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The Ugly Truth: My Journey from Broke to Networking with Billionaires · Reborn w/ Antonio Boutros

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: The last six months I've identified myself as someone who is driving a shitty car who is in essence a starving artist or a starving entrepreneur.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think that's what God's will is, but it's the human ego, the human side of me that you know I don't want to be driving this car.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: But what I want to talk about is not in the car, um, not not not the issues I've gone through, but the power of being transparent and authentic, the power of being yourself.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because I in the last six months, although I have struggled financially, I have built a network of millionaires, billionaires, and so on.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: And more importantly, I've met various extremely powerful redemptive leaders, spiritual leaders, people who are pastors, people who are uh leaders of nonprofits, and people who are entrepreneurs and very uh very successful entrepreneurs, but they do throw they do so by God, with God.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: And what I found is that being transparent with them, being authentic, being telling them where I'm at, I'm not a billionaire yet.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a billionaire yet.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not I don't have six figures in my bank account yet, right?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have a six-figure net worth, right?
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so just being transparent, because I feel like oftentimes we are, and I know this was from my past too with struggling mental health.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we are our ego makes us want to say, oh no, I'm I'm doing great, man.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing amazing.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for asking, but I am doing amazing, man.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm killing it when in reality, reality we get out of that meeting, we we go home, we're all alone, and we're like, man, I'm I'm I'm depressed, I'm anxious, I'm broke, I'm fat, I'm not doing amazing.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's really truly, truly it is you have to be transparent and authentic and resilient because ultimately you're going to you don't you're gonna get through it.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: You are gonna get through it.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: It might not feel like it, it might feel like it's gonna be forever, and it might be one year, two years, five years, ten years until you make it, until you make it to where you want to be.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: But you are gonna make it if you don't give up.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: And he and here's the thing you can give up right now.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Be my guest, give up right now.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: But if you want to guarantee yourself failure, that's that's how you do it.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to have a fighting shot, a fighting chance, then you do that by fighting, by being resilient, by staying true to yourself.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you guys so much for listening.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: Have a blessed week.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Stay cool.