He Makes Millions Day Trading Stocks! | Nour Trades #110

What's the biggest L you've taken?

1.5 million.

Oh my, and you also lost a mill on the home invasion, right?

Yeah, the jewelry watches

watches.

Well, we're talking big L

shop of high missing earnest, and you lost a million on the home invitation.

I just woke up to like three guns to my head, told me to get up, and then they were like, Where's the cash?

Where's the cash?

And I'm like, I don't know where the cash is.

And they just started beating me with the gun, hitting me with the gun, kicking me, punching me, until they knew that they were gonna get an answer.

Or I literally think that I didn't have the cash.

You know, when you go on trips, you leave your luggage on the floor, flat open, and the clothes, bro.

On their way out, they just picking up the clothes like this in their hand and running out.

They're picking up everything, my laundry and stuff, and they're just running out with everything in their hand.

And I saw someone come back and grab my cologne.

They didn't want to.

Welcome back to the digital social hour.

I'm your host, Sean Kelly.

Here are my co-host Wayne Lewis.

What up, what up?

And our guest today, Nora Trades.

Nice to see you guys.

My guy, professional stock trader.

Yeah.

How'd you get into that?

When I was 16, actually, my friend, his brother, worked on Wall Street in the Trump building.

And we ended up asking him if we could get an internship.

But we didn't care about getting paid.

We just wanted the experience.

And we ended up getting that internship for like three months that year.

I was a sophomore in high school.

And then we took that internship.

It ended up being a paid internship from how much work we were doing.

And yeah, after that,

I did the internship again one more time in the winter.

And then I ended up doing it by myself.

Miles in New York, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Wall Street.

And they taught you options there?

Yeah, so

obviously you need licensing and stuff.

So as an intern, you weren't doing any of the actual trading, but you got to see what was going on.

on the floor, what was really going on, and you get to see how much work goes on behind the scenes.

It's not just clicking buttons, there's meetings, there's

different departments in the hedge fund that's going on, analytics, and it was just a good experience overall, just understanding

the basis of what really goes on behind the scenes.

Right.

Yeah.

And I'm curious, is your lifestyle like a roller coaster?

Because I know day traders have a very up-and-down sort of lifestyle.

Yeah, especially at the beginning.

At the beginning, I would say, as far as roller coasters, it was more of the emotional side of the roller coaster.

And yeah, I would let things affect me a lot at the beginning.

I just, over time, I'd learn to control my emotions.

Right.

Because at first, you're probably losing a lot.

So

figuring it out.

And you just don't know what to do.

Like, you take a big alley, it affects you.

You don't want to go to the gym.

You don't want to hang out with nobody.

You don't even want to answer a call.

What's the biggest L you've taken?

1.5 million.

Oh, my.

In one.

It was overnight.

I was actually in Vegas when this happened.

Oh, really?

Which one were you in?

I was at the Wynn, and I was in in Shopify.

You thought it was going to go down or up?

I was up on it.

I was up maybe like 1.2 million on it at one point and the stock was like $1,700 and within like a 48 48 hour period the stock just every day.

What was your initial investment?

Like how much was I in with?

Yeah, yeah, your principal.

Maybe like

five million, six million.

Wait, wait, wait.

So you bought 5 million of?

You bought in five weeks?

Yeah, sure as was.

Okay.

Because I have this is like part of my long-term portfolio on a daily basis that I'm day trading options.

Okay, okay.

Oh, so this was an option.

No, this is a long-term play.

Why does Shopify crash so much?

They had just got it was their first missed earnings, and I happened to be in that first missed earnings.

So they didn't report the earnings.

Yeah, well, they reported it, and it was just like the first one in years where they've like missed expectations.

And then that night, everything just fell through.

And I'm in Vegas trying to have a smile on my face with my friends.

I'm just looking at my phone every five seconds.

I'm like, no way.

This is terrible.

And you also lost a mill on the home invasion, right?

Yeah, the jewelry watches.

