Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance

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Speaker 1 He shares intimate details about overcoming depression, finding inner peace, and his transformation from success to significance thanks to this shift in his spiritual way of thinking.

Speaker 1 He also talks about how to shift from scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset by changing your relationship with money and setting healthy boundaries with people around you.

Speaker 1 And boy, if I wish I knew this about how to create healthy boundaries in my 20s and 30s with friends, with family members, with employees, with business partners, my life would have created so much more peace.

Speaker 2 But I lacked the courage. I lacked the wisdom.
I will act a lot of things.

Speaker 1 I was afraid of how I would be perceived.

Speaker 5 I was afraid of people not liking me.

Speaker 1 And so if that's something that you've struggled with, I'm letting you know you are not alone.

Speaker 3 I have dealt with that.

Speaker 1 Someone like Big Sean has dealt with that. And so many other people that we've had on this show.

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Speaker 1 is here to support you in overcoming that in becoming the greater version of you and becoming the healthier, happier individual that deserves healing, peace, and prosperity.

Speaker 5 We dive deep into his new book, Go Higher, where he reveals the five practices that changed his life and career forever.

Speaker 1 From manifesting techniques to setting boundaries, Sean's got to share wisdom that goes far beyond his musical achievements, showing a side of himself that fans have never seen before.

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Speaker 7 Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness.

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Speaker 7 We have the inspiring Big Sean sean in the house my man what's up bro so excited that you're here couple midwest kids midwest it's too bad you're from that state up north but it's okay butroid doesn't feel like michigan to me though detroit is its own thing well trust me bro go blue okay

Speaker 8 it's too bad it's all right this year it's happening we're coming back this year i know you know i have had one of my best shows in my life was at ohio state oh my god it was it was even though i am

Speaker 8 die hard go blue i did perform at ohio state State and it was turnt.

Speaker 7 Why was it one of the best shows ever?

Speaker 8 Was it like a spiritual vibe or what? Well, it was spiritual, I guess, in that sense, but it was just turnt up. It was like wild, like chaotic.
Chaotic. They know how to really party.

Speaker 8 They go hard, man.

Speaker 7 They do. It's not much else to do in the Midwest, though.
You like go hard. When you love someone coming to your town, you're like, ah, they're screaming for you.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I know. But, man, I'm happy to be here, man.

Speaker 8 I've seen a lot of great episodes. And congratulations on it.
I know it's been like 13 years. Yeah, man.
thanks, brother. Thanks, man.

Speaker 7 You are a multi-platin artist, over 185 million records sold, is what you just told me. That is insane.

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 that is. I know.

Speaker 7 And you have this new book out that I'm fascinated by because I wouldn't think of you writing this type of book.

Speaker 7 If I just heard some of your earlier music, I wouldn't be thinking that you'd be writing this book called Go Higher, Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace, which I want to dive into.

Speaker 7 But there's a quote that you talk about in the book on page 24 that says, I visualized being on a cliff.

Speaker 7 My higher self was saying to me that there was an invisible bridge in front of me that I was going to take me to the other side.

Speaker 7 It took a lot of faith to walk over that bridge, but that's what I did. It took four years, but during that time, I never lost faith and I kept writing.

Speaker 7 So when my next shot came around, I was ready and I had a ton of songs.

Speaker 7 I was asking the universe at that time to provide me with the people who could help me get to where I needed to be, as well as people who I could find a way to help as well.

Speaker 7 I wanted it to be mutually beneficial.

Speaker 7 This is powerful. And I wanted to start here because

Speaker 7 the thing you say is I visualized being on a cliff. I visualized, and this is a time where you had gotten signed, but nothing was happening for years.

Speaker 8 Happens to so many artists like this.

Speaker 7 So you're excited. Something is big.
I just got signed. I'm going to make it big.
The next thing I do, it's going to happen. But four years, essentially,

Speaker 8 nothing's nothing's happening. Right.

Speaker 7 And I'm curious, how did you learn to trust in the universe that you would manifest something when there's nothing happening for years?

Speaker 7 How did you continue to trust the invisible bridge that would take you from where you are to where you want to be?

Speaker 8 Well, you can't trust everything you see, but you can trust everything you feel. You feel me? So.
It's one of those things where I didn't know how it was going to happen.

Speaker 8 And I think that's one of the things we don't have to worry about all the time: is the how. I think we get racked up on those details of like how is it gonna happen, how.

Speaker 8 But if you feel it, if you trust it, then you also have to let it let it out in the world and

Speaker 8 know that it's gonna happen at the right time. You just gotta prepare for it.
So, that's kind of like was always my mentality.

Speaker 8 And even like in my early music, like I do make like a lot of fun music, party music, but I always have a sense of like my essence and my spirit in some of those songs too. Like,

Speaker 8 you know, even songs like Bounce Back, or even one of my first songs was, I'm gonna make a million and one dollars.

Speaker 8 And it was like still like manifestation, but really like, yeah, it was like I was applying it to like my stuff,

Speaker 8 you know, but I also was just like having fun with it. But I think that's important too, to have fun with it.

Speaker 8 Um, I was blessed to have like all of these guardian angels, like my mom and you know, a lot of my friends.

Speaker 8 And just like, I feel like the, I feel like God and the universe and all of these things that you, if you believe in it, they talk through other people or through instances or a song you're hearing.

Speaker 8 You know, I'm really, one of the first books that really taught me to pay attention to the omens was The Alchemist.

Speaker 8 And it's like, you got to pay attention to the signs and the omens. And when you are grateful for that, when you entertain it, when you give more energy to it, you act like a magnet.

Speaker 8 You know, you magnetize it to yourself. So it's like.

Speaker 8 That is, you know, just how I think. And I think that however we think is is the truth.
You know, there is no right or wrong way to do things.

Speaker 8 There's no right or one of the biggest misconceptions, it's like, I don't know how to meditate. You know, it's like, there really is no right or wrong way.
It's really just about you believing in it.

Speaker 7 Absolutely. We were, I was just talking about before we jumped on our mutual friend, Mike Posner.
I was just FaceTiming him and I said, tell me something about Big Sean that most people don't know.

Speaker 8 And he said, and he said, he said he has a real huge heart.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 7 He said,

Speaker 7 he said you changed his life and you're the one who brought him into spirituality and God. He said he wasn't into God or spirituality until

Speaker 8 he wasn't until you.

Speaker 7 And he said there were a couple of moments that you brought him this. And it was the moment when after years of you being signed, but nothing was happening.

Speaker 7 He said there was like a six-month window where it was dark for you.

Speaker 8 It's pretty dark. That's right.

Speaker 7 And he thought, oh, I don't know what's going to happen with this guy. And then he saw you maybe six months later and you were glowing.
And he said, I want whatever this guy has. What does he have?

Speaker 7 What is he doing? What is the thing that he did to transform from going to the darkness and into this glowing energy? And what was that for you? Do you know what?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I'll tell you what it is. It's two things.

Speaker 8 You got to realize that everything isn't together. So what I mean by that,

Speaker 8 everything isn't singular. So what I mean is that because things weren't working out for me, that doesn't have anything to do with my happiness.

Speaker 8 Because

Speaker 8 my

Speaker 8 dream was taking longer to happen because things weren't going my way.

