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Your Words Expose Who You Really Are- Don't Throw Stones · No Time to Waste Podcast - w Marcus Murray

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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to welcome you out this morning to the No Time to Waste Podcast Studio.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm your guide, Marcus Murray, and we're going to be talking about something very important.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is episode number 54.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe this will be one that you want to write down, you want to share with others, and it's going to be extremely powerful.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: If you'll bear with me, this one may seem a little bit um less organized.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason it's less less organized is because life has a way.
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  SPEAKER_00: When real things in life are happening, they are not quite organized.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are just happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And almost in real time, we are forced to do something, say something, to communicate with others, to share.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that at this point in our lives where we have more time behind us, more years behind us than we have ahead of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very important that not only we participate in the conversations of the day, we make certain that it's evident that we're led by truth and wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with that being said, something very interesting happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: And before, and that's kind of the setup for today's episode.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to title this episode Etu Brut, Itu Brutis.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is a this is a saying that actually came from uh a play written by William Shakespeare that we all read in school many years ago.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not certain if it's still required reading.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: And it was the play about Julius Caesar, who was the leader of the Roman Empire, and he ends up finding himself as a very uh envied and hated person.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: And the senators that surrounded uh Julius Caesar, the Roman senators, basically conspired to kill him, to destroy him.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: And what was interesting is in the moment where they began to kill him physically, literally, with swords and knives, uh the the the death blow, if you will, seemed to come as he turned and looked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the gentlemen with a knife was his dear friend, uh Marcus Junius Brutus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he and he replies when he sees Brutus, uh Itu Brut.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the interesting thing is that you will be known not for what you accomplish in life personally, but what ultimately you will be known for are the number of people you were able to help in your life.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: To have personal success and amass a fortune means absolutely nothing and has very little value in the scheme of things because a man can only personally consume so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: At what point have we eaten enough?
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  SPEAKER_00: At what point have we acquired enough cars?
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  SPEAKER_00: At what point do we have a large enough home or uh enough homes in our portfolio or enough of when is enough enough?
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: I would submit to you that at this point in our lives where we have more years behind us than ahead of us, it is critical that we actually make a positive contribution to the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: No longer is the day present where we can afford to sit idly by in silence and watch as the world turns.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that day is gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things are so uh uh transformative right now that it is important that you make a decision to actually be a part of the global transformation, the transformation of our nation, the return to greatness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to make that decision.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who will they say that you were?
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason this is important, and I'll just get right into what happened.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and this only happened yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: My wife and I have been married for 31 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, she's the love of my life, the only person that I share everything with.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's my business partner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, she's obviously my wife, my best friend, uh, the mother of our three sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, at the same time, what I have witnessed and watching my wife's life is just an uncompromising commitment to family.
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  SPEAKER_00: My wife is probably one of the most incredible, caring, kind, considerate people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I actually believe and know that she makes me a better person because all of the little things that are important to maintain relationships and to maintain friendships, my wife is the person that is going to be there to help remind me, okay, do this, make this call, reach out to this person, stop by and visit here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's a thing that's just built inside of her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what's interesting, my wife doesn't um uh get involved in many things, and and and she's very discerning as it relates to businesses and things and people that we connect and align ourselves with.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: And we have a friend.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this particular friend was able to uh uh this is a person that uh was able to come to the United States at the age of 10, I believe, to achieve the status of becoming a millionaire by the age of 27, and then to go on from there to have uh a lot of extraordinary successes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what's interesting about this particular person is that he has not just had extraordinary successes, he's had extraordinary failures.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's interesting that we have spoken in previous episodes about the correlation between success and failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is impossible to have one without the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Success and failure are conjoined twins, the opposite sides of the same coin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people that have achieved the greatest levels of success have also experienced the greatest level of setback, trial, tribulation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just works that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Success actually has a price that must be paid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Success is not on autopilot.
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  SPEAKER_00: You do not achieve great, amazing, uh, remarkable, profound, world-changing, global impacting success without the equivalency of negative occurrences on the flip side of the coin.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what was interesting, we decided to just well, actually, Ladonna didn't decide.
