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Speaker 3: Flind Down with Janet Kramer and Michael Coffin and I'm
Speaker 3: her radio podcast. You know, we had a radio tour
Speaker 3: for our book, for another push for our book for
Speaker 3: the holiday sales the other day. And I mean we
Speaker 3: had calls scheduled from seven in the morning until two
Speaker 3: thirty in the afternoon. Yeah, with limited breaks. I think
Speaker 3: there's one significant break.
Speaker 1: We had two breaks.
Speaker 3: Two breaks.
Speaker 1: We had a forty five minute break and then a
Speaker 1: fifty minute break.
Speaker 3: Okay, and in that time. I took that those moments to,
Speaker 3: you know, do things that most people would do, like
Speaker 3: go to the bathroom, have some lunch, take a second
Speaker 3: to just breathe and digest, since we had been talking
Speaker 3: on the phone NonStop for hours on end, and come
Speaker 3: to find out, what's she inna doing? Not only in
Speaker 3: those forty five and fifty minute breaks, but the five
Speaker 3: minute breaks, the seven minute breaks, the two minute breaks
Speaker 3: that we have in between, She's doing a million other
Speaker 3: different things. She went and picked up Jakes, which was awesome.
Speaker 3: Did the last call, I remember, I came downstairs be
Speaker 3: like babe, babe, and you're already gone. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: she's already gone. So she did like the last two
Speaker 3: calls on the phone in the car. Couldn't even tell though,
Speaker 3: So that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: I was worried about you to hear it because we uh,
Speaker 1: I was driving your truck sone no, no no, So
Speaker 1: I I'm really afraid of that, but I didn't care
Speaker 1: because I wanted to pick up Jason.
Speaker 3: And the best part about it was and.
Speaker 1: Then the one break, I went running. Yes, I had
Speaker 1: a forty minute break, so I went running for thirty right.
Speaker 3: But of course the best part about it too was
Speaker 3: later that night, you know, we're winding out, we were
Speaker 3: finishing dinner, had about forty minutes till the kids went down.
Speaker 3: I told her. I was like, hey, babe, I'm asking
Speaker 3: for what I need. I just need like thirty forty
Speaker 3: minutes because I'm really excited about our podcast guest today,
Speaker 3: someone that I've been trying to get on here for
Speaker 3: a minute, and so I wanted to kind of prep
Speaker 3: for that and then also do some other stuff with
Speaker 3: this hat collaboration I'm working on. And she just kind
Speaker 3: of smirks at me. I'm like, what, I'm asking for
Speaker 3: what I need?
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, sounds great. Would you like to
Speaker 1: what would you like to do? Would you like to
Speaker 1: do it before or after the kids go down? And
Speaker 1: You're like, why are you smart? I'm like, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to do my work right now, and would
Speaker 1: you like to do it before the kids go down
Speaker 1: or after the kids go down? And you like, wouldn't
Speaker 1: drop it? You're like, why are you smirking at me?
Speaker 1: And I'm and for everyone that listens to the show,
Speaker 1: like I was trying to do my work. I was
Speaker 1: trying to be like because in my mind, I've got
Speaker 1: thoughts and I'm trying my and I feel like, first
Speaker 1: of all, I would like to be semi affirmed for
Speaker 1: that because I'm trying to not speak on that or
Speaker 1: say things, and I'm trying to say, Okay, what would
Speaker 1: you would you like to do it before or after?
Speaker 1: And I'm you know, yes, I have a smirk on
Speaker 1: my face, but I'm still like, you know, saying yes,
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to do my work by not by
Speaker 1: knowing that we're two different people, right. Like, for example,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to plan my, like a very close
Speaker 1: friend's birthday and we had three minutes break and so
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I could probably call this magician in
Speaker 1: three minutes. But I didn't realize he was gonna like
Speaker 1: tell me everything and like his upbringing. So I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I got to call you back. But Michael's like, you're
Speaker 1: doing that now. I'm like, we have three minutes, you.
Speaker 3: Know, so, and it gives me anxiety.
Speaker 1: Right, But again, this is where we are two different people,
Speaker 1: and in the past is when I would be more
Speaker 1: on you and say, well, why you know in going
Speaker 1: straight to, well, why didn't you do that when we
Speaker 1: were doing when we had the breaks, and so instead
Speaker 1: I was trying to do my work, which I appreciated
Speaker 1: and well, thank you because I think that's the first
Speaker 1: time you affirmed me for that.
Speaker 2: Thank you for doing it work.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm trying to do it and
Speaker 1: not say anything and just recognize that we're two different people,
Speaker 1: we do things differently. But yes, in my mind I
Speaker 1: was smirking because I'm like, God, I want to say
Speaker 1: what I want to say right.
Speaker 3: Now, but I'm what did you want to say share
Speaker 3: with our listeners?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean we had two significant breaks, so in
Speaker 1: my mind, I'm like, what, but I would have done
Speaker 1: that then instead of doing it, you know, cutting into
Speaker 1: our time because we started a new thing with what
Speaker 1: we did last night with you know, we read a
Speaker 1: book together and so and then not breaking into the
Speaker 1: kid time or I'm like, you can do it all.
Speaker 1: But in my mind, I'm like, okay, that's just we
Speaker 1: prioritize differently. And instead of saying anything, I just was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: would you like to do it before or after? And
Speaker 1: smiling and you were like why are you smiling? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm trying not to say what I want
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: Because I know you. I know you have something to
Speaker 3: say and I have to know.
Speaker 1: But but then you don't want this is this is
Speaker 1: this is my question now though you you say you
Speaker 1: want to know, but you don't like it when I
Speaker 1: say something. So I'm trying not to say something, but
Speaker 1: yet you're getting me to say the thing that I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: So it's your kind of like, well, that's.
Speaker 3: My word, just like last night we had.