Speaker 8 At first, I was letting it dictate my life. I was letting it like tear me down and be depressed over it, you know, and be like.

Speaker 8 And then you realize that, yo, hold up. That's this is my choice to to

Speaker 8 be happy. And then

Speaker 8 I realized that, okay,

Speaker 8 if I choose that, I'm operating at a different level of just consciousness. So that's how I'm going to get this.

Speaker 8 I ain't, I'm not going to attract nothing I want by being depressed or down because things aren't going my way. Bro, life moves on.

Speaker 7 How did you learn how to separate them when most people, they have a bad day, they have a bad month, a bad year, it dictates their happiness, their joy, and their peace?

Speaker 7 How did you separate things not working out for you

Speaker 7 to it not affecting you emotionally and your joy?

Speaker 8 It does. So it does affect me emotionally, but I don't let it overtake me.

Speaker 8 You know, like when Mike Posner was talking about he would see me and it was dark for me, that's because I would let something affect me and I would hold on to it and I would be blaming that for.

Speaker 8 Next week, I'm still blaming that. The week after, I'm still blaming it.
Three months later, oh, it's because of that, you know.

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 it's like i still go through all of these you know life can be like hurtful it could be like getting punched in the face you know what i'm saying and

Speaker 8 but the thing is i don't let it linger i still might be hurt about something i still may be disappointed but it's like that's the point of it it's like it teaches you something you always learn something from these situations and

Speaker 8 you come out and realize that, okay,

Speaker 8 that was just a moment. Now I'm on to the next moment.
You go ahead. It's like, when you look at the greatest people

Speaker 8 in a category, all right. So let's pick like Denzel Washington, right?

Speaker 8 So, or Will Smith or whoever. It's like, say they have an awesome movie and it does well.
Say they have a bad movie and it flops. They're not going to be like, I quit.
It's over for me.

Speaker 8 They're going to be like, all right, we on to the next one. What's the next thing? You know, and I think that we have to remember that life is just full of all these amazing moments.

Speaker 8 And when you look back on it, you'll see the beauty in everything. Yeah.

Speaker 7 You know, absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Do you think you can manage?

Speaker 7 Do you think you can manifest your dreams from a depressed state energetically?

Speaker 8 Can you manifest your dreams from a depressed state? It depends on if the depression fuels you or if it cripples you.

Speaker 8 You know, just like stress, there's you stress, which is a motivating stress, and then there's distress, which is the stress that makes everything harder.

Speaker 8 And, you know, so I feel like you can fuel, you can use your,

Speaker 8 you can use any aspect of life as an opportunity to get to where you got to go. You know what I mean? So I'm sure there has been times where depression has fueled someone.

Speaker 8 I'm sure there's been times where depression has led someone to the end of their life, you know, obviously, and like so on and so forth and everything in between. So

Speaker 8 I do think depression can't fuel you, fuel you.

Speaker 8 It just depends if you're aware that like, okay, you know, my thing about when you're feeling bad or have anxiety or depression, to me, it's an awesome indicator that you're just not aligned with what you're supposed to be doing right now.

Speaker 8 So it could be an indication that, hey, I'm meant for something greater. I'm meant for something more.
I'm meant for something better as opposed to like life. sucks.
Yes. You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 Yeah. Or it's also, we were talking off camera about how if you're feeling depressed or if you're feeling overwhelmed, you may need to look to where you need to create boundaries in your life.

Speaker 7 Because when you are giving your energy to so many people without the boundary, it's going to make you feel like you don't have anything left to give.

Speaker 8 That B word.

Speaker 7 Boundaries, baby.

Speaker 8 That B word.

Speaker 7 When did you learn about boundaries in your life?

Speaker 7 Did you ever feel like you were a people pleaser growing up or when you started kind of in your career feeling like you had to do everything for everyone?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 8 They make you feel like that. Really? Yeah, you know,

Speaker 8 my dad, who's in here, he's like a real nice guy. Nice guy.

Speaker 8 And he's a real nice guy but he knows that he's let a lot of people walk all over him in a sense really not in a bad way that's just his kind natural spirit he has a kind heart and

Speaker 8 i have a kind heart in a similar way and one of the biggest lessons that i learned literally this year for me and i have a song on my last album called boundaries was setting boundaries because

Speaker 8 It's uncomfortable sometimes to speak up and

Speaker 8 say what it is you need, you know, because it may go go against your like

Speaker 8 what you've been through already. It may go against like, oh, that's not necessarily right or wrong.

Speaker 8 And you realize that right and wrong is kind of more so opinionated in a lot of cases, especially when it comes to feelings, you know what I mean?

Speaker 8 So for me, setting boundaries has definitely created a lot of rifts between me and like, especially people I grew up with. Really?

Speaker 8 Yeah, because you, it's, it's, it's harder to live off setting boundaries when you've established a relationship already with someone so it's like when you come and say boundaries it's kind of like they're looking at you different it's like yo what's up with you yeah you're changing who are you yeah and

Speaker 8 so yeah it has been quite a thing but the people who are meant to be there respect you and understand you and know your heart and they know that you're doing this out of necessity and that that's the way it has to be What's the hardest boundary you've had to set for yourself this year?

Speaker 8 The hardest boundary I've had to set for myself is the boundary of not being overwhelmed, having to say like, yo, I can't do that.

Speaker 8 Or like, I'll take on as much as I can and then be like, I need, I like, hold up, I need to, I need time for this.

Speaker 8 Or if I get back from a trip, I know I'm supposed to do this or I have to get some rest, you know?

Speaker 7 That's wise, man. Even with this interview, we were supposed to do it, I think, on Halloween for whatever reason was scheduled then.

Speaker 8 I had to set a boundary because my son

Speaker 8 was one years old, turning two at the time. And I had to take him trigger treating, man.
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 And I respect, I wasn't like mad about it, but it's like the people, when you set a boundary,

Speaker 7 you know, people can either be offended or they can understand it.

Speaker 8 Yeah. You know, I understood it.

Speaker 7 I was like, yeah, of course. I was excited to do it, but I, oh, we're going to reschedule it.
It'll happen when it's supposed to happen. Yeah.

Speaker 8 And that's, yeah, and that's, man, that's an important lesson right there. It'll happen.
when it's supposed to happen.

Speaker 7 If it's supposed to, it'll happen, you know?

Speaker 8 And we get caught up in a lot of things not happening on our time.

Speaker 8 And I know a lot of people say God's time and

Speaker 8 Cairo versus Kronos, I believe. But it's like,

Speaker 8 I think that

Speaker 8 there are a lot of things that I want to accomplish in my life that I haven't gotten to yet, you know, that like,

Speaker 8 but

Speaker 8 it's not that, it's not like nothing to be like.

Speaker 8 mad about or depressed about or like thinking that, you know, my life has no value, you know, even if I hadn't sold one record or anything, you know, even if I was still just, I would still be doing music, even if it was just one of my passions.

Speaker 8 Really? You know what I mean? Just like how I watch anime. I don't get paid to do that, but I take real time and I be watching anime because it's a passion of mine.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 You know, so I don't think that.

Speaker 8 You know, when things don't happen on your time, that it's necessarily like

Speaker 8 the end of the world because you, it always happens at the time when you need it, as opposed to when you want it. And sometimes what we want and what we need isn't always at the same time.

