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Druski Bet on Himself… Now Everybody’s Calling · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 4: the scenes of The Grind, so let's get to it.
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  Speaker 2: Back on the grind oh.
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  Speaker 4: My god y'all my behind the scenes of the grind
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  Speaker 4: today basically ties into the latest um i have been
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  Speaker 4: really really intentional about trying to make sure that i
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  Speaker 4: am listening and feeding myself things that are also like
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  Speaker 4: um positive uplifting like not tools or resources, like not
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  Speaker 4: like self-help books, even though I am still reading the
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  Speaker 4: book that I told you guys about maybe like three
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  Speaker 4: episodes ago that my pastor gave me.
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  Speaker 2: But basically I.
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  Speaker 4: Feel like on a day to day, I'm consuming so
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  Speaker 4: much like stuff from Twitter to Instagram, to YouTube, to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, even with I'm personally picking up my phone
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  Speaker 4: to indulge myself in when I'm working on stories and
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  Speaker 4: things of that nature. So I try to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that there are some things of substance and I can,
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  Speaker 4: kind of keep myself on this like balanced Richter scale
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  Speaker 4: of like motivation and not feeling burnt out. One of
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  Speaker 4: the things that happens when you're creative, when you're building something,
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  Speaker 4: is that when you're being very, very consistent at something,
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  Speaker 4: when you're putting the points on the board and consistently
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  Speaker 4: doing so, things can become repetitive. And for me, I
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  Speaker 4: think a part of this journey and a part of
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  Speaker 4: the energy is And the excitement that you guys feel
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  Speaker 4: when you're listening to me that helps me when I
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  Speaker 4: got to get up three, four o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 4: is that there is an excitement to do things for
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  Speaker 4: the first time and to explore new things and learn
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  Speaker 4: new things. So sometimes I have to be intentional about
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  Speaker 4: making sure I am still doing that, that I'm not
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  Speaker 4: getting so repetitive in my consistency of doing the work
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  Speaker 4: that I'm stifling how I'm growing and how my brain
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  Speaker 4: is moving. One of the things that I loved about
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  Speaker 4: going to college, I went to an HBCU. Shout out
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  Speaker 4: to Delaware State University. I talk about it all the time.
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  Speaker 4: But what I realized after I graduated from Delaware State
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  Speaker 4: was that when you're in school, you have no choice
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  Speaker 4: but to learn something new every day. Do something new
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  Speaker 4: for the first time often because... You are switching classes.
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  Speaker 4: You switch grades. Sometimes you go to new schools. You're
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  Speaker 4: meeting new people.
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  Speaker 2: You have homework. You have assignments.
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  Speaker 4: Your brain is forced to be stretched and you don't
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  Speaker 4: even have to put effort into making sure that happens.
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  Speaker 2: You just have to show up to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Once you graduate from school, like when I left college
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  Speaker 4: and I'm just out in the world, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm an adult now. And it feels even more real
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  Speaker 4: now than all those years ago. Dang, not all those
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  Speaker 4: years ago, Lauren. Not you old head girl.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: I'm the new adult. That is crazy that I'm the
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  Speaker 2: new adult.
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  Speaker 4: But it's way different now than all those years ago
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  Speaker 4: because I think I've gotten so much further in my
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  Speaker 4: career where it's like the consistency thing isn't like such
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  Speaker 4: a struggle anymore because the discipline is showing up.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm always wanting to challenge myself.
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  Speaker 4: So what I tell myself is that at least two
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  Speaker 4: times out of the week, I try and watch something,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's an interview, I don't count church. I used
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  Speaker 4: to count church, but I feel like I don't count
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  Speaker 4: church because church is like something that should always happen.
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  Speaker 4: Not just because I'm like, I need to make myself
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  Speaker 4: do this, but I need to do that just to
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  Speaker 4: make sure I'm getting through.
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  Speaker 2: Life the right way.
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  Speaker 4: But I used to count church, but I watch things,
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  Speaker 4: whether it is interviews or it's, you know, the documentaries
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  Speaker 4: on Netflix or like, I also read an op-ed the
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  Speaker 4: other day in the New York times, you know, that,
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  Speaker 4: Even though it had like it's ebbs and flows of
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  Speaker 4: like the positivity and things that weren't so positive, it
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  Speaker 4: was just a conversation full of substance. So I'm making
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  Speaker 4: sure that in all of this Twitter brain world and
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  Speaker 4: Instagram world that I do that because.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm gonna be honest with y'all.
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  Speaker 4: There are some times where like I'm sitting and I'm
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  Speaker 4: scrolling on Twitter and I'm literally seeing how people are
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  Speaker 4: dissecting information and really not dissecting information and and like
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  Speaker 4: putting videos on our timeline and.
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  Speaker 2: Adding these captions that literally have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: the video.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, it is so crazy how much the
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  Speaker 4: world is changing where like that is just something you
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  Speaker 4: would voluntarily do just for views, clicks, and monetization. And
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  Speaker 4: I think being and living in the algorithm all the time,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to become the algorithm. Like I want
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  Speaker 4: to lead the algorithm and not even intentionally. Like I
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  Speaker 4: just want to really have And own how I feel
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  Speaker 4: about things, my opinion on things, my information, my knowledge,
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  Speaker 4: my education on things. And I think that is getting
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  Speaker 4: even tougher to do that because we live in such
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  Speaker 4: a digital era where like you also like you could
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  Speaker 4: be out there looking for all the. the substance and things,
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  Speaker 4: but then there's all the other stuff as well too.
