From Being Homeless and Suicidal to Being a Fulfilled Multi Millionaire I Garrain Jones DSH #369

People will run to whatever gets acknowledged and how they intentionally do and what happens to people afterwards.

There's a reason why it's called a starving artist for a reason.

And I don't think it's because people are not talented.

I think that the system is designed to do certain things to certain people.

And all of it has been run by power and money and so many things like that.

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Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to be inspired because we got Garen Jones here today.

How's it going, my man?

I'm so glad we did it.

It's been a long time in the making, man.

Yeah.

Dude, I love the fit.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

What's on the one golden thread just feels good on my body.

Golden thread?

Interesting.

One golden thread.

What's that?

Yeah, I mean, it's a name brand, my boy Jeff.

Oh, yeah, it's his company.

Talking about the necklace, what's going on there?

So I have a company called Artist Power.

The artist is the little kid who remembers, and when you can tap back into the energy, it unlocks a power.

And there's a guy on my team.

His name is Waffik, and he creates crystals.

So all of these beads are actual crystals that he put together.

And they all, it's a symbol of

authentic expression, which is a, it's it's like symbolizes my company.

That's pretty cool.

I'm kind of big on crystals.

I like crystals.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Each one has its own meaning, right?

Yep.

Yeah.

Do you believe in that sort of stuff?

I do to a certain extent, but not to the point where I put my whole life into it and I ignore myself.

There's some people they're like, you know,

this is how I see.

This is how I breathe.

I don't believe in that

because if it's anything that takes me away from myself, I don't want anything else to be a representation of that.

But what I do believe is there are certain frequencies and energies that can enhance what's already there.

And so

this is like a magnifying glass to enhance

my authentic expression.

I like that.

What are some other frequencies and energies that you've noticed that help out?

Sound,

music, dance

um just everything that i even built my whole company around was

uh

to teach people how to elevate their frequencies internally because right now we're surrounded tv

uh the news the radio

pretty much a lot of mainstream media it's low resonating frequencies so anything that i can do to contribute to humanity uh in a way that's not so blaring, hey guys, they're trying to kill you with all the frequencies.

What I'll do is just code everything that I do with a higher range of frequencies and vibration, even when it comes to

speaking big intentions inside of prayers, meditations, my retreats,

masterminds.

Any words that I say are all coded with a higher range of frequencies so that if you feel you're like there's just something about this book or there's just something about this community you're actually feeling the intention of the the frequency and vibration that was intentionally put

so that

it will be less combative when you go out there in the real world and you're just swallowed by all of this this

fast food frequency, low resonating frequencies, what they allow and condone on mainstream radio to make us

stupider, I think.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

Do you think these giant companies, these music companies, these news stations know that they're releasing low frequencies?

100%.

Yeah.

100%.

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I barely know how to play chess.

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That's why I'm good at supporting people with healing inside of their nervous system and releasing traumas of any sort because all I'm doing is matching their current life with their childhood life and seeing which one of those stick together.

Wow.

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So I 100%

am aware that these things are very very intentional.

It seems that way especially in the music industry specifically hip-hop and rap to me that's that stuff's almost demonic honestly.

Well I come I was in the music industry for 10 years.

I used to be signed to Ludacris over at DTP Def Jam as an RB artist and I saw not with Luda, but just being deep in the industry, I saw what people saw on the outside and I was behind the scenes and I saw some other stuff.

And I was like, I can see

how

your bright-eyed, bushy-tailed favorite artist

changes in such a,

for the majority of artists, in such a dark way over the next five years.

Like what happened to the person I fell in love with?

Most people are in a system, an intentional system, they don't even realize that they're in.

And a lot of that is what's condoned on the radio.

And in order for something to get played on the radio, it has to go to music programming.

It has to go, like, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

What happened to all the conscious artists?

Don't see them.

You see what I'm saying?

Yeah.

These people are not stupid.

And

my goal is just to do my part in throwing, you know, positivity and

awakeness and awokeness and awareness inside of this realm of

giving people a fighting chance to

be alive in a world where there's walking dead people that don't even realize it.

I love that because the mainstream media would never push that.

So you have an uphill battle, but your messaging is so powerful.

It's still getting to people, I think.

Yeah.

And here's the thing.

When I used to care

that

hopefully the mainstream will

see that I'm trying to do something positive,

when I used to care.

And it didn't happen, that's when I felt the most lost and I felt the most hopeless because I was like, well, maybe, you know, it can go on this platform and a million people can see it and all these different things.

