WEBVTT - Quote Me…“Say It, Believe It, Live It” 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:05.320 Hey, how you doing. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.400 This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm Wiman about drama. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.840 Welcome to those amigos here on the Beautiful iHeart platform. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.480 That's right, and today Wilmer, we're going to talk about 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.840 quotes we live by, Quotes that inspire us. It could 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.400 be from a person, It could be something you read 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.159 in the stall in the bathroom, could be I. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.960 Don't want to read that one so inappropriate. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.319 You know, you have a if I may share this, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:38.720 you have a wonderful neon sign upstairs. And I remember 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.560 when I first came to your house, I thought, oh wow, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.479 look at that. I just thought it looked pretty and 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.080 it worked really well with the aesthetic of your home. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.800 But then today you took me up there and you 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.680 really had me look at it and read it and 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.600 really sort of meditate on it. But tell tell everybody 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.840 what the sign is and what it says and what 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:58.280 it means. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:00:59.320 Yeah, for sure. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.400 So there's a neon sign that's in my kind of 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.000 like my breakfast area, my kitchen area. It's kind of 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.800 the area that you know, I kind of filter through 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.680 before I go to work in the morning or before 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.480 I go to the gym in the morning. And it 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.240 reads and it says, if you woke up this morning, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.840 you're already winning. And some of you who have been 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.280 listening from the beginning you probably have heard me kind 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.200 of softly say it in between conversations and all that 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.400 there's a lot of things in my life. The pointed 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:33.200 to stand still, look around, take a deep breath, just 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.440 appreciate where you are in this moment. Somebody put it 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:41.600 like this, somebody this morning they didn't take a breath. Yeah, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.759 somebody this morning. Unfortunately it's no longer with us. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.200 Yeah, so as. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.279 You know, so for me waking up in the morning, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.040 it's like it's like a win. Yeah, you know, you 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.120 were given another day, you know. So it was my 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.360 way of kind of reminding myself to not take for granted, 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.600 you know, the day that I've been given, to make 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.040 a difference, to work hard, to make memories, to you know, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.160 to live the fullest, you know, and to laugh and 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.960 to enjoy as much to you know, to kind of 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.280 to really reflect on all those things. So if you 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.600 woke up this morning, you're already winning. And then I 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.160 added to that, if you woke up this morning, you're 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.640 already winning. How much more winning do you want to 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.800 do today. So the idea was that like you dug 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.360 in and you you you plant your feet and you 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.200 and you dig, dig, dig and see you have you know, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.320 how much harder can you work today? How much more 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.240 can you reach out to and build community and whatever? 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.239 So so that's and and it really changed a lot 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.840 for me because it made it forced me to appreciate 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.920 the day ahead of me. It also forced me to 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.839 kind of appreciate where I was in the moment. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.639 Without having to dwell. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.519 Too much about what tomorrow looks like, or what next 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.359 week looks like or in the next two years, even 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:55.760 though we always have these plans. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.240 Yeah, yeah, it's really important to not forget that. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.320 If you woke up this morning and you took dig 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.480 breath and you've been giving life today, what are you 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.280 going to do with the life you were given this morning? 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.080 So so that's where it took me. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.320 Why was it so important for you to have it 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:12.720 made in a neon sign? 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.080 I never want to forget it. Yeah, I don't want 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.560 to forget it. I don't want to take for granted. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.760 I don't want to just wake up in two weeks 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.680 went by and I can't even remember what. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.360 Last Tuesday was right. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.760 That's why when we went back to the beginning with 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.520 the you know the podcast and we talked. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.480 About my hour a Day. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.520 My hour a day was a way of saying, how 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.560 do I remember Tuesday? So if every day feels like 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.360 this routine. You wake up in the morning, you go 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.800 to work, then you go to lunch, then you you know, 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.800 you come home and you watch the one episode of 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.000 the one thing, you go to sleep, you do it 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.640 all over again. If in twenty four hours you don't 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.080 have one one hour for yourself, Yeah, how do you 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.840 remember Tuesday? How do you remember Friday? How do you 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:52.800 remember Sunday? 