Yeah, they took watches.

Well, we're talking big L?

Child reminds me.

We're talking big L's here, aren't we?

Shop of high missing earnest.

And you lost a million on the home invasion.

Wait, but I saw this on the news.

I got to hear what happened from your point of view.

The home invasion.

So it was out in LA.

I believe it was West Hollywood.

And yeah, it was like 2 a.m.

It was Airbnb or you were staying there?

Yeah, it was at Airbnb.

That's always how they do it, right?

Yeah.

And yeah, I mean, I had fell asleep at two o'clock and I just woke up to like three guns to my head.

And I just hear yelling.

Like, it's, you know, when you're in a room and someone comes in yelling, he's yelling at multiple people?

Yeah.

It's just me.

And I just hear so much yelling.

I'm confused.

When you wake up in the middle of the night, like you, you're still, you feel like you're still in a dream.

So I woke up.

My contacts are still in.

I'm trying to clear up my eyes.

Vision is blurry.

And then I woke up and he's like, get up, get up, get up, get up.

And I ended up getting up, putting my shoes

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it was on first taking my time like it was just a whole dream like things just went too quick but they came looking for cash because i had just come from the hard rock in florida yeah and i had like four hundred and thirty thousand dollars so they knew who you were they probably definitely knew who i was because they kept asking me for the cash but how did they know you were there

so i never post live like for example i'm in vegas right now yeah but i'm still posting la

right that's just how i've been doing this for years that was the one day where like i posted that i was in LA and I kind of showed the view.

Yeah, and then I guess they picked up, they had like 12 hours to figure it out.

So wow, that's how they do it.

They knew.

So they stalk people's profiles and if they see you're out somewhere, they know they're.

Well, you can go in Airbnb too and just kind of see, you know, they always show you the view.

It's easy in LA though.

You go up a hill by the time someone calls the police, they're not going to be there within 30 minutes.

Yeah.

Right?

So it's too easy for them in LA and they're not going to find anybody in LA.

It goes on in broad daylight.

They know that.

This is at 2 p.m.

in the afternoon?

2 a.m.

Oh, 2 a.m.

Yeah, I was sleeping.

Wow.

And they just brought you outside, basically?

Yeah.

Well, no, not outside.

They just told me to get up and then they put me on the floor and then they were like, where's the cash?

Where's the cash?

And I'm like, I don't know where the cash is.

But the cash was in the dryer.

And they just started beating me with the gun, hitting me with the gun, kicking me, punching me, until they knew that they were going to get an answer.

Or I literally, they think that I didn't have the cash.

And then on their way out, they just, you know, when you go on trips, you leave your luggage on the floor, flat open, and the clothes, bro.

On their way out, they just picking up the clothes like this in their hand and running out.

Like, think about that.

So, your random clothes?

Yeah, just pick, bro, like, my underwear.

Designer, though, right?

Yeah.

Designer, but like, they're picking up everything, my laundry and stuff, and they're just running out with everything in their hand.

And I saw someone come back and grab my cologne.

They didn't want to leave nothing.

It was like, nah, we got to leave him dry.

Yeah.

So you didn't find out who it was?

So I have five phones.

Yeah.

They took four and dumped it on the street, but I guess one of them didn't realize, but they took one of my phones back to their apartment.

It was in downtown LA.

And if you do the location thing, they were like 20 minutes away.

Yeah.

So they made the run for it.

But yeah, I mean, the police never found out who they were, but

why do you have five phones?

Just to separate business, family, and just...

Yeah, but that's like business, family, that's like two.

Nah, I got three, four.

It's just like, sometimes, you know, when you want to not give someone your phone number?

Yeah.

So you give them the not phone number five.

One of those, that's three.

No, no, you

were calling the not phone number.

That's funny, bro.

Yeah.

So you move differently now.

Honestly, I moved the same because I was doing everything right.

It was just that one day, I guess, I slipped up, but I can't even confirm that's what happened.

So that's the only guess I have in my head that that could have been how they found me.

