WEBVTT - EYL#198 Former Inmate Turned Luxury Brand CEO 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.600 An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.480 in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.840 accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.840 filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.680 some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.320 Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.120 Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.680 crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.960 one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. 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No, So my only 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.560 advice for people that's trying to get into the business, 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.840 no matter what it is, do your research because a 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.480 lot of my fails happened because I didn't have the 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.240 proper research. You know, when you're incarcerated, you can only 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.120 get but so much information. And when I came home, 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.240 I thought I knew everything, and I didn't know anything. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:27.520 My graduates from my school being false bad drop drop, Mike, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.720 drop back drop. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.320 All right, guys, welcome back, e y L were back home. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.880 It's been a minute, very rare, exciting. So this is 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.760 this is an interview that is really dope for a 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.400 variety of different reasons. But Daryl Austin, so one of 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.480 these things that we always talked about being in the 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.360 right place at the right time. We're talking about investments 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.440 coming up, and it's very important to put yourself around 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.200 the people that you actually want to connect with. So 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.000 we were in La Shout out to BT, and we 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:11.240 were at the BT House House of BT, and we 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:16.760 interviewed Ninny Leaks shout out to her, and we were 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.359 about to leave because we had to go to Miss 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.840 Ditty's event. Shout out to Miss Diddy. So long story short, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.280 a few people you know connected with us like YO, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:29.200 and it was one gentleman for sure, Darryl, who I'm 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.200 not sure how he got to me, but he met 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.640 me and he was it was very quick. This what's 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.160 important to have an elevator pitch. Also, the same thing happened, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.240 ironically enough. I'm actually wearing east Side Golf. Jordan's today 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.240 shout out to east Side Golf and they met us 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.200 at a hotel lobby and type of similar situation upon 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.440 us us. Yeah, it was interesting because when I met Daryl, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.880 he was very concise. I think he showed me some pictures. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.200 He's like, yo, I got a luxury brand. We were 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.079 about to go into luxury stores. And I was on 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.119 and Nick Cannon's show and I'm like, oh, his podcast. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.000 He was like, n his show, his TV show before 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.040 I got canceled. I'm like, that's interesting. So he showed 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.280 it to me and it was a it was a 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.320 very quick presentation, but it made a lot of sense 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.040 to me and it was interesting to me. So I'm like, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.960 all right, let's get it done. Hit up Dula. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.480 He called me at the front of the stage, right 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.280 and did us met us in the back of the stage. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.400 It wasn't even you, it was your. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.200 Man, like yo, no, my man, my man caught here, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.160 like yeah, we cat caught you. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.640 We came all away from Philly. This has to happen, bro, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.480 and I think we walked all the way to the car, like, Yo, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.360 we're gonna make it happen. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:33.720 Let's do this. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.640 But but the thing I liked about it, and we'll 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.400 talk about the brand. But so it's a luxury brand. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.520 And so if anybody follows me, you know, I do 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.040 the Drip Report, Legendary Drip Report where I chronicle my outfits, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.200 and like, I like these like Goodman shoes, like I 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.360 like come from that era where it's like products but 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.800 like real simple dress type of shoes. So when he 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.160 showed me these, and I'll show it to you if 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.400 you can see it. These are these are one of 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.160 the products. They reminded me of that where it's like 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.240 you can actually wear to you know, a club, you 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.920 could wear it just chilling. It's like it's very versatile 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.680 type of type of shoe sneaker combination. So I liked 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.280 the product. That's another reason. And I like the story too. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.640 Once out and now even hearing some more about the story, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.120 I even liked it even more. So that was like 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:21.800 two weeks ago. I said, we want to get you 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.359 on the show two weeks later here, So thank you 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:27.960 for joining us. Brother appreciate it having me. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.680 I appreciate it. Yeah, and the show man, I appreciate it. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.560 Long journey here, he said, he willing to go anywhere. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.320 You know, our next three stops. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.479 You got to. You already know you got to. So 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:44.400 let's let's get into this. So Bungee Chi, that's how 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.760 you pronounce it, Say it correctly, Bungee that's the name 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.159 of the brand. Yeah, okay, that's the first question is 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.520 what does that mean? Why did you name it that? 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:53.799 All right, Bungie? 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.640 It was for all the ups and downs in my life, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.479 because you know, at a certain period of my life, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.120 I would. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.039 Do really well. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.440 You know, I was out on tour, I was rapping, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.440 and then I'll get locked up. So now I'm back 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.960 down at the bottom of the barrel. I get out 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.320 of jail, get back out on the road, start rapping. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:08.960 Then I'm back in jail. And it was just a 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.440 non stop up and down part of my life. And 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.000 then even after I came home from prison, I started 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.840 this business, it just seemed like everything was up and down, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.240 you know what I mean, Like I didn't really know 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:19.680 what the future was going to be. It was just 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.200 up and down, up and down, up and down. So 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.839 bungee to me represents all the ups and downs in 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.120 my life. And I knew that other people were going 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.120 through ups and downs as well. It wasn't just me. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.320 So I felt like bungeie fit everyone. And then I 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.800 came up with appla chenni because it's a synonym of apparel. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.520 I went to a trade show. I had actually had 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.240 a table at a trade show, and when I got there, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.000 everyone it was either apparel or wardrobe or something like that, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.120 and I was like, I got to come up with 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.320 something a little bit more creative. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.000 It was the rapper in me. It was like, no, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.000 I'm not going for that. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.000 So I ended up, you know, google searching syndonyms for 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.880 apparel and I couldn't find anything, and I started searching 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.920 other languages and then nabla chenny just stuck out. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.640 And then I had to figure out how to say it. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.320 You know what I'm saying, because I. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.279 Thought it was out, but I just knew that the 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.320 wording just looked good together, you know, So I ended 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.480 up searching how to say it, and abli chenny it is. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.560 So there's been barriers with that. I'm sure right when 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.040 people thinking you said that to us, one of the 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.719 things we talked about is like you just simplified. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:13.279 Yeah. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.480 When people hear the name, I'm sure they were like, well, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.839 you need to change this, but you didn't. So what 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.719 was it that you said? Look, I got to stick 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:20.359 to my guns on this. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.400 Well, I think that for the most part, you know, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:24.880 I hear it a lot, like people are like, why 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.320 don't you just call it abli Chenni? 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.920 Why does it have to be Bungie? 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.919 And then it's like why do you have to have 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.760 abli Chenny At the end we can't even pronounce it, 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.200 but if people see it and they can't search it. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.120 But I just kind of feel like that's what's in 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.080 my heart, like that Bungie Abli Chenny. It brings back 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.360 so many memories of like when I was incarcerated, when 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.200 I was going through all the different things. I lost 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.200 my grandfather when I was in there. I come home, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.800 my grandmother doesn't remember who I am because you know, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.280 she had Alzheimer's. So it's like, you know, so many 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.360 different things that Bungie represents for me that I just 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:55.520 couldn't get rid of it. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.880 It's like, biaga, Yeah, you know how to say that. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.960 You say that exactly for sure. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.040 You know how to pay for it too. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.160 Out find a way, all right, So let's get this backstory. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.000 It was a very interesting backstory. So you're from Pennsylvania 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.600 outside of Philly, right, Yeah, what's the exact area. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.840 Pali, Pennsylvania, Like ten minutes from Coltsville. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:21.000 Okay. So you grow up and at what point do 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.400 you do you get incarcerated. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.200 I got incarcerated when I turned like twenty two. It 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.800 was like right after I turned twenty two, that was 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.520 my first first taste of prison. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.680 Okay, and then from then it was an ongoing in 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.480 and out of jail type situation right there. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.320 It was the same thing that Meet Mill was going through. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.160 It's like, you know, you go to prison, you come home, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.200 you violateing probation and parole all the time. You know, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.040 they'll put like a crazy curfew on you. If you 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.600 missed the curfew, they catch you, you're done. I never 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.360 did drugs. I never drank before. But what I didn't 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.960 know at the time was when I'm bagging up my work, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.080 I didn't realize that it was getting in my sister here. Yeah, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.040 so whenever I would go do with your incest, it 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.800 was coming up hot, but it wasn't really hot. So 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.160 they let me do that like two or three times 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.600 before they bagged me and I had to go back 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.800 to jail for six months and stuff like that. So 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.800 it was like a constant in and out. Like if 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.000 I crossed state lines, I wasn't allowed in the city 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.040 of Philly. I had to stay in my area. If 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.120 I got caught out there, then I would go back 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.280 to prison. So I went through that my whole adult life. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.160 Like I just got off parole like a year and 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.200 a half ago, two years ago, something like that. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.040 So what was the longest stretch that you was in there? 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.720 Six and a half six and a half years. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.400 Yeah, so and you've been home for seven years. Yeah, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:37.400 all right. So you're going through the system, in and out, parole, violations, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:43.240 getting locked up, getting violated, getting locked up. You would 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.760 actually in jail with another alumni friend of ours, wallow Ye, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.520 shout out to wallow to six seven, shout out to 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.840 six seven. And so at what point do you say, Okay, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.160 this is enough, I'm tired. Because a lot of people 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.840 have similar situations right where it's like it's hard. You 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.480 really can't get a good job up. You know, you're 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.640 going back and forth, and you know, it's just it 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.360 becomes a vicious cycle. You might have kids, you fall 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.560 in child support situation. You can actually go to jail 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.640 for that before. People don't realize how easy it is 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.120 to keep going back to jail once you kind of 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:18.240 fall in that system. So at what point do you say, Okay, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.080 this is not for me, like I'm doing something different. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.560 Well, first, I felt like the whole time that I 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.000 wanted to do more of my life, and I was 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.840 selling drugs to be able to get to that point 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.640 because I just felt like it was the fastest money 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.839 that I could possibly get. So I always knew that 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.520 I wanted to do something morebl when I got caught 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.520 that last time, I started losing family members because I 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.080 was going for that six and a half years. So 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.000 it's like once my grandfather passed away, his last memory 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.720 of me is getting dragged off his porch and getting 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.520 paed up by the police. So it's like, after he 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.079 passed away, I ended up having a conversation with my 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.920 mom and she's like, listen, I don't know what you're 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:52.240 going to do. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:52.840 With yourself. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.600 But right now they're doing background checks for people that 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.720 you know that are trying to get jobs for when 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.760 you're trying to move into a place, whatever it is 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.600 that you you gotta do. There was a background a 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.960 check attached to that, and she was like, the only 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.360 way you're gonna be able to survive out here is 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.080 if you create your own business. So at that point, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.760 you know, I just went back to the cell man 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.280 I prayed for the first time. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.600 I never really was a religious dude or nothing like that. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.040 I prayed and I was like, I don't know where 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.320 I should go with my life, but I just need 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.200 some sort of guidance. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:20.160 And I just left it at that. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.959 And then like two hours later, I wake up something 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.640 told me to sketch. I sketched a pair of sneakers 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.160 and it looked like I took the sneaker and placed 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:28.720 it on the shoot. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:29.440 That's how good it was. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.000 I never sketched before in my life, so once I 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.360 seen that, I'm like, damn, maybe I can just make 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.760 a living sketching, you know, sneakers. I didn't think about 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.199 a sneaker brand at that time. I was just focused 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.520 on sketching sneakers. And you know, I kept showing all 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.280 the different you know, walkies and sellies and stuff like that, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.480 and they're like, yo, like you need to think about 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.920 doing your own brand. So then I ended up creating 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.959 my own sneaker. And then you know, I just started 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.880 asking people their opinion, like what you think about this? 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.360 What you think if I added that? What if I 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:55.760 take it off? 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.280 This in jail? Yeah, so you created your own sneaker 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.560 on paper. Yeah, you didn't physically you have a sneaker, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.960 you know, you created it the idea. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.560 Yeah, And then what happened was I didn't. I wasn't 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.680 really a great artist because I just started while I 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.240 was there. So when I used to go out to 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.000 the yard, I used to take a keyboard with me 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:12.959 and I used to just you know, make beats, and 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.760 I used to have all the rappers rap all the time. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.679 But this one time I went out and I was like, 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.400 you know, I'm gonna take a couple pack of cigarettes 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.240 with me, and I'm going to walk around and every 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.200 one of those dudes that are sketching, I'm gonna give 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.960 them a pack of cigarettes to teach me something. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.040 So that's yep, yep. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.800 So after I started doing that, I stopped walking with 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.720 the keyboard as much and I just started going around 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.480 just picking information from people. So it's like I would 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.520 get this artist that would show me how to do shading. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.559 This artist would teach me how to like make it 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.160 where like if you turn it to the side or 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.000 to look this way, or if you sketch it this 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.319 way to look that way. And then after I did 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.679 that and I honed in all on those skills, then 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.440 I started looking for people that I would see out 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.240 in the yard with business books or people on the 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.520 block that would have business books, and I would sit 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.280 down and talk to them about business plans and all that. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:57.960 Because you got to remember, I never went to college. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.839 I went to high school and that was it. So 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.559 at that point I just started introducing myself to different people. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.280 I was also the barber there, so I used to 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.440 talk to everyone as I was cutting her hair. So 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.880 I was gaining a lot of knowledge from people in prison. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.840 So you got the architects skills from walking around, you 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.240 got the business ideas, and you had a license to 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.760 be a barber all in the same time, so you're 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.000 maximizing your time absolutely. So who's the person that obviously 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.520 when you start the sketches at the how many sketches 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.559 are you showing? And who's the person that's like, look, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.400 let's sit down and really draw this business planning up. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.199 Is it somebody? 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:30.120 It wasn't. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.640 There was multiple people, and everyone that I talked to 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.960 was like, Yo, you're not supposed to be here, Like 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.000 you're running around doing these different things. You're supposed to 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.760 be out there doing something in the world. You're not 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.920 supposed to be here. And every time I heard that, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.840 it was from different people, but they were saying the 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.120 same thing, but just a little bit differently. So I 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.800 was like, man, like, maybe I need to figure out 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.040 how I can get out of here and then drop 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.679 jewels to these dudes that are incarcerated after I get 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.960 out and get successful. So as of right now, you know, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.640 I go back and I donate my time to the 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.520 prison and I speak to the inmates and I tell them, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.600 you know, what my philosophy was and how I went 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.800 about accomplishing what I accomplished. I know, I speed all that, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.720 but it's like the most smartest people that I ever 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.199 met was in prison. Like it's crazy how it is 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.640 and how creative you can get when you just don't 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.000 have anything around you, you know what I mean. So, 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.480 like there's there's some really smart people in prison, man, definitely. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.200 So your mom said something I was very insightful. She said, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.960 you just said it, So the only opportunity to start 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.960 your own business. What was the exact quote. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.600 She taught me, The only way that I'm going to 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.800 survive out here is if I create my own business. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.680 And I'll never forget that, she said that. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.560 And this business, like the other part is that you've 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.040 never had a job in your life. Never It was 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.719 fourteen it was selling drugs and wrapping. Then you get 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.520 locked up, going and out, but you've never had so 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.440 the business is the first time you're ever going to 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.040 be not even employed, but making money for yourself. 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:57.520 Yeah, well that's that's a very insightful commentary on her part. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:02.079 And yeah, it's something that it's the harsh reality. It's 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.640 a harsh reality, right because it's like especially you know, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.800 having felonies going to jail, same thing on nature. Yeah, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.240 of course there's always going to be you know, people 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.000 that find a way that you know, but for the 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.520 most part, your job opportunity is limited. Job opportunity is 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.600 limited now anyway, but especially with that, so it's like 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.760 you're stuck to, you know, a minimum wage type situation, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.200 and what is that going to do? That's going to 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:24.920 force you back in the street. Right, you can't even 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.120 buy enough, you can't even make enough to actually support yourself. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.920 So the harsh reality is like, if you don't have 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.600 your own business, you're gonna be screwed. So for how 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.520 to even say that to you, Like, that's something that's 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.800 very very insightful. So all right, So you get the 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.600 information in jail, you start doing sketches, you start learning 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.200 about business, start reading books, start educating yourself different things 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.480 of that nature. When do you actually launch the company. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.280 I came home from prison and I come home to 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.720 a new world Facebook, Instagram. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.280 I never heard of any of it when I was 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.840 what's the time period. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:07.560 I came home and the like, when was it I 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.360 got to the halfway house, I want to say, in 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.040 like twenty fifteen something like that. So it's like I 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.200 had no idea any of this stuff was even going on, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.880 you know what I'm saying, And I had I had 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.640 to figure out how to use it, you know, And 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.760 I was like I remember, like the very first time 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.320 I was going to post a picture. I felt like 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.400 a nut because it was like, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.800 first of all, where I come from, you don't put 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.000 your business out there like that. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:30.760 And I'm seeing. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.000 People like, hey, I'm over here, I'm doing this. I 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.760 just couldn't relate to that. So like the very first picture, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.280 I'm like, I was over there. People think that I 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:39.680 was over there, but I'm really over here? Is I 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.480 took that picture over there and I posted it later. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.720 So like I did that for a while, like you know, 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.120 because I just couldn't get used to telling people what 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.080 I was doing. And then it was just like you know, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.480 once I ended up getting to that point where I 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.640 kind of got used to the to the you know, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.480 Facebook and all. And I still to this day had 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.560 never used Twitter before either. I never used Twitter or TikTok. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.840 I just I just can't get to that point yet. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:02.840 Anyway. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.960 To get to the point I ended up launching, I 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.480 want to say I didn't even launch. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.440 I bought samples for like the first three years. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.400 I didn't have enough money to be able to even 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.600 get an order in you know what I mean. I 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:14.960 just didn't have the money and I didn't want to 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.040 go back to selling drugs and games. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.080 I didn't want to go back to jail. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.880 So for the first three years of me being home, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.840 I was just getting samples and changing the name and 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.560 going back and forth for different ideas. And then you know, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.119 finally that one day that guy came in the barbershop 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.880 and he was like, Yo, do you have His name 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.120 is Ernest, by the way, I want call him that 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.640 guy earn This comes in the barbershop and he's like, yo, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.120 like do you have these in the size such and such? 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.200 And I was like no, And he's like, well, what 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.440 do I need to do to be able to get 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.400 him in the size? And I was like, I need 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.840 like ten grand to be able to get it going. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.640 And he was just like, you got a business plan? 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.800 I was like yeah, He's like meet me at Starbucks tomorrow. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.960 So I was like, all I bet. So I ended 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.800 up meeting them at Starbucks, and I remember it like 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.040