WEBVTT - EYL #94 My God VS My Enemies 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.600 An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.480 in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.840 accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.840 filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.680 some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.320 Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.120 Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.680 crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.960 one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. 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It's called Body of God Clothing. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.640 So doing shout out. So I got Mike, Mike, Mike 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.400 really hooked this, hooked this up. He's actually been talking 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:42.080 about it for a while. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:48.400 Definitely, I'm excited to be on here man. Now we 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.120 definitely probably played tag at some point last year, but 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.080 you know, we get caught up. But you know, everything 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:54.840 is timing, man. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:56.880 Everything happened when it's supposed to happen. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.480 The world sold down, so it's perfect time. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.760 Yeah yeah, yeah, So first and foremost, thank you for 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:03.560 joining us. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.200 Appreciate it. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.640 Thank you guys for having me on my head. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:09.400 For sure. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.040 So, yeah, this is an interesting conversation because you know, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.040 we like to highlight entrepreneurs and the clothing business is 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.480 something that we've we touched on before, but it's always 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.200 room the covering more. We haven't like really covered it 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.360 in depth, and especially from the merch standpoint as far 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.919 as hoodies, t shirts, because these are simplified items that 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.320 like when most people start a clothing brand, that's what 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:32.080 they start with. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.880 T shirts, hoodies, sweatshit, stuff like that. Like we all 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.000 we are Alicia, that's what we have, right. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.160 So it's like, you know, this is something that you 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.720 don't have to have a factory to do. You don't 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.760 have to have h you don't have to go to 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.480 f I T or one of these colleges to figure 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.519 this out. But it's something that's also difficult as well. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.919 It's not easy, and especially to launch it on a 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.680 on a high level and to have you know, celebrities 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.680 wearing it and kind of go viral online and things that. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:05.960 I think one of the most important things. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.919 You need this vision and a plan, and you definitely 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.280 have both of them. So I'm excited for the world 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:11.920 to hear about it. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.400 Yeah. Yeah, So this is something I think is going 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.320 to be a lot of value to a lot of people. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.240 And whether you're in the clothing business or. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.720 Not, I'm sure you're inspired by a lot of things. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.519 Number One, there was an eviction process that that kind 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.560 of got got in the way of some things and 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.480 you battled a few breakups. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:29.520 You want to get into that a little bit. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:30.720 Yeah, we can get into that. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:31.800 Yeah, let's talk about it. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.200 So let's let's talk about that. So I was in 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.200 a relationship at that time and the person I was 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:45.160 in a relationship with, you know, and still got no animosity. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.320 We don't speak or anything like that. But it was 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.280 just more of a situation where like you know, uh, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.040 you it's a season. You learned that, like you know, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.600 you can be with somebody and you know, think that 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.400 that's going to be forever. But you also, what I 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.400 learned from that situation is the minute you start putting 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:07.040 people over God, God has to be first in everything 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.200 you do, you know what I mean. And I learned that, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:14.280 like you know, in Christianity, we know there's this verse 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.120 in the Bible, but we serve a jealous God. Like 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.880 you know what I mean, The minute you put somebody 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.560 over God, God is going to let you know, He's 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.960 going to give you an opportunity and you'll hear it 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.280 and you'll see it, and you know, sometimes you call 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.760 him bread flags. Those are the things that when God 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.799 shows you certain things and he says, look, I need 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.919 you to separate and be more focused on me. And 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.240 at that point I was like, nah, I'm not separating, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.960 even though I've seen certain things that showed me that, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.080 like at this point this season, but this person was over. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.680 So now after God has has told you what you 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.720 need to do and you don't do it, the next 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.080 thing is God is going to do it and it's 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.279 gonna hurt. So there's a there's a there's a quote 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.120 that I've been living by this like last couple of weeks, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.760 which is, if you were obedient when God first put 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.120 it on your heart, it wouldn't feel like much of 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.840 a sacrifice, you know what I mean. And that's with 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.560 anything we do, like when we think about like even 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.560 you guys, as you started this amazing, I want to 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.560 call it a podcast, but it's bigger than that. It's 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.240 a movement. I think with you guys, even starting that, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.640 there were times when you think back to when you 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.680 felt like you should have made the move just do 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.599 you know what I mean? You just have to do 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.760 without really thinking overthinking things at times, and that time 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.800 when I was in that relationship, I definitely realized that, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.640 like you know, once you start making when something once 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.520 you're making more deposits into a person, place, thing, and 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.479 they're making more withdrawals than deposits. Wish you then it's 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.839 not a balanced friendship relationship anything. So it just got 