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Grounded Show Ep. 56 - The Business of Life · The Grounded Show

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Yo, what did do we b b bite? Yes, sir yo,
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we were gonna kick off with that fantasy football chat story from last week,
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but I think that just might have been like the culmination of a drunk moment
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and we thought that it was like an epic story when it really wasn't.
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Pretty much. There was definitely details to it that was pertinent to the conversation
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last week, and it kind of just went off of the the vibe of
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like that entitlement and and how people feel like, you know, they they're
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able to do certain things without considering the consequences or the crowd, you know
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what I'm saying, Because we were in that a chat and then uh,
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somebody kind of came out of left field in the chat and started with like
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some racial stuff that was already building to that just from you know, previous
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tension that he had with people, and it just kind of ended up with
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like wow, man, like, how do you really just feel like you're
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in a situation where you can just say something like that and nobody's gonna address
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it? Yeah, mind you. This individual was kind of added to the
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track. I think we lost the guy and so this individual was added to
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the league and kind of just jumped into the league with that bullshit. You
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know. It was just kind of like, who is this guy? You
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know what I mean? So anyways, long story short, one person can
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ruin the whole vibe for a group of people. Keep that in mind.
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That's a fact, man, something that we preach all the time, like
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having control of your life and like even letting certain people in. Like people
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be thinking that that thing is like dramatic or something like, oh, cutting
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people off. You know, it ain't that serious, And it's like,
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man, if it's good to your life, it is that serious. You
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know what I'm saying. If it adds value to your life, and the
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elimates it certain eliminates a certain vibe that you just don't want to be around.
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And that's what it is. Yeah, I agree. Agree that people
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who feel they're too comfortable around you and you're not comfortable with them, you
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gotta do something about that. And what it was was a fucking white guy
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saying the N word. All right. He just came out of nowhere and
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felt like it was cool enough for him to slide it in a joke because
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he felt like the conversation just let him throw that joke off. We don't
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even fuck with you like that boy. Facts. Anyway, back to the
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good stuff, because it's been a hell of a week. It's been a
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hell of a little run even and uh, if you follow me on Instagram,
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you're seeing that I announced and me and my wife are opening a nel
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salon. Right attention to the podcast. I've been told talking about this thing
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for a little while. It's it's that thing that I haven't announced, you
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know what I mean. The reason being was because you know, we were
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still in the process of putting it together. I'm the type of person that
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owned like talking about stuff halfway, you know what I'm saying, Because it's
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been going on from you and working on that ship about six months, man,
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about six months dog. But just so happened somebody told the place that
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my wife was working at that she's opening her own salon. So she walked
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in on Tuesday and they was like see yo, and we were like,
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damn, what's going on? And we were able to pivot, you know,
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found a spot for her to be able to continue and keep her clients.
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She was able to announce the shop and show pictures of what's going on,
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and everybody's been super supportive and has basically told her, hey, we're
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following you. You know what I'm saying. She's super dope. She's been
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working extra hard at this and just building up her skill and her clientele and
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she's ready, man, And it was kind of like a blessing and this
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guys. But at the same time, she did have to, you know,
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build build it up, and build up a clientele and get that skill
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to get to this point. So it kind of just leads into the thing
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about like perseverance and time, and because that's a big thing that we've been
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kind of like coming across lately, especially even just when you even consider the
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podcast, Like when we started the podcast, we didn't really have so much
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of a plan as much as we just had a vibe and we knew we
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weren't gonna half acid, you know what I'm saying. So like that that
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whole I feel like even just being on point with the podcast has helped us
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kind of have like a guide or at least a reference point of like the
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stuff we're doing in our personal lives, like how we're progressing with it,
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you know what I mean, Because you know, when you come back to
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the table again, it's like, what do you have to talk about from
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the point of view of this is the ground to show. So what we're
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talking about is like real life stuff, you know, things that you could
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really take away in your everyday life. And if we're not out there basically
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living there, we don't got nothing to talk about, you know what I'm
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saying. So it's just been a crazy time, like for everybody starting with
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what I'm talking about. You know, we're just embarking into a new chapter.
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It's something that we've been planning for a while ever since my wife that
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you know, when my wife told me she was unhappy with what she was
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doing previously, I'm like, okay, so what we're gonna do about it?
