But you don't need no more sleep. What you need is more grime. You need more focus. You need more execution.

Execution is worship. Execution is the only thing that matters in business is not sleep. Only execution.

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show. But this show dies.

Two men. Eight kids co-created by two different women.

13 multi-million dollar businesses. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrine time shop.

Yes, yes, and yes, the thrive nation. You are in for a laser show this morning or this afternoon or whenever you decide to consume today's podcast because we are interviewing the hip hop preacher, the man with the plan Eric Thomas. Welcome on to the thrine time show. How are you, sir?

Man, I am explosive, excited, all of that, fantabulous, phenomenal season man, living my best life and just left New York doing some work for the NBA rookie.

The rookies coming in, man, and it's just been just been a great year, man. I'm ready to get up. I'm ready in the year off strong.

I love that you said the word fantabulous. I thought I was the only person who said fantabulous consistently, so I'm going to...

No, no, no, I got that from you, but I'm saying it too.

Alright, I'm going to give you a mega point for that. Okay, now I want to ask you because you've had a ton of success, huge success, people are looking up on Instagram right now, millions of followers.

But let's go back to the beginning. Let's go back to the beginning. What was life like growing up for you? Where did this all start?

Yeah, well, let's start it. You know, I probably say 16, 17 is where it kind of started for me. I left home when I was 16 and, you know, just real man, ready to do my own thing.

I just kind of felt like, you know, my upbringing, you know, my mom lied to me about who my father was, much respect to my mom and my father who raised me.

But I just like, man, I got to go do things on my own. And when I was homeless, man, life is, you know, life is real.

Life is kind of, you know, knocking me upside the head and say, hey, you said we're bringing, but now you're on your own and things still aren't going well.

You know, so if you're going to make your dreams and goals become a reality, you know, you have to give with a kid.

You have to make some different decisions. And so I eventually went from being homeless and a high school dropout to getting my GED and going to college.

So that was the beginning, very rebellious, you know, very stubborn. You know, I'm one of them kids and I'm going to do what I want to do.

And that's me getting kicked out of school that led me to get kicked out the house and, you know, just having a real, real marginal, you know, marginal life.

And then like I said, he was coming to start. Got my GED went off to college, down in Huntsville, Alabama. And that's where the real journey began when I stopped being a victim.

And I started being a victor. I stopped blaming other people for where I was and started taking full responsibility.

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