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.880 to a point that that person walked away from the relationship, 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.400 you know what I mean? And you know it's no 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.120 shade to it. I understand things happened and I had 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.719 to figure it out, but I was I was blown 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.800 away by this because I just like, I had invested 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:13.599 so much into this person in relationship that when that occurred, 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.520 I didn't know what to do next. So what did 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.000 I do? Just sat and got depressed. I really felt 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.120 I stayed in the house. I didn't work. I really 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.680 was like, you know what, I didn't really It was 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.360 never a point that I really said like, yo, I'm 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.760 gonna kill myself. But I can see where people when 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.080 they deal with these that thought bounces through your head 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.960 because you're just like, yo, life sucks, Like this was 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.160 not part of the plan. Like and then you're watching 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.640 this person thrive, and then you're like and and on 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.120 top of that, you still have to interact with that 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.160 person because we have so many mutual friends and you're 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.440 playing it cool when you're seeing them, You're saying, hey, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.880 what's up, and you're and they're happy and celebrated, and 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.520 you're like, I'm dying over here. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:00.960 Why I'm so starting. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:06.120 The milk in the refrigerator because you've left me. So 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.440 you're sitting there and you're really like yo, and it's 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.960 not really at the end of the day, it's seasoned sometimes, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.560 like you know what I mean. I never fought that 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.520 person for what happened, because you know, everything's a season 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.000 and you have to understand it. And sometimes you know, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.840 like I said, God will always give you the opportunity 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.800 to know when the season is over. Now, if you 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.920 don't move, if you don't have the the I would 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.920 call it the relational intelligence that tells you when it's 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.440 time to separate from certain things, places, or people, then 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.680 when it does happen, you're going to be flat on 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.880 your face. So that time I had to you know, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.520 I was in an apartment and just wasn't working. Really, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.920 I actually had started working at Amazon at that time, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.200 to be honest. That was another job that I did, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.720 which was cool at the time, but it wasn't cool 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.160 enough to pay all the bills. Because once I started Amazon, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.480 I was already I was already three months behind on 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.920 rent and I was just trying. But I wasn't really 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:03.920 doing that out of passion. I was just like working 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.400 because I was just like, I gotta I gotta eat, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.920 you know what I mean. And at that point in time, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.080 I really now, I'm really proving to my parents, you 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.280 didn't go to law school, this is what you get. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.560 So I'm like, no, you know what, I'm definitely not 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.720 going back home. So I had to even go through 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.560 the process of going back. Finally, I just got to 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.840 the point when I came outside, car was gone. I 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.600 was like, you know what, I'm not sitting in this Wait. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.760 Wait they repolled the vehicle or this is like New 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:32.360 Jersey drive. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.160 I took the car outside and it was an empty spot. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.040 I was like, was I drunk last night night? I 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.440 parked somewhere else? Walking around, the car is gone, you 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.200 know what I mean? I was tight because I had 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.240 a couple fly sneakers in it, two and everything. Man. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.480 I really even tried to just get those back at 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:57.520 that point. But in that space, the only thing, the 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.320 only thing I was left with at that time was 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.320 my faith and being in that time that I was 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.520 just dealing with like being folks. I had to focus 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.520 on God a little bit more. I was in church 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.880 a lot more. I was in church on Sunday, I 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.000 was in Bible study on Tuesday, I was in Midday 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:18.800 Word on Thursday. It gives you an opportunity to like, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.320 but it does give you an opportunity to focus on 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.520 what's more important. So in that time, I had to 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.719 be faithful over little things so that God can make 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.280 you a master of many things, you know what I mean. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.880 And that's kind of like what really happened is that 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.839 I started, you know, doing a lot, working at a 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.640 lot of homeless shelters, Like I just felt the need 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.880 to be given back, you know what I mean. That's 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.559 what I felt, Like I heard God say, you know 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.560 what I mean, give back. I would have little money 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.400 and somebody would ask me for money, and I would 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.360 just be like, I would give it. And it just 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.320 got to the point that like in that process, like 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.400 the idea came to me that I wanted to create 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.760 a clothing line. Like first it was really like I 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.800 can use this to bring in some type of finances, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.840 you know what I mean. It's some additional money. But 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.160 in the same token. It was like I wanted a 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.520 brand that really gave people overall an opportunity to talk 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:20.040 about God, because I feel like now in this day 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.920 and age, it's so hard to have conversations about God. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.359 Having a conversation about God nowadays, like having a conversation 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.000 or like around November and asking somebody who they're voting for, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.560 you know what I mean, And it's a crazy conversation 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.080 to have. Even in this day. You would think that 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.720 everybody would just be like, you know, I'm not voting 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.760 for Trump. But at this time we know now we're like, 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.640 let's hold a vote, Like, you know what I mean, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.520 I'm not sure I'm not voting. It doesn't mean some 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.600 people are saying it doesn't matter to them. But like 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.360 in that same token, when it came to talking about God, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.800 it's a tough topic because people are very politically correct 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.520 when it comes to talking about faith. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.400 It's funny you say that, because that's what they always say, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.000 never talk about politics or religion, and you just did 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:04.560 both of those. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.439 Yeah, have no fear of talking about that politics. I'm 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:18.240 probably more like liable to like and I've already pulled 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.600 the cat out the bag on that one. But I 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.000 do feel like, yeah, I understand how touching that topic 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.600 is because I really you know, that's one of the 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.080 things I don't know, Like you know we were talking about. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.320 I think prior to this we had mentioned the power, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.559 but I don't know. But we'll get into that also, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.199 Like that's why for me, I don't really talk about politics. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.360 I just know, like what I feel is right and 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.600 what I feel is wrong. But bringing that back, taking 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.959 that back and talking about the brand. So I wanted 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.160 to start a brand that specifically focused on giving people 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.600 an opportunity to talk about God. But I actually ever 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.760 happened to open your mouth, you know what I mean. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.360 So you know, that's when my guy versus My enemies 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.280 came about, you know what I mean, And my God 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.559 versus my enemies really my enemies. At the time when 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.680 I started that was like I didn't have physical enemies. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.560 I felt like I get love from everybody that's from 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.240 my area, whether it's New York, Jersey, whatever, I get 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.240 a lot of love. But the biggest things my enemies 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.240 was dealing with, like mental health. I realized how much 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.000 of an issue that was, Like when people deal with 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.640 depression and people deal with anxiety. I started to learn 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.920 about those things, and I'm like, you know, it's not 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.720 a myth, it's just not I used to hear about it, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.680 and I used to like be tripping, she's having anxiety. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.240 It's like, Aha, she tripping, you know what I mean? 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.320 I said? Or even like dealing with functional bipolar people, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.439 you know what I mean, Like I have friends that 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.640 I had to find out that they're functionally bipolar. I'd 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.760 be like, Yo, that's crazy, Like I would leave my 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.480 kid with you, you know what I mean. So that's it's 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.920 finding out these things and so my enemies. At that time, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.520 I felt like without God, I would have never been 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.920 able to battle those you know, deal with those things. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.000 So you know, like you learned that, you know, depression 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.800 is a thing. It's something that if you don't deal 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.839 with it can overtake your mind's spirit, you know what 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.559 I mean. So that's kind of like where the first design, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.920 which was my God versus my enemies, came about, and 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:21.120 it's still the main design because it's it's what people 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.280 like focus on, like that particular like statement, no matter 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.840 where you go, if you're wearing it, if you're walking 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.480 down the street and you have my God versus my 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.520 enemy's uh hoodie or sweatshirt on. Someone's gonna say to 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.920 you like either you have an old, older black lady 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.839 who's going to say, yes, Jesus God. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.280 Me let me ask you God, let me ask you. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.760 That that actually brings an interesting point because in the 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.679 next segment, what we're going to do next is going 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.960 to the business behind the clothing brand. But so we 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.400 haven't we haven't spoken about religion or Lisia. We actually 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.040 we invited a big time passed on. We're still waiting 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:03.040 accept but but you know, we we we we've kind 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.680 of stayed away from religion. It's a very touchy topic. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.719 But the thing the thing about. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:09.160 It is that. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:15.199 It's it's it's interesting, especially from from a business standpoint, 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.680 because it's it's a thin line, right, and it's like 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.240 like Kanye right when he put the Jesus not Jesus Walk. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.760 What's his last album, Yeah, Jesus King, Jesus King, Jesus 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.720 Jesus King. Yeah, so yeah, he put his two albums. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:31.920 A lot of people. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.440 Didn't know that there was a separate album that dropped 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.680 in December that was called Jesus Is Born. Jesus King 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.440 Is the first one that came out. Jesus is Born 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.240 is the one everybody was really expecting when it would 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.360 be like a whole bunch of choir and singing and 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:49.000 not really it's probably like seven percent Kanye and mostly 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:50.960 like choir singing. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:51.920 That's what he should have did. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:53.400 I want to see that? 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:53.600 Man? 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:54.120 Powerful? 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.040 Yeah? Well different and that's a powerful thing. Shout out 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.640 to Kanye shot. Yeah. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.280 So, but he got a lot of pushback because people 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:08.080 felt like, all right, are you capitalizing off of faith? 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.800 Are you profiting off of religion? And then you know, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.000 it's always been a debate with pastors and especially like 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.000 big time pastors. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.200 It's a very thin line. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.920 But people are very passionate about their religion, right, and 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.680 I feel like what better way to promote religion and 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.520 what you believe in than to wear it? So to 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.880 me it makes sense. But were you ever conflict? Did 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.720 you ever get any pushback within the religious community as. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.920 Like, yeah, how do you feel about that? 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.480 Oh? Man, that's a topic in itself. That man that 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.920 at one point for me that once I had gotten 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.960 to a certain space, that created anxiety for me, like 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.720 the conversation of it, like because you just never know 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.200 what angles someone that's coming at you and when they 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:58.080 talk about like the brand. So I'm a Christian, you 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.440 know what I mean, that's who I am, very solid 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.280 in my faith. But if you if you check out 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.560 my even my Bible, this unconventional Christian you know what 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.440 I mean. And I get pushed back from that, like 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.120 I get I get nine hundred MS that says, excuse me. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:13.760 I would like for you to detail. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.160 To me what all THEO come to speak to you. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.080 Yes, I love God and I believe Jesus Christ is 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.480 the son of God. Yes, but I also believe I 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.040 am very honoring of the fact that I believe all 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.560 faiths do serve one God. I'm not here to break 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.600 that down in detail because I have I can't tell 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.720 you and I can explain to somebody why I believe 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.600 it's I can't explain to you why your God and 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.480 my God is the same. But more importantly, I can't 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.840 tell you that I know that God is love, right, 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.960 that's what I feel like God is equal to love. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.280 And you know when people always talk about love changing 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.800 the world, that's when I think about that. More importantly, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.320 like that's why for me, the brand is so important 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.080 to me because I know that like God is love, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.919 and love is the one thing needed to change the world. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.840 So when I think about when I have these conversations 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.480 and people talk to me and they're asking me, like, so, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.800 when I wear your brand, am I wearing it as 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.280 a Christian? Am I wearing it? Is it against your Christian? 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.600 Does that mean me as a Muslim or me as 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.560 an atheist? Does this mean that I'm representing the Christian faith? No, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.680 I'm like, when the first thing is my God, my 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.440 God in that sense, when you talk about this particular brand, 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.119 when you talk about this item right here, like the 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.399 God with like it's the God within you, you know what 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.480 I mean. Like, so when somebody's seen with the God 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.920 with like, the God within you is what's against your enemies. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.560 So like, I try not to to get into these 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.480 big battles of who and what God we serve, because 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.679 that's where I feel like a lot of people. I 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.560 feel like a lot of people lose people because their 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:05.040 biggest focus is religion, not relationships. You know what I mean. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:10.160 For me, it's creating relationships with people and having conversations 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.199 with people and understanding that we are all different in 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.280 every sense. If I'm trying to put a label on 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.840 who every single person is. That's like division, you know 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.160 what I mean, Like I meet a Muslim person, I'm 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.720 to this day, Like one of the biggest things I 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.760 started talking about with people like now is like I 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.240 want to start reading the Koran because it's important to 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.880 be knowledgeable, to be happy, able to have these conversations 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.160 with people. I'm not trying to press religion on anyone. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.440 I do love God and I love Jesus Christ, and 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.919 that's who I am. But when it comes to the brand, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.479 it's more about unity more than anything else. It's more 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.960 about trying to bring people together, you know what I mean. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.000 It's so much division in our communities and just as 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.719 a whole that like we spend so much time trying to, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.639 you know, label people instead of like figuring out how 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.000 we can be labeled as one, you know what I mean. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.239 What's so divided. So that's why, like for me, I 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.320 try not to make it about religion, like you know 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.560 what I mean. This, Like I remember I was on 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.520 Sister Circle TV and I went in there and I 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.080 had like the noodle legs because my biggest fear was like, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.280 oh my god, they're gonna ask me, what God do 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.800 you serve? You know what I mean? And I just 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.560 know for a fact, I've let God lead me into 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:30.919 all these situations. Even when I came on here. One 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.960 of the biggest things that I said was like, you know, 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.440 like you know, Godly you stand up and I sit down, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.560 you know what I mean, because it's not this is 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.440 not about me. And it's like, I know, like you said, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.959 you brought up the fact that people worry about like 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:48.520 you know, you know, profit and people worrying about money 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.120 and making money off. Like the biggest thing that people 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.879 will always see and say about this brand is that 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:55.840 we're always giving back, you know what I mean. It's 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.760 like we're constantly a place where we're sending cash apps 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.920 to people during this pandemic from the brand because we're 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.320 trying to like help people, we know how Like I 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.560 try not to hold on to anything, whether it's money, 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.080 whether it's it's it's the clothing I give it away. 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.480 That's the one thing that got me where I am 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.520 now is giving it away, you know what I mean. 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.520 And I think I think it's important to promote what 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.360 you believe in too, like I said, like I mean, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.080 you I was I noticed that. It's like, my God, 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.679