That's wild.

So how do you feel the current

current positions of everything right now when it's regarding stock as far as Apple?

I think Apple's up, what, like 48 or 43%?

Oh, like as far as like year-over-year?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, like Apple's at all-time highs right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Apple, Microsoft, they just announced a new product

for the first time in 10 years.

The VR glass.

Did the stock go up from that?

No, well, they went up at the beginning, but like the thing with Apple, a lot of people, because I've owned Apple since 2017, and I've only added to the position.

Okay.

So they were up in the morning.

So Apple's a long-term play for you.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

So like they were up in the morning, but the thing with Apple, people don't understand, it's by the rumors, sell the news.

Always, Always, like, even at their iPhone events, they can announce the new headphones, the new VR.

They end up taking a dip.

It's just, it's just a natural characteristic of Apple.

Wow.

If you just look at their history.

I didn't know that.

But yeah, they announced their new product.

You're not going to see any type of, you know, inflow from that product because it doesn't even.

launch until next year.

Yeah, 2024.

But yeah, it changes the game.

If you compare it to any type of VR

headset out right now, it's nothing alike.

It looks sick.

Interactive.

There's no controller.

Controller and the app.

It predicts your thoughts, right?

Yeah, when you look in your eyes, yeah.

So, yeah, it's equivalent to how the Apple phone is set up.

So you get to actually see your apps right in front of you now.

That's what I'm saying.

You can play with them like right.

I'm going to get one for sure.

They're expensive, though.

Yeah, $3,500.

$3,500.

Yeah.

Grab things with your hand, and then you can FaceTime now, and they can still see your face, even though you have the goggles on.

No way.

Yeah, and then as you're FaceTiming on the thing, you can actually work on whatever you're doing, a presentation, and you you can watch a movie and take up the whole room if you wanted to as you're working it and being on Facebook.

This is insane.

Yeah, it's crazy.

It is insane.

Are you in Microsoft too?

No, I'm not, but Microsoft has been a great stock.

It's up 38%

right now, too.

Microsoft's killing it.

Nvidia's been killing it.

Nvidia, yeah.

Ian's big on the Nvidia.

Who's Ian?

Ian Dunlap from Earn Leisure.

Yeah, I mean, NVIDIA is, I wish I owned Nvidia back in 2017.

Yeah.

I made a little bit off of that, but definitely, that should have been definitely definitely like a long term.

But my biggest long terms have been Apple and Tesla.

Oh, for real?

Apple and you and Tesla too?

Yeah, yeah.

I've holding it for years, though.

So like I just add on the dips whenever the market gets a correction or whatever.

I just keep adding to the position.

How do you feel about pre-IPOs?

So what's funny is I didn't even get into that until like 2021.

My McLaren was parked outside and

you heard him.

My McLaren was parked outside.

It brings the right connections though.

Like someone was waiting at my car and they worked at a pre-IPO hedge fund.

I completely forgot the name, but they call you and let you know, all right, Discord's going public.

So Discord's going public.

They let me know that, you know, Tesla, what's that stock?

What's their

NAT?

Their Rocket?

Rocket Mortgage?

No, no, you know how Elon Musk has another.

Oh, SpaceX?

SpaceX.

SpaceX is going public.

That stock is going to be like $1,000 when they go public.

But they don't even profit.

Yeah, I mean, they're going to go.

Most companies that go public don't even

he's he set it up as a 501 3c, right?

Oh, it's a charity, allegedly, yeah.

So, I just got into that for sure.

Wait, so what's your strategy?

Because I know you do the options, but like you have long-term back, so what's the percentage breakdown on your portfolio?

So, as far as long-term, basically, what I make from income, I'll throw that in there and then I can roll my money into long-term stocks because you get taxed differently on the long-term stocks, right?

And

if it's more than 12 months, then it's considered you know a long-term asset.

So, I get taxed instead of basically 40% when I was in New York, right, at one time, it's like 25%,

well, closer to 30%.