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  Speaker 4: And in what I do, there are some times where
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  Speaker 4: I got to get into the other stuff. Like I
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  Speaker 4: got across the train track sometimes and go into the
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  Speaker 4: other stuff. But even within that, I'm always looking for like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, what's the sensical way to have a conversation
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  Speaker 4: about this?
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  Speaker 2: Like, or just to say, yo, this is BS. Like,
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  Speaker 2: how can we do that?
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  Speaker 4: So Drewski, I saw that he was going to be
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  Speaker 4: on Diary of a CEO with Steve Barlett. Now, the
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  Speaker 4: Diary of a CEO conversations are always fire to me.
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  Speaker 4: I did a whole episode, literally my last episode, talking
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  Speaker 4: to you guys about building business and intention behind that
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  Speaker 4: and just being in that space of doing so right
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  Speaker 4: now on an early level and how important that foundation
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  Speaker 4: is to me. Diary of a CEO is one of
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  Speaker 4: those podcasts that I watch a lot to learn how
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  Speaker 4: people that are really, really, really doing it in my
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  Speaker 4: space and not in my space are getting it done. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I told y'all that Behind the Scenes of the Grind
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  Speaker 4: is going to kind of intertwine with the latest. So
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  Speaker 4: let's just get into the latest now. Let's talk more
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  Speaker 4: about Drewski in this interview that he did with Diary
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  Speaker 4: of a CEO.
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  Speaker 2: Drewski.
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  Speaker 4: So I saw he was going to be on Diary
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  Speaker 4: of a CEO and I was so hyped because I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I know those conversations be so in-depth. And I've read
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  Speaker 4: articles on Drewski. I've interviewed Drewski. I've met him. But
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot that we don't know about him. But also,
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching him in real time build this media empire
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  Speaker 4: and lead thought and conversation and do it so effortlessly.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not like he's overdoing it. Drewski's sketches don't
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  Speaker 4: overdo it. They simply, in a very short time period, get.
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  Speaker 2: You what you need. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: They make you laugh, but sometimes they are centered around
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  Speaker 4: narratives and conversations that the world is having. I was
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  Speaker 4: going to say the black community, but honestly, it's the
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  Speaker 4: world now with him. And then it transcends because it's
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  Speaker 4: so authentic and it's so easily done and it cuts through.
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  Speaker 4: And I think he has a good level of like,
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  Speaker 4: here's the BS, but also here's the conversation. I know
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  Speaker 4: he did that with the pastor's skit that he did.
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  Speaker 4: He did the skit where he had the pastor say,
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  Speaker 4: flying in to the congregation and, you know, pulling up
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  Speaker 4: in a Rolls Royce. And it was a conversation about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the black church and how money is used
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  Speaker 4: and collected within the black church. And this was not
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  Speaker 4: too long after that viral moment where there was a
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  Speaker 4: pastor who said, we're going to lock these doors until
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  Speaker 4: we get to a certain amount of money we need
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  Speaker 4: within an offering. That was some years ago, but all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff had happened. Drew Ski drops his skit. It
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  Speaker 4: goes crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like watching, like, it is such a simple
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  Speaker 4: format that he does. Such a simple idea of like, well,
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  Speaker 4: what's going on in the world?
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: But if it's that simple, why isn't everybody seeing Drewski's
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  Speaker 4: type of success? There are certain things and certain identifiers
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  Speaker 4: when you meet someone or when you experience someone where
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  Speaker 4: you're like, yeah, there might be a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: in their lane, but that one right there, that person's special.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we all can agree about that with Drewski.
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  Speaker 4: So this Diary of a CEO conversation excited me because
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to know where does that special spark come from?
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  Speaker 4: Like what is his why and what is his, What's
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  Speaker 4: his foundation? And he gets right on into it. So
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  Speaker 4: he opens up the interview very vulnerable out the gate,
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  Speaker 4: literally very vulnerable out the gate, talking about his upbringing
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  Speaker 4: in his household and dealing with his abusive father at
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  Speaker 4: the time of Sick Listen.
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  Speaker 3: I think about my dad because he was one of
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  Speaker 3: those tough guys to deal with around that time. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted us to figure it out early. And like my
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  Speaker 3: dad was like the lead person of pushing that narrative.
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  Speaker 3: My mom somewhat would do it, but she would always
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  Speaker 3: try to tell him, relax. You know, he's still he's
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  Speaker 3: still a kid. Like he's at the time, like eight,
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  Speaker 3: nine years old. My dad's like, what do you want
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  Speaker 3: to do? Figure it out. You're either going to go
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  Speaker 3: to jail. You find a craft or you end up
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  Speaker 3: in a warehouse or something. You got to figure out
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  Speaker 3: whatever you're going to do or you go to the military,
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  Speaker 3: get your ass blown off. And that was the only
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  Speaker 3: two options. He said, get your options. Yes. So imagine
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  Speaker 3: me at like eight, nine years old. Those are my
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  Speaker 3: three options. School, find a trade, or you go to
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  Speaker 3: the military and get your ass blown off because we're
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  Speaker 3: going back to war. He was always talking about, we're
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  Speaker 3: going back to war. We're going back to war. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what the fuck? Are we going to war?