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  SPEAKER_00: I decided that I was going to post and I put a post up inviting people to participate or to take a look at a uh business uh opportunity that I decided to look at myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what actually happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: I was able to enjoy one of the most amazing cups of coffee, and I decided when I tasted the coffee, I said, the world needs to drink this coffee.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, needless to say, even though we've been extremely successful in traditional business, uh, primarily in the healthcare and insurance space, and we've been able to help probably over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: My wife and I have been in business together now 30 years, and over 30 years, we've been able to help and train people that are currently at this very moment extremely successful in their lives in various industries, in particular, industries that involve serving others.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we've been able to be instrumental in sharing our knowledge and wisdom with those that we felt called to assist.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this particular thing, once I tried this coffee, I'm like, okay, this kind of makes sense.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is an amazing thing, and and I'm I think everybody should take a look at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just personally do.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the company uh was called uh or is called Envision You, and I and I liked it, and I said, we're going to post it.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: And we decided to post it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone reposted it, and then um, and then they received uh uh an onslaught, not an onslaught, but just a very unexpected, a very unexpected uh attack.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was really unique.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was at that point I understood why uh I've been placed in this particular space and time, why uh God told me that my voice needed to be heard, and why he actually woke me up this morning.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, before I went to sleep last night, I was thinking about all of the voices that are out here that actually need to be heard.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: And that's when I realized that you need to be heard, that the days of sitting silently by as we watch people being uh maliciously and viciously kicked around the public square, those days are gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's stop that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's bring that to a complete close.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not acceptable, it's not appropriate, it's not helpful, it's not, it's not enriching, it's not building.
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  SPEAKER_00: It actually stems from a philosophy that we uh now refer to as deconstructionism.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you remember, um, with the advent of uh social media and the advent of which prior to social media, there was uh talk shows.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the talk shows, I still remember them like it was yesterday, um uh Phil Donahue and uh uh Mori Povich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what was interesting about those shows is they really uncovered all the worst of humanity and they put it on public display.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oprah Winfrey came later and uh or during that season and and the Oprah Winfrey show came, and then there were tons of shows that were very similar, and the and the concept and the format was one that you basically uh uh expose the horror and tragedy of someone's past, and you put that on public display, and while it's being displayed, you point the finger at all the people around them that led to this particular problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it really created a culture of blame, uh, of blaming and shaming and defaming.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: And and so blame, shame, and defame, we can see though those monsters manifest themselves in current culture, but you we need to know the origin.
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  SPEAKER_00: When did this start?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: When did this begin?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this led to the concept of deconstructionism, where instead of us building people up, we have now chosen to use the public square to tear them down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, wherein is there value in that?
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Where does the value lie in literally taking a person that you don't know and without any true reference, without information, only things that you randomly may have heard or read that that make their way to the public square.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where does it actually help to begin to destroy this person in public?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't believe that's helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: What it actually does, um there is a there is a saying that says the pen is mightier than the sword.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is a hundred percent true.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was based on the premise that you're more powerful to write your thoughts and to put them in writing than it is to actually use a sword to cause harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words have power.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're now using social media, we're using um uh podcasts and other platforms to turn our words on, to empower our words.
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  SPEAKER_00: But with that being said, we have to be careful to make certain that we're using our words in the right way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Years from now, and I'm not saying at this exact moment when you may be in your heyday, there are some people that there is a saying on the street uh that they're living their best life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of people that are living their best life right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: But please know that time has a way.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a saying that says the grinds of the gods grind exceedingly slow, but exceedingly well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we want to make certain that we're not under the grind mill of the gods because of our bad behavior.
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  SPEAKER_00: What will they say about you?
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  SPEAKER_00: When you take your last breath and everyone comes to the service, everyone may not come based on who you were when you lived, based on the words of your mouth, uh, which reflected the meditation of your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible actually says, Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I often wonder what those words meant and why they were significant.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason they're significant is the meditation of your heart actually creates the words of your mouth, and those words actually speak to your character.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I would submit to each and every person that is on this podcast today, episode number 54, you want to make certain that you are extremely careful with the words of your mouth, with the verbalizations and the sharings on social media.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really, are you going to be a deconstructionist, a person that approaches whatever they see and they pick it apart?
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  SPEAKER_00: We've watched this for so long.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is going on?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who taught this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who said this was acceptable?
