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What type of legacy are you building| Self improvement| Personal Growth| Legacy · Off The Wall Podcast | Motivation & Personal Growth

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  Yo, what's good? I hope you're having a blessed
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  day. I hope you're having, you know,
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  a great work shift or a great, you know, off day.
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  Listen, I want to talk to you all about what type of legacy
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  will you leave behind? I said it, I talked about it not
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  too long ago and I need to drop that tomorrow.
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  So this probably will be the segment that I would drop 'cause
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  I drop every Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5:00 AM.
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  I've been doing it for some years now.
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  It's been working. And shout out to Jesus Christ.
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  My consumption hours and my downloads have been growing on
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  Spotify. And I appreciate every single
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  one of you who have been tuning in on Spotify.
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  And I'm a use this platform to promote, you know, my podcast,
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  but I want to talk to you all about what type of legacy will
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  you leave behind? Because most people don't leave
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  anything good behind to their children.
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  For an example, like you hear so many children, parents, you
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  know, that was born before us, they say, I wish my mom or dad
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  would have set me up for this. I love my mom, but I wish they
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  would have set me up for school, set me up for financial freedom.
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  And you know, I agree with that. You know, not everyone then grow
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  up with a lot of resources and you know that's OK in this life.
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  At the same time, most of us would like, you know, an extra
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  step but extra foot in the door because once you have, you know,
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  leverage and you know, resources and opportunities, you would not
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  have to ever worry about, you know, I'm saying losing a job or
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  stressing about if you can't find a job, if you have leverage
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  and opportunities and leverage and you know, and resources,
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  you'll be good. I know for me, the type of
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  legacy I would leave behind is, you know, one, being a great God
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  fearing, imperfect man and being a great son and being a great
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  father to my son and being a great brother to my siblings.
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  And then one day be a great husband.
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  If it's the Lord's will. Another legacy is using my
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  platform for good. Thank God that He had given me
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  the ability to use my gift. Many people don't use their
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  gifts. They tend to hold out and wait
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  on the right time. I promise you, I was like that
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  at a certain age. But I'm glad that I snapped out
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  of it at 21. Most people don't snap out of
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  it. Most people never go after what
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  they always wanted to do. And it could be something
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  simple. And I thank God that he have
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  gave me the ability and the ambition to always go after what
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  I want and that is financial freedom and just freedom to go
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  anywhere I want without limitations.
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  That's the type of legacy that I will leave behind.
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  And I know many years to come, people will be impacted by my
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  podcasts. I've been having my podcast for
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  five years. Next year will be 6 years.
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  And I expect major, major improvement from, I mean, now
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  I'm pretty comfortable, but you know, I'm not making money yet.
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  But once I do, you know, got to give God the the, the glory and
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  the praise, but the type of legacy that I would leave
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  behind, it will impact so many children.
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  It will impact so many men. I respectfully, well, humbly, I
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  would say I am impacting a lot of men and women who are 60 from
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  the age of all the way all the way from 18 all the way to 65.
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  I've have been impacting a lot of men and women over the past
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  five years. And one thing that people will
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  say, as I continue to grow into a better man and continue to
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  grow at my own pace when it comes to my podcast, people will
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  say CJ have not ever gave them any bad advice.
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  Now I may joke, I may joke about it, but about certain things,
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  but they'll, they'll know like CJ come from a pure place and
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  that's who I am. I'm a very pure individual or
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  kind. Now I may overthink, but my
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  intentions are pure. My son and his children and
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  children and so forth and so on. They would not have to stress or
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  worry about money. A lot of us, we worry about
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  money because we know times get hard.
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  We know things are not handed to us, especially if you have to
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  work, you know, hard for everything that you have.
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  I know for me, my son, my siblings will not have to work
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  as hard as I did. I mentioned, you know, yesterday
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  I worked three jobs. I'm not standing as a flex.
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  I'm just saying like I know whenever, when it's time to
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  enjoy the fruits of my labor, I will enjoy the fruits of my
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  labor because I know how I got there.
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  And once I get there, I'll be more appreciative because I put
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  in the hard work in my earlier years.
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  And I was saying yesterday, most men don't hit their prom until
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  they're 35 and we we don't get to enjoy it.
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  Well, I'm not going to speak that over my life.
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  But and then sometimes men don't flourish until they're 40.
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  So, you know, we have time. It's just that I know once I
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  become older and I turn 35, bro, I'm a look a lot younger.
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  I work out every day, you know, type of me working out everyday.
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  I will still be active with my son or if it's the Lord's will
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  with my children. But the question is what type of
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  legacy will you leave behind? Will you be the one that's
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  complaining saying like, oh, my parents didn't set me up for
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  this, But you're 25. At a certain age, you can't
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  really blame your parents anymore.
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  You just got to go out and go get it, especially for a man.
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  Women there, especially for a man.
