1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rushan McDonald. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: I recognize we all have different definitions of success for 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: some and suscisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: very best life. These are my passions and that's what 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: I'm going to do for you. I want you to 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: stop tripping over small challenges and prepared to rise above 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: the bigger obstacles that life will present to you. My 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: next guest, Todd Johnson, has started or helped to start 10 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: businesses around the world that include Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: and the United States. Although much of Tard's financial success 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: derives from business, he finds personal success and helping entrepreneurs 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: would be entrepreneurs and business leaders maximize their earning potential 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: through executive coaching and by partnering to help them execute 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: they go to marketing strategies. That's really important when I 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: say that taught in Hot Pursuit program helps entrepreneurs accelerate 17 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: the growth of their ventures. They exist to serve and 18 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: inspire our community by passionately and dillingently creating product, content 19 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: and services that matter. Please work with the money making conversation. 20 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: He's straight out of Beverly Hills today Todd T. J. 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: Johnson had sorry about that. Good morning, Rashan. How you doing, 22 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: my friend? Uh l A, that's when some people doing 23 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: the pandemic it's goned to be pandemic, uh hot, pandemic 24 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: territory out there. How is living in Los Angeles or 25 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: being in Los Angeles which is a part of Beverly 26 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: Hills being right now? And it's it's great. I've you know, 27 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: I've uh, you know, it's funny you say from Beverly 28 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: he knows, and that sounds sounds funny. Introduced me that 29 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: way because I'm from South Carolina and Columbia Casey, South Carolina, 30 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: low country. That's right, that's right, pokemon, you know. And 31 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: uh and so uh and uh and and I've made 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: my most of my money. And while I was in Washington, DC, 33 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: but man, during this pandemic, I decided to come out 34 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: to l A and a lot of time out here 35 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills. And and you know, have a beautiful 36 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: place out here, and uh my team works from this place, 37 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: so we're able to quarantine with a group of people 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: I love, like am productive with and so it's made 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: it a lot more fun. And you know, I'm really 40 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: into the car culture, love cars, so it's a it's 41 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: a great place to be because you can't get COVID 42 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: and you know, driving your cars around. Well, I'm gonna 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: tell you this, man, I've lived in Los Angeles fifteen years. 44 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: I always tell people you can stand on the carner 45 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: of Doheny and Wilsha and see every popular car in 46 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: the world passed that street light within an hour. So 47 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: if you're a car junkie or car foodie or a 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: car guy who just wants to eat up some great 49 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: cars and look at them. Beverly Hills, California, my friend, 50 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: it's the place to be because they got the cars. Man, 51 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: they got car t J. Absolutely absolutely they do. So 52 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: tell us a little bit going uh no, no, we 53 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: know you. But you said you're about to go going 54 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: you just going somewhere from completely. I was just I 55 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: was just no, no, I was just um, I was 56 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: just jumping down on what you said. No need to 57 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: do that, but yes we can just move forward. But 58 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: not no problem. Tell us about your brain, right quick, TJ. 59 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: From your words before I get in detail. You know, 60 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: I've got my research, but I al would like people 61 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: to tell their story a little bit and let's, uh, 62 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: let's break it down and build it up and uh 63 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: and let everybody know the journey they got you here 64 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: to this interview. No, I appreciate that. So here's the deal. 65 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: I'm up again. I'm from like Casey, South Carolina. Some 66 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: of the guys man that's listening to this interview, they'll 67 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: know when I say Pokemon, South Carolina. There's a little 68 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: area in Casey, South Carolina. I grew up on a 69 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: short bus. I grew up stuttering so badly that you know, 70 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: people made fun of me. And I was on the 71 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: short bus, so you know, the teachers and stuff didn't 72 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: think I was that smart, right, So I was on 73 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: this spot and it took a long time for me 74 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: to figure out that I just had a speech impediment 75 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: and it wasn't that that I wasn't smart. So I 76 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: had to work really hard and and grew up to 77 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: like a teenage bomb and you know, poor and all 78 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: that sort of stuff where man, I didn't have any 79 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: bide that was mentoring or sharing knowledge specifically of how 80 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: to um achieve financial success, how to be an entrepreneur, 81 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: how to build a business, how to think about things. 