Honestly, I wanted to first and foremost, I want to get into this podcast by saying thank you so much for showing up because I know how valuable your time is and yeah, I think right away getting into this a lot of people who click there and be probably like what the hell is going on like why why did this happen and I kind of want to get into a little bit of the story of kind of like how this came to fruition today and then obviously talk a lot more about you in detail. I've known you for almost about 12 years now. Yeah.

And before I had anything that I have today before anyone knew who I was even the amount of people who do like no one no one. I guess before you have stuff and before you create any sort of name for yourself at any scale.

People don't typically believe in you. Yeah, you were a person that you came into my life at a time and this was prior to social media any kind of blow up and I was a trainer.

I had met you at a gym. I had trained you for a little bit. This was towards the like the end of my career as a trainer and I remember I asked you something really significant.

Because you became a friend to me. And I remember I asked you why me. Why did I get this this gift in a sense of having like a friend and a person who's like absolutely carved a path in an industry where prior to carving that path that path did not exist.

And you've done so much for the culture of the community like you've literally you've made a way that like I said just didn't exist and me knowing about your story and where you came from when you when I when you allowed me in your life as a friend and you you know you kind of were.

I mean straight up I'll tell you know I know and I've told you just before but you were mentor to me person that in my life growing up without a father.

I was so grateful to have in my life that was like someone who was accomplishing things at the highest level possible and just just before we get into more of these questions about you you showed me.

Kind of like what was possible for me you showed me that like even just seeing your success through all of the hardships and from like literally nothing because you.

You've gone through it all in a sense I mean you dealt with abuse you've you dealt with having nothing to creating everything and not just for yourself but for so many people and like I said prior creating like a like a lane that was was never there for an entire community I just want to say thank you for being such a good friend and for changing so many people's lives including mine.

So before we get into this I just first and foremost I really want to say that and I'm grateful to have you here man I think you're fucking you've done amazing things I'm glad I'm glad to be breath breath thank you.

The I tell you the the why me I get that question a lot yeah from a lot of people from actors actresses from people who come into my life were from why me why me and I'm always I always think why not you you know why not you why not you have an opportunity to do something different why not you having tremendous success I've got this.

Girl that works for me right now name is Crystal Hazelid who was my stylist for a year she wanted to act she never told me she was an actor she never told me she had auditioned and she thought you know I hated her a work because she had auditioned but I never saw it so I was doing the show called sisters in one day I said you know she said you know can I just like sure but if I give you the shot you got to kill it nothing you can do but kill it and she killed it man and she got that why me why me thing because so many great things happen for her right now like she's got another show on the air she's making.

ton of money she's happier than she's ever been in her life but I wish more of us would would embrace the fact of it's when people in sort of question of why me then ask why not me yeah but I know where you were at the time because I've been that myself where it's just starting out you struggling you're unsure of what your future looks like and by the way let me just say I proud I am of you looking at everything that you've done because I was just I was just telling your team that I a lot of people asked me to invest in gyms you never asked me to invest in anything never asked me for a doubt.

I never asked me for anything and you've been able to do this manage it grow it through all the growing pains of it all you've managed to do it all on your own figuring out and learning as you've gone calling me a lot a lot of your conversations to walk to to walk through the business side of it but I'm really really proud of the steps you've made how you've made them and how you've managed to to grow this into what it is yeah that needs to be applauded and I don't know if anybody tells you that but this should be for sure I appreciate it and I want to say this kind of talking back like to you and before we get into more this is

because I remember moments where I saw your success and I saw how you did it and you created a lane like I said it didn't exist and I remember thinking like oh if that if he can do it then I can do it because knowing what you had been through and what you had gone through that's what my life is about man yeah and I also want to I also want to stay like it seems as a lot of your not all of your content movies productions everything that you're involved in that is created from you

is very it has meaning like it has life to it's not it doesn't seem like it's a superficial like it's just to get clicks or get views or make sales like it seems like even like you're everything that you've done like the plays at the end of the place where you have the talks and it's like there's a meaning to almost everything and it all comes from like a deeper place and just like I'm trying to write this script so that I can make some money and yeah and with that let us jump back a little bit to the understanding of of the the the opportunity

to do this and having people see it how important that is to see it because I didn't have anybody in my life that I saw growing up that was black and doing well I didn't see a black man doing well except the pimps in the preacher you know there's

the only one of doing well in my neighborhood like Oprah was on the air and I would see her do well but but it's so important for people to see it to know that you can make it and and in my life I

let's help people this all time God doesn't waste my time like there if you if you're able to get to me and we become friends and we get it and you're in my life it's for a reason it's for you to see something that is to help you

on your journey your path because I'll never forget working with people who were tremendously successful when I had nothing and I'll always get frustrated like why am I do this I got so much

excited me then I learned to sit back and watch and pay attention because being in their presence I was learning so much of stuff that I use now so if you ever

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