1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Okay here, like you know, someone's a bit shy air 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: it's been shy and uh, actually was I heard this? 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,159 Speaker 1: So it has been shy. I even tried to leg 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Oh I got to help that person with it. I 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: realized it. Oh it's me if what if I. 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 2: Told you there was more to the story behind game 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: changing events? 8 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 3: Get ready for my new podcast, That Moment with Damon 9 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 3: John will jump into the personal stories of some of 10 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 3: the most influential people on the planet, from business mobiles 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 3: and celebrities to athletes and artists. 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: Let's get into it. What s up everybody? 13 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 4: So I am about to spend the very special moment 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 4: with my buddy, uh Eric Atric Thomas about that moment, 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 4: Welcome to that moment, and I'm gonna be bringing you, 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 4: as I always do, really really fascinating people. 17 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 2: That I'm so learning from and people that you can 18 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 2: learn from. They may not be the people that everybody 19 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 2: knows in the world, but they are people will trust 20 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: me that you can learn from and you can then 21 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: go ahead and yourself. And you know, as I've been 22 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: getting back onto this new platform to me podcasts, I 23 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 2: realize is I want to loosen it up a little 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 2: bit I want to have more fun with it, and 25 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: I like it when you win. And this is something 26 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 2: you can take away. I want you to take away 27 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 2: from this. When you are out there in the public 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 2: eye like I am. You're doing a lot of television. 29 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 2: Well you got to do these single sound bites, right, 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: got all these lights and producers that I owe, got 31 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 2: to get this. We only have literally for the whole 32 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: interview that you're gonna speak at half an hour or early. 33 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: They used to read minutes of it. But the beautiful 34 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 2: thing is you all know, and that's why you listen 35 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 2: to podcasts. Sometimes you're just apply on the wall where 36 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 2: you're in the room. We're gonna just look these things up. 37 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 2: So no better way to loosen it up than with 38 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 2: somebody and talking about a topic that is very hard 39 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: we're all to speak to or imagine and it all 40 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: happens with us in one second, and it can alter 41 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: our lives, and we have seen it alter many, many, 42 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: many other people's lives. Then my buddy Eric patter Thomas whole. Eric, 43 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 2: tell us about that little incident that you did not 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: expect that may have been that moment. We will go 45 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 2: over several moments that happened to you a couple of 46 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: years ago. Tell us the story. 47 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: Feels like a couple of years ago. Thanks for the introduction, 48 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: and I'm happy to be here. Great to be on 49 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: here again to be with you. Yes, proof that actually 50 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: happened almost twenty six years ago. Uh, I was twenty 51 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: years old. Hip hop artists that my group Miscellaneous, were 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: celebrating a music project achievement. Okay, so we got from 53 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: the celebration party. I'm in the house like I normally 54 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: am for some and I just stood up in mid 55 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: conversation talking to the girl I was talking to, walked 56 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: outside down the steps, down the in the parking lot, 57 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: and I was just gonna go check the parking lot 58 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: to make sure everything was going well. You know, everybody was, 59 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: you know, nothing was happening. Everybody was staying away from 60 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: the neighbors. Maybe out there for five minutes. I came back. 61 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: I was by the first step, sitting there talking to 62 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: that girl I was talking to on the steps inside 63 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: the house, and then the DJ was next to her, 64 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: and then, uh yeah, all of a sudden, just within 65 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: a flash quicker than a than a strike a lightning, 66 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: and someone came around the DJ Van and pulled the 67 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: gun bent open fire. I got hit in the neck. Uh. 68 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: In the third and fourth vertebrate, I spun to the side. 69 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: So I spun to my left, you know, because they 70 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: shot me from the back side. Then the other one 71 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: grazed the back of this call. Instantly, I dropped to 72 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: the span and uh, basically I was lifeless. I didn't 73 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: heave any I couldn't breathe on my own. I couldn't 74 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: yell out for help. I couldn't move, and uh, but 75 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: I could hear things going on, you know, people screaming. 76 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: Remember this is nineteen ninety seven, so it's not really 77 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: cell phones or landlines and majors. And I could hear like, 78 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: you know, someone's been shot. Are it's been shy? 79 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 2: And uh? 80 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: Actually, when so I heard this, someone's been shot. I 81 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: even tried to leg oh, I got to help that person. 82 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: But then I realized, you know, it's me. I'm the one. 83 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: I'm the person too. I was just holding out for 84 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: life and and I was like, man, late, I'm twenty, 85 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: Like I've been trying to accomplish so many goals. This 86 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: doesn't end here. This can't be this can't be happening. 87 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: Like what did they were they coming there to shoot you? 88 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: Or it was uh, the we're all you know, whatever 89 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 2: it's going on. 90 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: You know, we don't know most of the bullets were 91 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: in my direction, but there was never a real police investigation. 92 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: You know. The basically you know, the police said, you 93 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: do music like this, that's what comes with the territory, 94 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: so mixed crowd, you know, they wrote it off. 95 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: To to to be clear, and I know that you 96 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 2: are in Flint, correct, Yeah, well you was that inflict 97 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 2: as well. At the time. 98 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: It was at Lancing because I was going to school 99 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: for photography at Lancine Community College, so it's out our 100 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: outside of Lancing. 101 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: So that moment happened. You are just chilling, You are 102 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 2: just checking on people, You're going upstairs randomly. A whole 103 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 2: other issue that people, a lot of people can relate to. 104 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 2: You were you were hit several times and you are 105 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: now and you have been since that point. How you 106 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 2: describe your uh, you know, your status right now as 107 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 2: a functioning human being, what would you be What would 108 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 2: you describe as who you are right now? 109 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: Well, I would say I'm physically, yeah, paralyzed for the 110 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: neck down. That's how I would describe it person first language. 111 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: Eric is paralyzed for the neck down, and you'd say, 112 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: I'm unable to move my arms or legs, so I 113 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: use everything. I control my environment using my mouth, my breath, 114 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: my eyes, my shined you know That's how I control things. 