82 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: So my brand is about taking all the years of 83 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,119 Speaker 1: experience that I've had and and a lot of different 84 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: ventures and helping other people do startups. How do you 85 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: take your business? Uh, take that skill, start your business 86 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: and start making money and scaling it so that you 87 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: can build financial freedom and have a business that you're 88 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: still proud of. You feel successful because you own it 89 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: and something for that, you know, other people to look 90 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: at you. So, man, this guy's went okay and I'm 91 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: proud of. So that's what my friends about. You know. 92 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: You know, I'm very familiar with Columbia South Carolina, Charleston, 93 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: that whole run uh syndicated radio with Steve Harvey for 94 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: sixteen years and when our first market was Columbia South 95 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: Carolina and so so I played with that many times, 96 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: went down and performed in the town town hall down there, 97 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: uh center to seats about three thousands. So I'm very 98 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: familiar with Columbia South Carolina and uh great people, great food. 99 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: Let's go and put that out there and the great Atmisphere. 100 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: So how did you get out of Columbia South Carolina area? Now? 101 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: You know, you know, that is an extreme now Todd 102 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, California and Columbia, South Carolina. Now I know 103 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: because I came from fire Forth, which is a which 104 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: is the inner city. Six nisters, two brothers, to bedroom, 105 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: shotgun house. Father was truck driver. Mom graduated from high school, 106 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: didn't pursue college. So I understand an atmosphere that doesn't 107 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: uh play well to opportunity. But opportunity does present itself, 108 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: and you were able to take it to take advantage of. 109 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: You told us about the short bus. You talked us 110 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: about the study. How did the evolution come off? Todd? 111 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: T J. Johnson, and man, you know? So for me, 112 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: I was always uh uh, someone that wanted more than 113 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: what my environment had, right, I saw in my environment. 114 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: I wasn't happy in my environment. I wasn't satisfied with 115 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: my environment. And I think a lot of people are 116 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: that way. But I think the difference for people that 117 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: leave their environment is that they decide that there's something 118 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 1: more somewhere else, there's something more in a different lifestyle, 119 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: even though they haven't experienced at first hand, they haven't 120 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: seen it. And so for me, I decided that I 121 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: just wanted something different and uh, at a very young age, 122 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: and again not knowing what that looks like, you don't know, 123 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: not knowing where that would be. Um. I played basketball 124 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: in high school and I thought basketball would get me 125 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: through college. And I had a very bad car accident 126 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: when I was between my senior and junior year of 127 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: high school, and I had anesia and had problems with 128 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: my balance and had to be taught my class schedule 129 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: all over again, my being the first Uh, you know, 130 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: there's people I didn't recognize. Ever. Again, a lot of 131 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: the stuff came back, but some stuff never came back. 132 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: But what what remains said fast was the fact that 133 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: that I wanted more, but I couldn't use basketball to 134 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: get me out of my situation. So I figured I'd 135 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: go off to college and and uh, you know, can 136 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: I just be transparent with you here Ray making conversations? 137 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: Please do so, man, I'll tell you what you know. 138 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: As visited a couple of colleges. I think I went 139 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: to William and Mary College and I went to have 140 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: to you and to visit and when I went to 141 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: Hampton You, I saw so many beautiful sisters that Hampton You. 142 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, if I go to 143 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: the school. There's no way I'm gonna get out of college. 144 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna get out of Coupe. I'm gonna 145 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: be get so distracted and it ain't gonna happen. So 146 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I could not go 147 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: to Hampton You because I could see myself I had 148 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: I would always created this vision for my life. Right. 149 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: So when I visited hap Fro you thinking, wait a minute, 150 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I don't. I don't have everything 151 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: together around basketball. So if I'm struggling, I'm gonna be 152 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: driving a little I don't know. I have to buy 153 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: uh six hundred dollar car, and I gonna have to 154 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: work like at my McDonald's and try to go to 155 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: college and try not to be distracted by all the 156 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: pretty girls. I knew that wasn't gonna work. I didn't 157 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: think that I was gonna be successful in that situation. 