Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Pastor Michael Todd On Facing Your Damage, Finding Your Value, Support Systems, Spit Incident + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Morning.
- 0:05Speaker 3: Everybody's DJ n V. Charlamagne the Guy. We are to
- 0:08Speaker 3: breakfast Club. We got a special guest.
- 0:10Speaker 2: In the building.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Yes, indeed we have Pastor Mike Todd. Welcome brother. What's
- 0:14Speaker 1: going on, family, y'all? Good?
- 0:15Speaker 4: Yes, man, I'm blessed. Man, I'm at the Breakfast Club.
- 0:19Speaker 2: It's y'all. I'm blessed, black and holly favored.
- 0:21Speaker 4: You are definitely black, blessed and highly favored. It feels
- 0:25Speaker 4: I feel like all of us are blessed, black and hot.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Feels good.
- 0:28Speaker 5: Thank you for having me, Man, Happy to have you
- 0:30Speaker 5: new book, damage would not destroyed.
- 0:32Speaker 2: From trauma to triumph. Yes, sir, powerful title bro.
- 0:35Speaker 4: It's my life, and it's honestly, I believe a lot
- 0:39Speaker 4: of people's life that they don't share.
- 0:42Speaker 1: You know.
- 0:42Speaker 4: You see everybody from people who've gone from the gutter
- 0:46Speaker 4: to this big platform, or people who've just made it
- 0:48Speaker 4: out of the hood or just made it from where
- 0:50Speaker 4: they thought they would never come, but then they shut
- 0:52Speaker 4: up and stopped telling the actual story about how they
- 0:55Speaker 4: got from where they were to where they are now.
- 0:57Speaker 2: I have a theory about that.
- 0:58Speaker 1: What is it?
- 0:59Speaker 5: I think the theory now, like I'm forty five years old,
- 1:02Speaker 5: so you look good.
- 1:03Speaker 2: It so grown, thank you brother.
- 1:04Speaker 5: So growing up, you know, it was those stories of overcoming,
- 1:08Speaker 5: those stories of making mistakes and you know, becoming a
- 1:11Speaker 5: better person that we always gravitated towards that we learned from.
- 1:14Speaker 5: Nowadays because of this soul called cancel culture. Yeah, nobody
- 1:18Speaker 5: wants to talk about the mistakes that they made. Yeah, no,
- 1:21Speaker 5: nobody because they feel like they'll be judged for them
- 1:22Speaker 5: and crucified form, which they probably.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Will, but it's temporary.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Like the truth of the matter is, because I'm a
- 1:29Speaker 4: person of faith, I believe the truth of the matter
- 1:31Speaker 4: is the we overcome by the blood of the Lamb.
- 1:33Speaker 1: That's what crisis them.
- 1:34Speaker 4: But the words of our own testimony, even if you
- 1:36Speaker 4: don't believe what I believe, the truth is when you
- 1:39Speaker 4: see somebody else go through something and you make it
- 1:40Speaker 4: through it, it gives you courage, It gives you hope,
- 1:43Speaker 4: it gives you dang maybe I can do that too.
- 1:46Speaker 4: And a lot of people are robbing other people of
- 1:49Speaker 4: the fuel that they need to overcome their actual situation
- 1:52Speaker 4: because they scared. Number one and number two is because
- 1:56Speaker 4: they feel like maybe my worst moment defined me, but
- 1:59Speaker 4: I found that in my worst moment, that's who that's
- 2:01Speaker 4: what made me. And so I just wanted to come
- 2:05Speaker 4: like completely clean, completely raw. I say, hot, humble, open,
- 2:08Speaker 4: and transparent, and I mean it takes also the power
- 2:12Speaker 4: out of what anybody can ever say about me.
- 2:14Speaker 5: I used to I believe you. I agree with everything
- 2:16Speaker 5: you say. I always say, live your truth, so nobody
- 2:18Speaker 5: can use your truth against you. Well, boy, they will try.
- 2:21Speaker 1: They'll try.
- 2:22Speaker 4: The truth of the matter is, but if it's real,
- 2:24Speaker 4: like when you cut it open and it's real and
- 2:26Speaker 4: you actually grew from it, and you actually learn from
- 2:29Speaker 4: the cheating and you actually did the work and went
- 2:32Speaker 4: the therapy and you actually yeah, no, I did'bazzle that money,
- 2:35Speaker 4: but I'm not gonna do that and never again. And
- 2:37Speaker 4: I'm like, when you actually grow, I believe that this
- 2:42Speaker 4: life is about progression, not perfection. And on the GRAM
- 2:45Speaker 4: and in front of people, were always trying to present perfection.
- 2:48Speaker 4: But I really believe, like when you cut it all down,
- 2:51Speaker 4: it's one baby step in front of another baby step
- 2:53Speaker 4: in front of another baby step, and you look up
- 2:55Speaker 4: and like, how did I get here? It was a
- 2:57Speaker 4: bunch of small moments that got you today. You say that,
- 3:00Speaker 4: but then I don't.
- 3:01Speaker 3: I don't think people necessarily care about that, right, because
- 3:04Speaker 3: let's let's take one of the biggest things I think
- 3:06Speaker 3: people have been talking about in the last week, right,
- 3:07Speaker 3: Jada pikersmiths, Yeah, right. People have been talking about how
- 3:10Speaker 3: she's so foul on Will and how she did this
- 3:13Speaker 3: and how. But we always talk about tell your truth, right, Yeah, good,
- 3:15Speaker 3: bad and different. We don't know what happened in their relationship.
- 3:18Speaker 3: Have nobe the way your marriage is, the way my
- 3:19Speaker 3: marriage is, the way their his marriage is. It's not
- 3:22Speaker 3: the way their marriage might be, So you we don't know,
- 3:24Speaker 3: but people have been killing them and killing their relationship
- 3:27Speaker 3: based on things that we don't know. When she was
- 3:28Speaker 3: just sharing her truth because please believe, I'm sure there's
- 3:31Speaker 3: somebody out there that's living a life just like them
- 3:33Speaker 3: and now feels comfortable being able to talk about it
- 3:35Speaker 3: because she was able.
- 3:36Speaker 4: To talk about But those are moments like, think about
- 3:39Speaker 4: what y'all talked about a year ago compared to what
- 3:40Speaker 4: y'all talk about today, compared to what you're gonna talk
- 3:42Speaker 4: about next month. The truth of the matter is in
- 3:45Speaker 4: the culture that we the feedback culture that we live in.
- 3:48Speaker 4: Right now, everybody's just trying to say, what's gonna get
- 3:50Speaker 4: them a happy meal off of the YouTube clips, right like.
- 3:54Speaker 1: That's what everybody's trying to say right now.
- 3:56Speaker 4: But the truth of the matter is the person that
- 3:59Speaker 4: is in the situation, that's in the fire, is that
- 4:01Speaker 4: fire actually purifying something out of you? Is that fire
- 4:04Speaker 4: actually making you into something? Fire is not bad, It
- 4:08Speaker 4: actually purifies the real and so most people, every piece
- 4:12Speaker 4: of gold and jewelry had to be put against fire.
- 4:16Speaker 4: The problem is when it's not authentically who you are,
- 4:19Speaker 4: when it's not really what's in you, that stuff gets
- 4:21Speaker 4: melted away and that's where people get exposed. That's where
- 4:25Speaker 4: people like I was all about this and all about this.
- 4:28Speaker 4: When fire hit, it shows like that's not what you
- 4:30Speaker 4: was really about. And so for me, I just think
- 4:33Speaker 4: that too many people, especially black, especially black people, we
- 4:37Speaker 4: do not face the damage that we went through. We
- 4:39Speaker 4: run from it, we go away from it. We try
- 4:42Speaker 4: to Gucci Louie down, we try to get out of
- 4:45Speaker 4: the neighborhood. We try to But the truth of the
- 4:48Speaker 4: matter is we're running from an insecurity at fifteen.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Putting kon on dog shit.
- 4:52Speaker 1: That's like that.
- 4:53Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it like that, but because you said
- 4:55Speaker 4: it like that, say amen, you know what I'm saying.
- 4:58Speaker 4: But the truth of the matter is we're hoping people
- 5:00Speaker 4: don't actually find out what it really is. And we're
- 5:03Speaker 4: about to go into Thanksgiving, people going back to families
- 5:06Speaker 4: they hate.
- 5:07Speaker 1: We're going back into Christmas.
- 5:09Speaker 4: People about to buy expensive stuff and going to debt
- 5:12Speaker 4: for children that they don't know, but they keep Jordan's up, Like,
- 5:16Speaker 4: just think about all the things, Like these kids don't
- 5:18Speaker 4: even know who their real dad is or who their
- 5:20Speaker 4: actual family is.