Speaker 1: Something that came in situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, we had something that came up and
Speaker 3: I could tell and selfishly and I'm sure you can
Speaker 3: relate to this at some point. Is you know, I
Speaker 3: know we're two different people, but almost I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't even want you to think that.
Speaker 1: How could you say that?
Speaker 2: Trust me?
Speaker 1: I know that's like what I know, that's very unfair.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know, Okay, I understand that, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: I'm not alone here, but you know, it's it's just
Speaker 3: it's just funny. It's humorous because we are two different people,
Speaker 3: and I prioritized eating food to maintain energy and live
Speaker 3: yesterday or the other day as opposed to continue to work,
Speaker 3: which I did make your lunch when you're doing those things.
Speaker 1: So it is interesting though, because I see what you're saying, like,
Speaker 1: I don't even want you to think those things. But
Speaker 1: women think differently, just like men think differently. I don't
Speaker 1: want you to think that I always have to say
Speaker 1: something or think. But again, we're two different people. And
Speaker 1: the exact same thing happened last night because you brought
Speaker 1: up something I think was work. Was it work related?
Speaker 2: Mm hm?
Speaker 1: And you kept prying at me, and I'm like, Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do my work by not saying anything.
Speaker 3: I changed the schedule a little bit. I moved my meeting.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, to prepare for some other stuff.
Speaker 3: And I was just very confused on while you had
Speaker 3: feelings coming up and I was starting to pry, and
Speaker 3: then I left it alone and I let you do
Speaker 3: your work.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just saying, it has nothing to do and
Speaker 1: I kept saying, it has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1: This is my own stuff that I need to that
Speaker 1: I need to do and not say and speak on
Speaker 1: it because you're just gonna get annoyed and it's we're
Speaker 1: just gonna have a fight. So it's like when you
Speaker 1: kept prying. I'm like, stop telling you I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with you.
Speaker 3: You're right, and that's my work. And for you all listening,
Speaker 3: I mean, allow that person someone's saying, I'm doing my
Speaker 3: work right now, love to do that because I was
Speaker 3: my learning point the past couple of days, because I
Speaker 3: need to, because you're right.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do what you tell me to do, even.
Speaker 3: If you say it knowing that you are thinking it
Speaker 3: will annoy me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. But I'm literally trying to do what
Speaker 1: you know I ask of me that annoys you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know I'm saying, I'm acknowledging what I'm saying
Speaker 3: is unfair and so that's my work to allow you
Speaker 3: to do your work.
Speaker 1: It's like a lose lose though, like you've put me
Speaker 1: in a lose lose situation.
Speaker 3: No, it's just I just have to do my work.
Speaker 3: It's not a lose lose. You just have to stick
Speaker 3: to your guns and just be like, I'm doing my work.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I just that feels very lose lose, where it's like
Speaker 1: you don't want me to do something, and then when
Speaker 1: I don't do it, you're then prying for me to
Speaker 1: do the thing.
Speaker 2: You don't want me to welcome to the party.
Speaker 1: How does that make sense?
Speaker 2: It doesn't, woofty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's what's going on. Just another example of
Speaker 3: how we're different, and I love.
Speaker 2: You for it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, I'm really excited for today's guest because we
Speaker 1: have a motivational speaker on and his name is Inky Johnson.
Speaker 1: Do you want to give a little background about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Inky is a guy who's you know, kind of
Speaker 3: been His videos have been sent amongst like guy text
Speaker 3: chats that I'm in. And he was a football player
Speaker 3: at the University of Tennessee in the early mid two
Speaker 3: thousands and on a routine play on the field, he
Speaker 3: was going to tackle somebody and he got injured. And
Speaker 3: you know, let him tell the medical side of it,
Speaker 3: but he lost his right arm. He still has his
Speaker 3: right arm, but he's paralyzed in his right arm, and
Speaker 3: so it's it's his story is so interesting. You know,
Speaker 3: he says something saying that he's quoted saying, you know
Speaker 3: that he asked himself at one point He's like, am
Speaker 3: I really failing? Or is God prevailing? And I'm just
Speaker 3: so so excited to talk to him and just get
Speaker 3: his whole story in his background on what led him
Speaker 3: to the path that he's on. And here in a
Speaker 3: little bit before we have mom, we're going to play
Speaker 3: this three minute snidbit of a of a of a
Speaker 3: speech that he does that I shared with Janna. That's
Speaker 3: just it's amazing. And if you're not ready just to
Speaker 3: take on the day after listening to it, then then
Speaker 3: you don't have a don't have a heart, don't have
Speaker 3: warm blood pumping through your veins because he gets you going.
Speaker 1: So let's take a break and then let's hear it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I said, before we get inky on, I got introduced
Speaker 1: to him because Mike played this motivational speech that he
Speaker 1: does and it might be a little hard to hear,
Speaker 1: but we really really really want to. I want to
Speaker 1: play it for you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll give you.
Speaker 3: It'll give you kind of an idea of how this
Speaker 3: guy rolls. And he's awesome. So take a listen this
Speaker 3: miss day, we get.
Speaker 4: Up, we're going to open presence. Somehow my son sees it.
Speaker 6: So Dad, let's go out to a little forward, a
Speaker 6: little bike thing. I said, let's go me, So we
Speaker 6: start riding light. He's getting it heavy he's getting it,
Speaker 6: and I look back at my son and hit the ground.
Speaker 6: His helmet cocks up, and so I said, I got
Speaker 6: to do something quick. I said, because if my wife
Speaker 6: beats me to my son, she's gonna make him think
Speaker 6: he got shot.
Speaker 3: Twenty five times, right, I said, ain't go. He looked
Speaker 3: at me.
Speaker 5: I said, go heavy, and so we get back up
Speaker 5: and we park it, and as we're getting off, everybody
Speaker 5: is asked the same question, why did you do that?
Speaker 5: I said, because if we didn't attack opposition and adversity
Speaker 5: in that moment.
Speaker 3: It would have paralyzed him for the rest of his life.