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  Speaker 3: So early on, he pushed that he wanted me to
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  Speaker 3: figure it out. And he had great lessons, but his
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  Speaker 3: teaching skills was was very tough and physical. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's old school. I'm sure you heard it before. He's
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  Speaker 3: very old school about his teachings and how he goes
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  Speaker 3: about doing it. So he has a short temper. Immediately
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  Speaker 3: he asked, he used to ask, these rhetorical questions all
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  Speaker 3: the time of like he'll be like go get me
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  Speaker 3: a phillips screwdriver and I'll go get a regular screwdriver
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  Speaker 3: he's like this is not a phillips screwdriver BAM upside
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  Speaker 3: the head then my brother goes he's like I want
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  Speaker 3: you to go get me a phillips screwdriver my brother
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  Speaker 3: goes and get a hammer the dumbest shit right and
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  Speaker 3: And he would come back and then, bam, upside the head.
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  Speaker 3: So that was like the immediate of teaching. It's not
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  Speaker 3: the best way of teaching. And from an early age,
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  Speaker 3: I learned that speaking to other people's fathers and parents,
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  Speaker 3: I learned that this is not a normal thing. And
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that until we would go to like
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  Speaker 3: neighborhood parties and stuff. And maybe my dad would be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: these are my boys right here. He'll reach out his
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  Speaker 3: hand and we'll flinch like that because it became a,
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  Speaker 3: a normal thing for him to always lift up his hand.
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  Speaker 3: Like if we said the wrong thing. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: say that my comedy necessarily came from that, but it
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  Speaker 3: definitely came from like a healing, wanting to make our
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  Speaker 3: situation better at home. It's not like we, we don't
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  Speaker 3: come from a, like a broke home. I ain't gonna
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  Speaker 3: say we wasn't a broken, we were a broken home.
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  Speaker 3: We weren't a broke home. My dad was a airline
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  Speaker 3: pilot for United Airlines for, entirely my whole younger life.
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  Speaker 3: My mom worked for the CDC. Very two good jobs.
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  Speaker 3: My mom was always home. My dad would travel in
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  Speaker 3: and out. But I think what I wanted to do
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  Speaker 3: in my personality as a kid was always to make
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  Speaker 3: the family smile. No matter through all this stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we're going through and these teachings being too far sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe this ass whooping was too much. The ass
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  Speaker 3: whooping went too far. I'm not going to get into
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  Speaker 3: details on it, but yeah, some ass women in the
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  Speaker 3: house that went too far. But yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 3: feel like my comedy comes from that place of I
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  Speaker 3: never tend to punch down. I like to find the funny,
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  Speaker 3: but also the good side of funny and not look
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  Speaker 3: at the negative for anything. my type of comedy. I
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  Speaker 3: can find a negative situation and bring the funny out
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  Speaker 3: of it for both sides, me and the other person.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the crazy part about that is, is I think
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  Speaker 4: even if you're not a comedian, even if you're not
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  Speaker 4: doing sketches, I think everybody has something like an event
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  Speaker 4: that happened in their life, whether it was super positive
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  Speaker 4: or traumatic that you can attribute a lot of your
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  Speaker 4: trajectory to. Like everybody has that something. With Drewski, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was I was like, oh, my God, we would
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  Speaker 4: when you if you've ever watched him or met him.
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  Speaker 4: And even if not him, you guys know how you
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  Speaker 4: have those people in your lives that are just like
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  Speaker 4: always a positive spark, like just always putting out good energy.
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  Speaker 2: Good energy people.
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  Speaker 4: Those people are gems, because no matter what you're going through,
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  Speaker 4: when you get around those people, you have no choice
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  Speaker 4: but for your spirit to be lifted.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to laugh.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to smile. You're going to do all the things.
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  Speaker 4: Drewski is like that. Like when we interviewed Drewski at
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  Speaker 4: the Breakfast Club, I literally couldn't stop laughing. He wasn't
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  Speaker 4: even doing anything. His energy, his spirit, his soul just
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  Speaker 4: make you happy. Literally, listen, I couldn't stop laughing. So
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  Speaker 4: to hear that his thing that helped to spark his,
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  Speaker 4: the trajectory we see him on right now with something
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  Speaker 4: so dark. I'm like, yo, that is so relatable for
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  Speaker 4: so many people because a lot of people have had
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  Speaker 4: to literally take what they experienced and find the good
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  Speaker 4: in it in order to survive it. That is especially
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  Speaker 4: for a lot of us black folk. Like a lot
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  Speaker 4: of us have had to literally always look at the world,
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  Speaker 4: always look at, you know, our workplaces and all these
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  Speaker 4: things and be like, but let me find this one
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  Speaker 4: ounce of hope in there. And let me take that
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  Speaker 4: and hold onto it and turn it into this whole
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  Speaker 4: other world of survival, of success for myself.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the beauty behind black people.
