wow, So the
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only person that's stopping me from being where I need to be is the man
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in the mirror or the woman in the mirror. So I when I realized
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that, I was like, whoa, Okay, okay, you know what
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you know, it's trying to level up, it's time to reboot. So
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I utilize. I utilize that method, and God gave me this message reboot,
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and it tricked me out. And when I go deeper in and tell
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you guys about the room, but you're gonna be like, oh my god,
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this is crazy because he took something so simplistic but added so much value
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in it. So it's like, no matter what audience I'm in front of,
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as soon as I give you the analogy and I go in depth of
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it, you're like, oh, this guy, But it's a wake up,
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you know, that's what it really needs to be. It's a week.
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But that's the that's the way that God works. It's the simplest things
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that he takes and builds the biggest revelation that you never ever would have thought
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of. And it's like, dang, it's been right here all along and
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I never looked at that. And that's just like Okay. Every morning on
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my way to work, I always if this is what like, I don't
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listen to music or anything in the car anymore. I don't know what's going
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on with that. But I enjoy the solitude because I enjoy the time that
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I have a guy on my way into work and from work. But every
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morning it's always you know, people are in a rush and they're trying to
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pass and they're doing all of this, And in the conversations that I have
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with God, and it's always, well, you see, those people are
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rushing, but they don't understand that they don't have to rush. They're gonna
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arrive at their destination at the time that is a sign for them to get
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there. So it doesn't matter what you're going through and how fast you feel
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like, you know you started this late and you're not there on time,
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You're always going to be on the time that is destined for God to have
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you there. So you can rush all you want to, but there's always
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gonna be something that's gonna hinder or you from getting there at the expected time
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that you want it versus the time that God wants you to be there.
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So every morning, it's always that little thing that he brings to me when
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I'm thinking about, Okay, oh my God, I'm gonna be late.
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If I have to stop here, or if I have to go here,
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or if I choose to go this direction, there's always gonna be something,
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And so it relates back to me thinking about Okay, well, am I
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right on time for what I'm supposed to be doing because I have these goals
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that I'm trying to reach and that I set the proper deadline for this or
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whatever. He's like, Okay, you're doing it again. I need you
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to focus on what I told you to do. Just stay focused, and
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you will get to the destination that I have for you. Don't try to
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go to the left, and don't try to go to the right. Stay
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focused, and you're gonna get where you need to go. And so that's
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one of the things that I think God has a way of showing you that
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simple thing and a bigger picture. You know, there you go. My
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next question for you is when you started writing the book to reboot and to
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get in front of people to speak, were you ever around a group of
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people who try to plant seeds of doubt in what you were doing? And
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if you did, how did you maneuver yourself away from those types of conversations,
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Because I know we always encounter those types of people and they want to
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tell us, well, I don't see what you're seeing. I don't think
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that's gonna happen. I don't think you're gonna do that. How did you
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handle that? Honestly, just being sured yourself. You know, I'm a
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god feeling man, So anything that I do, you know, I'm confident,
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you know. And God told me, he was like, I'm gonna
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put you on different platforms. It's gonna be big platforms, it's gonna be
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small platforms. Is that I need you to go in there like you a
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vet, like you ave? They're not this thing like like he said straight
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up, And I was like, I got you, you know, and
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he and he was there were platforms. This platform is just like, oh
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it's a little small and in those plats from like oh this is okay.
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I like this, you know, but yeah, I still get I still
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get the same energy. Why because I am confident in who I am and
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whose I am. So at the end of the day, we're gonna face
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opposition in life. I mean, that's just the nature of life, especially
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when you have big goals and big dreams. You know, that's what they
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always say with that quote. You know, if your dreams are not big,
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if your dreams don't scare you, they're not bigger than you know.
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And I mean we have to learn to operate in fear. I mean,
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that's just that's just how it goes. If you if you are not fearful
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of things, especially when it comes to your goals. I mean, you
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gotta find something else. And when it comes to opposition, when it comes
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to those barriers, when it comes to those ropelikes, it could be anything.