But that's a big difference.

In California?

Well,

I don't report my taxes out of California.

But yeah, Florida, there's no

state tax.

But New York, or in New Jersey, at least, was 7%.

So on top of federal, because you're at the top, the highest bracket, you still have to pay 7%,

right?

And then Las Vegas, there's no state tax.

Yeah, so that's a big difference, difference.

Seven percent.

So you basically take all the profits you make from options, put it in a long-term stock.

Either that or properties.

Properties.

Yeah.

So you're in real estate heavy?

Not heavy.

I'm just starting to get into it.

I'm trying to buy a house once a month now.

That's pretty heavy.

I mean, once a month?

Yeah, it's 12 houses a year.

Yeah.

Yeah, but you gotta, once you, once you get to a certain numbers, everything has to be set up under a trust.

Correct, yeah.

And then as far as like properties, I want to get into commercial real estate.

I haven't gotten into that yet.

Land or actual buildings buildings because like i have someone that manages 800 million dollars of properties in texas

um he's like a family friend though like he's not public on social media or anything but they just bought a building for 5.4 million he was telling me and then in seven months after they do the refinance and you know all that good stuff they ended up selling it for 7.3 wow yeah it's not a bad flu it just scares me though with covet because i feel like a lot of businesses are remote now yeah exactly you see commercial real estate you know thriving well i personally don't know too much about it so I can't really speak about it.

But he's been killing in the commercial real estate, and he keeps asking me to, you know, come in, but the down payments on commercial is way crazy.

Six figures, right?

Yeah, easily, yeah.

Higher, probably

depending on the property.

Yeah, like a chill one, he was telling me, like half a million.

Jeez.

And then you're probably gaming closer to a million, though.

And having that money tied up, you could make that day trading.

That, yeah, so that's, that's also like, for example, you're into crypto, right?

Yeah.

You'll look at other investments and be like, eh, I'm good.

Or you'll be like, that's, that's risky, or you'll look at at it differently.

For me, it's the same thing.

Like, if you're not familiar with something and you've known to do one thing your whole life,

for me to get into crypto, for example.

So you're not into the crypto side?

I am a little bit, but like not enough where I can fully devote like a lot of my money into that space.

Like at one point, I had about $350,000 in Ethereum and like $120,000 in Bitcoin.

And I just kept it in there.

And then I was also gambling on stake using that money.

So I ended up pulling that money out.

But yeah, I'm not fully devoted to that.

I look at it differently.

Gotcha.

What was it like going on the Fresh and Fit podcast?

Yeah, it was dope.

I mean, they asked me to bring girls on the podcast and stuff like that.

They asked you?

Yeah.

Did you bring girls?

No, no.

Why not?

I got a girlfriend.

Oh, okay.

He's loyal.

You didn't bring your girl on?

It doesn't mean he's not loyal, that's just part of their podcast.

Yeah, but like, you see how they get on that show.

Yeah, yeah, they go crazy.

Fresh and fit, I like those things, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, if you brought your girl on, she'd get attacked.

Yeah, it probably wouldn't be the best look.

I was like, nah, I think it'll just be solo.

And then, yeah, we talked about it.

It was definitely a great discussion, though, for sure.

What about Elon Musk?

How did you meet him?

So I didn't actually get to meet him, meet him, but

I said hi to him at,

what was it called?

It was a restaurant out in LA.

Delilah?

No, it wasn't Delilah.

I think the Elon goes there.

No, he wasn't.

You know what's crazy?

He was sitting at the bar alone.

Really?

Yeah, and I was with my friends.

Allegedly.

He probably had a sash.

Oh, yeah.

You never know.

But he literally tweeted when he started talking about exposing different things on social media when he was on Twitter.

I don't want to say specifically, but he said, all right, I finally want to get security.

So I think Elon's actually been moving without security for the last, what, like, 10 years now?

Wow.

Yeah.

I feel like you would, at his level, it doesn't even cost much.

Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think he looks at it like, I don't wear any jewelry.

Like, there's no reason for anybody to attack Elon Musk.

But I guess nowadays, since he talks about, you know, general subjects that aren't cool with the general public, he believes that he needs security.

Are you worried about AI just taking over the stock space?

So I thought about that and someone actually asked me that before.

If you think about it though, if AI took over

and all of AI made the same decision, how would anybody make any money from AI, right?

Like for example, I make money from another AI that makes me making a mistake.

But

it just doesn't make sense if like everybody made the same move or every AI like AI would basically do all the trading trading for you right because there's already bots that's doing it now oh yeah it's been like that for like 20 plus years like as far

yeah there's been bots for a while right yeah

so it's not technically ai but like they have order programs for the last i want to say at least 20 years where at every millisecond hedge funds are buying millions at one cent and selling it at another cent back and forth throughout the day every millisecond even if it's it's like 0.2 of a cent they're doing that yeah it's millisecond yeah and that's been around for 20 plus years.

I've watched documentaries on that, especially when I first started.

I was really interested in that.

But the AI thing, I just don't believe it'll work when it comes to trading.

I just don't see it.

Because when you're in crypto, right?

And you buy, someone else is selling.

And if all AI makes the same decision, how can anything make that type of move for you to actually profit on?

Yeah, it'd be interesting to see if it takes over.

How do you feel about that?

I think

there is a bigger play there in regards to them actually making moves and like trading just because it's able to read the charts better than human beings.

So it knows that when there's going to be a downturn, you know, upshift, just kind of reading the charts way better than we are and faster.

So you're talking about more efficient, more interesting human here.

But I like how you're saying it, though.

That's perfect.

But the, like, you're saying it AI versus human.

Yeah, we'll always lose.

Exactly.

AI will always win.

Yeah.

But if AI is released, for example,

I must, one day everybody's going to have access to that AI.

So what if everybody has AI and they want to, you know, oh, you're talking about if once the masses get a hold of the AI, then it won't take over.

Even the playing field.

Yeah, it evens the playing field.

But hedge funds have had that program for 20 years and the public hasn't.

Exactly.

So that's what he's saying.

So basically,

the thing is, is once AI is actually implemented, it puts us on the outside looking in because we're

at a disadvantage just because

some of us won't have access to that software.

So we'll be losing our trades to AI.

Like hedge funds will probably get the AI first, right?

Yeah, for sure.

As far as that, that's 100% AI will always be ahead.

Yeah.

10 steps ahead

versus humans.

But I was thinking more of like further on in life when everybody has access to AI.

I'm talking about as of now because I feel like they're already using it.

Yeah.

They might be.

I mean,

come on, bro.

Yeah, they have everything.

Like, honestly, earnings, for example, when you see earnings and a company reports earnings at 4 p.m.

when the market closes exactly, before you even get the news, did they hit earnings?

Did they meet earnings?

Did they skip earnings?

Whatever the case may be, the stock has already dropped or popped within that millisecond.

Why?

Because they have a bot or they have programs where it gets the news the fastest and

the program reacts to it, right?

They don't need they have keywords.

Yeah, they have keywords.

Pay attention to like earnings.

Like, for example, when NVIDIA just reported earnings the other day, maybe like a week ago,

they hit earnings and then they reported, you know, they're going to beat expectations on their guidance for the next three months.

Within that millisecond, they pop $60.

Nobody's able to get into that.

But that's the hedge funds having programs that use keywords and all this other stuff that they put together.

And then they're the first to be in that stock.

Wow.

So, yeah, they always have the head start.

Yeah.

So that's why I think it will be, we'll be at a disadvantage.

And always, it's always the people with money that have an advantage, I think.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

If you weren't doing stocks, what would you be doing?

Rapping.

I wish, but uh, I would say, uh, I mean, I was gonna be a doctor.

Oh, for real?

Yeah, wow.

You kind of look like a doctor a little bit.

I could see you being a doctor a little bit.