158 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: So I ended up going in the military. And I 159 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: went in the military when I was seventeen years old, 160 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: and that was the thing that got me away from home. 161 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: But what I knew is I had to leave Pokemon Casey, 162 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: South Carolina. And if I left Pokemo Casey, South Carolina, 163 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: I knew there was gonna be more opportunity outside of 164 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 1: the area then there was inside, So I was willing 165 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: to go find something different. I'm gonna can be transparent 166 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: with you now, let me just tell your story. But 167 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: I graduated from the University Houston. Uh I when I 168 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: fifteen years old, I had UH My father was a 169 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: truck driver. My first job, he sent me to UH 170 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 1: this truck company and UH I was unloading boxes. So 171 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: my mentors were my early mentors of guys who unloaded 172 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: boxes and drove forklifts. So despite the high grades, when 173 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: I got graduated from high school, I wanted to be 174 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: a forklift driver. That's what I wanted to be. And 175 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: guess when I graduate high school, I became a forklift driver. 176 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: It was happy and then UH then, fortunately for me, 177 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing and I dropped 178 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: the box on a young man's hand, broken and they 179 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: fired me. And so I went over the University of 180 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: Houston where I eventual graduated. And when I eventually attended, 181 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: and I saw those same beautiful women that you saw 182 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: at the Universe, it was wensday noon time, neon time, 183 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: not now out that inspired me dj to enroll in 184 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: college that that inspired that that visit to that that 185 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: new time on the Wednesday at do you See that's 186 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: what they called the University center called it. Do you 187 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: see got me enrolled at the University Houston and made 188 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: me get my math degree. So we all had levels 189 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: of inspiration. So I was not I was not taking 190 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: aback by when I saw I was just trying to 191 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: see how I can get closer. Uh. And that's how 192 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 1: life is for for for us. You know, we have 193 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: these different ventures that we we encounter and they always 194 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: affect us different ways. And when I hear your story, 195 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: that's why I want to hear the story, because the 196 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: story feeds different information when it's when it's uh, when 197 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,079 Speaker 1: it's presented to different people, and when you how we 198 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: achieved those different levels of success is what builds us 199 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: out and makes us successful overall and allows our dreams 200 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: to come true. Because like you, I am a dreamer too. 201 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: I just I would look at TV T J and 202 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: I'll go, wow, could I do that? And I would 203 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: tell you this, man, honest, letting I tell people, I 204 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: pretty much have done most of the things I've dreamed 205 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 1: of in my life as a kid, and and and 206 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: I never when people here that they go, who do 207 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: you mean? I said, well, you know, when I saw it, 208 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: I didn't know how I was going to get there, 209 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,079 Speaker 1: But I knew hard work was involved. I knew not 210 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: sitting on the sofa was not an option t J. 211 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: I knew that I had to be able to have 212 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: people around me, they believed in me, and all those 213 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: things that played this self out with me ever since 214 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: I've been eighteen years old. What my problem was I 215 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: didn't respect the process. In other words, I didn't accept 216 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: the responsibility that God gives us these gifts and when 217 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: they when these things start, until you don't don't trivialize it, 218 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: don't realize to realize that it's happening because you have 219 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: a unique talent. And that's and once I accepted the 220 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: fact that I have a unique I had a unique talent, 221 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: and these things are happening because of what I can 222 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: accomplish and who I am, this success came my way 223 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: at a very fast rate, and I understood the pattern 224 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: that I had to maintain, the consistency I had to 225 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: maintain to be successful. And when I did my research 226 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: on you, you your life tells a very similar story. 227 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: Correct yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, I think. 228 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: But you know, and you talking to me just now 229 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: and telling me a little bit more about your story. 230 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: One of the things that jumped out of me is 231 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: just being self aware. You know, you saw those women 232 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: you were like, look, I gotta get blows when I 233 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: told I'm too weak, I gotta move away just when 234 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: you you know, when you were like, um, you said, look, uh, 235 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: chief my thing. But now I want to do something different. 