Speaker 5: The lesson is, when something doesn't turn out the way
Speaker 5: you wanted to turn out, I need you to attack.
Speaker 4: If everything that didn't turn.
Speaker 3: Out the way that you wanted to turn out, and
Speaker 3: I need you to.
Speaker 2: Go have me on it.
Speaker 4: It's never about the competitors.
Speaker 5: It's about what we possess and what we do.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like the fact when he says about
Speaker 1: the like his wife being like that he got shot.
Speaker 3: That's why I'd be.
Speaker 5: Like, what, Jaz.
Speaker 3: That's why I played it for Janna the first time
Speaker 3: when I heard it, because I was like that's exactly
Speaker 3: how you'd be. You'd want to get to Jason and
Speaker 3: feel like he's got shot twenty five times. But I'm
Speaker 3: so pumped to talk to this guy in real time.
Speaker 3: I mean that right there gets me going. That you know,
Speaker 3: that gets my blood pumping.
Speaker 1: So let's welcome to the show, Inky Johnson, Welcome the
Speaker 1: show man.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: I have the video, or I mean Michael showed me
Speaker 1: the video because was it in your guy's text messages
Speaker 1: that we said, So he has like this guy's text
Speaker 1: message and he's like, you have to watch this and
Speaker 1: the part when you talked about like your son getting shot,
Speaker 1: you know a million times, I'm like that is so
Speaker 1: me with my son, Like I'd have been like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, freaking out. I'm like, it's so accurate.
Speaker 3: It's I'm sure a lot of moms out there can
Speaker 3: totally relate, and a lot of husbands as well, because
Speaker 3: we're all like, absolutely, that's exactly what would happen.
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt.
Speaker 3: You know. I'm so inspired by your story man. Like
Speaker 3: I said, we let our audience aroundur listeners kind of
Speaker 3: know a little bit about you and something that you say,
Speaker 3: your quoted saying even on your website, is am I
Speaker 3: really failing? Or is God prevailing? And that's so empowering.
Speaker 3: And I'm just curious on when that mindset set in
Speaker 3: for you, like after your accident, you know, going into
Speaker 3: the life you're in today, Like when did that change
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 7: Absolutely so, I would say it manifested kind of after
Speaker 7: my accident happened at the University of Tennessee, because I
Speaker 7: had been chasing this dream, you know, my whole life,
Speaker 7: and you know, I really wanted it to happen for myself.
Speaker 7: I wanted to happen for my family because I was
Speaker 7: coming from this situation too, bet home, fourteen people, a mother,
Speaker 7: working the double ship, and so when the injury happened,
Speaker 7: in a lot of people's eyes, it was tragic, right,
Speaker 7: it was devastating, And to me, it was a big
Speaker 7: lump of disappointment in my life and I had to
Speaker 7: figure out, man, like, what was I going to do
Speaker 7: with this situation? It's piece of adversity, this piece of opposition,
Speaker 7: Like what am I going to do with it?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: Because I firmly believe every experience we have as people,
Speaker 7: like I tell my friends all the time, like, even
Speaker 7: if the experience don't turn out the way you want
Speaker 7: it to, don't waste the experience, right, And I feel
Speaker 7: like it's people.
Speaker 4: We waste so many experiences.
Speaker 7: We don't try to extract lessons from it, we don't
Speaker 7: try to see the blessing in it. And so when
Speaker 7: my injury happened, the thing that I didn't know was
Speaker 7: I wasn't giving up and I wasn't going to waste this.
Speaker 7: And so as I kept pressing forward, things started to
Speaker 7: manifest and I was like, man, maybe I didn't fail, right,
Speaker 7: Maybe it was God's plan all along for me to
Speaker 7: be doing what I'm doing. So am I feeling or
Speaker 7: is God prevailing? And so that's basically based upon when
Speaker 7: you face opposition and you face adversity, when you face
Speaker 7: a challenge, just ask the question, right when you step
Speaker 7: back and look at the bigger picture.
Speaker 1: I love that so much and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: how I've always kind of tried to live too, because
Speaker 1: you know, there's certain things in my life and I'm like,
Speaker 1: why did this happen? You know it doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: But then you're like, oh, like maybe this is why,
Speaker 1: so that you can help people, and you can inspire
Speaker 1: people and you can motivate them, and you know, especially Mike,
Speaker 1: with our situation, it's kind of like we didn't want
Speaker 1: what happened in our marriage to happen, but it did,
Speaker 1: and like, how can we how can we help others
Speaker 1: with this? And maybe that was the that was supposed
Speaker 1: to happen all along, as painful as it was and
Speaker 1: as awful as it was, it's like, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you I can't imagine how you felt because you
Speaker 1: probably had plans of going to the NFL, and you know,
Speaker 1: you might have felt like you let down people. But really,
Speaker 1: I mean, they got it. They have to be so
Speaker 1: proud of what you have turned your life into.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think like you make a valid point
Speaker 7: because you know, you look at life and you look
Speaker 7: in the grand scheme of it, and you know, people
Speaker 7: go through some crazy stuff, right, And like I'm a
Speaker 7: spiritual guy, you know, to a certain extent, Like I'm
Speaker 7: a believer, and you know, I tell guys all the time,
Speaker 7: I'm like, some stuff that happens, like it's not a.
Speaker 4: Scripture for it, right, Like you can't go go.
Speaker 7: To Romans eight twenty eight, you know, what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: it's just a scripture for it, right, you got to
Speaker 7: let it play out. And so for me, when the
Speaker 7: situation happened, like the people around me that had helped
Speaker 7: me get to that point, I didn't want to let
Speaker 7: them down. I didn't want to waste the experience, and
Speaker 7: I didn't want to become a failure because they had
Speaker 7: sacrificed a lot in me, and I think their investment
Speaker 7: in what they saw in me it helped me out
Speaker 7: a lot, because they told me from the jump, like, man,
Speaker 7: we don't care if you make it to the NFL.
