1246 | Rev. Ike: “Poverty is a Drag.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On today's Finance Friday episode, Rev Ike highlights our freedom of choice. You have the power of choice and whatever you decide to do in life, and even if you make a negative or positive choice, that’s still your power, and the law of the Lord will honor that.
The person you are today is a product of your decision-making and the choices you made every single day of your life. You can choose to be rich or live in mediocrity. You have to know what you want. Because your dreams, goals, and aspirations will lead you to make the best choices. Eventually, these choices shape your future and manifest in the quality of life you’re living.
Source: Knowledge that Will Push You to the Edge - Rev. Ike's The Power of Money Seminar, Part 4
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QLD is... |
| 0:02.7 | Poverty is a drag. |
| 0:04.7 | Here we go! |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome back to the Quotat the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a |
| 0:35.8 | Sean Croxon.com. Thanks so much for tuning in to our finance Friday episode |
| 0:39.8 | where we talk about all things money mindset we've got Reverend Nike back on the |
| 0:44.3 | show today. He's about to share a story that is hilarious right? It's an amazing |
| 0:50.5 | story and he's also going to talk about how poverty is a drag. Let me tell you |
| 0:56.7 | poverty sucks. I'm speaking from experience. I probably haven't shared a lot of |
| 1:02.7 | this story with you guys but let's just do it now. So I was born in Oakland, 1977. |
| 1:08.9 | Lives in Oakland until I was 10 years old and then moved to Alameda which is |
| 1:14.6 | right next to Oakland. And when I lived in Oakland my parents were married so I |
| 1:19.8 | lived with both my parents as well as my older brother and my dad sold |
| 1:25.4 | shoes at Macy's and he was really good at selling shoes at Macy's. He was the guy |
| 1:30.5 | right? And he also sold random stuff at the SWATME over the weekends but just |
| 1:37.7 | from his shoe salesman job my dad was bringing home about a hundred fifty |
| 1:41.7 | thousand dollars a year in the 80s. So we were doing well my mom did well as |
| 1:46.7 | well. We were doing well. Living a big house, basketball in the back. We had a |
| 1:51.6 | room that was dedicated to toys. It was called the toy room. It was full of toys. |
| 1:55.9 | It was crazy right? Private school. We were living it up. My brother and I didn't |
| 2:01.5 | want for anything. Anything we wanted we had. Dad drove a really nice catalac. |
| 2:07.0 | Had a spare car. The MGB was crazy. And when I was 10 my parents got divorced. |
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