And I felt so hopeless.

But then when I lost,

it's like in losing myself, I found myself because going after that type of image and that type of message,

it made me to believe that I wasn't talented because what was glorified and what was highlighted were people that were less talented than me.

But for some reason,

There was just this

people will run to whatever gets acknowledged because people work work harder for

recognition than they do for money.

And I was totally unaware during that time.

And so now,

being so removed from the music industry and so un

not removed from like a higher level of spiritual attainment and having my whole self, I was able to see the environment that I was in and what people are doing and how they do it

and how they intentionally do and what happens to people afterwards.

There's a reason why it's called a starving artist for a reason.

And I don't think it's because people are not talented.

I think that the system is designed to do certain things to certain people.

And all of it has been run by power and money and so many things like that.

So

it doesn't matter to me anymore if anything that I do musically, which I haven't done anything musically, but if anything that I do musically doesn't go mainstream, doesn't get a Grammy, none of that stuff matters.

What matters is if one person says, well, maybe I can be myself, maybe I can do something that makes me happy, that's authentic and true to me, if one person does that, it's already a Grammy for me internally.

Love that.

I love that.

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Yes.

Yeah.

And

I'm not, it's not something I'm guessing.

This is something that's a lived experience for me.

Like, what

would drive me?

to leave the music industry that I loved and I love music

The industry I did not love.

I saw and experienced personally too many things.

And some of my greatest friends, you can see somebody that has the money, the cars, the houses, the girl, I mean, everything externally

put a bullet into his brain.

Damn.

You got to ask why, not like, oh, man,

he went to drugs, he went to alcohol.

No, you got, people need to start asking why.

What was it that was happening when the truth shows up and you look in the mirror and nobody is around?

And so, when now these artists are now speaking about

you know, my mental health is not right, and people are just shutting them, shutting them down, people are now starting to speak about something that's not new.

And

yes, it's an uphill battle, but I think that

the more people start being honest and truthful

with who they are and how they really feel

i think that if more people start doing that then other people won't they'll feel less alone right and people show up in places

even if they don't believe in something but if they feel safe

even when not believing in the thing

they will continue to foster the lie.

But people people don't do what you say, they do what they see.

So if more people start speaking about mental health and they start speaking about,

you know what, I'm just not well.

I'm not putting out any music or I'm not putting out a movie.

I need to get my life together.

Then other people are like, you know what?

Me too.

So that's why it's happening.

Even on Netflix now, people are putting out these specials.

Damn, that's what they were going through when they didn't,

you know, their last album sold four or five million, and then the album after that sold 500,000.

Because all us as the society sees is, oh man, they dropped the bomb, they suck.

And then we as people don't let them hear the last of it.

Right.

Not realizing their mom could have died,

something could have happened internally,

their unborn child, and it just continues to spiral.

And there's not a lot of support on a public scale.

and so now more people are speaking about it and that makes me happy because it's less work same you know less work that i that i have to do feeling like damn is anybody else see this

yeah no that's a good point man i think social media has amplified the hate and the judgment that's the one downside of it yeah people won't say that for life Yeah, it's, it's, it, it's amplified the hate and judgment, but it's also amplified simultaneously because you, it, you can't have light without the dark and you have dark you can't have dark without the light so in the same

attunement of it amplifying the hate and the judgment and darkness it's also amplifying the light

you know and the expression and the truth right so now it's just a more amplified version of what's always been there i like that you mentioned earlier about clearing people's childhood traumas yeah how are you able to do that uh well one i had to do it for myself first.

So I don't believe in just talking about something that I don't have a lived experience.

And for me, it was a long journey.

You know,

after I left the DTP,

I was like, oh, I'll just figure it out.

I'll do it by myself.

And

what I mean by do it by myself is I'll make the music by myself.

I'll put everything out by myself.

I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to make money, have a daughter, be a father, be a human, be a leader in the world, create something of myself.

And it was difficult.

And,

you know, my pride got in the way, so it wouldn't let me get a nine to five job.

I lost money.

I lost deals.

My own ego got in the way trying to do it by myself.

So I didn't understand

how to cultivate a team and even knowledge and even acknowledge that.

So my journey that left me from being a really talented young man to

a broken down man who was $200,000 in debt, ex-convict, living in my car for two and a half years.

But meanwhile, people are seeing me saying, Yo,

I'm trying to be like you.

And I'm like, You have no idea.

I don't even want to be alive right now.