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: I look back at all of the people that were, in my opinion, the greats.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grew up in the city of Detroit.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: My family moved to Detroit, and I've been here the majority of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what's interesting about Detroit, and the thing that I love the most, is that if you can make it in Detroit, you can make it absolutely anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you will have the ability to succeed at a level that that boggles the imagination.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: There is a creativity and an ingenuity and a tenacity that comes from a life experience in and around Detroit that is second to none.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: If you were able to succeed in this town, you are fit for the fight.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: And what I would submit to each and every person is somehow we've been taught some bad behavior.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: And at this point, where we are now the elder statesman in the room, we have to bring it to a close.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enough is enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not be a part of the deconstruction of a human that is simply decided to put their life on full display to empower and help others.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not be a part of the destruction of a church, of a ministry, of a business, of a person's character.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will not.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have decided that the words of my mouth will reflect the meditation of my heart.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that my wife and I decided, a part of my calling, was to impact the lives of one million Americans.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Period.
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  SPEAKER_00: A million.
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  SPEAKER_00: How is that going to happen?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I am going to do is commit to the process.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: And you have witnessed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew absolutely nothing about what I'm doing now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just felt that this is what God wanted me to do, and this is what I'm going to do.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: And lives are going to be changed.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: And one thing that's going to happen, as this journey of transformation that we're on, as we continue to move through this journey, we're going to witness the evolution of what I'm doing here.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to witness the birthing of something that is probably far different than what I expected.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: But no one will ever say, I didn't start the journey.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: The funny thing about transformation, sometimes we believe transformation is for others when in reality transformation is for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just want to talk to you about a couple of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are people that are extraordinary success stories that I believe are worthy of honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are people that did not have great pasts, uh, but at the same time, they were able to go on and actually accomplish some extremely great things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, one of them is a lady, Alice Johnson.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason I want to mention Alice Johnson is this was a lady that trying to find her way at a point in her life in her 20s, she decided that because there were no doors, this is a this is an inner city woman that had some significant uh struggles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what she did, uh she got involved in the drug uh uh industry and she was selling illicit drugs, illegal drugs at a time when drugs were not um uh when when there weren't medical marijuana labs and all these different things that they have right now, drugs were like an absolute no-no.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what ended up happening, she was uh uh sentenced to a very long period of time in prison.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh actually, she spent 20, 20 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: And it was kind of really amazing that this woman, while she was in prison, she actually went through a metamorphosis, uh extraordinary transformation.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: She basically became the the the, I guess you would call her the equivalent of a chaplain.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: She became the person in the prison that people went to for guidance, they went to for counsel, they went to for encouragement and prayer.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: This woman became a model, example of um an individual that had actually transformed and reformed and become someone far greater than who she was when she began.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: But what's interesting about her is recently, over the last few years, she received a pardon from President uh Donald Trump.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: And as a result of that pardon, she not only was released from prison, um, her her history expunged, but she was also given an extraordinary position in his cabinet as it relates, and this is an African-American woman, but her position that she was given is to bridge that gap to individuals that may have been wrongfully or excessively uh incarcerated.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: How do you help navigate them back into society and reacclimate them so that they can go on to actually become someone great?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: And this lady is so extraordinary.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: I believe what I'm going to do, just since I'm talking about her, I'm going to have her on the podcast.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that hearing her why and hearing her story of transformation may be extremely beneficial to you.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: But without question, Alice is a woman that I take my hat off to and literally honor her for her success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her success at becoming more than what many people thought she could be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her success at taking her more to reach back and then help others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her success at taking the more she became, her commitment to reaching back and helping others and taking it to a national platform.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without question, she is a success.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what I will not do is waste a moment or a sentence trying to deconstruct who she is now based on who she was in the past.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Now I want to talk about another person that has a very interesting history, and that would be Oprah Winfrey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oprah Winfrey is another.
