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Fee Subscribe to the eighty five Self 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: Show to hear Tune into the Black Market here amazing 20 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: interviews with entrepreneurs, creatives and thought leaders, people who are 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: doing amazing things in the black community. Listen to the 22 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: Black Market or I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome to Money Making Conversation. 24 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: I have your host, Rashan McDonald. I say this every episode. 25 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: start writing your own. And we talk about gifts and purposes. 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: If you have a gift, lead with your gift and 28 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: don't let your age, friends, family, or coworkers stop you 29 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: from planning or living your dreams. My interviewers include ceo, celebrities, entrepreneurs, 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: and people I like to call industry decision makers. One 31 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: my next game is one of my favorite guess. He's 32 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: a person UH I met on Money Making Conversation. We 33 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: developed a relationship soon as I got all fair. We 34 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: talked about it. Uh. We talked about this TV show 35 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: that I appeared on a little bit later on. His 36 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: name is Ash Cash. He's one of America's leading financial educators, 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: a personal finance expert, business coach, speaker, best selling author, 38 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: TV and radio personality. He's the founder and CEO or 39 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: mind Right Money Management and Financial Education and media company 40 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: and bilding in psychology and personal finance. He holds the 41 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: ash cast Show, or a daily live financial news show, 42 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: which streams money through Friday eight a m the nine 43 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: am Eastern Standard Time on his YouTube channel, providing motivation 44 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: and advice on finance, entrepreneurship, and more. He's on the 45 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: show discussed this new book which I just read. It 46 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: was a very entertaining book. It's a memoir slash motivational 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: book about financial and how to get your life right 48 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: in many different circumstances. It's entitled From the Block to 49 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: the Bank, How to make the most of your circumstance 50 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: to maximize your full potential. He's on the show to 51 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: talk about unlocking the vault please working to money making 52 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: conversations as cast brother. Thank you so much, man, Thank 53 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: you so much for having me. Always always a plea, 54 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: always good energy. Will be connected. Well, you know, I 55 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 1: I love talking to you and I love I love 56 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: reading books and um because I I you know, I 57 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: get a lot of great authors on my show. And 58 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: one of the things I guess that they do a 59 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: lot of interviews with people kind of act like they're 60 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: ready to read your book and then interview you because 61 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: nothing about your book at the end of the interview. 62 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: But the importance of your book is why you on 63 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: the show. The i portness of the value and the 64 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: experience you brought to being able to write the book. 65 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: It's why you're on the show. And I want to 66 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: read a little a little extract I pulled from the 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: book very On. This is from ash Cashers book. I 68 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: was born to an immigrant mom who spoke no English. 69 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: My father didn't want me, my brother didn't like me, 70 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: and my sister beat me up. My neighborhood was filled 71 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: with cracking poverty. The church despised me, the schools thought 72 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: I was dumb and wanted to put me in their 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: special head, and my basketball coach didn't think I was 74 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: good enough. Today, I am the greatest money mindset coach 75 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: on the planet and one of the world's top financial 76 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: educators and financially free and run multiple businesses with my wife, 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: best friend and the mother of my two sons, all 78 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: the same person. I'm a bestselling author who has written 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: over ten books, and I have positively affected millions of lives. 80 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: I have been featured on more major media outlets and 81 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: world media outlets worldwide, and I'm regarded as one of 82 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: the true financial motivators because of my unmatched energy that 83 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: came from your book. That shows that you know, people 84 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: can stereotype, people can bach and hold you. People can 85 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: tell you what they think you should be or can be, 86 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: but that does not determine your destiny. That is why 87 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: I pulled that out, because that is the message I 88 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: put on money making conversation on a weekly basis. And 89 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: here you do it in this book, your memoir that 90 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: you've written. This a memoire slash financial book. And I 91 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: think it's an poor not, says him in Wall, because 92 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: a lot of people write books, man, and they don't 93 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: have money in the bank. They don't need motivated or 94 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: frog to jump. Okay, And