236 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 1: For me, I knew like going in the military, right 237 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: was the way to being a different place, to see 238 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: some different things. And and you know, I started out 239 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: like doing a job that was like like cheap punch operator. 240 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: I was like typing in stuff right that that you know, 241 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: I thought was uh, just typing in like on these 242 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: little cheap punch cards. And then I had the innovator. 243 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: But but the other thing that I thought about when 244 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: you were talking was was you said, you watch TV 245 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: and you'd be inspired and you would do different things, 246 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: and you saw that you sort of want to emulate 247 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: some of the success. For me, when I saw TV, 248 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: what I saw is very successful people that and I 249 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: was I was actually someone that wouldn't watch TV because 250 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: I would see this success, and I would say, I'm 251 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: gonna spend already menace an hour or two hours watching 252 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 1: rich people when I'm poor. And so I was like, 253 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not 254 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: gonna watch rich people when I'm poor. I'm gonna invest 255 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,319 Speaker 1: in myself and do some other things so that I 256 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: can not be poor. Right, So to your point is 257 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: that the way we deal with these things are are different, right, right. 258 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: Way we deal with each circumstances are different. The way 259 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: it impacts us are different. And so the two things 260 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: in terms of how you dealt with um the inspiration 261 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: you saw in the University of Houston and and the 262 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: way you dealt with the inspiration you saw in Houston 263 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: was very different than the way I dealt with television 264 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: and the way I saw the inspiration in h Hampton University. 265 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: So you're absolutely right, my brother, in terms of how 266 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: it impacts us differently and how we have to apply 267 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: to our own life differently. Absolutely, And that's a really 268 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: really deep thing to admit because of what I tried 269 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: not to do is you know, when you work around talent, 270 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: and I consider your talent, I want to hear your 271 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: story because I, because I I, we're always annoyed me 272 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: and the entertainment business especially, we have super talented people 273 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: like just throw our name, like a Martin Lawrence or 274 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle. Just because they have the title of comedian 275 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: don't mean they do the same things. And so sometimes 276 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: people try to put them in that same lane or 277 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: they're funny, they can do this script maybe not, maybe 278 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: not because they approached their thought process of being funny 279 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: is different, and so the same thing with you, I 280 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: thought press would be I thought process of being successful 281 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: is different, and we have to be respected along that 282 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: line and realize that our journey to get to the 283 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: findesh line. You may be the tortos, I may be 284 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: the hair, but it doesn't matter because we're gonna be 285 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: successful because we approached with the mindset of pattern of 286 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: gold or being goal or in it. We're planned, driven 287 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: people and we're not just dreamers. That is what It's 288 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: important that I wanted people to take away from your 289 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: brand as well, right t J. Yeah, absolutely, and and 290 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: and so you're you're right. The the what you do 291 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: when you when you're dealing with success or anything that 292 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: you study was common. Right. Everybody's gonna have a unique story, 293 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: a unique way, inspired differently, motivated differently. But the things 294 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: that's common are you know, focus, it's you know, setting goals, 295 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: achieving those goals, having a high you know, a high 296 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: vision for your life. And I think some people suffer 297 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: from not creating a big enough vision for their life. 298 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: And I think most of us do, no matter where 299 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: we are, uh in terms of our level of success. 