Episode 31: Charlie Rocket

YNK: you know what I mean?

Mike.

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Sports

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

As a young CEO millionaire of Atlanta Hip-hop management company, Street Execs, he sold millions of records, changed the trajectory of how to market to millennials, and guided the careers of influential artists like Grammy award winning 2Chainz. However, while all the success was pouring in, he battled depression, binge eating, crippling insecurities and a brain tumor. To everyone on the outside, CEO Charlie was crushing it. On the inside, he was dying. Unhealthy, unhappy and unfilled, Charlie retired in 2017 at the age of 29 from both the music industry and the name “CEO Charlie”. He made the decision to reinvent his life in pursuit of his childhood dream to become an athlete. AND FROM THE FLAMES EMERGED CHARLIE ROCKET, Charlie Rocket inspires those around him. He’s lost 135 pounds. Became vegan. Ran 3 marathons. Reversed the growth of his brain tumor. Became an Ironman. Just finished his nationally known Dream Machine bike tour across America. Is currently on the cover of Runner’s World Magazine and secured partnership with Nike. Charlie has rerouted his ambition of making millions of dollars into his current mission to TRANSFORM 1 MILLION PEOPLE’S LIVES.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of a Yink K podcast.
0:06.0	Formerly known as CEO Charlie.
0:11.0	He was the music manager of two chains, but in 2017 he quit the industry, changed his name to Charlie Rocket, and set forth to be a Nike athlete.
0:20.0	In the process he lost 135 pounds, ran three three marathons, an Iron Man, and biked across the
0:26.4	United States.
0:27.8	Get ready for a whirlwind of inspiration on this week's Y&K podcast.
0:32.0	Let's do an intro. This is Charlie. You go by Charlie Rocket now, right? on this is
0:33.2	we're gonna show this is Charlie you go by Charlie Rocket now right yeah
0:36.3	unbelievable story like it from when I came across your shit I was almost like laughing
0:41.8	out loud at your story how like
0:43.4	you know to topsy turvy all over the place you've you've really made so many
0:48.6	pivots and gone through so much shit it's like it parlay is perfectly into what I'm trying to say
0:53.7	the name of this podcast is you never know and it's like your story is that you know
1:00.2	10 x so I want to just obviously Charlie Rocket where are you from originally
1:04.6	Atlanta Georgia born and raised and that's where you really made your first
1:09.7	imprint on I mean like you really that that's where CEO Charlie was the original
1:14.8	Yeah name, but it was street execs, correct? You started it.
1:17.7	That was the management.
1:18.7	Yeah, so let's, I want, the way this goes is like, you, I want to hear, I want to let you guide it I want you to tell me kind of like you
1:25.8	could at whatever pace you want
1:27.9	give a nutshell of like even just whatever you're beginning your
1:31.0	you're up your you're upbringing,
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