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  Speaker 4: But sometimes I get, in this back and forth conversation
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  Speaker 4: with myself where I'm like, it's a beautiful thing for
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  Speaker 4: us to be able to do, right? We always, no
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  Speaker 4: matter what the circumstance is, know how to survive and
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  Speaker 4: then later thrive. But whether you're black, white, yellow, green,
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  Speaker 4: and different, I always wonder why situations like that happen
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  Speaker 4: to certain people. Like, like why are certain people given
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  Speaker 4: certain trials and tribulations is a question that I always
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  Speaker 4: ask myself.
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  Speaker 2: And, Maybe I should ask my pastor that, though, too.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, though, because maybe that's like questioning God.
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  Speaker 4: Because even Drewski himself didn't question why that was happening
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  Speaker 4: to him. He says that it was happening and he
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  Speaker 4: used it to fuel him. And also he talked about
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  Speaker 4: the fact that knowing, letting it go, not questioning it,
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  Speaker 4: but moving on and actually forgiving his father because of
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  Speaker 4: what he knew that would do for him internally.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to that part.
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  Speaker 6: So I guess as a child, very perceptive children, you're
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  Speaker 6: on edge a little bit then.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 6: And it's funny because I remember sitting with Gabor Mate
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  Speaker 6: and him telling me how kids that have an early
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  Speaker 6: context where they have to be a little bit more aware,
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  Speaker 6: they often become very good at observation.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And they become good therapists. They become the most empathetic.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: They also sometimes have struggles with mental health because... being
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  Speaker 6: hypervigilant or being aware comes at a cost. It's not free.
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  Speaker 6: For all the upsides, there's always a downside. Does any
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  Speaker 6: of that resonate?
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  Speaker 3: 1,000%, man. And I think, sadly, in my brother's case,
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  Speaker 3: that went a negative direction. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia
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  Speaker 3: and bipolar disorder as we continued to go through puberty
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  Speaker 3: and got older. Whereas for me, I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: might have found a coping mechanism with comedy, and maybe
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  Speaker 3: he never found that coping mechanism from that trauma and
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  Speaker 3: I feel like trauma can sometimes give you the the
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  Speaker 3: good route or the negative route and I feel like
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that going on in our house early
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  Speaker 3: on may have played a role in him being diagnosed
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  Speaker 3: with that and yeah that's the that's the sad side
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  Speaker 3: of the story but yeah I Even with him, I
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  Speaker 3: think early on, I would always try to make him
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  Speaker 3: laugh because I knew we were in a fucked up situation.
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  Speaker 3: One time I watched my brother get beat for wetting
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  Speaker 3: the bed. And it was the simplest thing. And I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't understand. I was like, why is he getting beat
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  Speaker 3: this bad?
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  Speaker 1: It was very far.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Not the normal belt type thing. It was very, very far.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: So I would always try to step in either after
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: or during these moments to try to be like a
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: coping mechanism for him or like maybe it's my mom
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: and he's arguing with her and they're getting physical as well.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: So I would always try to be, oh, the funny guy,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: maybe at the dinner after, or maybe after the next
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: day goes by and I'm trying to lift everybody's vibe up.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: So you watched your mother get hit as well? For sure,
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: for sure, for sure.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Not physically hit, but I've seen different things of like
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: the choking and you know, pushing her out the door
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: and then locking the door. And then I got to
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: go and be the one staring at her at the door.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: And she's like, open it. And he's like, you better
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: not open that door. And I'm in between a rock
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: and a hard place trying to figure out, do I
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: open this door with my mom or is he going
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: to come? So it was a lot of different situations
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: of trying to figure it out at a very young age.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: And it started so young that I, some back to
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: some things are kind of blurry for me, but I
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: do know that my comedy comes from that comforting type
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: of space.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Now, after he gets through all of this, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: kind of like, here's where the comedy came from, he
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: then talks about betting on himself and believing in himself. Now,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: everybody that has a I left college story, I always
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: am like, I commend y'all because I didn't have my
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: mom and like my family riding me to finish college.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Of course, they wanted me to do it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Because I was the first generation in my family to
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: go to college and get through college, like in my
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: immediate family, my mom, my dad, my grandmother, nobody went
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to college. I'm the oldest sibling in my mom's house.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: So my brother wouldn't have went before me. So there
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: was that. But like, if I had told them I
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: was leaving school and I had a plan, as long
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: as I had a plan, I think they still would
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: have pushed back and been like, you should finish college. Like, because,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: you know, more so than ever than now, I think
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I kind of was like a part of those last couple, like,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: classes of of you know college students that where the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: world felt like if you did not go to college
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you might not survive like I think we were kind
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: of slowly getting out of that while I was in
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: college because social media began to become so big and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: it was very prevalent that you could do anything you
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: put your mind to with social media um but I
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: always commend people who are in that space because not
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: not even about the pressure from like the public or
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: your family but Getting to college and figuring out the
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: loans and the payments and moving all your stuff and
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: doing all that, especially if you did some classes and
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: put some time in, that is a lot of work.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: And I always told myself, like, I'm doing all this work.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I'm going to finish. I'm here now. Like, I done moved.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I done enrolled. I done went through FAFSA. It just was,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I feel like you put so much into just getting
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: to college that didn't be like, nah, I'm good.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to, you know, start over.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I commend you guys for doing that. There were several.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I remember I had a job. I did Project Runway
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: All-Stars the second season. And I was just a production
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: assistant on the set, which is where you help out production,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: anything they need.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So you're... picking up food.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: You're moving things, you are whatever they need.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: You're just there to assist production.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Because of my outfits on the set, they came to
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: me and were like, hey, we need someone to basically
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: organize the fashion closet or coordinate the fashion closet.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Do you want to do it?