So it came to the point

November 2011 where I hit my own version of rock bottom and everybody has their own version

and I was

my window was busted out it was 343 in the morning

and it was when I just cried out you know you know I'm a

I believe in God and I you know I'm a follower of Christ and I didn't know who I was crying out to and I was just like okay

I'm tired of fighting.

I don't want to fight anymore.

I want to be healthy.

I want to be happy.

I want to be surrounded by nothing but positive people.

I just want to inspire people and I want to make a bunch of money.

And I want the money to represent something that I passionately believe in, that I would do for free.

Just show me a sign.

So that statement started the process of me

encountering a homeless man at a gas station a week later asking me for money.

And I said, you have more money than me.

And the homeless guy goes, which I feel was my angel, change your mindset, change your life.

It was those words that had me start thinking about my entire life different because your life is going to be run on the same program unless you interrupt that thought process.

So I trained myself to start doing the opposite.

So

from the look from a smaller scale.

So if I normally take

the escalators, change your mindset, change your life.

So I started doing the opposite, taking the escalators.

The stairs?

I mean, yeah, I started taking the stairs.

If I normally started

taking

using gel soap, change your mindset, change your life.

So I started using bar soap.

So I found these easy to do things where I was training myself to do the opposite in a world where humans base their whole lives around unconscious, unconscious habitat.

So this is what led me into the trauma work.

I had no idea that learning how to forgive myself and forgive other people.

I forgave the two men who murdered my father.

I let go of the resentment of

a family member who molested me when I was 13 years old, not realizing the level of energy.

Your body keeps the score.

The level of energy of hate and

not willing to forgive that I was keeping in my body, which was blocking me from the abundance frequency, which was blocking me from intimacy, which was blocking me from partnership and building thriving

relationships and even the most important relationship, the relationship to myself and God.

All of that came through the gateway of

seeking from in my past where I was holding on to judgment and resentment, resentment for my mom, my dad, my brother, teachers,

my skin color, things that have happened to me in my past.

When I learned how to let all of that go, my life

is a direct flip from where it was in the dark of the dark.

Now it's in the highest of the high in an effortless way where I can be, think, and feel my truest, most authentic self, where the money comes in,

my sexual intimacy, all of that, my relationship with my wife, my relationship with my first daughter who's 21, my now daughter who's two, and

everything in my life is a direct flip from understanding how trauma works in the body, releasing that energy, and it be filled with the love that's always been there.

Dude, this is so powerful.

And I can relate because my dad never forgave his parents.

And I saw that trauma eat at him, man, daily.

He ran away at 18, carried that trauma for 40, 45 years, and it ate at him, man.

Yeah.

And I think a lot of people have some relationship where there's some people they don't forgive.

Yeah.

And they don't even realize they're living with it in their body.

So what's the process for releasing that energy?

Oh, I'm so glad you answered that question because nobody taught me this.

It was just something while I was in my journey of

learning more about myself.

Like we can research the president you to vote for, you put all this energy in there and you got flags to be like Biden 2024 or Trump 2024 and all this.

I turned into me 2024.

I turned into me, whatever, learning how to vote for myself before I put any energy into anyone else.

And once I started researching, why am I sad about this?

Why does this make me angry?

Why do I hold on to money?

Why, why are all these things?

And if I didn't know, then it meant I was living an unconscious life.

You cannot be free when you're living in an unconscious life where you don't know why you do the things that you do.

So

all my life, I've heard the gold is at the end of the rainbow.

And I flipped it and I said, what if the gold is at the beginning of the rainbow?

Your life and the things that impacted you.

So in my own self-discovery of clearing myself and learning how to become free from the inside out.

I just, I was like, you know what?

I'm just going to start apologizing to people.

Wow.

There was a girl named Tess Hall when I was seven.

And clearly, she's not going to remember what I'm going to reach out to her about on Facebook.

So I pulled her drawstring over her head when she was wearing a hoodie and I hit her over the head with a yellow backpack.

Damn.

I was seven.

It's like little kids be doing random stuff when they're little kids.

You know what I'm saying?

So

surely she's not going to remember that.

I reached out to her and I said, Tess, you know, kids do the stupidest thing.

You probably don't remember this, but

you know, when we were little kids, I hit you in the head with a backpack.

I just wanted to apologize.

She read it and didn't respond.

And then I went on Facebook to create this whole public apology about something I'm sure she's not going to remember.

Three minutes, less than three minutes after i wrote that she said

can you please remove that i'm in tears right now whoa one why did you do that two what about me made you do that three same things is happening to my children and i don't know what to tell them damn and it was that moment i'm going to give you the practicality but i needed to give you the context on why i'm giving you this this tool that i feel everybody can benefit from is because you have no idea

what your impact, your last impression on somebody left them with.

