Carlos Whitaker's wife, Heather Whitaker, is often asked, so what does your husband do?

And this question plagued her for a long time, until one day she finally identified it perfectly.

He's a hope dealer.

Carlos Whitaker identifies himself as an author, speaker, moment maker, spider killer, and hope dealer.

He's amassed a following of over 240,000 Instagram followers, who he lovingly refers to as his Insta Familia, where they've raised

almost a million dollars in under a year for good causes and for bringing humanity back

together. Carlos and I talked today about kindness, understanding,

walking with your neighbor instead of fighting with them on issues where you disagree,

and some of the life lessons he has learned that he believes in and teaches wherever he goes.

Buckle up because you're about to be dealt some hope.

Music about to be dealt some hope. Carlos, do people really call you Los? Or is that just an Instagram thing?

No. So my high school buddies call me Los. Okay. So I would say like when people get to know me in real

life, they're like Lois and I'm like, oh, like they know me. But like if people call me Loz wit,

then I know they just know me from the internet. Yes. Yes. Okay. Awesome. Well, I'm so thrilled

that we get to talk today. I found you because of this story that went viral when you were in an airport and you found a guy playing the piano and then you were like, let's get this guy some tips and let's get it going. And he had a story and you had this story and it was very compelling. So I'd love to start there if that's okay with you.

I had been at a speaking event in Dallas, Texas. And so like that's what I do full time is I write books and then I talk about them, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess full time I like just share my life on Instagram, but that doesn't pay me yet. So the books in the speaking does. And I was on my way from Dallas to Memphis for another speaking event, but my Memphis event got canceled. And so I was a little bummed because obviously that's how I'll pay my bills. But I'm like, you know, I'll just go home. So I got rerouted through Atlanta. And I had like an hour layover. And I was hungry. So I was like, let me go get some Christian chicken. So I grabbed my Chick-fil-A. And while I was in line for Chick-fil-A, you know, I'm in the airport all the time in Atlanta. I'd seen people playing the piano at various times in this location. But he just happened to catch my eye because he was just really into it. This guy's like swaying like Stevie Wonder and like smiling and I'm like wow like and then I looked

around and nobody nobody's paying attention to him but it didn't matter like he was just going for it so I'm going to grab my chicken I'm going to pull up a seat right next to the piano so pull up a seat next to the piano and I don't know like five feet away from him and I'm just looking at him kind of bobbing my head and he looks at me and I look at him and we're kind of vibing together and he's like,

oh, look, this guy's like really into me, right? And I don't know, like five feet away from him. I'm just looking at him, kind of bobbing my head. And he looks at me and I look at him.

And we're kind of vibing together.

And he's like, oh, look, this guy's like really into me, right?

And so he stops playing like halfway through a song and he comes over. He's like, what's your name, man? I was like, oh, my name's, what's your name? He's like, my name's Tony, man, thanks for listening.

And he asked me about me.

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