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You know what I'm saying. The nails thing has always been something that
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interested her. So I was like, you know, go to school full
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time, do your thing. It's a short program and then you hit the
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ground running. And she's you know, been on top of it all the
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way through. And when she brought up to us having a salon thing.
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To me, I was like, hey, I mean, we can make
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it happen if you're serious about it, and you you know, you hit
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these benchmarks that you have internally, you know, we make it happening,
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and it's just been you know, blessing after blessing slash. You know,
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things have just been falling our way. But it comes down to that perseverance.
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If we're not on that path doing we're supposed to be doing and making
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sure we're making stuff happen, those situations aren't going to fall in off.
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Yeah, And that's why I kind of want to ask you, like your
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reaction to hearing that that they found out and they let it go. Was
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your immedia reactions, like you're it kind of like a reflex like, oh,
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well, we're prepared for this kind of thing, you know. And
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that's what it comes back to the time. Did you feel like, oh,
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well, that's fine because we got this. Um. I definitely had
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to work through it in my head, and you know what I'm saying,
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Like at first, I'm like, it caught me off guard, just from
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the point of view of like you don't expect it, you know what I
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mean. But you know, pretty much I'm like, all right, we
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already got a lot of the supplies, like damn near everything for the salon.
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You know what I'm saying. She has her license she has um you
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know, the I don't know if it's technically a permit or whatever, but
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she has the ability to still continue to do nails even if it's traveling at
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a different location. You know. Like so I'm like, all right,
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so how are we gonna make it happen? You know? And I told
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her, Hey, you know, we have the business bank account, and
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I was like, hey, take this, go get everything that you need.
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She got everything that she needed. We were man that that day was
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crazy though, because we were basically all day. You know. She found
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that out around nine thirty in the morning and we ain't stopping until like twelve
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thirty that night. You know what I'm saying, just preparing to let her
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be able to continue seeing her clients and make sure that we're going to be
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good in the meantime, you know what I'm saying. And everything just worked
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out. But I'm saying it worked out, letting you know that we were
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all day long working you know what I'm saying, Yeah, it ain't just
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work out, you know, you worked it out, yeah, exactly.
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And we made it so that the next day we were set up and ready
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to go, and she's already like in her full routine, and it's like
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nothing ever happened, you know what I'm saying. She's just ready to open
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the spot as soon as, you know, the last couple of steps are
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done. But it's just it's a funny thing because you know, me being
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somebody that I don't have like a traditional job. It's like, I have
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a business with my father in law, and now I have this business with
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my wife, and I'm just expanding into the idea of trying to get my
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hands and more things, just to be a little more connected to whatever I
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need. And just I'm just trying to elevate my way of thinking when it
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comes to how I make my money and not being tied into one thing,
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you know what I'm saying, Because even that whole situation, let me know,
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like like wow, we could really like just put our heads together and
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make something happen because of the freedom we already have in the fact that we
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don't work for anybody, what I'm saying, So just you know, operating
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from that point of view, and just the fact that we already just hard
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working, you know what I'm saying, we were able to make it happen,
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and like you said, you know, just real quick, I'll let
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you finish. But but like you were saying, you know, working for
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somebody, and obviously Joe and I we're both employees, you know what I'm
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saying. We're not knocking it, but working for somebody, you know,
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that situation or something similar to that would have taken minimum two to three weeks.
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And that's you going home, getting an interview tomorrow, getting the job,
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going through the hiring process, just for you to get back on track
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of getting a paycheck, you know what I'm saying. And you said in
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the beginning, this happened Tuesday, and this Thursday evening, you know what
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I'm saying. So even that flexibility is dope within itself. Yeah, And
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I was just even happy that I was able to kind of pivot my day
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and kind of push whatever I had to do that day to the next day
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so that I could help her out. You know, like even just the
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fact that I didn't have a regular gig, it made me available to help
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her out to figure out her things so that we could prepare for the next
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day. And it kind of went off without a hitch, both in both
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cases, you know what I'm saying. So you know this whole thing is
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not specifically just about working for yourself or starting a business or whatever. It's
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just about persevering and making it work for you and making sure that you got
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a plan so that while you're working towards it, when the time comes,
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you're ready for it. You know what I'm saying, because I know plenty
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of people that just for whatever reason, I'm not I'm not gonna lie,
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it's not plenty of people. I can only honestly think about like two or
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three people off the top of my head. But I know a couple of
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people that they just get opportunities bro Like it always just falls in their lap.