what he's telling you is 95 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: that his life is a motivation And if I'm missing 96 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: anything feeling filling the blanks their ash, you know, that's 97 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: exactly it. And it's funny because even even years later, 98 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: as you were reading that like that, it was it 99 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: was painful, right, not painful because of the memories. But 100 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: how many people out there have the same story, um, 101 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: and they allow that story, uh to dictate their life. UM. 102 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,479 Speaker 1: I have a bunch of my friends who are dead 103 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: or in jail because they were, They too had the 104 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: similar background. Um, but instead of you know, taking their 105 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: destiny in their own hands, um, they listened, you know. 106 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: And And so for me, you know, one of the 107 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: reasons why I wanted to write this book was because, um, 108 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: there's somebody right now who's going through something right who um, 109 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: you know, who thinks that worthy, who believes that they 110 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: are you know, aren't gonna amount to anything, um, and 111 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: they're ready to give up. Um. And too many times 112 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: we look at successful people um and don't know the 113 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: backstory um, and we just believe that they just kind 114 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: of kind of woke up and was successful. Right. But 115 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: but but if we tell the stories and someone who 116 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: looks at me and says, oh my god, look at 117 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: this guy's got get kicked out of school four times. 118 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: He was expelled from the tenth grade, he was kicked 119 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: out in the first grade for fighting, like and this 120 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: guy like this is the guy who's doing all this 121 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: falsome stuff. Oh, I believe I could do it. And 122 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: so that was one of the reasons why I decided 123 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: that it was time to tell the story. Well, then, importantly, 124 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: I think that when we talk about like I grew 125 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: up in the neighborhood, Houston, Texas, you know too, very 126 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: shotgun house. I tell the story all the time on 127 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: the show because I want to remind people that don't 128 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: look at me now, look at me back then and 129 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: back then? Is that journey? And then we talked about 130 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: putting together this book. So when we talked about the 131 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: memoir portion of the book and then the financial motivation 132 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: portion of the book, why combined the two? Yeah, because 133 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: I think that a lot of times, I mean you 134 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: you alluded to this earlier, right, A lot of times 135 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: people just write these motivational books like they might have 136 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: read a book, and then because they read the book, 137 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: they're like, oh this sounds good. Let me let let 138 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: me not give the advice. They might have went through 139 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: one coaching session, and then because they went through the 140 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: one coaching session that now they are a certified coach 141 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: and the coaching people. Um. For me, I wanted people 142 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: to know, uh that yes, I'm from the projects, but 143 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: I wanted you to understand all of the ups and 144 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: downs that I went through for forty years of my life. Right, 145 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: so I wrote this book, uh, you know, right as 146 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: when I turned forty years old. And so when when 147 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: you when you look at from from the day I 148 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: was born, you know, to forty. Here's some ups and 149 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: downs that I was going through. But despite it all, 150 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: I've still managed to be successful. And so in a way, 151 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: my memoir is my receipt. It's just it's to kind 152 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: of show you live sent you know, regardless of what 153 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: you're going through. Here you can go through. You you 154 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: could go through and still be successful. But now here 155 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: are these forty principles that I call the class advances. 156 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: Here are these forty principles that you can actually you know, 157 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, um um take the action towards you can 158 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: really just uh you know, you know, implement them to 159 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: actually maximize your full potential regardless of what your circumstances. 160 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: I'm talking to Ash Cash his book From the Block 161 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: to the Banks, brand new book. Uh Like he said, 162 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: he's written over ten books From the Block to the Bank, 163 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: how to make the most of your circumstances, to maximize 164 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: your full potential. Because we had a lot, Ash Cash, 165 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: we had a lot about potential with a lot by gifts, purpose, faith, 166 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: you know, especially the last ten years, especially with social media. 