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Be family, men, it could be your relationships, you know,
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it could be kids. You know, it could be people who just don't
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like you, don't even know you, but they just don't like it because
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it's you. You know. But at the end of the day, you
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got to focus on the goal. You know. I often tell people,
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actually I tell them and I also put it as a quote. You know,
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when we look at Steve Jobs, you know, we look at all
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these people who went after their dreams and created what we now use today.
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Even when they're gone, we still use it. Imagine they stopped their dream
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Just think about it. The things that we enjoy right now, even our
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TVs are cars, whatever the case is. Imagine at that time they stopped
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their dreams because of opposition. Yeah. See, when we take it,
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they're so close to their breakthroughs, but when they feel like they're not gonna
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make it. They stop because they've had so many obstacles, they've passed so
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many road blocks, and they're life, you know what, I just can't
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take it no more. I'm done. But then they don't understand if they
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go just two more steps, that their breakthrough and everything that they've prayed for
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and been working towards is right on the other side. And I always say,
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for myself, I don't care how many times people tell me no.
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As long as I get that yes from God, I'm gonna keep going,
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you know. And one of the things that I can say about going after
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and letting go of my fears is when I did my first book, when
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I tell you it was not perfect, but I wasn't looking for perfection.
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And people often make the mistake of thinking that everything has to be perfect.
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And I didn't do it for perfection. I did it because I was being
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obedient to what God said to do. And it was like, I've been
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holding on to all of these poems for so many years, and people had
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asked was I going to write a book? And I would always say one
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day, one day, one day, Well, God got tired of me
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saying one day, he was like, I just need you to put these
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poets in a book. I don't care what it looks like. I just
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need you to do it. And I was like, hey, whatever,
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I'm gonna do it. So I did it. And I had people very
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critical say, you know what, I would never put my name on something
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like that, and my answer to them would be, well, it's not
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your assignment, so of course you're not gonna put your name on something that
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doesn't belong to you. It was never yours in the first place. And
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so after doing that, that led to a speaking engagement. After that,
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it led to a virtual monologue. After that, it led to two additional
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books. After that, it's led me to starting my publishing business. So
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I was obedient regardless of what was said about me and what still being said.
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It's never what man says, it's always what God says, and it's
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always where He's gonna place you. As long as you're being obedient and walking
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through the path in the direction that got God has for you, you will
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not miss anything that's coming to you. And so I want to make sure
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that I surround myself with people who can pour into me just as much as
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I pour into them, and I keep myself in smaller circles for that particular
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reason. But I'm learning to step outside of myself because I'm still very shy
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when it comes to doing things of this nature, which people tend to find
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that very hard to believe. But that's just how I am in my nature.
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But God always tells me that He's gonna place me and connect me with
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the people that I'm supposed to be connected with. And so that's just what
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I do. I'm connected to who God leads me to be connected to,
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and so I don't straight away from that. And when I tell you the
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test, they do come and it's like, oh Lord, today, it's
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not today. I don't feel like I'm doing enough. And he always tells
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me go pray about it and go to sleep. In the morning, you'll
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feel different. And that's what I do. Do you have something that you
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do for yourself when you're feeling overwhelmed, are frustrated when it's coming to something
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that is next on your list of goals? Basically what you said, you
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know, and just stay around positive people. But I like to on my
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wine down time, I like to listen to pastor Mike Jr. And Todd
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you know, I like to, yeah, poor myself with them everything that
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they're talking about, because I feel like they're just like a they're just like
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a yes. But you can you can tell the difference between people who are
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passionate in what they do because they go the extra mile. Yes, there's
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there's a difference between just talking just to talk, but actually having a message.
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Yeah, you know, and people don't know the difference. It's people
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that just talk talk, but then when you have people who actually have a
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message, it does something different to you, like, oh, yeah,
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how'd you do that? You know, And yeah, people say it's because
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of the annointing that is on your life. Yeah, you know. So
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it's just yeah, you know, just stay around positive people, you know,
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keep positive injury it. Make sure whatever I'm watching, whatever I'm i'm
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reading, whoever's in my ear, just just make sure it's positive because that
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just a little bit of negatitivity it can do a lot. So it can
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definitely do a lot of damage. There's something that pastor Michael Todd said yesterday.
