Getting that first client, that first big break is very, very difficult, but be committed,

uncompromising and wanting to get that result. It doesn't mean that everybody that has a goal

and is committed to it is going to get it because I think they haven't put in the work.

The greatest investment that you're ever going to make in your life, it's not in gold, it's not in crypto or web three, it in yourself work hard on your job and you have a career as Jim

Rona said work on your personal development and you have a life The Now I've been getting this question a lot about well how do you get your first gig

because it seems like people are stuck at the gate. The gun has gone off, everyone else is

taken off on the track and you're still inside the gate like, come on feet, don't film me now,

let's go, let's go, let's go. So I want to take us back in the way way back machine.

I want to take you back Mo to the first time you got your very first lead.

I want to examine it. I want to unravel it and unpack it for our audience.

And then I will also share with everyone how I'm able to get leads

how I'm able to start new businesses and hopefully you can learn something from it.

Okay Mo what's the first professional creative gig that you got?

My first professional gig was actually doing photography for a boutique fashion store in my city.

How do they know that you did this?

So this is going to be a good story actually and when you make me think

about this makes me realize how we tend to complicate things when we're so far removed

from the beginning of the journey.

So I started my journey right after teaching college

after getting my master's a few years.

So after my master's, I taught college for a few years public speaking in particular but I just wasn't

The fulfillment was not there at the time I did not like the academic structure and how that's where I could only allocate the best of me.

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