WEBVTT - Live from Pull Up for Peace Conference Ft. Dr. Jamila T. Davis & Tara Wallace (I love Me More Podcast) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.840 I'm Tamika D. Mallory and it's. 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.159 Your boy my son in general. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.280 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.240 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and Inspiration. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:11.880 New Name, New Energy. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.640 So what's going on to mek A D. Malory? How 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:17.440 you feeling today? 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.840 Doing all right? At the Pull Up for Peace conference 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.320 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:33.239 Yeah, it's like, yes, you have a live ta lia. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.040 What's up y'all? This is your girl, doctor Jamelle T. Davis, 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.560 and this is Star Wallace and this is I Love 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:41.960 me More. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.560 Hey, Hey, hey, how are you girl? It's been a weekend. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.680 I can only imagine I have to ask you what 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.640 are you doing to try to stay calm and balance 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:53.360 throughout all of this? 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.560 How can you stay calm when you're doing a conference 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.200 that you never dreamed the thought that you could do before. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.440 So we live and direct at pull Up. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.960 For a Peace that is say do who did the 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:05.559 walk today? 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.840 And hold up y'all. We got a live audience. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.360 Let's give it a full love audience. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.200 That is so dope, so many young faces. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:17.080 I love that. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.880 That's right, So pull Up for Peace, y'all. It's all 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:25.040 about organizing and galvanizing people from all across the country. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.320 And y'all see I lost my voice, right. So we've 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:33.240 been dancing, we've been talking, we've been healing, we've been praying. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.160 It's been everything here. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.560 And what's so dope about this particular conference is that 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.480 it's young people, it's old the people, it's everyone. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:43.800 It's everyone in one room. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.880 I don't think I've seen that in a long time. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.160 I wish I had been here for the entire thing 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.200 to just really absorb it. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.800 Are y'all having a good time? Are y'all learning stuff? 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:54.559 That's so dope. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.800 I remember as a kid, we always had to be 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.880 in these rooms where we're learning, you know. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.040 The kids did their thing. We always had to be. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.240 In the room where the adults are leading and teaching 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.000 us things. So I think it's so dope, and I 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.840 don't think you guys should take that for granted. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.200 That's right. So pull up for peace, y'all. Is a movement. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.520 It's a movement all across this nation to let people 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.720 know it's to put the guns down and put the 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.440 healing up. And what do we mean by healing? It 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.200 means to take care of our minds, our bodies, and 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.360 our souls and to really emerge into our greater self. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.160 So today, y'all, we got something different. Not only do 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.240 we have our podcast I Love Me More, today we're 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.679 doing a remix with tm I. So we got tm 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.280 I in the building and they doing they thing, and 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:42.640 we're gonna do our thing together. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.920 So guys, get ready for some fun. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.200 We're definitely in Atlantic City for the Pull Up for 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.240 Peace conference, which has been nothing short of amazing. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:52.880 It's crazy. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.799 I never thought I would be at a conference like this, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.440 Like I've been to so many different conferences, but when 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.560 you put these type of credible messages and you put 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.680 this type of energy in this type of love in 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.280 the building, it's just way different. So I just want 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.720 to shout all of the organizers of this amazing conference 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.160 out for doing a great job. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.120 It has been really, really beautiful to see all of 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.480 us come together for something so impactful. I don't think 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.280 anyone or that we can depend on anyone to do 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.799 this type of work for us and for our communities. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.600 And I often hear, you know, people, when we're talking 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.880 about the political dynamics of America. People will say, well, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.080 we have to just figure out ways to do for 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.520 our own, you know, and we know that right like, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.320 because we understand that no matter who's in white in 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.120 the White House, the state House, the city house, or 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.720 any level of government, they're never going to be as 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.400 invested in our communities as we are on the ground. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.160 And I think that this conference is an example of that, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.400 of us pulling ourselves together to figure out what are 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.440 the strategies, and more importantly, meeting people from across the country. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.720 I was talking to a woman in the hallway yesterday 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.000 and I asked her, you know, what has been the 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.320 best part of this conference, and she said that I 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.600 get to meet other people who are doing what I'm doing, 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.160 who may be feeling the stress that I feel or 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.200 you know, and it's not always stressed, because she made 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.320 sure to tell me it's not all bad days. But 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.920 it feels good to have other folks that I can say, Hey, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.760 what about your experience in this area? She said, you know, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.760 I've been sharing with so many people. I have new friends, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.359 I have new collaborators, new thought partners, which is important. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.520 And I thought that was it has to be exactly 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.320 what this conference was designed to do, to bring people 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.919 together so that they can feel stronger and so that 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.920 they can feel like they have a network of other 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.320 people across the country who are striving for the same goals. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.240 We are the remedy Tamika. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.880 I watched you guys help to organize Target boycott, and 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:07.440 we saw with our own eyes how quickly stocks plummeted. Right, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.480 So with this conference, we see and know that if 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:18.239 we galvanize, stocks can go up. But it's our stocks. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.440 We must invest in us. And too often we are 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:28.559 divided because we're taught only one organization can shine, only 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.200 one queen could be in the building. But when we 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.320 come together, nothing is impossible. Nothing is and we need 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.600 each other's resources. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:39.159 Right. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.800 You might have one thing, but I got the other, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.080 and you struggling waiting on your one thing. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.120 But if I got the other, we could put that 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.760 together and we could go. Chinese people come together, the Vietnam. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.040 The Vietnamese people come together and get nails laws across 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.799 the country and all these things. Why not the violence, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:03.240 the people that are stopping by community orgs? Why not 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:08.000 we come together while we waiting for the White House 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.800 to fund us. Now we need their resources, so we 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.960 want them, right, But if they say no. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.680 What do we do? 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.360 I still want to be able to say, yes, yeah, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.240 we can't stop just because you know, as people change 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.680 face in different positions, different positions of power. When they 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.159 change faces, then all of a sudden, our communities are 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:30.360 no longer able. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.160 To move forward Shample. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.880 And that has never been our reality. We've always been 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.080 a resourceful people. And when you think about all these 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.719 young people who are here today, you know, I think 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.839 that's what we want to teach, right. We want you 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.800 all to be able to see that there are people 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.320 in our communities who actually care and we're coming together 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.600 with solutions for the issues that you're dealing with and 0:06:55.640 --> 0:07:00.000 not pointing fingers at other people. Yes, though, we are 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.560 are going to make sure that we advocate for ourselves 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.760 because the resources that we want from the government, the 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:12.000 resources that we demand from people who are in positions 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.640 of influence and power and corporations and all of that, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.600 that is our money. It is our money. It is 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.840 our tax dollars that we're asking. We're not begging anyone. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.200 If you ever hear people say, oh, they're just looking 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.320 for a handout, no, we're looking for our tax dollars 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.680 to circulate back into our communities to address the concerns 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.960 like we're putting money in the government. When you pay 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.840 your taxes on your job. How many of you have 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.640 a job. You have a job and you see little 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.880 taxes come out your check, right, and it kind of hurts, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.920 doesn't it. It's like over here the grown people are like, yeah, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.000 the young people might not really pay too close of attention, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.360 but those little taxes, that's serious, right, Like you've given 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.760 somebody your money, So when you put your money out 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.600 into the world. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.280 You want to see that. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.960 Because the whole point of them collecting taxes is that 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.200 they're supposed to be taking care of. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:07.880 The needs of the people. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.520 But it seems that when it comes to the needs 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.640 of black folks and brown folks and underserved communities, we 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.080 are always the last ones to get back the resources 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.400 that we need. Our communities don't look like the communities 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.760 where the rich people live. And guess what, they don't 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.120 pay as much tax They don't pay as many taxes 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:29.760 as we do. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.640 Isn't that crazy? Oh no, because the system is designed 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.440 for them to win. So now this new system that 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.400 we're going to create is designed for us to win, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:41.679 and it starts. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.280 With you, young people. I've dedicated my. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.720 Life now to teaching financial literacy to teens. We gotta 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.920 start with y'all. Y'all gotta understand and know what credit is. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.079 Y'all gotta understand and know what budgeting is. You gotta 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.319 understand how to use your money and make your money grow. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.000 You cannot wait for a handout because the handout might 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.679 not be available to you, right, So you got to 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.560 know how to make your money, make money. I want 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.960 to teach you god side hussuits. I want to teach 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.000 you guys how to flip money, how to take but 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.440 we ain't gonna do it like they do it on 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.920 the block. We ain't gonna buy that other stuff. We're 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.720 gonna learn how to buy merchandise, how to sell things, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.600 how to sustain yourself when others won't sustain you. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.040 So I think that's really the. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:30.120 Key, y'all, is to teach our people how to collect 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.920 and remember the susu back in the days, all that 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.440 kind of stuff our parents. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:34.719 Used to do it. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.000 Okay, y'all know you're shaking your head with the susu. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.200 We gotta figure this thing out like so explain it 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:42.880 on the susu. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.640 So the susu was we had everybody in the family 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.480 put a certain amount of money into a pot and 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.560 every week, so it's savings, so a saving and what 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:57.640 happened was one family member would get that pot every month, right, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.480 so you as it built up, it just kept going 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.839 around as long as you put the money in. And 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.680 it was like sometimes you get like five ten thousand, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.200 and but you just keep putting your same amount of 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.000 money and it would grow. The more people that put 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.440 into it, it will grow. And this is how a 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.440 lot of us was able to survive with the suits. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.079 So that was a big thing. We got to get 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:18.600 back to that. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.559 But that's literacy. Do you remember. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.640 That's so really good? 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.520 Like any end, what is what are the findings? 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:25.640 Like? 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.160 If you put into it for so long. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.520 The findings is you're saving your money. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.920 Yeah, is we spend Oftentimes we spend before we get 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.320 how many of y'all can admit. Sometimes you spend that 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.400 paycheck before that paycheck come. That's not good. So what 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.160 the SUSU does is helped you have a lump sum 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.880 so that it budgets you. It helps you the budget 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.480 and save and be able to really really get your 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:51.079 money together. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:51.959 So it's really. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.200 These banks, these banks is taking your money. They doing 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.959 the same thing and they giving you like less than 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.120 one percent of your money. So they flipping your money. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.000 You put money into the bank. That's that's what the 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.720 bank does. They take your money, they invest in stocks 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.120 and all these things, and they make billions and billions 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.079 of dollars and they give you like zero point one 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.240 percent of growth on your money. I'll be looking at 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.120 the bank, I'll be like, you had this amount of 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.520 money and it's only like forty dollars in like two years. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.680 Growing, Like what the hell is going on? It ain't 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:23.480 really nothing growing. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.240 If you're waiting on that, brother, you're gonna be waiting 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.880 for this real time exactly. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.320 So that's what I'm saying is sousu is at least 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.440 when you get that that lump summer money, you like, 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.000 oh I'm putting my money and I actually see some 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.320 level of return on it. So we got to get 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.840 back to financial literacy. And I think that's what I 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.480 love about this converse, like this, this conversation right here 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.760 is this is what we've been doing. We've been sharing. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.560 Is nobody gay keeping. It's not somebody little means. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.120 And big us. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.800 It's none of that it's us giving you our knowledge, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.960 our wisdom, our our triumphs our fails and everything so 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:04.760 that you can learn from it and growth from. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.600 I also want to say something because you know, this 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.880 just reminds me of when I went to college, and 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.320 the first thing that you do when you go to 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.080 college is almost set up for failure, Like that first 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.720 week of college when you enter the dorm room business conference, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.079 and that conference is set up for you to get 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.760 your first Discover card for you get your first credit card, 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.160 and it's so easy to get that, but there's not 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.440 one class on how to manage that card, how to 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.200 use this card to build your credit. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.560 So by the time you get to that five hundred dollars, 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:28.920 you have. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.440 The first negative thing on your credit report, on top 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.400 of these student loans that you're taking out that you 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:34.560 think are going to take. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.160 Care of themselves that don't go anywhere. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.119 So I think this is so important because it's financial 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.439 literacy is the tool that unless you're taking finance, there's 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.520 no where to talk about finances and how to manage that. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.240 You think they're just going to make the money and 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.360 pay it off, and that's not how it works. Like 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.840 you're set up for failure, even in the institutions that 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.640 are that are designed for success. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.439 You know what, this is such a good conversation because 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.840 when you think about pull Up for Peace, you think 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.640 of a conference that is designed to bring together the 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.600 community that's working to curve violence in our communities. You 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.640 would believe that we're only going to talk about like 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:15.920 shooting and you know, different strategies to get guns off 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.040 the street. But what we have to understand is that 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:23.719 violence is a public health crisis. And if violence is 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.640 a public health crisis, that means there has to be 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.800 a public health strategy for addressing violence. And in order 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.160 to do so, you have to look at the root 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.920 causes of an issue. Right, That's what public health does. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:41.200 Whenever something is considered to be a public health crisis, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.439 there are people who study the public health issues that 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:51.239 lead to the crisis. And poverty is a number of issues. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.440 It is a number one. How many of you think 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.600 that poverty is a number one issue for problems that 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.160 you see in your community? For the young folks in 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.800 the back, are you listening to me, Yeah, there you go, poverty? 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.040 What do you think? Yeah? 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.080 What do you think? Do you think that poverty is 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.920 probably one of the biggest challenges in your community. We 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.079 would you say yeah, People are saying yes, absolutely, and. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.400 I just want to jump in here. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.600 So the goal is we have to break the thorns 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:29.800 of poverty, right, and poverty makes people desperate. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.120 People don't just want to commit crimes. Wow. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.120 People ain't just saying Hey, today I'm gonna go commit 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.880 a crime. People are saying today, I want to get 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.840 a lick. People are saying today, I want to survive. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.320 So if you look at crime, crime is generally directly 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.400 related to a financial gain. So if I teach people 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.000 how to get to the back, chances are they're not 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.160 going to get to the back the wrong way. And 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.360 for me to me, I went to jail for a 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.000 thirty million dollar bank for a case. Right, So I 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.920 learned early how to get to the bag, but I 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.040 was getting there the wrong way, and I didn't realize 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.960 when you get to the bag the wrong way, you're 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.440 throwing Brits at the penitentiary system. Okay, cause it's gonna 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.920 come get you. It's all a paper trail, they all 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.120 waiting for you. But I learned when you do it 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.960 the right way, that's how you break the bonds and 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.280 pop and you take your time. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:29.920 So my parents did it. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.000 One of the ways to do it is through education. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.040 We tell y'all to go to school, and y'all like, uhuh, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.400 But let me explain to you. When you go to 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.000 school and you get a certain degree, there's a certain 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.080 bottom line level of money that they gotta pay you. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.840 And we're not even saying, okay, just get the degree. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.680 Get the information, because some of y'all entrepreneurs. If you 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.240 have the information, you're gonna be able to make more money. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.080 Now to make that money, you gotta make that money grow. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.600 So you need to know about real. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:58.520 Estate and assets. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.400 And then my parents came from nothing and they used 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.720 real estate to make them rich. They bought property after 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.080 property after another property. My father owns like maybe fifty 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:09.920 properties now. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.520 But the thing about your family that you know. A 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:18.640 couple of weeks ago, I needed something that Jamilla couldn't 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.680 get to me physically, so she left it in her 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.040 mom's office and I went to her mother's office to 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.160 go pick up my books, right And while I was 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.160 in there, the thing that I realized is not only 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.720 because they have cornered the marketplace your family, and this 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:40.920 is you're thinking about two people, just regular folks just 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.680 like us. Yeah, regular people, regular people. And now still 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.240 at this point they're elderly and your mom is still 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.200 whatever her real estate to the company. So what they 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.280 have done is not only do they own properties, they 0:16:55.360 --> 0:17:00.200 sell properties. Right, your mom is like doing transactions selling 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:05.520 properties and renting to people while also buying properties. And 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.400 it gives you. It's like you have to They say 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:14.520 that a woman needs seven forms of incomes in order 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.960 for her to be successful, to sustain herself. We need 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.480 seven forms. So imagine they are collecting rinks. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.640 That's a lot of income. Jesus. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:26.879 I mean by how many jobs. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.680 Do you do? How about ten jobs? Actually? 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.440 But you gotta have it, so mice. That's why y'all. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.160 We're giving y'all game right now. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.399 We want you to get it from now to know 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.880 that making money it's not difficult. People make it difficult 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.760 because we see I need twenty dollars. Then you got 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.720 to get away from the twenty dollars people. But you 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.480 need to get around the people who. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.560 Talking about something. And I learned that too. Poverty. 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.639 How you said it's a public health is you can 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.320 it's a disease and it's o agous. Let me tell you, 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.320 I love my folks, but I don't hang around broke folks. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.720 Now broke folks. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.919 Today saying you, if you hang around five people, you're 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:03.600 gonna be the six. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.199 So if you around people like a ta meek, a 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.760 mallory of so, because y'all keep me going now, I'm like, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.200 all right, we're gonna go a little higher. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:11.879 We're gonna go. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.159 You gotta be around people doing things, and then it'll 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.359 show you that you could do it too. They're not 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.199 smarter than you, They not better than you, they're not 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:22.040 wiser than you. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.440 The difference between you and dumbest information. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:32.399 Well, it's not just information. It's not just information because 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.280 some of these people be dumb as hell and they 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.639 make a lot of money because they have discipline and 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.480 they and they are that's the epation. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.879 So the information is how to be successful. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.560 So Stephen Kobe right has the seven steps of being 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.399 an effectual successful person. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.080 But don't you see no information? 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.600 But don't you think you can have information if you 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.280 don't do anything with what you know. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.440 You're going biblical right. So faith without works. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:05.040 As void rightsibility because I can give you all the 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.080 tools that you need but if you're not going to 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.000 have that mind set and your stuff and believe you 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.680 your stuff to go apply it. 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:16.760 Then So let's talk about this real quick. Our people 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.480 perish because of lack of knowledge. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.520 So we're gonna take it to the word. So we 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.040 at the world. Let's go to the world. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:28.760 Our people perish because of what even spiritual knowledge. Right, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.040 we're working in spiritual warfare. Some of us have generational 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:32.680 curses on. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:33.720 Us and all kinds of things. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.000 Right, So if we lack the knowledge of how to 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.360 pray to break the spiritual curts, we're done. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.240 If we don't know how you can get money on 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.360 the phone, we got down. Kids are different than us. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.440 We used to really have to do real work to 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.760 get money. I didn't know you can't can get on. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.919 The phone, do a shimmy shade, do a front of 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.240 our sell a shirt, and go get to the bag. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.320