- 5:21Speaker 1: But instead of facing it, instead of.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Going to counseling with our kids, instead of just saying
- 5:26Speaker 4: I'm sorry, like we just gonna keep moving on up.
- 5:30Speaker 4: We gonna keep buying new cars, we gonna keep getting
- 5:34Speaker 4: new wigs, And I'm like, yo, something has to change.
- 5:38Speaker 4: We have to deal with our damage. And I believe
- 5:41Speaker 4: that God loves damaged people. Like you can't find nobody
- 5:45Speaker 4: in the Bible, nobody in faith that wasn't jacked up.
- 5:48Speaker 4: But God does his best work with damaged people. If
- 5:51Speaker 4: you would just admit I'm damaged.
- 5:53Speaker 3: How important is a support system right, because yeah, he
- 5:57Speaker 3: came with your wife. Charlamaze been with his wife twenty
- 5:59Speaker 3: five of him my wife. How important is that because
- 6:02Speaker 3: a lot of times you hear people say I don't
- 6:03Speaker 3: need that. I'm looking for a guy that's gonna make
- 6:05Speaker 3: this much money.
- 6:05Speaker 1: But that's done.
- 6:06Speaker 2: They never talk about the heart.
- 6:08Speaker 4: The truth of the matter is, um, yeah, it's dumb.
- 6:13Speaker 4: Like I tell people all the time. I did a book.
- 6:15Speaker 4: My first book was called Relationship Goes, and I have
- 6:18Speaker 4: this whole chapter in the book about rip up your list,
- 6:22Speaker 4: and I know people are gonna say whatever they're gonna
- 6:23Speaker 4: say about they got.
- 6:24Speaker 1: This list, you're still single. The truth of the matter is,
- 6:28Speaker 1: like the truth of the matter is.
- 6:32Speaker 4: A lot of times God never hands you a finished product.
- 6:35Speaker 4: He hands you something you gotta work. And that's why
- 6:38Speaker 4: Ike is one of the greatest furniture companies. No matter
- 6:40Speaker 4: what you think about it is they give you something
- 6:43Speaker 4: that you have to put your hands to, to a symbol,
- 6:45Speaker 4: and it gives people another greater level of satisfaction because
- 6:49Speaker 4: when they actually put their hands in to help make
- 6:51Speaker 4: that thing happen, it feels like I've accomplished something. Relationship
- 6:55Speaker 4: is the same way God never TDJ says it. God
- 6:57Speaker 4: never gives you a table, He gives you a true
- 7:00Speaker 4: The same thing with the relationship, and so I think
- 7:03Speaker 4: many times people need to rip up their lists and
- 7:05Speaker 4: actually look for the things that are in the heart.
- 7:07Speaker 4: You can't instagram integrity, you can't facebook faithfulness, And so
- 7:14Speaker 4: look at my man he da da dah. The greatest
- 7:16Speaker 4: things that have made me and my wife's relationship work,
- 7:19Speaker 4: I cannot show you on a post. It has to
- 7:23Speaker 4: be lived out, proved out, and over time. And so
- 7:26Speaker 4: when you say support system, bro, that's what that is.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Literally the only reason I'm here right now is because
- 7:32Speaker 4: I got people who could see me at my worst
- 7:34Speaker 4: and still think of me in my best situation to steal.
- 7:38Speaker 4: Like while it still smells like that word that you
- 7:41Speaker 4: said just a second ago, they still walking with me,
- 7:44Speaker 4: and like, I'll actually I'll be with you because I
- 7:47Speaker 4: know it's not gonna be like this. The whole time
- 7:48Speaker 4: I tell people, community is everything. Having mentors is everything.
- 7:52Speaker 4: Being around people that are further than you is everything.
- 7:56Speaker 4: And if you're gonna deal with your damage, you need
- 7:58Speaker 4: that because a lot of people do it in isolation,
- 8:01Speaker 4: and COVID has really jacked up people. And when I
- 8:04Speaker 4: say that, I'm not even talking from a health standpoint physically.
- 8:07Speaker 4: I'm talking about a mental health standpoint, a spiritual health standpoint,
- 8:11Speaker 4: a relational health standpoint. People went into their caves and
- 8:15Speaker 4: started spectating on what everybody was doing, and it made
- 8:19Speaker 4: them look out instead of looking I.
- 8:21Speaker 5: Agree with that, but I also feel like during COVID
- 8:23Speaker 5: a lot of people had to stop and see themselves
- 8:26Speaker 5: for the first time.
- 8:27Speaker 4: Yeah, and they didn't like what they saw, but then
- 8:29Speaker 4: we went back outside. So it's one thing to see it,
- 8:33Speaker 4: it's another thing to deal with it. It's one thing
- 8:35Speaker 4: to see it, and it's another thing. I mean, vacations
- 8:39Speaker 4: or or travel is gone up like a thousand percent
- 8:43Speaker 4: because people are trying to escape run. They running from
- 8:46Speaker 4: themself and the only person you cannot finesses you.
- 8:49Speaker 3: Or this significant other. A lot of people in COVID
- 8:52Speaker 3: realized they didn't like their partner.
- 8:54Speaker 1: They hated them.
- 8:55Speaker 3: They hated their partner because you know, usually you think
- 8:57Speaker 3: about it, you know, you work for eight nine hours
- 8:59Speaker 3: and yeah, you come for a couple hours and you're
- 9:01Speaker 3: only really see in your partner for a couple hours.
- 9:03Speaker 1: But COVID exposed to everybody.
- 9:06Speaker 4: And this is where I think for most of us,
- 9:09Speaker 4: it's time to take our trauma and know that our
- 9:11Speaker 4: trauma can go to triumph.
- 9:13Speaker 1: Every horrible thing that ever happened.
- 9:15Speaker 4: To me, every trashy thing I did to myself, When
- 9:19Speaker 4: I brought that to counseling, to my community, to Christ
- 9:24Speaker 4: it was like, oh, yeah, we can package that, we
- 9:26Speaker 4: can move that, we could cut that. Oh you needed
- 9:28Speaker 4: to learn that. And then it became the pain that
- 9:31Speaker 4: built the platform. And I'm just trying to go first,
- 9:34Speaker 4: especially in somebody who does what I do as a
- 9:36Speaker 4: pastor or leader. We usually stand on a platform and
- 9:38Speaker 4: tell everybody, you know, you need to work on this,
- 9:41Speaker 4: you can do this. And I was like, yeah, I'm
- 9:42Speaker 4: gonna take a different approach. I'm gonna go do it first.
- 9:45Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to intensive therapy.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Me and my wife gonna fly to Colorado for a
- 9:49Speaker 1: whole year every month and spend five days in counseling
- 9:53Speaker 1: for five hours.
- 9:54Speaker 4: We're gonna, we're gon, We're gonna work work, Oh, because
- 9:58Speaker 4: what's not transformed is transfer. Everybody leaving an inheritance for
- 10:02Speaker 4: their kids and money and cars, but they're leaving poor spiritual, emotional,
- 10:07Speaker 4: and mental health. So what happens when you give a
- 10:09Speaker 4: kid who's never been seen, who's never actually known their identity,
- 10:13Speaker 4: and who has no self worth a million dollars?
- 10:16Speaker 1: What do you think they're gonna do.
- 10:18Speaker 4: They're gonna buy friends, They're gonna go out here and
- 10:21Speaker 4: try to numb because they don't want to feel like
- 10:24Speaker 4: I just think that we could do it better.
- 10:26Speaker 1: I'm not saying be broke, I'm saying be rich everywhere.
- 10:31Speaker 5: What was your breakthrough moment that invites you to be
- 10:33Speaker 5: so vulnerable in this book?
- 10:35Speaker 1: Bro I have a son, our second son. His name
- 10:38Speaker 1: is MJ my namesake.
- 10:39Speaker 4: He has autism, and me and my wife we're going
- 10:43Speaker 4: through the height of our ministry and our business is
- 10:47Speaker 4: growing and everything's exploding.
- 10:49Speaker 1: My first book goes.
- 10:50Speaker 4: Number one New York Times Bestseller. I barely graduated English class, Like,
- 10:54Speaker 4: I'm in a shock. And then our only son, we
- 10:58Speaker 4: take him to the doctor and they're like, yeah, he's
- 11:01Speaker 4: not progressing normally. He's not talking, he's not looking anymore,
- 11:05Speaker 4: and he was going the right way and then just
- 11:07Speaker 4: something switched. And my motor has always been, let me
- 11:11Speaker 4: be greater, let me be better, Let me make more money,
- 11:13Speaker 4: Let me do this. And I tried to do everything
- 11:17Speaker 4: I knew how to do, and it didn't fix nothing.