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  Before I go into that, most men and other people don't care that
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  you are behind in life. A lot of men have to work to go
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  get it right there. There is nothing in life that
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  will come easy, especially As for a man, unless you have an
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  uncle or a cousin or a dad that really rock with you to put you
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  in a position. Outside of that, you got to work
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  just like the rest of us. Now when it comes to a woman,
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  there's different avenues for her to get to where she needs to
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  be because they have more sympathy for women.
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  For a man, there's not a lot of sympathy.
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  Gabos game ain't based on sympathy.
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  So no matter how hard you work, keep working because they don't
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  care. We they, as Steven Naismith, say
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  we don't care. Well, Mike Tomlin, we don't
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  care, right? So your legacy depends on if you
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  listen to this. And you're 20.
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  You're young, but what you do in your 20s matter, OK.
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  What you do in your 20s matters. Your 20s is supposed to set you
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  up for your 30s because your 30s is supposed to be a lot easier.
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  I know my 30s is going to be a lot easier than what my 20s have
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  been. And that's OK.
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  You know, I'm saying I'm OK with working hard because once I get
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  to a place where I am, you know, comfortable money would not be a
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  question for me. My son would not have to
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  question, oh, why did my dad and set me up?
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  Why did he, you know, do this? Why he didn't do that?
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  Like my son would not have to ever question me about nothing
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  like that because I question myself all the time.
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  What can you do to set yourself up and your son up for
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  generations to come? And one thing, I know that my
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  podcast and the things I do on the side, it will create
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  leverage and that leverage will create opportunities.
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  But how is that going to happen? That's going to be God's will.
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  God's doing for everything to unfold.
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  I just know that I won't have to stress whenever, you know, God
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  plans, you know, for my podcast to take off.
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  So what you doing right now matters because your legacy, if
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  you have children or you know, if you want to have children,
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  make sure you're doing the necessary things right now so
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  you can set yourself up for success 'cause we tend to blame
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  my parents for. You know that last and I'm not
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  going to lie, my sister, she asked me like, why didn't our
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  parents then set us up? I'd be asking the same thing.
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  But God has he has blessed me with a talent and that is to
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  speak. And I'm pretty known in certain
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  countries. I have 85 countries that are
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  listening to me on Spotify, you know, in Apple podcast.
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  I'm Dana all over, but not everybody know me just yet.
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  And legacy behind is either I become fully grown trans woman
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  or the trans woman just like all the other trans women that
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  shine, that keep on going, that keep striving to be who they are
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  and just physically change and emotionally change.
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  For the good. And I mean good.
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  Just like the the movie Wicked, Just like the play Wicked, I
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  have been shaped. OK, yo, I was not expecting, you
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  know what I'm saying to be saying, but you know, that's
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  what I was saying. That's that's crazy.
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  That's that's crazy. But like I said, most of us
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  complain about why we are in this situation.
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  I know for me, I did. I stopped complaining when I
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  turned 24 because I realized there's no sympathy for men.
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  And if it's not your mom or your dad, people don't care.
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  You have people in your family, they do care.
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  They will help you out. But if you are not like
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  persistent, people are going to forget about you.
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  People will forget about you. And especially if you're looking
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  for handouts, if you're looking for handouts, but you're
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  thinking that life is going to be easy, it ain't, you feel me?
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  Especially for a man, it's not going to ever be easy for those
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  for us, but it will be easy once you breakthrough that barrier of
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  what I'm trying to find the right word of being financially
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  stable. Once you do that and you have
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  resources, are you good to go? Like angle, like you good for a
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  long time, you good for a long time and you don't have to
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  stress or worry. Like Dang, my son and daughters
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  don't have this. What am I going to do?
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  I sign up for fastball. I can't help you out.
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  Hell no. My son, my children, they won't
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  have to worry about it, but they gonna have to put in the work
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  for sure because I have put in the work.
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  It took me years to build my platform.
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  It took me years to get to where I am at now.
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  Now, I'm not saying, you know, everything is easy for me
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  because it's not like I said, as a man, it's always going to be
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  hard. But what you do determines what
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  you would do, you know, in your later years.
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  So you need you have to work hard in order to have a great
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  legacy behind you, and especially if you want to be
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  wealthy, if you want to be known for something good.
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  I know for a fact once I leave this earth and it won't be soon,
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  but whenever I leave this earth, people will say great things.
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  Be like man, like CJ is a great dude and he's got fearing he he
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  loves his son. He loves, you know, people.
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  He's a family man, like, and he has humor.
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  That's what I leave behind. I'm gonna leave a lot of stuff
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  behind where people cannot take away from me and like my
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  podcast. But it's gonna I feel and I know
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  like my podcast will be better than Eric Thomas motivation, Joe
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  Rogan. It's gonna be better than all of
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  it. They may not be better right
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  now, but years to come people gonna be like damn like this
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  dude is unstoppable. This dude can't be touched.
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  But you know, I appreciate y'all for tuning in, you know what I'm
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  saying? This is just my little spill on
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  you know. What type of legacy will you
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  leave behind?