167 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: Social media is driven by motivation uplift that drives and 168 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: so you've got a lot of people out there talking 169 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: about potential and following your gifts and not being denied 170 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: as to who you are. But you are a financial 171 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: motivator and I love your energy. What is separating you 172 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: right now from the competition? Yeah, I think I think 173 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: that that the ability to just not be uh, not 174 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: be afraid to be vulnerable. Um. There's so many people 175 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: who believe that if they don't give uh or if 176 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: they give their full self people, people are not going 177 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: to connect with them. Uh. And so they put up 178 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: this um you know, this this this vision or this 179 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: person that's not really who they are. UM. For me, 180 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: I I still may I still make mistakes right now, 181 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: like I'm I'm talking about like I made a mistake yesterday, right, 182 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, Uh, it is 183 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: the ability to to to look at everything, the good, 184 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly, put them together and just know 185 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: that everything is perfect, everything is working for your greater good. Um. 186 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: And and so I I don't I don't hide against 187 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: my imperfections. Uh. In fact, it is it is my 188 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: imperfections uh that that make me greatness on display, right 189 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: because I I know that in order to be great, 190 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: you have to uh, you know, know what great people 191 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: do and and it hasn't been a great person that 192 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: I've connected with that I've read about that that that 193 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 1: that that that wasn't flawed. Um. And so I think 194 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: that that that ability to uh, you know, to be 195 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: relatable UM to you know, you know, reach people where 196 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: they are, UM is you know, is what makes me different. 197 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: We you know what I'm to share. I always like 198 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: to share personal stories, just like you just shared a 199 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: personal story or flaw I've I've recently had an account 200 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: where I was asked to do an event and I 201 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: went to the event and I and I was just tired, 202 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: mentally tired, and that I didn't want to walk around. 203 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: I don't want to I didn't want to put on 204 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: effort even though I was physically there. Well, some notes 205 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: came back, and every note that the caming back about 206 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: the event was stuff I could have fixed, of stuff 207 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: I could have character the next all created relationship and 208 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: explained it out, and so it let me believe that 209 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,839 Speaker 1: that was my mistake. My mistake was that I and 210 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: a lot of times we do make mistakes. We make 211 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: mistakes because we know it. We just don't maximize our effort, 212 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: and so you know, that's the understanding. Mistakes are kind 213 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: of controlled eras I'd like to call them, because of 214 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: the fact that you're in a position to stop it. 215 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: But sometimes you go, I don't feel like doing it, dude. 216 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: It becomes a mistake when you don't do it, but 217 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: it may not become a speake if you exercise the 218 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: effort to do what you've been required to do, get 219 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: up on time, do the work that's been assigned you. 220 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: If you owe somebody of the money, pay it back 221 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 1: to it, don't take a loan you came back, pay back. 222 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 1: These are mistakes that you can actually control. And that's 223 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: what your book is about. It's five transactions and it's 224 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: forty cash advances. So naturally, you know, when we talk 225 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: about the vault, we talked about the ash cash. So 226 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: we keep it everything normal, keep it everything and flow 227 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: with your tone and your brand. That's what I love 228 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: your brand. So how did the brand of ass cash 229 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: come about? Yeah, so the brand of aask cast is 230 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: really I've always been an entrepreneur, you know, packing bags 231 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: eight years old at the local supermarket, selling mixtapes and 232 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: T shirts, and so I'm you know, don't forget that, right, 233 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: that's out the cool lady, that's out, the rid s kid. 234 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Who put me all? You know? 235 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: And so uh you know, you know, you know, you know, 236 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: always being an entrepreneur, always figuring it out. Um you 237 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: know from that working you know at the video store 238 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: Blockbuster Videos at seventeen. You know, that'sh out of my 239 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: sister who who helped me not become a drug dealer, right, 240 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 1: and so you know I had I had one ft 241 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: and one foot out trying to figure out what I 242 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: was gonna do. You know, sister was like, listen, let me, 243 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: let me get you a job and then becoming a banker. 