- 11:20Speaker 4: Getting a bigger platform, writing another book, making more money,
- 11:23Speaker 4: it didn't do anything. And so when my motor broke,
- 11:26Speaker 4: it was like, what's going on. I'm watching my wife
- 11:28Speaker 4: slip into depression. Nothing is working, and so I was like,
- 11:32Speaker 4: hold on, we got to start working on this. I
- 11:34Speaker 4: was sitting with my mentor, Tim Ross at a crackle
- 11:37Speaker 4: barrel outside of Oklahoma City, and I was just telling
- 11:40Speaker 4: them what I was going through, and we started thinking
- 11:43Speaker 4: about back.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Over my life and he said yeah.
- 11:46Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, when did God's standard become lower
- 11:50Speaker 4: than your standard? And I was like, what are you
- 11:52Speaker 4: talking about. He was like, Michael, you've been telling me
- 11:54Speaker 4: all this stuff. You want to make better and you
- 11:56Speaker 4: want it to be great. You keep using this word great, great, great,
- 11:58Speaker 4: he said, But in the beginning, when God created the
- 12:01Speaker 4: heavens and the earth, he looked at it and he
- 12:03Speaker 4: said it's good. And then he created the stars, and
- 12:07Speaker 4: he created the land and said you go right here,
- 12:09Speaker 4: you go right here, created the animals. Going through the
- 12:11Speaker 4: whole creation, he said it's good. Then he created man
- 12:14Speaker 4: on the sixth day, and he said, you know what,
- 12:15Speaker 4: that's very good. He said, if God's standard is good, why.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Is yours great? And then he asked me this question.
- 12:23Speaker 4: He said, when did you make a decision that good
- 12:28Speaker 4: was not good enough? And immediately I went back to
- 12:31Speaker 4: twelve years old when I'm in church. My parents raised
- 12:35Speaker 4: us in church, and I played drums since I was young,
- 12:38Speaker 4: and I would go at twelve years old to the
- 12:40Speaker 4: choir rehearsal because my dream was to play in big church,
- 12:43Speaker 4: like play with the big choir, like not the youth
- 12:45Speaker 4: for the junior. I wanted to play and I was good,
- 12:48Speaker 4: and I would go every Tuesday, only twelve year old
- 12:50Speaker 4: there and they would never let me play.
- 12:52Speaker 1: They would tell me I was great.
- 12:53Speaker 4: They would tell me that, man, you getting so good,
- 12:55Speaker 4: and pinched my cheeks, take all the little stuff, but
- 12:58Speaker 4: they would never let me play. They probably had a
- 13:00Speaker 4: legitimate reason. But I remember sitting on that that maroon
- 13:03Speaker 4: chair in the back and deciding, I guess good is
- 13:06Speaker 4: not good enough.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I will only be great. And what ended up happening From.
- 13:10Speaker 4: Twelve years old to thirty five years old, I would
- 13:13Speaker 4: not settle for anything good. And now I'm looking at
- 13:17Speaker 4: my son and he's not good.
- 13:20Speaker 1: And I couldn't. I couldn't.
- 13:22Speaker 4: I couldn't rationalize or reconcile what was going on in me.
- 13:27Speaker 4: And God was like, you're gonna have to become okay
- 13:29Speaker 4: with things being good. And I had to go and
- 13:31Speaker 4: heal that twelve year old Michael to be able to
- 13:34Speaker 4: even raise the thirty five year old Michael and raise his.
- 13:39Speaker 1: Son, and Bro.
- 13:40Speaker 4: I went on a journey, Bro to actually deal with
- 13:44Speaker 4: the damage that was in me. And as I did that,
- 13:48Speaker 4: it was what did you say? My wife said, I
- 13:51Speaker 4: couldn't fix her either. I couldn't even relate because there
- 13:54Speaker 4: was so much stuff on the inside of me that
- 13:57Speaker 4: I had just put success over, put money over, put
- 14:01Speaker 4: all this other stuff over. And it was kind of like, yeah,
- 14:04Speaker 4: like we out here and man, because I went on
- 14:07Speaker 4: this heeling journey, because I spent the money. Everybody talking
- 14:10Speaker 4: about investing property, you're the only thing that is priceless.
- 14:14Speaker 2: I always invest in your mental wealth.
- 14:15Speaker 1: I want you invest in yourself.
- 14:18Speaker 4: You got Jay's you don't even wear for three years,
- 14:20Speaker 4: you sitting them in boxes, and you won't even invest
- 14:25Speaker 4: in dealing with why your daddy left you, and you
- 14:28Speaker 4: you so broken over it, but you just can't even
- 14:32Speaker 4: communicate to nobody. And now you're raising another generation that
- 14:35Speaker 4: you're there present, but you're not there present emotionally.
- 14:39Speaker 1: You have to start from some place you got us.
- 14:41Speaker 4: But that's why I went first, DJ ANDV. This is
- 14:44Speaker 4: why I wrote this book. This may not be my
- 14:46Speaker 4: most popular book, but it's my most valuable book because
- 14:49Speaker 4: if anybody actually reads this, if anybody actually like goes
- 14:53Speaker 4: in it, they're gonna be like, dang, I can see myself,
- 14:56Speaker 4: I can see where this could happen, and maybe I'll
- 14:59Speaker 4: take the first step, right, And that's all I'm trying
- 15:02Speaker 4: to get somebody to do.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Take a first.
- 15:04Speaker 4: Step, Like, don't even freaking think about being this next
- 15:08Speaker 4: version of yourself.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Just take admit that you are still.
- 15:14Speaker 4: Hurt from that first relationship, because you have been in
- 15:17Speaker 4: seventeen other relationships acting like he ain't it, I ain't this,
- 15:21Speaker 4: and like you're still hurt from old.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Boy in two thousand and eight.
- 15:26Speaker 5: Man, you know, that's exactly why I wrote my second book,
- 15:28Speaker 5: Shook on Anxiety, playing tricks on me, And that's you know,
- 15:31Speaker 5: it was me just talking about the things I had
- 15:33Speaker 5: learned in therapy. But I had an actual psychiatrist, doctor
- 15:36Speaker 5: ishmajor in the book with me because that's what I wanted.
- 15:39Speaker 5: I wanted to admit that not only am I damaged,
- 15:42Speaker 5: I wanted to talk about my traumas, but I wanted
- 15:44Speaker 5: somebody to read that.
- 15:45Speaker 2: Book and just take a first step.
- 15:46Speaker 1: That's it.
- 15:47Speaker 4: That's it, because the first step leads to the next step,
- 15:50Speaker 4: and most of us have been so caught up on perfection, bro,
- 15:55Speaker 4: that it is jacking your whole life up.
- 15:57Speaker 1: It's progression. Somebody may lead to the next step.
- 16:01Speaker 4: But if you just scutin, like if you barely like dang,
- 16:04Speaker 4: I just listened to the podcast and I'm gonna go
- 16:06Speaker 4: get the book, or I'm gonna just watch a message
- 16:08Speaker 4: like or I'm gonna go get Charlotte Maaine. Like, just
- 16:11Speaker 4: take a step, because the end of the day, man,
- 16:14Speaker 4: you're well being, who you really.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Want to be is available to you.
- 16:18Speaker 5: I love how you talk about you know how you
- 16:20Speaker 5: need God and therapy? Yeah, bro, you know how people
- 16:23Speaker 5: feel like you can't have bocal. They'll say things like
- 16:26Speaker 5: you can't have faith in God. Faith and fear don't coexist.
- 16:30Speaker 2: No, I don't.
- 16:30Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 16:31Speaker 4: The first thing you gotta realize is the opposite of
- 16:33Speaker 4: faith is not fear.
- 16:35Speaker 1: The opposite of faith is love.
- 16:37Speaker 4: The Bible says perfect love cast out all fear. The
- 16:42Speaker 4: truth of the matter is most people don't know how
- 16:44Speaker 4: love they are by God, so that's where fear really
- 16:47Speaker 4: comes from. But the truth of the matter for me
- 16:50Speaker 4: is I've been raised in church. I'm a pastor's kid,
- 16:52Speaker 4: I've been around in my whole life, been at the altar, play,
- 16:55Speaker 4: done all the other stuff. And I believe. Me and
- 16:57Speaker 4: my wife believe in theology and therapy. We believe in
- 17:00Speaker 4: prayer and going to a practice. We believe in worshiping
- 17:04Speaker 4: and doing the hard work. Because the truth of the
- 17:06Speaker 4: matter is, many times what happens at church, at the altar,
- 17:10Speaker 4: in your alone time with.
- 17:12Speaker 1: God is a catalyst. It's supposed to start something.