Yeah, I can see you with your scraps on.

You know,

I was in school for it.

I was a pre-med student.

Oh, for real?

Yeah.

End up going to medical school or anything like that.

But that was the goal.

And I'm also, you know, have an Arabic, you know, or Arab

nationality.

So that's kind of what they put you in the house for, a lawyer, a doctor.

Yeah.

And that was my, that was what that was the target.

My mom still wants me to be a doctor.

Do you want to be a doctor?

I mean, later on in life, when I'm like retired, I just want to do it for my.

He said, I want to be a doctor when I'm retired.

Yeah.

That's the first.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Retired is like 30, though.

You want to retire at 30?

Yeah, around there.

So you don't want to work until you die?

I'll have like he'll be making money so that you can do it.

Yeah, residual income where it's it's enough.

Obviously, when it comes to day trading and the money I make from that, it's hard to give that up.

Right.

So, I mean, I mean, we'll see one day.

But after all that, I just want to educate myself rather than do it for that degree.

So, that's why I want to go back and become a doctor.

Nice.

Do you want to educate people on the benefits of learning about the stock market and day trading, especially people of color?

Because we tend to be lacking in that area always.

For sure.

So, how are you?

Are you interested in doing that or are you making the proper steps to to to educate in a yeah so I well first of all I'm African American.

I'm Egyptian.

So um where I grew up it was mostly color.

So

I I'm trying to go back to schools giving you know those talks to kids because everybody just what doesn't want to go to college.

And that's I just don't believe that's the right choice.

You know what I mean?

Like just to say off rip you don't want to go to college.

Now, do I believe college isn't going to help?

Yeah, like we all talk about that.

How we're like, you know, college is a scam.

You'll see that online.

But I still you still can't just put college to the side and just be like, all right, I'm not going to college.

I'm going to just go do whatever and get a nine to five.

Now you're working for the rest of your life.

If you don't pick up a skill or, you know, learn something or educate yourself on something, you have to go to college.

And the best thing about college is when you come to college, I went to college for two years, but I was still trading.

And at that time, I was making like $5,000 a day.

And I was still in school in my dorm room.

Courtney, that was by choice.

You went to college for two years and dropped out.

Well, I dropped out because of COVID.

Oh, you did?

Yeah.

And you never went back.

No.

So you dropped out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But

I still made a decision and said, I'm going to go back to school.

No.

But you're going back when you're 30.

Yeah, yeah.

After you retire, after you didn't have made more than $200.

So it's a choice at that point.

It's a choice, but like, I don't believe the average person can't just say, I'm not going to college.

Because when you go to college, you start learning, all right, how am I going to survive on my own?

What things can I learn while I'm in school?

You've got a lot of different times.

You start meeting different people with different minds.

Right, right.

When you're not in college and you're done with high school, who are you going to meet?

You know what I mean?

You're not going to be in the right places meet the right people there's a lot of kids in school that for example I went to this specific college because when I interned every single person on Wall Street that I knew personally went to the same college as me and joined this joined a frat at my college you went frat too yeah I ended up doing that that was the worst decision of my life but why

that's not my life the crazy things that they do and stuff like that I never thought I would do stuff like that yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't something I look forward to for sure but I ended up doing it I got the experience, something that I could look back on and say, all right, you know, I did these things.

And I ended up going to the school, meeting other people who came from the same frats.

Do you know the Instagram rap?

Yeah.

So my friend owns that.

Daniel?

Daniel Snow.

Yeah.

Squill was, you know, Matthew Squill?

Yeah.

That was my partner a couple of years ago.

They created Goat Case.

Yeah, yeah.

And those people came from the same school as me.

Wow.

So you meet different types of people who can put you in different areas.

And Dan Snow and Matthew Squill met at the same school.

They ended up making a company called Goat Case, and they did a revenue of $30 million.

So it gives you the benefits, right?

It is good for networking.

I know, absolutely, in that aspect, but you have to be a networker.