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They might go to the gas station or something that like things that I've
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seen. It's like they'll go to the gas station, somebody sees them,
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Hey I like your shoes. Hey you're looking for a job. I got
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this gig over here, you know, related to what you like. And
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it's like, what the heck? Like you think those things only happen in
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the movies or whatever. But I know like a couple of people that I
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see that kind of stuff happening to them and see them just not follow through
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and not have not given any importance and just see them kind of just in
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the same cycle and not noticing these opportunities are there. It's just you ain't
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working brom Yeah, No, that's facts. I mean I think we all
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kind of see that in you know, our own kind of ways as far
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as people that we deal with, and it tells you a lot about a
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person in their character, you know what I mean. Like, I'm not
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saying everybody should be as driven I feel like as the three of us are.
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But at the same time, you know something, I feel like all
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of us are kind of you know, eager for opportunities like that, and
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you know, we gotta work like extra hard to get where we're at,
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you know. And honestly, I don't even think um driven is the right
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word. I just feel like a lot of people and it's something that happened
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with me in music that Freddie helped me kind of figure out. It's like,
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bro, you you need to have a goal in this, you know
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what I'm saying. It's like you need to say, oh, I'm in
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music because of this, and I want this out of it, you know
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what I'm saying. Just even analyzing that because like sometimes people imagine like their
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dream is like to be the CEO of a fortune five hundred company. And
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it's like, Bro, that's not a plan, you know what I'm saying.
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That's not an idea. That's just a lofty aspiration that you have that
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you have not worked towards. You know what I'm saying. It's something something
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within certain people makes them feel like pretending like they want more is the thing
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they need to do instead of actually trying to have more, you know what
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I mean. It's like I've mentioned it before on the podcast, and it's
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a really big thing just my life. Bro, I hate, hate,
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hate being around people that just want a daydream, that just want to sit
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around and be in a circle and talk about things that don't even make sense,
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you know what I mean. It happens to a lot of music too.
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You know, you record a song and people want to sit around and
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and lay down the plot of a million dollar music video. It's like,
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Bro, we got a thousand dollars for this video, So we're going to
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spend the next three hours talking about Justin Bieber or are we going to spend
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the next three hours figuring out what we can do in this immediate situation?
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You know what I hate seeing is when I see the little post you know
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what I'm saying on social media or whatever that's like, you know, forty
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million cash or twenty thousand for the every day for the rest of your life.
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And then you're going and you see the comments everybody's debating it, and
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it's just like, bro, like you really sitting here arguing about a daydream?
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Like are you kidding me? Yeah? Yeah. It's kind of like
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the classic lot of conversation. You know, everybody's been in that situation where
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you're sitting around, somebody brings it up and everybody you know, somehow it
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turns into everybody sharing their thing. It's like, I never ever ever take
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part in that conversation. Bro. It's like, I don't. It kind
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of goes back to something I heard a long time ago that I don't even
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know where I heard it from, but I just it stuck with me so
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much of like, you don't waste your own time talking to you, don't
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waste your own time talking to somebody about something they can't help you with.
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You know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not gonna sit here and have
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a conversation with somebody and tell them my problems or due X, Y and
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Z, whatever the case is. If it's not if me talking, it's
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not gonna help me move forward. I'm not gonna entertain it, you know
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what I'm saying. It's like, of course there's certain situations where you just
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vent and stuff like that, but you gotta be at least me. This
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is just my thinking of it. But you gotta be selective, man,
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you know what I'm saying. Like, you're not gonna vent to eight people
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in your life. You might vent to like one or two and make sure
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it's in the right context, you know what I'm saying. But you're not
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gonna do that with every single person and then do nah. Bro, Like
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these the conversations you have with people, there should be forward progress in every
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conversation if it's full, you know, if it's forwarding your relationship, your
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friendship, your business relationship, if you're building, whatever it is. Everything
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should be pushing you forward. Anything that's just there as a distraction, Bro,
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Like those conversations and these hypotheticals and all this. Oh man, if
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would you want forty dollars a minute or what you want? You know,
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every one of your hairs to turn into a Penny bro Shut takes a lot
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of brain energy to really care about talking about something like that, and I
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don't trying to care about little shit like that. Yeah, it's like people
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get into this, like and it goes into like the AI and the and
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the what's it called the virtual reality and stuff like where people will talk like
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you said, quency, they're arguing about that situation. It's a fake situation,
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and they put themselves in it and started creating more problems from the fake
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question, and now they're going back and forth trying to bro If you spend
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any of this time creative problem solving the real things that are going on in
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your life, you might actually think about this question later, like facts.
