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Speaker 1: My next guest is known as the Reality check Doctor.
Speaker 1: He's a certified master coach and relationship expert. Off there,
Speaker 1: we was just talking about relationships now, I forgot that.
Speaker 1: He was one of the top relationship experts for over
Speaker 1: a decade. Dr d Ivan Young has been dedicated to
Speaker 1: helping people create a positive, lasting change in people's lives.
Speaker 1: He's he has an incredible TEX He's an incredible TEX speaker.
Speaker 1: In fact, that the text he has all right now
Speaker 1: he has over a million views. Please welcome to money
Speaker 1: making Conversations. Dr d Ivan Young. Hey, hey man, how
Speaker 1: are you doing this? MAXA. I'm doing good, but actually
Speaker 1: it's been it's I've waited you long to put you
Speaker 1: on the show. You've been on show longer typ ago.
Speaker 1: Either you're just very busy or I'm just very busy.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy to have you on the show. Dr
Speaker 1: young Man. It is such an honor to be with you. Um.
Speaker 1: You know one thing that I just have to kind
Speaker 1: of be a little groupie about it is when someone
Speaker 1: that I look at like you as a metal figure
Speaker 1: and as a role model UH calls. The first thing
Speaker 1: you wonder, okay, is this is down prank call? And
Speaker 1: then he and know it was really your office. So man,
Speaker 1: I am just I'm humbled. I'm delighted, But beyond that,
Speaker 1: I am very grateful to have someone with your platform
Speaker 1: and with your track record, UH just provide the opportunity
Speaker 1: for me to try to bless somebody with what I've
Speaker 1: learned from you and people like you. Well, let's give
Speaker 1: some credit on my side to what you've done for
Speaker 1: me personally. I was not interested in doing a radio show.
Speaker 1: I ran into in Houston, Texas. I ran into uh
Speaker 1: ivan and uh a restaurant, walked up to every show,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Do my show? And he has
Speaker 1: a show on at the time, and I said, I
Speaker 1: don't know. He said, come on, man, do my show.
Speaker 1: People need to hear you. People need to hear what
Speaker 1: you have to say. So I did this show in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was great, fantastic show. Great. Uh people
Speaker 1: are lightening up the phone called phone lines and everything.
Speaker 1: And I got off. When I walked off air, the
Speaker 1: owners of the station was waiting on me. I sat
Speaker 1: in their office for two hours, remember that, and I
Speaker 1: remember them ambushing you, is what I remember. When you
Speaker 1: got off and and they sat down and asked me
Speaker 1: and I said, well, I said, I do it. I
Speaker 1: but but I only do it for four weeks. I'll
Speaker 1: do the show for four weeks. That was in May
Speaker 1: of last year, seventeen four weeks. So now we're at
Speaker 1: the about the uh sixteen month mark, and we're still
Speaker 1: doing money making conversation and I'm on the phone with
Speaker 1: a young man who made it all happen as far
Speaker 1: as getting me in. And that's why I always tell
Speaker 1: people you never know when your next opportunity will come.
Speaker 1: To keep an open mind, and that that's basically what
Speaker 1: your career is all about. Keeping an open mind. Correct, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: but one of the biggest things that has uh, I've
Speaker 1: learned from just many mentors you, Jleen Ricky, people like
Speaker 1: Greg Carter and people like that, is don't get the
Speaker 1: big head work you're brought off people. There's no such
Speaker 1: thing as being an overnight success. Now, you can screw
Speaker 1: it up overnight, even within two or three minutes of
Speaker 1: running your mouth. But if you really want durable, lasting success,
Speaker 1: it's all about living your brand and being committed and
Speaker 1: humble and every opportunity that you get, take it serious
Speaker 1: and make the most of it. Let's talk about because
Speaker 1: I wanted there several RILs, because we got you for
Speaker 1: two breaks, and I want to talk about the tedex
Speaker 1: moment now I ted X speaker opportunities have you had
Speaker 1: so far? Uh? So far? There are too that are
Speaker 1: published out there, and they're would be about three more
Speaker 1: within the next twelve months. With well, I just felt
Speaker 1: it like this man. You know, it's it's rare Rashanska
Speaker 1: that they even get brothers. Uh, not that it hasn't
Speaker 1: been any of us, but we are a very select
Speaker 1: group and those of us who have been um esteemed
Speaker 1: or fortunate enough to have that platform because as you guys,
Speaker 1: know if they debt the hell out you to be
Speaker 1: on do a ted X and then even when you're
Speaker 1: in competition, you're in competition amongst all these brilliant minds.