Speaker 8 Sometimes it is, and sometimes it's not. And it's kind of hard to see.
You always see things in 2020 hindsight, but you know, it's hard as you're going through it.

Speaker 8 And that is one of the biggest lessons I learned this year. I'm still learning, still applying along with setting boundaries, along with the balancing,

Speaker 8 you know, life

Speaker 8 and just like

Speaker 7 realizing that I am in control of how I feel you know for sure no matter what you're creating or what's happening you're in control of how you feel speaking of our guy Posner I'm sure he's gonna get a few shout outs here he said that early on when you guys were in your teens yeah back in Detroit that there was a group called finally famous yes that was like five or seven dudes all men it was like probably like 11 11 dudes right 11 of you guys just kind of hanging out making music in the basement or people's garages or whatever and rooms yeah it was me and mike posner jay john say it ain't tone brandon earl mack earl mack uh a dub ki wang key wang um pat piff

Speaker 8 uh

Speaker 8 and i'm sure like so it's a probably i'm probably you know guys covered it's kind of like naming every member of the week yeah of course

Speaker 7 but he said that you know all those names that you mentioned A lot of them have successful careers mostly because of you in some way, shape, or form.

Speaker 7 And Mike Posner said that you were the one that welcomed him in the group.

Speaker 7 He came later and you launched a lot of people in some way down the line to having some type of success in their in their life through your influence. And I like the first quote that I talked about.

Speaker 7 You were searching for people in your life that could add value to you, but also where you could add value to them.

Speaker 8 Absolutely.

Speaker 7 And it sounds like from what he said, this group, you guys were always talking about manifesting, like, here's the dream we want with our music.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Your first album was called the same thing as the group right that's right isn't that interesting that you manifested and you created the thing that you were always creating yeah from that group yeah had to it was a representation of a lot more than just like a first album it was like my life up until that point and um yeah i i empowered a lot of my people around me like

Speaker 8 My friend Lawrence, who just did, directed his first movie, and he did a lot of my videos, you know, like I don't f ⁇ with you video and me and Janae's, I know, and 2088, and all these great videos.

Speaker 8 And he's also my son's godfather. He did a video from a song about my son as well.
He's into movies now, or like He Wayne, who was in the group, is like a

Speaker 8 all-star mega producer, you know, produced for not just me, but Beyonce and Drake and Jasmine Sullivan, all these amazing artists. And then, yeah, so you know, the list goes on.
Um,

Speaker 8 but it was, it meant a lot. And, you know, Mike Posner being one of those guys, we used to make music in his basement with his parents, you know, there.
And his dad ended up getting brain cancer

Speaker 8 and died pretty, like, it was a very, like, quick thing

Speaker 8 relatively. And I remember when I had Coachella, and I brought him out at my Coachella performance.
And I felt the energy of his dad.

Speaker 8 I felt the spirit of his dad because it was such a, his dad has such a

Speaker 8 warm, welcoming spirit, almost like angelic already while he was alive. And just him and his mom,

Speaker 8 you know, his dad and his mom both. So it was really a, it was a full circle moment to be on that stage together like that.
And it was like one of the biggest shows of my career. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 8 It was like a huge crowd. It was like me and Harry Styles had like this split Coachella Coachella literally evenly at that moment while we were performing.
It was amazing. It was amazing.

Speaker 8 Spiritual experience.

Speaker 7 I love that. Yeah.
Coachella and Ohio State, spiritual experience. You know,

Speaker 7 there's another great quote that I saw this, you know, as you started to kind of build your career in chapter eight of your book called Hitting a Wall and the five, the five strategies are accepting, strategizing, trying, trusting, and manifesting.

Speaker 7 But at the start of this chapter, I think you share a story that everyone needs to hear because most people don't know what it's like being on top or accomplishing all of their wildest dreams.

Speaker 7 And you say the most depressed I ever got was in 2017. Until then, the worst period was when I got signed and then nothing happened for me for more than a year.

Speaker 7 But this time, everything was happening for me. So I found it incredibly confusing that I was so unhappy.
You said I was rich and famous. My career was going great.
And I was on tour.

Speaker 7 I had everything I ever wanted, essentially.

Speaker 7 But nothing ever felt like enough.

Speaker 7 And you talk about the pain of this situation. And I think there's a great quote by Jim Clary.

Speaker 7 I've always wanted to interview him. So I love this quote where he's like, I hope, I wish everyone would get rich and famous and realize it's not the key to happiness.
Kind of paraphrasing it. Yeah.

Speaker 7 But you were that. You would accomplish kind of like you got the music.
Every artist. You were doing music with everyone.

Speaker 8 Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 7 You would have sold 100 million records by then.

Speaker 8 You were crushing it. Yep.

Speaker 15 But you weren't happy.

Speaker 7 Yes. why and then part two

Speaker 7 everyone thinks they're gonna be happy and fulfilled when they become rich and famous

Speaker 7 but that didn't seem like it's the case

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Speaker 8 Well, you got to remember that, like I said earlier in this interview, everything is separate and you don't realize that. So you think that things come with other things.

Speaker 8 So you're thinking that because you have money or because, you know, you're living in Beverly Hills and, you know, you got all these things, that the happiness equates to that.

Speaker 8 Now, I'm not saying I'm not about to be one of these people that has, you know, that has made money and be like, well, money doesn't buy you happiness.

Speaker 8 Money is an amazing resource and it can make you happy temporarily. What I mean by that is it's a dopamine hit.

Speaker 8 So it's like, yeah, getting money is awesome and it can make you happy, but you realize that there's a lot of other things in life that has to deal with, you know, to deal with. That's why

Speaker 8 you see, you know, that's, you look at

Speaker 8 people who committed suicide who were on top of the world, you know,

Speaker 8 from Chester to, you know, people who OD to,

Speaker 8 you know, it's like, you can't be the, you think you're like the lead singer of Nirvana or something, and then you commit suicide or, you know, Lincoln Park or all the anybody, or let me just not even use them as an example.

Speaker 8 I'm sure there are tons of people, right, who are in that type of,

Speaker 8 have reached a wild level of success and choose to end their life, right? So you realize that those things are not the same thing. Now,

Speaker 8 that doesn't mean that you shouldn't, like, if you want money, you shouldn't go after getting money. I think that's important if that's like something that your heart desires.

Speaker 8 I know I wanted to, and I probably

Speaker 8 didn't understand if somebody who has made millions of dollars say,

Speaker 8 oh, money isn't everything. It's like, well, it is everything.
Like, it'll change my whole situation. Yeah, but

Speaker 8 what I realized in that situation for me personally is that that had nothing to do with how I felt.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 it's because one

Speaker 8 I was abusing, I feel like I was abusing Adderall at the time

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 Adderall is you know they don't tell you that, but it's really synthetic heroin and all sorts of craziness. There's just a lot to that, a lot of layers to that, right? So I was taking

Speaker 8 that type of stuff. I was not taking care of myself physically, you know.
I was super skinny at the time, too. I was like malnourished.