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And it's like it's the thing where not everybody got to be looking for,
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you know, a billion dollars or you know, you know, it's not
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about oh, you gotta reach for like the ultimate ultimate because I don't believe
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in that either, you know what I'm saying, Like, not everybody is
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meant to, you know, only sleep two or three hours a night because
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they're just spending all their other time, you know, in the hustle and
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bustle of trying to make money and stuff like some people that don't fulfill them.
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Like you know what I'm saying, Like we're in like a culture where
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it's like everything is all get the bag, Oh it's money. Oh,
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don't don't spend your time unless you're making money, And it's like that's not
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the end all be all, you know what I'm saying, Like everything is
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not about how you can make a dollar, especially when you know it's not
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something that's gonna get you to any kind of enlightenment or any kind of place
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where you feel like you're complete just because you got some money, right,
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and you can't take it with you facts. I always think about the nas
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Line man and I think it was a Nazis like where he's like just talking
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about like the Pharaohs and he's just been stuff like, um, you're talking
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about you can't take it with you? Is like Richmond died and tried,
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but none of it worked. They just robbed your grave, you know what
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I'm saying, regardless of what you think, Like you know, these dudes
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literally had their whole you know, people and slaves to build their freaking shrine
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after they died and so they can be buried with all the stuff and all
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they did was just come through after you know, who's gonna stop them getting
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there? You know what I'm saying. And it's just it's something like to
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me, that's that's real. Um, it's like real. It's like a
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real pollutant to me, you know what I'm saying, Like drowning your mind
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and money, you know, because at the end of the day, it's
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it's nothing, you know what I'm saying, Like when you really break it
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down and it's literally just your you know, that's just your daily bread,
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you know what I'm saying, Like it's just another thing that has become the
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thing that you're basically chasing to sustain yourself, you know what I mean,
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Like your instinct to survive is replaced. Like most people don't think about how
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they get like like oh I'm hungry. They think I need to get money
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and then buy food, you know what I'm saying. Like people don't really
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think about it, like from the point of view, they're just hungry.
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They're just thinking about, all I need money so I can buy food.
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You know, right, it's like replaced that Like you know what I'm saying,
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it's replaced that instinct in us and now we're in that place where it's
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like everything is about money. Everything, Oh, you know, don't do
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nothing for free. And it's like like the people I know that have made
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it always got into something for free because it's like they understood that if you
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don't have nothing to offer and you're getting the offering in the situation, money
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is not the main thing, right, right, So people cut themselves off
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because everything got to be a home run, you know what I'm saying,
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even like with the business thing, like that's something that's really opened my mind.
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And shout out to my boy Jay. He actually like was the one
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that really introduced us to me like a few years ago, where it's like,
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bro, you can't you don't have to look at every situation like you
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gotta hit a home run and make you know, ten times a return or
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whatever. You know what I'm saying, some of the stuff you do is
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gonna you know, you're gonna double up. Some of the stuff you're gonna
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triple up. Some of the stuff you're just gonna make ten percent. You
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know what I'm saying. It's all income, you know, as long as
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you're not wasting your time and energy, like so much time and energy on
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the stuff that's not bringing you such a return. As long as the time
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put in matches what you're getting out of it, do it. You know
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what I'm saying. You don't always got to just you know, hit a
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home run and make a million dollars from the one thing you're trying to do,
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you know what I'm saying, Like, that's not gonna happen for a
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lot of people. That's why those stories are one in a million. Yeah,
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That's why these stories make it to that level. That's why you're hearing
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about it because it's not common. M big facts, big facts. Yep,
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it's again the lots for sure. Yeah, and then um, you
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know, it's just gonna wrap it up with this. It's like I'm gonna
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reiterate that it's not only about you know, working for yourself for you know,
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oh I'm I'm doing X, Y and Z to nah. You know,
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everything at the end of the day is what is your intention? What
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is your end goal? And how do you make the things in your life
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equal that, you know what I'm saying. I feel like the only thing
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that everybody can really take away from what I'm talking about is try to live
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beneath your means so that you're not you're not having to fund the lifestyle.