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: We had a sponsor that season, Nine West. And Nine
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: West would provide shoes and accessories that they would use.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: To put the models in on the runway.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Now, if you guys have never watched anything Project Runway,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: there's different challenges that they do on the runway. So
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: one day they might be like, okay, this is a
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Christmas themed episode. We want to see your best couture
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Christmas clothing. The next time it might be like, okay, well,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: we're studying about African shapes and symbols. You want to
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: see your best runway designs based on the history of
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: African shapes and symbols, right? And once the designers would
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: get their designs together, once the producers would produce out
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: what the episode and storyline would be, I would then
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: go in and work with between everybody and say, well,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: here are the accessories that we have. that you can
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: rock out with to utilize within this scene. So I
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: was getting to learn story. I was getting to learn production,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: what looked good on camera, what didn't look good on camera,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: all these things.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: And I worked with them for about two months.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Most of the time in those type of industries, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: there's a reason I'm telling you guys this story while
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: talking about Drewski leaving school. Most of the time when
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: people work in those type of production teams, you just
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: continue on. So once that show wraps, your lead producer,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: your EP... If they love you, we'll then hire you
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: to go on to another show. I was offered the
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: ability to go on to another show. It was a
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: reality show at the time that would have been shooting
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: about SWV. I was offered to come on and work
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: as a producer on that show. That was a real job.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: But I was literally about to be going into my
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: junior year of college. And I was like, I done
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: did all this work.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I am not leaving. I'm just going to.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: I thought about it, though, because I'm like, this is
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: my dream to be in entertainment. And I know I
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: got to bet on myself. I went back to school, though,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: and I finished... Drewski's ability to be like, nah, I'm
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: not going to, I'm just going to work.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And that was another thing too.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I was like, all right, if I leave college, like
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I still, I'm going to need money in college and
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: the scholarships is kind of helping me financially get by
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: right now. But Drewski left and he decided to just
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: trap it out, worked various different jobs.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: So you go off, you go off to college and you,
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: you lost, was it two semesters before you dropped out?
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I started at a, at a school that
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: was in Gwinnett County where I grew up. So I
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: spent like a year and then another half of a
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: semester there. And I got enough credits to transfer because
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I've got to get out of here.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Like I know my life is bigger than this. And
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: also at the time I wasn't thinking, oh, I want
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: to be a superstar. I was just thinking I wanted
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: a real college experience. I wanted to go to a
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: four-year college. I didn't have the grades to do it
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: in high school and go straight there. I want to
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: find a way to do it in college. So I
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: think when I went to Georgia Southern as the school
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: following that, I just wanted to find the college ecosystem
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: of like, what's the vibe here? Oh, let's party.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Let's do this.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And I didn't find that as soon as I got there.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: It's almost like I didn't get the immediate, this is college.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Like I thought I would get after I got there.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: And I went into like a deep depression because I
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: had two guys that I knew went to the school
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: from like Like, you know somebody from your county, of course.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, okay, I'll link up with him.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: He'll be a great friend to be along with on
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: this ride of whatever this new school is. And I
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: would try to link up with them. And for some reason,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: it always was a hassle for me to link up
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: with them. They always would be like, oh, we always
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: got to pick you up. You don't have a car.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, I'll get an Uber to y'all. Well,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: if you don't have any money to get into the game,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: there's no point in coming because we can't pay for you. Or-
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I want to come to the party with y'all. Oh, well,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: you have the same shoes that you hoop in. Why
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: would we bring you like, they will always have jokes
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: about maybe, I felt like I wasn't deserving enough to
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: be around them, sort of say. And I felt like
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: almost very, for the first time in my life, very depressed.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: And that kind of bothered me because I started to
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: just not even go to classes anymore at this new school.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I was just staying in my dorm room. So I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: went to not even go into class anymore. I stopped
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: going to classes. for like the whole second semester of
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: being at that school, no classes, sat in my room
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: and would just sit and think, I'm calling my friends
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: back at home. They're not doing nothing. So I kind
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: of didn't want to go home because I'm like, damn,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: they're not doing shit. I'm not going to go back.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: But also like, what am I doing here? I'm not
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: doing anything here either. What is my purpose in life?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: So sitting in there and being depressed and sad and
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: looking at myself in the mirror, I started to figure out,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, what do I really want to do
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: in life? Is any of this really makes sense? Like
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: I'm here for sports journalism, but do I want, I
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: know I want to be on TV. Like I took
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: sports journalism to be maybe an ESPN sports cast just
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: to get my face on TV.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I was like, maybe I want to do that. It
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: sounds cool. But as I continued to do more, I guess,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: soul searching sort of say, just sitting in the room
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: and thinking about what I want to do. These, these,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I would sit and watch Steve Harvey interviews on like,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: what is it you want to do in your life?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Jump off a mountain top and take a risk. And like,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I would watch all these videos of everything, of people