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:54.320 Right? You know, so. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.960 My hour a day, it's like, how do I define 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.840 what do I do for myself for that hour? 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.920 Do I meditate? Do I work out or go for 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:02.280 a run? 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.880 Do I you know, do I read my chapter my 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.720 favorite book? Do I do I listen to those Amigos, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.080 my favorite podcast, the best podcast in the universe of podcasting, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.760 and everything that's every released in the universe podcasting agreed, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.120 definitely so much better than most of the podcasting, Like 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.960 many actors I've had out there, So it's like, you know, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.719 so so listen to at least two or three or four, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.720 though sometimes one episode is an hour, right, sometimes an. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.040 Episode is two hours because these guys won't stop talking. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.440 But those guys are great. I love them. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.840 They're like, I'm a huge fan, huge freaking fan. So 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.760 when you think about that, you know, it's like, what 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.120 do you do in that one hour? 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.719 What are you doing that one hour? 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.880 I hear it shot in the cool speak easy too. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.919 It isn't a really cool speople kind of like this 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.080 one maybe different because I don't know. It's like, you know, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.120 I think they color corrected differently like this. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:57.040 It looks it looks different. But my point is is. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.359 That that's one of the reasons why do't forget that 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.279 I was giving the gift of breathing again that when 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.280 your eyes open up you look to your left, you 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:09.920 might be able to see your four year old daughter 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.240 sleeping in the room with you. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:11.679 Guys. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.800 Right, you know, you open your eyes, your dog is 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.880 at the end of the bed looking at you, waiting 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:18.120 for you to let them out. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.000 You know, like there's little things. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.840 That you wake up and you get to do again, 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.840 but there's also opportunities to do something for the first time. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.120 So you know, if you woke up this morning, you're 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.800 already winning. How much more winning you want to do? 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.480 And it's rooted in gratitude, Yes, it is the foundation 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:35.880 of that of that quote. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.360 Yeah, which also keeps it keeps pushing you to do 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:45.880 the uncomfortable, not the complacent. You know, routines that make 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.520 you feel safe. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.440 You know, in order to grow. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.200 You have to push yourself beyond the uncomfortable, right, you 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.240 have to kind of deal with the uncomfortable as well. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:55.800 So you know, if you're. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.039 Already winning, you know you're not gonna gain an l 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.600 by and by doing the uncomfort do you do you 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.000 think it also makes you go. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.240 Besides that, right, you know, there's sometimes as we as 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.120 we talk about gratitude, you know, because it's so easy, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.800 I feel like for us to go, oh man, the 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.000 thing I was trying to get off the ground didn't happen, 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.440 or like that part I wanted didn't happen, or like, 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.960 you know, the thing in the last decade that I've 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.960 really been focusing on real heavy is like it's like, wow, man, my. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:32.240 You know I have this. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.960 I have a house, man, you know, I have food 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.640 on the table, Like my kids are good, My kids 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:44.240 are healthy, my bills are paid. My as we talk 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.040 about rooted in gratitude, like I've really been focusing on 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.039 that lately a lot. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.640 What drives you that? When what what brings you to 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.480 that point of gratitude. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:02.080 It's it's I guess. I guess for me is you know, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.600 seeing seeing how other people don't have it as good 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.680 as we do, man, And a lot of time when 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.160 I in my prayers, you know, I always try to 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.880 pray for people who don't have it as as good 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.360 as me, man, and just ask God to kind of 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:22.560 bless them as well. And it makes you grateful for 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:27.000 what you have, man, You know what you have? Would 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.600 I prefer to, like, you know, be Tom Cruise. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.680 Yeah, I think we all would, right, But like. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.480 I'm grateful for what I have, Man, I'm grateful for 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.640 the for the work that I have. I'm grateful that 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.880 the income that I've made to pay my bills, or 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.960 the car that i have, or the house that I have, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.480 you know, like I'm grateful for what I have, you know, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.280 And so so gratitude has most definitely been at the 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.760 root of it all. But when I when I for me, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.360 it's not necessarily like a quote like for me, like 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.120 it's more of a Bible verse that that I I 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.280 like a lot, and it's uh, it's it's Isaiah, Yeah, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:03.520 I have. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:03.920 It right here. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.440 I want to just make sure I got it, get 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.320 it right. Isaiah sixty twenty two says, when the time 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.600 is right, I the Lord will make it happen. And 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.480 and the reason why that resonates with me like every 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.360 single day is because I feel like, in our profession, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.480 we're always in this pursuit right right, in the pursuit 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.640 of like, like I said, getting something off the ground 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.120 or getting this thing or whatever, and I gotta you 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.640 gotta sometimes remind yourself that it's not your timing. You know, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.120 it happens when it's supposed to happen, and uh, and 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.640 that and that Bible verse keeps me grounded and keeps 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.199 me sane because I've you know, there's a lot of 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.960 people that I know in our industry who who are 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.960 not rooted in that and and and so much of 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.800 what they do and so much of what they believe 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.839 in is so rooted on or measured by me getting 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.640 this part or me getting this thing or be you know, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.280 I feel like that could drive you insane. In this business, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.920 and so you have to kind of change your frame 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.720 of thinking in order to be able to survive. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.120 Yeah, and and not everyone's timing is the same, right, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.520 And then you, you know, sometimes you fall in the 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:23.520 trap of, you know, of of creating this imaginary parallel 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:29.480 tracks to other individuals or entities or or you know, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.160 evolutions that you're like, well, I'm not part of that evolution. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:33.840 Why I'm not keeping up with that? You know? 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.000 And the truth is you're gonna carve it at the 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.720 moment where you're the strongest to hold it and keep 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.400 it and like hell it, you know. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.199 And and I. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.440 Think that's the the interesting thing to think about what 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.680 you're saying, Like the timing is everything. But you know, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.439 you also think about the different times in your life 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.319 where you've had certain levels of wisdom. Would you have 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.160 been able to hold the opportunity if we will come 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.360 to you ten years ago, twenty years ago, or is 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.760 this the time where you're old enough and young enough 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.800 to actually lead it into a completely different level. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.440 And I believe you, Freddy. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.120 You know, you write, you direct, you produce, and you 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.400 are an incredible performer. Tons of people are like, this 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.120 guy is a real deal. So you think about all 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.880 those skills that you gathered through near like, right now 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.080 is the time for you to make the uncomfortable funkle? 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.080 Like what is the thing? How do you push beyond 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.920 what you know? Most people feel comfortable boxing you in? Right, 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.679 And like, you know, you brought up Tom Cruise and 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.760 it's an interesting example because he continues to define to 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.240 like define the odds. Yeah, you know, it continues to 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.200 rewrite the playbook for everyone. Now there's a market for 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.360 somebody his age to still do the dynamic stuff that 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.600 people thought that those ages don't don't do or didn't 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.360 do back in the two thousands or in the you know, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.600 in the nineties or the eighties. Yeah, if you got 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.320 a certain age, then you got play the dad. Right 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.080 he just said, you know, okay, Brad Pig gets to 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.040 be you know, Brad pid gets to be this, and 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.080 like have you ever done? Gets to be this, And 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.400 like all these individuals have now enter around where they 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.840 can still be you know, the action stars Lia Niesen. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.480 You believe him kicking ass and taking it, you know. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.160 So like I feel like that there's an interesting kind 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:21.880 of paradigm shifting and opening it up. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:22.320 A little bit. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.520 But you just said something interesting a minute ago. You 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.079 said about being in a position in your life where 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:34.280 you're able to receive those blessings, right, because sometimes people 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.680 do get blessed in the way that they dream and 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.920 the way that they want, and they're not ready to 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.080 receive those blessings. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:40.760 It goes away. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.800 It goes away, or it ruins you, right or you 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.800 or you waste it right you you, it drives you crazy, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.720 you know whatever, fall into drugs. You you know, like, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.160 look at you right, You're you're you're doing wonderfully. Your 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:01.720 company's thriving, You're producing some such awesome heial Like, do 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.880 you think that twenty years ago you would have been 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:09.319 able to handle that responsibility or that success, not on the. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:10.840 Level that is happening now. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.880 But I would say that I, at the very least 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.160 had the foresight to be hungry in the field. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.800 Yeah, because I created your Mama when I was like. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.880 Twenty twenty four something like that, twenty four to twenty five. Yeah, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.120 created your Mama on MTV. But I didn't know where 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.280 it was going to lead. I was like, you know, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.040 it'd be cool, Yes, I started cool. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:31.880 It's not like I'm building an empire. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.880 No, it's like, yeah, cool, if I produce a show 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.560 on MTV, you know, yeah, and it started like that. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.880 But those are the seeds for why. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.679 But I agree, I wouldn't to have the foresight to 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.920 be able to hand to speak the language I speak 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.280 now on the executive level, on the CEO level, like ive. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.679 Not had you kidding me? English is my second language. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.959 I have barely a high school education, so I had 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.680 to take myself into like a bachelor degree of the 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.120 industry by wearing everyone's shoes, understand what it's like to 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.000 walk in them, to then find the the find the 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:09.800 wisdom that turned into the efficient opinion and point of view. Uh, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.559 that made you intentionally thrive to grow into the thing 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:14.439 that you are right now. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.520 Right, So, so you went through this evolution and this 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.200 growing period in order to be able to get to 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.880 where so you you you work towards it. I'm saying, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.440 do you think that if and this is something that 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.000 you always aspire to, right and then and then and 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:32.800 then you were you were blessed with it, and here 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.760 you are and you're and you're emotionally prepared to handle 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:40.760 that stuff, right, I'm saying, like, imagine you Wimer seventy 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.920 show straight out and all of a sudden, you have 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.120 what you have now? You know, you've you've evolved into 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.800 the emotional maturity in order for you to be able 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.040 to handle everything you just said. Yeah, yeah, you you you, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.720 you grew, you learned, you you whatever. But but but 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.240 there's an emotional maturity to you to be able to 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.000 receive and and and to be able to be a 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.960 good steward of those blessings. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.240 You know. I think it's a recipe. I think it's 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.280 also like a perfect storm of things. You know. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.520 You you also have to look at your environment. Yeah, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.280 you have to look at the people you surround yourself with. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.840 You still, you also have to kind of take an 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.720 inventory of you know, what are the resources available to 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.840 you in that moment to build your small everese you know, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.880 and like you know, when you're starting the beginning, how 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.640 you're just trying to get the next audition, how do 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.480 you even have the foresight to you like I'm going 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.880 to run a studio one day, you know. Like, but 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:37.520 to your point, it's it's like, you know, your either 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.600 lack of understanding or ability to grow emotionally mature to 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.200 handle a responsibility like the ones that we we take 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:49.040 on now, you know, has to also be part of 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.000 an intentional mathematical equation that you have to do early 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.680 enough to say, I can't be hanging out with the 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.600 same you know, not go aheads. I can't you know, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.240 I can't be like you know, I can't be carrying 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.200 myself that way. You know, like there's certain things that 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.280 you have to audit along the way if you're going 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:07.240 to give yourself a shot. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:08.760 I just emotionally growing. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.160 Did you have a kind of a very conscious shedding 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.280 period of shedding the knuckleheads, shedding the. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.800 Well, it was very fortunate because you know, as an immigrant, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.600 you know, you come in here knowing you got to 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.640 get it right from the beginning. But of course throughout 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.800 the process you get introduced to the clicks and the 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.160 you know, the posse's and the thing whatever. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.320 And I always thought, oh, I'm as strong as my possey, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:37.600 you know. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:43.200 But you know, the idea is like, you know, you know, 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.080 an amount of posse or friends. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.880 Or you know group or you know or you know, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.800 your your. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.960 Surroundings either could propelled you into your next thing, or 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.720 it can slow down the arrival of the opportunity, or 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.680 it could hold you in the play in the same place, 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.640 so you're so you're never gonna get to the right 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.760 place at the right time. How crazy is that you 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.280 can be holding in place with the people and the 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.760 surroundings that you have, knowing that it's easy, it's you 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.040 feel protected, you feel it's not vulnerable at all, Right, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.760 But then you stay in the same block radius and 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.240 you'll never be able to be at the right time 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.320 at the right place because you never give yourself a 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.560 chance to like travel lighter on your feet, but at 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.680 least if an efficient view on on like who can 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:34.600 who makes you better? 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:35.360 You know? 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.600 Yeah, what do you think? What do you think that 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.000 barometer inside of you? Like, what does it say to 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.840 you when when you feel like maybe I should I 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:49.680 should shed this person, or maybe I should shed this 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.080 bad habit that I have, right like even us as 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.200 human beings, you know, Like I've been really focusing on 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.280 that lately too, Like you know habits, right, Like. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.200 I think it's always manifest. I mean, I tell me what. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.320 You know, what it's like for you too, or what 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.879 it was like for you too, But I know that 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:11.200 it manifested itself in like I'm exhausted to give. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.720 Yeah, what made me exhausted to give? 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:21.160 Oh, this is taking this much emotional uh you know, investment. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.840 This is taking so much more equity from me. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.919 Like there's things around you that you know are there, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.159 but they're so comfortable and you don't like change and 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.639 it's uncomfortable let go of either the bad friendships or 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.280 you just just keep it around. And like so you 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.920 put out the fires and the name of harmony as 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.639 opposed to like getting rid of the fire starters, you know. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.440 So like so I think that's when you start really realizing, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.479 Oh man, I got to start choosing myself right now. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.879 If I'm gonna pay rent, Yeah, I'm gonna have to 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.359 choose in myself if like if I'm gonna have to 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.960 get to where I need to be right you know, 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.879 And I don't know, I can never can never trust 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.119 most of the industry to wish me well, you know, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.840 I trust my brothers in arms like you that you 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.080 know have improven in the industry and we only make 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.280 each other better and try to really lift each other up. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.000 But most people don't you know, you know how it is. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.320 Yeah, So so it's like you either you have to 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.919 walk alone sometimes, you know, or you have to just 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.879 really do an inventory and really walk with those But 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:23.359 what what about for you? 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.200 When do you know the same same life for you? 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.239 How do I think for me? Like, as as we 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.960 grow older and we evolve in life and in our 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.359 and in the industry. In life, I feel like, you know, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.040 you're mature, and your moral compass changes, and like you know, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.720 when you're young, you're a knucklehead and like that stuff 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.760 is fun and being rebellious is cool, and like you know, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.800 and you get older and you're mature, right, and then 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.680 sometimes there are people around you who are not maturing 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:00.399 at the same pace as you are. You know, like, dude, 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.080 you know, I love you, but I got a you know, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.480 in order for me to mature, in order for for 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.040 for my compass to grow and to you know, I 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.240 have to I have to. I have to kind of 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:13.240 keep you at arm's length. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:13.800 Uh. 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.320 And I think that in our business as you as 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.919 you also mature in av ARV in our industry, I 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.520 think that there's a lot of things that you that 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.960 you learn, right. There's there's etiquette that you learn, There's 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.080 there's things that you learned that that you may have 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.520 not known when you're first starting in the industry that 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.320 you learn as you get older and you're around enough 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.240 professionals and then you kind of get it and then 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.880 you start to if you know, there's I'm constantly sort 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.440 of evaluating myself and doing self checks in myself and 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.320