115 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 2: So you can't continue. What is it called? Is it power? 116 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: What is what would the dey uh leg or tetraplegic 117 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: sometimes wan tetraplegic. 118 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 2: What is a tetraplegic same thing. It's just kind of 119 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 2: it's I thought it was just super advanced and tetris there, 120 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 2: Well I am, I'm really advanced in texts. 121 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like the Tetris of your monopoly. 122 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. So so, by the way, everybody, let me tell 123 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 2: you Eric start. He he does. He does have an 124 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: assisted a vehicle that he rides around in very much 125 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: like a stoopid form of a wheelchair. I'm going to 126 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: I'm going to speed up where we are today with him. 127 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 2: He does. He uses a device that if you can 128 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 2: see him, it's in his mouth. When he blows into 129 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 2: it looks like a straw, and he operates his vehicle 130 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 2: to move around. And Eric, how long did it take 131 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 2: you to get ready to start your day. 132 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: We're getting better because I've had the same person for 133 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: you know, so many years. But I start, you know, 134 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: anywhere between like six and then I'm pumped in the 135 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: chair by about eight forty five. 136 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: Okay, I want people to be very clear. It takes 137 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 2: you an average of about and you're you're cutting down 138 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 2: the time you wake up at six o'clock in the 139 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,559 Speaker 2: morning and by the time you are ready to start 140 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 2: your day. Uh, it is three hours. 141 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: But seven. Yeah, Well that's not just to start the day, 142 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: that's just getting in the chair. 143 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 2: Cool. 144 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: You gotta get adjusted. The person's gotta like, you know, 145 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: adjust your body, make sure that you're in the chair properly. 146 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: Then you gotta eat breakfast, brush your teeth, take your vitamins. 147 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: So I start work. Work starts for me at nine 148 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: fifteen Monday through Friday. My work hours are nine fifteen 149 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: to five fifteen. 150 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 2: Got it? How long will it take you to to 151 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: now to get settling back to go to bed? 152 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: About an hour or so. It's a it's a little different. 153 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: You get lifted out of the chair and a sling 154 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: and you get put over the bed and then you 155 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: get down into the bed and then the caregivers gotta 156 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: strip you down. Man. It's like stripping. It's like stripping 157 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: a car. So try and strip your clothes and take 158 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: your bag off and put a night bag on. And 159 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,239 Speaker 1: you gotta do skin check because that's important man, because. 160 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 2: If you skin check, so so you know, I'm setting 161 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 2: the stage so to let people know that you know, 162 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 2: first of all, this is not an easy situation. Or 163 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 2: anybody you. 164 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 5: Know and well, and I know that you you you 165 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 5: talk about your community because you are a public speaker 166 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 5: and a motivational speaker as well as you know. 167 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 2: You have an incredible brand which is called Inspire. I 168 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: think you got to pop up coming up soon or 169 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: some of them. 170 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: July sixth or July six next. 171 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So anybody listening to you right now, please 172 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 2: go and check out what is it inspire dot com 173 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 2: or where can we get you? 174 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 6: Where you can find yourself at Inspire shirt dot com 175 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 6: an Inspire shirt by shirt dot com. You call your 176 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 6: community the invisible because of course we don't think about 177 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,719 Speaker 6: those who and so many Americans have been in these 178 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 6: challenging and are currently in challenging situations. But I want 179 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 6: to ask you something because of you know, there's so 180 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 6: many people. 181 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 2: That we meet that they have all their all your 182 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 2: body functions, are working in they're living in the Deathan Hall. 183 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: They're eating you know, three sometimes five meals a day, 184 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: they have their children, they have acclos dedication, and they 185 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 2: can run right down the block right now if they 186 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: want to. And they think that their life is over 187 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 2: and it could be, you know, we also have mental 188 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 2: illness in this country, right But when was that moment 189 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 2: that you when did you hear or how did go 190 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: on show? You didn't need to hear it. Maybe you 191 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 2: thought you would just get better, But what did they 192 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 2: say to tell you that you were paralyzed from the 193 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 2: neck down? And after that, when did you decide? Obviously, 194 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 2: you decide you want to list and you're going to 195 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: move forward in life and you're going to be a 196 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: productive not only going to live in me, but you're 197 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 2: going to inspire other people. But when did you decide 198 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 2: to do that? Because Listen, I had the slowest growing 199 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: form of cancer that anybody can ever have in my neck. 200 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 2: And I saw that and I was like, Okay, it's over, 201 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: I'm done take my neck. Oh I'm going to I'm 202 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 2: going to drink myself into a hole because I've had 203 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 2: the best life ever and I don't want to rot away. 204 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 2: And uh, and then I looked at myself and so, 205 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: what the hell are you doing feeling sorry for yourself? 206 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 2: I want to know with something ten thousand tons more gray, 207 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: when you found out and tell me how you found 208 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: out that you were paralyzed. When did you decide was 209 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 2: it then? Was it four years after that one you 210 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 2: decide I'm not going to let this stop me. 211 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: It's a great question. You know. When I was finally 212 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: alert again, you know, I had four screws in my head, 213 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: like I'm intubated with my mouth, so there's a two 214 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: breathing for me, this machine life support that I'm surrounded 215 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: by you, my Bob, stepdad, dad, step Bob, there's some 216 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: other people and that that's where the doctor and they 217 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: tell you because you're trying to move and you're like, 218 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: but I'm not stable. You know. The first goal that 219 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: really was set was to live. It was kind of 220 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: at that moment, it's like, oh, there's more to this. 221 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: Like I said, when I got shot, it was like 222 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: I was right there at the top of the world 223 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: and it crashed in a second. Get a second, and 224 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: so that that very mormony was just like, I know 225 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: there's more, There's gotta be more than just this, and 226 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: God like it felt very unfinished, that I needed to 227 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: be staying on this earth. Then of course, you know, 228 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: now they'll be see but you know, I just tell God, 229 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: I just I knew that I had to survive and 230 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to no matter whatever the situation was. You know, 231 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: I said that. I was like, it doesn't matter what 232 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: beck And is going on, I'm gonna I gotta roll 233 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: through this, you know. And like I said, at the beginning, 234 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: it was just to survive because it took a couple 235 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: of weeks to get really stabilized, right you know, So 236 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: that was. 237 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 2: Any was it anything? Was there anything at that moment 238 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 2: that you realized and you looked at it as a 239 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 2: target or a goal you wanted to hit, and you said, 240 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: I'm not only gonna survive, but I'm going to thrive. 