WEBVTT - "There Is No VIP Because We’re All VIP" (w/ Brian Henry) 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.640 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.000 the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.640 your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:11.600 your life so that you can live life on purpose 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.680 and for a purpose. And this is your first time 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.040 tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon off my name. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.240 My name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.440 the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.000 And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.040 celebrities and everyday people like you and me, Because if 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:29.960 you want to be better and you want to do better, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.720 then you're going to have to be able to see better. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.720 So join me on this journey of living our best 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.760 lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.279 ass act. Well, I might as well tell you I'm 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:47.559 really excited about Mr Brian Henry coming in. I ran 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.479 across him probably like when I first moved out to 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:55.520 l a probably a year and a half after maybe, 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.440 and I met him through his to him DJ and 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.440 before I spoke to him, and I was like, wow, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:03.840 I got to get to know this brother. Then I 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.639 found out that his mother had transition transition from breast cancer, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:09.560 you know, the same as my mother. And I was 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.800 like you. Then I found out he was part of 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.720 the community, and I'm like, oh, it's a black brother 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.240 from the East Coast. It's beautiful and I know he's 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.800 down with manifestation. So I am extremely excited to have 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.360 him here. And it's just a testament to say that 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.880 you can manifest things. You gotta believe in yourself and 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.760 you gotta stay focused. So man, we we're gonna have 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.360 a lot to talk about, and I'm hoping this conversation 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:38.240 is going to inspire you. Yeah, all right, girl, thank 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.440 and thank you so much for being here and supporting 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.200 me on my dreams. I appreciate you. Get your vitem 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:53.440 right with me and get excited about you. I got 0:01:53.880 --> 0:02:01.320 Brian Henry in the studio. I mean, now, let me 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.240 tell you this. You heard me say this before he 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.320 got in here, that I met him probably like a 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.560 year after I moved to LA I met him at 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.320 the an event. Uh Nathan Williams. I don't know if 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:14.440 it was a native son of it. I don't know 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.560 if he had it then, but and I remember in 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:21.959 mill Whooperkin was a it was at Nory House New House, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.920 and I was with my friend and this president was 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.400 home the turn tables. I mean he was hitting in 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.880 the pocket like every single time, like you don't all 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.359 the time catch that? And you know what I'm saying, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:38.800 and you know I'm a nineties girl, So he was 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.239 getting the R and beat and I was like, who 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.440 is this? And then um, I even I introduced myself 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.280 to you. And then some time after that I became intrigued. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.600 I don't know if you told me then or you 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.880 gave a shout out, but then I learned that your 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.600 mother had transitioned with breast cancer. And then that touched 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.320 me because my mother had transition with breast canst. Like damn. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.840 Then um timas went on, I run into you yours 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.480 fast forward, So then I heard about you, and then 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.440 I'm friends with Blue and I saw her podcast and 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.760 I saw you being more vocal about being in the community. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.560 I was like, who is this man? I need him? 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.440 Then fast forward, but were almost like ten years. I 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.080 saw you at the Roosevelt for djon at the CP 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.200 image Wars. Yes, yes, they had me saying in a 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:28.120 CP that's funny. I was a president of my collegiate 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.840 chapter and one of the undergrad a CP. Yeah, I 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.079 was telling me, you gotta say a a CP and 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.960 for a whole long long time, right, it's all good, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.280 And I was I was too shy to say anything. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.680 If we were at coaching, I don't know because I'm 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.840 being weird. So we're at coaching. I know why because 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.520 people expect that with your ascension that you change, and 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.560 some people do. And I think if you rise and 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.200 you change the core who you all, that that who 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.320 you are that rise doesn't it crashes, you know, true? 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.120 And so people expect that when they see you in 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.440 different positions that you're gonna act different. It's like nah, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.320 and I was saying it's late. I was like, he's 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.880 probably tired. I didn't want to go through the whole 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.080 thing like oh I have, but I was like, yeah, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.040 I enjoyed your set. So then I saw your yok 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.320 and I was like, I'm getting him ran outside the club. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.760 That's when I was like boom and I was like yes, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:25.520 and I was like I know I was gonna meet 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:33.400 this man podcast. Yeah, so I gave a little bit, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.880 but how would you introduce her? Tell the people who 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.960 you are? Um, I'm Brian Henry. I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Uh. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.800 I love long walks in the park. You know what 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.800 I'm saying. No, I um my musical maestro. I love music. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.120 Music is my heartbeat, you know. I think it's a 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.640 It's a function of my mission here on on planet 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.880 Earth to bring people to their highest awareness of who 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.400 they are. You know what I mean? I love that 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.480 because music what is the vibration and we're all spiritual beings, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.520 like you're vibrating as higher you know what I mean, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.760 to relieve you from stress and attention that you may 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.080 experience on your day to day walk and you know, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.040 give you a sense of empowerment. You know, it's more 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.719 than just it's more than just partying. It's it's really 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.960 creating community, allowing us to be together and look to 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.039 our left, look all right, and realized that we're nothing 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.680 different from one another. Wow, Because you know, I guess 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.880 you think about party. Your dancing is just like um 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.680 A smile, emotions. You can feel it. I don't have 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.000 to know exactly what's in your mind or what you're 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.520 listening to. I can feel you or you or in 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.400 other environments like where you may otherwise walk by the 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.080 streams who want and may not say hello. When you're 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.200 in a in a in an environment where there's music going, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.359 you know people that you would otherwise not speak to you. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.159 You make eye contact, you smile, you connect because you 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.400 both are on that wave, that frequency that the music 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.520 is taking you to. I'm not even checking for guys 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.120 right now, but you are so damn fine. Are you 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.359 talking to me like that? Like? Why are you talking 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:09.000 like that? I'm trying to focus what you're saying, and 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.400 I'm kid, I'm like doing listen with your beautiful stuff 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.520 as well. Thank you so much. Now I'm up here. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.839 I gotta get money. You're crazy. Wait, okay, so I 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.960 love what you said. Did you know that you wanted 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.000 to always be a DJ? Like? How did that come 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.040 to MANX? I think I knew since I was like 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.599 four or five how much I was in love with music, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.320 but it wasn't necessarily something that was encouraged or supported, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.560 so I fought against it. So then I got to 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.000 ask you, when did you fall in love with music? 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.400 When the first time I knew I was in love 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.040 with music is actually when my dad popped my Janet 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:45.240 Jackson control cassette tape back in the day, day day, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.320 and I was the most evil little four or five 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.800 year old walking around arms folded, upset, mad, dumping around 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.760 the house just like looking at it like I was 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.760 not giving my dad no attention. I was mad. And 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.400 at that point, I think that's the that's the earliest 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.760 recollection I have in terms of like how much music 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.279 meant to me? Like you popped and he didn't. It 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.880 wasn't on purpose, but I was pissed as a kid, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:12.600 you know, So like what are you thinking? Like you 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 were into singame? No, I never I knew I could 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.960 never sing. God knew what gets to give me? Because 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.160 I was saying I'd be a mess. I was getting 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.240 up there and just moved in it will be yeah, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.320 you know. But I do believe I've been gifted with 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.360 certain certain you know, problems within music because I wouldn't 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.360 abuse it. You know again, it really is a gift 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.320 to bring us together. Yeah, and until you are if 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:43.800 I sing, I'd probably be singing draws off three. So 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.800 were you always teaching? Like how did you did? You 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.440 sound like an interesting path? Like I don't know, people 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.880 tell you how to be a d J. Get out there, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.200 they don't at all and all I know for sure 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.200 that you know. So I was like twelve thirteen, and 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.640 I would take my dad's stereo and plug it up 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.760 to tell of it and like get the R C 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.240 A cables and I'm like recording, uh, Donnie Simpson on 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.720 BJ video Soul and like trying to make my own 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.400 little mix tapes with listening to difference between Donnie between 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.360 videos so and then rap City, like I would hear 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.360 different stuff that I would, you know, and then okay, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.520 I'm a recorded here, that a posit there, and then 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.600 I'm through this track or this I don't like this 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.440 video posit, you know, Like that's how my first like mixtapes, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.000 if you will you know what I mean, doing it 