WEBVTT - Todd Johnson Full Interview 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.640 Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host, Rushan McDonald. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.240 I recognize we all have different definitions of success for 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.600 some and suscisable paycheck. Mine is helping people wake up 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.280 and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and live their 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.319 very best life. These are my passions and that's what 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:19.759 I'm going to do for you. I want you to 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.360 stop tripping over small challenges and prepared to rise above 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.759 the bigger obstacles that life will present to you. My 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.800 next guest, Todd Johnson, has started or helped to start 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:34.000 businesses around the world that include Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.680 and the United States. Although much of Tard's financial success 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.640 derives from business, he finds personal success and helping entrepreneurs 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.760 would be entrepreneurs and business leaders maximize their earning potential 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.840 through executive coaching and by partnering to help them execute 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.120 they go to marketing strategies. That's really important when I 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.600 say that taught in Hot Pursuit program helps entrepreneurs accelerate 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.400 the growth of their ventures. They exist to serve and 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.760 inspire our community by passionately and dillingently creating product, content 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.440 and services that matter. Please work with the money making conversation. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.040 He's straight out of Beverly Hills today Todd T. J. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:20.400 Johnson had sorry about that. Good morning, Rashan. How you doing, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.800 my friend? Uh l A, that's when some people doing 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.840 the pandemic it's goned to be pandemic, uh hot, pandemic 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.480 territory out there. How is living in Los Angeles or 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.520 being in Los Angeles which is a part of Beverly 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.560 Hills being right now? And it's it's great. I've you know, 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.880 I've uh, you know, it's funny you say from Beverly 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.640 he knows, and that sounds sounds funny. Introduced me that 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:49.160 way because I'm from South Carolina and Columbia Casey, South Carolina, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:53.800 low country. That's right, that's right, pokemon, you know. And 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.000 uh and so uh and uh and and I've made 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.880 my most of my money. And while I was in Washington, DC, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.600 but man, during this pandemic, I decided to come out 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.360 to l A and a lot of time out here 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.119 in Beverly Hills. And and you know, have a beautiful 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.760 place out here, and uh my team works from this place, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.680 so we're able to quarantine with a group of people 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.760 I love, like am productive with and so it's made 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.679 it a lot more fun. And you know, I'm really 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.359 into the car culture, love cars, so it's a it's 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.880 a great place to be because you can't get COVID 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.560 and you know, driving your cars around. Well, I'm gonna 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.680 tell you this, man, I've lived in Los Angeles fifteen years. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.800 I always tell people you can stand on the carner 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.800 of Doheny and Wilsha and see every popular car in 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.880 the world passed that street light within an hour. So 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.440 if you're a car junkie or car foodie or a 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.400 car guy who just wants to eat up some great 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.480 cars and look at them. Beverly Hills, California, my friend, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.600 it's the place to be because they got the cars. Man, 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:04.360 they got car t J. Absolutely absolutely they do. So 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.200 tell us a little bit going uh no, no, we 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.040 know you. But you said you're about to go going 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.960 you just going somewhere from completely. I was just I 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.520 was just no, no, I was just um, I was 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.560 just jumping down on what you said. No need to 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.720 do that, but yes we can just move forward. But 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.760 not no problem. Tell us about your brain, right quick, TJ. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.079 From your words before I get in detail. You know, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.280 I've got my research, but I al would like people 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.359 to tell their story a little bit and let's, uh, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.600 let's break it down and build it up and uh 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.200 and let everybody know the journey they got you here 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.640 to this interview. No, I appreciate that. So here's the deal. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.960 I'm up again. I'm from like Casey, South Carolina. Some 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.880 of the guys man that's listening to this interview, they'll 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.760 know when I say Pokemon, South Carolina. There's a little 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.400 area in Casey, South Carolina. I grew up on a 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.840 short bus. I grew up stuttering so badly that you know, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.880 people made fun of me. And I was on the 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.920 short bus, so you know, the teachers and stuff didn't 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.080 think I was that smart, right, So I was on 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.400 this spot and it took a long time for me 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.080 to figure out that I just had a speech impediment 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.720 and it wasn't that that I wasn't smart. So I 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.040 had to work really hard and and grew up to 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.880 like a teenage bomb and you know, poor and all 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.760 that sort of stuff where man, I didn't have any 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.440 bide that was mentoring or sharing knowledge specifically of how 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.719 to um achieve financial success, how to be an entrepreneur, 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.360 how to build a business, how to think about things. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.040 So my brand is about taking all the years of 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.119 experience that I've had and and a lot of different 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.200 ventures and helping other people do startups. How do you 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.760 take your business? Uh, take that skill, start your business 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.719 and start making money and scaling it so that you 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.080 can build financial freedom and have a business that you're 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.600 still proud of. You feel successful because you own it 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.240 and something for that, you know, other people to look 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.520 at you. So, man, this guy's went okay and I'm 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.920 proud of. So that's what my friends about. You know. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.760 You know, I'm very familiar with Columbia South Carolina, Charleston, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.360 that whole run uh syndicated radio with Steve Harvey for 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.400 sixteen years and when our first market was Columbia South 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.920 Carolina and so so I played with that many times, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.120 went down and performed in the town town hall down there, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.960 uh center to seats about three thousands. So I'm very 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.120 familiar with Columbia South Carolina and uh great people, great food. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.360 Let's go and put that out there and the great Atmisphere. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.600 So how did you get out of Columbia South Carolina area? Now? 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.279 You know, you know, that is an extreme now Todd 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.400 Beverly Hills, California and Columbia, South Carolina. Now I know 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.719 because I came from fire Forth, which is a which 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.600 is the inner city. Six nisters, two brothers, to bedroom, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:56.480 shotgun house. Father was truck driver. Mom graduated from high school, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.240 didn't pursue college. So I understand an atmosphere that doesn't 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.360 uh play well to opportunity. But opportunity does present itself, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.400 and you were able to take it to take advantage of. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.159 You told us about the short bus. You talked us 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.120 about the study. How did the evolution come off? Todd? 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:17.240 T J. Johnson, and man, you know? So for me, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.720 I was always uh uh, someone that wanted more than 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.159 what my environment had, right, I saw in my environment. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.920 I wasn't happy in my environment. I wasn't satisfied with 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.640 my environment. And I think a lot of people are 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.440 that way. But I think the difference for people that 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.880 leave their environment is that they decide that there's something 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.679 more somewhere else, there's something more in a different lifestyle, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.080 even though they haven't experienced at first hand, they haven't 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.320 seen it. And so for me, I decided that I 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:56.159 just wanted something different and uh, at a very young age, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.880 and again not knowing what that looks like, you don't know, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.680 not knowing where that would be. Um. I played basketball 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.440 in high school and I thought basketball would get me 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.560 through college. And I had a very bad car accident 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.040 when I was between my senior and junior year of 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.960 high school, and I had anesia and had problems with 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.720 my balance and had to be taught my class schedule 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.880 all over again, my being the first Uh, you know, 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.240 there's people I didn't recognize. Ever. Again, a lot of 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.760 the stuff came back, but some stuff never came back. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.680 But what what remains said fast was the fact that 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.680 that I wanted more, but I couldn't use basketball to 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:45.000 get me out of my situation. So I figured I'd 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.520 go off to college and and uh, you know, can 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.600 I just be transparent with you here Ray making conversations? 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.760 Please do so, man, I'll tell you what you know. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.360 As visited a couple of colleges. I think I went 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.760 to William and Mary College and I went to have 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.280 to you and to visit and when I went to 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.160 Hampton You, I saw so many beautiful sisters that Hampton You. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.520 I was like, oh my god, if I go to 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.800 the school. There's no way I'm gonna get out of college. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.520 I'm just not gonna get out of Coupe. I'm gonna 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.120 be get so distracted and it ain't gonna happen. So 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:17.680 I was like, you know what, I could not go 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.400 to Hampton You because I could see myself I had 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.240 I would always created this vision for my life. Right. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.800 So when I visited hap Fro you thinking, wait a minute, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.200 I'm not you know, I don't. I don't have everything 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.160 together around basketball. So if I'm struggling, I'm gonna be 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.600 driving a little I don't know. I have to buy 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.880 uh six hundred dollar car, and I gonna have to 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.520 work like at my McDonald's and try to go to 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.760 college and try not to be distracted by all the 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.760 pretty girls. I knew that wasn't gonna work. I didn't 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.120 think that I was gonna be successful in that situation. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.880 So I ended up going in the military. And I 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.960 went in the military when I was seventeen years old, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.920 and that was the thing that got me away from home. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:02.320 But what I knew is I had to leave Pokemon Casey, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.360 South Carolina. And if I left Pokemo Casey, South Carolina, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.959 I knew there was gonna be more opportunity outside of 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.079 the area then there was inside, So I was willing 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.720 to go find something different. I'm gonna can be transparent 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.520 with you now, let me just tell your story. But 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.319 I graduated from the University Houston. Uh I when I 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.079 fifteen years old, I had UH My father was a 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.000 truck driver. My first job, he sent me to UH 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.719 this truck company and UH I was unloading boxes. So 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.079 my mentors were my early mentors of guys who unloaded 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.280 boxes and drove forklifts. So despite the high grades, when 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.240 I got graduated from high school, I wanted to be 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.400 a forklift driver. That's what I wanted to be. And 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.839 guess when I graduate high school, I became a forklift driver. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.000 It was happy and then UH then, fortunately for me, 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.160 I didn't know what I was doing and I dropped 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.120 the box on a young man's hand, broken and they 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.040 fired me. And so I went over the University of 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.840 Houston where I eventual graduated. And when I eventually attended, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.880 and I saw those same beautiful women that you saw 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.480 at the Universe, it was wensday noon time, neon time, 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:14.000 not now out that inspired me dj to enroll in 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:20.520 college that that inspired that that visit to that that 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.040 new time on the Wednesday at do you See that's 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.800 what they called the University center called it. Do you 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.880 see got me enrolled at the University Houston and made 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.480 me get my math degree. So we all had levels 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.360 of inspiration. So I was not I was not taking 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.640 aback by when I saw I was just trying to 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:43.959 see how I can get closer. Uh. And that's how 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.959 life is for for for us. You know, we have 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.200 these different ventures that we we encounter and they always 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.960 affect us different ways. And when I hear your story, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.520 that's why I want to hear the story, because the 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.319 story feeds different information when it's when it's uh, when 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.079 it's presented to different people, and when you how we 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.000 achieved those different levels of success is what builds us 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.079 out and makes us successful overall and allows our dreams 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.760 to come true. Because like you, I am a dreamer too. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.839 I just I would look at TV T J and 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:17.240 I'll go, wow, could I do that? And I would 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.760 tell you this, man, honest, letting I tell people, I 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.160 pretty much have done most of the things I've dreamed 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:27.839 of in my life as a kid, and and and 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.880 I never when people here that they go, who do 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.480 you mean? I said, well, you know, when I saw it, 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.559 I didn't know how I was going to get there, 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.079 But I knew hard work was involved. I knew not 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.480 sitting on the sofa was not an option t J. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.439 I knew that I had to be able to have 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.120 people around me, they believed in me, and all those 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.280 things that played this self out with me ever since 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.719 I've been eighteen years old. What my problem was I 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.280 didn't respect the process. In other words, I didn't accept 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.800 the responsibility that God gives us these gifts and when 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.400 they when these things start, until you don't don't trivialize it, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.360 don't realize to realize that it's happening because you have 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.439 a unique talent. And that's and once I accepted the 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.800 fact that I have a unique I had a unique talent, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.640 and these things are happening because of what I can 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.520 accomplish and who I am, this success came my way 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.319 at a very fast rate, and I understood the pattern 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.959 that I had to maintain, the consistency I had to 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.280 maintain to be successful. And when I did my research 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.480 on you, you your life tells a very similar story. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:35.200 Correct yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, I think. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.760 But you know, and you talking to me just now 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.959 and telling me a little bit more about your story. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.040 One of the things that jumped out of me is 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.480 just being self aware. You know, you saw those women 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.520 you were like, look, I gotta get blows when I 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:57.199 told I'm too weak, I gotta move away just when 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:02.280 you you know, when you were like, um, you said, look, uh, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.040 chief my thing. But now I want to do something different. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.679 For me, I knew like going in the military, right 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.240 was the way to being a different place, to see 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.160 some different things. And and you know, I started out 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.720 like doing a job that was like like cheap punch operator. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.800 I was like typing in stuff right that that you know, 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.920 I thought was uh, just typing in like on these 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.160 little cheap punch cards. And then I had the innovator. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.839 But but the other thing that I thought about when 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.800 you were talking was was you said, you watch TV 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.720 and you'd be inspired and you would do different things, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.200 and you saw that you sort of want to emulate 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.120 some of the success. For me, when I saw TV, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:52.520 what I saw is very successful people that and I 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.080 was I was actually someone that wouldn't watch TV because 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.199 I would see this success, and I would say, I'm 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.720 gonna spend already menace an hour or two hours watching 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:08.079 rich people when I'm poor. And so I was like, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.839 you know what, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.800 gonna watch rich people when I'm poor. I'm gonna invest 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.319 in myself and do some other things so that I 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.760 can not be poor. Right, So to your point is 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.400 that the way we deal with these things are are different, right, right. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.080 Way we deal with each circumstances are different. The way 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.840 it impacts us are different. And so the two things 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.920 in terms of how you dealt with um the inspiration 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.880 you saw in the University of Houston and and the 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.640 way you dealt with the inspiration you saw in Houston 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.120 was very different than the way I dealt with television 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.120 and the way I saw the inspiration in h Hampton University. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.280 So you're absolutely right, my brother, in terms of how 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.400 it impacts us differently and how we have to apply 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.240 to our own life differently. Absolutely, And that's a really 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.880 really deep thing to admit because of what I tried 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.480 not to do is you know, when you work around talent, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.320 and I consider your talent, I want to hear your 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.040 story because I, because I I, we're always annoyed me 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.440 and the entertainment business especially, we have super talented people 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.160 like just throw our name, like a Martin Lawrence or 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.240 Dave Chappelle. Just because they have the title of comedian 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.280 don't mean they do the same things. And so sometimes 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.040 people try to put them in that same lane or 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.920 they're funny, they can do this script maybe not, maybe 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.480 not because they approached their thought process of being funny 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.160 is different, and so the same thing with you, I 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.120 thought press would be I thought process of being successful 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.720 is different, and we have to be respected along that 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.360 line and realize that our journey to get to the 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.440 findesh line. You may be the tortos, I may be 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.560 the hair, but it doesn't matter because we're gonna be 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.240 successful because we approached with the mindset of pattern of 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.440 gold or being goal or in it. We're planned, driven 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.760 people and we're not just dreamers. That is what It's 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.240 important that I wanted people to take away from your 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.680 brand as well, right t J. Yeah, absolutely, and and 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.280 and so you're you're right. The the what you do 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.560 when you when you're dealing with success or anything that 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.760 you study was common. Right. Everybody's gonna have a unique story, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.480 a unique way, inspired differently, motivated differently. But the things 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:23.720 that's common are you know, focus, it's you know, setting goals, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.240 achieving those goals, having a high you know, a high 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.680 vision for your life. And I think some people suffer 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.520 from not creating a big enough vision for their life. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.720 And I think most of us do, no matter where 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.560 we are, uh in terms of our level of success. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.800 A lot of times I look at myself to say, man, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.200 I could have done a lot more if I was 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.240 completed hard, if my vision would have been grander, you know, 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.360 even though people might look at me and say, hey, man, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.920 you created some su Yeah, but you know I could 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.800 have done there's a lot faster. I could have done 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.240 this a lot different if I wasn't scared ear year, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:06.760 I wasn't having a bigger vision, you know. I I wow, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.920 you know that statement you just said. I thought about 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.639 that so many times. But I often think about it 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.600 because of the fact that was already And that's why 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.680 I go back to the fact that I said earlier 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.439 in our conversation. Sometimes you don't understand who you are. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.440 Sometimes you don't really respect what you can do, and 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.560 so I don't so much. Call it fierce growth, and 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.639 so we all grow. That's why I admire when you know, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.840 President Barack Obama ran for presidency of the United States 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.040 and he won, but he had to plan on that 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.639 when he was in his teens, because he had to 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.400 do certain things that they couldn't back and go back 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.040 and find. And so people visionaries who get it early. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.560 I always always like, you know, I always get excited 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.000 because Wow, they figured it out so young, and that's amazing. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.840 Where I basically accepted who I was in my faulties 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.080 despite all the success I had, t J. I, I 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.440 didn't really buy into Rashad McDonald until I was in 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.040 my authorities. And when I bought in, boar that that wall, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.440 that that door could not stay closed when I bought in. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.840 And so so I'm speaking to Todd t J. Nick Mill, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.119 I just call him t J. Todd Johnson. Here's a 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.840 program called in High Pursuit. It helps entrepreneurs accelerate the 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.920 growth of their ventures. Tell us about that, Todd. Yeah, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.639 So you know, I have. What I do is I 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.960 coach people that are building their businesses, trying to scale 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.000 their business, trying to grow their business. Right and uh 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:40.080 a lot of people. Uh, they'll see either getting ready 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.480 to start, never starting, waiting waiting for things to be 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.879 perfect before they get going, waiting for things to be 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.399 perfect before they make an offer to the world. And 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.960 you know that's a that's a big problem, right, it's 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.160 a big are A lot of other folks they got 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.440 their business is going, but they really created sort of 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.520 uh uh eliminates hand and they don't know it means 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.080 that they have to go in and open the store 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.240 every day, be their selling stuff. And if they're not, 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.640 they're not gonna make any money. And when they stop 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.680 doing it, the money stops doing. So I want to 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.960 make sure that people learn how to work on their 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.159 business and not just in their business right, so that 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.480 they can build financial success for the long haul, that 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.040 they can feel they can they can make money while 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.000 they sleep, so that they can take their spare equity 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.880 and their ingenuity and creativity to create something that's going 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.240 to allow them to live the way they want. Because 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.960 sometimes people want to build a business and they think, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.960 because I have this business i'm living, I'm gonna build 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.520 this lifestyle the we want. Not necessarily, you just don't 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.560 eliminated sing. So when they help people scale their business 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.760 and so my my, uh, what I do is I 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.800 have something called the Success Club. And in the Success 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.600 Club is where I meet with folks every couple of weeks, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.879 you know, face to face as a group, and we 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.600 have another terry. Terry then helping people with some of 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.200 the technical aspects of marketing. And uh, I'm helping with 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.840 the strategy stuff and and obviously the technical stuff as well, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.760 you know, talking through stuff and helping people solve their 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:19.960 problems so that they can grow their businesses and scale 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.880 it and so and and it's unique because getting access 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.800 to people that have built businesses, you know, in different industries. 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.600 I mean I've had a uh commercial construction business that 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.880 I built from scratch, and all the businesses that I've built, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.280 I'm not gone out and gotten people's money in and 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.600 and and and build something. I've built businesses that's been 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.360 very successful, and I build businesses that spailled and all 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.480 of that experience helps me help other people move things 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.160 along a lot faster. So it's called a success club. 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.080 And when when you have the word success and and 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.200 that that that means a lot to a lot of 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.000 different people. You know, there are people who eat who 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.159 we need a lot of food that's successful for them 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:05.000 and a buffet, you know. And so you know, athletes, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.639 it could be a forty yard time, you know, lifting weights, 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.960 it could be a dunk. Uh. What is your definition 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.000 of success in the entrepreneurial or the business or the 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.800 business space when you're talking to individuals who are trying 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:22.959 to get a vision for success. Yeah, So there's levels 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.960 to it, right in terms of success that you've already mentioned. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.160 And so I think a sort of a quick, sort 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.520 of uh version of that for me is that, you know, 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.320 having building enough financial freedom where you may have ability 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.639 to make choices for your life and your family that 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:47.600 prioritizes your happiness and lifestyle over simply surviving. The degree 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.760 that you have the ability to do that, like a 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.720 lot of people have to get up and do things 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.600 just because they have to do it to pay the 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.040 bills and take care of family. Right, So, so because 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.720 you know, and so to the degree that you go, 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:02.960 you know what, I can make decisions. I can take 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.520 this job, I can move to this location, and and 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:08.520 I have the type of freedom that allows me to 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.280 do what makes me happy and takes care of my family, 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:16.240