Wow.

So what I did from there and I said, oh my goodness, what did I do?

Who did I cheat on?

Who did I break up with when I got jumped

when I was in high school?

And my goal was to write a list.

of all of those people's names that did something to me and I did something to them.

And all I want to do is apologize for my part.

Wow.

Even if they did something to me.

So I'm contacting the guy who jumped me

after 25 years.

He was like, but why are you apologizing to me?

We jumped you.

I said, because what I did to you in my head is a thousand times worse than what you did to me.

That resentment that I held.

And the resentment doesn't affect the other person.

It affects you.

It's like throwing pesticides on your future.

Wow.

So I wrote a list of 250 names from kindergarten all the way up to present date

with the intention of reaching out to people, having coffee with people, having lunch with people.

And I'm aware that there are some people that it's a dangerous situation.

You got to have discernment.

But my goal was to apologize for any level of physicality, any level of mental hate or anything.

And I just want to apologize and create the possibility for there to be a

clear space where when I think about you, all I can think about you is just living a better life and you doing well with your life.

Dude, you've inspired me to write my own list now.

Bro, let me tell you something.

Now, here, I'm going to share with how everybody, how energy works.

There's a universal order.

That's why whenever sometimes you think about, you're like,

oh,

whatever happened to Tom?

And then all of a sudden, he's like, yo, I was just thinking about you.

No, that's because you're unconsciously willing things into your life and

you're working.

You're like a magician, but don't know how to actually use the powers.

There's a universal order that when you create space, it makes room for something else.

Always.

Create space in the womb.

It makes room.

You know what I'm saying?

The baby creates space.

And then all of a sudden it makes room for what happens through the mom.

So

I would apologize to three people and I was just coming into health and wellness and all of a sudden three people will come into my business.

And I'm like, wait a second, I just apologized to three people.

I let go of resentment and now there's people coming.

So now imagine when forgiveness

is not something that I do.

It's actually a part of me.

It's a frequency that wells up inside of your channel.

Wow.

And so when I became a forgiving

kind of person, because you'll show up to the identity that you see in yourself, when I became the type of person that doesn't hold resentment, now who I am as a vessel is like, we're the most powerful magnet in the world.

So that simple step of you creating a list, you can write down 10 people.

People, you know what, I just want to call and I'm in the process of transforming my life.

And I want to apologize for, you know, holding resentment towards you during this time.

And, you know, I don't want anything to be there.

And I want to create the possibility, these specific words, of when I think of you, it's nothing but love.

You don't have to have the relationship if you don't want to, but if you want to, create that in the possibility.

It's like when you pull out the weed, plant something else.

When you do that, you will start working with the cosmos and this, in this, in this, the order of of life.

You don't have to know deep into the science.

You just got to position yourself in this ocean of emotion in a specific way where flow can actually live in your life.

Wow.

No different than the ocean.

You don't fight the ocean, but if you position yourself in a way to swim, it will seem like you're floating.

It's the exact same thing.

I love that.

Now, how tough was it to be that vulnerable with people like that?

Well,

I started

with the whole Tess Hall thing.

And when you build a habit into something, everything becomes easy.

It's easy once it turns into who you are.

So I didn't start with this really hard.

I didn't be like, you know what?

I'm going to try this thing.

I'm about to forgive the two men who murdered my father.

You worked your way up.

I worked my way up.

You don't give a baby pre-calculus who doesn't know the ABCs.

So the ABC version of that was starting with forgiving myself, letting go of the resentment.

And, you know, someone, hey,

I'm sorry I said that to you.

I just want to apologize.

You know, I shouldn't have said that.

That's on me.

And then I saw what happened

and people show up to what they feel is valuable.

And so once I started seeing that there was more value on the other side of that practice than me not having the practice at all,

There was no way I can't show up for it.

So now I don't hold any of that.

People come up to me.

They're like,

we got to have a tough conversation.

You can see the uneasiness inside of their body.

And then they talk to me, Garrett, you know, you said this in your mastermind and you promised that we would be able to do this.

And, you know,

and I was like, that's all you wanted to share?

Thank you so much for

sharing with me ways that I can better myself because you can't see the picture while you're in the frame.

It's easy for me because I've been in the practice for over a decade.

But you got to start.

The only way out is through.

