WEBVTT - Anthony Evans Full Interview 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.840 My next guess. It's a planner. He's a guy who 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:09.119 don't allow setbacks to hold him back. When he see opportunity, 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.360 he leaps forward. My next beck guest is a Billboard 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.919 number one selling singer songwriter recording artists from Dallas, Texas. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.760 See I'm from Houston, Texas, so I know Dallas two 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.400 and forty marls of forty five North. So I've been 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.280 up that fact about my first Mercedes Bins in Dallas. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.360 Text drove it that seven the Dallas Neighbors has performed 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.760 on the smash INBC series. The Voice has recorded six 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.440 acclaimed studio albums and a Christmas collection released on the 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.040 Acclaim in an acclaimed book, starting two films, headline of 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.400 concert and conference tours all over the world. Please welcome 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:54.040 to Money Making Conversations. My man from Dallas, Texas. Anthony Evans. Hey, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.960 I'm just hyped. Man. I'm just hyped because you know, 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.240 we've been trying to connect and we finally connect acted 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.680 on this interview today because I wanted to bring your 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.240 money making conversation because you know, I'm a type of person. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.399 Every every Tuesday I meet with my my my producers 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.119 and they pitch out people. They recommend people who would 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.520 be great for the show, who have great stories, and 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.160 I just when they told me your story, you know, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.800 I just felt I wanted to hear it from you 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.560 and talk about what drives you. That's the one first 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.640 question I want to ask you, Anthony, what drives you 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.360 to be successful? You know what there are There are 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.880 a few things that drive me. The first thing I 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.760 think about is being able to excellence. Drives me. Actually 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.479 being able to find them a way to another way, 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.399 avenues to be excellent. That that drives me at what 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.640 I do when it comes to being on the stage 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.360 and off the stage, but when it comes to planning 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.400 tours and events. But also what drives me is is 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.680 feeling like I'm actually fulfilling what I was born to do, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.200 what I was calling to do. That is a driving 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.920 force to me so excellent. And then being in the 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.840 center of what I know I'm supposed to be doing 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.760 um and not settling that that those are those are 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.400 the driving fractors for me. And then so when somebody 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.520 tells you, I would tell you about me, a little 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.840 bit about me, you know, like my degrees in mathematics 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.440 and so I was just in college I was doing 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.680 stand up comic at night, stand up comedy at night. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.200 And so, you know, people just like telling you know 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.320 you're not gonna be a Eddy Murphy. You know, people 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.360 really tell you, but your friends and your family can 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.480 actually hold you back. I'm just let you know that, right, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.679 the people you understand, people who are so close to you, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.519 can actually be the people put the nail in it. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.600 Are you wasting your time? You're wasting your time and 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.680 so so and so when I left IBM to do 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.800 stand up comedy, they really thought I was crazy. And 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.760 so so when I when I look at you, and 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.000 because you know you you're now living in the Los 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.320 Angeles areas, so you're you're transplant. So how did you 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.200 undercome overcome people telling you what you couldn't do versus 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.200 achieving what you are achieving? Well, I had a very 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.880 great for my family, but my they has always been 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.000 very supportive of me. Before I even knew what my 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.920 ability was and what I was going to actually end 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.799 up doing, my parents splotted it in me first. Before 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.359 I actually too knew that I had sang the way 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:14.800 that I sing or knew that I had the ability 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.760 and music, they spotted it and then they started to 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.320 They started to cultivate that before I was even wanting 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.040 to do it. So I'm very grateful and uh for that. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.480 But then I also watched my dad, who was from 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.160 both both my parents. My mom is from South America, 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.520 my dad is from the inner City of Baltimore, and 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.280 stats would say that they aren't supposed to be who 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.040 they are now. But I watched them not operate upon 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.360 what stats. They were not defined by what the statistics 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.440 said they should be, and they would step into situations 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.120 where they were the odd man out. They were different, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:45.360 they were like, where are you from? You know that 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.480 those kind of vibes happened because they weren't the traditional 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.160 person that was expected to be where they were. But 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.360 they walked in there knowing what their ability was and 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.960 let everybody's um knowledge of let let everybody figure figure 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.720 out what they already knew. They would walk into a 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.120 room be like, eventually you'll will figure out that we're 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.440 supposed to be here, but until then, we're gonna stay here. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.360 We're not gonna leave because y'all think we're not supposed 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.200 to be here. So I watched that my whole life, 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.000 and so now it created and there. It created a 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.000 driving me where I am from my nature likes to 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.039 choose faith over fear, encourage over comfort. That's that's just 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.760 because I know on the other side of that there 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.920 is something bigger, broader and better waiting for me. When 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.720 I choose faith over for your courage over comfort. That 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.400 that's how I've gotten too the place I am. It's 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.599 because of my family. Now, now you you appeared on 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.360 the voice, correct, Yes, yeah, I'm just trying to remember 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.320 because I's also I was looking at some photos and 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.280 I was and you know, I'm one of those surfers. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.359 You know, I look at television and I just go 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.400 from chownel to chown And now that did you sing 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.560 a mom and gay song on the Voice? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.960 I wasn't into that song. I wasn't in that that 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:56.279 prin I love Game, but I wasn't you known you 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.240 threw down Anthony. People have told me I looks like 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.039 Martha Game. So I'm a marth and gay faint know 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.480 I'm saying, I'm just gonna let you know that you 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.880 put you put me in the right angle, put me 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.520 into the right darkness. I'm Marvin Gay. Oh day alone 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.680 and so and when you did that, Marvin, I said, wow, wow, 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.880 because you're a certain artists you just can't do. And 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.400 I remember. I remember because because because at the time, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.159 Aguilara was still one of the judges. Correct, Yeah she 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.839 she was. She was my coach on the show. Yeah. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.719 I don't know who you I wouldn't do so hey, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.440 hey that might You might not have felt it, but 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.160 you hit it though, Okay, thank you. Which it's hard 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.400 to feel that scenario in general, where you a quiet 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.760 room and four backs, you know what I mean, face 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.360 you when you're sing like you're trying to get people 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.800 to turn around. It's just a weird feeling. If I 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.960 come from the church, I come from church world, So like, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.120 what's going on? Right right? I understand what you're saying 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.599 because you used to people giving it. It's being inspired 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.160 by your voice, being inspired by your movement, and you're 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.080 looking at four tears, You're going okay, okay. And then 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.280 then as the song goes along, who it starts eating 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.760 on you. Who's gonna turn rap, who's gonna turn around? 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.000 They're not gonna do me like this. It's a lot 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.520 of emotions to run your head when you actually performing 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.760 on the voice because you have to convinced four chairs 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.520 to turn around, and as you say and then turn around, 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.480 you go okay, really on National TV, really and normally 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.000 you convinced them, you convinced people to turn around normally 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.599 with intensity and kind of going off and doing the most. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.840 But Marvin gay didn't do that. So I was like, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.000 I was choosing in my head to honor Marvin Gaye 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.760 and sing the song the way he would, which is chilled. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.640 But but the way you got those chairs to turn 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.760 around was by doing the most, And so I was 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.280 conflicted in my head because it's just a weird it's 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.480 just a weird feeling to try to and you know, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.520 he is the antithesis of doing the most. He just 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.040 was him and everybody loved him, you know what I mean. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.400 So I was trying to figure it out anyway. I 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.080 want to let you know, I know of your abilities 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.280 from that time frame. Now, prior to that, you had 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.880 already dropped an album, correct, Yeah, I actually had three. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.560 I had three albums out before the Voice. So that's 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.360 why it was weird going to the show because people 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:03.920 were like, you already have a career, you're doing that, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.520 and that that goes back to what I was saying 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.479 in minutes ago, which is choosing courage over comfort and faith. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.400 I could have been comfortable and just stayed where I was, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.000 but this was an opportunity to do something broad. I 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:14.760 knew people would have stuff to say, like what are 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.280 you doing on a complet like why would you do? 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.800 You know, people talk, but if you ask forward to 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.920 what's going on in my life because of that show 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.440 and the people in that nineties seconds during a battle round, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.680 I say, in front of fifteen million people at that point, 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.400 that's how many people were watching the show. And what 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.520 happened after the show because I chose to be to 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.840 move to to push through that moment of like why 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.520 should I be here or not? Has been amazing. Stuff 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.840 has happened off camera that no, y'all wouldn't know about 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.760 unless I told you, But it's it's major, major that's 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.560 happened to people have been in that. That's why I 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.560 was just talking about earlier. People will tell you and 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.160 you have to go through. You can just say the 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.280 word faith or you can go your own belief, whatever 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:53.920 term you want to do. You have to believe in 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.880 yourself because I always tell people, if you're gonna fail. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.640 Fail being you, don't fail being something in some want 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.200 want you to be failed being you. That way you 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.280 can recover. You can get up being you. You can 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.480 get up knowing if you knew why you failed because 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.720 of something you did, or you did it for somebody else, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.440 a character or a song, and then you can't recover 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.120 from that because you confuse now and so you said, 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.600 you know, forget out, I know I got three albums 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.360 out there. I'm gonna do the voice because I recognize 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.360 this as a jump store, right, And you know what, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.400 another thing that I would just say is that you 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.520 also cannot recover from succeeding by not being you, because 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.079 what happens is when you are quote unquote successful in 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.320 the way we define it, but you were doing it 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.440 not being yourself, and you have a hit song get 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:37.760 to sing for the rest of your life that you 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.680 don't even like, but you did it to be popular. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.400 Then you will always feel you will always feel that conflict. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.280 And now you gotta sing the song because everybody wants 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.160 to everybody wants to hear that from you. And so 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.199 whatever fields you are in, if you're disingenuous to you 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.680 and you end up with a you know, a bankful 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.240 of money, which is great. You cannot go right a 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.560 check for peace because you weren't being yourself to get there, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.160 My man, by a great interview. We're gonna be back 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.400 with more of my man. Anthony Evans from Dallas, Texas. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.360 I just with Sean McDonald. You know when you get 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.840 a guest on the phone, man, and the reason I 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.640 like my next guest that I'm talking to you right 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.160 now to just say my next guest, my guest I'm 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:19.000 currently talking to. His energy is say the five. You 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.720 want somebody at the five, and you at the five 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.880 is already at the five. And that it helps me 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.280 to understand that he's already he's always ready to go, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.560 he's already to promote, he's already ready to be inspired 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.040 to the next opportunity. Now that's we're gonna talk about 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.679 this new discussions they knew. Just a production company is 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:40.680 a turnkey production company that offers services for vocalists, uh, staging, lighting, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:47.280 sound and touring and choreography. That's a lot going on. Yeah, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.120 it is a lot going on here. And you're saying 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.560 that right now. It's like literally I'm about to fly 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.760 back to l a to go to rehearsal uh for 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.600 a day and then try to Berlin to do one 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.680 of these shows that that you're mentioning and you're talking about. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.640 But let me take the first place of this. It's 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.520 all the way back to the beginning of my career. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.440 I didn't necessarily sit in, but I kept going forward. Now, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.040 when I didn't sit in, I didn't have a team 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.679 around me doing everything for me. Like most artists, I 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.640 had to figure out how to do it myself. If 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.320 I wanted to keep going, I had to figure out 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.080 how to do it myself and not rely on people 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.599 to do it for me. But fast forward to what 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.559 you were just talking about. The reason why I have 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.960 this company is because of the years I wasn't being 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.880 accepted and I had to learn how to do it myself. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.000 So I used to resent it, and now I understand 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.120 the purpose in it. So part of a money making 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.120 conversation or a building you conversation is don't resent those 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.720 those moments where you don't never successorily feel like you're 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.520 you're the thing everybody is about, because there is learning 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.559 stuff in there that will help you when you become 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:46.880 the thing that people want. You know, I couldn'tsolutely believe that. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.559 I absolutely I preached that, absolutely tell people that. And 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.920 I always tell people every day is not a happy day. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.760 And I promote the fact that I get up at 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.000 four or fifteen in the morning every day, you know, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.920 and people go, WHOA. But I also to tell people 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.400 I'm not happy when I get up. But that's part 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.120 of my plan. If because I have gotten up at six, 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.880 seven and and and that throws my whole day off 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.160 for some reason, because I missed valuable time. Because when 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.280 I get up, it's kind of like it's kind of 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.440 like a get up process. I get up at four fifteen. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.480 I staggered around the house a little bit, you know, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.480 I look at my watch. I leaned up against the wall. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.400 I said, I lose all that when I get up 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.800 at six. I ain't got I don't have no start time. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.880 I'm gonna fire you. When I get up at six, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.160 I lost all that lazy time. You know what I'm saying, Anthony. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.400 And so when I hear you talk about what I'm saying, 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.959 So when I hear you talk about I'm just a 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.040 little side story to compare to your story. It's like 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.000 when people ask me why I know so much. When 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.520 Steve Harvey I started, there was no staff, there was 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.400 no PR team, there were no managers. I was the 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.360 booking agent. I was the the PR person. I made 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.800 all the power points. You know, I knew I did 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.679 the social media, the website. And so when when when 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.640 I'm when I'm walking into corporations and are walking into 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.840 talking about you know, television, uh, studios, when they talk 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.440 to me, always understand branding, Always understand marketing, alla understand 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.080 social media. Because I was their first hand. And that's 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.719 all you're saying. You've been their first hand and so 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.199 so because when it wasn't when it when when you 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.000 when you being acknowledged you was developing these skills. Now 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.920 you're turning these skills into a turn key company. Yes, yes, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.200 and I think a lot of us and I'll speak 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.360 on behalf of me. But I was in a position 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.640 where I wanted the media gratification and if and that mindset, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.679 that immediate gratification mindset will stop you sometimes from digging 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.000 a deep foundation that ultimately you can build something high on. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.520 Because we don't want to take the time to build 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.880 the foundation. We just want the skyscraper. But in order 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.240 to have the skyscraper. You have to dig deep. And 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.319 in this time of wanting what you you know, a 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.880 lot of us millennials in general want stuff real quick, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.840 like we just want you know, the the new generation 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.720 want stuff real fast. But that's not necessarily you building 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.719 some thing that could stand the test of time and 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.280 stand the storm and stand a bunch of people. But 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.959 you know, so I really, again, just to reiterate what 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.200 we're talking about, that's just a vital part you should consider. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.520 You're you're a Boston training when you're going through the 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.040 moment where you're having to do everything for yourself like 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.880 you're you're man. I'll tell you, brother, do you you 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.600 have the entrepreneurial spirit? Where did you get that from? 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.840 Do it? My father? My father? I'm a little bit 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.120 about him and his influence in your life. Your father, 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.719 my dad's My dad's name is Dr Tony Evans. He 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.200 was born in Baltimore, Maryland, uh in in the inner 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.400 city of Baltimore, and he just had a drive. He 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.200 had people early in his life see something in him 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.040 where he wouldn't take no for an answer. My grandfather 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.319 makes fun of him now, and he was like he 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.160 would get calms from his school because he was always 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.599 the kid with his hand up that one of the 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.040 answer questions. Every question he was like, I want to answer. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.280 You know, he was that driven, I I want to 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.840 know the answers kind of guy. And I just watched 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.920 that my whole life and didn't realize that I was 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.679 an entrepreneurial training growing up, just because that was just 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.520 my dad. If you told him no, he was gonna 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.800 figure out another way around it. You know what I 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.320 mean to to make that yes? So I just, uh, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.000 I've watched that, and I've been around people, especially in 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.640 the new season in my life in Los Angeles. Well, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.559 the mindset is they're they're dreamers. They're big, big thoughts 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.839 like status quo is not what they're okay with. And 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.680 I love I love that. I love when somebody says 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:28.520 no to me and I can. I love figuring out yes, Anthony, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.280 when you when you go through all this, like we 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.320 mentioned the boys, we mentioned the albums everything. What what 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.720 is your message? What is your general purpose? I always 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.320 tell people that I'm constantly building uh content, so I 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.520 can just push down my efforts so people can look 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.680 at understand I am. I'm a three sixty brand and 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.880 so and so, like you know, I mentioned the voice, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.400 and before the voice you had already dropped three CDs. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.920 You know what I'm saying. And you're about to go 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.800 on a fall tour with your sister. What is the 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.640 what is the plan? You know you got that, you 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.040 got the turnkey company. You're reaching masses. You know you 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.000 even knew the fact that, hey, when you was on 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.200 divorce you were seen by fifteen million. You're very calculated 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.200 in your approach and your planner correct, right, yes, because 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.800 I'm very calculated in my approach, and I can answer 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.600 your question on two sides. I'll answer it first from 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.040 the business side, UM, because that's obviously what we're here. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.680 We're here to talk about. UM. The business side is 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.160 I want to work hard. Basically, I want to work 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.680 hard in these years of creating new concepts and ideas 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.520 so that I'm diversified. And that's just a basic You 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.680 know that, that's just basic. That's relates to money business. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.160 I want to be diversified because I'm also aware of 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:38.280 the fact that in entertainment especially or in I do gospelated, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.240 but in entertainment in general, I have to be aware 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.400 that there's always some new talent coming and eventually down 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.120 the road, I'll be fifty five years old and there'll 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.040 be some other five year old that that is doing. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.920 I don't want you have to go out and sing. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.200 I don't want to feel like, you know, anybody need 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.560 me to come sing because I gotta pay the more 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.560 I don't that maybe it made me think, what are 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.800 other ways I can be intuitive about what um using 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.960 branches of disability, not not going way off. And that 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.960 was starting the production company. And that's also the vocal 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.840 vocal arranging and contracting, which started because of the voice. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.240 Like we didn't talk about that, but I've vocal arranged 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.480 and contracted to Kanye and to Chains and Tyler the 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.880 creatives last album, Blackish and all these different TVs because 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.960 of the chance I took on myself going to the voice. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.520 So it started to diversify me. So the goal on 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.960 the business side is to be diversified to what I 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.760 don't have to I get to do what I want 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.680 to do. I'm doing what I'm living kind of in 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.040 a state of um, of of developing that so that 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.760 later on I don't have a lot of half to 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.840 I can. I can operate from a place of want 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:47.600 to not have to. And then yes, I call that. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.360 I call that multiple streams of income on this show 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.600 that you just talked about multiple streams of income, like 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.800 you said, Hey, man, when I wake up, if somebody 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.720 tell me no, I go, I just go back to sleep. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.160 That's just one, you know. Oh oh that's overweight. Okay, cool, okay, cool, 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:03.880 my wife look at me. You know, I don't stress. 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.200 I don't. I'm not. I'm not gonna put myself in 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.040 a position where somebody tells one person tells me my my, 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.199 my gigs over with, my life's over, my last checks over. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.800 That can't happen with me. I've learned that. I would 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.680 learned that, And that's all you're telling that my listeners 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.840 in our viewer that exactly exactly. And then the other point, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.280 just real quick I was gonna touch on, is that 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.240 my purpose also is not just to be um about 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.879 not well. Because I'm a gospel singer, I'm not just 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.400 trying to be about the bottom line, which is very important. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.280 But I also want to make sure that the work 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.840 I'm doing is resonating in people's hearts and their souls. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.520 And I there's don't be a story to tell above 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.439 and beyond money or number one, because those can come 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.280 and go. But but what happens in the lives of 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.720 the people that you're impacting, whatever fields you're in, it 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.760 it happens to be more obvious with because of what 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.639 I do. But I think that that the peace and 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.879 the emotional health and spiritual health that comes from that 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.399 is also has a value. May not be a monetary value, 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.280 but there is something to be said about making a 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.520 good living and being excited about what's happening in you 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.679 and others emotionally and spiritually. I believe it's all tied together. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.879 That's all prosperity to me, that's all being wealthy. To me, 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.600 it goes beyond just the bank account. I love this dude. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.000 You're from Dallas, Texas. I'm from Houston, Texas. Uh, I'm 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.480 a foodie. I'm a foodie. I got I got nanny 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.280 seconds left in this show. Um, I'm gonna just tell 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.399 you this. Uh, you know how the best food in 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.440 the world is in Houston, Texas. Now, I'm just gonna 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:35.360 let y'all know Dallas Houston, Texas. Like I know you've 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:40.280 been in Houston. Now, what where do you tortilla? Where 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:45.320 we live in Houston. Loopy, he's not lying, looping tort 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:51.440 you get the pitto beans. They listen. I get to everything. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.080 I'm tell something. I would tell my wife I come 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.320 home because I live in Houston. I live in Atlanta. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.320