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The world rewards those who act · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There's a moment.
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  Speaker 2: When every boy realizes no one's coming to save him,
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  Speaker 2: and that's when he becomes a man. And some boys
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  Speaker 2: never get there, and state children forever.
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  Speaker 1: When do you become a man? When you get a
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  Speaker 1: driver's license? Like what do we do you? Sixteen? Would
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  Speaker 1: give you a driver's lives?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Well, like you get a job, Like when do you
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  Speaker 1: become a man? You become a man when you become
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  Speaker 1: responsible for other people. And part of that is taking accountability.
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  Speaker 1: And so like, I'm very new to this being a
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  Speaker 1: man thing, and I'm still not there, and I'm on
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  Speaker 1: a path. I grew up in a culture that told
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  Speaker 1: me going to war made you a man, going to prison,
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  Speaker 1: coming back, coming back makes you a man. Making a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars makes you a man, you know, and it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: I know, so many dudes can't wait to get back out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, guys that we know warriors, but even warriors
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  Speaker 1: don't make it be that don't make you a man. Also,
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  Speaker 1: my definition a warrior has changed, you know. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really know what that meant. And really it's about bringing
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  Speaker 1: the others back.
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  Speaker 3: Pain has passed down from father to son and son
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  Speaker 3: to son. We have to as black men, be mindful
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  Speaker 3: of that. Sometimes it's unfair, and sometimes we take it
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  Speaker 3: out on those we love. And I'm guilty of that
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  Speaker 3: frustration that we all have. But we have a responsibility
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  Speaker 3: and a duty to be fathers, not to just make babies,
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  Speaker 3: but to be real fathers. And you can't expect any
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  Speaker 3: good to come to you if you don't visit any
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  Speaker 3: good on your son or your daughter. So be a man.
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  Speaker 2: You're a man. You are a man. Stand up and
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  Speaker 2: be a man. Make the hard decisions, make the sacrifices,
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  Speaker 2: make the unpopular decisions, and become comfortable in your own skin.
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  Speaker 2: If you are not a person that you are comfortable
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  Speaker 2: being alone with, that is the one person in this
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  Speaker 2: universe that you have full power, full right, and full
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  Speaker 2: responsibility to change. Okay, now, I do not have the
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  Speaker 2: right to try to change my wife's personality and who
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  Speaker 2: she is. I don't have the right to change anybody
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  Speaker 2: except myself. But if I don't like me, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: not comfortable being with me, well that's a different story.
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  Speaker 3: A man is supposed to take care of his family.
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  Speaker 3: You live in my house for your belly, with my food,
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  Speaker 3: but you're behind on my bed, because you're my son,
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  Speaker 3: because I like you, because it's my duty to take
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  Speaker 3: care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.
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  Speaker 1: Dudes who been where I've been or something similar, just
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  Speaker 1: know it gets better. It does like it don't make
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  Speaker 1: no sense. It doesn't make no sense. It's irrational. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense on paper that I could have
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  Speaker 1: joy in abundance in my life, that I could feel
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  Speaker 1: any kind of joy in my life after being what
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  Speaker 1: I've been. It doesn't make isn't clear. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: work really really is. It's like getting out the way
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  Speaker 1: and allowing this bigger thing to work in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Because the bigger thing is working in your life whether
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  Speaker 1: you know it or not, and you're either gonna let
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  Speaker 1: go willingly or you're gonna get dragged. But either way,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be humbled in this life and there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: you can do about it. M