Speaker 4: Like I get that's what you.
Speaker 7: Want, but we don't care about that, Like we just
Speaker 7: want you to be a decent human being.
Speaker 4: You think we've been stealed.
Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing. I feel like until you have kids, too,
Speaker 3: it's it's hard to understand that concept that you just mentioned,
Speaker 3: because you know I did the same thing, and you
Speaker 3: know I was fortunate and blessed enough to live five
Speaker 3: years of my dream and playing in the NFL. But
Speaker 3: I put more of the pressure on myself than anybody else, right, because,
Speaker 3: like you said, like your parents and the people that
Speaker 3: love you will love you. No matter what, and then
Speaker 3: we make up this story like if we don't succeed
Speaker 3: or do these these achieve these goals, that we're not
Speaker 3: the same person, that we're less than. And so with kids,
Speaker 3: I'm starting to realize, you know, ours are five and two?
Speaker 3: How old are your kids? Ain't nine and time? And wow,
Speaker 3: so I feel like, you know, we're starting to at
Speaker 3: least myself, I'm starting to kind of realize that, like
Speaker 3: I don't care if they become the most amazing whatever
Speaker 3: it may be. But as long as they're a good
Speaker 3: human being and treat each other right and you know,
Speaker 3: and do all that and live by the gold, like
Speaker 3: we're going to be proud. And so as a father
Speaker 3: of a nine and ten year old, because those are
Speaker 3: they're getting into those impressionable ages, you know, So as
Speaker 3: a father, like, how are you instilling the principles that
Speaker 3: you've learned like into them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think you make a great point, like when you
Speaker 7: become a parent, the perspective shifts totally. And so my
Speaker 7: girl is ten, my boy is nine eleven months apart,
Speaker 7: little Irish twis Oh man, they give us a run
Speaker 7: for our money too, right, but it's awesome, Like I
Speaker 7: read this quote once and it's said, you know, as parents, right,
Speaker 7: like we want to sometimes give children the things that
Speaker 7: we never had instead of instilling in children the things
Speaker 7: that we never learned.
Speaker 4: And so with our children, it's always based upon.
Speaker 7: Like I'm not letting them not fill the wind right
Speaker 7: in every situation. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 7: when they go through adversity and opposition and challenges in life.
Speaker 7: I feel like my job as a parent is preparation.
Speaker 7: I'm going to prepare you as best as I know how,
Speaker 7: and then when you deal with the situation, I want
Speaker 7: to see you make decisions. I want to see you fail, right.
Speaker 7: I want to see you think you know it all
Speaker 7: and then you get popped on your button. You see
Speaker 7: you don't know it all, so we can know how
Speaker 7: to respond. And so for me, it's about character. It's
Speaker 7: about treating people right. It's about showing up, giving everything
Speaker 7: you got to the things you're a part of.
Speaker 4: It's about not allowing you to quit.
Speaker 7: Because my mother never allowed me to quit right when
Speaker 7: I was in sports extracurricular and if I didn't like
Speaker 7: a coach, if I didn't like this, I couldn't come
Speaker 7: home and say, well, I don't like the coach and quitting. No,
Speaker 7: you're going to stay in it, right because of the
Speaker 7: person you're going to become from that experience. And so
Speaker 7: for me, it's making sure they understand what we're working for.
Speaker 7: It is not just to be a great athlete. What
Speaker 7: we're working for is one day when you get placed
Speaker 7: with real responsibility, you know how to respond to it
Speaker 7: with the right type of perspective.
Speaker 1: I love that because you are a motivational speaker, is
Speaker 1: there something that you have a hard time sometimes living
Speaker 1: by something that you might talk about because I know
Speaker 1: for us, Yeah, because for us it's hard. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm like, we're saying, you know, communicate and do this,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, we just did a really bad job
Speaker 1: at that. But yeah, like how are we telling other
Speaker 1: people to, like, you know, be great partners and communicate?
Speaker 1: So I just wonder, as like a motivational speaker, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know what topic like that you do talk about
Speaker 1: that you might struggle with personally?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, so the whole concept of motivational speaker, right, So
Speaker 7: I never planned to be a motivational speaker like that
Speaker 7: was never my plan. I never wanted to be a speaker,
Speaker 7: Like after I got injured, I wanted to be a coach, right,
Speaker 7: that was a natural transition. Never wanted to say, man,
Speaker 7: I want to travel around the country share my story.
Speaker 7: Never thought my story was anything special. To be honest,
Speaker 7: I was just a guy that grew up a certain
Speaker 7: way and I was just trying to make it happen.
Speaker 4: For my family.
Speaker 7: But I am a very passionate guy about things that
Speaker 7: I care about, and so when I decided to speak,
Speaker 7: it was more so of obedience than anything, because I
Speaker 7: was in such a place in my life of confusion.
Speaker 7: I had tried what I had tried and it didn't work.
Speaker 7: I thought I was going to make it to the NFL.
Speaker 7: Didn't work. God had a different plan. Thought I was
Speaker 7: going to coach, didn't work. Came back to Atlanta, thought
Speaker 7: I was going to work at the rec center in
Speaker 7: my neighborhood, create leadership curriculums.
Speaker 4: For the kids. Didn't work.
Speaker 7: And so I was at a place in my life
Speaker 7: where I was like, hey, Lord, I don't know what
Speaker 7: you want me to do. Man, Like, if it's speak
Speaker 7: people are saying speak, I'll just be obedient. I need
Speaker 7: to find purpose with my life, right, and then the
Speaker 7: Bible that says obedience is better than sacrifice. But as people,
Speaker 7: we judged the level of sacrifice without first being obedient.
