And welcome to a to a that it's going to be okay.

And welcome to another episode of the Picardy Sellers podcast. Today, I have my brother who is slaying dragons.

I mean, even the last race that he ran he won he won hearts and minds because he did something

to Bill Clinton used to always tell us he said ideas when elections and Charles Booker is somebody who is filled with ideas.

Welcome to the Bakari Sellers podcast. How you feeling today man?

Thank you brother. I'm feeling really good. It's good to be with you.

You look we start all our episodes the same, and our audience is so used to it.

But we have our guests walk us through the arc of their career.

And yours started largely in state government in Kentucky,

both as a state employee and state elected official,

walk us through your career art from your first role

after graduating from Louisville

to the work that you're doing now

as a candidate for the United States Senate

and the great, is it Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Utah

That's right yeah so first of all man I stumbled into all of this stuff you know I say that in one breath and then in another I know that there are no mistakes and there was a purpose that I didn't realize that I'm walking into now but my journey into politics was really just me trying to find mentors.

Going into law school, first in my family to do so, both my parents dropped out of high school.

So, you know, I'm really in this whole new

environment and I went through the phone book man I call all the attorneys saying look

let me meet with you I'm new to this I want to be an advocate in my community

I don't know where to start and I just wanted to pick everyone's brain who would let me. And I came across some legislators because of course a lot of legislators are also attorneys and my journey really began there you know in order to meet

with one of the individuals who became my mentor who I then ran against that I write about in this book.

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