Speaker 8 I was was

Speaker 8 high a lot you know

Speaker 8 I was drunk sometimes a lot of times not all the time but like a very occasional drinker not just like

Speaker 8 I wasn't drinking every night but like every time there was a function you know I would abuse it not abuse it but I would indulge in it sure so all of those things add up and they have a long-term effect on your brain

Speaker 8 they have a long-term effect on the dopamine your brain creates that leads to your creativity, leads to your happiness, it leads to your living of, you know, your mind.

Speaker 8 My dad said on my album, Dark Sky Paradise, your mind can be a trickster and it'll make you really believe that

Speaker 8 you aren't, that you aren't meant to live. You know, it'll make you really feel like you're not who you are.
Really? You know what I mean?

Speaker 8 And so at that point in my life,

Speaker 8 I was confused.

Speaker 8 I had put my, I had my head down and was working, working, working so much that I had to be on Adderall, working so much that I had to go from one thing to the next thing to the next thing to the next thing without doing

Speaker 8 satisfying myself first by like doing what what makes me happy. You know, like I let go of all of my passions that I loved.
I let go of no free time. It's like, this is the time to get money.

Speaker 8 You know, we come from a place like Ohio, right, or Detroit or like, you know, the Midwest in general, where when you get an opportunity, it's like, you got to take advantage of it.

Speaker 8 You got to keep your foot on a neck. You got to, like, keep your foot on the gas.
Like, you don't let up. Like, don't let the opportunity pass.

Speaker 8 And you kind of take that idea and it's implanted in you. And it's one of those things that you just like move forward with, right? And you take it with you.
And you're like, I got to do this.

Speaker 8 I got to do that. I got to do that.
I got to do that. Or else I'm going to fall off and

Speaker 8 go back to be irrelevant or something.

Speaker 7 Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 8 Or just go back to living with, you know, it's like you create these stories. Like, I'm going to go back to living where I grew up at, right?

Speaker 8 Like, for me, I grew up in, I grew up in the hood, and like,

Speaker 8 I remember when I was analyzed it, I'm gonna go back to the point where I analyzed, like, yeah, what if everything didn't work out and I moved back to the hood? I was happy there, too.

Speaker 8 Like, I figure it out still, like, you know what I mean? So, I'm not scared of that. Like, you can't let anything,

Speaker 8 you can't live a fear-based life for sure, you know. So,

Speaker 8 point being is that,

Speaker 8 you know, when I,

Speaker 8 when I realized that all of those things weren't separate, I knew I had to make a change and I just quit doing everything.

Speaker 8 You know, I quit, I like canceled everything I had to do, canceled everything that I had coming up. And I was like, I got to figure out why I feel like this.
Interesting. And it took a long time.

Speaker 8 And somehow the universe was blessing me. Still, like, I never like...

Speaker 8 was really low on money or low like the universe was providing its means for me to figure it out and that's how I knew it was in alignment with what I needed to do well you know it's hard to say no to money sometimes and big opportunities though right it is got this artist or this person or this TV show that wants to do something with you and you say no yeah but that's a lot of power too it is a lot of power and yeah because you're not coming from a place of scarcity

Speaker 8 you know your your character your person comes first you got to know the order of operations you know what i'm saying and you're at the the top of that.

Speaker 8 So yeah, it's great.

Speaker 8 You know, there are times where my team looked at me like, yo, you passed up on this amount of money because you were, I was like, yeah, I was exhausted and I was this and I had to be here for my son and I had to do that and more will come.

Speaker 8 I believe in that. I really, truly do.
And it does. Yes.
So

Speaker 8 you have to have that faith in yourself. You have to have that.
invisible bridge below you and know that you're going to walk across it and get to the other side.

Speaker 8 You're not going to fall flat on your face.

Speaker 7 Did you ever have a scarcity mindset? And if so, how did you learn to switch it into an abundance mindset?

Speaker 8 Yes, I really feel like that. I talk about that on a song I have called Break the Cycle with Charlie Wilson, produced by my boy Leon Thomas.

Speaker 8 And I say, like, one of the cycles I broke in my family is the illusion of scarcity because it really is an illusion. And you could be like,

Speaker 8 no one can, you know, I didn't have any type of

Speaker 8 advantage coming into the world, you know, necessarily. Like, I didn't have like

Speaker 8 any padding financially. I didn't have anything.
Like, I did have a grandma who worked real hard, who was a female black captain in World War II. And then she was

Speaker 8 one of the first female cops in Detroit. And then a teacher and a counselor was a historical woman.
And she did all these amazing things.

Speaker 8 And she worked her off to give us a great, you know, the best life that she could provide her and my granddad.

Speaker 8 But we still financially had a lot of troubles, you know? So I think it was something that a lot of us get taught early, like, oh, money's hard to come by. That's a concept that's not really true.

Speaker 8 Even the concept of, man, playing video games is a waste of your time. It's worth playing video games.
Making millions right now.

Speaker 8 Bank. Yeah, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's like that really, in hindsight, teaches you that just do what you love.

Speaker 8 There's a there's a audience pool and a necessity for anything, especially if your heart is attached to it. So my thing is

Speaker 8 I had to over time

Speaker 8 just make an agreement with God that

Speaker 8 I'll never have to

Speaker 8 worry about that. That meaning like

Speaker 8 Like I'll always get provided

Speaker 8 with what I need.

Speaker 8 as long as I'm operating from my heart and

Speaker 8 am of service, and that's what,

Speaker 8 then, then that's, I always have all that I need, period.

Speaker 7 I love this, man. Everything you're saying is resonating with me.
And there's so many questions I want to ask you about that.

Speaker 7 But before I do, in chapter four, again, we're talking about your book, Going Higher. This is a game changer.
Make sure you guys get a copy. In chapter four, you talk about the

Speaker 7 fluidity of fortune and how you had to really unlearn some of these things about money i'm curious then how did you learn to reprogram your subconscious mind to manifest money more when you weren't taught that thing those things early on man this i have to give it up to deepak chopra because the seven spiritual laws of success such a good book that that actually was the first book that broke down money as an energy and when i first when i read it i was like what and

Speaker 8 he was just saying just like anything like you can attract it it it's magnetic so you could really be a magnet for whatever it is you're after in life and that includes money isn't off the table and you know so one of the things that I had to adopt is that there's enough money for everyone to go around you don't have to look at it as like a you're in a desert and there's like a glass of water and you have to you know it's not like that money is getting printed every single day when did you learn this how old were you like what was when i first read that book i was 17 i believe So that's when I was like, okay, I tried to like, obviously I didn't have a dollar to my name.

Speaker 8 So,

Speaker 8 I mean, besides the $20 I would get for allowance every week for doing chores and stuff. But like.

Speaker 7 And when did you first put it into practice? You learned this new concept. It was something completely new.

Speaker 2 Money's all around me, right?

Speaker 8 I had to learn the concept from experience.

Speaker 7 And how did you put it into practice where you said, oh, it's actually real what this means?

Speaker 8 At first, it was like, hold on to your money, hold on to it, right? It's like, that's like the thing you can get your money, hold on to it.

Speaker 8 And it's like, I remember when I got my first advance check for $15,000

Speaker 8 and I took my girlfriend to get ice cream and it went down to $14,970.