300 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: A lot of times I look at myself to say, man, 301 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: I could have done a lot more if I was 302 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: completed hard, if my vision would have been grander, you know, 303 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: even though people might look at me and say, hey, man, 304 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: you created some su Yeah, but you know I could 305 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: have done there's a lot faster. I could have done 306 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: this a lot different if I wasn't scared ear year, 307 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: I wasn't having a bigger vision, you know. I I wow, 308 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: you know that statement you just said. I thought about 309 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: that so many times. But I often think about it 310 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: because of the fact that was already And that's why 311 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: I go back to the fact that I said earlier 312 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: in our conversation. Sometimes you don't understand who you are. 313 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't really respect what you can do, and 314 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: so I don't so much. Call it fierce growth, and 315 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: so we all grow. That's why I admire when you know, 316 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: President Barack Obama ran for presidency of the United States 317 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: and he won, but he had to plan on that 318 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: when he was in his teens, because he had to 319 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: do certain things that they couldn't back and go back 320 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: and find. And so people visionaries who get it early. 321 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: I always always like, you know, I always get excited 322 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: because Wow, they figured it out so young, and that's amazing. 323 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: Where I basically accepted who I was in my faulties 324 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: despite all the success I had, t J. I, I 325 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: didn't really buy into Rashad McDonald until I was in 326 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: my authorities. And when I bought in, boar that that wall, 327 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: that that door could not stay closed when I bought in. 328 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: And so so I'm speaking to Todd t J. Nick Mill, 329 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: I just call him t J. Todd Johnson. Here's a 330 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: program called in High Pursuit. It helps entrepreneurs accelerate the 331 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: growth of their ventures. Tell us about that, Todd. Yeah, 332 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: So you know, I have. What I do is I 333 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: coach people that are building their businesses, trying to scale 334 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: their business, trying to grow their business. Right and uh 335 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: a lot of people. Uh, they'll see either getting ready 336 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: to start, never starting, waiting waiting for things to be 337 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: perfect before they get going, waiting for things to be 338 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: perfect before they make an offer to the world. And 339 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: you know that's a that's a big problem, right, it's 340 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: a big are A lot of other folks they got 341 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: their business is going, but they really created sort of 342 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: uh uh eliminates hand and they don't know it means 343 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: that they have to go in and open the store 344 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: every day, be their selling stuff. And if they're not, 345 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: they're not gonna make any money. And when they stop 346 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: doing it, the money stops doing. So I want to 347 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: make sure that people learn how to work on their 348 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: business and not just in their business right, so that 349 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: they can build financial success for the long haul, that 350 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: they can feel they can they can make money while 351 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: they sleep, so that they can take their spare equity 352 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: and their ingenuity and creativity to create something that's going 353 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: to allow them to live the way they want. Because 354 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: sometimes people want to build a business and they think, 355 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: because I have this business i'm living, I'm gonna build 356 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: this lifestyle the we want. Not necessarily, you just don't 357 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: eliminated sing. So when they help people scale their business 358 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: and so my my, uh, what I do is I 359 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: have something called the Success Club. And in the Success 360 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: Club is where I meet with folks every couple of weeks, 361 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: you know, face to face as a group, and we 362 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: have another terry. Terry then helping people with some of 363 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: the technical aspects of marketing. And uh, I'm helping with 364 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: the strategy stuff and and obviously the technical stuff as well, 365 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: you know, talking through stuff and helping people solve their 366 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: problems so that they can grow their businesses and scale 367 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 1: it and so and and it's unique because getting access 368 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: to people that have built businesses, you know, in different industries. 369 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: I mean I've had a uh commercial construction business that 370 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: I built from scratch, and all the businesses that I've built, 371 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: I'm not gone out and gotten people's money in and 372 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: and and and build something. I've built businesses that's been 373 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,360 Speaker 1: very successful, and I build businesses that spailled and all 374 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: of that experience helps me help other people move things 375 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: along a lot faster. So it's called a success club. 376 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: And when when you have the word success and and 377 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: that that that means a lot to a lot of 378 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: different people. You know, there are people who eat who 379 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: we need a lot of food that's successful for them 380 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: and a buffet, you know. And so you know, athletes, 381 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: it could be a forty yard time, you know, lifting weights, 382 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: it could be a dunk. Uh. What is your definition 383 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: of success in the entrepreneurial or the business or the 384 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: business space when you're talking to individuals who are trying 385 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,959 Speaker 1: to get a vision for success. Yeah, So there's levels 386 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: to it, right in terms of success that you've already mentioned. 