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I saw the clip of it, and it was him talking about him
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making his daughter some popcorn and he was thinking about, you know, just
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what in that bag? And God gave him the message that people never want
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to go through a season of discomfort. But in that season of comfort with
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that little seed, it has to be comfortable to expand into something bigger and
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something greater. And sometimes we don't want to place ourselves in situations where we
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have to be uncomfortable for a temporary moment. The bigger and the greater always
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comes if we're willing to expand outside of what we see. And sometimes we
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don't want to take that leap of faith. We don't want to take that
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risk because we're afraid of the outcome. But my thing is, if you're
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afraid of the outcome, you're never gonna get started. And I feel like
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as we get older, we lose that sense of fearlessness that we had as
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kids. You know, when we were really, really small, we didn't
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fear much of anything. You know, where dar Devil's We're gonna jump off
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this, at least I know I was. I don't know about you know,
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anybody else, but I'm jumping out of swings. I'm only for eight
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number one, So me jumping on stuff, climbing on stuff, you know,
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playing with the boys, the football, all the baseball, doing all
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the stuff that they would tell me that I couldn't do because I was too
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small. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna do it anyway. So I
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don't care nothing about what you say. And I'm still that way as I've
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gotten older. I really don't waste time with the thoughts of other people.
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Because as long as God is pleased, and my kids are pleased, and
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the people who care for me are pleased, then I have no worries at
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all. So if you like me, you like me. If you love
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me, you love me. If you don't, that ain't my problem because
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that ain't my business, you know, So that's my thing. It's not
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my business. If you don't like me, that's your business. And that's
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how you're feeling. You're entitled to feel that way. But I can't be
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worried about whether you like me or not. And if I'm saying something that
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helps you, then great. Even if you don't want to give me credit
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for saying it to you, that's fine too. But as long as you
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take it and give it to somebody else that can utilize as what I've given
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to you, I am all for that. I don't hide anything from anybody,
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and I'm always willing to give more than I received because I don't look
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at it as if if I give you this and you don't give me anything
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back, did I really receive something? Yes, I received something. I
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received the fact that you took the time, whether you want to acknowledge it
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or not, to listen to what I had to say, and you shared
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it with somebody else. So the gift did come back to me. Whether
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I get the credit for it doesn't matter. You cared enough to share what
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I told you to somebody else, and that's always going to be given regardless.
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Have you encountered any hard obstacles over the last year that has had you
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second guess anything about your journey so far? You know, like I said
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at the beginning, I mean I just come to realization even since high school,
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you know, you know, just just just navigating through high school.
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You know, you're always gonna face opposition. I just learned to adapt to
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it, right, not let it dictate to where I'm going. Yeah,
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does it it sucked when it's there? Yes, you know, because my
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business, my biggest thing was finance. You know, I always had a
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big dream, you know, big vision. I'm like, you know,
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and I'm an investor, so it's like when it comes to investing and risk
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taking, I'm like, no, I'm gonna do it. Why because I
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am so passionate in what I do and I believe in myself. But a
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lot of times finance is that obstacle because it's like, uh, brother,
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you know you're gonna either take that chance or you know you're gonna take care
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of your family, Like which are you gonna do? Right? Reality,
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you know, always kicks in, but you know, I just feel like
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during the process, I feel like, you know, in every setting that
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I was in, it's so true that if God can trust you over the
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small, you know, he'll make you rule over men. And a lot
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of times we forget that that point because we're so worried about the big.
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Yeah, And I feel like when we're so worried about the big, that's
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where it becomes overwhelming and we start seeing a lot of oppositions more not because
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not because we're not close to you know, achieving our dreams or you know
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it's not gonna happen, but a lot of times we're not even taking care
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of what God has already given us. Yeah, so God is looking at
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us it's like, you know, while we're complaining to him, like,
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God, you know I told you this is what I wanted, you said
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your promises is yeah, ain, man, God, I've been doing good.
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Geeve, how come I'm not here yet? How come I have not
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arrived yet? And he's like, well, because you haven't maximized what I
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have given you. Yeah. We look at it like, oh, you
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know. My uncle used always say, he said, you know, the
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juice is always worth to squeeze. Yes, it's always worth the squeeze.