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You actually could fund your future. You know what I'm saying, Like,
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you don't need to be having everything all crazy right now if you can pull
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back on that a little bit to be able to, you know, basically
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fund your dreams or fund whatever's going to really make you happy. You know
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what I'm saying. We talked about the last time too. It's like,
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I don't want a whole bunch of stuff sitting here, you know what I'm
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saying. I want things that are going to add to my overall happiness,
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the quality of my life, my future, and my kid's future, my
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wife's future. You know what I'm saying. Everything is not about just having
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stuff like and that goes back to the money thing. It's like you got
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to disconnect your stuff from that facts. It's a good message. But yeah,
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Quincy Um, I know that you've been kind of going through a similar
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situation and like the opposite side of the coin, but it's the same thing,
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you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean for me, it's
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it's it's funny because it's like that, like you said, it's the opposite
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side of the coin. You're speaking from, you know, more of an
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entrepreneur kind of mindset, and I'm speaking more from a climbing the corporate ladder
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kind of mindset, you know. And for me, you know, just
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to kind of in a nutshell, my situation is basically, I've been with
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my company for about three years, and you know, I've made a few
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moves within the organization, but nothing too major. But you know, my
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position that I'm in now and where I sit, I see things a lot
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different because you know, I'm not down here. I'm up here, even
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though the pay hasn't jumped that high, you know what I'm saying. But
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my position I can see a little different. And you know, one of
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the things that I'm seeing is that, you know, the company I'm with
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just has a lot of d I issues, a lot of people at the
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top. You know, they don't look like me. They don't look like
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you, Joe. I mean, they might look like you less but way
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lighter. But now, you know what I'm saying, like they just um,
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you know, they promote what they want to promote, and those people
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get the opportunities. And you know, I've been with the organization for about
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three years now. I've gone for a promotion five times, and every time
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I get you know, some vs excuse of you know why I didn't get
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it or whatever, and um but they always want like my presentation on my
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power point because I'm always putting them on game from things that I've learned in
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my experiences and um. So you know, long story short, Um,
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you know, I just got kind of fed up with the last situation because
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I kind of got was dealing with a lot of bull bull and um so
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I started looking for another job. And you know, I don't spend a
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lot of time on LinkedIn, but when I'm looking for another job, I'm
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on LinkedIn, you know, look, and I'm one there often and so
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uh, you know, I just happened to be scrolling one day and I
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saw that my company has a partnership with RASP Music University. And yeah,
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and um um, I tell you this two weeks ago. Had I seen
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that I would have kept scrolling, I wouldn't have my attention, wouldn't have
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you know, been triggered at all. But because I was so fed up
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and so pissed off, and you know, the couple of opportunities that I
23:56
was receiving, didn't make sense for me to leave. You know, one
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thing I will say is my job does offer a great amount of flexibility which
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allows me to do my music the way I've been doing my music. So
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you know, I'm not gonna take that from them. But as far as
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growth opportunities, I didn't go to school and get in dad and get my
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masters to sit where I'm at for the rest of my life. That's just
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not why I went to school. Um. However, um, you know,
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they have a partnership with Rass Music University where basically, um, I
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can go back to school. Um one second, Okay, my bad,
24:29
My bad. So however, you know, I basically noticed that they have
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a partnership and they will pay for my education for me to go back to
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school. You know what I'm saying, because of the situation that I have
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with my current employer, it would be free schooling and I would get my
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masters and human resources management, yeah of course, But I mean that's that's
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not that's not an issue for me no more. It used to be.