241 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: No, the first goal in the very beginning is to survive, 242 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: right if they Once I was stable, then you established 243 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: another goal. That was where we had to learn about rehab. 244 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: Yet it was to breathe. So just to do this, 245 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: just to breathe, just to breathe. That was the next goal. 246 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: That was the goal, even to go to rehab, to 247 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: get off the ventilator, because at that time, after a 248 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: couple of weeks, they said I would never breathe again. 249 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: So they took the tube, which is called intubation, and 250 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: they put it in your throat. They could make a 251 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: cut in your throat, called it tracheotomy. So now the 252 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: tube is in your throat, in the machine which is 253 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: life support, is breathing for you. That's what it is. 254 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: And so the goal, what's the breathe? 255 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so first of all you got a goal 256 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 2: to breathe. Now when the hell throughout that whole time 257 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 2: to breed, you decided I'm going to start a company. 258 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 2: Why would you do that? 259 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: Well, I've always had a dream as a child though. 260 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: Oh my old clothing brand m You know, I used 261 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: to wear my shirt inside out that visualized my name 262 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: spelled backwards. 263 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 2: You know, I'm saying I R E. 264 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: Which is interesting because that's what's in the trademark of 265 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: Inspired is actually, you know, uh, my name backwards and 266 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: the P is a backwards C. So I dont blows 267 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: your mind. And I was like, wow, I've always had 268 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: that that dream, you know, hip pop, the culture of 269 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: hip hop everything, and I just wanted to have my 270 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: old clothing brands. So while I'm laying at the hospital, 271 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: I'm not like, oh, I got on there because I 272 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: got this and this to do. But I did have 273 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: some type of goal. I just said no what that 274 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: goal was. And also I didn't realize like I would 275 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: be mentoring people ever camp. I didn't even know it 276 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: was considered mentoring. But it wasn't until I came home 277 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: March twentieth ninety eight when SSI or SSDI and there 278 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, and now I'm talking because I'm off 279 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: the ventile. Later, because I accomplished that goal, where's my 280 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: business mentor or like somebody is going to help me 281 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: be self sufficient? Then basically like this system at that's 282 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: I was just like, well, you don't you just kind 283 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: of just stay home and and I'm like no, no, no, 284 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: that's like that's not going to work with me. Like 285 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: I need to figure out how to create something because 286 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: now I want to get back to like I want 287 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: to have a family, or like I want to be 288 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: able to be self sufficient and grow and and things 289 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: like that. And it was like employment side, it wasn't 290 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: really happening with disabilities. It started getting deployed, so it 291 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: was like it also based on like my lifestyle. It 292 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: basically became like you know, a business owner. You know, 293 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: I started learning like what it was like to be 294 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: a business owner. Not to mention when I started hiring 295 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: my own caregivers. Because Medicare and Medicaid a disability network 296 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: set up self determination for me, I became a business 297 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: owner like almost overnight too, like about a month, I 298 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: was now a business owner, managing people for my care, 299 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: doing schedules, do it type sheets everything. 300 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 2: Well, that's that's interesting, right because everybody here who's listening, 301 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: whether they're parents themselves or whoever. Right, I never thought 302 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 2: of it like that. You have to actually consider you 303 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 2: are the business if you are hiring caregivers. 304 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, right now I'm running two businesses, Simon sate. I 305 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: have the business of my life because I even ready 306 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: for our care like I you know, you have to 307 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: constantly make sure that someone's coming in and somewhat, you know, 308 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,360 Speaker 1: running a business, you know what it is, no, no, no, no, 309 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: but hold on. 310 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 2: But but this is crucial because whether you are in 311 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: your situation, you're an everyday person. People don't think of 312 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 2: themselves as whether they're right, they're health, their personal finance, 313 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 2: how they're managing their home and or their business. They 314 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 2: think about, well, going to work on this business that 315 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 2: I'm investing, and I'm going to work on you know, 316 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: this business that I work at. But I think, isn't 317 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 2: isn't that a way to think about how that moment 318 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 2: when you realize that you're personally a business. Your time, 319 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 2: your time with your family, your help, what time you 320 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 2: need to get up and get into that chair. You 321 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 2: need to start at six, so you're hitting you know, 322 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 2: as you know you're hitting you know, your work in 323 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 2: nine fifteen, you have, know people coming in and out 324 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 2: of your house, or how are you utilizing whatever you 325 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 2: have in your home or your community. I think that's important. 326 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 2: I got a random question. I remember talking to a 327 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 2: friend of mine who happened to be incarcerated for a 328 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 2: long period of time, and he had a woman that 329 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 2: he married or not married. He was dating, you know 330 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: the new dating, you know, basically communicating for so long 331 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 2: and then he ended up I think marrying something like that, 332 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 2: and she got, you know, got to visit him in 333 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 2: jail and you know, he got certain privileges obviously that 334 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 2: you know, for his human needs as well as compassion. 335 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 2: And then he divorced her. I asked him why would 336 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 2: you divorce her? And he said, I'm doing life in prison, 337 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 2: a double life. And she kept calling me with her 338 00:18:54,480 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 2: damn problems. So who the hell calls somebody with double 339 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 2: life with their problems? Right? And he said, I couldn't 340 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 2: take their problem, you know, her problem, so I decided 341 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 2: to go on my own. He's in jail. Now do 342 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 2: people tell you their problem? 