Throughout my life I think being willing to learn new skills has been inbred in me because it's being the only black kid the only African the

youngest the only this the only that I felt like I need to find ways to stand out. I remember in college, before everyone was up on Twitter, I was like, I'm going to graduate in four years and I'm going to be competing with a lot of people in marketing because I said maybe I'll be a good marketer.

But I have to find a way to differentiate myself so I focus on spending as much time on

Twitter to get as much followers as I could because I felt like it was going to be a big thing and if I could

grow an audience on Twitter that's something that anyone I was competing would not have.

When I was trying to learn basketball, you know, for me it was making sure I knew anything and everything that I could so that anyone if anyone I had a conversation me you

know there'll be no way that they could stop me it was always out of that desire

to survive and make sure that I didn't lose the sense that.

I'm very competitive.

When the podcast came and I sort of put it out there

in the world that I was going to launch a podcast

without knowing what a podcast was have known what a podcast was.

I went to Hyper Drive. I went into Overdrive and I just basically brought a course on it and I just taught myself everything that I could and I you know and I just hit Skype and started recording I I never done interviewing I'd done interviewing before but not to the level that I was going to be doing podcasting, but I think my accident taught me that life was too short and then there was no point, you know, holding back in anything.

When you face your mortality, it has a funny way of showing you that the things that you thought

matter don't matter as much. So you lose all side of being embarrassed. You lose all

all the side of being made fun of because you've seen it. You've like almost seen your death and you're like you know what nothing else can be lower than this.

If at best I'm going to learn something, whether it's a failure or success.

So I think I lost the fear of failure out of that accident.

I just wanted to try everything. I graduated and I launched my

company UID media and it basically was a company founded on my mission statement which is usually a difference to make a difference and I was

publishing my podcast on it as well as managing about 50 to 60 riders across six continents.

I was basically having them send me stories about what it's like to live in

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