Speaker 7: And so when I went on a journey to speak,
Speaker 7: I was just a guy that once I saw it
Speaker 7: impacted people, I was like, man, that's pretty cool. And
Speaker 7: then people are like, man, that motivated me. I never
Speaker 7: said I was motivating. I was picking more so man
Speaker 7: inspiration right from within. The only reason my Instagram name
Speaker 7: is Inky Johnson motivate is because somebody hacked my Instagram
Speaker 7: and stole my original name and they stole like everything
Speaker 7: associated with it. So that was the only thing I
Speaker 7: could get. But you know, the motivational speaker, the whole
Speaker 7: concept of it. You know, it's a challenge for me,
Speaker 7: right because when people see you sometimes like people see
Speaker 7: me and they're like, give me something, right, give me something.
Speaker 7: They see a video, they think I'm just as passionate guy.
Speaker 7: But to be honest, I'm a real laid back guy, right, Like,
Speaker 7: if you see me out in public, I'm calm. I'm
Speaker 7: the guy that is just being a back quiet And
Speaker 7: so it's more so about like having compassion right for people,
Speaker 7: and empathy and understanding that you know, nobody is perfect, right,
Speaker 7: including me, and so when I share content, hopefully it
Speaker 7: comes across that way.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's great, you know, and I love the humility
Speaker 3: you have behind that, right because you just being able
Speaker 3: to talk about you know, your story. Everyone's story is different, right,
Speaker 3: Everyone's like their gauge of the severity of it, of
Speaker 3: what they've been through is is everything's different. You know,
Speaker 3: what's hard for some person one person isn't hard for another.
Speaker 3: And the fact that you're you know, again, the humility
Speaker 3: show with your story and just being like, man, why
Speaker 3: do people want to hear my story? You know, to
Speaker 3: you it's just normal, right, it's just your life. It's
Speaker 3: nothing special. But you know, just hearing you speak and
Speaker 3: watching your stuff, man, it truly is God's gift the
Speaker 3: way you're able to deliver things, because that's something that
Speaker 3: you know, we do. We do a lot of speaking
Speaker 3: things together. We do some live shows and stuff and
Speaker 3: we've seen a lot and you know that stuff is
Speaker 3: to an extent, you know, God given where it's you
Speaker 3: can't really go to a class and yeah, you can
Speaker 3: go to communications and learn how to give up presentation,
Speaker 3: you know, but you can't like to motivate like that,
Speaker 3: to inspire and have that compassion and have that energy
Speaker 3: around it. You know, it's just like the game. I
Speaker 3: feel like when you're on stage, you're turning it on, right,
Speaker 3: Like you're getting on the field, You're turning it on.
Speaker 3: So that might not be on a daily basis, but
Speaker 3: it's I mean, that is truly a gift that you
Speaker 3: have in't to to do that to I mean, like
Speaker 3: I said, we just shared that one video with our
Speaker 3: listeners and get that gets my blood going every time
Speaker 3: I hear it, Like I'm ready to take on the day, man,
Speaker 3: So you know.
Speaker 1: Which is a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife can start calling you. She's gonna be
Speaker 3: like I can't get them up and going, let's go.
Speaker 1: I need you to be his alarm, like when he
Speaker 1: wakes up in.
Speaker 3: The morning's voice is my new alarm. Now what with
Speaker 3: that being said, like what gets you up every morning?
Speaker 3: Like what motivates you as soon as you put your
Speaker 3: feet on the ground man, each day? Like what gets
Speaker 3: you going?
Speaker 4: You know? Man?
Speaker 7: I was I was telling somebody just yesterday and you know,
Speaker 7: I just not too long ago, you know, really dealt
Speaker 7: with this this situation what I'm about to share. And
Speaker 7: so as a kid, you know, growing up in poverty.
Speaker 7: You know, I had some of the best times in
Speaker 7: my life, but I also had some experiences that I
Speaker 7: felt that I knew once I got a family, once
Speaker 7: I became an adult, I didn't want to experience that, right,
Speaker 7: and I didn't want my children to experience that. And
Speaker 7: so my whole life I felt as if I was
Speaker 7: running from poverty, right, Like I didn't want to exp
Speaker 7: certain things. I don't want my children to experience some
Speaker 7: nights when they miss mills, like I didn't want to
Speaker 7: experience that, right. And so when I started speaking, I
Speaker 7: was like a Workaholiday, right, Like I was taking every engagement,
Speaker 7: every gig. I was just going, going, going, And I
Speaker 7: made a lot of mistakes. I missed a lot, right,
Speaker 7: both with my children and my wife. And one day
Speaker 7: I went to a spiritual retreat and it was a
Speaker 7: small group and a guy was saying to me, he
Speaker 7: was like, do anybody feel like they're running from anything?
Speaker 7: And I was like yeah, and I raised my hand
Speaker 7: and he was like, what is it. I was like,
Speaker 7: you know, poverty and he was like hmm, said are
Speaker 7: you in poverty right now, you and your family. I
Speaker 7: was like, nah, I was like, we do quite well
Speaker 7: as a matter of fact, and he was like, well,
Speaker 7: stop running. And to me, you know, it was profound.
Speaker 7: To others in the group, it might have been simple.
Speaker 7: But for me, what it did for me was it
Speaker 7: brought me a level of purpose and brought me a
Speaker 7: level of clarity in terms of how I went about
Speaker 7: my business, how I got up every single day, orchestrated
Speaker 7: my decisions and my choices, and what my driving force was.
Speaker 7: That was my family, right every single day getting up
Speaker 7: and wanting to be the best man I could be
Speaker 7: for them. Now, will mistakes happen. Sure, fatherhood doesn't come
Speaker 7: with a manual. Being a husband doesn't come with a manual.
Speaker 7: Many mistakes will be made. But every single day, knowing
Speaker 7: what my driving force is and knowing what I'm working
Speaker 7: for is something that's extremely important. Man.
Speaker 3: That's so you just just listening to them, Man, it's
Speaker 3: just it's empowering. Thank you, it really is. And so
Speaker 3: you know along with that, you know, this is a
Speaker 3: relationship podcast. You know, we talk a lot about about
Speaker 3: marriages and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: You been married for man, We're going on it'll be
Speaker 7: ten years in April.