Speaker 8 It's going away. Yeah, it's like you felt it.
And like that, the reason that it felt like that is because that's not in alignment with how it should be. You know, I really feel like that.
Like,

Speaker 8 it feels good when you can provide and like, you know, because you're, you are,

Speaker 8 you are, you're like a vessel, man. And it's like, whatever you choose to activate.
And by the way, my life now doesn't go exactly how I always want it to go. I don't like,

Speaker 8 there are times where like things happen and I'll be like,

Speaker 8 this is not how I wanted this to go. This is not how I wanted it to happen.
But

Speaker 8 you just got to move on, man, and just go to the next thing. But my point is, is when I started, when I started to implement that

Speaker 8 was around the time, like I said, around 19 when I got my first advanced check. And then like

Speaker 8 every time that I was like, oh, wait, it's getting low. There's always an opportunity for something else to figure your way.
And that's when you do right by yourself and when you do right by.

Speaker 8 you know, everyone around you and when you're empowering people, when you're trying to like just be who you are meant to be, the best you, it's like things, I promise you, it's going to happen for you.

Speaker 1 So when you get money money now

Speaker 7 and when you're, when money comes in and when money comes out, how does it feel for you emotionally when you receive and spend money?

Speaker 8 Lately, I need to, I've told myself, like, I need to be a little more grateful for the money that does come in. I've kind of have gotten like, okay, cool.
Used to, oh, okay, this.

Speaker 8 Oh, we got that check. Okay, cool.
Oh, that came in. That, that deposit hit.
And I don't,

Speaker 8 I told myself, like, by the way, way I do affirmations every day so it's like I'm grateful is one of them I'm thankful for my life and every aspect of it like

Speaker 8 but I do want to just put I do want the God to know because I always like to think that God gives us everything we need right and and like

Speaker 8 and a lot of times what we want as well especially when it aligns with what we need

Speaker 8 And one of the things that I want is money, right? So, and then when it comes in, I shouldn't just pretend like it's supposed to be like that.

Speaker 8 I should really acknowledge it and be grateful for it more.

Speaker 8 So I've actually, and that kind of comes with just having a busy schedule. I'm still a new dad in a sense.
I'm still,

Speaker 8 you know,

Speaker 8 I have a lot of hats as a person. And you kind of like lose the importance of a lot of things.
So I've been meaning to like really moment by moment be grateful. You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 There's an amazing book called Happy Money by Ken Honda. I think you'll like it, where he says,

Speaker 7 it's about the Japanese art around money. And when I had him on the show, it really helped me fortify my

Speaker 7 abundance mindset around money. And he said, when money comes to me, I don't care if it's a penny or a million dollars or anywhere in between.
I say thank you to that money. Thank you to the dollar.

Speaker 7 Thank you to the $20. Thank you to the money I find in the street.
Thank you to the million dollar check. Thank you.

Speaker 8 Yeah. And I say thank you.

Speaker 7 Where do you want to go? And it says, Where do you want to go now? Do you want to go to my bank account and sit there for a while? Do you want to go into the stock market?

Speaker 7 Do you want to go into this business deal? Do you should I give this to someone for free?

Speaker 1 Like, where do you want to go?

Speaker 7 And he says, And when we look at it as energy and his abundance, and we are appreciating it, it appreciates in value. It does, and we don't hold on to it, but we say, Where do you want to go?

Speaker 7 Because I know more is coming to me.

Speaker 8 Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna use that. Where do you want to go? It flows.
Everything, man, that gave me goosebumps, man, because everything has

Speaker 8 a life to it even like making music it's like i i sometimes like when i'm on a beat i ask myself like okay what does this song want to be where does you know what does it want to go what do you want me to say on it and sometimes i'll get it there

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 that that should go for everything and i i do have a very like diverse portfolio when it comes to like finances and stuff. Like I do have like stuff in the stock market, stuff in crypto, real estate.

Speaker 8 i invested in businesses that worked and didn't work you know i made money off some um

Speaker 8 what's the best investment you've ever made in your life best investment i've ever made in my life currently probably the return was probably bitcoin i ain't gonna lie i also invested in uber which has kind of been a long play i kind of got in a little bit late with uber but

Speaker 8 I think one day it's going to pay off. But really, the whole point of my portfolio is to pass on to my kid or I only have one out or my kids, you know.

Speaker 7 What's the best investment you've made in yourself?

Speaker 8 Probably spending all my money on studio sessions growing up. That was probably the best investment yet because it was

Speaker 8 trained me to like be in a studio, be on the mic, to write music, you know, and I've written music for like

Speaker 8 not just myself, but I've also written some stuff for other people. Like, I've written stuff for Janae.
I've written stuff for, I got to write with

Speaker 8 Anderson Pack and Bruno Mars and like some other people.

Speaker 8 Obviously for Ye as well. Like I've gotten a chance to like be a writer in that sense, not just for myself.
And not like, I'm not saying I wrote like people's albums.

Speaker 8 I'm talking about just slightly contribute as a writer, investing in that just early on, you know, being 11 years old, 12 years old in the studio.

Speaker 7 What's the best investment you can make in yourself today that you haven't spent the money on yet?

Speaker 8 Time is the most valuable currency that you can spend and you can't get back. You know, that's the biggest investment is to put time into something, you know.

Speaker 8 That is,

Speaker 8 you know, what you put time into

Speaker 8 is worth more than anything because it can bring you, you know, all of these things can be a byproduct of it, like money or happiness

Speaker 8 or

Speaker 8 you know, impacting someone's life, which is the main goal is to really impact someone else, you know, to be of service.

Speaker 8 And you let, you let the

Speaker 8 laws of the universe apply to you, you know, and it comes back to you in a way you may not expect.

Speaker 8 But I think that when we realize how interconnected we all are, when we realize how you take away the singularity of a job, the singularity of a house you live in, the singularity, and then you go within and you realize that not only are we all

Speaker 8 operating on the same same system, we all are very much so alike. And everything that's alive,

Speaker 8 everything that's flowing in nature, every animal, everything, it's like we all come from this certain energy that we all are empowered from and we all are made from. It's like the,

Speaker 8 some people call it prana, some people call it love, some people call it whatever it is you want to call it. We all, when you boil it down through all the layers, we all are interconnected.

Speaker 8 And you see it, you see it as examples like, for for instance when we're in traffic and everyone's moving at the same pace and like stops at the same time and this and you see it's like you see us even during the pandemic everyone's shut down it's like you see how we all operate when it's when when you take away all the layers we all have to operate on the same wavelength and um it goes deeper than that but you know invest investing time

Speaker 8 to me is something that we all have right now.

Speaker 8 Some people have more time than others. Yeah.
And that, that is probably the greatest investment.

Speaker 7 You mentioned a little bit earlier about how when you had everything, but you also felt.

Speaker 8 I don't want to say everything. Well, you were, I think I labeled it as everything, but I didn't have everything.
It wasn't like Thanos with the rings on.

Speaker 7 When you have, when you had, okay, when you had everything that probably your 18-year-old self had dreamed of.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 And famous on tour, working with every big artist that

Speaker 7 you were looked up to, all that stuff.

Speaker 8 1,000%, yeah.

Speaker 7 All the money you could ever dream of. You know, it's like everything.
Playing in front of sold-out arenas and you weren't feeling good.

Speaker 7 You mentioned how you were doing, you know, drugs, alcohol, weed, things like this.