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.920 like that, and then you know, then fast forward when 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.920 the Nashta era you've downloading music? Why are you making 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.720 that sound so old? You know what I mean? You know, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.200 I ain't new that some true to this? Hello somebody, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.040 somebody Hello? And so yeah, I used to make I 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.720 used to make little mix tapes on the computer. And 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.080 so I asked my dad to like, yo, like, I 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.920 want to get some DJ equipment. So he took me 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.400 to like three or four pawn shops and we couldn't 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.760 find it fund any you know what I mean. He's like, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.520 it's okay, Hey, don't matter because my son of Michael, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.520 you know, damn DJ Anyway, what I was literally like 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:03.280 twelve thirteen. I was crushed, like like literally crushed. And 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.319 it took me years to understand why. I don't only 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.040 think he understand why he said that at the time. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.720 I mean on his level, he looked at it from 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.959 a standpoint like my son's going to college and he's 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.920 gonna do this and do do Uh. So he went 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.600 into the military, you know, I mean, And so my 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.000 parents had me super young. Yeah, they were eighteen. You know. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.080 My mom had me between her junior year and senior 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.120 of high school and my dad had just finished high school. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.720 And so he went off to basic training while she 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:32.559 was finishing school. And when she finished school. Uh, they 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.920 he he had finished his basic training, and we we 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.120 moved to Germany, and I was a military brand, Like 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.720 I hopped all over the place, you know what I'm saying. Um, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.360 And I think because he made such that big sacrifice 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.640 to get us out of Baltimore at an early age, 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.480 he didn't see the trajector of me going into anything 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.600 that was going to be potentially unstable. And his brother 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.400 was a DJ. You know, my uncle Robert was a DJ, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.880 big DJ in Baltimore. Uncle, and he just got my 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.280 He didn't want me to go that path. You know 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.400 what I'm saying. Uncle got into trouble completely unrelated to 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.400 DJ and and he just didn't want me. I think 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.960 that's what that's what that's what it really was. But 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.120 he can never really articulate that, you know, So then 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.360 he was like, no, you can't be a DJ. And 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.040 he were like, I'm gonna do it anywhere. We're like, no, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.160 I'm gonna do this. No I didn't. I did. I 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.720 didn't do it at all. Like I didn't start DJAN 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.240 until like four years after college. What did you do it? 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.240 What did you study at college? I was an economics major. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.360 I was economics major. I interned and worked on Wall Street. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.400 Come on left Bryant eddied abroad in London, you know, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.280 studying economics. I was like, I was very much that 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.480 on that straight and narrow path. Like I had done 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.200 a summer program at Harvard Business School. I was preparing 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.200 to go to the path of going to business school 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.200 and going to be doing you know, in the world 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.960 of finance. But I hated it. I hated it. I 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.199 hated it. I hated it, you know, and worked corporate 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.880 job for after college, and eventually they relocated me here 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.120 to l A and I got to be around so 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.960 many dynamic people who were pursuing their dreams at different 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.440 levels of education, who some people didn't go to college, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.400 but they were wildly successful because they were aligned with 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.800 their gifts. And that's what I got to learn about 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.360 being in l A. You know. I mean, people look 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:12.880 at it from the glitz and glam and the things 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.960 that you know, if you see on TV. But it 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.560 wasn't about that. It was like, I would see the 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.240 people who were behind the scenes, We're making the people 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.040 in front of camera, you know, look amazing, And I 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.760 just saw different aspects of entertainment. I'm like, well, I'm 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.640 making good men at this corver job that I hate, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.520 you know, doing something that makes me miserable. Then imagine 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.360 if I put all of my injury to something I love. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.360 And so one day I pieced out what I just 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.480 pieced out. Yeah, I started practicing Buddhism, and that's what 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.720 shifted everything from me, you know, literally Buddhism like looking Tina, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.160 turn in on your m I ran through somebody at 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.840 a party out here in l A on the rooftop 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.559 with a Honey Collective party. Shout out to Monica Paine, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.240 shout out to e Q, shout out to Rashida Shelley, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.800 ohto this collective of four beautiful, dynamic women of color 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.120 here in Los Angeles who would host these parties. They 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.199 were called the Honey Collective. And I went up to 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.280 DJ EQ. Was funny. She was like, I think I'm 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.319 at DJ EQ. I was like, yeah, I want to DVDJ. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.599 She's like, you ain't gonna be no DJ today. And 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.520 I thought she was rude at the moment, But as 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.560 a DJ now I get it because somebody come up, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.160 you tell they want to be a DJ, is like, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.320 what I'm trying to spend these records? Get up, you know. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.880 But it was they were she and the other lady, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.760 Rashida and EQ with the DJs at the collective, and 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.120 Monica and Shelley with a host, and they just had 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.800 their finger on the pulse of all things dynamic in 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.240 the black cultural space here in Los Angeles. And it 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.120 was the first party as I was introduced to out here, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:42.880 and I was like, Yo, this is just such a 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.080 vibe and it's just that the combination of vibing with 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.840 them on the weekends and then hating the corporate job 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.040 throughout the week. And I met somebody at one of 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.800 their parties. He said, brother, you're going through something. You 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.839 don't know what, I mean, what you're talking about. He's like, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.559 now you're going through something liked or whatever. Same party, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.320 like a month later he said it. I'm like, yeah, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.000 I'm and he uh, he said yeah, I want to 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.520 tell you about this, And so he sent me a 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.560 clip of Tina Turner talking on Larry King Live about 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.760 Buddhism and I picked the phone to me like, bro, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.800 I've ben't want to know about this my whole life 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.080 because I didn't understand what it was. But I was like, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.439 whatever it was was powerful enough to get her away 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.720 from Ike. And so I was just in a just 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.880 I was in a bad relationship, bad job, hating life, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.800 you know what I mean. I was just like, let me, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.440 let me just go to a meeting. And so what 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.640 I learned is not your d not your holdin' get 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.240 killed means I devote myself to the mystic law of 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.360 cause and effect through vibration and sound. When you devote 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.720 yourself to the law a law, it's a universal law. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.560 It's like gravity. You don't necessarily understand gravity, but you 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.800 know that your feet are planned it on this ground. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.960 You know, um, you know it's missed because you can't 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.520 see it. You know, you know, it's sometimes defies mental comprehension. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.280 But like I said, that's a universal law like anything else, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.880 like a law of cause and effect. And when I 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.880 learned that I am the car is and not the 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.880 effect of things that happened to me, that means that 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.240 I am a co conspirator like I am. It's things 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.160 that I'm doing, saying, thinking ways of being that are 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.080 contributing to the effects that are taking place in my life. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.440 Taking accountability. So that's exactly what it was like. It 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.800 taught me. It's a spiritual practice that taught me how 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.600 to take accountability for the things that are going on 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.800 and not just point the finger as to why things 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.560 aren't this or that or that, you know. And so 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.800 I got to see myself a lot more clearly, and 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.360 I realized cannot see yeah, And I realized I was 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.440 choosing to be a lesser version of myself because I 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.600 was moving out of fear, and the fear was what 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.720 was keeping me in this corporate job every day. That mean, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.080 what does it mean to be moving in fear? Meaning 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.560 that you're knowing. I knew that I was capable of more, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.080 but I was afraid of other people's opinions. I was 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.520 afraid of being broke. I was afraid of falling on 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.160 my face and embarrassing myself. I was afraid of, you know, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.000 things just not working out. But that's not faith. Faith 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.600 and fear cannot exist on the same plane. And so 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.200 I was I realized I was choosing that's I was 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.440 choosing fear, and so I had to make a different choice. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.280 And when I made a different choice, funny funny if 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.200 I was chanting at the Buddha Center and sent out 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:17.400 here in Los Angeles, and I met Herbie Hancockie up 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.960 there leading and get he up there at seven thirty 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.360 in the morning, just chatting his behind off, and I 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.240 was like, I gotta talk to him. I gotta talk 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.120 to him. And you know, after the session was over, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.040 I briefly talked to him. I was just like, whoa 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.960 how did you in your era, you know, convince your 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.800 parents or convince people around you that you needed to 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.000 be a musician. He told me a brief story, you 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.280 know how he was almost failing out of all his classes, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.120 but he got sees at the last minute his studies, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.800 