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  SPEAKER_00: African American woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this uh woman had an opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_00: She grew up in Mississippi, a very horrible, you have to read her story.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's just a very horrible upbringing, lots of tragedy, lots of abuse, lots of different things that she had to overcome.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: But almost by accident, she spoke out of her mouth the words that she wanted to become a broadcaster, and that she was going to use her words to impact the lives of others in a very positive way, to give them purpose and vision and to assist them in achieving their destiny.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: What's interesting about Oprah Winfrey, she actually had some very real failure after she made the decision that she was going to be successful, that she was going to transform from the little girl in Mississippi to a public figure, she had tragedy or hardship.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was fired from a television station because they actually said that she was too emotional and that she overconnected to the stories of her participants on her show.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: So the bottom line, they wanted her to be more neutral and to lose all of that humanity that was exuding from her that characteristic that caused her to become undeniably one of the greatest public media figures in world history.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: Without question, she has no peers.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: But what's interesting, she overcame that and has created one of the most amazing media, global media empires the world has ever seen.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's funny how she took tragedy and turned it into triumph, very much like Alice.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll mention another couple people.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to take your entire day looking back, but this is important.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I would mention um Steve Jobs.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody knows the story of Steve Jobs.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: He was um extremely successful or from what we believed.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: He got involved in Apple, he founded it, and and and it was great until it wasn't.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: And he actually um was ousted from Apple.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the crazy thing.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: He was there, he's the founder, the creator, and they booted him out.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: People are a trip.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's funny how you can create something and then be attacked by the very people that you've spent your time uh building.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's just the world is a funny place.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, what's interesting, he went on to found Next and Pixar and actually went back to Apple in 1997, after which he created the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: And one of his quotes was sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: But don't lose faith.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you about another person, uh, Lady Gaga.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember her?
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and now mind you, we're not extolling anyone's beliefs or their concepts, but simply using their life's journey as an example of how the roadmap to transformation and triumph, how it looks and the path that it'll take you on.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: What's interesting about her, she was dropped from her first uh big record label, which was Death Jam.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: They dropped her, she just didn't fit.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: And um that was that that was after she just signed on board, and she was told that she wasn't really marketable or commercially viable.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's funny how people can sit in their lofty places of what they believe is personal accomplishment, and from there they point their finger of judgment toward you and say what you cannot, should not, would not, could not do.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it she went on to win 13 Grammys and sell over 150 million records.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and she uh uh often talks about this boyfriend that she had that told her she'd never be a success and that she would uh never be nominated for anything.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: And she told him, someday when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee without hearing my name.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's funny how life works.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then because we started talking about a coffee guy, uh, actually the person was David Emonitier, we started talking about him, and so I guess a good example of a coffee guy would be Howard Schultz.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Howard Schultz, a lot like David, grew up in poverty.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: He lived in public housing.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: He uh had an idea of creating an espresso bar that was absolutely rejected by over 200 investors, couldn't get anybody to get involved and support what he believed was going to be a great coffee concept.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what's interesting?
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: He went on to build a global brand and to establish over 35,000 Starbucks locations worldwide.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what he says in life, you can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you the most.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: What I would get everyone to at least consider is that you've been given the power to create and build.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, the power of the tongue, the power of our words, the power of the things that we write.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I have uh um these cuff links that are in the form of a pen, because you have the right, you have the ability to write your words and make your words very constructive, very encouraging, very motivating.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, let us choose today to not be that guy.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: We have to at some point stand with those that are worthy of our support.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: And we have to make the decision that it was worth the fight.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to encourage you, if someone has told you no this week, if someone has told you you couldn't or you weren't good enough, how about making this the decision to choose not to believe the lie?
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to know that and remember that on the flip side of every success story is another story that the world may not be aware of.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: And let's be careful not to judge people by their former businesses or their former companies and give everybody, for goodness sake, an opportunity to transform.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, in this journey of 365 days, you came here as one person, but I assure you and commit to you that you will leave as a person far greater than the one that began with us.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: I know you can do it.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: The best is yet to come, and no one, absolutely no one, can stop the future that God has in store for you.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: So remember this saying, and we're gonna have, I'm so excited.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have some amazing people on that you'll get a chance to hear from them.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, this week, you'll get a chance to hear from uh my father-in-law, and uh he just celebrated his 90th birthday, a man full of wisdom, and I just can't wait to share him with the world and you.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: But remember this thought the dogs are barking, but the train is moving on.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: So let them bark, people that have a lot of yah to say, let them do that, but do not let them stop your future.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: Under all circumstances, persevere.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Success and triumph is always on the other side.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's never the easy road.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: There is always going to be a little bit of a struggle.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: Embrace it, treat it like a vitamin, know that it is necessary, and at the end, you, my friend, will stand before the world and share the story of your triumph.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so proud of you, and I'm so excited to be on this journey with you.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you got any value from anything that you heard today, I would ask that you like and share it.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: Just share it.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: So important.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, our goal is to impact the lives of one million Americans, and we will do this by you and I together liking and sharing.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so excited for you.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: Now let's go and seize the day.