387 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: And so I think a sort of a quick, sort 388 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: of uh version of that for me is that, you know, 389 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: having building enough financial freedom where you may have ability 390 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: to make choices for your life and your family that 391 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: prioritizes your happiness and lifestyle over simply surviving. The degree 392 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: that you have the ability to do that, like a 393 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: lot of people have to get up and do things 394 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: just because they have to do it to pay the 395 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: bills and take care of family. Right, So, so because 396 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: you know, and so to the degree that you go, 397 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: you know what, I can make decisions. I can take 398 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: this job, I can move to this location, and and 399 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: I have the type of freedom that allows me to 400 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: do what makes me happy and takes care of my family, 401 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: makes my family happy and as far as that over over, 402 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: you know, just simply surviving. Uh, to the degree that 403 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: I can do that, I'm successful. And so there's a 404 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: few levers when you look at that. There's the happiness level. 405 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: How happy am I doing what I do? And what 406 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: my life and and and what my life looks like? 407 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: How much of an impact am I'm making? You know, 408 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: I think that's important because we want to be able 409 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: to do that. The other one is how much abundance 410 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: do I have? You know, a lot of times people 411 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: want to think about success and want to take that 412 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: out of it, right, And I'm let no man put 413 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: abundance in it because abundance is an important thing and 414 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: it's something you know that that is, Uh, having an 415 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: abundance versus having lack's really important as well, right, And 416 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: so um um, I think those are some of the 417 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: levels that are important to move up the skill to 418 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: figure out what success is, at least for me and 419 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: from a business standpoint, in a business mindset, you know, 420 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: when I when I listened to you talk, and first 421 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: of all, thank you for calling the show money making 422 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: conversation and sharing your story and your inspiration. And I 423 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: I've had an amazing life when I look at the 424 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: ability to be able to you know, hanging hanging into 425 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: a conversation with a with a motivational coach, and you're 426 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: a success coach, and that's something I cannot do. That's 427 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: something I wouldn't pursue. That's just not my lane of 428 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: opportunity for me. And as far as important to say, 429 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: I may know your conversation tod that on me, I 430 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: can do what you do, Okay? What enables you to 431 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: do what you do in that lane of being a 432 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,479 Speaker 1: success coach? And what what makes you different? What? What? What? What? What? When? 433 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: When when I look at you and I come to you, 434 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: and because you have people who come there for stress 435 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: coaches and they did athletes who are trying to overcome 436 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: depression a lot of times, and but success because a 437 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: lot of people fail at it. They fell in life 438 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: and they fell in business. How do you how do 439 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: you affect people like that and get them going down 440 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: the right path? Yeah, So a couple of things. I 441 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: focus on the fund of medals. Just like you know, 442 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: if you played basketball, you do anything, well, you know 443 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: the thing that you have to do at the fund ofmentals. Now, 444 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: when you sit there and you tell somebody, here's what 445 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: it takes to be successful. They go, wait, where's the 446 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 1: magic where you know? You know? You know no, and 447 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: the secrets are? You know. You gotta focus, you gotta 448 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: you gotta have a clear vision for your life. You 449 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: have to focus. You have to have faith that you 450 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: can do this thing beyond measure. You know, you can 451 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,199 Speaker 1: get this thing done. I was talking to someone, yes 452 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: the other day and uh, you're going through a coaching session, 453 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: and I was talking of out how expensive it was 454 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: to do what he did and how much uh you 455 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: know money he was making, but how little went to 456 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,400 Speaker 1: the bottom line. And I said, well, you know, let's 457 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: we say, now, let's look at this differently. How can 458 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: we do this without spending amount of money. There's no 459 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: way to do it. There's no way to do it. Absolutely, 460 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: you can't because other people are doing it. Right. So 461 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: we talked about it and said, I said, bro, how 462 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: about it. How about if you're you know, how about it. 463 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: There's a bass drop us, there's some your wife was 464 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: kidnapped and you had to gether out of this situation. 