- 17:17Speaker 4: And for years, especially in the Black Church, for many reasons,
- 17:20Speaker 4: like maybe because we didn't have access to things, and
- 17:22Speaker 4: maybe because we weren't taught about them, or maybe generationally
- 17:25Speaker 4: there was a stigma on it.
- 17:26Speaker 1: But we act like everything happened when they prayed. No no, no, no,
- 17:30Speaker 1: no no no no.
- 17:31Speaker 4: Everything started when they prayed, And we're supposed to continue
- 17:34Speaker 4: to pray, but there was some stuff that was in
- 17:36Speaker 4: me that I had to communicate about. If you watch
- 17:39Speaker 4: Jesus in the Bible, most of the miracles happened in communication.
- 17:45Speaker 4: They weren't just like bow and then it's over. It
- 17:48Speaker 4: was they were walking with him. He had disciples that
- 17:50Speaker 4: walked with him like me and you sitting here that
- 17:53Speaker 4: was still cutting people's ears off, still backstabbing, still doing stuff.
- 17:58Speaker 1: But it was a process.
- 18:00Speaker 4: I just think that church has to do a better
- 18:03Speaker 4: job at letting people know that when you get saved,
- 18:06Speaker 4: that's your spirit getting saved, but you still got this flesh,
- 18:10Speaker 4: and you still got this soul, the mind, willing emotions,
- 18:13Speaker 4: and it has to be continually worked on. It has
- 18:18Speaker 4: to be continually transformed. And that's why I go to church.
- 18:22Speaker 4: That's why I read my Bible. Because I can make
- 18:24Speaker 4: a good decision today and be ready to go off
- 18:26Speaker 4: on somebody tomorrow. I need to continually be in this
- 18:30Speaker 4: process of becoming. The old folks would say sanctification the
- 18:34Speaker 4: process of being made holy.
- 18:36Speaker 1: All I'm trying to do is be set apart. But
- 18:38Speaker 1: it's a process to that.
- 18:39Speaker 4: And I just think, again, that's why I go back
- 18:41Speaker 4: to progression, not perfection.
- 18:43Speaker 1: That's a question, right, let's go.
- 18:44Speaker 3: So my daughter was talking to the other day and
- 18:46Speaker 3: she was talking about the Bible, right, yeah, And she
- 18:48Speaker 3: was telling me that there was a lot of things
- 18:49Speaker 3: in the Bible that wasn't understandable to her, right, meaning
- 18:53Speaker 3: that she felt like the world crucifies you for certain
- 18:56Speaker 3: things that are in the Bible, but for other things,
- 18:58Speaker 3: they don't crucify you as much. So for her, she
- 19:01Speaker 3: was having a hard time necessarily believing as much because
- 19:05Speaker 3: she was like, it doesn't make sense. Yeah, and when
- 19:07Speaker 3: a child says it doesn't make sense, she's putting two
- 19:09Speaker 3: and two together. So what would you say to a
- 19:11Speaker 3: child or young adult that's reading the Bible, even adult
- 19:14Speaker 3: that's reading the Bible, and say, hey, when you talk
- 19:16Speaker 3: about this in the Bible, it's kind of like it
- 19:18Speaker 3: happens every day. But when you talk about this, it's like,
- 19:20Speaker 3: oh my gosh, you can't do that. So what do
- 19:22Speaker 3: you say on that effect?
- 19:24Speaker 4: Number One, you cannot look at culture to be able
- 19:28Speaker 4: to get what you need to get from the Bible.
- 19:31Speaker 3: So that's the first in the Bible that I cancel
- 19:33Speaker 3: you forever. Do those jobs sponsors, but it's so in
- 19:37Speaker 3: the Bible.
- 19:37Speaker 4: So the truth of the matter is the spirit of
- 19:39Speaker 4: the Bible is stronger than the word of the Bible,
- 19:42Speaker 4: the letter of the Bible. And that's why I believe
- 19:44Speaker 4: you have to have an actual relationship with God. Because
- 19:47Speaker 4: the Bible is the only book that you read it.
- 19:49Speaker 4: It'll start reading you. You'll read something like that, don't
- 19:52Speaker 4: feel right, and the heart of it, I believe the
- 19:54Speaker 4: spirit of God will speak to you, give you an
- 19:57Speaker 4: impression on your heart, bring clarity, and I think you
- 20:00Speaker 4: should study to show yourself approved. There's tons of stuff
- 20:03Speaker 4: in the Bible that I'd be like, dang, like whoa, Okay,
- 20:07Speaker 4: what do I do with that? Well, this is a
- 20:09Speaker 4: different culture and a different time that all this stuff
- 20:11Speaker 4: was happening. But behind every thing that happens in the Bible,
- 20:15Speaker 4: there's an idea, a spirit, and a meaning behind it,
- 20:18Speaker 4: and it's finding that thing. What I would encourage your
- 20:20Speaker 4: daughter to do is first not just start. There's some
- 20:23Speaker 4: parts in the Bible that if you start there, you're
- 20:25Speaker 4: gonna be confused for the rest of your life. Start
- 20:27Speaker 4: with the Gospels. Go to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
- 20:30Speaker 4: Just learn about Jesus. He's the fulfillment of the whole Bible.
- 20:34Speaker 4: So when you go to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
- 20:36Speaker 4: and watch how he touched people, Watch how he loved people.
- 20:39Speaker 4: Watch how when church people were telling him not to
- 20:42Speaker 4: heal people, he was stepping out on days that he
- 20:44Speaker 4: was not supposed to heal nobody and reaching beyond people's
- 20:47Speaker 4: faults and seeing their needs. Learn the person of Jesus.
- 20:50Speaker 4: That's what I would tell anybody. Don't go start in
- 20:54Speaker 4: the Old Testament trying to figure out what all the
- 20:57Speaker 4: sacrifices are in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Just start there, because
- 21:00Speaker 4: in the person of Jesus, he is the Word. And
- 21:03Speaker 4: when that word comes to life in you. And then
- 21:06Speaker 4: tell her to watch some of my messages. Tell her
- 21:08Speaker 4: to check in with somebody who's done the studying and
- 21:11Speaker 4: can break it down in another level. How does your
- 21:13Speaker 4: daughter one twenty one? Tell her to go back and
- 21:15Speaker 4: watch Relationship Goes by Mike Todd, like, just send it
- 21:18Speaker 4: to her, and I'm telling you there, Sometimes it's harder
- 21:22Speaker 4: to understand something when you approach it by yourself instead
- 21:26Speaker 4: of approaching it with somebody who knows.
- 21:28Speaker 1: How did your car work. All of us.
- 21:31Speaker 4: We go to our car and we probably y'all y'all rich,
- 21:33Speaker 4: So y'all push a start button or don't even touch
- 21:35Speaker 4: it and it comes on. You don't know all of
- 21:38Speaker 4: the things that happened for that to happen. But if
- 21:41Speaker 4: you get with a mechanic and somebody who works with that,
- 21:44Speaker 4: they'll be able to say, hey, this is how this happens,
- 21:47Speaker 4: and you come with another understanding. So I believe that
- 21:50Speaker 4: the Bible is something that you approach by yourself in
- 21:53Speaker 4: your alone time, but you can't stay there. I had
- 21:55Speaker 4: to get people to help me understand that thing. And
- 21:58Speaker 4: I think that's what I would tell your daughter.
- 22:00Speaker 5: You know, I want to go back to the theology
- 22:02Speaker 5: in therapy thing. I got a couple of questions about that.
- 22:04Speaker 5: My good brother, little Duval, he posted a few weeks ago.
- 22:08Speaker 5: He put a lot of y'all going to therapy because
- 22:10Speaker 5: you're avoiding God.
- 22:12Speaker 1: No no, no, no no no. I that may be
- 22:14Speaker 1: his experience.
- 22:17Speaker 4: I think a lot of people need to go to
- 22:19Speaker 4: therapy because of what God's shown them, and a lot
- 22:23Speaker 4: of times God shows you you in situations. And I
- 22:28Speaker 4: will agree, I'll say this, some people are going to
- 22:30Speaker 4: therapy running from God. Like I will say that because
- 22:35Speaker 4: they need to prove that they are working on something,
- 22:38Speaker 4: and so going to therapy paying the thing not being
- 22:41Speaker 4: checked in just going and sitting there for an hour
- 22:44Speaker 4: that could make you feel good, like you check something off.
- 22:47Speaker 4: But I do truly believe that we have been made
- 22:51Speaker 4: by a creator and God has given people the ability
- 22:54Speaker 4: to understand me and my wife had to do this
- 22:56Speaker 4: thing called reprocessing. I don't know if everybody knows what
- 22:59Speaker 4: that means, but like literally, you have to go to
- 23:02Speaker 4: a situation, you have to think about that situation, and
- 23:06Speaker 4: then you have to actually think about what you wish
- 23:08Speaker 4: would have happened, how it could have been different. You
- 23:12Speaker 4: got to retrain the pathways in your brain to be
- 23:15Speaker 4: able to see here feel something different.