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And when he told me that, I was like, wow, man.
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And a lot of times we we squeezed just enough until we see some juice.
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Then if you squeeze a little more, and you squeeze a little more,
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you like, oh man, I have more than enough, not just
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for me before other people are yes, if we get just the team to
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squeeze. But the thing is how much are you willing to squeeze? Yeah,
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it's basically how bad do you want the things that you've prayed and asked
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God for? And it comes down to that. And I always say this
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is that is if God showed you everything that you were going to have to
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go through to get what you've prayed and asked for, would you actually be
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willing to go through it? I had someone the other day asked me a
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question, and that was, what I change anything about my life to go
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back to being eighteen or nineteen years old? And my answer to them was
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no. And the reason why it's because I would not be who I am
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right now. I had my daughter early, all my kids I had under
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the age of twenty three, and I have three of them, and married
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and divorced by the age of twenty nine, had a stroke at the age
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of thirty, had lost my ability to use my left side, lost my
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speech at the age of thirty four. So going through everything that I've gone
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through, being diagnosed with the brain disorder, being diagnosed with a brain aneurism,
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and all of those things, I still would not be who I am
28:33
today if I went back and changed all of that. Because there's something that
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God needed me to go through in order to be able to show people that
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there is greater on the other side. And if I continue to walk forward,
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I will always be in the space in which He's created for me.
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So no, I wouldn't go back and change one single thing about what I've
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been through and what I've gone through, And so I started to learn to
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ask God the question whenever I start to go through something that's hard, is
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what do I need to learn in this moment that is preparing me for the
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next moment that's coming. So what do I need to take from now?
29:11
Because there's a skill that I need that I have not mastered yet and I'm
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going to need it. So what is this moment teaching me? What can
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I share with someone else who's going through something similar? And every time he
29:26
always reveals it to me, and I'm like, I ain't really think about
29:30
it like that, but now that you put it that way, I see
29:33
what you're doing. And a lot of times God doesn't want us to figure
29:37
it out right then he wants us to go through it so that when we
29:41
get through it, we can go back and acknowledge the fact that He was
29:45
always there. And I hate the old saying and the old cliche is that
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God he gives his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers. And what I say
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to that is God already knows the person he created, So it's up to
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us to look within. As you stay, reboot and rethink about everything to
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get to who he's created us to be, because everything that we need to
30:12
be that person is instilled within us already. We have to dig deep and
30:18
figure out what it is that we've been created for, who we've been created
30:23
to help, and to use that discernment to remain humble and in the face
30:30
of situations where it makes you question are you really built for this? Because
30:37
people will come in and try to test you, and you like, Okay,
30:41
God, you know what, I don't know if I got it in
30:45
me today to be the child that you created me to be. I'm gonna
30:49
have to lean over here. So it's like, Okay, I'm gonna gone
30:52
over here because you told me to keep my mouth closed, So I'm gonna
30:56
keep my mouth closed even though I want to say something. I'm gonna going
31:00
over here because you said that now it's not the time you will have the
31:03
final word and the final say. So learning that. Have you ever had
31:08
to encounter something like that, Yeah, where God had to check you and
31:15
say now ain't the time. Yeah? I mean I feel like we had
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those interactions on a Yeah, it's on a daily let's feel like that because
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you know, like me, I'm always. I'm always I'm gonna go get
31:30
her, you know. So I had the type of mentality like, Okay,
31:34
God, I think it took a little bit too long, so I'm
31:37
gonna just do it. You know, I'm gonna get it done. And
31:40
sometimes I'll go ahead. I find myself going ahead of God. You know.
31:45
Now, you know, I believe everything changed when I have my daughter.
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I just had my daughter. She's she's sixteen months. Oh yeah,
31:52
so it's everything kind of like slowed down because it put me in a different
31:57
perspective. Okay, God, I'm an entrepreneur, I said, God,
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I want to be a full time entrepreneur. At the time, I was
32:05
still an entrepreneur, but you know, still working nine to five. And
32:07
he used that investing in dreams like they say, and then but I was
32:12
like, God, I want to be a full time entrepreneur. He gave
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me that. I was working at ADP in a garnishment department. I was
32:17
sitting down. I was like, man, God, how can I bring
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you some extra cash flow? And you know, he was talking to me.