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It used to be, but I'm a much better student now. But I'm
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just saying, like I had to wish a reimbursement too, but it's like
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you got you gotta get a grace to get that full repayment. Oh yeah,
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for sure. My last like uh six months or a year of my
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last program, I had to do the same. But basically the way I
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see it, and you know, and it's crazy, like just with a
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lineman and the timing of everything, because I reached out to the school on
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Friday and on um set up an appointment on Tuesday to the same day Leicester
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on Tuesday to talk to the advisor about it and excuse me, and you
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know, they requested my transcripts. They let me know that as long as
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I've met a certain GPA and you know, I met the requirements that I'm
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most like get in. By that evening, I got the acceptance letter and
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I'll be starting this program next week. I'm actually was doing the orientation before
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I got on this call, and so you know, it's just the timing
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of it is crazy. It'll take me a year to complete and I'm just
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gonna you know, tuck my head for the next year and do what I
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gotta do. And like you know, like Denzel said, hey man,
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they may not you know, give me the promotion, but I'm leaving him
26:07
with something. I'm leaving him with something, you know, He's saying,
26:11
like, so you know, I'm gonna do what I gotta do, get
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this up out of them, and then you know, we'll see what looks
26:15
like for the next year. But you know, it's just being able to
26:18
reposition and kind of change my mindset because like I said, two years ago,
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I mean two weeks ago, I wouldn't have even stopped bro I got
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you know what I'm saying. I did what I had to do in school.
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You know what I'm saying, I wouldn't have even considered it. But
26:30
at this point, it's like why not, you know what I'm saying.
26:33
If it's free, why not? Plus I ain't gotta pay my student loans
26:37
for the next year and a half. So yeah, man, it's just
26:42
you know, learn how to reposition yourself, you know what I'm saying,
26:45
Utilize your resources that you got in front of you, and and make the
26:48
situation work for you as best as you can, because you know, at
26:52
the end of the day, you know a lot of people talk about,
26:56
you know, their jobs and like they may work their way up. They
26:57
may be a director or or CEO or whatever. But at the end of
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the day, bro, even if you're the man at the top, even
27:04
if you're not the owner, Bro, you're still working for somebody and you're
27:07
still being used, you know what I'm saying. So you got to make
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sure that situation works for you at the end of the day. Yeah,
27:15
it's the idea that you're you're setting yourself up for a bigger leap, you
27:22
know what I'm saying. It's that slingshot effect. You know what I'm saying,
27:23
because you could have easily just made a lateral move out of anger,
27:29
you know what I'm saying, Like you could have just said, you know
27:30
what, forget these people, I'm gonna go this way and and hopefully work
27:34
my way up over here. But he said, Nah, let me,
27:37
like you said, I'm gonna come away with something. I'm gonna build myself
27:40
up, build my resume, and whatever that next step is, it's gonna
27:44
be better than this one. In fact, you know what I mean.
27:47
And it's so easy for people to just make those lateral moves out of like
27:51
spide or just you know, because they feel in a certain type of way.
27:53
I'm just you know, oh man, I'm out of here, forget
27:56
y'all. You know what I'm saying. But it's like, you know,
28:00
and it goes back to like a big thing that's come up lately just because
28:03
of the situation that I've been talking about, you know, with people in
28:08
my own life, you know, they're they kind of get this kind of
28:14
I don't know if maybe I'm putting off the vibe or something, but like
28:17
I get this kind of like, oh, like, you know, you
28:19
know, you don't have to be an entrepreneur to you know, make stuff
28:25
happen and everything like that. It's like, that's not the point of what
28:26
I'm saying. It's as long as you're coming from the mindset of knowing how
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important your life is to you and just knowing, Yo, this is my
28:34
daily situation. How can I make it the best situation that I can?
28:38
As well? As you're doing that, you're winning, you know what I'm
28:41
saying. For some people, it's in a job, for some people it's
28:44
being an entrepreneur. For some people it's not even doing either one. You
28:48
know what I'm saying, Like, there's just so many ways to attack it.