Speaker 1: Doubt.
Speaker 7: We've been at it since, we've been at it since
Speaker 7: fifth grade.
Speaker 2: She knows me like back better than you know.
Speaker 7: You telling you, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: I patient.
Speaker 1: Oh, I always wonder you know, just I like to
Speaker 1: ask this, you know, with couples, is you know, if
Speaker 1: you were to look in the mirror as a husband,
Speaker 1: what's one thing that you could do better at?
Speaker 7: The one thing I could do better at, I would
Speaker 7: say is communication? Right, Like, even though I'm an oratory
Speaker 7: speaker out in the world, I would say communication about
Speaker 7: about challenges that come up in marriage, right, Because I'm
Speaker 7: the type of person I'm so like people see me
Speaker 7: and they're like, man, this guy's passionate. But my personality
Speaker 7: is that I'm a real calm, real cool guy. I
Speaker 7: just try to navigate, get through opposition, get through challenges
Speaker 7: in a cool, calm way. And so early on and
Speaker 7: my wife helped me with this a lot early on
Speaker 7: in our marriage, whenever we would face a challenge, I
Speaker 7: would just try to be cool, like in silent right,
Speaker 7: not want to address it, like I say a little
Speaker 7: something here, but try to just think it's just going
Speaker 7: to blow over, right, And my wife would be like, no,
Speaker 7: we're going to talk about this. We're finish talk about
Speaker 7: this now, right, like we're goin to communicate about this.
Speaker 7: And you know it helped me, right, It helped me
Speaker 7: to start expressing my perspective.
Speaker 4: It helped me to start understanding her perspective.
Speaker 7: But just that whole communication piece is so important, right,
Speaker 7: and also understanding and hearing the nun verbals, right, Like,
Speaker 7: I remember a mistake I made when I first started
Speaker 7: speaking with the NFL, and I had this big gig
Speaker 7: on her birthday and I'm like, man, like this is
Speaker 7: gonna take me here in my career. I'm gonna get
Speaker 7: paid this. And I asked her on her birthday because
Speaker 7: the way it was set up, I could get up,
Speaker 7: go do what I had to do, get right back,
Speaker 7: and I was gonna send her to the SPA with
Speaker 7: a grandma, and I had it all planned out in
Speaker 7: my mind.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, man's be perfect.
Speaker 7: And I asked her and she was like, yeah, cool,
Speaker 7: go ahead, right, and like I went, I did it
Speaker 7: and I came back and I always say it wasn't
Speaker 7: until like two days later, and it was something simple, right,
Speaker 7: and she blew on me and I knew automatically I
Speaker 7: said that was it. I made a mistake. I didn't
Speaker 7: catch non verbo. I didn't catch it, and so I
Speaker 7: would say that for sure.
Speaker 1: But that's also on her though. And what I've learned
Speaker 1: too is because I do a lot of non verbal too,
Speaker 1: you know, as his wife, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: times when instead I have to come and say like, hey,
Speaker 1: I feel this way, instead of taking it out about
Speaker 1: a lampshade. You know, like there's there's always something greater.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's on us too to express it.
Speaker 1: But it's hard. It's a fine dance, you know, when
Speaker 1: you have emotions and feelings.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure if it's on your birthday, you probably
Speaker 3: wouldn't feel like you'd have to well when just blinded,
Speaker 3: you know that that's that's tough too, though, because as
Speaker 3: I put myself in inky shoes, I'd be like, babe,
Speaker 3: can you understand this response, this this opportunity that's in
Speaker 3: front of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Think it's just it's having more communication and saying like,
Speaker 1: but you know, I love you so much and I
Speaker 1: do choose you. I just you know, I really need
Speaker 1: your support. So It's like, I don't know who.
Speaker 3: Who do you enjoy talking to the most? Inky? I mean,
Speaker 3: you've done NFL, you do corporations, you do you underprivileged kids, schools,
Speaker 3: you know whatever it is on all levels, Like who
Speaker 3: have you enjoyed really connecting with the most?
Speaker 7: I enjoy it all, man, because I never thought I
Speaker 7: would be doing it on the level that I'm doing
Speaker 7: it at. But I would say my number one source
Speaker 7: of business it isn't It isn't even sports. A number
Speaker 7: one source is corporate. And I think it's more so
Speaker 7: because I bring a different perspective. Like I was trying
Speaker 7: to figure it out one day, I was like, man,
Speaker 7: you know I don't really come from the corporate. Well,
Speaker 7: like why do they like bringing me in? And then
Speaker 7: when I was talking to a guy I wanted to
Speaker 7: see O the company, He's like, Ink, we get the
Speaker 7: guys to come in and talk to numbers, We get
Speaker 7: the guys to come in and talk to spreadsheets, and
Speaker 7: they say, when you come in, you bring a level
Speaker 7: of balance and perspective that we need to think about, right,
Speaker 7: because we do get driven from time to time. And
Speaker 7: like I said to him, like I'm a firm believer
Speaker 7: like we're adults, right, we got children, married, this, that,
Speaker 7: and the third, and people would look at me and say, man,
Speaker 7: he's motivating, inspirational, And I firmly believe as adults, more
Speaker 7: than motivation, more than inspiration, even though that's valuable, we
Speaker 7: need to be reminded of what's important. And so when
Speaker 7: I go into the corporate space, I think sometimes it
Speaker 7: just serves as a source of what's really important, right,
Speaker 7: because that's the space that I speak from.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. I mean just putting everything in a perspective,
Speaker 3: and I feel like I make up that you bring,
Speaker 3: like the intangibles that you know, the corporation doesn't always
Speaker 3: get like you're talking about. It's not the numbers, it's
Speaker 3: not the business aspect, it's theo's intangibles that make up
Speaker 3: a human being and a corporation. To be successful with
Speaker 3: your young kids, and this is a topical question being
Speaker 3: a black man in today's cultural climate and having two
Speaker 3: young African American kids, what are you teaching them about
Speaker 3: what it means to be the color that they are
Speaker 3: and how to approach life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know that's great question.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: Just making sure that my children have a real balance
Speaker 7: perspective and making sure they're educated about everything that they
Speaker 7: have a question about when it comes to race, when
Speaker 7: it comes to different things, whether it be you know, politics,
Speaker 7: whatever the case may be, making sure we educate them
Speaker 7: but also making sure that they have a balance perspective.
