WEBVTT - Building What Lasts 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.600 Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. I'm your host, 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.480 christ Rna Hazel and this is the Keep It Positive 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:12.360 Swedish Show. Welcome to Keep It Positive, Sweety, the place 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:16.640 where we heal, grow and learn together. Everybody wants the bag, 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.440 but today's conversation isn't about getting it. It's about what 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.080 you build after you have it. Joining us are creators 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.160 of Earn Your Leisure and the founders of Investfest, one 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.920 of the world's largest financial literacy festivals. I am so 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.400 glad to be sitting with Rashad Balal and Troy Millings. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.599 Today's guests have become two of the most influential voices 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.559 in financial education. Rasha Balau and Troy Millings are the 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.599 creators of Earn Your Leisure and founders of Investfest, one 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.879 of the world's largest financial literacy festivals, bringing together more 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:54.400 than fifty thousand entrepreneurs, investors, and change makers each year 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:59.320 right here in Atlanta. Through culture, conversation, and community, they've 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.240 helped redefine what wealth building really looks like for a 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.800 new generation. Certainly, please give a very warm welcome to 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:10.319 the founders of Earn Your Leisure, Troy and rashide Hi. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.280 Guys, how y'all doing good? 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:13.199 How are you feeling good? 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:13.759 I'm good. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.800 I got y'all in the building. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:15.959 It's a beautiful building. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.240 Thank you, Thank you so much. We got some new 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.199 digs and happy to have you guys here. And before 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.759 we get started, I like to kind of loosen things 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.640 up by playing a little game. Y'all down, let's do 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.119 it all right, let's do it. So it is called 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.959 worth the investment? Is this worth the investment? So the 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:38.560 first one is college. There's a lot of going back 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.520 and forth on this. Right now, it's worth. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.520 The investment if you if you invest wisely, that's good. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.560 So I don't think it's just a yes and no answer. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.880 It's a okay. It's a few difference layered the conversation 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.640 what are you? What are you majoring in? That's vitally important. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.200 Most people are majoring in things that are not going 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:56.240 to beneficial for them. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:56.800 Talk about it. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.559 So if you're just getting a liberal arts degree nine 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.920 times out of ten, that's not gonna be helpful for you. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.560 That's one thing. Another thing is like, are you going 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.000 to a state school or you're going to a out 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.440 of state school? Right? Because the tuition is gonna be 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.160 tremendously different. Yes, you're going to a private school or 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.239 you're going to a state school. That's gonna determine the 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.359 factors too. So can you afford to go where you're going, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.359 or you're just going because of the vibe like the 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.880 football team, like the mascot, like you know what I mean. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.919 Like you're gonna put yourself in eighty thousand dollars worth 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.240 of debt because they made it to the final four 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.359 last year. That's real, like you know what I mean. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.880 So that's vitally important to think about as well. And 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.560 then also I think about there's an educational component to it, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.760 but there is also a component of what you learn 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.560 in school, the experiences that you have in school that 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.320 can't necessarily be measured by the money aspect of it. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.960 You might meet your husband your wife in college. You 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.280 might meet your business partner in college. You might you know, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.400 there's people that you go to college, you join a 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:06.080 fraternity and that helps you out. So the social aspect 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.680 of college is tricky because you don't really know. It's 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.360 kind of like hit a miss, honestly, but you should 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.919 consider that. You should definitely consider that as well. So 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.760 I think that it's a layer of conversation, but most 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.720 people are not considering any of that, and it's just 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.520 going off for like a feeling. I just like this school, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.400 I like you know, I think I'm gonna have a 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.120 good time here, and I don't think that that's the 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:32.600 best way to go. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:38.800 About it as an educator. So for all the reasons 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.200 he said, I will say yes, if you asked me 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.880 that question in five years, maybe ten, I'll my answer 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.520 would probably I'm not sure because I feel like with 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.160 the advancements and artificial intelligence, especially how it's going to 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.080 disrupt education, it won't be about how much you know, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.680 it'll be how fast can you learn? And the same 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.840 time it used to take us four degree is to 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:05.119 be qualified, it may take us a month, it may 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.560 take us six weeks to do that because the technology 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.720 is speeding up. In fact, everything that we want to 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.960 know has been coming through the Internet and now put 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.320 into a GBT or a large language model, and so 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:20.000 you're going to start seeing certificate certificates or certifications become 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.119 more abundant because the speed at which people are learning 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.360 is going to become the thing. So it won't really 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.600 matter if you went to that college or that prestigious university, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.520 It'll be how much do you know? How fast can 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.720 you learn? How much can you implement? Which is going 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.080 to change the way that we look at education, right, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.720 instead of hey, I got this degree from Harvard. Well 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.719 what does that mean when that person can prompt something 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.960 in the next two minutes and create a business in 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.800 two months. Right, he didn't have to go to MIT 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.880 to do that. So it's going to be a disruptive 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.320 for sure. So the answer now would be for the 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.440 things he said, yes, I'm not sure in five to 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.360 ten years, that's. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.800 Good, that's good. What about side hustles? Are they worth investment? 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.400 A side hustle? Like what give an example? 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:13.359 Can you or. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.960 So the income determines if it's a hustle. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.880 I don't I don't agree with side hustles. I think 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.400 it's a waste of time because this is a terminology. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.600 It's like, what. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.960 Are you doing it for if you're not going to 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.880 plan on being a major If it's not going to 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.080 be something that like now at that particular moment in time, 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.920 it might it might not be something that's replacing your 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.000 full time income, and it's not it's something that makes 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.080 a million dollars a year. But if you're going into 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.120 it with the mentality of this is a little thing, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.880 This is a side hustle, This is just something I'm 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.280 gonna do spare time. That's a hobby to me. And 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.360 you can have a hobby, but a hobby and business 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.000 is two different things. Like hustling is not a hobby, 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.160 So side hustle to me, that doesn't make sense. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:04.720 That's good. I like that. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.120 I would change the terminology decide interest, Right, what are 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.680 you interested in? Because even for me personally, it was 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.200 I was teaching. I was teaching. I loved teaching kids 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.599 about finance. There's an opportunity to teach more people about 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.839 financial financial literacy. That was an interest that became more 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.239 purposeful for me, right, still rooted in education. Just changed 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.920 the medium and so the side interest becomes something that 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.800 all right in my working, walking in my path and 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.880 my walking in my purpose. Yes, how those two things aligned, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.800 and a lot of people can look at what they're 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.240 doing now and have side interest that you know what, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.840 Sometimes people are sitting in that moment and like why 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.800 am I here? Like what am I doing here? Not 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.839 knowing that you're building the bricks and the foundation for 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:51.200 what you're going to be built to do. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:52.320 That is so true. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.919 Even the word side. I feel like anything related to 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.800 side to me has a minimum connotation to it. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:06:59.880 That's so true. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.559 Your side? 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.320 Yeah, no, no, what's that? Keep it positive? 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:05.680 Please? 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.440 What's that? Give us a definition? Please? 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.080 You know, if you want to do it, if you're 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:13.920 going to do it, do it. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:14.800 I love it. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.680 I don't like this. You know, you got a meal 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.120 and then it's like you got turkey and you got sides, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.800 Like you know what I mean, They're not good. I'm 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.080 not on the same level, not the same. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.600 But I'm because that's good. I like what I'm saying. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.600 Side as an addition to I'm doing this. I'm doing 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.600 this in addition to yeah. Yeah. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.440 I think that was kind of how I worked this 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.560 system with me want. I knew I want to be 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.120 an actor. I knew what I really wanted to do, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.080 but I knew I need to be around it. So 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.520 I was doing what I needed to survive, but I 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.520 knew what the goal was. How you talk about that purpose? 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.520 If this is getting you to where your purpose is, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.040 and do that. But I agree with you. I'm all 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.520 about going at things. There's no half ass and just 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.200 do it, you know, And if you have different things 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.040 to talk about multiple streams, if you have different things, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.600 do them all. You know, I don't have anything some 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.240 wish you guys on that you spoke on AI. So 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.800 I want to know, is that worth the investment? Yeah? 