343 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 1: Ah the time? What? And so? 344 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 2: What is a person? Do you ever look at them 345 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 2: and say, uh, I can't help you? Why because I 346 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 2: physically can't help you, you know, or I mentally can't 347 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: help your or what the hell is your problem? And 348 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 2: they're like, well, I just told you my damn. 349 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: Problem, yeah, you know with you. 350 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 2: Wait? Wait, also, do people try to borrow money from you? 351 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, because they see the social media, they see you. 352 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm around, they see I'm thinking like like I'm thinking 353 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: like do you know how much I'm struggling. 354 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: I don't find it funny very. 355 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: Years to try it and have a person with the 356 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: disability work without penalty, Like do you realize. 357 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 2: That, like I mean, I mean, how to what extent 358 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 2: do they tell you the problem? They'd be like, yo, yo, 359 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: do me paper? Can you help me lift this? 360 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: I get what? Oh when I heard that, every think 361 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: I've heard they you know, like that's like the dice 362 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: to have this thing like people say this. You just 363 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: wouldn't believe like I have people like, uh, could you 364 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: slide over so I could sit down my legs? And 365 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: I said, just a random person. I'll probably this is 366 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: a random person. 367 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 2: I'll man, your chair. You're joking. They were they were 368 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 2: joking right. 369 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 1: No, they're not joking. Would they be like, man, you 370 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: got the best seat? 371 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 2: Well, I don't you know that that's adding levity, you know, 372 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 2: because I know the top of the you're in on 373 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 2: the joke or somebody see you know you sent me 374 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 2: some really really bad dead jokes, but you telling me that. 375 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 2: Some be like, yo, man, do you slide over for 376 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 2: a second? 377 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, like you slide over because you know my license 378 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: that I'm like, like, you look like it's like it's 379 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: I'm sitting like a luxury or something. No, this isn't 380 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: like this is another thing too. Anytime two people will 381 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: wheelchair like they're like, say, it's like the grocery aisle 382 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: or we're beating up somewhere. It does not ever go 383 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: like somebody is like, oh, shoot to be a race 384 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: and you give you guys a speedy ticket. I'm thinking 385 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: like rock like every every. 386 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 2: Time, so you can't listen. Sometimes I'm it's a really 387 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 2: really big room and and you know they're not as 388 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 2: mid African Americans and that. Now, there are two ways 389 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 2: to address it. It's either some for some reason, you know, 390 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 2: they kind of stay away from each other. They're like, 391 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 2: don't let's not act like we all know each other, 392 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 2: you know, And I'm like, no, let's act like we 393 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 2: know each other. We need more in the room. So 394 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 2: are you around and see somebody that we'll say like, 395 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: don't say don't say none to me, homie, don't don't 396 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 2: say none to me. You know, I mean we we 397 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 2: no nobody sees the yeah, uh no. 398 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: Sometimes we could do that. It just depends out of 399 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: the situation. But other times you might get the ones 400 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: that are like, hey, out the wheelchair guy, but you're 401 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: doing here, which whip tread out the I'm the one 402 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: that said this party, I'm the one that's you. 403 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 2: Know hey or do you know, like are your are are? 404 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 4: So? 405 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 2: I mean, well, why don't you guys just start becoming 406 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 2: haters and just take up the take up the supermarket aisle. 407 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 2: Just two of you guys. And then somebody who comes 408 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 2: with a car. You know, they got a big book 409 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 2: card and but yeah, what's your problem? 410 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: Man? 411 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 2: Aren't you going around? You see no room around here? 412 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 2: Oh with iron leg that sure is nice? Do you 413 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: able to do that? 414 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 1: Its you have to feel the person out that you're 415 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: bumping into, cause it's a person that you don't know, 416 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: maybe right, but yeah, oh yeah, especially parking accessible parking 417 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Yeah, oh yeah man, and people 418 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: parking that that's like VIP right there, that's VIP without 419 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: you know, the person going to part the car for them. 420 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: Oh it just you just made me think of this 421 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: is a moment in time. This person came into the 422 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: shop and wanted to get some graphic work done. Gay, 423 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: he wanted to do some log care. All right, okay, 424 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: we were about to leave. He held the door for me, 425 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: came out. He was like, I held the door for you. 426 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: Do I get a discount? Do I get a disc 427 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 1: And even like then he said, you can't move anything. 428 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: And I said, no, I'm pair of less than a count. 429 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: He said, oh that sucks, like what is wrong with you? 430 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: And then of course he was his truck. You know, 431 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: he had this this pickup truck was completely painted in 432 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: the back window. So it all kind of made sense 433 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: a little bit. 434 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's let's go onto that though. I'm thank 435 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: you for being, you know, having the levity to to 436 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 2: let people to know that no matter where you're at 437 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: a lane, no matter out bad and you think you're doing, 438 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: somebody will thinks that they got a problem worse than yours. Right, 439 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 2: But let's go on. So your shop, you have a shop, 440 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,959 Speaker 2: so you don't only do inspire right, because you do 441 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 2: awareness by design all right, or see awareness. It is 442 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 2: what's called easy awareness by design. So you not only 443 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 2: do it yourself, you know, for your your brand, but 444 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 2: you do it for other people. And you know, where 445 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 2: where do you think if right now? Because a lot 446 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 2: of people don't have goals, and your goals will of 447 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 2: course be lofty because of obviously you have bigger hurdles 448 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 2: than anybody has, but you don't have to be heard 449 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: of thing crazy. Where are your goals right now? How? 450 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 2: Do you stay focused on them? And how can people 451 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 2: love from you? Because I want to I want to 452 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: bring them one other point about this when you when 453 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 2: when COVID came around, I was checking on you, and 454 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: because I obviously you have already challenges of breathing due 455 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 2: to that's it right, you were bedridden. You were in 456 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 2: the bed with swords on your body. You didn't get 457 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 2: out of the bed right around COVID. I believe how 458 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 2: long were you? 459 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: How long were. 460 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 2: You in bed that you could not physically get out 461 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 2: of the bed with the alteration From March first to 462 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 2: twenty eighteen to December twentieth of two thousand nineteen was 463 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 2: eight hundred plus days. You were literally in the bed 464 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 2: in your home, eight hundred days separated. 