Speaker 1: So just have the the opportunity to do something like
Speaker 1: that is truly, truly a wonderful experience. Now you have one.
Speaker 1: You have one of your videos that you did know
Speaker 1: ted X over a million views. I remember you were
Speaker 1: tracking and Rashan check this out. I'm a thousand and
Speaker 1: have me tell us about that experience for taping it.
Speaker 1: Where was taped some of the content and it don't
Speaker 1: want to give away because we want people, we want
Speaker 1: to drive them to go watch it and keep adding
Speaker 1: to the views. But tell us about wherever the tape,
Speaker 1: how the opportunity came about you and what changes has
Speaker 1: it caused in your life to get a video that
Speaker 1: has been few by over a million people? Oh wow,
Speaker 1: it's highly significant. You know. It's one thing when we
Speaker 1: put out content ourselves and try to optimize it and
Speaker 1: and and sell it. But tedd X doesn't permit you
Speaker 1: doing any type of stimulation that's financial for a teex
Speaker 1: h video. But the way it took place, long Star
Speaker 1: was having a the TTEX event here and and the
Speaker 1: Houston area, and several or few hundred people applied. I was,
Speaker 1: I was suggested, and the next thing I know, you know,
Speaker 1: they vetted and vetted and vetted, and I somehow it
Speaker 1: was very um fortunate to make it to the top
Speaker 1: ten people that they selected out of the hundreds of people.
Speaker 1: From that point, the uh, you know, I just did
Speaker 1: my thing talking about the laws of attraction and emotional intelligence.
Speaker 1: Soon thereafter they notified me and they said, hey man,
Speaker 1: this thing's a eleven thousand, which I was like, what
Speaker 1: eleven thousand? If someone had told me it would be
Speaker 1: a million views within eighteen months, I would have never
Speaker 1: believed it. But I can tell you that what I'm
Speaker 1: very grateful for is that it's opened up opportunities such
Speaker 1: as this platform to be on programs like this program
Speaker 1: I'm on with you right now, uh, to get the
Speaker 1: exposure and to represent that many of us, meaning men
Speaker 1: of color, we do more than And I'm not knocking
Speaker 1: brothers that catching dribble balls, because that's the gift within itself,
Speaker 1: but there are people like you and me out here
Speaker 1: that use other gifts and other skills sets to um
Speaker 1: to maximize our potential, and there's a lot of potential.
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is that, you know, I've
Speaker 1: had some videos that go viral. You know, viral is
Speaker 1: anything that it sees like a hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: views and social media and it really does change your
Speaker 1: life it Uh, it brings credibility to it. Uh when
Speaker 1: you tell people when you want to get booked on shows,
Speaker 1: you can send them that link and they go really
Speaker 1: a million people And so I guess I want to
Speaker 1: say that with that happened to you? What what? What?
Speaker 1: What is? What has been the most um you know
Speaker 1: is that when you say that's your first big break
Speaker 1: in the media industry, that video going viral, not saying
Speaker 1: that you haven't been accomplished in other areas. But that's
Speaker 1: pretty significant. Yes it is. And I have no problem
Speaker 1: being um, transparent or authentic about my journey Roshan. I
Speaker 1: have worked so hard to have a voice and to
Speaker 1: be at least recognized is not a scene, but just
Speaker 1: recognized from how hard I work it wanting to be
Speaker 1: the best at what I do. So to have something
Speaker 1: like that happened change it did change the level for
Speaker 1: me in terms of the playing field, and now that
Speaker 1: I'm there, what I'm really reminded of is stuff that
Speaker 1: I've learned from watching you is you know, don't get
Speaker 1: the big head because now that you're here, what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do while you're here? So being really being truthful.
Speaker 1: I'm reading six bucks books a month. If I'm not reading,
Speaker 1: and I'm listening to six um studying and working harder
Speaker 1: than ever, and I'm dog gonna sure praying and meditating
Speaker 1: everything to make sure that I can stay where I am.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more. Dr d Ivan Young
Speaker 1: going when you're making a conversation, he got a lot
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Speaker 1: with my man. I'm not selling that doctor. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I am any spokesperson. I am an
Speaker 1: ambassador of brands. Now, that's what happens with your own
Speaker 1: money making conversation. You get credibility. Now, you have tremendous credibility.
Speaker 1: And I just want to say this to you, doctor,
Speaker 1: You you what you accomplished, and I'm proud of you,
Speaker 1: first of all, And I don't want and I brought
Speaker 1: you on the show and I'm gonna bring on the
Speaker 1: show again in the fall because I am a fan
Speaker 1: of your brand. And it's also the part about because
Speaker 1: I know the stages you have to go through. So
Speaker 1: tell us what is the future of your brand? Because
Speaker 1: I'm seeing you on these different TV shows as an expert.
