How To Turn Faith Into Action When You Have Nothing | Marlon Wayans

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Marlon Wayans reveals how his father's daily ritual of Bible study before hustling to feed 10 kids taught him that faith without relentless action means nothing. He shares why self-funding his own comedy specials and refusing to wait for Hollywood's permission became the key to owning his creative power and his life.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.7	Since their passing, what's been the biggest lesson is you can reflect back that each of them taught you about life.
0:20.5	My mother taught me to always learn, try different things.
0:33.6	Find joy, even though your situation may be bad whether it's poverty whether it's you know grieving
0:42.0	always find the funny right and to love hard and and and and and to be affectionate to let it all out and not be afraid to be vulnerable
0:56.7	let it all out and some of it i learned is from watching her is not letting disappointments
1:04.0	or failures make me bitter negative and too afraid to be vulnerable, right? So really watching the
1:14.8	journey, the good, bad, and the ugly. You can't, I think people spend so much time
1:19.9	worry about what their parents did wrong. I study what they did right. When I watch movies,
1:25.9	I remember one time we was watching, I've been in black
1:28.1	and my brother was like, you know what's wrong with this movie? I said it made $400 million.
1:32.3	Nothing. It's perfect.
1:36.3	Right. So here's what they did right. So, and my dad, so that's what my mom taught. My father
1:43.3	taught me and I will say, he would be so proud to hear this.
1:49.8	My father taught me God. Really? My father taught me the important of God's journey, the importance of that Bible. And I need to read it more, I need to study it.
2:01.6	My dad could tell you the scriptures. He knew only one book, Bible.
2:05.6	Wow. You ask him a verse about love, uh, Corinthians 13 7 chapter 4.
2:11.6	How do you know he studied the Bible? My dad would wake up in the morning. First thing he did was he got up and he studied the Bible
2:17.6	then he closed that book and he would say a prayer and then he would rub his knees and look up to
2:23.9	god like how i'm like to feed these 10 people today let's go and he come back with dinner wow so my father
2:32.5	taught me the importance of god and the importance of working hard for your family.
2:43.2	And don't be afraid of hard work. If you're going to clean a toilet, no, don't do that. No, no, no. Get up underneath it. Right. Getting the ball, getting the
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