465 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: Remember when I got up like a year and a 466 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: half later for three weeks, and then I relapsed and 467 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: I was out for nineteen more weeks. You know. The 468 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: only time that I was getting up was go to 469 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: Eurologist to get my tube change, which was every two weeks, 470 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: and they go to the boot care center so that 471 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: they could cut and you sizzle me like a like 472 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: a steak man. I'm telling you, man, they sizzled my 473 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: they sizzled my butt. Man like a steak would come 474 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: in and say, is Eric came here? 475 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 2: Like mad? 476 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: Oh so much? Eight I was bite ow that fellow. 477 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: I literally was biting out of that building. 478 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 2: So so when you when you did when the moments 479 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 2: out of the eight hundreds, so basically three years net 480 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 2: or you know, two two and a half years literally 481 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 2: physically in the bed and that the only time he 482 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 2: got up was to go and get some painful thing 483 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 2: done to you. I know that you've been moving around bits. 484 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 2: So oh by the way, I connected you with ten 485 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 2: X Gary Brent, and I believe and I believe Grant 486 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: Card doone right and uh he uh he donated a 487 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 2: lot of his time and a lot of uh medicine 488 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 2: and technology to you because I was telling him about 489 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 2: your bed sores and and and shot. He doesn't get 490 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 2: the credit that he deserves for this. 491 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, actually you know beating Gary, uh you know arcidential 492 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 7: meet up when he heard about when I was in 493 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 7: bed rest before because I was already healed, but he 494 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 7: was trying to figure out what caused it. 495 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: We worked on like I mean like we coordinated with 496 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: my doctor and stuff, and we did a full blood 497 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: like panel, a full panel of everything. Come to find out, 498 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: my testosterol was like dangerously low h. So we were 499 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 1: able to have that information and be able to work 500 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 1: with my doctor and actually get me on you know, 501 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: testosterone therapy and stuff, and actually I was able to 502 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: bring the numbers up, you know, from that. There's a 503 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: lot of things that I've learned through him with through deficiency, 504 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: you know, lots of you know, lack of boxy. There's 505 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: so much stuff that. 506 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 2: You now, you never you have almost never called me. 507 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,400 Speaker 2: And I remember, listen, I threw you off the Shark tank. 508 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 2: You had a good time, right you. Clare Gabs came 509 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 2: out and you know, we got some video that you 510 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 2: spinning around and doing some wheelies on the shark tank set. 511 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 2: We were all inspired by you, of course, and Cuban 512 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 2: and all of us. But you never, you never called 513 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 2: me for anything at all. Zero And the only thing 514 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 2: you had called me for, say, hey, I can't get 515 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 2: a hold of the I mean Gary reck of that 516 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 2: you're check him out on that I see you with 517 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 2: and I hit him up in grank cardolla and I 518 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 2: know that they they took care of you. So I 519 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 2: want to make sure the acknowledge that because a lot 520 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 2: of people don't know about the great work that Gary 521 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,479 Speaker 2: has done and is doing. You work with your doctors 522 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 2: and be healthy. 523 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: Right he still does. I mean we still communicate. I 524 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 1: his text him a couple of days ago about this 525 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: air quality, the PM two point fives they were dealing 526 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: with right now. I mean, like Gary's very intelligent when 527 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: it comes to the understanding of your body with the 528 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: violation and stuff is he is able to explain that 529 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: process very well. Like the oil refinery you try, you know, 530 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: you bring oil up out the ground and it turns 531 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: into you know, feel there's a process. Well, our body 532 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,479 Speaker 1: does that same stuff and a lot of times, you know, 533 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: like everything is the lack of oxygen is you know, 534 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: it's that That's how it is. And if you start 535 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: to find out that you don't have this problem, you 536 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: have a deficiency problem. And that's where like like I said, 537 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: I got some some medica, some pills and stuff like that. 538 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: So it's it's helped out tremendously. So I mean, it's 539 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: it's just a great person to have and and I 540 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: just I really really appreciate it. This team and stuff 541 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: is there. They've been nothing but amazing, and you know, 542 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: I want to make it so. So yeah, absolutely, I 543 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: didn't want to turn this. 544 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 2: Into a ten X uh you know, Tennex held Gary 545 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: Brecca grand Card on commercial. But you know what, you know, 546 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 2: it's easy to talk about a lot of people out 547 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 2: there in the world and people like to hear that. 548 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 2: But when we you know, give you know, acknowledgement to 549 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: somebody like that who took care of you out of 550 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 2: just a phone call for free, still on the phone 551 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 2: with you, help change you know, and and and in 552 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 2: your life in a positive way, has not told anybody 553 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 2: about it. I think it needs acknowledged. So now let's 554 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: go over. Let's go over to the point that I 555 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 2: wanted every way to take away from here is how 556 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 2: do you set long term goals now? And how do 557 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 2: you find the power to do so? Because you know, 558 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 2: I just touched on little things like you being bed 559 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 2: rest almost three years right straight from you know, besides 560 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 2: a couple of two or three weeks here paralyzed und 561 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 2: the waist down right, the Senate, You've talked in the 562 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 2: next down seating, You've talked to everybody from the Senate 563 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 2: on and a lot of these rolled and regulations not 564 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 2: changing in the country. You know you obviously you went 565 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 2: through COVID just like all of us. If that thing 566 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: got anywhere near you, you were done, one hundred percent 567 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 2: done right, And that was COVID hit right after you 568 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 2: were in the bed eight hundred and something days straight. 