244 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: So I've always, um, you know, had you know, this 245 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: entrepreneurship spirit. The funny thing is that I was a 246 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: vice president at one of the largest financial institutions in 247 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 1: the world. Decided that I wanted to write a book 248 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine. Um, and you know I 249 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: could have wrote it as ass examtis, but because I 250 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: was licensed, because I was uh you know, you know, 251 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: uh officer of the bank. Um, you know, I couldn't 252 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: do it. And so I needed to you know, I 253 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,599 Speaker 1: needed to find an alien and I said, why m 254 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: not tap into the to the to the guy you 255 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: know who who was eight? Who the guy was? You know, 256 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: twelve years old packing bags and twelve years old selling 257 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: mix tape and t shirts. Um. 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Now, 297 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: when we talk about the book that we've talked about, 298 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: we're talking about your life. Who are you targeting, ash 299 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: Cash when you write a book like this? Uh, you know, 300 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: the millennials are just dominating social media that that they 301 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: age you from eighteen to thirty four. They want to 302 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: be entrepreneurs, they want to be vendors, They don't want 303 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: to work that four day hour week shift. Then we 304 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: have the fourth the plus forty, who tend to use 305 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: their ages and excuse as say why they can't achieve 306 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: their dreams. So talk to us about who are you targeting, 307 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: especially on the male female breakdown. Yeah, and so so 308 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: it's really it's all of the above, you know, because 309 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: us I feel like um from from that that person 310 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: who UM is you know, working or the person who's 311 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: the eighteen and thirty four year old millennial UM who 312 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: doesn't want to work and is becoming an entrepreneur. Um. There, 313 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: you know, the book is just to them because when 314 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: you think about the ups and downs, right, I you know, 315 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: I I was a VP, quit my job, then you know, 316 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: started to become an entrepreneur, entrepreneurship didn't work, had to 317 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: get a job again, then had to quit again. So 318 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: there was a lot of ups and downs. Um. And 319 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: so anybody who is going through that journey is gonna 320 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: learn some lessons about you know, how to really uh 321 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: you know, make that transition from from nine to five 322 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: to a full time entrepreneur. But then also, uh, you 323 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: know that forty plus person right who is looking for 324 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: that reinvention who says, you know what, it's my age, 325 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: I can't do anything, but really just needs to know 326 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: that regardless, as long as you have breath in your body, 327 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: there's always an opportunity to move forward. And so you know, 328 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: the book is for anybody, right, anybody who has ever 329 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: thoughts or been told that they can't maximize their full 330 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: potential and just needs that extra motivation and the instruction 331 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 1: and step by step instruction on how to actually make 332 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: it happen. Well, it's a fun book. It's a fun 333 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: and when I say fun book. When I'm saying, you're 334 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: gonna talk about his life, I'm saying, some of the 335 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: things that happened to life isn't funny, but it's entertaining, 336 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: because that's why he's a colorful writer. You know, you 337 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 1: actually can see I was telling my stuff. They said, sure, 338 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: what do you think of the book? I said, you know, 339 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: if I if I've watched fifty since series on Stars, 340 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: you know, raising Kanaan, I think that I think this. 341 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: I think this is his I said, I think this 342 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: is his pro rand there, I said, because and that's 343 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: the beauty of this timing of this book because of 344 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: the fact that I'm talking about the Prepowers series that 345 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: they have on right now. This feels so ingrain because 346 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: it's by New York is about that the colorful era 347 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: of drugs and violence and living in the community. I 348 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: think he couldn't have brought this book out at a 349 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: better time because it's such a popular summer series. And 350 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: when I read it, I kept envisioning and looking at 351 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: the character structure and all that talk about that man, 352 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: and I am I missing the boat. When I'm saying 353 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: this as cash now your hundred said, right, you know 354 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: what one of the things, um that it isn't talked 355 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: about a lot, is um how dangerous the eighties and 356 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: the nineties were, uh you know how uh you know, 357 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: I remember, you know, being eight years old, ten years old, 358 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,479 Speaker 1: having to go to school by myself, right or with 359 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: my sister. My mom was at work, um, and it 360 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: was a dangerous time. You know, there were shootouts, there 361 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: were you know, you know, drug dealing, there were you know, 362 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: crack happening. There was our sexual activity, you know saying 363 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: there was a lot going on in our neighborhoods. And 364 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: so I think that people don't realize, um, how that 365 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:03,239 Speaker 1: time has been paid pivotal um and who we have become, um, 366 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: not only as adult, for that society as well, and 367 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: so um, you know it is definitely, um urban story. 