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I looked up to, Kevin Hart.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And I.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Started to figure out, okay, what's my purpose? These are
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: the people I look up to, but what exactly do
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I want to do? And as I continued to do
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: more search and I started to figure out, okay, wow,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: I think... All the people I look up to are
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: all like comedic legends. I'm watching Will Ferrell's stuff, Chris Farley.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: These are guys that I find as my heroes. I
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: think since I've always been the funny guy in every classroom,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: everything I've done, sports, I get kicked off the football
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: team for being funny. All this stuff is because I
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: am a comedian. And it was almost like, I felt
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: like an idiot because I'm like, damn, I'm sitting over
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: here in college. That is my purpose. This is it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I feel more connected to them than I've ever felt
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: to anything I've ever felt in my life. Why? The
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: things they would say in a Kevin Hart interview, the
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: things he would say in a Steve Harvey interview, the
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: things Will Ferrell would say or Chris Farley would say
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: or Jim Carrey, I felt more attached to it because
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: they also felt a need and a purpose to become
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: like a hero of comedy.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: It sounds dumb because when you tell your parents, oh,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I want to be a comedian, they're like, oh, you're
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: basically a clown, I guess, and you'll go start doing
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: stand-up rooms, and maybe you make it, maybe you don't.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: It sounds kind of silly telling people or your hometown friends, oh,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be a comedian. But as I continued
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: to do more and more research on everything I wanted
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: to do, I started to figure out, okay, this is
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: my purpose, and it always has been. And I see
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: these videos of me as a kid. I'm remembering memories
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: of all this stuff early on. This is it. And
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: that's when I just had like a, I don't know
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: what they would call it, like epiphany. You know, but yeah,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: that was a big change for me in my career.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: And I think one of the most beautiful things about
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: betting on yourself, right? So when you finally get to
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: that point where you're betting on yourself, whether it's at
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: the college point, whether it's not, like everybody has that point.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Are those full.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Circle moments where you really feel like, yo, I literally
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: used to sit and dream about this. Or I literally
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: used to, this person was on my vision board and
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: now I'm working with them or something like that. That
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: feeling is like, oh my God, every time that happens.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: To me, I literally cry. Cause I'm like, God is
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: so good. And you just, you.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Don't, you just never know where your life may take you, man.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Like I'm getting emotional just thinking about it right now.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Like you just never know You set out to do
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: all these things and I don't care how many times
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: you bet on yourself. You literally, it's a roll of
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: the dice. You literally don't know what is going to happen.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: You just know you're being led to do things, but
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: you don't know what was at the end of that tunnel.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Drewski talked about how much he admired Steve Harvey, right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: In this interview.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: And he talked about how he used to always listen
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: to this Steve Harvey video. when he needed some motivation,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: which I was.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Like, bro, me too.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I think all young creators was listening to Steve Harvey, like,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: come save us, please. Let's take a listen to this
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Steve Harvey clip. This is when Steve Harvey used to
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: do Family Feud. When Steve Harvey had Family Feud, right,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Family Feud, he would always do these motivational conversations at
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the end where he'd be talking to the audience.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: This one was super viral. I used to listen to
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: this every morning when.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I had to get up and take my mom to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: her hospital check-in.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Every successful person.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: In this world has jumped. I'm going to tell you
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: what I mean by that. Eventually, you are going to
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: have to jump. You cannot just exist in this life.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: You have got to try to live. If you are
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: waking up thinking that there's got to be more to
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: your life than it is, man, believe that it is.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But to get to that life, you're going to have
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to jump. I'll tell you why I call it jumping.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: See, God, when he created all of us, he gave
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: every last one of us.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: A gift at birth.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: He never created a soul without endowing them with a gift.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: You just got to quit looking at gifts as running, jumping, singing, dancing.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It's more than that. It's if you know how to.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Network, if you can connect dots, if you draw, if
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: you teach. Some of y'all fry chicken better than anybody else,
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: bake pie. Some of you cut hair, color hair. Some
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: people do grass. I got a partner, man, never wanted to.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Go out with us because we stayed out too late.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: Come on, man, go out with me. No, I got
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: to get up early in the morning, cutting Miss Johnson grass.
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: We kept laughing at this dude, cutting grass.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: How much they pay you?
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: He got a landscaping company in Cleveland worth $ 4 million.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Because all he do... is cut grass. But he was
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: gifted at it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: I got a partner on a detail shop, make.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: $ 800, 000 a year detailing cars.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: He got six mobile trucks running around.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: $ 800, 000 a year.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: All he do is detail cars. That's his gift. That's
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: what he love to do. You've got to identify that gift.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Now listen to me. When you see people in life
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: When you're standing on the cliff of life and you
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: see people soaring by, you hear about them doing wonderful things.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: Maybe you look up the street and your neighbor just
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: gets a car every year, every two years.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: How is he doing that?
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: Have you ever thought, maybe this person right here has
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: identified their gift and is living in their gift. Because
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: your Bible says, this is your Bible, says your gift
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: will make room for you.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Your gift, not your education. You go get an education,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that's nice.