569 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 2: Now you've got to be locked up. 570 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: In the house. I know, Ben, we just got the band. 571 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 2: How to hell do you set goals? And how do 572 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: people right now who are listening to this, who are 573 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 2: obviously going to a very challenging times we all are 574 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 2: what do you do to stay called the sum of 575 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 2: these goals? 576 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: Well, well, first we got to talk about how did 577 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: I learn how to actually set goals right? Because I 578 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: would have goals, but I didn't write them. Die didn't like, 579 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: I didn't create the target. And that's not until like 580 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: I started helping you with your book campaigns. I was 581 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: learning like all this campaign stuff how to do with 582 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: book campaigns. And then the different things that we were 583 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: learning with you with the academy is there's a lot 584 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: of things that I learned, Like what you were teaching 585 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: at which you were, you know, was was you know big, 586 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: you know, you were very strict on goals, you know, 587 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: write it out your six months goals. 588 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 2: Going in your back having I still am some very 589 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 2: strict on me. I probably need to listen to myself 590 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 2: a little bit more that Yeah, I do. I read 591 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 2: them every night. But and you know, people could follow 592 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: up one my goal setting techniques. But you know what, honestly, 593 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 2: I slip for a week sometimes or whatever, but I 594 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 2: get back on it. Mm hmm. Okay. 595 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: But it's the main thing that what you just said 596 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: just now to your audience is that I do slip. 597 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: That you are not like so because people try to 598 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: a lot of times when people are out there teaching 599 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: that type of stuff, they take it word for word. 600 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: They don't realize that, yes, you can have a good 601 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: day or a better day, you know, and they yeah, 602 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: you're made a slipped the major goals. That's time you 603 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: might not have read up for the whole week. But 604 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: you know, because you're accountable for your own self that 605 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: you go back and you say, but I am, you know, 606 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: I make my six months goals, my health goals. 607 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 2: Well, I gotta tell you something else to use it 608 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 2: for us. I gotta sell something you brought to minor. 609 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 2: You know, when I don't feel my goals in time, 610 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 2: I get this anxiety in me about I don't feel 611 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 2: in this way or actually, let's say and actually a 612 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 2: lot of my goals expired July fourth, So maybe that's 613 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 2: why I've been so intense the last couple of days, 614 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 2: going why am I uncomfortable right now? And I think 615 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 2: that what those goals do, especially when you slip, it 616 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 2: almost makes you say, damn, you know what. I'm so 617 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 2: much more effected when I'm reading those goals. Let me 618 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 2: get back to it. It's almost like that warm bed 619 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 2: you have and chirps are traveling or whatever the case is, 620 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 2: and you get back to the one bait you God, damn, 621 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 2: I missed this bed, you know. And I think that 622 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 2: do you ever feel that way sometimes? Because I think 623 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 2: of that time. 624 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: To go it's the bed. But but yeah, yeah, you know, 625 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like, oh man, I just 626 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: spend like an hour to doing nothing where I hear like, Eric, 627 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: you want to get out, Eric, you want this inspier store? 628 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: What are you doing? 629 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 2: Like? 630 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: You know, if you're serious about it. The other thing, too, 631 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: is when goals are life changing, you'll do whatever yo yo, well. 632 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 2: You know, but anyway, don't don't castual on over that. 633 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 2: You just casually said that, because then I think that 634 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 2: you know, you're talking to me and I'm watching you. Yeah, 635 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 2: we're watching each other. You're taking the breaths, right, You're 636 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,959 Speaker 2: like goals of life, Shay, goals are life changing, you said, 637 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 2: and you just says, don't take that. What you just say, 638 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,360 Speaker 2: get with their life changing. You do whatever, You'll do 639 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 2: whatever you'll I mean, you'll think you'll sleep while you're 640 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 2: eating everything. You're going to be. 641 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: You know, you want to get that that accomplished when 642 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: they came to the van. That's a life changing thing 643 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 1: to get that goal. 644 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 2: But you get for you to get a van to 645 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 2: get that man, and you will do whatever. 646 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,800 Speaker 1: We had a support system, you know, thank you everyone 647 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 1: that helped out with Yeah, that was the goal that 648 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,760 Speaker 1: we were able to establish those goals. 649 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 2: So right now people have goals. They're driving in the car. Now, 650 00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 2: they're on the subway, in the officer on the tread 651 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 2: no whatever, so they're walking whatever. They're home right and 652 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 2: damon on, I'm they're not here to listen to me 653 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 2: at the moment. They're here to listen to me, extract 654 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 2: whatever I can to learn from you. How do what 655 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,479 Speaker 2: do people do right now who want to accomplish such 656 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 2: big things and they feel that they have and they 657 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 2: do have. Whatever their limitations are, what do you say 658 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 2: to them? What is your mind that? And if they 659 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 2: don't think like this, what do you think is going 660 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 2: to happen? So tell me what they should think and 661 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,879 Speaker 2: things that you use to help you well. 662 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: First, one of the things I always say, don't say can't. 663 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: Always say how. When you say can't, you have assassinated 664 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 1: your own dream and your goals self. You have self 665 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: sabotaged yourself when you say how, how is an open 666 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: building block that happens when you stay when you're awake, 667 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:48,839 Speaker 1: and that. 668 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 2: Is to build on that, to build on that. As 669 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 2: Napoleon en balance of other people said, even if you 670 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 2: say there's no way that I will let people hold 671 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 2: me back in your goal, you're reading it. Your subconscious 672 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 2: mind also picks up hold me back. So even if 673 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 2: you said, people say it can't be done, but I 674 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 2: will do it, I want people to pick that up 675 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 2: right because it's almost as though, you know, we describe 676 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 2: if you if you're driving a car and you're spinning 677 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 2: out of control a racer when they say, don't look 678 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 2: at the wall. You keep looking at the wall. To 679 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 2: turn away, You're going to go towards the wall, they say, 680 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 2: turned all the ways. So as you read or as 681 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 2: you listen to your goals, it is how can I 682 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 2: accomplish the words accomplish, do succeed? Surpass? Right? 