WEBVTT - Kel Mitchell Full Interview 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.239 My next guest has a passion too for faith, family, 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.000 and fitness, and he tries to incorporate all three aspects 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.760 in his daily work as well. He's a two time 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.560 Emmy nominated actor, writer and producer. Helen from the windy 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.880 City of Chicago, one of my favorite cities during the summer. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:22.159 Let y'all know I lived in Chicago four years. I 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.919 have clothes and I bought up that I cannot wear 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.880 anywhere else because I was up there in February March 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.240 cold days. He is also the spokesperson for the Black 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.080 College Expo, which provides numerous scholarships for students throughout the year. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.040 Please work with them moneymaking conversations. My man, cal Mitchell, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:52.160 hell last Kale. I'm gonna way back to Steve Harvey sitcom. Sitcom. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.920 That's way back what I'm saying. There was on the 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.640 show doing a guest appearance. Him and the boy King 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.080 was on the show doing appear and every thing I 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.960 remember about him man first of all polite. Secondly, uh 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.200 just naturally gifted and we was on the sideline just 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.520 naturally funny. It's just and I always felt that he 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.800 knew he was talented, but didn't know how to wrap 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.000 all you know, I said, wrap your arms around all 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.640 that talent and and and I always knew that that 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.640 that if he ever figures it out, which he has 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.119 figured out throughout this creer, you don't have a cret 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.280 a loan not figured it out. But when you look 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.399 at him as a as a talent, and and and 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.280 and the and the journey is taken. And seeing it 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.200 when I first met him on Steve Show, and and 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.400 and and watching the growth of him. Well, we're uh 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.680 the journey, and we're gonna talk about the good Burger. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.720 We'll talk about everything, brother, Okay, because that pop up. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.640 He's the funny thing about the I'm getting out a lot. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:48.040 Welcome to my man conversation, my man, cal Mitchell. Hey, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.560 thank you for having me. Oh man, I'm excited to 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.720 be here. Well, you know, I'm excited too, because I'm 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.400 about to jump full five questions to get the good Burger. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.400 And uh, because I'll be because I'm I'm going to 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.680 Jamaica and when I come back from Jamaica, I'll be 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:09.280 at l A July seven. Okay, Now, the good Burger 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:15.880 pop up right, yes, it is. Tell me about the 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:21.360 good Burger, which is a takeoff of the movie Good Burger. Correct. Yeah, man, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:27.480 So with this, it was so many people love Good Burger, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.040 and you know, wherever I go, people want me to 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.119 do the tagline. They stopped me in red lights all 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.720 the time. And uh, it was so funny. Me and 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.359 my wife, we're talking about, man, we need to open 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.280 up a pop up restaurant. But you know we would 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.480 have to, you know, get a chef and cook it 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.600 ourselves and figure out how to do it. And uh 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.840 it's this. Uh it was this pop up restaurant called 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.440 Saved by the Max that had opened up. They were 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.680 in Chicago and then they were in Los Angeles and 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.000 had amazing success. So we went to go check this 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.720 out and I met the owners up there and Derek Barry, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.040 amazing guy, and I'm like, look, we need to partner 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.320 up and do a Good Burger pop up. And uh 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.280 we talked about it, like about the design, what type 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.760 of food we're gonna have in there, man, And so, uh, man, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.560 we're opening up our own restaurant, pop up restaurant. It's 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.560 happening in July tenth. Uh, it would be there for 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.520 six months. We're hoping it would be there even longer. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.280 But yeah, and then in the beauty about to pop 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:23.919 up is I can take it from city to city. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.480 So we're super super excited about this man, and the 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.799 response has been amazing. Well, you know, no kill, I 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.240 said you a lot tenth because I'm not gonna stand 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.920 in a lot that line gonna be crazy. I'm just 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:43.680 you got active back back down, back knocking on no 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.320 back doe back note back do. Oh, it's the old 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.360 guy back there. Thought about you know you call does 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.160 every show? Yeah, bring him on in there. Now, let's 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.320 talk about that menu. Come okay, let's talk about that 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.800 menu because I would teaching them. Tell you about Rashan mcconne. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.400 Two things. I love pizzas. I love pizza or I 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.760 love pizza and I love hamburgers all my goodness, I 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.480 love hamburgers and French fries and French frigs. You gotta 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.040 have me, Yeah, you gotta have fries with your burger. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.400 To talk about that menu, all you're doing shakes, That's 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.760 that's the killer. If you're doing shakes, I'm gonna be standing. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:18.960 I'm an knock some people outlive. You're doing shake, I'm 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.360 gonna come through the front window. What we're doing we're 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.120 doing fries, we're doing shakes. The cool thing about good burgers, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.960 everything is good. So we say good state, good fries, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.760 and uh so we're definitely gonna have that. And you know, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.719 because we got our vegan options, so you're gonna have 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.120 the vegan burgers too. I'm gonna tell you some. I'm 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.080 gonna tall something. Everybody in the room, them o producers, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.320 they looked at me when I'm with vegan. But I 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.040 ate a black bean burger. Yep, I was. I was stuck. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.000 I was, I'm gonna it was. It's the funny thing. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.320 I went to UM. I was at UM this restaurant 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.719 and I miss ordered, I'm gona tell you, And it 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.080 was a mushroom burger. See, I just thought, you know, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.400 you know what I'm saying. I was a mushoot on 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.880 my burger. But it was just a giant mushroom in that. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.839 And I would arguing what I wasn't looking at man, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:16.160 where is my meat? Where is my meat? The guy said, certain, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.800 you ordered it? I said, or didn't? No, I did not. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.719 I did not ordered this burger right there, I wrote down. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.920 My wife said, you know, she pulls something when I 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:30.240 get loud in public. Baby this man, you know, baby, 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.200 I don't need no burger like this and so and 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.760 so so. Now the black being burger, I can say, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.440 I am a guy who understands the value of being 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.839 a vegan. Yeah, but back then when I ordered that 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.440 mushroom burger with no meat, your ball was struggling. Call, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:51.320 I was struggling. I was struggling. You know, it's it's 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.359 all about the flavor, man. And you know how they 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.919 season it that it's all about that man. Well, you 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.640 don't even you don't even miss the meet. If they 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.200 do it right, if they're do it right, they're do 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.440 it right. Just so, so, how much were you involved 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.760 in the whole process, because this talking from an entrepreneur standpoint, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.640 that you you had to get involved in this and 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.039 just to just slap your name and your association with 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.400 this process. Correct, Yeah, yeah, yeah with uh Derek Berry, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.680 we talked about it. Uh talked about it a lot. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.440 You know. Of course, the burgers had to be good, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.080 the mall had to be good. And the cool thing 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.240 about it is that I went to say by the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.839 Max a couple of times, a few times, just to 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.000 make sure to see how they were doing it when 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.080 they did it with say, by the Bell, so I 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.840 wanted to see the atmosphere and see how that work. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.320 And they were very successful with doing that. I mean, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.680 they were only supposed to be in Chicago for a 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.280 few months and ended up being two years. So uh 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.720 and then they did the same thing in Los Angeles, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.760 and so I knew that this would be amazing for 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.200 uh Nickelodeon. And so from there when I saw it, 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.480 I was like, Okay, let me take it over to Nickelodeon, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.760 get the licensing deal, let's make everything happened. And UH 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.600 Nickelodeon was like, I can't believe we didn't think it is. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.200 I was like, hey, that's why I brought it in. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.640 Looking around the room up now I'm bringing this idea. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.160 This is me, this is me. I'm not this is 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:16.200 me exactly man. And so I've just been excited about 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.560 it and it's it's it's awesome to have some ownership 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.720 in it, uh into partner up with some amazing folks, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.320 and uh into partner up the Nickelodeon as well, and 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.840 it's just been it's been awesome. I'm excited and I'm 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.360 excited about the response because everyone we tell it too. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.040 I mean the smile that comes over their faces. Because 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.840 when you walk into this place like you're when you 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.440 walk in, it's literally gonna be good Birgers. But when 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.880 you walk in, it's going to look like you're of 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.840 good birth. Behind that counter of looking crazy, you know, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.760 looking burgers wrong, I'm good. Just stand over the autograph, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.880 take pictures. If you're behind that count, I'm gonna question 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.040 everything back then, you know that right, Well, no, we 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.120 we haven't. We have our employees there you go, but 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.160 you know, I might, I might have to come there 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.800 and you know, fun, I'm not gonna be cooking though, Burden. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.200 That's the beauty of this conversation that we're having from 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.120 watching you grow. And that's what I was just saying 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.160 when I first saw your way back then, you know, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.960 just understanding the entrepreneurship side of you, your brand, and 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.360 you know you've done independent movies and all that stuff, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.840 and now you made a full circle you come back 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:28.560 to Nickelodeon all that. Yes, yeah, come on man, and 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.960 that that that to to be able to walk back 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.240 come back home like that, and to be an executive producer, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.800 that had to have an emotional reaction to uh it 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.000 totally did. Man, it totally did. And the thing about 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.480 it though, is that the process you talked about a 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.160 little bit about that with the intro that you did 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.640 right before. It's uh, humbling yourself because it's a lot 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.040 of a lot of actors that have done stuff from 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.280 the past, uh that they were very successful in and 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.880 they shut it and because they're like, well, I want 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.199 to do something different, I want to be this different 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.160 type of person. It's like, yeah, you can do other 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.880 things that are different, but don't shun your journey. Don't 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.840 shun what you did in the past that was very 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.680 successful because you don't know who's there now you know 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.679 the people and why they're like you. They could have 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.720 been a fan when they were younger. Now they're adults 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.800 and they're they're making the shots right now. So and 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.720 and just the fact that it was a blessing that 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.960 was given to you. So don't don't don't do that. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.640 You don't know what doors can open. And really what 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.560 it was was that in this business, when you go 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.960 through ups and downs as an actor, you do get 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.400 to a point where it's like you start looking at 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.120 everybody else their journey and you say to yourself, why 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.720 are they getting those opportunities and why is this happening? 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.640 And then you start trying to uh duplicate them, but 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.959 then the problem with that is that you end up 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.080 just being some type of like for Gazzy or just 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:54.840 a copy and you need to you need to be yourself. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.640 And what happened with me with with that is through 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.240 my faith. Through it's through to my faith and blowing 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.880 myself and really listening to the Holy Spirit on what 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.040 direction I should go in. And the reason why that 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.480 happened because, Uh, in my family, I look at everything 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.320 where the Lord is part of everything. So my business, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.600 you know, my career, my family, everything, I take it 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.319 up to Press and I take it up to him. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.520 And you know, faith without action is dead. You gotta 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.760 go after it. Once you get it, you gotta go 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.600 after it. And so, uh, it was just me really 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.560 humbling myself to say, you know, let me do this. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.959 And it was an opportunity a while back that came 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.400 up with just me guest starring on my old shows 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.760 from Nickelodeon. It was just like a guest star role 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.480 for a new Nickelodeon show and I just did that. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.280 I just did it on you know and and of 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.880 course in the flesh, I was thinking, like, I mean, 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.640 anybody trying to go back to that end they making 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.640 me this and all, come on, man, please, But when 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.040 I did that, the amount of people that were so 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.360 excited just me being on this show, and that went 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.600 from me doing other things over there and this was 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.280 over you know, of course over some years, let's be 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.760 doing different, different things over there. And then all of 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.360 a sudden, I got my own show over there, which 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.040 was called Game Shakers, which was another show that I 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.160 did that introduced me to a whole new generation of 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.840 kids that like me for different reads. Didn't even look 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.680 at like good Burgers. Ain't know nothing about that all 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.320 that thought. Because we gonna come back to the next break, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.880 because uh, you're inspired, my friend, and I'm so happy 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.480 for you, and we're gonna talk about the other shows, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.920 the other projects that you're involved in. Mr. Good Burger's 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.800 back baby. Hi. This ra Sean McDonald and you're listening 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.840 to money making conversations on I'm interviewing. Um, I'm gonna 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.680 call my old friend and saw him a long time, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.000 definitely hadn't talked to him in a long time before 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.400 the interview ended in at last break, he talked about 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.720 how you can get caught up and watching your peers 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.680 and your other other people who are who are somehow 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.280 at the same level of you, and a suddenly they 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.640 started just sprouting the different levels. And now I'm just 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.160 gonna give an example with Steve Harvey and I. We've 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.679 done that. We had all performed in the King of Comedy. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.880 I had my little cameo in the back. Everybody knows 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.480 that I'm a cameo. I'm a cameo in Kings Comments. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.079 Just watch it. I'm back there, Steve, give me his 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.280 kids and run on stage. You know, Yeah, just Cedric 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.600 going there. You had Bernie Mac Yeah, deal Hugley and 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.240 uh and so Steve and I decided to do a 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.719 radio deal, a big radio deal in Los Angeles, so 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.960 it felt like a local radio but we had a plan. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.000 We knew what we was doing. We was trying to 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.920 We were taking control of his career so he didn't 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.679 have to worry about auditioning it for that audition and 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.160 that we had a regular check every week, and we 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.160 were in one of the hotter radio stage. But people 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.160 saw us as some way He's taking a step back 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.199 to everybody because at the time Cisor had the number 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.679 one commercial super Bowl commercial. You know, Bernie mac was 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.080 doing those all those all those movies with with George 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.560 Clooney and everybody there, Charlie's Angels and d L was 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.080 doing his thing here the sitcom and everything. So it 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:01.760 looked like we were we were falling back. But what 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.760 we couldn't do is act like we didn't have a plan. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.680 And that's all he was saying. Sometimes you get so 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.920 caught up. Hey man, we better get a movie. We 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.040 better go do uh, we better go do it. I know, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.360 like they offered the Soul plane and we said no. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.640 M Jim, the president of m JIM came to us 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.000 said we want you, we want you to start a 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.080 sole plain Steve, and I looked at Jo, Nah, we 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.880 won't do so plain, you know, and so so opportunities 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.760 came my way and we said no to it. And 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.160 that's why you have to understand that you cannot jump 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.559 out there and let let the let other people dictate 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.800 your pace. And that's all he's saying. And when you dictate, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.160 let other people dictate your pace. And who are you 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.120 what are you trying to do? What are you trying 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.800 to represent what is your brand? And if I stand 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.040 to this brand. And he also said something real quick, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.480 he said I had to humble myself. And he said 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.160 something else, Man, I had the audition just a lot 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.520 of things you would do in life to be successful. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.160 That you have to make the decision that it is 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.720 right for you and not worry about what somebody else thinks, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.199 because in the end is a lot of great actors 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.880 and actors who have auditioned for stuff and guess what 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.640 have become Oscar winners have become a household names. Well, man, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.400 that's why I do want to say that story, because 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.480 when you said it, I didn't want I didn't want 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.280 any listener or any fan that not understand what you 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.640 had just said. I just want to put another example 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.960 of somebody who's world famous right now because he held back. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.320 We held back, and we made a decision not to 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.600 chase opportunity but stick with the plan. And that's what 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.400 you're doing. That's why that's why I put That's why 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.640 I talked about those three things that are that drive 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.040 you at the top. You know what I'm saying, Faith, family, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:40.280 and fitness. Yep, yep, yeah, you gotta you. You gotta 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.040 know your brand and you gotta know who you are. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.600 And the thing about it is that a lot of 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.880 celebrities get jaded, but you gotta know your annointing doesn't 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:53.000 go anywhere. Everybody's talented, everybody's annointed doesn't go anywhere. And 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:57.120 it's like when you were saying about harnessing the talent, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.720 you gotta ask the Lord to show you, Okay, where, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.080 why is this happening? Why am I here? So every 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.880 job that I look at, it's like, well, who can 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.560 I inspire? Who can I uh empower? Why am I 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.080 doing this? And what I found out that what in 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.600 the time that, uh, some of my peers were doing 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.640 some things that I might have wanted to do. Around 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.920 that time, the Lord was saying, no, I want you 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.480 to work within the church. So I became a stage 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.800 manager within the church. And then he said, okay, I 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.840 also want you to do work with the colleges and 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.200 you know, help with the scholarships, with the Black College 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.280 Expo and all those things were preparing me. And I 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.840 also started producing my own shows, you know, doing it independently, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.200 writing my own shows, uh, putting out DVDs and movies. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.120 I did a movie with stead of the entertainer where 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.680 uh it was independent film called Dance Fool and I 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.760 wrote the film and he directed it. But at the 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.840 time he didn't know. When I was doing those meetings, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.000 I didn't have a car at the time, so I 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.160 would just make sure I would just have meetings where 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.640 I could walk from the crib, like walk over there. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.760 All of this stuff was preparing preparing me, preparing me 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.120 and uh and and it's like with that faith, man, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.600 I mean, what it did was is that I created 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.160 a uh, the Holy Spirit helped me create this this 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.680 generation of new generation of fans and their parents also 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.440 having being fans from the past, where that now it's 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:25.480 the entire family that is enjoying my projects. And it's 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.560 cool because people go like, why are you still working 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.520 in the family business and family entertainment. You should be 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.480 doing this, you should be doing this type of thing. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.680 And it's like no, no, no, no, I know, I 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.320 know my brand, and it's like it's not a lot 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.400 of uh, just family entertainment that's out there. Like look, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.400 I'm a father, and it's like someone has to be 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.920 in the family entertainment that are doing things that we 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.880 want our kids to see and I'm like, well, you 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.080 know what, let me do that. You know what I mean, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.760 let me be let me be that person. And uh, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.680 and I'm just going to continue to to work on 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.240 it because this is where the Lord has played me 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.880 and it's in such an awesome, awesome time. I mean 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.560 to be executive producing. Uh, you know the show that 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:12.960 I started on, these producers that I saw before, Now 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.240 I'm in the same room the same officers doing notes 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.600 with them. Uh. It's it's a real brother. I mean, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.520 it just really shows you how faith works. It's really great. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.320 And I look at you and I look at following 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:31.360 on social media and I know that you know Instagrams. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.200 Has social media enabled you to build your brand? Control 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.679 your brain, be able to promote your brain? I know 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.920 when that Good Burger pop up come out, it's gonna 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.160 be all over your social media. So tell us about 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.639 the impact of social media on your brain's here's the 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.760 thing is awesome about social media. You can It gives 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.359 the opportunities for entertaining painters and business on this to 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.560 tell their stories oh instantly. So if anything is said 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.919 about you and you don't agree with it, media and 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.040 let people know immediately. That's what's kind of cool about it? 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.520 And then also too, uh all those followers that you have, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.399 those are selves, those are selves branding. Uh. And with 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.520 me it was like, okay, I need to look at 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.840 what is my brand? And that's where the faith Sitting 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.440 family came from because I was looking at Damon from 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.359 US Shark Teak and he was saying, you've got to 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.520 have that branding like Nike, just do it. And so 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.000 I sat back and I said, okay, well what if 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.399 you think me? What do people see? And when you 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.040 look at my social what do they see? And I 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.560 was like, well, I like to work out. I love 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.840 my faith. I work within the church still when I'm 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.840 doing all this other stuff, and my family is important 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.520 to me. Faith Sitting it's a family. Okay. There it 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.560 is boom and when you when you when you find that, 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.600 then you can go, Okay, what business opportunities can I 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.080 put with that? How can I empower people with that? 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.359 What other avenues can I go with's in there? Because 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.440 you know, when you're creative person, you have so many 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.239 ideas coming at you all at once, and so it's 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.000 kind of hard to focus. So you go when you 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.879 can focus on Okay, this is the plan, and I'm 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.240 gonna walk in this plan. And then as you know, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.399 the Lord puts you on the right plan because he 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.480 knows the plans for our future. So that really really helped, 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.720 and that's really what harnessed me and helped me to 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.200 stay focused and always having a good team. A good 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.719 team is very important too, but you have to have 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.760 that discernment and that's where your faith comes into discernment 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.680 on who to work with because some people that had 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.800 to let go. I had to let go a lot 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.879 of people that were that what I was working with 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.840 were in my life because I saw that, Okay, this 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.240 is why certain things are happening because I need to 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.320 go to a certain level and I can't take you 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.840 with me on that level. You're you're holding me back 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.240 from That's hard. That's hard. That's hard. It's very hard, hard, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.680 very hard to meet that. I'm reminding everybody, Okay, all 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:58.600 that executive producer. Okay, it's on every Saturday at eight 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.639 pm Easter Standard time and Pacific time. And you know, 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.240 if it's that time, it's Simon's Central time. It's seven 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.960 thirty seven pm, seven thirty pm, and Social Standard time, 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.760 it's it's amazing when I when I look at the 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.119 happiness in your voice, I'm looking at I went to 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.120 Instagram and looked at you know, he got the good 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.520