28:52
And everybody, like we always talk about everybody's just got different ways of
28:55
thinking and ways of doing things. That it's just like, you know,
28:57
do what you gotta do as long as you ain't hurting nobody, and you
29:00
you're moving in that forward motion, you know, make it happen. And
29:04
like I said, it's like because I used a shout out to Freddie again,
29:07
I use an analogy with him. Like, you know, sometimes I'm
29:11
going up to Georgia to like sequency or something, and I'll pass by like
29:15
a little small house like in the corner in the middle of nowhere, and
29:18
the house might be a little beat up, and I think to myself,
29:21
like dang, Like imagine that person, like imagine living there, and then
29:25
your mind just closed off to the idea that the world is bigger than this,
29:29
you know what I'm saying. But at the same time, I'm not
29:33
saying that you can't just live there and be happy. You know what I'm
29:36
saying. Some people's minds are open, but that's their happiness, you know
29:40
what I'm saying. As long as you keep it real with yourself and you
29:42
live into the best of your own life and ability, at the end of
29:45
the day, you're the one that's living in that person in that little house
29:49
that I look at as rinky dink might be infinite times happier than me and
29:56
happier than I'll ever get to. You know what I'm saying, You just
29:59
never know. You know, it's not judging the situation just based off that.
30:02
It's just the the literal geographic part of it is what sets me off.
30:08
You know what I'm saying. It's like, dang, imagine if you're
30:11
just in this small town and you just never think that you can leave,
30:15
you know what I'm saying. And there's plenty of people that are also just
30:17
trapped in that mindset, like they just don't think that they can, Like
30:21
they see a place on TV and they just can't even imagine themselves ever getting
30:23
to that place, not knowing it's literally you just make arrangements to go,
30:27
and you go, you know what I'm saying. Even like certain people like
30:32
me and Quincy was laughing because like something came up on a popular page you
30:37
know, in the city about like certain you know, people doing stuff and
30:41
it's like, bro, like if you take a picture somewhere or in front
30:45
of something, like that's all you did, you know what I'm saying,
30:48
Like you didn't do anything. You're just showing that you went to that place,
30:52
you know what I mean. That's not necessarily a move, Like it's
30:53
literally a move, and I hope you had a good time, but it
30:56
doesn't mean that you did something, you know what I mean. And that's
31:00
kind of like the whole thing about daydreaming and stuff too. It's like,
31:03
you know, what are you actually like, how are you actually moving your
31:07
feet forward to make stuff happen. Everybody's working towards something, you know.
31:15
Everybody's working towards something, for sure, And it depends if you're saying they're
31:19
working for it or you're hoping it comes to you. It is how the
31:23
outcome turns out. And that's how you relate to people, people who are
31:26
just working as hard as you to get to strive to get what they want.
31:30
Yeah, And I'm always just like, it's always funny to me the
31:34
idea that there's people out here that think other people should just care about their
31:38
quality of their life, you know what I'm saying, Like, Bro,
31:41
everybody's living their own life, nobody cares about what you've got going on,
31:45
Like, you gotta make it happen, You gotta push the issue. You
31:48
gotta be the one to say, hey, like I don't care what you're
31:52
doing, I don't care what you want to do with your stuff, But
31:53
for me, this is what I need and this is how it's going to
31:56
happen, you know what I'm saying. And if you can't find that in
32:00
the situation you're in, you need to figure out how to make it happen
32:02
or how to put yourself in a different situation. But yeah, man,
32:10
this this thing, um, the way things have been like unfolding in the
32:15
last like six months or so, since we've been kind of um doing this
32:21
this uh salon thing, it just really like open my eyes and just help
32:27
me realize how I can utilize certain things, how I can really you know,
32:31
like I said, you know, I'm always very focused on making my
32:36
world the way that I wanted to be. You know what I'm saying,
32:38
Like, I don't care what you got going on in yours, like as
32:42
far as like outside people, you know, whatever makes you happy, that's
32:45
cool. You know, I'm glad it makes you happy, But I'm here
32:47
looking for what makes me happy. You know what I'm saying. Real talk,
32:55
real talk, But yeah, man, it's it's been it's been a
32:59
like, like I said, man, it's been a heavy week. Even
33:00
before that, the energy has been heavy. Not in a bad way,
33:04
but just you know, all of us have, Yeah, exactly. It's
33:07
it's definitely one of those times in life where there's like a lot of things
33:10
and and ups and downs and challenges that are coming, and you know,
33:15
I'm just it's just dope to see like everybody that I'm around like handling and
33:21
again shout out to Freddie one more time, and I'm going to kind of
33:23
wrap up what I'm saying with this, But like Freddie was like, man,
33:28
I don't even I don't even really consider like people that don't think that
33:30
way. Like He's like, man, I didn't even think about the fact
33:32
that there there's people that you know, take things to heart and have hard
33:37
feelings over stuff and harbord certain type of emotion because maybe you told him no
33:42
one time. He's like, he just don't operate like that, so he
33:44
don't even think, Like Dan, I might have made somebody mad, you
33:46
know, over something that's not even a real thing. It's just them taking
33:50
it to heart, you know what I'm saying, And you gotta remember that,
33:52
man, like people. People ain't doing stuff to you. You know
33:57
what I'm saying, this is your life. You're doing stuff to yourself.