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: But if you don't use your gift, that education ain't
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: gonna take you so far. I know a lot of
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: people got degrees, man, that they ain't even using.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: It's your gift.
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: But the only way for you to soar is you
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: got to jump. You got to take that gift that's
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: packed away on your back.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: You got to jump off that cliff and pull that cord.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: That gift opens up and provides the soar.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: If you don't ever use it, you're going to just
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: go to work.
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: And if you're getting up going to work on a
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: job every day that you hate going to, that ain't living, man.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: You just existed.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: At one point in time, you ought to see what
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: living's like. But the only way to see what.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Living like, you got to jump.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Y'all know what was so dope? Shout out to the
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Diary of a CEO podcast because their research was on point.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: They knew about this in advance. So they posed the
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: question to Drewski as if they didn't, but they did.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: And then the moment came full circle for Drewski. Steve
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Harvey pops up via video in the interview.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: It was like life changing. I spoke to Steve.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: What you got to show me, man?
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: He wanted to send you a little video message as well.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happening?
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: I heard they was doing something for you. So I
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: wanted to jump on here, man, and just give you
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: some some big ups, man. Let you know, man, I've
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: been watching you for a while from the distance, man.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: We've only spoken once. But look, man, I think you're special.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: You got a gift, man. You're really, really special. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: with that specialness, man, comes some responsibility. And so just
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: be careful, man. Remember everything your mom and your grandmama
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: told you, because you're going to need all of that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Because you're killing the game. And once you start killing
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: the game, it's like chess, man. We're out here playing chess.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: The object is to kill the king. Sad, but true.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Keep your faith, brother. Stay funny, man. If you need me,
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: call Unk.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I got you.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy. That is nuts, bro. Wow, man.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That's deep.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Message. Okay. That is a message.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys, I hope it didn't
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: go over your head, but that is one of the
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: hardest things. People talk to you about achieving their dreams
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: and taking these risks and betting on themselves. But one
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: of the things that I am in real time right
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: now learning and paying attention to everybody who is doing
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: it on a major scale. That's why I love watching Drewski.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: It's like, okay, you do all these things. You take
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: all these risks. You jump out the window a few
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: times and you learn how to fly on the way down.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: And now there's something. It's here and it's happening. But
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: let's talk about sustaining it. Let's talk about protecting it
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: when you become the target. Let's talk about we sustained
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: it and we protected it, but now let's grow it
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: and let's grow it in a way where it'll be
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: here for time and time and time and something you
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: can pass on and continue to be successful and be
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: at the forefront of what you're doing. The best thing
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: you can do when I'm learning, when it comes to that,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: is keep showing up and doing the work.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Literally, keep showing up and doing the freaking work.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: And that's what I meant in the beginning of this
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: episode when I was talking about I'm always trying to
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: challenge myself So I don't get comfortable and I'm continuously
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: learning and I'm, you know, my brain ain't turning to
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: mush because I feel like I have to keep showing
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: up and doing the work. And I need that like motivation,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: that push of like, all right, it's game time. Like, baby,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: you got to figure this out by any means. It's
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: that conversation between like surviving and living. But I think
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: that there's like a nuance that Drewski hits on here
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: that I never thought about.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I've always felt like, man, I'm tired of just surviving.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I want to live.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: And now that I'm able to live a bit more,
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I go back and forth with like, does that mean
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: I'm losing my passion?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Drewski hit on it very perfectly here.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: He talks about sustaining everything he has and continuing to
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: show up to do the work and why it's so
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: important in this season.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I think that the seasons of it, let's take a
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: listen to Drewski.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: The thing is most people don't really want to be great.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Most people just say it because it sounds good. Like
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: I would be around a lot of guys and be like, yo,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: let's do it. Let's wake up in the morning. Let's,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: And they would just fall out. Everybody eventually just goes away.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Everybody that said they were going to do it, they
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: do it one day. They're not showing up the third
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: or the second day. Nobody shows up continuously for the work.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: And once I noticed there's a small amount of people
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: that are showing up for the actual work of anything,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: it just showed me, okay, I'm in a lane of
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: this of my own. I'm pursuing something that most people don't. say,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: but they're not really trying to pursue. Everybody wants to
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: be number one. You want to be the top of
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: the list. Everybody wants to be the top of the list,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: but nobody really wants to do the work. Nobody's obsessed
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: with it continuously, every day and night, having dreams about it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Nobody's sitting and editing with their editors 18 hours plus
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: of just sitting and looking at clips.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Drewski is one to watch, period.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: We knew that before this interview, but getting into his
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: mind state around his work, his business, his success, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: just who he is as a person, I think that
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: that matters so much.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Like, people can be successful, but, man.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Your character and your morals and, you know, the cloth
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: that you cut from and how well you sustain that
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: throughout everything, I think that that is so important. The
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: people that I know that are very, very successful in
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: what they do, one of the best compliments I love
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: to give them is, like, but they're such a good person, though.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: And I'll be honest with y'all, I didn't always feel
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: like it was possible to maintain being a really good
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: person and have like uber success. I don't mean success
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: in like, you know, let me not say small wins.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I think any win is a win. If you getting
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: up every single day and making it to work on time,
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: a win, okay?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Your kids get to school on time, a win. You're healthy,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a win. You're alive, a win.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: But I always have tried to figure out like when