Start somewhere because you don't want to be the

recipient that's on the other

end

of a life not well lived because you don't understand.

your own power and the power of how energy can actually amplify your life instead of subtract your life.

Yeah.

So you live a life with no regrets?

No.

What about fears?

I changed the word fear into opportunity.

Okay.

You know, the people who

created language,

they coded words intentionally as well.

So if you say, I hate myself, I'm ugly, I'm ugly, I'm ugly, I'm sick, I'm sick.

If you say that for one day, watch what happens to your whole physiology.

Because words have codes, which have frequencies, which have vibration.

And the original language was sound and vibration before you can even articulate a word anyways.

And so all of that is embedded inside of the word.

So I don't use the word fear.

I use the word opportunity because it has me thinking of different ways.

to create a different approach where if you hear fear, fear, I'm scared, I'm afraid.

I'm like, no, I have an opportunity to do something different.

I have an opportunity to look at something different.

It's like this.

What do you see?

Fist.

Zero.

Okay.

So you see a fist.

You didn't say you see my face.

You didn't say you see my hair and all of this other stuff in the background.

So there's more than one way to look at all the things that's showing up.

Right.

So if you look at fear as, oh, I just see a fist and don't take the opportunity to see all the other things, then you're missing out on the opportunity to approach something else from a completely different energy.

I love that.

You've got a wild story, man.

I want to dive into some of this.

I know you did some time in prison.

Yeah.

How many years were you there?

I was there for just under two and a half years.

I was serving a 12-year sentence for

unknowingly smuggling 6.2 kilos of from one country to the next.

Whoa.

Yeah.

That's extreme.

Yeah.

And mentally, what was that like on you?

I know there's somebody going to be like, what do you mean unknowingly?

Well, I was a drug runner.

Yeah.

And

it was during a time in my life where I cared more about the money and less about how I got it.

Right.

I can thank my mom for that because one time I wanted her to buy me some $130-something dollar pair of Jordans.

She was like, well, when you can make your own money, you can buy whatever you want.

Well, I just kept doing it.

Not how to make the money.

I just figured out any way I can make money.

The undisciplined life

that lacks integrity and will do anything for a piece of paper with preconceived value is a walking dead person just waiting for your life to just walking around with your own shovel digging your own early grave.

Wow.

I didn't know that.

And like I said before, you can't see the picture while you're in the frame.

So when I was in the frame of my past,

any opportunity to make money was a great opportunity for me.

So driving a vehicle and not asking what's in the vehicle

did did matter because all I was thinking about was let me find, let me get this 4,000 pounds cash.

And at that time, one pound was 2.3 US dollars.

And I'd never gotten that fast of money by driving.

And I'm modeling, I'm on billboards, I'm in magazines, and I was getting paid every three months, but I never made money that fast.

So I'm driving

Congo drums.

I get caught at the border.

Mexico?

No, no, no.

It was going from

Paris to France.

Oh, wow.

There's actually

a documentary called Locked Up Abroad on Discovery Channel right now about this story.

You're on it?

Yeah.

Yo.

Yeah, it's a whole thing.

And so I was at the border and

they were like, what's in the car?

I was like, Congo drums.

I'm a musician.

Mind you, they'd never stopped me at the border before.

Going from the UK to Rotterdam.

I'd done the route seven times.

Got it.

Eighth times I went from France, was going into the UK.

They stopped me.

First time they x-rayed, they took the Congo drums, put it through the x-rays.

There was these little bricks.

They open up the thing and they pull out these yellow bricks.

And I'm like, man,

I'm on billboards.

I'm in magazines.

My daughter daughter was just born.

All these amazing things came to fruition.

And I said, for what?

And that's when they sentenced me to 12 years in a French prison.

Jeez, you don't even speak French, right?

No.

So that must have been brutal.

In the beginning.

Yeah, in the beginning, it was brutal until this one guy.

Kept throwing food because they have this thing where you tear up the bed sheets and pass the drugs

and I wouldn't pass it.

And because I wouldn't pass it, I was interrupting whatever they were trying to pass in the sheets.

And because I wouldn't pass it, he was throwing food in my, in my cell.

He was in another block, so I never got to see him in person.

He was on another block that was above me.

So every time I would open up the little window to be outside, to look outside with the bars, food would just go in every single And I was so pissed off, but I couldn't, he didn't understand English.

So I learned fluent French so I can curse him out in French.

Wow.

And once I became fluent, one day I came out in the yard.

What is their version of the yard?

It's called Promenade.

It's where we walk out in a circle for once in an hour and then two hours.

