this is the flavor. We've got Alvin Johnson actually here. Alvin, welcome to the club hours. How are you, Alvin? Good morning.

Jay, good morning, man. I'm doing wonderful. Good morning, David. How you all?

I am doing much better when you're here. What a blessing it's been to have all these great guests on. Well, question you got me before, brother.

David, man, I was talking to someone yesterday about about you. And you're so simple, but so deep.

Thank you. And where does the depth of this come from? Because it's not this, the stuff that you're sharing with us this morning.

And that you typically talk about the happiness of gratitude and being healthy, wealthy and all of that from the inside is not a learned behavior.

So how sometimes trauma causes people to go into a way to be able to find this kind of stuff. What was it for you that that that spawn this greatness?

Well, thank you, by the way. And yes, it's been a journey of lessons, which are, you know, created or indicated by paying setback and failure.

And periodically in my life, like everyone else, I've experienced these indicators of opportunities, options and touches of favors to grow and to have faith.

But I want to say one thing before I answer that question is you talked about simple and deep.

And it was told to me years ago when I went on my quantum shift, my transformation. And I was told that when you really know something, you can articulate it in a simple manner.

If you don't know it, you will not be able to explain it simply. And so if you find yourself in complexity of ego and not connecting to and through and not being able or capable of making something simple, then you don't know it well enough.

And so that has always inspired me to, you know, in a journey of taking highly complex things and making them simple is ultimately the best way to not only strengthen your signal, but widen your spectrum.

But as far as even that baby was so simple, thank you. But to that measure, you got to practice. And I think the question is, you know, what is it in my life that has led me to understand this and to continue on this journey.

And there's been a series of traumas and pains and they're not unique to me or you. I know you and I've shared many types of experiences and you are someone that, you know, have been attracted into my life, right?

You're at my frequency, my frequency is my neighborhood and you just appeared and your story blew me away and your trauma of, you know, like mine, of questioning my existence, of looking deep within my own soul.

And for me, it was the understanding when I got finally to a point with all the abuse that I had experienced in my life and all the traumas that I've experienced and shared with everybody.

We don't, I don't need to list them out because everyone shared these pain setbacks and failures and, you know, they're not size scope and scale.

There is no bigger little trauma. There's just trauma. There's just interference. But there came a day when I was sitting on my bed and I thought to myself, how much I hated my mom and hated my dad and hated my best friends and I hated my wife.

And that was the day. And it was, you know, brought as a divine attention or awareness when I looked over as I was hating everything and everyone and living in blame, shame and justification, going the extra mile every once in a while, serving a God of money, thinking I understood in ignorant arrogance more than I did.

And living in fear and hate. I looked over to a gift. My father had given me many people know the story. I looked over to a gift I got when I was 30 years old, one that I wasn't ready to receive and the gift wasn't just a sport coat, a beautiful sport coat that had no pockets had lining torn out.

But what I didn't realize when I received that gift at 30 was it was the gift of awareness that I did not hate my father for giving me that gift and telling me I was just like him telling me that money doesn't buy love or happiness telling me to stop serving that God that there was a bigger God to serve a bigger source to serve.

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