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: they talk about like billionaires, right? Like the Oprah level
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: people and they always talk about.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: The shark mentality.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: When I was working in the newsroom at TMZ, I
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: used to always say, you know, Harvey Levin is so
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: successful and he owns so much.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: That is a goal for me.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: But I used to always battle with how much, how
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: disconnected from people and being human do you have to
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: be in order to do that? And I'm not calling
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Harvey a bad person. What I'm saying is that there
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: were certain things that I saw happen within the company
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I was working within, certain ways people were treated. Even
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: like when I was let go, like Harvey didn't even
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: have a conversation with me at all. To this day,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: I have yet to speak to Harvey at all about
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: anything at all. And I worked for him for, majority
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: of my like young adult life and learned and grew
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: up under him and I get it business is business
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: but I don't know I just always felt like how
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: much of a of a kind of like emotion last
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: person do you have to be in order to get
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: to that huge level of success I've always wondered that
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: because one of the things that I again I admired
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: about Harvey was how successful he was how dedicated to
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: the work and the stories and all the things that
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: he was. But one of the things I always wondered
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: was like, what is his family life? Like, you know, how,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: like how disassociated with his family is he in his
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: personal life and, and, and, and love and just, you know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: like putting your feet on the ground and putting it
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: touching the grass type of thing.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Like, like this humility that makes you still have a
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: care for people as people. And I, You know, gratefully,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: you know, in this era of my life, I feel
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: like I've been surrounded by so many successful people who
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: openly talk about being a human first. That also takes
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: care of their business and continues to show up and
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: do the work.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Because all of it is in service. to people. And
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: that was very different than what I was seeing prior to.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: And again, this is.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: No slack or no shot at Harvey Levin and TMZ whatsoever,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: but I'm just being honest about the starch difference in
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: what I'm seeing now and what I'm surrounded by now.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: And those people are if not honestly if not more
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: successful just as successful um and that was always like
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: a mental battle for me like yo I want I
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: want to be like like you can't get around me
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: in this business like you gotta I literally used to
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: always say that like it's cool like when people used
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: to overlook me for things I'd be like it's fine
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: one day you're not gonna be able to get around
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: me you're gonna have to If you're trying to get
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: through into certain things, you're going to have to talk
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: about me or have to call me in order to
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: do it. But I always battle with what do I
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: have to give up in order to do that?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: And now I know there are certain things that you
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: will have to give up. Everybody can't go with you. Y'all,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: we hear this saying all the time. Team structure.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of things and changes that will have
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: to happen and continuously re-happen in order for me to
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: get there. But I learned in this Drewski interview something
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: that I already knew.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I not even learned.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: I was reaffirmed in my feeling because of this Drewski
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: interview that like who you are and, you know, at
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: your root and at your core shines and gravitates toward
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: people so much more than anything. We don't even know
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: the full extent of Drewski's business at all. Like we
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: are kind of starting to get a little bit more
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: of it now because, you know, I think a lot
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: of his This interview humanizes him. And, you know, there
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: was an interview I read not too long ago, a
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: written interview where he talked a little bit about, you know,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: like his writing team and, you know, how they've been
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: his homie forever and all these things. We're still kind
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: of trying to put the pieces together of how he
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: does it. But one thing that everybody can feel is
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: that this is a genuine guy who loves to make
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: people laugh and has been figuring this thing out in
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: a real way based off of his real talent, but
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: his real love for things and love for people. And
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: I admire that. So make sure you go check out
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: this interview. It is now live on Diary of a CEO.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: To all my creators and dreamers that are listening to
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: this podcast episode right now, take a second and go
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: watch this interview. This interview gives such a great perspective
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: from a young person who is right now literally dominating everything.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Everything when it comes to digital content. Some of the
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: biggest names in the game are on Drewski's line. He
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: literally said Netflix, all these places that he was pitching
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: things to, now they calling him.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Listen, he literally said it.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: But he also talked about a lot of his moral
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: compass and where it comes from. His dad that he
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: forgave and that work ethic wasn't put into him the
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: right way, but it was there. his ability to manifest
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: and dream. His mom always told him to write things down.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: It's still there.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: And we see it in real time. All of that
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: stuff matters. Y'all know when I take y'all behind the
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: scenes of the grind in this podcast, or we get
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: into the latest, I talk to you guys a lot
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: about things that are happening.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: But the reason why I do, you know, the.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Behind the scenes of the grind is because I want
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: y'all to realize and understand that as these things are
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: happening and There's a certain conduct about which you go
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: about how you do your business. Your business can be there.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: It can be growing. But the conduct and how you
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: go about it matters so much.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And I am... I'm in a blessed position to.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Be able to see it every day that putting that
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: first and everything else after still gets you success. It's
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: not how people think that it has to be where
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: you have to be this shark, this doggy dog person
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: in order to be successful. That is not the case
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: in order for your dream to manifest. Go watch this interview.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: You guys will feel the same energy. I appreciate you guys.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: This has been another episode of The Latest with Marla Rosa.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I tell y'all every single episode, y'all could be anywhere
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: with any old body, but you guys choose to be
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: right here with me, my lowriders. I appreciate you guys,
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: and I'll catch you in my next one.