Speaker 7: So I'll give you an example. Our children are growing
Speaker 7: up totally different from me and my wife. So me
Speaker 7: and my wife grew up a couple blocks away from
Speaker 7: each other, same neighborhood, same environment, things that nature experience,
Speaker 7: similar things.
Speaker 4: Our children are growing up totally different.
Speaker 7: So when I was coming up, the first guy that
Speaker 7: put me in sports was a white guy, right, But
Speaker 7: I was coming up all black neighborhood, drug dealers on
Speaker 7: the corner pretty much you see it all, right, like literally,
Speaker 7: and a coach coming down the street after he dropped
Speaker 7: the kid off at practice, ends up signing me and
Speaker 7: my three.
Speaker 4: Younger cousins up to play ball.
Speaker 7: And it's my guy until this day, right, And me
Speaker 7: and my three younger cousins that he signed up in
Speaker 7: that street, all of us end up going to college,
Speaker 7: and we broke a generational curse in our family, right,
Speaker 7: And he helped us. And so for my children. They're
Speaker 7: growing up black, white Chinese kids. Some of their best
Speaker 7: friends are white, some of their best friends are black.
Speaker 7: And when the things started happening with the cops, right
Speaker 7: about people in the world talking about cops, you know,
Speaker 7: cops killing black people, whatever the case may be. When
Speaker 7: that started happening, my children came home and they had questions,
Speaker 7: right because they would hear it, people would discuss it,
Speaker 7: and we don't ever try to make them feel like
Speaker 7: they're living in fantasy land, right, Like I talked to
Speaker 7: my nine year old son like he's nineteen, Right, I
Speaker 7: talked to my ten year old daughter like she's twenty
Speaker 7: years old.
Speaker 4: We have real dialogue.
Speaker 7: And so when that started happening, they came home and
Speaker 7: they had questions, and they were like, man, why are
Speaker 7: people saying police are bad? Like we just seen mister
Speaker 7: Tummy at lunch with the K nine. He's awesome, Like
Speaker 7: he let us pet the K nine talk to us
Speaker 7: about life, and we just educated him right about the
Speaker 7: perspective that some people have, why they have it, and
Speaker 7: making sure that they're educating they got a well balanced
Speaker 7: perspective about you know, people, about race and about different
Speaker 7: things that transpire in the world and don't treat it
Speaker 7: like his fantasy land. So when they go out into
Speaker 7: the world, they get a dose of truth, they're not surprised, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's that's great. And I feel like, no
Speaker 3: matter what creed, color, religion, that's just good for any
Speaker 3: kid to know, right, know that balance and be educated
Speaker 3: on what's going on the temperature of society and not
Speaker 3: be in that bubble because then you said, you're setting
Speaker 3: them up for to be surprised and set them up
Speaker 3: for conflict and failure later on with some kind of situation.
Speaker 1: Are you writing a book? You should write a book.
Speaker 1: Have you written a book?
Speaker 4: Yea, yeah, yeah. I came out with one little autobiography.
Speaker 7: But I am writing a journal because I'm a big
Speaker 7: like devotion guy. Yeah, and so I've been writing a
Speaker 7: journal like an everyday deal. That's what I do every
Speaker 7: single day. Like I got a routine to where I
Speaker 7: journal and I write and some working on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love that. That's that's awesome. And then obviously
Speaker 1: with you know, speaking in COVID and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: where you're doing just a bunch of zooms and being
Speaker 1: able to still go out that way at least, oh,
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 7: So doing doing a lot of zooms WebEx Microsoft. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but also going to some sites with some engagements that
Speaker 7: I have and just simulcasting out. So I'll go to
Speaker 7: a site and it'll be like the leadership there and
Speaker 7: I'll go speak and then some teams are still you know,
Speaker 7: going live, and so I'll come in, you know, socially distanced,
Speaker 7: and now I'll go in and do my work.
Speaker 4: So it's been cool, it's been neat.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Well, Inky, thank you so much for your time. Brother.
Speaker 3: We really appreciate it. We're privileged to have you on here,
Speaker 3: and we really encourage our listeners to follow you Inky
Speaker 3: Johnson motivate on Instagram and Inky Johnson dot com is
Speaker 3: your website.
Speaker 1: Because they took his other name, it's not fair, but
Speaker 1: still follow him because he's.
Speaker 3: So we Again, man, we appreciate you. When all this
Speaker 3: COVID stuff is over, Man, if you're ever in Nashville,
Speaker 3: hit us up. We'd love to get together.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. It is a pleasure.
Speaker 1: Thank You're the best.
Speaker 2: Thanks Inky, Thanks, brother, appreciate you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love him the Can he please
Speaker 1: be your alarm clock every morning?
Speaker 3: If I if I like a voice member of anduld
Speaker 3: be like, wake your ass up, Mike, I'll be ready
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 1: He's great. I really like him a lot.
Speaker 3: Told you you like him.
Speaker 1: I I'd love to see him live.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh my gosh, it would be amazing.
Speaker 1: We hire him for a private, right, Can you come
Speaker 1: over to our house and just have.
Speaker 2: A private boy.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's in the Atlanta area, and whenever we
Speaker 3: get our wind down shows back on the road and
Speaker 3: we get to Atlanta, we're going to get him out there,
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 1: So I know, Yeah, he's awesome. So you guys definitely
Speaker 1: follow him and motivate yourself because he'll motivate you. Motivate yourself.