Speaker 1: What just there? Where are we going? Are we looking
Speaker 1: at another Michael straighthand here another Steve Harvey? Here? I
Speaker 1: love the Mortel Mortel? What's going on here? Sir? Man?
Speaker 1: Being honest with you, my own lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of lots of me, you better be honest with me. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the truth. The truth is that there's a guy
Speaker 1: um at a major network UH named David Parozzi who
Speaker 1: has been very much a huge supporter and then I
Speaker 1: have people like you and jay Len and Ricky in
Speaker 1: my corner, so conversations are happening. Uh. We're talking to
Speaker 1: uh some people a dr Fields production unit and exploring
Speaker 1: possibilities there. We're also exploring some possibilities. I have a
Speaker 1: wonderful public thist what's up, Heather? Who is uh? Talking
Speaker 1: a book deal for me with some people in Chicago.
Speaker 1: So we're just I'm open. The one thing that I've
Speaker 1: learned from you, though, is I want some ownership and
Speaker 1: whatever I do, I also want to have some degree
Speaker 1: of creative control, if not control, significant influence to protect
Speaker 1: integra the other content that's created because I'm not um,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting ready to be bamboozle and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to put out something and that doesn't reflect the
Speaker 1: quality or the messaging that I put in my brand.
Speaker 1: My brand is about hope and faith and and having
Speaker 1: difficult conversations about unpleasant subjects with one outcome in mind,
Speaker 1: and that's that not to be right, but just to
Speaker 1: make sure that we really understand each other and to
Speaker 1: do something positive with that understanding other than uh be
Speaker 1: made a fool of or be help like that. You
Speaker 1: know what? Absolutely now when you when you get these calls,
Speaker 1: you have different calls. You get to be next for
Speaker 1: an MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, then you get those calls
Speaker 1: to be or TV ones hit programs like Fatal Attraction.
Speaker 1: So so what's what's the tone shift when you're doing
Speaker 1: a MSNBC versus doing Snapped or Fatal Attraction. Tell us
Speaker 1: about that. Well, it's real simple. Know your place. You know,
Speaker 1: when people call me as an expert, I'm to be that.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be more than I am. So
Speaker 1: whether it's Greg Carter that let me do a cameo
Speaker 1: and my BF health and I understood my place. Look, dude,
Speaker 1: you you're getting a little moment to do something you've
Speaker 1: never done, So do it. Whether it's doing fail Attraction
Speaker 1: or Snapped or CNN. I want to bring the best.
Speaker 1: I want to bring my a game. I make sure
Speaker 1: that I am well positioned and and I know my material.
Speaker 1: So when I get my two minutes or my thirty
Speaker 1: seconds or are fifteen minutes, I'm going to make sure
Speaker 1: that I delivered two and get that phone called back
Speaker 1: to come back again. Now, you which is really important.
Speaker 1: That's why I always I always tell people you have
Speaker 1: different layers of success, and your brand can be monetize
Speaker 1: in different levels. And that's what you're doing right now.
Speaker 1: You're monetizing your brand to just let people know that
Speaker 1: you can. You can do these different lays and and
Speaker 1: and and and shine and like I said, knowing your place.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about multiple strings income. I'm a big
Speaker 1: proponent of multiple strings income. And then you say something,
Speaker 1: you have something called the Taco Bell strategy. Now I've
Speaker 1: never heard that taco bell strategy. So this is money
Speaker 1: making conversations. When I read that your your your questions
Speaker 1: for the show, I wanted you to explain exactly what
Speaker 1: is the taco bell strategy. It's real simple. Taco Bell
Speaker 1: takes ground beef, lettuce, cheese, and the tortilla and sometimes
Speaker 1: they make a burrito, they make a taco, they make
Speaker 1: a tostada, uh you know, chlofa. They make all this
Speaker 1: stuff using the same basic ingredients or in my practice,
Speaker 1: I am one of probably sixty or seventy master credential
Speaker 1: NBTR practitioners in the world, and black men, I'm probably
Speaker 1: one of six or seven and again in the world,
Speaker 1: so I use that instrument. I'm an expert on personality type.