- 23:19Speaker 1: And God made us that unique, and so I believe
- 23:22Speaker 1: it's both.
- 23:23Speaker 4: And I believe there are some people that will go
- 23:25Speaker 4: to therapy running from God, and I think there are
- 23:27Speaker 4: some people that go to God running from therapy.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Do I think everybody needs therapy?
- 23:33Speaker 4: Yes, the Bible says that there is wisdom in the
- 23:37Speaker 4: multitude of counselors. I don't think that everybody just needs
- 23:42Speaker 4: therapy for their emotional stuff. They need therapy for their finances.
- 23:46Speaker 4: I got counselors for my finances. I got counselors from
- 23:48Speaker 4: my relationship. I got counselors. If the Bible says there's
- 23:51Speaker 4: wisdom in the multitude of counselors, like you need, you
- 23:56Speaker 4: need therapy and just how to respond sometimes to your key,
- 24:00Speaker 4: It's like, I mean, we were all raised differently, but
- 24:03Speaker 4: sometimes especially in our community, like the hand the embarrassing
- 24:09Speaker 4: our kids be raising our kids, A lot of that
- 24:11Speaker 4: stuff is just because it happened to us, and we've
- 24:14Speaker 4: never admitted how much that jacked us up. So then
- 24:16Speaker 4: we try to do it to the next generation and
- 24:18Speaker 4: see like and then and play it like it's good parenting.
- 24:22Speaker 4: All I'm saying is maybe you need to talk to somebody,
- 24:25Speaker 4: like maybe you actually need to communicate what being embarrassed
- 24:30Speaker 4: in the grocery store actually did to you and why
- 24:32Speaker 4: you all puffed up every time anybody tries to correct you.
- 24:35Speaker 5: I think the issue with mental and spiritual therapy is
- 24:39Speaker 5: if we could actually look at it the way we
- 24:41Speaker 5: look at physical therapy, we'd have a different we'd have
- 24:44Speaker 5: a different mindset on it.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Because my arm breaks, I know I need to go.
- 24:48Speaker 2: My mom can pray over it.
- 24:50Speaker 5: Yes, I can go to church and everything, but I
- 24:51Speaker 5: still got to go to a document.
- 24:52Speaker 4: And it's not that just like you get the surgery,
- 24:56Speaker 4: but then after it heals, you have to do why
- 25:01Speaker 4: because I'm trying to get it not just back to
- 25:04Speaker 4: where it was, I'm trying to get it stronger than
- 25:06Speaker 4: it was, like so that it doesn't And they tell
- 25:10Speaker 4: you if it breaks in that place and you actually
- 25:12Speaker 4: do the therapy, it's a very small chance.
- 25:15Speaker 1: That'll ever break there. Again, it's not that nothing else
- 25:18Speaker 1: will break.
- 25:19Speaker 4: But because you broke it there, you were damaged, you
- 25:23Speaker 4: did the work, you healed, and then you did the therapy,
- 25:26Speaker 4: you actually don't even have to worry about that area
- 25:29Speaker 4: no more. And I agree with you, Charle Magne. That's
- 25:32Speaker 4: the coldest thing I think I heard you say in
- 25:34Speaker 4: a year.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Like.
- 25:36Speaker 4: If people would view the emotional healing they need like
- 25:40Speaker 4: a physical healing, everybody would do the work.
- 25:44Speaker 3: But you know the problem is the problem is is
- 25:45Speaker 3: like what you said before, it's learned behavior. Yes, sir,
- 25:48Speaker 3: like most of our parents no didn't go to therapy,
- 25:51Speaker 3: and if they did, never told us like that was
- 25:53Speaker 3: grown up business.
- 25:54Speaker 1: We didn't know about it. To this day.
- 25:56Speaker 4: I love my parents, but it still is a thing
- 25:59Speaker 4: like you going to therapy, And again I haven't been able.
- 26:03Speaker 4: I'm not a therapist to the nation her Mama, Ma, Mama.
- 26:07Speaker 4: As many times as we was telling them we were
- 26:08Speaker 4: going to therapy, it almost seemed like a shot.
- 26:11Speaker 1: It's a problem, just wrong with most people did.
- 26:15Speaker 4: But the truth of the matter is both of our
- 26:17Speaker 4: parents as well as many of our parents have had
- 26:19Speaker 4: health issues. When they have to go get glasses, when
- 26:22Speaker 4: they have to wear a boot, when they have to
- 26:24Speaker 4: do anything to get back to the vision they were
- 26:26Speaker 4: once at, nobody says anything.
- 26:29Speaker 1: We spend money, we raise money.
- 26:31Speaker 4: We use insurance, we do all of those things to
- 26:33Speaker 4: get back to a place we were. Why wouldn't we
- 26:36Speaker 4: since we've been damaged since five ten, seventeen twenty six,
- 26:41Speaker 4: why wouldn't we do everything we can? And that's why
- 26:44Speaker 4: when I wrote this book, I knew that I had
- 26:47Speaker 4: to do something that most people, specifically in a pastoring role,
- 26:53Speaker 4: a shepherd over people, or anybody that's doing this in
- 26:56Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, that's too much ammunition for somebody to
- 27:01Speaker 4: be able to discredit me.
- 27:03Speaker 1: My freedom was more important.
- 27:05Speaker 5: How do you know when to bring your pain to
- 27:08Speaker 5: a therapist and when you bring your pain to God?
- 27:12Speaker 4: I think you bring all your pain to God. I
- 27:14Speaker 4: don't think the Bible says cast all your cares up
- 27:18Speaker 4: on him because he cares for you. It says take
- 27:20Speaker 4: on the easy yoke and the easy burden that he
- 27:24Speaker 4: has traded him for that. I take everything to God.
- 27:27Speaker 4: I acknowledge God in all my ways. He will direct
- 27:29Speaker 4: my path. He directed my path to therapy. Bro't. I
- 27:33Speaker 4: was the pastor. I was the crazy faith God. I
- 27:35Speaker 4: was like, Yo, we're gonna pray, We're gonna believe. And
- 27:37Speaker 4: God was like, no, you're gonna sit your butt down
- 27:38Speaker 4: and talk to an old white lady.
- 27:40Speaker 1: What like, let's just let's shout. And he was like, no,
- 27:44Speaker 1: you need to cry. Like I mean, I haven't cried.
- 27:49Speaker 4: I can count on my hands how many times I
- 27:53Speaker 4: have cried as a grown man. That's not okay. My
- 27:58Speaker 4: body needs to relieve. He stows emotions and that stuff.
- 28:02Speaker 4: But I had not been taught how to do that
- 28:04Speaker 4: and just how I needed to be taught how to drive,
- 28:07Speaker 4: taught how to run a business, taught how to actually
- 28:10Speaker 4: be a husband. I needed to be taught how to
- 28:13Speaker 4: be able to deal with my emotions. And it was
- 28:16Speaker 4: almost like I was seeing in black and white. The
- 28:19Speaker 4: reason the cover of the book is black and white
- 28:21Speaker 4: is because that's why I was living. Even though I
- 28:22Speaker 4: was smiling. It was black and white. Now like how
- 28:27Speaker 4: I live now, what God's done in my heart? Now,
- 28:30Speaker 4: how I can love this woman now, the four kids
- 28:32Speaker 4: that I'm raising, the people I can affect now, bro, it's.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Three D H D color. And was it hard? Hell?
- 28:39Speaker 4: Yes, Like it took a lot to keep showing up
- 28:42Speaker 4: and to keep paying for it. Come on, let's be
- 28:44Speaker 4: for real, Like when you start seeing that tax like
- 28:47Speaker 4: you like, oh shoot.
- 28:50Speaker 1: But was it worth it?
- 28:51Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now it was the greatest investment
- 28:55Speaker 4: that I've ever made in myself. And I couldn't keep
- 28:58Speaker 4: it to myself. I could have wrote another book, I
- 28:59Speaker 4: could have done something, but God was like, nah, you
- 29:01Speaker 4: need to You got to share this because there's more
- 29:03Speaker 4: people who are damaged and they need to know they're
- 29:05Speaker 4: not destroyed.
- 29:06Speaker 2: What there untransferred wounds.