Yeah.

You have to go there with that motive.

For sure.

Most people don't.

I think it's subjective.

I mean, to even

being able to communicate is a gift now because most kids are on their phone.

You know what I'm saying?

So in that case, I see exactly what you're saying.

But then there's also cases where college is not needed.

And it's becoming more evident that, not to say it's a scam, but it's just everybody don't need to go to college.

It's not everybody's dream, you know.

But in your case, absolutely.

Like, you're going to school to be a doctor, but then you also was placed in an environment to where you got some kind of

roadmap or some kind of blueprint to where you should be going.

That's

not, you know, everybody don't have that.

Also, with college, there's only a few degrees that you would have to go to college for.

So, like being a lawyer, being an engineer, being a, you know, a chemical engineer, doctor, exactly.

Stuff like that makes so much sense to go to school.

Everything else doesn't doesn't really like going to school for art.

Like communications.

You get what I mean?

Like, like, have you heard of Artlanta?

Miami?

Whatever.

He never went to school, but he's the biggest artist out in Artlanta.

Black dude.

He's my guy.

Yeah, he just did Rolls-Royce.

Yeah, I met him in 2020.

Yeah, anything.

No, Sean.

He just said Rolls-Royce.

He just did like a splat paint special.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And what's funny is I met him back in 2020.

He offered to send me

a painting.

And back in 2020, nobody knew him.

Wow.

now he's the biggest yeah he's big that's wild yeah and i think he he haven't been doing art that long right like no like two three years and he didn't go to art school no he didn't even go to college wow now he's in dubai painting million dollar college he just did a bugati in dubai

he's going crazy right now

what was your support system like when you said to your parents i'm gonna be a professional stock trader oh definitely not

yeah i didn't even bother telling my parents when i dropped that they had to notice over time like, because it was online classes.

And at the time, I was still living at home because I'm just a kid.

I'm like 19.

And

my mom starts noticing that I'm not doing any type of classes.

I'm just working in the morning and just handling my business, traveling.

She's like, when do you have time to go to class?

And I guess she called the school, found out that I dropped out or I hadn't showed up.

She started crying that day.

My dad took it a little bit differently because I feel like my dad understood.

And he never went to college.

And, you know, he ended up coming here and grinding as an immigrant.

So it was different for my mom because

when your parents or someone that doesn't come from something or doesn't get to go through something, they want their kids to experience that.

And that's how my mom felt.

Like, all right, I got into a position to put you through college.

You should go to college.

We didn't have the opportunity when we were younger.

And what are some things you feel like you do daily that motivate you or keep you motivated, wanting more?

and to kind of, you know,

weed out the BS that happens in the world.

Like, what keeps you grounded?

Just helping others.

Like, my ultimate goal in life is to build as many schools as possible in Africa.

Wow.

That's big.

Yeah, that's just like that day comes where I'm fully retired.

That's going to be like my project.

I want to live out there.

I want to be out in different countries in Africa.

And obviously throughout the world, but Africa would be my first target.

And I would love to just sit there and get to devote my time to African.

They keep saying Africa is going to be the place to live.

You think so?

That's what I keep hearing and reading and saying.

It's probably got the best nature in the world, right?

Yeah.

Have you ever been there?

They're modernized.

Yeah, I mean, I've been to Sudan.

I've been to Egypt.

But as far as like other countries in Africa, I haven't.

I want to go to South Africa.

Even though that's not really Africa, but it's in Africa.

The counts.

Yeah.

But yeah, I want to definitely just explore the world after.

Love that, man.

Do that.

Man, that was a blast.

Any closing comments?

I mean, everybody out there that's watching this, just, you know, keep grinding, you know, keep devoting your time to whatever you love and, you know, focus on you.

And, you know, don't worry about who's ahead of you, who's behind you.

And, you know, just keep grinding.

All right.

Wayne, thank you guys for watching the digital social hour.

Thanks for tuning in, guys.

I'll see you next time.

Peace.