WEBVTT - Dr. Marc Baxter Full Interview 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.279 Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I'm your host Rashan McDonald, 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:08.039 the only hosts of Money Making Conversation. Each money Making 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:11.959 Conversation talk show us about entrepreneurship and entertainment. I provide 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:16.360 the consumer and business owner access to celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.360 and industry decision makers. It is important to understand that 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.560 everybody travels a different path to success. That's because your 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.960 brand is different. The challenges you faced in your life 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.920 are different. So stop reading other people's success stories and 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.880 start writing your own. Now. 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Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:17.200 Dr Mark D. Baxter. I thank you, thank you. It's 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.720 truly a pleasure in the honor to be here. I 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.080 appreciate you. Mr Rashawn, It's always a pleasure. Well, also, 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.440 my friend, you know, I'm a member of the Lincoln 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.400 LinkedIn Social Media Society. So I get a chance to 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.319 watch your videos, I'm motivated. Uh. I find them entertaining. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.280 I find them. Uh, I could never do them because 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.280 you you know, you're very active. You're very active in 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.400 your in your in your video video. Explain that technique 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:46.000 that you developed in your videos. Well, I first of all, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.800 thank you. And when it comes to the videos, it's 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.640 all passion. It's all purfect to me. I gotta drop 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.680 a name for you. Paul Brunsman, if he recently moved 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.880 to the UK, has the Relationship show was picked up 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.120 my own years ago and they put them on a 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.800 great path. I was in the Mastermind group with Paul 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.360 and he said, Mark, your power, your energy is amazing, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.160 but you got to get it out to the world. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.520 So he said, in today's era of social media, you 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.120 just gotta let it all out and that led me 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.880 to start doing videos. And I was standing still. He said, Mark, 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.000 that's not enough. You too posserble start walking around. And 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.800 then when I was in Atlanta, I was at John 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.120 Hope Bryant's Hope Global for him and that was the 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.520 first one I did walking around and he said, that's good, Mark, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.640 I feel it. But it's another level. And and and listen, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.000 Mr Rishan, when I started putting that video camera down 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.520 and just started letting guy use me naturally, that's what 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.800 you see today, and that's what's bringing everyone in the 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.680 world is taking notice. When I take notice. I showed 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.960 it to my staff. I told him, I said this, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.959 I helped up. I said, this the guy one of 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.600 my show. Right here, Mark, look at it. Let's get 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.919 right here. Look like he moves back, he runs to 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.200 the camera, goes back, he makes that statement and the 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.840 steps back. I said, he does it everywhere he could be. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.600 He could be on the street, he could be in 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.920 the parking lot, he could be in the building. I 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.320 just love the fact that you're saying you're willing to 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.240 take your your message wherever it needs to be heard. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.240 That's basically what you're saying in your videos. Correct, I 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.880 am definitely saying that. And here's the thing. See, I 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.080 get motivated when I can motivate others. God set me up, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.040 and see what happens is that this is the only 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.160 thing that's this liberating for me. It's liberating. I've been 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.480 holding that power in for so long and now you know, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.000 we're getting the other questions later. But I made millions 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.200 and lost it all. But now I'm in alignment with 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.080 my purpose. So now I'm able to do things like 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.800 this video and just let all the power out because 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.720 my job is to take the power that's in me 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.320 and transferred to the people of the world. Well what 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.120 you do? You caught my eye and I find it 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.880 because I feel you know when you when you're in 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.600 this business is a competitive business, Okay, motivation and information 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.400 and you know what separates you what catches a person 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.080 I and and allows them to share your views? And 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.280 that's the whole thing. In social media. You know, you're 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.720 marketing and brandy machine, and so what's your hook, what's 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.760 your take on it and how you can grow your 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.000 brand and basically what you're doing and in developing this technique, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.040 I find it. Uh, can I congratulate you on that. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.280 And one of the reason I'm a fan is because 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:20.560 I know that's tied to a plan, a plan of action. Correct, Yes, absolutely, absolutely, yes, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.720 it's definitely tied to a plane of action. And again 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.039 you know, um, and that's how ironic. We're in Black 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.080 History month and um, what happened is that you know 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.440 Martin had a dream. We all know that. But I 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.039 also had a dream at the age of fifteen. In fact, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.400 I had the same dream each and every night for 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.800 an entire year. And this is what it looked like. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.720 I'm talking about. When I wake up and fall back 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.920 to sleep, the dream continue. When I go to sleep 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.720 the next night, the dream continues for an entire year. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.640 So so Mr Rashawn Is, I stand on your show 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.479 and I sit and I spill my heart out to 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.800 you into the audience. I'm here to tell you that 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.600 that dream is coming true right here, right now. So 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.360 I'm a testament that life is real. You can create 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.480 your own life. We're on a delayed gratification scale. That's why. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.120 Your life is created by how you think, how you feel, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.760 and how you respond to situations. I'll say it again, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.080 your life is created by how you think how you 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.240 feel and how you respond to situation. Well, Mr back, 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.800 you have not failed me so far in this interview. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.800 Now your book here how to be one with your greatness? 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.120 Before we get into the book, I had one question, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:32.040 what is your greatness? My greatness and I and this 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:33.920 is a great question. In fact, I was talking to 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.039 a couple of friends the other day, and my view 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.560 of greatness is that greatness is in the eye of 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:43.359 the beholder, meaning that everyone's greatness may look and feel different. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.360 That's why we're all made distinctively different. And here's how 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.040 you know. Because that fingerprint that you walk around with 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.120 that DNA is unmatchable. You can search the whole world, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.440 but there's no one that can specifically match your fingerprints. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.599 So that's basically what my greatness is is to come 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.440 and total alignment with that fingerprint, with that uniqueness that 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.600 I was created to be. So in doing that, and 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.400 I'm trying to get into the book a little bit, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.000 But you gotta come in alignment with your truth and 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.680 so so therefore you gotta first learn what your truth is. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.840 Because what life does. It forces things on you. So 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.400 it forces education, all these other things on you. But 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.000 the true true definition of education is not systematic knowledge 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.040 to go out and make other people wealthy. True definition 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.480 of education is not is development from within. So we're 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.200 already wired for greatness. But when we come into this world, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.719 they've bombarred you with other aspects of what you have 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.599 to do. And often times we we put up these 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.200 artificial layers to try to suffice all of these things 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.679 that are coming at us in life. When the truth 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.839 of the matter is that you're already wired for greatness. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:57.360 You just gotta resist the external and believe and what's inside. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:02.160 My man, we're talking to you. Markdi baxter Uh, author 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.080 of How to Be One with Greatness. You were born 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.919 to be great this book I read it always what 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.680 I when I do when I bring authors on the show. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.320 I always read the book to day out, you know, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.480 like I get up earlier, read this so everything stays 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 real fresh. And that was some really key moments in 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:22.280 your growth, you know, five, six, nine, early years you 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.640 know that were defining. And the reason I bringing that 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.000 up because it's important to understand that you can be 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.480 shaped so clean in those early years and a lot 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.560 of people understand how important it is to start really 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.160 you know, putting a proper imprint on the kid, because 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.280 those memories can carry you to adulthood as it has 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.920 you because it's it's written in your book when you 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.720 were five years old, when your brother Tony walked you 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.880 down to your school for the first time, he was 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:54.240 excited and then he just let you go. Yeah, it 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.480 was a traumatic It was a traumatic experience. And what 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.800 you you said that, Mr Rashawn, you that it We 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.240 are all a product of our home, our environment, and 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.640 our experiences. We are all products of our home, our environment, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.120 and our experiences. And whatever you choose to do back 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.800 in the day, n w A say mix it in 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.400 a pot like gumbo. So however you mix it in 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.680 your pots, and whatever recipe you come out with is 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.120 what you have to deal with. See, I was challenged 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.720 with a lot of adversity early on in my life 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.520 and throughout my life because I understand for who much 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.559 has given, much is required. And see, you gotta change 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.440 your perception of adversity. Adversity is not bad. Adversity is 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.560 nothing more than growth opportunities because the only way you 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.559 can grow is by being challenged. So you gotta change 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.240 the way you look at adversity and that's what my 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.920 life has toward me early on in my life. I'm 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.080 from I'm from a very dysfunctional household. I have a 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.240 mom that didn't finish high school. She's from South Carolina, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.080 has to grow up really, really hard. And I have 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.880 a dad that only went to the sixth grade from Savannah, Georgia. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.679 And they both my great here to Philadelphia and and 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.400 and created a relationship. And don't get me wrong, God 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.600 rest my dad and my mom. I lost my dad 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.960 on June eight to, two thousand and eighteen. I lost 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.120 my mom on June twenty last year, two thousand nineteen. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.600 God rest their soul. But the truth of the matter 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.040 is that, you know, I'm a realist. They should have 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.679 never been married. You know, they created, and I love 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.880 my siblings and I'm thankful for being created. But you know, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.320 you gotta call us fade of spade. And growing up 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.200 in the household, it was very traumatic. I mean, they 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.760 slept in separate rooms, stretching to kill each other every day. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.040 And then we were in the hood, we were from poverty, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.440 and then on top of that, then so so so 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.920 everything is just reinforcing the negativity. And then on top 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.599 of that, I was the youngest, and all of this 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.400 drives and all of this insight inside of me, and 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:54.240 I had no outlet to let it out, created no mentors. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.160 You know. That came later on and I found refuge 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.640 to football and in church. That's say my life, and 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.280 I poured all of my pain into it, and henceforth 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.200 it got me a scholars at the college in football, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.760 and I got a tremendous relationship with God because I 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.559 didn't settle. You know, you got a choice. I mean, listen, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.720 adversity comes free, but you gotta fight to secure the blessing. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.840 Every adversity comes with an equal with not greater blessing. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.360 The adversity will find you free, but you gotta fight 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.400 to secure the blessing. And the difference is that us, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.120 especially as a people, we've become comfortable with simply surviving 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.720 as this. You get a reward for surviving. You know, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.920 it's admirable to survive. But it's time that we start 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.960 to thrive. So you gotta push the issue to thrive 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.680 to get to those blessings. And that's what I just 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.280 learned how to do, and that's what I'm showing the 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.120 world how to do it. He's doing. First of all, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.120 you're successful and you caught my attention. That's why you're 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.120 on Money Making Conversation. I'm talking to markty Baxter, the 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.079 author of the book How to Be One with Greatness. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.760 You were born to be great, motivational. He's honest. Uh, Mark, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.920 do you have a YouTube channel? Absolutely? Absolutely, if it's 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.960 in my name, Mark Baxter, Mark Baxter, and so to 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.080 all the videos that I see on LinkedIn stored on 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.040 your your YouTube channel. YouTube? Absolutely, I have over to 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.640 I have hundreds of videos on YouTube. I haven't counted 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.000 a year, but I'm I'm very, very active on YouTube. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.800 My daily videos on YouTube. In fact, I've been doing 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.079 videos on YouTube for years. It's just that I picked 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.400 it up. I've had great people around me, you know, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.560 Paul runs them to give me a you know, I'm 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.200 on you know, the Rash Donald's show. So it's amazing. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.400 I'm getting people around me. Listen, success is closing in 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.920 on me. I can't lose. You can't can't lose because 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.199 of the fact that, first of all, I've changed them. Man, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.400 I appreciate you. That's what money Made Conversation is all about. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.520 First of all, individuals who willing are willing to share 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.760 their stories so everybody can find that the past can't 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.760 be relatable, okay, because you know, you can see that journey. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.040 You can see superstars, you can see millionaires, you see 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.319 big cars, you see Lane Basically was always played out 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.280 music videos. Now it's being played out in social media 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.560 because people post their best Nobody pay post their tragic 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.360 Everybody wants post their best clothes, the best play, the food, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.760 you know, the best vacation experience. You know, they're sitting 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.600 from they're standing from the car. They might not even 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.600 own that car, but they're standing in front, you know, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.040 so they're presenting that image to you. And so so 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.800 you are. You are a guy who's sitting in the 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.199 middle of all that, you know, like like peeping through 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.960 the curtains and guess who's on the other side. Mark, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.920 we know that said come on over here, don't be