I meant once, one hour in the morning and two hours in the afternoon.

And And then all of a sudden, they put him inside of our wing.

And I thought I would never see him.

And I hadn't seen him in a long time.

Yeah, yeah.

And this is the only fight I got into.

And as soon as I saw him, I took him right into the bathroom.

And you just heard ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

And I came out.

And they never did anything to me because he caused a lot of problems in there.

And so I basically took care of the problem.

Wow.

And nothing ever happened.

Wow.

It was,

I don't like to fight, but I also

don't tolerate like blatant disrespect.

You'll stand up for yourself.

To a certain point, I will try to use, and this was before I was aware the way that I am now.

Right.

But even in the heart of who I was, I will try to do everything that I can to not.

inflict harm.

And when I feel like there's no choice,

And at that time, I didn't know how to be a calm person when I'm angry.

And once

I let that go, it just went dark.

Wow.

Yeah.

So how did you get out so early?

That's another question.

Now knowing what I know

on how human is not the final say-so

when it comes to anything, because we're spiritual beings having a human experience.

What I understand about value creation, and I want y'all to write this down, it's called value creation.

I want you to imagine

a woman who's pregnant

and then the baby grows inside of the womb.

And once it gets too big for the womb, what once grew inside is produced outside and that's called the birth.

The baby.

I want you to imagine that prison was my womb.

It was a womb.

When I stopped being a victim

inside of prison,

there was a switch, and I was watching Shaw Shank Redemption, which is a movie that's based out of prison.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Yeah, and Tim Robbins says they can take anything they want away from me, but they can't take away my mind.

And it was something about that statement that said, well, you know what?

Well, I'm no longer in prison.

What can I do in here that I wouldn't normally do out there?

Right there, I got caught up into

the reason why I was in prison, women, money, all these other different things that I gave power to outside of me.

So something

needed to sit me down for long enough for me to ask different questions to myself or say different statements to myself.

So in losing my freedom, I discovered my freedom and I said, what does freedom mean to me?

And when I asked that question,

everything I used to love to do when I was a kid, well, what I used to love to do, I used to love to sing.

I used to love to motivate people.

I used to love to draw.

And every time I did it, it made me feel free.

And I used to love to run.

So I started doing all of those things while I was in prison.

And all of a sudden,

no one ever used to run in those circles.

Within 30 days, it went from one inmate running with me to 60-something inmates running with me.

Wow.

I saw fights.

I saw drug deals.

I saw people stabbing each other.

And in my

blind eye, I didn't see what was going on.

All I was doing is what I love to do,

which was run and

paint portraits of other people's family members and motivate people and doing all of that.

What I didn't realize was there was less stabbings,

less people

fighting each other, less drugs being passed, and there was an, and this is me connecting the dots, looking backwards.

There was an energy that came through me when I was my most authentic self, regardless of where I was.

It's so interesting

how when I felt the most free,

I discovered that when physically I was the least free.

So in losing my freedom, I discovered my freedom.

And the outside is the physical manifestation of what's going on inside.

So if internally I'm free,

I realize, and there's all these people trying to fight for freedom, the frequency of fight is actually a low resonating frequency.

Really?

But when I discovered my own internal freedom, regardless

if I was in prison or not.

They called me out of nowhere and they said, Jones, we retested the drugs.

They had no reason to retest those drugs.

They tested those drugs three times.

It was 6.2 kilos of that I was caught with smuggling drugs from one country to the next.

When I felt free, it was an embodied sense of freedom.

It was almost like there was no such thing as time, no such thing as space.

It was, I felt connected to everything, but it started internally.

They called me into the office.

They said, Jones, we retested the drugs.

90% was fake.

And for the amount that was real, you've already done the time.

You're free to go home.

Wow.

And they had no reason to retest those.

No reason.

Two and a half years into a sentence of a 12-year sentence.

They had no reason.

Wow.

But that's what, as I, and at that time, I didn't know what that was.

This is as I connect the dots looking backwards everybody has the backwards um portal of connecting the dots you just may not realize that you're rehashing the same habits where your future becomes a recreation of your past and people always say leave the past in the past not if you didn't get the lesson because if you didn't get the lesson gotta your prison

is reliving a different version of your past over and over and over.

So when I went back, I realized I had the keys to my own jail cell that I put me in long before I went into prison.

And that was the power to be my most authentically expressed self.

Wow.

The things that made me the most happy when I was a little kid, which ultimately turned into my company, artist power.

So that's what we do.

I love that.