32:24
So I just started writing down and he was like, I want you
32:28
to open up a boutique. I said a boutique. I said, you
32:30
know what, I open up a woman's boutique, guy, because you know,
32:34
women's like the shot. You know, yeah, it's easy. But
32:37
then he was like no, he said, I don't want you to open
32:39
up a woman's boutique. I need you to open up a men's boutique.
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I said what I said, didn't like the shot? I said, they
32:47
don't like the shot? God, I said, I don't know about that.
32:50
So I slept on it. I slept on it and I told my
32:53
wife and she was like, she'said, okay, she said, whatever guy
32:57
is, it's something you do, you should do it. Yeah, like
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I said. So the next day, I'm starting to draw drama out the
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logo and I'm making a slogan and I'm like, yeah, nah, I
33:07
said, nah, God, I ain't gonna do it. So long story
33:10
try. I finally did it. And when I did it, I'm like,
33:14
man, god, I'm a full time entrepreneur. I said, let's
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do it. You know, at the time, I only had like seventeen
33:20
hundred dollars to my name, and I was just enough for the deposit,
33:22
I said, And I like, I like nice stuff, So it's like,
33:27
yeah, to building and getting contractors and giving me totals. I'm like,
33:30
do it, just do it, not worrying about how much it costs.
33:34
You know what I'm saying, right, But the beautiful thing is let's
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not I know that it's very important. Like you said, when you're obedient
33:40
to God, things is things is work. You don't know how it's being
33:44
taken care of. And at the time, it doesn't matter because it's being
33:46
taken care of, you know, all right, it was thank God,
33:50
you know. And at the same time he blessed me with my daughter.
33:53
So I'm like, well, hold up, guy, I said, I
33:54
was. And so you know, long story, shortage, just you know,
34:04
you think about it and it sounds funny, but I feel like that's
34:07
a part of the journey, you know, and and it's building you because
34:13
a lot of times you don't know how much you're able to handle until you
34:16
gotta handle it. And as you're handling it, not only are you growing,
34:22
but you're maturing. And look at you know, birth out of That
34:27
was my message the reboot. Who would it knew? I mean, you
34:30
know, my dad, I come from a line of preachers. My grandpa
34:32
was a preacher, My Grandma's a preacher. My dad's a preacher. You
34:37
know, he's a passive church and being a preacher son, it's like,
34:40
you know, they automatically say, you know what you're gonna be. You're
34:43
gonna be up next, You're gonna be preaching over don't you run from it?
34:46
And I felt like that wasn't me. You know, I was ministering
34:50
through music. I was a Christian rap artist. I said, that's my
34:52
outlet, you know, from other ways, you know, But now you
34:57
know, I noticed, you know, I've been preaching a lot more.
35:00
You know, it's God's word. And then now I have the messes of
35:04
the reboot, and it's like how everything is working. I just learned to
35:07
trust God. I can't run from it, I can't hire from it,
35:12
I can't argue it right, So I'm so powerful with it and I know
35:16
that it's not about me. But I got to think about the next man,
35:21
you know, the next person who's dreaming. And Tyler Perry said something
35:24
so dope. He said, be careful, he said, because you never
35:29
know who your dream is attached to exactly. And a lot of time,
35:32
if I started dreaming, I don't know who was banking on me to make
35:37
my dream so they can make that. Yeah, yeah, you know what
35:40
I'm saying. So I think that's very important. So yeah, I made
35:45
a video about that, not probably a couple of years ago, about being
35:50
the connection to the blessing for someone else. So I'll probably post that again
35:54
to reenterate that that point that you just made. But God never checks our
36:00
finances. He chested our faith, and that's one of the things that we
36:05
have to think. God never asked you to check your bank account to see
36:08
if you can afford that house or that car. He just told you to
36:12
go and do it, and if you're obedient to it, he blows your
36:15
mind every single time. Now, tell me a little bit about the books
36:21
that you have and how we can find them. So they're all on Amazon.