Speaker 8 And people, and people made it to seem regular, but yeah, go ahead. You know, that's not regular.

Speaker 7 Where do you feel like your frequency was when you were doing drugs, alcohol, weed versus when you're not doing that?

Speaker 8 I don't really get like blasted anymore. So I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 8 How that was. My frequency, I was happy at the time.

Speaker 8 I was definitely happy, but I don't know.

Speaker 8 It's like, like I said, it's not the same as like a high off of life feeling. You know, it's not the same.
It's like synthetic

Speaker 8 versus the real thing. You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 I've never been drunk or high in my life.

Speaker 8 Wow. Amazing.

Speaker 7 And I played college football, so I was always at like the frat party type of stuff. And so I never knew.
what that's like to be drunk or a high.

Speaker 8 And it's kind of embarrassing, I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 7 But every time I'd go to the parties,

Speaker 7 everyone was like, I can't, you have to drink, you have to drink. It was like very forceful, like you have to drink.
And I was like, I can get high on life. I don't need this.

Speaker 8 Or I can have a sprite or whatever.

Speaker 8 And some people may think that sounds cliche or corny or whatever.

Speaker 7 But I feel like it's the natural high of just, I love my life.

Speaker 1 I'm grateful to be here. All these different things.

Speaker 7 I could get to that space. So I never felt like I needed the alcohol or something to get there.
So I don't know what it's like, but is the frequency different when you're high or drunk?

Speaker 8 Well, let me tell you something. So I stopped drinking for like years and stuff.

Speaker 8 And like, so when I'm at an event and I see everyone drunk around me, it's so funny to see people high and drunk and you're like straight.

Speaker 7 Sober.

Speaker 8 Yeah. And

Speaker 8 the frequency, obviously, yeah, it's obviously is tremendously different, but

Speaker 8 it just also is like.

Speaker 8 You don't need to be have you, it's like the frequency matches the environment too.

Speaker 8 So it's like, you may not have to be like at a high high frequency when you're in the middle of a club and you just want to get drunk. And,

Speaker 8 you know, it's, it's, uh, I do think that like the long-term effects of like, you know, I've had friends that was alcoholics. I've seen it ruin people's lives.
I've seen it like ruin.

Speaker 8 I've seen people not be able to, you know, it affects a lot of things. It doesn't just affect your body physically.

Speaker 8 Alcohol affects your brain for like weeks after, months after, years after. And same with like, especially these pills and things like that.
So

Speaker 8 I would also say it affects your soul.

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Speaker 8 I think it affects your soul too. So yeah, I do think that

Speaker 8 100%.

Speaker 8 I do think that the frequency is not the same as when you're like, for instance, sober in your high experience and high of life which i've experienced and that's can't beat that you know why you can't beat it because you are the drug it's not like you're taking something to feel the effects of it it's like you are the source of it so it's like you are creating the high yes you know and like you're in alignment with what is going on in the world so it's like you can't beat that let's go you can't even buy that you know what i'm saying you can't buy the other can't buy that and you have to tap into something deeper to create it.

Speaker 8 Exactly.

Speaker 7 You have to tap into that ultimate power within you to create it.

Speaker 8 Yeah. And you know,

Speaker 8 when you say like, you have to tap into it, I think people get a sense like it's a lot of work or it's like very hard. And I'm not saying it is or it isn't.

Speaker 8 It can be more work for everyone is different. Everyone's on their own path, but it doesn't take much.

Speaker 8 It really just takes being real with yourself.

Speaker 8 and finding out what works for you to be able to tap into the life that you deserve, that you can experience and really enjoy, you know, but it starts within. That's the point.
Enjoy.

Speaker 3 Enjoy.

Speaker 8 Oh, man. I like that.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Do you do you smoke or drink a lot right now? No.

Speaker 8 Not at all.

Speaker 7 Not at all. Not at all.
No outer all, no.

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 7 No drug, no weed, maybe?

Speaker 7 Why did you decide, you know, when you were making money and doing drugs and everything was working out, why did you decide now not to be on drugs or alcohol?

Speaker 8 Well, I'm still making money. So

Speaker 8 that's another thing. Like those have nothing to do with each other.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 8 There are people who are on all those type of things that are way richer than me, but that don't mean they're more successful than me. People tie all these things together.

Speaker 8 They'd be like, oh, because you got $150 million.

Speaker 8 Do you think you're more successful than me? It's like, that has nothing to do with it. That's just a concept that we tie to that.
You know, that just means you have more money than me.

Speaker 8 That's all that means is that you have more money. That don't mean that like

Speaker 8 you get to me holding my baby, that's like me going trick-or-treat with my son, that's success. Yeah.
That's that's successful. That didn't cost me hardly anything.

Speaker 8 So it's like, you, what is people tying everything together and you're going to be a victim of these conditional things, like thinking that money is success. Now, success brings, does bring money.

Speaker 8 Success also brings a lot of other things. Success can can bring,

Speaker 8 but it's not that. And that's what I mean by like separating it all.
You know what I mean? So I don't, I didn't, I didn't tie like,

Speaker 8 you know, I used to, I used to be like, oh, this is the reason why I'm successful is because I'm taking this Adderall. You know, yeah.

Speaker 8 And then that's when I realized I had a problem when I would go to the studio. And I couldn't do the studio without taking it.

Speaker 8 So that's when I had to check myself and be like, nah, you know, like that, this don't, this isn't right. Like, this is, I'm, you're,

Speaker 8 I'm falling apart thinking, thinking that I don't have what it takes when I'm the one who got myself here.

Speaker 7 You know, 100%. Yeah.
Did you ever make agreements with God? Yes.

Speaker 8 I talk about that in the book as well. I made agreements with God

Speaker 8 about

Speaker 8 one of the agreements I made is that like,

Speaker 8 We talked about financial. I don't want this to be like a big financial episode, but one of the agreements I made is that, yeah, I always,

Speaker 8 you know, well, when my son was born, I made an agreement to be the best dad I could be, you know.

Speaker 8 Another agreement was that

Speaker 8 when I'm pursuing, you know, my passion or my purpose or having my heart in the right place that I never have to worry, like I always have the means needed, you know, no matter what.

Speaker 8 That's an agreement I made. I'll never, I never have to worry about,

Speaker 8 about money or whatever it is you know that has to do deal with that and

Speaker 8 there are some other ones that are like kind of a little more personal sure yeah no worries but i mean those are very personal too especially my son is as personal as it gets but yeah what was this moment like or moments like where you said god i'm gonna make an agreement with you and did you hear anything in return i feel like god talks to you in a lot of ways it's not always where you hear it in that sense sometimes you feel it and feeling it is like hearing it, you know, um,

Speaker 8 like goosebumps when you get goosebumps and you know, whatever it is, you know, or something happens in synchronicity with that.

Speaker 8 There was one time in my life where I heard the voice of God, though, one time,

Speaker 8 uh, and it wasn't when I was like meditating, it wasn't when I was like,

Speaker 8 you know, I've done like intense meditations, like on top of mountains, and you know,

Speaker 8 or like

Speaker 8 wasn't when I was like peaceful on a walk. It was when I was like, it was between

Speaker 8 it was like late at night or early in the morning rather

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 i heard

Speaker 8 it's really so personal i don't even know if i want to share it all the way um i definitely heard the voice of god and it said something that resonated it was a voice i never heard before that sounded so familiar

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 um it's giving me goosebumps man uh it was like very real, and I knew exactly what it was. It wasn't like what, like, I wasn't dreaming.
I was very conscious, and I heard it twice.