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:14.680 I feel like that's a no brainer. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.920 Yeah. But more than just investing in the companies, I 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.000 think investing in the education and investing in the place 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.920 that we're going to play in it. Yes, right, Like 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.880 we've seen things be created. Are we the people creating it? 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.360 Are we the innovators? Are we the engineers? We need 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.760 to look at it from that standpoint in totality, because yes, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.760 we can invest in the companies and we'll make money 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.520 because we can see that technology is going to lead 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.720 this and if we're in the right technology companies that 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.560 are going to appreciate over the next five to ten years, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.800 we'll be pretty good. But bigger than that is this 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.960 thing is going to change the world as we know 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.080 is changing it now. But are we on the right 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.480 side of it? Right? Are we leading it? Because if 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.800 we talk about subconscious bias in the real world, imagine 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.880 when people are actually prompting it and they have that 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.840 same bias and there's nobody to complain to, right, so 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:07.480 we got to make sure that we're on the other side. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:08.200 That's so good. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.280 I love that. What about you? 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:11.600 You just with it? 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.480 Ai? Yeah, day, okay, we had two more networking. Is 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:17.400 that worth investment? 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.240 Yeah for sure. But you have to network from I 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.160 think people go about it the wrong way. Like networking 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.840 is not just going to an event yep and just 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.640 walking up to Tyler Perry and just saying, hey, look 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.000 you work. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:33.600 It does not work. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.880 Like you got a network across. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.400 I had to work and he saw the work and 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.120 that that made the net Yeah. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.559 Like network the right way, Like see how you can 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.240 add value to somebody. Lead with value first, don't lead 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.640 with you know, ask first. That's very selfish way to 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.480 go about it. And most people network from a very 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.360 selfish standpoint, and then they get mad when it doesn't 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.480 work out absolutely well. Like you well, if you looked 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.040 at it into totality like you're being you're being extremely 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.120 selfish because your own thinking about yourself. And the honest 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.480 truth is nobody really cares about you, unless they're like 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.120 your parent or your spouse, Like nobody really cares about you, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.719 because you don't care about anybody else. Really, if we're 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.679 gonna be honest with you, if you just met somebody industry, 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.360 you don't care about them like that. You don't have 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.160 like a deep rooted interest in their future. So wat 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.160 should somebody have a deep rooted interest in your future? 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:22.240 Right? 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.439 So it's like, if we go on network, let's see 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.600 how we can help each other. I know that you 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.560 need help with something. I'm going to leave with that first, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.040 because it's the lower of reciprocity, Like the more you give, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.880 the more you'll get. And you have to network with 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.920 people that it actually makes sense to network, right, people 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.760 to look past the person that's that's right next to 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.439 them that could actually add value because they don't. They 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.280 don't value them, but they see somebody all the way 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.040 at the top and it's like, this is the person. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.160 I got it. But it's like, meanwhile, your pathway to 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.400 success is right next to you, and it's like by 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.160 you ignoring that, that's like us, we didn't we didn't 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.200 get to where we were by you know, reaching out 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.640 to a celebrity and then intern and it was like 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.640 we grew together, ye and we had to learn things 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.920 together but it was helpful because we were both at 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.680 that same level. So as we grow, we're growing together. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.960 You're going to miss a lot of opportunities by not 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.120 valuing people that are on the same level as you, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.480 like work together and then you could potentially build something together. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.719 Yeah, that's true a thousand percent for every reason he 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.440 just said. And like that is our foundation, right, Like 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.760 you're talking about two guys that grew up in the neighborhood, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.640 went to high school together, didn't have celebrity friends, didn't 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.120 have athletes that were friends, kind of just were trying 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.280 to do something together and saw value in other people 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.199 and gave them a platform. Right, So, yes, celebrity is 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.520 great to see, but do you have a CPA. Let's 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.200 highlight one. Do you have a trademark attorney, let's highlight one. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.560 Do you have a real estate broker, a mortgage broker, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.920 Let's highlight those people. Let's show you that that type 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.160 of value can directly impact you today, literally, right, And 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.840 Like if the celebrity comes and has stories and you know, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.880 they can tell you some of the transgressions that they've 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.920 had in some of the errors that they've made. Great, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.839 but these people are going to help you right now, right. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.880 Now, Yes, absolutely, I love it. Last one, mentors, which 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.480 I think are very valuable. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.760 Mentors is very very valuable as well. But once again, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.640 sometimes I look at anybody could be a mentor, like 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.760 if you know something, I ask you a question, like 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.000 you're essentially my mentor. It doesn't have to be somebody 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.680 that's eighty years old that's extremely wise and been through 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.560 everything in life, like the oracle. That's what people think of, 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.240 like when they think of a mentor, and it's like 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.200 that might be hard to get, but like you might 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.680 be wanting to learn something about AI. Person might be 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:42.160 younger than you. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.600 Yeah, for sure they. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.800 Can teach you something, but your pride and ego doesn't 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.360 look at them as like a mentor because they're twenty 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.680 three years old. So you're like, I'm thirty five, what 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.160 can a twenty three year old I'm not going to Oh, 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.040 I'm not going to go to him on an ongoing 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.640 basis for information. But then once again, it's to add 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.840 a value part of it, like when you when you're 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.240 when you're looking for your mentor or the wrong way 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.840 to go about it, I think is to email somebody, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.360 to text somebody, to say hey, I just graduated from 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.160 more House College. Can you mentor me? That's charity. You 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.360 can only through so much charity before you're on the 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.800 opposite side off It's like a seesaw. So instead somebody 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.000 will say, well I can't offer value to somebody that's 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.760 already successful. That's not necessarily true. You can say, hey, look, 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.839 I notice you don't have social media. Do you mind 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.800 if I run your TikTok for free for six months 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.800 and dinner? Or hey, I know I know personally know 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.400 somebody that can I Do you mind if I introduce 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.320 you to a person? Or do you mind if I 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.839 can you know, work for you for free? See how 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.240 you can add value to that person. Then when you're 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.280 around that person, then that becomes a relationship. Then that 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.439 relationship becomes mentorship. Yes, that's how you build it. You 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.000 don't build it by saying would you mentor me? Can 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.200 we have a why would I have a couple of coffee? 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.000 Which I don't even know you? Right? Like, so I'm 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.720 just being honest, But I think because I've seen that 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.360 happen so many times, get disappointed because they do the 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.520 same thing over and over again. They meet somebody, Hey 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.880 I would love to get some coffee. Can you mentor me? 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.800 Can I pick your brain? It's the worst thing you 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.600 could ever say in life is can I pick your brain? 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.080 And like I said, it's actually it's actually pretty selfish 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.160 if you really think about it, If you really think 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.840 about it, it's pretty selfish because like you're it's just all 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.120 about you. You're not looking outwardly. So if you change 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.280 your mindset, change how you look at things, then you'll 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.560 actually attract what you want. But mentorship is very important. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.280 But it's important how you look at the mentorship. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.440 And that's on a like one on one basis or encounter. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.560 A lot of my mentors I never met in real life. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.040 I watched their steps. I watched Tyler Perry build this. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.680 I remember being in high school and like my girls 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.080 my friends were like, I'm going to see this play 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.480 what you're talking about and watching that scale and then 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.120 him showing up on Oprah to obviously we're sitting today. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.760 We watched that and so we can study that same thing. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.080 So there were people that we watched that we didn't 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.800 know personally that we could say, Okay, why that I 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.120 like that move? How oh they made a mistake here? Ah, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.800 they broke up. What caused that? 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:06.200 Right? 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.680 And so mentorship comes in different forms, like what you 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.840 said about age, I think movies have kind of shaped 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.200 what we think of mentorship. Right, everybody wants that that 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.520 Obi wan Kenobe person right, Like, Yeah, it could be 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.400 the guy sitting next to you, It could be the 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.520 younger person that you thought you were mentoring. That is 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.040 teaching you things about what leadership looks like, what dedication 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.080 looks like, what commitment looks like. Because like it or not, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.680 people are watching. At every step of your life, people 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.320 are watching, and so you got to be very conscious 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:34.600 of that. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.000 Right. Yeah, for sure, thank you guys for playing with me. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.760 I love that And you guys gave some really good insight. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.040 So I want to go back to before your earn 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.960 your leisure you talked about you guys have known each 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.120 other since high school or was it before the high school? 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.160 Middle school? Was this something that you guys knew then, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.920 like we're going to do something big? Did you have 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.240 the foresight then or when did this idea come and 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.080 take us on that journey of how we got here today? 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.800 No, we always have a relationship hip as far as 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.200 like doing stuff like we had companies before. That's support 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.920 for people to understand as well. It's not the first 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:10.240 company that we started it. We started a app for 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.360 DJs called jock Drive that didn't work out. We started 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:20.000 a fashion blog called fashion Wave that didn't work out. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:26.360 Real estate company. So, you know, I feel like if 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.440 you're around somebody enough, if you're not actually actively trying 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.520 to start a business or do something productive, that's a 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.040 waste of relationship. It's only so much that you could 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.080 talk about sports and entertainment and just having fun. So 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.040 you know, we around each other every day pretty much forever, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.320 and other friends too. Like, you know, we come from 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.240 a very close knit community, so we grew up with 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.680 a lot of a lot of people that like we 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.400 have brothers and sisters and everybody's kind of like cousins 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.960 stuff like that. So as we got older and got 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.160 you know, realizing that we didn't need to make money 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.520 in this world, then you know, the interest was like, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.480 how can we you know, figure some things out, And 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.359 so that was a that was a few things as 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.320 far as like this is our idea. We already speak 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.719 every day anyway, let's see if this works out. And 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.840 then you learn from different things you know, you have 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.280 some wins, some losses and say okay, this is this 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.240 is something that we can we can you know perfect 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.960 later on, but earn your leisure. You know, the relationship, 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.720 Like I said, me and him already had a relationship. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.120 He's a teacher our trade. I was a financial advisor, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.240 so I was already working in finance and he was 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.920 working with kids. So we teach. We were teaching financial 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.760 literacy in the classroom. I was a financial advisor and 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.399 my goal was to get more clients like sports and 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.720 entertainment clients. So I started a campaign on social media, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.399 and I was doing a lot of different type of 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.000 content on social media and built the social media following. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:03.800 So we had a relationship. From the classroom content and 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.240 social media content was taken off and started to go viral. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.479 The public had asked for long form content like they 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.919 would just see like clips where there was clips of 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.440 teaching in the classroom, clips of me going on a 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.119 public accession. I actually had a public access show. He 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.200 was my first guest on my public access show. So 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.240 the public demanded pretty much, I wouldn't say the man 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.520 they requested. The public requested what you now know as 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.280 earn leisure. So no, the plan wasn't to start earn 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.560 your leadion. That was not the plan. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:38.840 This is a request from the public. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.000 It was an organic It was an organic thing that 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:48.600 just happened originally. Like I said, from a social media standpoint, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.160 I'm just trying to grow my following to get more clients. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.159 From a teaching in the classroom standpoint, we were just 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.119 doing that already because I was a financial advisor and 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:02.680 he was a teacher. From the content standpoint, you kind 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.000 of see what people like, and people really were into 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.639 the type of content of like sports and entertainment, but 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.359 like breaking down the backstories of sports and entertainment and 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.480 talking about deals of fifty cent vitamin water deals and 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.520 stuff like that. So the original goal was not to 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.760 have a media company. But you know, sometimes in life 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.960 you have to go with makes sense. So when you 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.600 see that that's the direction you're getting pushed into, it's 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.840 like why fight against it. So we listened to what, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.600 you know, the people wanted. And even when we started, 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.120