465 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: The way you can get it out of the situation 466 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: to double your business and in sixty days, how would 467 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: you do it? What would you do? What changes would 468 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: you make? You have to do this, you have no choice. 469 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: Life and death depends on it, right, And so sometimes 470 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: when we frame things differently, we can then start to 471 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: different Yeah, they do this all the time because they 472 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: have they have you know, they have to respond and 473 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: pressure situations. Our business people respond to pressure situation where 474 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: the business is gonna God, U gonna fail. It's covid. 475 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: Oh man, I gotta do something different otherwise I'm gonna fail. 476 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: But sometimes we have to create the pressure so that 477 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: we can come up with the answers that we need 478 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: to grow our stuff. But the thing that makes me 479 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: different and the things that allows me to to help 480 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: people in a different way, is that why I've been 481 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: in a lot of different businesses. All of them have 482 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: been startups. And because they've been start ups, and it's 483 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: been in construction businesses, you know, on the hotel and 484 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 1: restaurant and UH mobile detail and car wash business and 485 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: and obviously detect services and stuff UM and and and 486 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: retail and online business. So I've done a lot of 487 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: different things, and not all of those things have been successful. 488 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: But I can leverage all of that experience to help 489 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: other people, and I understand what it needs to kind 490 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: of half leaving yourself sometimes or not have other people 491 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: believe in yourself and to be able to break something 492 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: down into the small parts and get people to do 493 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: a few things. One that's creative vision for themselves, that 494 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: that they can believe that, absolutely believe that, and sometimes 495 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: those are baby steps and then move them along the 496 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: path and then to help them do uh, focus and 497 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: eliminate all that other things. A lot of times, especially 498 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,719 Speaker 1: as black people, man, we always want to be mobiles. 499 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be a millionaire or everybody wants a 500 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: good billionaire. It's like, bro, how about we start with 501 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: you're making six figures first, and then we should move on, 502 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: you know, I want to we start there. And so 503 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: everybody wants to be a mobil before they get one 504 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: thing going. So people starting three or four different things, right, 505 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: So let's start with one and being successful there and 506 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: then and so helping people do that and put the 507 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: steps in place and having the constant contact with them 508 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: to there to say, okay, brother, you're on the right path. Okay, sister, 509 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: now that ain't working. I hear you, but that doesn't 510 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: make sense to me and keep will will go around 511 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: and circles on an idea that that makes sense to 512 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: anybody but themselves for a long time talk about this 513 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: idea and they can't execute on it because it doesn't 514 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: make sense, you know, to to anybody. A lot of 515 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 1: times people trying to sell people things they think they 516 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: need as opposed to things that people want right and 517 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: already know they need. Don't convince them that they need something. 518 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: Tell them stuff that they know they want and that 519 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: they need, you know. So So those are some of 520 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: the things, man, I know that that was all over 521 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: the place, But those are some of the things that 522 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 1: that that I do to help people move along and 523 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: stay focused and build their businesses. Awesome, ton, How can 524 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 1: we reach out to your? What social email? Uh? Website? 525 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: How can we reach you? How can we find you? Yeah? 526 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: On on social media it's uh t J Millionaire mentor 527 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: on Instagram, on Facebook, um even on on YouTube? And 528 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: uh for email it's Todd kildd at and hot pursuit 529 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: dot com. That's, uh, I don't know how you's and 530 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: is then Nancy and then hot dot com. That's that's 531 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: what I got on my paper small in Hot Pursuit 532 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: dot com. This is the website. I'll tell you what, Todd, 533 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: can you come back on my show? May I've enjoyed this. 534 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: You know. I love talking to you because we you know, 535 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: I'm from Houston, you're from South Carolina, where Texas and 536 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: Talth Carolina were both from the South. Now we both 537 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: have different journeys, but I love the story we tell 538 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: because it's very similar, and I approach it just different 539 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: decisions we made at different moments that we would ask 540 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: to make a decision, and that's what success is all about. 