Speaker 1: I'm also an expert on new linguistics. I'm also an
Speaker 1: expert on relationships. So when I do my thing, I
Speaker 1: make sure that I bring together elements that other people
Speaker 1: have already said. You know what, this has a proven concept,
Speaker 1: This has proven science. So it's not just my opinion,
Speaker 1: because people, you need something as a base and as
Speaker 1: a platform to build from the other thing. Something I
Speaker 1: learned from you. I remember you shared the story with
Speaker 1: me once you said, Doc, I wasn't going through a
Speaker 1: season of my life and they were making some decisions
Speaker 1: and and you said, well, I tell you what, I
Speaker 1: don't really mind the money pay me, but let me
Speaker 1: keep my title. I need my title. So I've learned
Speaker 1: the value of a good name number one, and the
Speaker 1: value of using key ingredients that are associated with my
Speaker 1: name that I can bring value to that brand or
Speaker 1: to that instrument, and that instrument can add value. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, be somewhat of an implied endorsement from my abilities.
Speaker 1: And and again like it goes back to this work
Speaker 1: hard and know your stuff. You know that this clip,
Speaker 1: that little that story he talked about was that Uh.
Speaker 1: I just wrapped uh a season on Steve Harvey's first
Speaker 1: sitcom on ABC called Me and the Boys, and Robert
Speaker 1: Townson hired me to do his sitcom on the WB
Speaker 1: called Parenthood, and I was on the Steve harves Shaw
Speaker 1: was an executive story editor. And then what they did
Speaker 1: was when I got hired on Robert Townson show, they
Speaker 1: moving back to the staff writer. So I actually took
Speaker 1: a step back. So I said, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I need my title. I said, you don't have to
Speaker 1: pay me money, just get me titled. I just wanted
Speaker 1: people to assume that I was still moving forward without
Speaker 1: the check associated with it, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't understand that it's about branding. Way back then, I
Speaker 1: understood brands, understood about marketing, understood about perception, and people
Speaker 1: perceived that you're moving forward. Then guess what you get
Speaker 1: paid like you're going to be moving forward. So I
Speaker 1: always end up. I told her they had never had
Speaker 1: anybody talked to him like that. I said, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you keep us out. Just getting my title back. They went, oh,
Speaker 1: this legal. When they came back, okay, we'll do it.
Speaker 1: You're sure now, I said, I don't want any money.
Speaker 1: I just want that title and that's what you're saying
Speaker 1: right now, and that's what you're trying to communicate when
Speaker 1: you talk about doing business, and that's why you have
Speaker 1: the title of the reality check. Correct Yes, sir h.
Speaker 1: Taking that even further, I've had you and Maya, Ricky
Speaker 1: jay Len, and Mayanna. If you guys don't know who
Speaker 1: Jayleen McK and Ricky Anderson is, you might want to
Speaker 1: find out. But the thing that the three of you
Speaker 1: taught me is know when to exit stage left, meaning
Speaker 1: is something's not conducive to where you're taking your brand.
Speaker 1: You know, all money ain't good money, and all opportunities
Speaker 1: aren't good opportunities. The other thing that I learned UH
Speaker 1: on the hard way is to let your let other
Speaker 1: people brag about you, let other people talk about you.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying don't promote yourself. There's a difference
Speaker 1: between promoting yourself and then positioning yourself to look like
Speaker 1: a full of what the bull left in the barnyard.
Speaker 1: So I don't do that anymore. I've made sure of
Speaker 1: that I leave a trail, and that trail is built
Speaker 1: on things that add value to not only my brand,
Speaker 1: but to whatever opportunity I'm presented with it's amazing. Let
Speaker 1: me just clarify jay Lee Mac She's an attorney out
Speaker 1: of Houston, Texas. She does all my trademarks that are
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, rashand McDonald the last twenty years. That's the
Speaker 1: only person who's ever done trademarks for me and Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey in that run. Also Ricky Anderson, he does deal
Speaker 1: for Tyler Perry Monique exclusively Monique when she wanted to
Speaker 1: Oscar mentioned Ricky Turney attorney Ricky Anderson excuse me owned
Speaker 1: on the stage when she won the Oscar Doctor the
Speaker 1: Reality Check doctor. That's doctor d Ivan Young. I want
Speaker 1: to thank you for coming on my show. Um my man,
Speaker 1: know that we're gonna do this more often every quarter
Speaker 1: because your brand is part of my life. I just
Speaker 1: want to bring on, bring you on the show and
Speaker 1: say thank you. Thank you for giving me a direction
Speaker 1: that I wasn't looking and it was important that you
Speaker 1: believe in me that I also believe in myself. Hey man,
Speaker 1: thank you, Love you, bro, and may God continue to
Speaker 1: bless everything you put your hands on. Well, I feel
Speaker 1: good about that statement. I accepted, and I want all
Speaker 1: those blessings to go back to you the same way
Speaker 1: I want to make a conversation will be right back.
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