36:25
The Amazon, I mean I could, I could, I could send
36:30
the link, but just the Reboot by Gun, the Reboot by Gun,
36:35
or you can just go into my name Charles W. Smith Jr. And
36:37
they'll they'll all come up. Okay, you can take it up on Amazon.
36:40
I guarantee you guys gonna be disappointed. You'll love them because it's not
36:45
it's not just about me, but it's about finding yourself through the dream,
36:50
right, And it's good to find somebody to relate because there's not a lot
36:53
of people who are open enough to talk about it, right, So when
36:58
you find somebody who's relatable, it just Yeah. I feel like sometimes people
37:02
feel overwhelmed or like if they share the information that the person that they're sharing
37:10
it with is gonna outshine them, so they try to keep that information to
37:15
themselves. And I'm not wanting to keep any information to myself because what I'm
37:20
gonna do with if I died, you know, all this information that I
37:22
had, all this knowledge that I had, and I kept it to myself,
37:25
it benefited no one but myself. And that's selfish in my opinion.
37:30
That's just my thoughts on that. So anything that I learned, I'm willing
37:34
to share with somebody else because I feel like they could learn or they can
37:38
even teach me something that I'm not even seeing at that time. So I'm
37:43
always open to learning something new and sharing what I know with someone else because
37:50
I had to learn this from somebody else. Even if I taught myself something,
37:53
if I can teach you exactly, That's the simplest thing is even learning
37:59
how to sew, learn how to cook, learning how to drive a car,
38:02
all of this information. If you keep it all to yourself, you're
38:05
being very selfish. And that's not why God put you here to be selfish
38:09
with the gifts and the talents that he gave you. So share that with
38:13
someone else, because we all make an impact. We're all connected together.
38:17
And also where our fence is only as good as the links that are connected
38:24
together. You can't build a fence if you have broken links. And if
38:29
you don't want to connect with someone else, then really, what are you
38:31
doing it for. You're in competition with other people who are not even competing
38:37
with you. They're trying to learn and collaborate with you so that you all
38:42
can be bigger and better, but you're stuck over here. I'm gonna keep
38:45
this to myself because I don't want you to have it, because I feel
38:49
like if I give it to you, you're gonna outshine me. But I've
38:52
never seen two candles that blew out at the same time by one lighting the
38:58
other. If one lights one, it can like two more, and if
39:00
two more can like those, then it continues on like that. So there's
39:05
no reason to be so selfish and not wanting to share something with someone else.
39:09
I always feel like there's no reason to be selfish. If you prepare
39:15
a meal that you want to share with someone else, teach them how to
39:20
prepare that meal so that they can share that with someone else. The knowledge
39:24
that you have, give that to someone else, because when you're dead and
39:28
gone and you took that with you, no one benefits from that, you
39:31
know. So whatever God is giving to you, whatever God shares with you,
39:39
continue to do what you've done. And I will continue to do what
39:44
I've done. This is second season for me with this podcast. And when
39:50
I tell you, I try to run away from this, I try to
39:52
run away from a lot of stuff God has set for me to do.
39:54
And it's like he always come back and tap me on my shoulder and say,
39:58
young lady, you got somewhere you to be at this time and I
40:01
need you to show up. And I'm like, God, I don't even
40:04
know what I'm supposed to say. I don't even know what I'm supposed to
40:06
do. And He's like God, and ask you none of that. I
40:08
asked you to show up, and that's all I need you to do.
40:12
If you show up, I'll give you the words that you need to speak,
40:15
I'll give you the advice that you need to give. I'll give you
40:17
what you need. I just need you to show up. So do you
40:22
have any questions or anything that you want to ask me before we start to
40:27
wind down, because I'm definitely gonna invite you to come back on the show
40:30
because I feel like I need a panel of gentlemen from different perspectives and different
40:36
walks of life to share with the female community of how to communicate with each
40:45
other and how to build healthy relationships overall. And I would like to have
40:51
you on that panel. I love it. I love it, Yes,
40:54
and I'll definitely be on that panel. I question. I just you know,
41:00
I just love you know, talking and collible with different people that have
41:06
the energy, to have the confidence, that have the boldness. And really
41:09
that's just what reboot is, you know, I tell everybody it's just it's
41:13
as simple as a push of a button. You know, a lot of
41:15
times we want to know what happens when I push instead of just pushing it.