afraid, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.199 don't be afraid, don't be afraid. And that's why I 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.240 started money making conversation. We're gonna come back in our 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.439 next break and getting more detail on this book. I 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.240 hope you enjoying the interview here, Mark, because I'm so 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.520 happy you came on my show. Up. I follow him 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.600 on LinkedIn. Uh and uh he's spectacular LinkedIn. He he 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.360 motivates me every week with his videos with his energy 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.240 as you hear in this interview is incredible. We'll be 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.320 back with more money making conversations with my man, Dr 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.400 Mark Baxter. We'll be right back with more from Marchana 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.520 McDonald The money making conversations. Don't touch that down. Hi, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.120 Just Rashana mcdang and you're listening to money making Conversations. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.800 I host this show to bring individuals on the show 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.319 that can now give you information on how to be successful. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.960 I know their life is different, their path to success 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.200 is different, but they will share with you nuggets of 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.320 information that will allow you to understand that your path 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.920 or your dreams can be achieved. One of the true 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.920 uh and inspirations of this whole technique, seeking your greatness, 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.400 Accepting your greatness is on the phone will me today 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.160 is a very successful book alcohol how to be One 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.120 with Greatness? You were born to be great? Uh? Dr 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.160 Mark d Factor Mark, how are you doing to day? 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:47.080 My friend? Oh, I'm doing excellent. Mr Rashane, and listen. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.880 It's such a pleasure to be here and I want 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.360 to thank you again for having me well great, um, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.720 I was talking about we we kind of dipped in 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.520 a little bit when you know, like I love the 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.079 fact that you know, you just told her on the 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.920 story about your home life. But was these these little 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.880 slices of life that stories are experiences you're providing your book, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.760 like like dealing with issues, how we how we will 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.120 hide and how we will shield, how we tend to 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.839 stop ourselves, like like expecting something that happened, and then 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.880 when it doesn't have that happen that way, how do 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.720 you deal with it? And that was that simple walk 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.920 to school when your brother Tony was taking you. You 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.040 thought he was gonna walk you all the way to school, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:27.960 and you was having a good time. You know, you're 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.960 barely keeping up with him with your little short legs, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.840 and he was just he was just walking normal. You know, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.240 what are you looking at? You? You're just trying to 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.720 keep up. And then you just you just say a 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.360 word or two. You thought there was gonna be like 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.840 a big brother little brother conversation and he's gonna just 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.960 tell you about life on the way, and he barely 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.760 spoke to you. And then when he was almost almost 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.600 out of school, he just pointed at it. You got 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.880 it from here, I got you now. But that's what 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.960 life feels about though, because a lot of people they 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.000 get on the job, they think the job is gonna 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.880 go this way, and then when the when the job 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.160 throws in the curve, how they they deal with it 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.600 is the next step on how they're going to be successful. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.200 That's what I took away from that story. You walk 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.960 in to school with an expectation your brother's gonna take 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.040 you to the front door that school, and he didn't. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.960 How you dealt with it alone the way for the 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.960 rest of your life. Really, it's who you are today, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.480 right and and and I thank you for the for 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.960 the analogy that you use with social media and things, 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.280 I say the same thing. Everybody proclaim their own goodness. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.560 It's a perfect place for me invent yourself. But no, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.640 you're you're you're a hundred percent right. It's all about 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.800 what how you handle the situations that you're faced with. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.520 And when my brother was walking me to school, um, again, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.920 you were perfect. You're in your analysis of me thinking 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.960 it's going to be a big brother and little brother interaction. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.160 I rarely saw him. He was about sixteen years older 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.800 than me. I was the youngest, and it's a big 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.560 gap in between us. And this was individual time and 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.440 then when he left me. But what I had to realize, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.120 and this is what I encourage us all to do. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.040 The first person you have to look in any situation 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.720 is yourself, because all of the answers to life's problems 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.160 are in the mirror. And what I realized at a 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.240 young age is that I misled my older brother. See, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.360 any situation that you're part of, there's something that you 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.040 gotta learn, even if it seems like it's not your fault, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.120 Like if it seems like you're honey, innocent, there's still 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.200 something you gotta learn, or else you wouldn't have never 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.320 been encountered the situation. So when I had to look 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.320 in the mirror, I realized that I created that situation 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.680 because I used to act tougher than I really was. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.000 You see, because I had these older brothers that were cool, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.360 and I used to act that way too. I act 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.160 more mature. I had some pride in there. Because of 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.560 that pride is what my brother called on too. He 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.280 he felt those vibrations and in his mind, he didn't 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.720 feel like he was doing anything wrong. He felt like 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.160 he may have been doing me a favor because I was. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.000 I was projecting as if I was more mature than 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.560 I really was. So I had to look in the 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.880 mirror fers to acknowledge how could I do different or 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.960 what how can I change my behavior in order to 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.520 get a different result. And that's set the tone for 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.800 the rest of my life. And I realized I used 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.439 to question God all the time because I didn't just 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.200 have little things happen to me. I had big things 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.000 happen to me. Like I didn't just break the arm. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.040 I broke my femur bone, the biggest bone in your body, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.280 your side bone. So I had to be in a 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.080 body cast for three to six months. I had to 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.399 learn how to walk all over again. So I didn't 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.000 just have little stuff happen to me. And I used 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.200 to always question, you know, God, why me? Why me? 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.399 I didn't ask for my mom not to like me. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.160 I didn't do anything. I didn't ask for her to 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.879 do to do anything in her power to try to 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.399 tear me down. You're the one that I looked to. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.359 You're you're my point guard, You're my go to person, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.080 You're my quarterback. You know what I mean. But what 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.960 I realized about life is that that was just life 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.879 challenging me to be my best self. And now that 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.720 I was able to meet those challenges, that where they are. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.920 And I mentioned earlier, every adversity comes with the eat, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.720 if not greater blessings, adversity comes free, but you gotta 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.800 fight to secure the blessings. And I'm just one that 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.440 fights to secure my blessings. And now I'm just trying 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.920 to help other people to fight to secure their Well, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.560 my man, that's exactly what all right? Have you on this? 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.640 Just to tell my fans and my listeners are people 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.480 who are listening for the first time because it also 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.920 plays out on my YouTube channel, who might just click 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.119 on your your photo and say wow because I wanted 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.879 to share your values. You know this book that you've written, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.240 How to Be One with Greatness? You were born to 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.240 be great? What can we buy this book at Mark? Well, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.280 the book is an Amazon I mean I published it 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:42.480 through uh the book Essence Essence Publishing UM and you 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.400 can email me directly and I'll ship it out to you. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.040 You know, I met M Baxter at Mark Baxter dot com. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.919 That's M Baxter b a x tr at Mark Baxter 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.960 dot com. Um, you can also hit my website Mark 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.760 at www dot Mark Baxter dot com and just shoot 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.760 me an info or whatever. But I'll get it to 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.240 you because and I appreciate you, Mr Rashaan, because it's 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.800 all about awareness. You know, a lot of people need 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.360 exactly what I have, just like we all need each other, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.119 but we don't know, you know, so we have to 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:17.239 keep expecting and having a desire for better. It's all 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.520 about your desire. If you don't have a desire for better, 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.480 better is not gonna come your way, you know. So 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.359 it's all about your desire. And uh, let's talk about it. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.600 Let's talk about the business side of you. You. We 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.320 know you're a great motivator. We know you you're passionate 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.520 about your reminding people that your past. Do not allow 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.359 your past to determine your future, your destiny's chide to 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.680 your effort. Now, you have a business that I wanted 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.160 to bring up to your peril. Company called Gangster mindset 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.639 LLC is reading redefining the word gangster with a positive spind. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.959 Talk about that absolutely, Like I've always um, you know, 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.600 I've always had desired being from the inner city, from 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.280 poverty and things like that and coming out being a 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.280 being a man of character and integrity, you know, not perfect, 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.800 but as pure of a heart as you'll find. You know, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:08.639 I realized that. You know, it's all about growth and development. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:10.960