Speaker 3: I think we got an email or something. Let's wrap
Speaker 3: up with that.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break, and then let's do the email.
Speaker 8: Boobo sounds good.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's finish up with an email. This is
Speaker 1: from Kate. I've been with my boyfriend for almost fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and a few months ago I discovered text messages, chat apps,
Speaker 1: and some other stuff that made me extremely uncomfortable. I
Speaker 1: confronted him and we talked about how I felt. He
Speaker 1: was super apologetic and promised that it would never happen again.
Speaker 1: We'll fast forward a few months and I see that
Speaker 1: app on his phone yet again. I called him out
Speaker 1: and he told me he was reaching out to people
Speaker 1: to see if they were also going through the same
Speaker 1: feelings he was. I've suggested counseling and he wants no
Speaker 1: part of it. After reading your book and listening to
Speaker 1: your podcast, I truly think he could be a sex
Speaker 1: addict and either doesn't know or doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: admit or express that. I'm just not sure how to
Speaker 1: bring this up in a conversation in a healthy way.
Speaker 1: All or any advice would be greatly appreciated. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've definitely been through this, you know, with like I'll
Speaker 1: never do it again, like with the apps and the
Speaker 1: texts and you know those things. And I think when
Speaker 1: they say they'll never do it again, but then they
Speaker 1: do it again, that that's that then is the potential
Speaker 1: of some kind of potential addiction maybe or just not
Speaker 1: not necessarily.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, that behavior is just trying to
Speaker 3: save face, be like I'll never do it. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I never did it again. There's a lot more that
Speaker 3: goes into the addictive pattern, but you know, if I
Speaker 3: don't know the whole, this is tough. It's tough. It's
Speaker 3: tough to bring this up because she's going to get
Speaker 3: hit with defensiveness. You know, like if she's like, hey,
Speaker 3: I think you're a sex actor. I think you have
Speaker 3: is she's going on, you need to go see somebody.
Speaker 3: If he's not willing to see somebody, he's going to
Speaker 3: be defensive.
Speaker 1: So then what why you know, I'll just point this
Speaker 1: to you because you know, maybe she can relate. When
Speaker 1: you've deleted things and then then you do it again
Speaker 1: with chat apps or you know, like the the app
Speaker 1: that you had and then redid it last year, it's like,
Speaker 1: well why you know, like, what what are you guys
Speaker 1: searching for? Especially when you say you'll never do again.
Speaker 1: This will help Kate.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't answer for him because everybody's different,
Speaker 3: but he's he's clearly searching for something that he feels
Speaker 3: like he's missing, whether it's autonomy, whether it's connection, whether it's.
Speaker 1: By the way, it makes none of it right, just
Speaker 1: that Foine.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, not at all. Unfortunately. I appreciate
Speaker 3: you know, her asking how to bring it up in
Speaker 3: a healthy way and I think along with that, she
Speaker 3: just has to kind of state to boundary and it's
Speaker 3: telling and be like, look, I love you, I just
Speaker 3: I need you to talk to somebody about this, and
Speaker 3: until you do, says some sort of boundary. You know,
Speaker 3: they've been together fifteen years, they have a lot of history,
Speaker 3: so he needs to be able to respect that. And
Speaker 3: she can say, I'm not telling you what you can
Speaker 3: or can't do. I'm just asking you to please go
Speaker 3: talk to somebody because I need this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and if he doesn't, then you have
Speaker 1: to wonder what you're non negotiable as, Yeah, because if
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go to therapy, then you know
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna happen again.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's very seldom just not saying it's
Speaker 3: not possible, but very seldom to someone stop secretive behavior
Speaker 3: behavior cold turkey, you know, like typically they have to
Speaker 3: do something to kind of recover from that and find
Speaker 3: a healthy outlet and talk to somebody and digest it,
Speaker 3: dissect it where it's coming from, and process it. So
Speaker 3: that's my only advice is just I mean, I think
Speaker 3: she has a good mindset coming from a healthy place,
Speaker 3: but just deliver it from a healthy place, and I
Speaker 3: think it'll be okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely lead into it vulnerable, say what you want,
Speaker 1: but also what you can't, you don't want, and what
Speaker 1: you're not going to stand for, because that's that's not
Speaker 1: okay regardless. You know, if he's looking for something, he
Speaker 1: needs to express in a healthy way and not go
Speaker 1: behind your back and do those things because that's childish.
Speaker 1: So we have Thanksgiving coming up. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: I'm a little sad though, well, I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's just weird not being home for Thanksgiving. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: grandparents are getting old. It's just sad. But this is
Speaker 1: the first year you're going to try to attempt the turkey.
Speaker 2: I'm cooking a turkey.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: On the stuffing, this justin.
Speaker 3: This flash, Well I knew I was doing the stuffing,
Speaker 3: which there's a lot of pressure on me.
Speaker 1: A ton of pressure because stuffing is like my favorite
Speaker 1: thing and the entire.
Speaker 2: Planet box stovetop.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Thanksgiving pumpkin pie?
Speaker 2: All day? I know you hate pie.
Speaker 1: It literally tasted crackers. It's like the cross is love pie.
Speaker 1: I mean, my grandma made a great pie, but I
Speaker 1: just don't think I could do it. Remember the time
Speaker 1: you tried making pie crust. But the stuffing is going
Speaker 1: to be great, and I mean, you know, you'll just
Speaker 1: have to give it Grandpa's love.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try, but I hope.
Speaker 1: All of you guys have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and just there's a lot to be thankful for. I
Speaker 1: know it's been a crazy year, but try to look
Speaker 1: at the little things and find even if it's the
Speaker 1: smallest thing, there's still plenty to be thankful for because
Speaker 1: we're alive. We're listening to this right now, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we love you guys. Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Happy Thanksgiving, guys.