368 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: It's an urban tell. It's it's it's something that you 369 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: know people, you know, I saw a dead body right 370 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: before I turned twelve years old, Like to actually see 371 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: somebody dead, right like that, Like that's something that you 372 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: know as a parent, right you know, my my my 373 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: daughter's thirteen, My son is is six years old. Like 374 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: some of the things that like, like I was looking 375 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: at my son the other day, I said, I can't 376 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: even fathom him having a fist fight with anybody at 377 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: his age. And but at his age, I was kicked 378 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: out of school for for having fist fight, so the 379 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 1: time was different. Um. It's a blessing though, to to 380 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: actually be here and be able to have the conversations 381 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: and tell the stories, um, And and also to be 382 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: able to, you know, as a parent, understand how blessed 383 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: I am, but then also how blessed my my family 384 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: and children are. Absolutely I was, like I said, the 385 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: book is five five transactions, forty cash advances. That's how 386 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: the chapters are broken down. Now, it was like I 387 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: pulled out by five of I wanted to just just 388 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: just throw some gems out in conversation with you. The 389 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: first one in our cash Advance five believe in your 390 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 1: powers to make anything happen. And then I'm gonna just 391 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: rattle them off and then we're gonna come back. And 392 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: then Cash Advances of a ten take action despite of fear. 393 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: That's very important. And then Cash Advance number twelve embraced 394 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: negative and positive feedback. And you kind of talk about 395 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: that in me just a minute ago when I talked 396 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 1: about I went to the event and then I didn't 397 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: just shut down and go hey man, screw that. I 398 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: looked inside myself, look in the mirror, and said, what 399 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: did you do? And so Cash Advance number thirty two 400 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: create your legacy now, and Cash Advance thirty four change 401 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: your perspective on struggle. Wow, this is just several of 402 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: the forty fantastic chapters that he has, and they are 403 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: all Each one is called a cash Advanced with the 404 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: associated number. Let's go back up to Cash Advance number five. 405 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: Believe in your powers to make anything happen? Why so 406 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 1: so so yeah, yeah, Eddie Spears says, anything is possible, uh, 407 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: with no matter who you are or where you come from, 408 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: find your path and stay on it, right, And so 409 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: you have to believe in your powers to make anything 410 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 1: happen because no matter who you are, you know, everything 411 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: starts in the mind, right everything. And and so when 412 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: we start to allow other people to um tell us 413 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: who we are, why we are, and what we can 414 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: and cannot do, we are giving up our power. And 415 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: so we have to believe in our powers to make 416 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: anything happen. We have to know that regardless of what 417 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 1: our current circumstances, regardless of that you know, we have 418 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: the power today. The only time that we have is 419 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,199 Speaker 1: here and now. Yesterday is gone. I don't care how 420 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: much running you out. I don't care who you know, 421 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: who's in your vola days. You cannot bring yesterday back. 422 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: Tomorrow is actually running from you. Right. You know, at 423 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: the end of the day, we all could focus on tomorrow, 424 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: but when tomorrow comes, it's actually gonna be today again. Right, 425 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: it's a while focus on anything else but today but 426 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: the here and now. Um. And so once you believe 427 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: in your papers to make anything happen in the here 428 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: and now, then then there's no limits to where you 429 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: can go. 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We've all felt left out 460 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: and for some that feeling lasts more than a moment. 461 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: We can change that learn how it belonging begins with 462 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 1: us dot org. Brought to you by the ACT Council. 463 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: Welcome out in my shoes. It's all about the limits. 