I'm thinking of what I like to do as a kid now, and I'm going to start doing that in my daily life, man.

And notice and start journaling

what I mean, and it's very subtle.

Most people are looking for this big change.

Like, if you're in the ocean, they're looking for the big whale.

Don't look for the whale.

While people are focusing on the whale, looking for that

tiny little seahorse that's going.

The changes are very, very, very subtle.

And if you fix your mind to look for the subtle,

the ordinary sequence of events that happen

when you

start nurturing what you used to love to love to do as a child that seed is connected to something that's part of a much bigger picture a collective consciousness right 100

yeah I've been going down this rabbit hole and I really do believe in it man there's too many coincidences for it not to way too many way too many I mean so you basically think humans are in control of their destiny

i believe that they

have access to player one

and

that there is a higher intelligence and that

most humans in the world

are so far

that's a nice way of putting it so without getting

science because i always like to share things that the most common common person can practically digest so they can at least attempt to do something in this world of weapons of mass

distraction.

Most humans are suffering in the world.

This ain't just religion.

This ain't just like your skin color.

Most humans

are suffering in the world

through a lack of authentic connection with themselves.

And if they learned

how

to do simple things,

why do you think time stops when you dance?

When you just start doing arts, you're like, I don't know where time went.

Or if you have a conversation, a stimulating conversation with somebody, it's like, where'd the time go?

No, no, you've actually entered into another realm and there's more where that came from.

But if you keep, if you give your body more of that,

it's kind of like ABCs.

ABCs turn into words, turns into sentences, paragraphs, essays, books.

Most of the world haven't learned the ABCs of understanding higher level of consciousness.

So therefore, the opposite of that is suffering.

Wow.

That's D, man.

And it starts.

when we're little kids.

Yeah.

And then we go to these public schools where they teach i feel intentionally

how to get further and further away from your natural state from your natural authentic self but my two-year-old daughter

all we do is foster what's already inside of her love it not try to dictate what she does based off of what I didn't get as a little kid.

And most people are unaware.

You know, so I don't want to fault people for

being unaware because I truly do believe that, especially parents, they're doing the best they can with what they know.

But there are certain people

that are very,

very clear on their agenda,

what their intentions are, and how to dress up a short-term play, a mid-term play, a long-term play, let's say like 300 years, 200 years, even the public school system hasn't changed, but everything else has.

I wonder what happens when

most people die and go to their deathbed with less than $70

in their account.

Jeez.

I wonder where that starts.

That's a fact.

Most people die with 70 or less.

That's kind of concerning.

So

if I

wanted to plant a seed,

I would plant the seed into the kids.

I agree.

It's a shame how their innocence and their youth, their

just experience growing up is taken away from the public education system.

Yeah, and there are people, and I don't want to take that, I'm not going to say everybody, but I'm saying the system itself.

You don't change,

it's difficult to change the people.

What you do is you change the system, and the system changes the people.

You don't just change the the flower, you change the soil.

And the soil,

it's rich fertilizer.

And

the public school system, in my experience,

it's not the teachers.

The system in itself is not rich soil.

It's not rich soil.

They take music out of school.

You mean

they take the invisible invisible language that's actually one of the original language, high level of frequency and vibration out of elementary schools?

A lot of them are taking art

out of those schools.

Okay, I see.

See, I love putting puzzle pieces together.

And

so it's not downing the teachers.

It's the system that needs to upgrade.

Yeah.

So you got iPhone 1, iPhone 9, iPhone 10.

they see what's not working they see what's working iphone 11 iphone 15

and it's in a major need of an upgrade season our uh upgrade season our government the way that it's run the way that they speak to the people all the lies playing people on one another

y'all don't see these fights yeah i don't want to fight with you because you don't believe what i believe I'd like to learn from you to know what's there.

Oh, yeah.

They're always putting two sides against each other.

So blatant.

Yeah, I don't know.

People are falling for it, honestly, but there's a lot of people.

No, there's a lot of people that are.

Oh, a lot.

Yeah.

But going back to the kids real quick, there's a lot of young parents watching this show with kids.

Yeah.

What's your advice to them?

Ask them what they want.

No one ever asked me what I want.

They told me, you need to do this.

You should do this.

You should do that.

And, you know, living vicariously through other people.

And,

you know, I remember being a little kid and my mom said, and this is not doubting my mom.

She was an extraordinary, extraordinary woman.

But one time she was like, oh, don't grow your hair like that.

It's nappy.

And

those colors don't go together

when I was trying to express myself through clothes.