41:21
Yeah, the only time we really just push is it, you know,
41:23
if something's happening, we're in dire need of help, and we see
41:28
a red button flashing, you know, I'm about to push it, you
41:30
know, because you know I'm in a state of an emergency. But when
41:35
it comes to us in our way of thinking, you know, it's we
41:37
stop ourselves from jumping over that hurdle. Yes, and a lot of times
41:43
we can't blame nobody else. Now, keep in mind, it could be
41:45
the environment that we're in, but it starts with us. It starts with
41:50
us, and it's pushing that button. You know. If I'm tired of
41:52
be in debt, I push that button to correct my debt so I can
41:55
have better finances. If I'm tired of being sick, well push that buddy
42:00
to start the process of my healing. But we have to push the buddy.
42:05
Nobody's gonna us and see that there's a need to push that. But
42:09
it's that's that's really what the reboot is. So I had to appreciate you,
42:13
you know, or even taking the time to hear me out, and
42:16
oh, yeah, you was awesome. Yes, I'm glad that you were
42:21
able to be available and to be a part of this. And I will
42:23
be honest when I sent the message out, when I made the post,
42:28
and I, like I told you, I'm very shy when it comes to
42:30
doing things of that nature. But God was like, make the post and
42:35
allow people to come in and share their journey, share their stories, share
42:38
what they've overcome, and the inspiration that they can bring to other people.
42:42
And I was terrified to do that, and I did not expect the response
42:46
that I've gotten from that. And it's all because God said, do what
42:51
I told you to do, and I was obedient and I did it.
42:53
And so I've been able to book a lot of people to be on this
42:58
platform because I want to be a to allow people to share what they've been
43:01
through and be able to network with each other, you know, and build
43:08
relationships outside of just being on this podcast, because you'll hear from me anyway
43:14
regardless, you know. So I will do check in, see how you're
43:17
doing, see how the baby, the wife and everybody's doing. That's just
43:22
the person that I am. So don't think that just because we've talked today,
43:24
this is gonna be the last time you hear from me, because it
43:28
ain't. You've got a friend. So this is just how I am.
43:31
I don't know any other way to be, And so anytime I interact with
43:37
anybody on this show or just in general, you gonna see me and you
43:42
gonna hear from me, because I'm gonna be checking in seeing what you got
43:44
going on. Is there anything that I can help you with? Is there
43:46
something that you need from me? Because I feel like if I extended this
43:52
branch, my branch did not stop with just one limb. There's multiple that
43:57
come off of there, so there's a route that's down there. So as
44:00
long as I'm extending, I'll never stop growing and I'll never stop learning from
44:05
the people that I connect with. So I thank you. I thank you
44:08
so much for your time. I thank you for being here. I will
44:13
be back on Sunday, actually because I have another guest that's coming up,
44:16
and that's Miss Bridget Green, and we're gonna be talking about neurodiversity and empowerment.
44:22
So that's gonna be an interesting show and an interesting topic because it's something
44:27
that I had never heard of before in my life. So I'm interested to
44:30
have this conversation and to learn something new that I didn't know. But the
44:36
way that I always close my show out, and this is my saying that
44:38
I have, and that is stay out of God's business. The only thing
44:44
that he needs you to do is be obedient to what He's called you to
44:46
do. So as long as you're being obedient to everything God tells you to
44:51
do, you will never be off track. You will always arrive on time,
44:53
and nothing will go to the wrong address. It will always be addressed
44:59
to you, and it will all always be on time. So again,
45:01
I thank you for being here tonight, and I think everybody for tuning in.
45:06
Do not miss me again on Sunday, and do not miss my sister's
45:10
podcast. It's a lot of us, so tune in every night right now
45:15
except for Tuesday, but you get us every night at eight o'clock. Thank
45:20
you guys for being here. Have a good night. Bye, Oh person
45:25
person, all things ain't bank, Where did all the blue sky? Or
45:38
as you missed Oga