- 29:10Speaker 4: It's the stuff that you said untransferred rooms. The truth
- 29:17Speaker 4: of the matter is every wound that you get has
- 29:21Speaker 4: the ability to transfer to somebody else in your actions
- 29:25Speaker 4: or in your non actions. And that's why I said earlier,
- 29:28Speaker 4: what's not transformed, its transferred. You got a lot of
- 29:32Speaker 4: your mom and daddy and you that they didn't give
- 29:35Speaker 4: you directly like they they gave it to you because
- 29:40Speaker 4: you received it the way that you handle issues, the
- 29:44Speaker 4: way that you go through stuff. We got a lot
- 29:46Speaker 4: of stuff because they didn't handle it. I'll give a
- 29:49Speaker 4: prime example. I tell it in the book. I had
- 29:51Speaker 4: a pornography addiction. I mean jacked the taking my money,
- 29:56Speaker 4: my mind, my focus.
- 29:58Speaker 1: Oh bro free.
- 30:00Speaker 4: Yeah, back in the day, you know when okay, come
- 30:02Speaker 4: on now, don't act like you did in three ninety nine.
- 30:05Speaker 1: Sometimes come on now.
- 30:06Speaker 4: And if you was buying magazines or if you're doing anything,
- 30:09Speaker 4: come on, let's be honest. It was robbing me. And
- 30:11Speaker 4: the money was the least part of it. Well, I'm
- 30:14Speaker 4: going through this whole thing by myself. I'm suffering, like,
- 30:18Speaker 4: still trying to pray, still trying to love God, still
- 30:20Speaker 4: trying to And if somebody's like the pastor I tell
- 30:22Speaker 4: it every Sunday, don't even trip like because we out here,
- 30:25Speaker 4: every man is actually struggling with something. Okay, I'm out
- 30:29Speaker 4: here addicted, trying to do what I've been called to do.
- 30:34Speaker 4: After I actually start going through the process of healing
- 30:38Speaker 4: and making decisions and making disciplines and being accountable and
- 30:41Speaker 4: all this other stuff, I find out my dad he
- 30:43Speaker 4: was a drum major for Gramlin State University. And he said,
- 30:48Speaker 4: they came to New York. It's crazy, I'm in New
- 30:50Speaker 4: York right now. They came to New York and there
- 30:52Speaker 4: was a street back in the day. Now, this back
- 30:54Speaker 4: back in the day where they had peep shows down
- 30:57Speaker 4: the whole street.
- 30:57Speaker 1: That's forty second Street. Okay, so he.
- 30:59Speaker 4: Knows the street, forty street. And he said, back in
- 31:03Speaker 4: the day, they got here on the bus, and he said,
- 31:07Speaker 4: he got a pocket full of quarters, and you could
- 31:10Speaker 4: go and you could put the thing, the money in
- 31:13Speaker 4: the machine, and then the curtain would open and you
- 31:15Speaker 4: see naked women. Back in the day, that was the
- 31:19Speaker 4: equivalent of pornography, he said. After I told him what
- 31:24Speaker 4: I was going through, he said, Mike, I'm sorry, I'm
- 31:26Speaker 4: sorry I never told you about it. I'm sorry I
- 31:29Speaker 4: never dealt with it publicly. I'm sorry that I did this,
- 31:33Speaker 4: he said, because I had five sons, and every single
- 31:37Speaker 4: one of my brothers and me dealt with the sexual
- 31:41Speaker 4: addiction because what was not transformed in him was transferred
- 31:47Speaker 4: into us, and all of us had to deal with
- 31:50Speaker 4: it in another level. And that's what he told me.
- 31:52Speaker 4: So I don't know the extent of it. I don't
- 31:54Speaker 4: know how it affected him and my mom.
- 31:56Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 31:56Speaker 4: I mean, you know, when you're telling somebody something, at
- 31:58Speaker 4: the end, it's like you tell him what part you
- 32:00Speaker 4: think they can handle. But I know there was real
- 32:02Speaker 4: things there because now I'm a man raising four kids.
- 32:04Speaker 2: How do you know you have a sexual addictional? A man,
- 32:07Speaker 2: you're supposed to have a healthy sexual affect.
- 32:09Speaker 4: Definitely, you're supposed to have a said, God gave it
- 32:11Speaker 4: to you the truth of the man, women from the earth,
- 32:13Speaker 4: women of God and of God. But God, all the
- 32:16Speaker 4: greatest creation, Oh the best the creation. You see mine
- 32:19Speaker 4: back there, Glory to the most High God. The problem
- 32:22Speaker 4: is the problem is our human nature is leans to
- 32:30Speaker 4: over indulgence. I mean, I'm talking about just in a
- 32:34Speaker 4: Krispy Kreme doumb not. I mean, you don't even have
- 32:37Speaker 4: to you're not even hungry, But if somebody puts some
- 32:40Speaker 4: hot Krispy creams on.
- 32:41Speaker 1: The table and before you know it, six of them.
- 32:45Speaker 4: Jesus, like before you didn't even feel like it was
- 32:49Speaker 4: and you're still not full. What happens when you eat
- 32:53Speaker 4: what's going to go against what you need and you're
- 32:56Speaker 4: still not fool.
- 32:57Speaker 2: What if you're pouring all of that into your woman,
- 33:00Speaker 2: wife beautiful?
- 33:02Speaker 1: I think all of that is beautiful. There is nothing
- 33:04Speaker 1: wrong with that.
- 33:05Speaker 4: The truth of the matter is if you pour it
- 33:06Speaker 4: all into your wife and you still need it from
- 33:09Speaker 4: the people at your job, and you still need it
- 33:11Speaker 4: from that app and you still need it, I'm not
- 33:17Speaker 4: saying within the confines of marriage as well as from
- 33:21Speaker 4: my belief in confines and marriage, nothing's off limits. But
- 33:25Speaker 4: that y'all agree on. The truth of the matter is
- 33:28Speaker 4: people think that the addiction get solved when they get married.
- 33:32Speaker 1: It never does. So there's some trauma or some drama,
- 33:37Speaker 1: or some.
- 33:37Speaker 4: Triggers that actually need to be dealt with, and everybody
- 33:40Speaker 4: thinks it's the person that's The person's not the problem.
- 33:43Speaker 4: It's what's in you that you have not addressed. And
- 33:47Speaker 4: so that's why four marriages, five marriages. I don't want
- 33:50Speaker 4: to be married no more. And you just sowing your Okay,
- 33:52Speaker 4: do that, but after you've done it with everybody, you
- 33:56Speaker 4: still feel empty.
- 33:59Speaker 1: How have you out?
- 34:00Speaker 4: Everybody made whole careers about it, sung about it, and
- 34:04Speaker 4: at the end of the day you still feel empty.
- 34:07Speaker 1: It can't be the sex.
- 34:08Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like that's people who they trying to
- 34:10Speaker 5: feed their ego and not they soul.
- 34:12Speaker 1: But even if you're trying to feed your ego, where
- 34:14Speaker 1: did that come from. Somebody didn't see you. You weren't affirmed.
- 34:17Speaker 4: Somewhere, you got picked over, and it's like, nah, forget that.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Everybody gonna see me now.
- 34:24Speaker 4: And now I'm just saying that a lot of the
- 34:26Speaker 4: things we clapped for as the fruit has a rotten root.
- 34:31Speaker 4: Because for me, all the stuff that I was doing
- 34:35Speaker 4: and being great at and doing what nobody else was
- 34:38Speaker 4: doing in my small little community, like people were applauding me,
- 34:42Speaker 4: I was getting attention for it.
- 34:43Speaker 1: I was gonna be great. But the truth of the
- 34:45Speaker 1: matter is the root of it was foul.
- 34:49Speaker 4: It was because I was not affirmed, I was not seen,
- 34:52Speaker 4: and I was rejected. And until I dealt with that,
- 34:55Speaker 4: everything I did, I would bro I had made more
- 34:58Speaker 4: money than I had ever thought I was in I
- 35:01Speaker 4: was doing dreams.
- 35:01Speaker 1: I couldn't feel it.
- 35:03Speaker 4: I could not feel it because I haven't dealt with
- 35:06Speaker 4: my real issue. And that's why I believe God many
- 35:10Speaker 4: times brings you to a place where you have nothing
- 35:12Speaker 4: else so that you can find everything. And too many
- 35:16Speaker 4: people are running from that place. I actually believe everybody
- 35:21Speaker 4: should hit rock bottom at least once, whatever that is,
- 35:25Speaker 4: hit it, because that's where you can fall apart. And
- 35:27Speaker 4: when you fall apart, that's when God takes all the
- 35:29Speaker 4: pieces and he makes a masterpiece. And so many people
- 35:32Speaker 4: are trying their hardest not to fall apart, just fall apart.
- 35:37Speaker 4: God does his best work with pieces of people, and
- 35:40Speaker 4: then he creates masterpieces.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Do you get counseling from other passes.
- 35:45Speaker 1: Definitely people who have been in the game a lot
- 35:47Speaker 1: longer than me.