Speaker 8 And I got a message, and then I was like, what? And then I got it again.

Speaker 8 And it was very loving, but it was very

Speaker 8 heavy. And it was very like present.

Speaker 8 And it was very clear. Wow.
I know.

Speaker 7 Was it giving you wisdom or guidance or just kind of like an affirmation for you to remember something about yourself?

Speaker 8 Yeah, it was like definitely,

Speaker 8 it just was personal that related to me, you know, and it's something that I'll always remember and always apply.

Speaker 7 And is that when you said, I'm going to make an agreement with you?

Speaker 8 No, that was another time. So, no, when I said an agreement, you know, God is something you feel more so than something that is like you see.

Speaker 8 Even though this is all a testament to God and me, us being able to talk, communicate.

Speaker 7 It's all a miracle. It's all a miracle.

Speaker 8 It's all a miracle. You know, you realize that because,

Speaker 8 yeah, like we, we get so desensitized. So we're used to the life

Speaker 8 until we aren't here no more. You know, you got to remember.
So one of the things having a kid taught me is like

Speaker 8 the sperm and the egg.

Speaker 8 You're fighting impossible odds. It's like.
The odds are like a million times crazier than winning the mega millions that are billions.

Speaker 8 You know, it's like crazy astronomical odds that you beat to get here that you fight through that you get to and and then you're the one that makes it into this into this egg right the one out of all these hundreds of billions of experiment yeah yeah it's crazy so you got to realize that on a level we probably we fought to be here you this is something this is a privilege to be here for real

Speaker 8 not just saying that trying to sound like positive it's really a privilege to be in this it's like for real and

Speaker 8 you have to understand that

Speaker 8 you know

Speaker 8 we uh we we circumb ourselves and get used to this life but it's miraculous every day you see it it's like you we see the sun give life to all of these things we see how everything works in such

Speaker 8 a

Speaker 8 system

Speaker 8 that if one thing was off, if the sun was a little bit closer, if the moon was a little bit closer, we wouldn't be be able to survive.

Speaker 8 If the temperature was a little different, if, you know, Earth could survive, but we couldn't survive. So you got to understand that we're here for a reason.

Speaker 8 If you're on Earth, you're here for a reason. It ain't doesn't mean you're meant to be the president of the United States or whatever, because we think, oh, that's a reason worth living.

Speaker 8 No, your reason could be to impact somebody. Your reason could be to enjoy the beauty of life.
That's a reason and that's fine. You know what I'm saying? So

Speaker 8 I know we got a little bit off topic, but you know, I think one of the things that people should keep in perspective is like, yo, we here and

Speaker 8 this is this, we in it right now, right? Like we're lit right now. Like we're in it, you know? Right, for sure.

Speaker 7 Yeah. There's two things we were talking about.
One, you heard, you heard God's voice a couple of times. When you heard God speak to you, did something in your life start to change?

Speaker 7 Did you do things differently? Did you make other agreements with yourself on how you're going to live your life? Or did it just remind you

Speaker 7 about what you're supposed to do next?

Speaker 8 Well, I really appreciate you bringing that up because you reminded, it's like, I love getting reinforcement.

Speaker 7 It's all synchronicities, man.

Speaker 8 It is.

Speaker 8 I was meant to hear that, you know, today because it's like, yeah, I got to remember that,

Speaker 8 that what I was told that day, you know?

Speaker 7 You don't have to tell me or us, but yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah. But what was it wasn't like the deepest thing.
Yeah, yeah. It was just some some person is personal and

Speaker 8 you know you gotta like hold on to some stuff share 100 yeah but more like what did it tell you without telling us what it said but what what did you feel you were meant to do with that information what i'm doing not be quiet not trying to be too cool you know share share what i have to offer and be of and be of service and you know have fun yeah also yeah you know that's those are the things that i got from what i heard that's cool yeah

Speaker 6 when when was this?

Speaker 7 This years ago?

Speaker 8 No, this was like a year ago, probably. Yeah,

Speaker 8 as of recent.

Speaker 8 After my son was born, yeah. After he was born.

Speaker 8 That's a real miracle right there. No, wow.
Having a kid or like,

Speaker 8 by the way, it's very, very, um, it's a lot more than you could.

Speaker 7 Do you have kids or no? Not yet, but we're. Oh, yeah.
Okay. Hopefully starting.

Speaker 8 It's a lot more than you could imagine.

Speaker 8 My hats go off, especially to moms and mothers.

Speaker 7 What's the best thing about being a dad for yourself?

Speaker 8 I love being a dad.

Speaker 8 I'm not just a father. I'm a dad, too.
So I'll be like baths, diapers, this, that, spending time playing.

Speaker 8 Like, I don't play about like when it comes to that with my, with my son, because, you know, one of the coolest things like...

Speaker 8 having my dad around is I could talk to him in a, in a different manner now. I kind of understand him differently.

Speaker 8 And there are times where I have other things to do, and I'll put things off that are important sometimes for

Speaker 8 my son, you know. And I remember I said, Man, it's crazy.
He's one years old. He's not even going to remember this.

Speaker 8 And my dad was like, Yeah, his DNA is going to remember it, though.

Speaker 8 That hit me like a lightning bolt. You know what I'm saying? It was like,

Speaker 8 like, yeah, he may not comp, like, his, he might not have a memory of it, but his DNA is going to is so knowledgeable that he'll remember it. And like your guys' bond is going to,

Speaker 8 your bond is going to outlive his memory. You know what I'm saying? Like for as long as he remembers, he's going to have a bond with his days.

Speaker 8 It's not like you meet somebody and go on a date and it's like, oh, you're, you're great. Like, let's be friends or, you know, whatever.

Speaker 8 It's like, no, he's going to, that's, that is like, you're setting up the building blocks.

Speaker 8 And that's when I was like, this is always productive. Wow.
Always productive. productive.

Speaker 7 I was asking your dad beforehand when you left the room for a minute. And I was like, what's the thing that you're inspired by the most about your son?

Speaker 8 What did he say?

Speaker 7 And he said that

Speaker 7 you treat everyone as if they're special, whether they're someone or they're nobody. You treat everyone with kindness, respect, generosity, and you have a big heart and you want to serve people.

Speaker 7 And I thought that was really cool to have your dad say that about you.

Speaker 7 What's the thing that inspires you the most about your dad?

Speaker 8 Oh, man, his heart. You know, I talked about it.

Speaker 8 He has such a

Speaker 8 giving heart. Such a,

Speaker 8 he's a,

Speaker 8 he has a pure like soul to me.

Speaker 8 And he was just a caring, he did, he was caring. And like, one of the things I vividly remember growing up is like our rise to school.
I like how real he kept it with me. I like like just how like

Speaker 8 like that's how I learned about like the birds and the bees with my dad like I just appreciated him like

Speaker 8 really just keeping it real with me and also like you know we would do like a word of the day sometimes on the way to school you know so he was a special guy and I feel like he he

Speaker 7 he like approached everything with love you know and I appreciated that I saw an interview online I don't know who who this was but I saw a clip of an older man who had billions of dollars successful entrepreneur.