33:59
You're year in control. M big facts, man, I ain't gon a
34:06
lot of unless we haven't um signed off with this in a while. But
34:09
man, let people know what you got going on. And you got a
34:13
little couple of things going on this next couple of months or this next month.
34:16
As far as drops, Oh yeah, yeah, my bad. Almost
34:21
forgot man, But uh so I got a new song drop in July fourteenth
34:27
called friend Zone. I'm really excited about that. One different vibe still,
34:31
you know, it's still what you what you like from me, but it's
34:34
definitely a different vibe, a lot of energy. I've been wanting to do
34:37
a track like that and shout out to the homie man. My cool.
34:42
He reached out to me from Mexico. You know, Um he heard I
34:45
think Dear Mary Jane and he liked it. And we've just been working a
34:47
lot of the Spanish stuff y'all heard, I mean all the from me.
34:51
He's been the one doing it and shout out to unk. He just made
34:54
this like Dancy club type of record. You know what I'm saying R and
34:59
B dance type vives and and we just cooked it up and I thought of
35:04
my coup right away, just because he got that vibe, you know what
35:06
I'm saying. And he's been like getting me in that zone with the way
35:08
he's been doing his mixes in the type of production he's been sending me.
35:13
So it just came together Super Dope. And then July twenty eighth, shout
35:15
out to the homie jah Med Man, I got a collab drop and called
35:19
HOOPTI, which j'ah Med that we actually recorded a couple of years ago.
35:22
I met him when I went out to La for sid matter of fact,
35:27
shout out to side. He had a video shoot with jah Med, a
35:30
joint that they did together. They shot that in La. Y'all make sure
35:34
y'all go check that out. It's called and Delay super Dope, Si Nolai
35:37
and jah Med. But you know, I've just been kind of holding this
35:40
record just because this one and a couple of other ones that I actually got
35:45
that aren't ready to drop here, but they're gonna be dropping real soon.
35:47
I'm super excited. But like I've just been trying to get the situation right
35:52
for certain songs because I got certain songs that I know need a certain kind
35:55
of treatment and I need to do them a certain way, and at the
35:59
time I wasn't at that level yet. But now it's that time, you
36:02
know what I'm saying. So I'm really like, right now, I'm going
36:06
into like my peak music season, like for the end of the year,
36:09
and I'm gonna drop a whole bunch of dope stuff. So definitely be looking
36:12
out for that full grandmo. Yes serious, Who's next? Man? Who's
36:19
next? Yeah? Man, I got a few drops myself. Man,
36:22
July is actually gonna be a pretty busy month for me music wise. Man.
36:24
I got Throwbacks, which I recorded a couple of years ago, sat
36:30
on it for a while, made a couple of tweaks to it. That
36:31
was actually dropping at midnight tonight. I got Missing with ty Oh. He
36:37
actually was featured on that Perfect record with Me and Lester that's dropping tonight as
36:42
well. Got bigger things coming out on the fourteenth of July, and then
36:47
I Ain't my Homies dropping on the twenty first of July, and then I
36:52
got more stuff lined up for August, September, October. Man, I
36:54
got some stuff rolling out man. And it's just exciting, man, because
36:59
you know, to be able to kind of keep the consistency going, you
37:02
know, that's always a good feeling. Man. I feel like, you
37:06
know, the single drop thing has been the most productive. I've been with
37:08
the music thing for a while, and I got three projects out, including
37:13
hours, you know what I'm saying. So it's like it's exciting to see
37:15
the progress yoss. As for me, I got more butt of the State
37:23
with do Not Do Not