- 35:48Speaker 4: Yeah. Man, we had an awesome meeting for probably about
- 35:52Speaker 4: five hours at a restaurant Tdj's.
- 35:54Speaker 1: He's like the og of OG's.
- 35:58Speaker 4: So we met and it was like in this secret
- 36:01Speaker 4: building that was unmarked and we went up and like
- 36:04Speaker 4: you hit the floor and it's like a restaurant.
- 36:07Speaker 1: I'm like where am I was.
- 36:08Speaker 4: Like me and with the Godfather, you know, under saying yeah,
- 36:11Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm like, what is going on?
- 36:13Speaker 1: And that man just begin to pour into me.
- 36:15Speaker 4: I love TD Jake's as just somebody who talks even
- 36:21Speaker 4: more than preaching.
- 36:23Speaker 1: If you ever get to just talk to him.
- 36:26Speaker 4: It is like and that mentorship, mentorship from Tim Ross,
- 36:32Speaker 4: mentorship from Robert Morris, mentorship from Steven Ferdick, mentorship from
- 36:36Speaker 4: all Like, it's invaluable what you learn from people who've
- 36:43Speaker 4: been damaged.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Me and Stephen from the same hometown, no monks going
- 36:47Speaker 2: to South Carolina.
- 36:47Speaker 4: Bro, I just preached for him two weeks ago. Yeah,
- 36:50Speaker 4: I'm pretty Charlotte two weeks ago.
- 36:52Speaker 5: And my wife because I was already kicked out of
- 36:54Speaker 5: school by then, but him and my wife went to
- 36:55Speaker 5: high school together.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Bro.
- 36:57Speaker 4: It's it's it's it's invaluable what you can learn from
- 37:01Speaker 4: somebody who will share from their damage.
- 37:03Speaker 1: And that's what all of those men did. Like if
- 37:05Speaker 1: I think about it right now, like I'm thinking you
- 37:07Speaker 1: call it mentoring, but all mentor mentoring it really is,
- 37:10Speaker 1: is people showing you where they messed up, where they
- 37:13Speaker 1: should have done it differently, sharing from their damage, and
- 37:16Speaker 1: it helps push you into your desk.
- 37:17Speaker 2: Was this after the spit incident.
- 37:20Speaker 4: No, bro, that was before. Okay, I'm the spit hits
- 37:24Speaker 4: the fan. That's what I call it.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Break it down. People don't know.
- 37:27Speaker 3: I know we reported a long time ago.
- 37:30Speaker 2: It was smearing spin on your brother's fit. I don't
- 37:32Speaker 2: even remember what it was. Your point.
- 37:34Speaker 5: Think about how that was back then, how everybody had
- 37:36Speaker 5: you in the storm talking about I don't even remember
- 37:38Speaker 5: what it yes.
- 37:39Speaker 4: So I did an example at my church. I'm first off,
- 37:43Speaker 4: let me say this. I am not a regular preacher,
- 37:46Speaker 4: like when I say a regular preacher like, I was
- 37:48Speaker 4: bored in church. And so when God called me to preach,
- 37:51Speaker 4: I was like, all right, I'm gonna actually use everything
- 37:53Speaker 4: that I have to help people get it. And so
- 37:56Speaker 4: I tell stories, I use examples, and honestly, I'm doing
- 38:00Speaker 4: everything how Virgil Ablo said for my seventeen year old self.
- 38:03Speaker 4: Most seventeen year olds they don't care nothing about church.
- 38:05Speaker 4: They're trying to see the girl with the booty and
- 38:07Speaker 4: go eat and go play with it. So I'm trying
- 38:10Speaker 4: to like capture. So I've always used examples and stuff
- 38:13Speaker 4: like that. And so there's this story in the Bible
- 38:16Speaker 4: where Jesus basically heals a man by spitting on his
- 38:20Speaker 4: hand and putting on his face. And so this is
- 38:23Speaker 4: an example I'd done three times before. And this is
- 38:26Speaker 4: what my blood little brother. This is not some random
- 38:28Speaker 4: audience member or anything like this. Now, this is a
- 38:30Speaker 4: brother we fought blood like, this is my little brother.
- 38:34Speaker 4: And he wanted to do the example with me so
- 38:37Speaker 4: I could show it. And the whole idea was, like,
- 38:40Speaker 4: many people will not be willing to go through a
- 38:44Speaker 4: messy process to get their healing. So the idea was,
- 38:48Speaker 4: this man was blind, he wasn't deaf. So if Jesus
- 38:51Speaker 4: is about to spit, he's standing there in front of
- 38:54Speaker 4: Jesus and he can hear. Like if you hear somebody
- 38:57Speaker 4: about the Huckalua, you're like, oh my god.
- 39:00Speaker 1: And I was trying to.
- 39:00Speaker 4: Say, as disgusting as this is, that man stayed there
- 39:05Speaker 4: and he received something that nobody else could give him.
- 39:07Speaker 4: And as I was saying that, I said, maybe you
- 39:10Speaker 4: the counseling would be messy for you, Maybe apologizing would
- 39:14Speaker 4: be messing for you. Maybe downsizing your house would be
- 39:17Speaker 4: messy for you. After you've put on this whole thing
- 39:19Speaker 4: about how God blessed you but what if on the
- 39:21Speaker 4: other side of this mess was your healing? And I
- 39:24Speaker 4: did the example. It worked too well, and by that
- 39:29Speaker 4: night we was on DMZ, CNN, next morning, Breakfast Club,
- 39:33Speaker 4: all that other stuff, and it was somebody was saying
- 39:37Speaker 4: to me the other day there was like, do you
- 39:39Speaker 4: wish it wouldn't have happened? I was like, honestly no,
- 39:42Speaker 4: I was like, it shocked me. But what I had
- 39:46Speaker 4: to deal with internally and what I had to become
- 39:50Speaker 4: okay with inside of me because of that situation, it
- 39:54Speaker 4: made me into a man that I would have never
- 39:56Speaker 4: met had it not happened.
- 40:00Speaker 2: Go.
- 40:00Speaker 1: I mean, for me, it changed my whole view of
- 40:04Speaker 1: who I was called to reach and how much I
- 40:07Speaker 1: needed anybody's applause.
- 40:09Speaker 5: I was the only reason I even bought it up,
- 40:11Speaker 5: because I felt like you was getting subbed a lot
- 40:13Speaker 5: by other.
- 40:13Speaker 1: Pastors doing Yeah it was beautiful.
- 40:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like a lot of other pastors was
- 40:17Speaker 2: like trying to call you out. Would not say your name.
- 40:20Speaker 4: They don't got my cell phone number, they ain't text me,
- 40:23Speaker 4: they didn't show up. And this is the beautiful thing
- 40:26Speaker 4: about people like for many years it was up and
- 40:33Speaker 4: to the right. Everything about what we were doing. This
- 40:35Speaker 4: was the first opportunity for somebody to take a hit,
- 40:38Speaker 4: and some people tried. But when God calls you, you
- 40:42Speaker 4: can't cancel somebody.
- 40:43Speaker 5: And that's why I was That's why I asked you, you know,
- 40:45Speaker 5: who's your mentorship, because I felt like it's good to
- 40:48Speaker 5: know that there were other pastors who weren't saying, oh,
- 40:50Speaker 5: you're not gonna talk about the brother I'm a.
- 40:53Speaker 2: I had people who.
- 40:54Speaker 4: Pulled up on me, I had people who put their
- 40:56Speaker 4: arm around me.
- 40:57Speaker 1: But that's what we're supposed to do.
- 40:59Speaker 4: If you said, if you say you my brother, if
- 41:00Speaker 4: you say you my sister, if you say we down,
- 41:03Speaker 4: that means nothing on the mountaintop. It only means something
- 41:06Speaker 4: in the valley. And so I'm grateful for all the
- 41:09Speaker 4: men and women and people who rode with us through
- 41:12Speaker 4: that storm. Because if you're doing anything, anything of significance.
- 41:16Speaker 1: You gonna have in moments, it don't matter who you are.
- 41:19Speaker 4: And so we walked through it, and God has changed
- 41:22Speaker 4: me in the process because I wasn't trying to combat anything.
- 41:27Speaker 1: What is this exposing about me?
- 41:29Speaker 4: And thank God I was in therapy, thank God I
- 41:32Speaker 4: had community, thank God, and the crazy thing is I
- 41:34Speaker 4: had finished writing this book, so it wasn't even gonna
- 41:37Speaker 4: be in the book. And God was like, I'm gonna
- 41:39Speaker 4: give you a live example of what this looks like
- 41:43Speaker 4: to be damaged but not destroyed. So I had to
- 41:46Speaker 4: go back and re edit the book. Chapter two or
- 41:48Speaker 4: three is when the spit hits the fan, and I
- 41:50Speaker 4: walked through how the whole situation because I'm gonna use everything.