but he was putting so much focus onto you know, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.960 like a syphony or orchestra or some type of musical 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.920 group that he was with at the time. And he 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.160 explained that at that moment, because he was able to 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.560 successfully still graduate, that he told himself he would never 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.840 deny himself again and that poor all of his in 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.960 energy into his craft. He wasn't trying to be He 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.600 was like an electrical engine, mieror mat or something completely, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.480 you know, it just wasn't on the field of music 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.040 per se. And he said, if you're serious about this, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.240 young man, you'll take lessons. Every great musician from Quincy 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.720 Jones to Beyonce to still to this day, they take lessons. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.800 You go take lessons. And that day I walked out 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.240 of Buddha Center and UH called up Scratch DJ Academy 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.720 here in Los Angeles and I signed up to DJ school. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.760 What yea, So were you in DJ school as well 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.840 as you're still working in corporate America or did you 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.960 relinquish it? So that's the funny little story. Um. I 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.000 took a six week DJ course where we met once 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.360 a week and then we had you know, you could 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.680 come in and practice hours and and and shout out 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.560 to my professor's uh DJ Hopper and Chock from the 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.000 beat junkies, you know what I mean. I learned so 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.800 much from both of them while I was taking those classes. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.640 But I took a six week course and then I 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.600 quit my job. Did you have money? So I had 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.840 a little bit of money, say not a lot, but 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.000 but I came in signing up for the next six 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.720 week course and I told him all like, yeah, you know, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.760 I'm being fulls on D. I'm gonna be celebrity J. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.560 That's great, that's great, Like I said, yeah, I quit 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.040 my job. There's like what I said, Yeah, I quit 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.359 my job, like you did what? And they knew I 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.040 was at a corporate opportunity. So they literally stopped class 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.080 and pulled me outside and like you did what now? 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.000 They said, no, no no, no, you understand this is hard, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.800 Like this is not a one, two, three ys easy 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.040 like this people take years and every amount to Uh, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.960 you know you're saying you want to be celebrities. A 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.119 lot of people want to do that, you know what 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.400 I mean? Like you need to go back and ask 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.480 for your job, you need you need to spend more 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.520 time and this. Then you've just taken a one class 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.160 and think you're ready to be a DJ. I said, yeah, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.000 I heard you, but now already quit. It's too late, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.920 already for the two weeks in, it's done. I'm here, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.800 let's go. And they looked at me like, yo, he 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.679 is insane. But I think if I didn't go to 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.000 that level of extreme, then I wouldn't have I wouldn't 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.920 have done it. Yeah. Mr Harvey always says you'll never 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.960 know if your parasut would open unless you jump, and 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.280 you'll never know if you can fly until you jump 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.680 until so I want you to be real real. Did 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.760 it ever get low? How low did it get? What 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.359 did that know? Does it mean like did you have 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:17.760 a car when you on the bus? Were you able 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.560 to eat? How low? How? Really? Because I don't think 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.720 people really understand and really talk about it, like I'm 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.440 in a moment right now. I had a little moment. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.720 I took two buses to get here. This damn there 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.800 two hours. You should call me. I could scoop right, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.679 but you know, it's just a testament of how far 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.760 are you gonna go? So how far are you going? 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.320 How far did you go? How far? How low did 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.720 it go? How low did it go? I mean, there 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.080 were moments when I had this gig and it paid 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.120 three hundred dollars a week. My rent was a thousand, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.240 so so three week, that's two hundred dollars for the 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.879 My rent was a thousand, and I still had to 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.680 pay for groceries. You didn't get your food stamps. I 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.920 don't know I was els for food stamps then, ain't 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.480 ain't tell me, you know what I mean? But I 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.840 still for that extra two llars. When the extra I 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:09.520 had to pay for gas, for utilities, for you know, food. 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.679 Like that's how tight it got at certain moments. You 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.080 know what I'm saying. Thank God, my friends, wasn't one thing. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.760 Shout up my best friend. My best friend should need 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.879 a castle. Castle's kaden. She is dynamic, you know what 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.680 I mean. She's incredible. Archipro negro face here in Los Angeles. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.600 Um she specialized in Creole cuisine. You know, and she's 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.520