541 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: And I also love the fact that you made a 542 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: statement about that person who just coln't see a way 543 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: to get past the bottom line. This year, I brought 544 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: a young lady into my life, Angel Rich. She was 545 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 1: just working on my brand and she said, we you 546 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: need to have a YouTube channel for money making conversation. 547 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: That's what it's all there. I don't think that makes 548 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: any sense at all. She said, you you, you will 549 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: really excel at that and your brand will hit a 550 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: younger demo. And it was the same story. She just 551 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: had to tell it to me different where. I launched 552 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: it in February and I have to with thirty seven 553 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: thousand subscribers of YouTube and my age demo was eighteen 554 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: or forty four of them are in that age range, 555 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: so it made my my my age demo just went 556 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: way low. Six of my followers on the YouTube channel 557 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: or female. So when you made that statement, I found 558 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: it very relatable. Sometimes you have to talk to successful 559 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: people a different way to let them understand the opportunity. 560 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: It's possible. They just have to change the way they think. 561 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: That's all you do, and that's what you're doing, and 562 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: it makes you such an amazing success as a success coach. 563 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: And I just wanted to share that moment and say 564 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: I appreciate how you about what you do because it 565 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: happened to me and it made a difference in my life. 566 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: It made a difference in my brain and made a 567 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: difference in my income. I appreciate that. Man. That's awesome, 568 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: And let me say this to you. Thank you for 569 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: what you've done and what you do. People don't know 570 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: about people like you, and not enough people know about 571 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: people like you. Right my first name. More people should 572 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: know your first name. You know, especially people in terms 573 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: of you know you're you're the You're the rainmaker. He's 574 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: in the rain maker behind the brand, and people don't 575 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: know the strategy and the thought and nuance that goes 576 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: into that stuff. So I appreciate what you've done, and 577 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: you've done for a long time for for the seeds 578 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: of the world and other people. So I appreciate that, man, 579 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: And uh and uh. At some point, I'm gonna have 580 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: to get your your your restaurant lists for the different 581 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: areas of the country. You know your absolute it. Absolutely 582 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk, man. Like I said, I gotta go 583 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: out in l A coming up because of doing some 584 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: productions out there, some television ideas and concepts are coming 585 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: out there, so I may be out there next month, 586 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: So I'll definitely connect with you, man while I'm out there, 587 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: just to talk. Man. Like I said, I just love 588 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: fascinating people. I find you'd be a very fascinating person, 589 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: a very articulate person. About what it means to be successful, 590 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: I've told people many times sometimes success is not defining dollars, 591 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: is what you can accomplish, and that's how I shop. 592 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: But people say, I said, I I define my success 593 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: when I go in the store. If I go in 594 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: there and said I want that, and I can pick 595 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: it up and I can walk out of the store 596 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: with it. Then guess what that's the success level that 597 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: I've achieved to be able to do that, not how 598 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: much it costs that I could actually go in there 599 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: and say I want that I want with several of 600 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: those shoes or that that Taylor shoot or that particular car, 601 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: that house. And so you don't define it whether it's 602 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: a million or five million, is defined on if you can, 603 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: if you can achieve it, and that's what you do 604 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: as a success coach, and keep doing what you're doing. 605 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 1: And you have a fan in me talk. Okay, thank you, 606 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: thank you so much for Sean and we talked to it. Okay, 607 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: you'll be safe out there, and Beverly Hills Man and 608 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: stay after and keep watching them cars because I might 609 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: be driving by and one open and the g T 610 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: and the g T. Alright, we'll be safe now. Thank 611 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: you for coming on the Money Making Conversation. If you 612 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: want to hear more Money Making Conversation interviews, please go 613 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 1: to money Making Conversation dot com. I am Roshan McDonald. 614 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: I am your host.