464 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: So I think that we we we tend to limit 465 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: ourselves and we learned ourselves based on races, gender, age, 466 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: and a stereotype, you know. And I think that that's 467 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: why I was important in reading this book, is that 468 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: you know, as a young African American male, you can 469 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: say you're not gonna be anything if you read the 470 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: newspaper or or people stare at you when you go 471 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: down the street, or or the opportune or the mentors, 472 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: because you have mentors that push you in the right direction. 473 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: That we talked about that like you said, you wanted 474 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: to be a kill Davidson, you know from wrecking effect. 475 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: You know, just watching him impacted you. And I always 476 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: tell people that young mind is so important because, like 477 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: you said, at the age of forty, you can vividly 478 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: remember or situations and time and dates and situations. That's 479 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 1: why you got shaped in But that didn't impact you. 480 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: Now if you had to tell somebody when I'm going 481 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: through the book, this is a fantastic book. Like I've 482 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: stayed up talking to ash Cash from the block to 483 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: the bank. How to make the most of your circumstances 484 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: to maximize your full potential. That's what this is all about. 485 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: Every time I met as Cash, he's always talking about maximize, maximize, maximize. Now, 486 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people coincide that with effort, well, true enough, 487 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: you have to get up at a certain time, you 488 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: have to put out a certain amount of work in 489 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: order to accomplish that goal. When you talk about that 490 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: and take action despite of fear, that chapter I had 491 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: to bring out because of the fact that fear stops 492 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: people based on stereotype. M Absolutely, yeah, you know, a 493 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: lot a lot of people are so afraid of not 494 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: only uh, some people are feeling afraid of failing. Some 495 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: people are afraid of success. Some people are afraid of 496 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: what other people are gonna say about them. Some people 497 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: are afraid of you know. You know, it's so funny 498 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: because even and and and you know, not even pointing fingers. 499 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: I used to have survivor's remorse. I used to be 500 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: the guy who limited my success because my guys were 501 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: still on the corner, and I'm like, yow, how am 502 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 1: I living this this grand life? And then and they're 503 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: still trying to figure figure certain things out. So I 504 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: used to have survivor's remorse. But the truth of the matter, 505 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: um is that fear is something uh that it's it's 506 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: a warning, right. I I give this example all the time. 507 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: You know, imagine if you were driving on any interstate 508 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: in America and you start to fall asleep at the 509 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: wheel and you start to veer left. If if the 510 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: bumps in the road didn't wake you up, you would 511 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: hit the divider and you would cause you know, you know, accident, 512 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: you will flip over. But once you hit the side 513 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: of that road and the bumps happen, it's actually waking 514 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: you up and says, hey, you're veering off to the left, 515 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: you're being off to the right. Wake up, you know, 516 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: get you you know, get the steering wheel straight again. Right. 517 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: That's what fear is. A lot of times people he 518 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: had this fear and they let it stop them. But 519 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: what happens is fear is just waking you up. Fear 520 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: is just telling you that you off track. Fear is 521 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: just telling you that you're out of alignment. So get 522 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: you wake up, get back in the alignment, and stay 523 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: focused on where you're going. Um And so you know, 524 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest message in Cash Advanced Number 525 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 1: ten is saying that you meet you need to take 526 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: action despite your fear. Because the truth of the matter, 527 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: you will still feel your fear. But as long as 528 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: you don't a lot of that fears to stop you, 529 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: then fear is okay. It's just a warning. It's just 530 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 1: telling you to wake up. It's telling you that you're 531 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: focused on the wrong things. You're not focusing on what 532 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,479 Speaker 1: you need to focus on. And once you wake up, 533 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 1: you take back that wheel. You drive faith anything, it's possible, 534 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 1: it's beautiful. I'm gonna skip one because I know I 535 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: don't want to take up too much time here, because 536 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 1: I want to talk about create your own legacy now. 537 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: That's number thirty two, because I also want to talk 538 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: about the Ashcash Show as we wrap up. But let's 539 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: talk about creating your legacy now, because legacy is a word. 540 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: You know, the thing about the word brand is over 541 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: you sometimes, legacy is overusing that time, uplift, motivation, It's 542 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: so many overused terms. That's why I recommend people by 543 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: this book because you're getting it from I would call 544 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: him a legend. He's a not you know, he's fit 545 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: out in New York, used to legend down in Atlanta, 546 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 1: turning up down in the South on it both sides 547 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: north and south in the in the motivation because of 548 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: the fact that he takes common terminology, or I should 549 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: say terminology is not common and make it common and relatable. 