683 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,319 Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean yeah, that's the what people are trying 684 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: to figure out what to do with life. I always 685 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: tell them, tell me what, write out what your best 686 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,160 Speaker 1: day life looks like? What's your best day look like? 687 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,879 Speaker 1: Where would it be? What would you be working? What's 688 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 1: your career? What would you be eating? What would you 689 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: be draking? What invire a man? When it's think outside 690 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:09,920 Speaker 1: the box. I don't care if you think that you're 691 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: some float on in the sky somewhere. We'd start making that. 692 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: Write that all out and it's a working document. And 693 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: then now let you know what your best day in 694 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: your whole life looks like. Make it happen. How can 695 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 1: you make that happen? 696 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 2: Can we dig deeper into that? Because about if my 697 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 2: if my best day was, if my best day was, 698 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,000 Speaker 2: you know, I tell her where this story. I love 699 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 2: the I love this restaurant. I just goes they made 700 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 2: the most amazing tickle wings. I go in. Then I 701 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,880 Speaker 2: decided to invest in the restaurant. Before I know what, 702 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 2: I'm dealing with the people who don't want to show 703 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,479 Speaker 2: up to work. I'm dealing with perishable good I'm dealing 704 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 2: with a bunch of crowd. I'm like, you know what, 705 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 2: be careful what you asked for. I just wanted the 706 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 2: damn chicken wings, and now I gotta do all this. 707 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 2: So when day, look at what your best day looks like. 708 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 2: You know, often even as kids, they want to say, hey, 709 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 2: I want to be a I want to be a 710 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 2: horse racer. And if a teacher says that we've learned 711 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 2: from my teacher, gro okay, well let me lay out 712 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 2: all the things you need to do during the week. 713 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 2: You gotta shoe the horse, and you gotta you know, 714 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 2: you know whatever, you know, clean up their crab, you 715 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 2: gotta exercise, you gotta do this, and then well, you know, 716 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 2: kids like, uh, I ain't gonna do that. Uh you know. 717 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,279 Speaker 2: So so when you write out that best day, don't 718 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 2: ride out the accomplishment of how you just got that 719 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,320 Speaker 2: cheese the end of the maze. Rite out the maize 720 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 2: going through that day. To make sure that that's the 721 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 2: day you want. 722 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, because well that's what brings up a good point 723 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: to accomplishing goal. A lot of people just like to 724 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 1: ride out and say they want something. It's kind of 725 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,840 Speaker 1: like you know when someone when they talk about winning 726 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: the lottery, they'll be like, man, if I get that, 727 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, I win that lottery, I'm gonna I'm gonna 728 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 1: do this. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this. 729 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,239 Speaker 1: You're like, well, well numbers since you play, They're like, oh, 730 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 1: I don't play the lottery. Yeah, thinking about it, you 731 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like people like to talk about stuff. 732 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,920 Speaker 1: They talk, but they don't the action doesn't happen. And 733 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,000 Speaker 1: you know, when something is really going to change, you 734 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 1: were going to try. You're gonna do whatever you can't 735 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: to try and climb that mountain to the top so 736 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: that you can stream at the world and say I 737 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 1: did it, and then you're gonna go, oh, what's the 738 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 1: next goal? You know, like that's the thing. You know, 739 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: that's what it feels like when you get there. We 740 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: got that van that day was amazing. When we recorded it, 741 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,520 Speaker 1: everything worked out so beautiful. We weren't there in person, man, 742 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 1: which it was so so life changing and being able 743 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: to have that moment with my family, both of my dad's, 744 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 1: both of my moms, You and George and it was 745 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: just like man like, it was so written and it 746 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:37,840 Speaker 1: was inspire Friday. 747 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all funny, you know, it was beautiful. 748 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:42,160 Speaker 5: Man. 749 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 2: It is always amazing to talk to you. And I 750 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 2: think the one thing that I've taken away from you 751 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,839 Speaker 2: is and it is like you got a trademark, dish 752 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 2: or whatever, but however you put it is when you 753 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 2: when you're focused on your goals, you'll do whatever and 754 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,359 Speaker 2: you can say whatever, ba you know, in the whole way, right, 755 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,800 Speaker 2: Because I think that that is everybody can really relate 756 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,880 Speaker 2: to that and understand it because anything they've ever wanted 757 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,919 Speaker 2: to do, they've done whatever. Now we hope that they're 758 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,399 Speaker 2: they're going to apply themselves because the jails are filled 759 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 2: with people who did whatever to accomplish the goal, and 760 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,240 Speaker 2: maybe the goal with the right goal, but they didn't 761 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,399 Speaker 2: they didn't, you know, their path to accomplishing that goal 762 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 2: probably wasn't the best way and the most efficient way 763 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,719 Speaker 2: because once they got the goal, or maybe they haven't 764 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,279 Speaker 2: even got it, they ended up in the wrong place 765 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 2: for it because the whole purpose of to get to 766 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,000 Speaker 2: that goal is to enjoy it. Right. There's bank robbers, yeah, 767 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 2: who will never enjoy the money. Right. So I think 768 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 2: that that is one of the most powerful things you've 769 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 2: ever said. I'm gonna leave this and allow you to 770 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 2: close it out, but to summarize and break down what 771 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,719 Speaker 2: I've learned from you and I always do and you're 772 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 2: one of the most aspiring people. Number One. People are 773 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 2: going to ask you when you can't even move anything 774 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 2: on your body, side, your head and your neck. People 775 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,600 Speaker 2: going to ask you but help, Yeah, why to help? 776 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:06,279 Speaker 2: People ask a quadripolitic for money to move over so 777 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,440 Speaker 2: they can sit down to help carry you shit. So 778 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 2: if they're gonna add you bout do anybody E will 779 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:19,319 Speaker 2: complain about somebody asking them bazarren shit because there's some 780 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 2: sick puppies out here in the world. You know, there's 781 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,800 Speaker 2: a lot of stories I could it's a sick puppy, 782 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 2: you know what. Honestly, that's your social media thing, like 783 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,000 Speaker 2: once a week, let me tell you about somebody who 784 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 2: ask me out. 785 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:32,840 Speaker 1: You know. 786 00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 2: I think another thing is you know trials, I mean, 787 