- 41:54Speaker 4: I'm gonna die empty, man, if it happens to me
- 41:57Speaker 4: and God can get glory out of it, I'm gonna
- 41:59Speaker 4: use all it. No, bro, if we're supposed to be
- 42:03Speaker 4: defined by our worst moments, then everybody jacked up. But
- 42:06Speaker 4: if we can take our worst moments give it to God,
- 42:09Speaker 4: he can flip that thing and turn it into something beautiful.
- 42:12Speaker 1: That's not about me, that's about him.
- 42:14Speaker 5: That used to be what the world was about. I mean,
- 42:17Speaker 5: I guess I still that is what the world is. Yeah,
- 42:19Speaker 5: I can't let social media make me think of we Well,
- 42:21Speaker 5: the truth of the matter is it just doesn't get as.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Many clips, that's right, right.
- 42:25Speaker 4: A few weeks before this, our church has been a
- 42:28Speaker 4: generous church to nonprofits organizations sex trafficking. I started in
- 42:33Speaker 4: the hood of Tassa, Oklahoma, where right up the street
- 42:36Speaker 4: from where the Race massacres happened in nineteen twenty one.
- 42:38Speaker 1: Like, that's where my church was.
- 42:40Speaker 4: And God somehow took that from a three hundred member
- 42:43Speaker 4: church to a large church that's effecting the world. Well,
- 42:46Speaker 4: part of that was I'm not gonna be a church
- 42:48Speaker 4: that just has resources and we're not gonna really give
- 42:51Speaker 4: Prior to the spit hitting the Fan incident, Charlem Mayne,
- 42:54Speaker 4: we gave away in one year eight million dollars with
- 42:57Speaker 4: no strings attached. Wow, not one news report, not one clip.
- 43:03Speaker 4: Our local news didn't even cover it. Did y'all put
- 43:06Speaker 4: out a press release about that? Uh eight million dollars.
- 43:11Speaker 4: We even took the three surviving. Now there's only two
- 43:17Speaker 4: people who survived the Race Massacres massacres, and we brought
- 43:21Speaker 4: them on Juneteenth. And because they've not received reparations from anybody,
- 43:25Speaker 4: not Oklahoma, not not the government anything, we gave them
- 43:28Speaker 4: each two hundred thousand dollars with no strings attacking.
- 43:32Speaker 1: I know, But the truth of the matter is that's
- 43:36Speaker 1: not what people desire to feed on. Hope.
- 43:40Speaker 4: They desire to feed on people's failures. And so until
- 43:44Speaker 4: we actually do the inner work. Why the question is why,
- 43:48Speaker 4: why does the Will and Jada thing make us feel
- 43:51Speaker 4: better about us?
- 43:52Speaker 5: Because our relationships with jacked that, but we're not living
- 43:54Speaker 5: them out alive like.
- 43:55Speaker 2: They step away from the mic.
- 43:58Speaker 4: Why does potentially seeing somebody lose their money make you
- 44:02Speaker 4: feel Why? It's because at the end of the day,
- 44:05Speaker 4: there's something in you that is not satisfied, not fulfilled,
- 44:08Speaker 4: and so seeing what happens with made the Stallion and
- 44:12Speaker 4: Tory Lanez and seeing what happens with this pastor who falls,
- 44:15Speaker 4: and seeing what happened it just makes us temporarily not
- 44:19Speaker 4: think about how we need to do some work.
- 44:22Speaker 1: And that's why the Bible.
- 44:23Speaker 4: Says, like before you pull that whole log out, that
- 44:26Speaker 4: speckle out of your brother's eye, you need to get
- 44:28Speaker 4: that tree log out of your own. And right now
- 44:30Speaker 4: it's very easy not to even look at yourself because
- 44:33Speaker 4: I can look at everybody else.
- 44:35Speaker 2: Man, damaged. What do you hope people get from this book? Man?
- 44:40Speaker 4: I believe that if you read this book and actually
- 44:43Speaker 4: do the work that's in here. I tell people this
- 44:46Speaker 4: all the time, it may not have been your fault.
- 44:48Speaker 4: What happened to you but it is now your responsibility.
- 44:52Speaker 4: It's time to do the work.
- 44:53Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just.
- 44:55Speaker 4: Here to say I've had to do the work in
- 44:58Speaker 4: front of people, like with one hundreds of thousand people's
- 45:01Speaker 4: watching me, judging me all this stuff. You can do
- 45:04Speaker 4: this work, no matter where you are, how much money
- 45:07Speaker 4: you have, what your family thinks about it. You will
- 45:11Speaker 4: become a different person that will be able to actually
- 45:14Speaker 4: be a blessing to other people.
- 45:17Speaker 1: The healed version of you.
- 45:19Speaker 4: Is better than the version of you that you have
- 45:21Speaker 4: right now if you do the work, if you actually
- 45:24Speaker 4: do it.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Let me just say it like this.
- 45:27Speaker 4: I dedicated this book to my great grandkids in the
- 45:31Speaker 4: dedication now my oldest daughter's ten, and I dedicated it
- 45:36Speaker 4: because the Bible says a good man leaves.
- 45:39Speaker 1: An inheritance for his children's children.
- 45:41Speaker 4: And yes, I want to leave them houses, Yes I
- 45:43Speaker 4: want to leave them investments, but I want to leave
- 45:46Speaker 4: them emotional health. I pray one day my grandson picks
- 45:49Speaker 4: this book up and is able to say, my Grandpapa
- 45:53Speaker 4: dealt with his stuff. And I know I'm struggling right
- 45:56Speaker 4: now because life be lifing and everybody's going to go
- 45:59Speaker 4: through it.
- 46:00Speaker 2: God be God, but.
- 46:01Speaker 4: God be God, and therapy be be therapy. And that's
- 46:04Speaker 4: why let me show you. I don't know what camera
- 46:06Speaker 4: I can look into right here the back of it,
- 46:08Speaker 4: but it's a double cover.
- 46:10Speaker 1: The front is me smiling, that's the triumph.
- 46:12Speaker 4: But the back of it is me, my dad, my
- 46:16Speaker 4: four brothers, and my son. This this is a picture
- 46:21Speaker 4: of all of us. It looks like me, but it's
- 46:23Speaker 4: all of us. Because your damage affects every person.
- 46:26Speaker 1: You say you love it. So if you want to
- 46:29Speaker 1: do the work, join me damage, but not to shore.
- 46:34Speaker 5: If we can pass on generational uh you know, traumas,
- 46:36Speaker 5: we can definitely pass on generational blessed.
- 46:38Speaker 4: Bro, you just said it, and and take it from
- 46:40Speaker 4: blessing generational healing, Like what happens if the greatest thing
- 46:46Speaker 4: I could give to the next generation is how to
- 46:49Speaker 4: deal with their issues?
- 46:51Speaker 1: Yeah, cause, Father, we just thank you.
- 46:55Speaker 4: For this opportunity to be here, to be in this moment,
- 46:59Speaker 4: to be with you you, for everybody listening, and with
- 47:02Speaker 4: my four brothers in the room. I thank you Father
- 47:05Speaker 4: that something was said here that sparks their faith to
- 47:08Speaker 4: believe that you can help them deal with their damage. God,
- 47:11Speaker 4: we got different relationships, different responsibilities, different pains, different hurts,
- 47:17Speaker 4: but God, you know them all. I thank you that
- 47:20Speaker 4: by faith, something is about to change on the inside
- 47:23Speaker 4: of every person under the sound of my voice, bring
- 47:26Speaker 4: back a moment, a memory of reason.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Why they need to make this step.
- 47:30Speaker 4: And I thank you that no matter what has happened
- 47:32Speaker 4: to them, no matter how bad or how good, I
- 47:36Speaker 4: thank you that you can take our trauma and you
- 47:38Speaker 4: can turn it into triumph. You can take our pain
- 47:40Speaker 4: and you can turn it into platform. Father, I thank
- 47:42Speaker 4: you for all the people who are damaged but not destroyed.
- 47:45Speaker 4: Bless them, is my prayer in Jesus name.
- 47:47Speaker 1: We agree.
- 47:47Speaker 3: Amen, Amen, ladies and gentlemen. Pastor Mike time, we appreciate you.
- 47:51Speaker 4: Brother, Hey, bro, we can make this maybe like a
- 47:53Speaker 4: monthly thing. Let's make it happen. I appreciate y'all.
- 47:57Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club.
- 47:58Speaker 2: Good morning. To add something ear in the morning. The
- 48:02Speaker 2: Breakfast Club
- 48:07Speaker 3: H