550 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: And that's what makes him so gifted and why I 551 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: enjoy talking to him. He and I walk in the 552 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: same room, we have same clothes on. He would speak 553 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: totally different from me, and I don't mind it because 554 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: sometimes I I can't reach everybody, so he allows but 555 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: he can reach people I can't reach, and he can 556 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: reach people I'm reaching, probably reaching better. That's why I 557 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: love him because I don't fear him. I don't fear 558 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: him at all. I don't fear sharing his knowledge of 559 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: sharing his style with anybody all. I want people to 560 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: know more about it. That's what I love. I would 561 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: tell more people about that has cash. So as when 562 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: we talk about create your own legacy and now what 563 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: are you talking about? Brother? In chapter you know what 564 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: one of the it gets travesties. Um, that I see 565 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: is that a bunch of gifted people, a bunch of 566 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: people who, um, you know, have have these abilities to 567 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: be great. They chase money, you know, they chase money, 568 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: and they they they care about what kind of car 569 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: they drive, They care about the house they live in. Um, 570 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: they care about you know, you know, all the material 571 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: things in the world. But the truth of the matter 572 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: is that you know, when when, when, when God calls 573 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: you back home. Um, no one's really gonna care what 574 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,719 Speaker 1: kind of car you drove. Nobody's gonna care about your house. Uh. 575 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: You know Steve Jobs, you know when he when he died, 576 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: he was worth seven billion dollars. A lot of people 577 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,479 Speaker 1: you know don't even don't really know that, right, and 578 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: so nobody cares. Everybody knows Steve Jobs as somebody who 579 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: you know created Apple, you know, and and it has 580 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: been a pioneer in in in in the text space. Um. 581 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: And so you know, creating your legacy now is making 582 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 1: sure that we don't waste, we don't waste our time 583 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: on earth. We don't waste um, you know, our time, 584 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: chasing after money, chasing after things old. In your legacy 585 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: is about you know, writing your life story right, like 586 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: if if, if, if your life were to end, Like, 587 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: what are people gonna say to you? What kind of 588 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: you know hearts have you touched? Right? Shannon Atlas says, 589 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: you know, carve your name on hearts, right, not on tombstones? 590 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: And so are people gonna remember you? Are people gonna say, 591 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: you know what your Rashan McDonald was that guy like 592 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: I remember this this time when he you know, helped 593 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: me get to this level and he introduced me here 594 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: and he was, you know, he helped me get my 595 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: first home, or you know, all the different things that 596 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: people are gonna say, like, that's what makes you a legend. 597 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: That's that's what makes you legendary. Is when you are 598 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: still alive and people have these great stories, people remember 599 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: the things that you've done for um And so I 600 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,719 Speaker 1: want I wanna remind people, you know, in in this 601 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: in this cash advance, to not focus on the money, 602 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: not focused on the things. And the truth of the 603 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: matter is that things are great. I love money, I 604 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: love things right, but I don't love those I don't 605 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: love money or things above. The purpose is because the 606 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: truth of the matter is that when as I'm carving 607 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: my legacy. The money in the and the things are 608 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: coming anywhere, and so why focused on you know, the 609 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: tree when you can have the whole for us? And 610 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: so you know, I want people to focus on the legacy. 611 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: Now where. Every every day Monday through Friday, eight am 612 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: the nine am Eastern Standard time, you have a YouTube 613 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: channel and it's called The Ash Cash Show. Tell everybody 614 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: about the show so we can so we can reach 615 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: you and we can see you motivating this on a 616 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: daily basis. Yeah, so the Ash Cash Show is the 617 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: most financially empowering show on the planet. 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