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,040 Speaker 2: you know, trials and tribulations come out of nowhere, right boom, 788 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,440 Speaker 2: you got shot. You're hanging out on steps, change your life. 789 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,000 Speaker 2: Every would put you in the circumstances. You're here of 790 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,720 Speaker 2: the twenties, six here even prior to COVID in bed 791 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 2: over eight hundred days straight, bed sores on your body, 792 00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 2: and then COVID hits, and you are still getting up 793 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 2: because you are setting goals and you have a bigger uh, 794 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,239 Speaker 2: you know, bigger vision in life. And with that kind 795 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,520 Speaker 2: of tenacity and that kind of focus, everybody can learn 796 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 2: from that. And after that, I think the most important 797 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 2: thing is that we said, you set a goal, you 798 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,920 Speaker 2: can accomplish whatever. So I'm gonna let you close it 799 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 2: out with some final thoughts and of course shout out 800 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,200 Speaker 2: to Garrett Breaker and all the healthcare people, the people 801 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 2: that take care of you every single day, the people 802 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,880 Speaker 2: that you have. Yeah, and and also something else I 803 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,080 Speaker 2: learned from you. Make sure you operate your personal life 804 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,120 Speaker 2: like a business. It is a bit. Don't take care 805 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,520 Speaker 2: everybody else's business. Take care of your business too. And 806 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,360 Speaker 2: what else you got closed aside? Ever, because you know, 807 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:41,919 Speaker 2: I hope you for ever about these things. 808 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,000 Speaker 1: You just gotta say the like and people comes up 809 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,520 Speaker 1: you can still ask me for it because one of 810 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,080 Speaker 1: the things that we do is we're making this world 811 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,200 Speaker 1: a better place. We're medsury people. So when your medsured, yeah, 812 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:57,799 Speaker 1: help people help themselves. You know. That's the thing. I 813 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,520 Speaker 1: do a lot of this stuff to advocate it. And 814 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,880 Speaker 1: the things I do is for the person of the 815 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: future that's coming. I pay homage to the people that 816 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,040 Speaker 1: did pave the way and place the path for me 817 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 1: to make my life more quality of life. So I'm 818 00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,560 Speaker 1: doing the exact same thing to the future, for the now, 819 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: for the future, and for the present. The other thing, 820 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,359 Speaker 1: too is having a real good circle of supports. Your 821 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,240 Speaker 1: support system is so crucial because that's that this helps 822 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,040 Speaker 1: with your quality of life. That you cannot be more 823 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,560 Speaker 1: thankful and grateful for your support system. You know. That's 824 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,239 Speaker 1: why I always say, you know, the gratitude toxic itis. 825 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,480 Speaker 1: I'm just having grateful for hours of the support systems. 826 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 1: That that's a big difference. You have supports, that that's 827 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,640 Speaker 1: a big difference there and everything. You know, but you 828 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,239 Speaker 1: want to live and you want to set your goals, 829 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,759 Speaker 1: you want to set your paths, then go out and 830 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,319 Speaker 1: make it happen. And if you're scared to even you know, 831 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: try something, just do it, because you don't want to 832 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,239 Speaker 1: live life when it should it could have. You know, 833 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 1: you want to just say, look, I tried it, I 834 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 1: failed that, I learned from it. Failure is great because 835 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,359 Speaker 1: it helps you grow. That's the best thing. Man. When 836 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,840 Speaker 1: you fail in some things, you're like, well, I'm not 837 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,680 Speaker 1: gonna do that again, or you pick up something else 838 00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,120 Speaker 1: and you do something else. You can't move forward without failure. 839 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen. You'll never be able to take. 840 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,640 Speaker 1: You gotta take scratches and bruises. You gotta be beat 841 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,000 Speaker 1: down and get right back up the beat down and 842 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 1: get right back of resilience. Resilience is going to get 843 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,000 Speaker 1: you to grow that you're gonna be hungry. When I 844 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 1: was laying in the bed for all those days, you 845 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,440 Speaker 1: could not imagine when I was like, when I get 846 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,759 Speaker 1: out of this bed and back in my chair, up 847 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:38,680 Speaker 1: in the pee, unstoppable. I can't wait to accomplish everything. 848 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,160 Speaker 1: Because when you're in bed, you're psychological in your mind. 849 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,840 Speaker 1: Everything is like, you know, heavy on you. You can't concentrate. 850 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 1: It's a difficult matter, but you push through it and 851 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,279 Speaker 1: here you are. And the one thing I could tell 852 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:51,839 Speaker 1: you every day is I pray. I pray every day 853 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,040 Speaker 1: in the morning. So if that's the thing you have 854 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,680 Speaker 1: to have faith. Faith has got me to where I am. 855 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,960 Speaker 1: It pushes me, it carries me. I would be nowhere 856 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 1: without it. And so and the people that shot me. 857 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:08,359 Speaker 1: I gave forgiveness. So that's the other thing you want 858 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,840 Speaker 1: to moment in time you forgive who or who shot you. 859 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,919 Speaker 1: The priest came into my room, then I said, yes, 860 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,640 Speaker 1: I couldn't speak audio, but my mouth that I was 861 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,960 Speaker 1: what I said with conviction. That's the thing. That's why 862 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,840 Speaker 1: my life is better and not bitter, because forgiveness, you know, 863 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,680 Speaker 1: record and sale and let my life. Never ever did 864 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,239 Speaker 1: I let that situation affect me. 865 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,240 Speaker 2: You know, I think that the most powerful thing about 866 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,280 Speaker 2: the that moment you gave forgiveness. There's somebody who tried, 867 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,680 Speaker 2: who could have taken your life, embarrassed other things, and 868 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,960 Speaker 2: you got shot and and and I think that that 869 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,359 Speaker 2: moment is what people will ever think about, as well 870 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,759 Speaker 2: as so many jewels that you you said in here, 871 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,920 Speaker 2: And I believe that that moment really is when somebody 872 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,760 Speaker 2: is going to hear this this, uh, this dialogue between 873 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,040 Speaker 2: you and I and say like I do because whenever 874 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:00,879 Speaker 2: I have a hard day, I think what would Eric 875 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,640 Speaker 2: Patrick Thomas do today? On what is he going through? 876 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:08,040 Speaker 2: Why the hell? Dama you even thinking about complaining? And 877 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,120 Speaker 2: I think that moment the list nobody listens to this. 878 00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,560 Speaker 2: So thank you man, Thank you for always inspiring me 879 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,600 Speaker 2: and inspiring us. Thank you for all that you do, man, 880 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 2: and I look forward to more of our conversations, and 881 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,080 Speaker 2: thank you always hitting me on the text with inspire Friday, brother, 882 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:21,799 Speaker 2: thank you. 883 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,200 Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Thank you all right, It's 884 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,320 Speaker 1: that everyone. 885 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 2: All have cheez. That Moment with Damon John is a 886 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:34,239 Speaker 2: production of the Black Effect Podcast Network. 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