And I remember yelling, I said, mom.

Ask me if I love it.

And I didn't even know what I was saying.

That was me fighting for my own self-expression and my own freedom.

Adults, I feel, are deteriorated children.

And so if you're a young parent,

start

asking

what your child wants from a place of learning, not a place of dictation.

based off of what you didn't get when you were a little kid because basically people don't do what you say they'll do what they see and if you're not happy and if you didn't get to do what you wanted to do and you don't have the emotional intelligence to be able to have

certain conversations with your kids

i think more than anything start learning how to reparent yourself

and start taking emotional intelligence courses.

Somebody told me, well, the kid is too, a baby is too small.

They can't learn.

Their brains doesn't even develop by the time till they're like six or seven.

I was like, so tell me about the kid who's five years old that knows seven different languages.

They're absorbing the information.

Yeah, they may not process the whole thing, but from ages zero to seven is where you literally code everything

that most 70-year-old adults are living by right now.

Yeah, I heard it's 90% those ages.

Based off of a set of agreements and things that you learned right now.

So it's coding season for my daughter.

My daughter is speaking French right now.

She's speaking Spanish, not fluently, but it's, I know French from what I learned in prison.

So I'm sharing that.

And so she's like, bizu, you know, and throw in the femme la pot, like close the door.

She's learning all at the same time.

And when Blair and I

argue,

we make up right in front of soul.

So soul

is modeled healthy resolution.

I didn't know with that.

I just knew silence.

That's what I saw.

So when I try to resolve something, sometimes I get silent because that's what was modeled.

So now soul at two, I've seen her with her friends resolve conflict the way it's being modeled in the house.

Wow.

Yeah, because people don't do what you say.

They do what they see.

So what I would say again to young parents, that nothing speaks louder than your personal example.

What you eat, how you eat, what you say, what you don't say, how you acknowledge, what you're not acknowledging,

how you treat your partner is all being coded.

And that's the makeup.

that's going to grow the seed that your child will then turn into an entire forest based off of your own personal example.

Love that, man.

Darren, it's been a pleasure.

Anything you want to close off with or promote?

I'll start with the promotion, then I'll close out with just a quick closed-eye meditation.

Let's do it.

Some people are like, well, I don't know about this woo-woo stuff.

Hey, listen, this might be the thing that opens you up to the gateway to everything that you ever wanted in your life.

So I wouldn't be so quick to

shut down a part of yourself that most people try to numb out.

Yeah.

But I will share that

everything that I do pertains to

authentic self-expression and so that you can speak and be your truth out in the world.

I work with high-level business entrepreneurs.

I work with artists and creators.

I do a retreat called Artist Power Awakened.

And I do a high-level leadership mastermind.

And it's called Artist Power Leadership, where you learning how to speak and evoke presence and learning the range of coaching and facilitating and understanding how to facilitate energy in a very high level, whether you're speaking to people on a podcast, on TV, on stage, speaking to 50,000 people on Zoom.

It's, are you being your true and full self?

And if you're calling yourself leading anybody, they're learning from your energy.

And so if you're unaware of how to navigate that in your own self,

you could be missing out on millions, millions of dollars and hundreds and thousands of dollars or even getting something going.

For sure.

So, yeah, and in January, I have Artist Power Leadership starting.

And then we're going to close that with a retreat in Costa Rica.

So you can definitely message

me and my team.

It's an interview process, get that going.

And my next Artist power awakened retreat will be like 70 people.

Wow, um, that will be in Austin, Texas, in June.

Nice, we'll put the link in the description.

Of course, awesome.

Let's hang out this meditation.

Yep.

All right, cool.

So, if everybody out there

can close your eyes

and I want you to take a deep breath in your nose,

out your mouth,

in your nose,

out your mouth with a sigh

in your nose,

out your mouth with a smile

in your nose,

out your mouth with a song

in your nose

out your mouth with a song

in your nose

out your mouth with a song

in your nose

out your mouth with a song

in your nose

out your mouth with a song

Hold it, hold it, hold it

Take a deep breath

and say to yourself, I accept all of me fully.

I accept my dark side fully.

I accept my light fully.

And I love all parts of me without leaving anything left behind.

Now open your eyes.

This is your presence.

This is your power.

This is capital YOU

without the need of approval.

Trying to fit inside of other people's groups.

Trying to be somebody else.

This is what it means to be in your body and be yourself.

Thank y'all for tuning in.

And may you have the most prosperous life.

See you guys tomorrow.

Peace.