Speaker 7 And someone asked him like what his definition of success was. He's probably in his 70s.
And he said, my adult children wanted to hang out with me today.

Speaker 7 That's success, right? That was success for him.

Speaker 8 Yeah, not the B, not the B he had in his account. Exactly.

Speaker 7 But like that my adult kids wanted to spend time with me. not for my money, but they genuinely loved me and they wanted to hang out.
And it sounds like, I don't know, it seems that way.

Speaker 7 I just met you guys both recently, but it seems like, you know, you guys are hanging out together and it's, that's got to feel good for both of you, you know?

Speaker 8 It is. And, you know, life is short, man.

Speaker 7 And a lot of people don't have good relationships with their parents. And then there's, you know, traumas and challenges.

Speaker 7 So, and I'm not saying you guys have a perfect relationship, but it seems like.

Speaker 8 And to that, to that point, I do feel like we get, I believe this.

Speaker 8 You can argue with me all day. I do feel like we get to, we choose our parents coming into this world.
So what that means is some people might be like, oh, and I hate my mom.

Speaker 8 Like, I did not choose her for my mom, right? Or, like, I hate my dad, right? But my thing is, is like, it goes back to the concept, but God don't give you what you want. God gives you what you need.

Speaker 8 Like, say, if we're here to progress our souls, if we're here to

Speaker 8 learn, you know, we don't know what it's like to learn on a soul level. That's something that the experiences can only teach you.
And the person you're

Speaker 8 sculpted to be, that comes from experiences, right?

Speaker 8 So sometimes people learn from having great parents or whatever or great role models in their life to be like them and some some people even learn better from not what to be and some people realize later on the lessons that they're taught from dealing with things that they did not want to go through you know because it may switch a whole something around or it may inspire something or we never know what we never know really we can make these assumptions and plans and God going to laugh at us because it's like, it's never, it's never as linear as we think it is all the time.

Speaker 8 100%.

Speaker 7 On page 93 of your book, you say

Speaker 7 make three agreements with the universe. Write them down and sign your name underneath with the words, so be it.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Why do you like that practice? And why do you recommend people making three agreements with the universe?

Speaker 8 Well, I just chose the number three because that's a good number to me.

Speaker 8 Like, you could do 10 if you want, or you could do one if you want, or, you know, I just chose like three just to get your mind going.

Speaker 8 But I sign it at the bottom because to me, it's like a contract, you know, it's like, that's how I sign my business deals. I sign it at the bottom.

Speaker 8 I put the so be it there because that's like a declaration. That's like you like,

Speaker 8 that's like.

Speaker 8 You activating it to me, you know, it's like you sign it and then you hit it with a so be it like or it is or it is done

Speaker 8 to me. it's like

Speaker 8 i don't want people to think that's like witchy or anything like that it's not to me to me it's more like it's more so like business that's how business may be operating they signing that signature right there they are you know so it's making it a stronger bond with energy god the universe with your destiny and that's how serious you're taking it you taking it serious enough to write it down sign your name letting it know who it's from and and solidifying it so that's how i look at it Something I did in my early 20s was when I was broke, I was living on my sister's couch in Columbus, Ohio.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 Columbus sea bus, baby, the greatest performance of your life was in Columbus.

Speaker 8 I like that. I don't know about the greatest one ever, but it was a good one.
It was a good one, yeah.

Speaker 7 But I was in a dark phase for about a year and a half, and I was trying to figure out how to

Speaker 7 develop self-worth. I was playing arena football, and I was chasing the NFL dream.

Speaker 7 I got injured, and I was never good enough to make it, but I lived my dream in terms of getting paid 250 bucks a week to catch a football and play in front of audiences.

Speaker 7 For me, that was like part of the dream as a kid.

Speaker 7 Got injured on my sister's couch for a year and a half. And I realized my ego was much bigger than my self-worth.

Speaker 7 And I thought I had things figured out, but I really had no skills besides catching a football. And I was actually a scared little boy inside.

Speaker 7 And I remember thinking of these things. I was like, what is the goal and the dream I want to accomplish? I would write these things down and I would create a certificate of achievement.

Speaker 7 I would write the goal down with the date I wanted to accomplish it and I would sign it and frame it and hang it on my wall. And that gave me something to look at every single day.

Speaker 7 And I said, who's the man I need to become in order to accomplish this? I have low self-worth. I'm in a lot of self-doubt and fears.

Speaker 7 I need to go conquer these fears and develop these skills to accomplish this dream. Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt low self-worth?

Speaker 7 And if so, how did you learn to develop more worthiness for yourself?

Speaker 8 Has there ever been a time

Speaker 8 when I had low self-worth? Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, of course. I'm human, man.
Like, I think we all go through those times where we kind of like

Speaker 8 doubt ourselves, question ourselves. Like,

Speaker 8 yeah, like,

Speaker 8 especially when you're after something and when you know, you're like.

Speaker 8 When you know you can do better,

Speaker 8 which is a lot of us, we know we feel like we can do better. We feel like we're made for more or we get that confused well maybe we don't know that but we get confused of like

Speaker 8 feeling bad and wondering why you feel bad it's like if you realize that like you're an antenna and like you're like a like it's like tuning the radio station if it's off you're gonna you're not gonna get the message so like Those times are meant for you to just like fine-tune yourself and get on the right frequency so you could really get to where you need to be, right?

Speaker 8 The ego part that you were talking about, your ego is bigger than your self-worth. To me, a lot of people say, you need to kill your ego, blah, blah, blah, right?

Speaker 8 To me, I feel like your ego is a part of you. You can't really kill a part of you.
You got to work with your ego and you got to understand,

Speaker 8 be like, ego, yourself is all of these different things. You know, you're like a mental person, spiritual, emotional, physical.

Speaker 8 Then there's like the ego that's a part of it, right? And then there's like your heart. That's a part of it, your gut.

Speaker 8 All these things i feel like are like the makings of like it's like the team of you that lives in this one being your soul right i feel like you can't just let your ego be in the driver's seat all the time there are times where it needs to be in the driver's seat where it's like oh the cameras are on you what you gonna do like that's times where it's like ego like we about to

Speaker 8 i'm never you know but you know but to me As far as that goes, those are just the learning experiences that only life could teach you, man.

Speaker 8 You know, like you go through those moments and they make you who you are. It's like you wouldn't be who you are if you didn't have that time where you slept on your sister's couch in Columbus.

Speaker 8 It's true, man. You know what I mean? And

Speaker 8 the, the willingness to want to do better, that's like, it's different if you were satisfied with that. If you were like, this is it.
This is, this is good. This is what life is.
But you weren't.

Speaker 8 And I think that's something to really embrace is that.

Speaker 8 willingness to want to do better. And I know it hurts to people out there.
I know it hurts. It could be

Speaker 8 you could want to take your life over it. You know, you could want to like

Speaker 8 just give up and be a terrible person to people.

Speaker 8 But I'm telling you, man, that's like, it's just all part of it. And nothing lasts forever.
Even if things do last a long time, nothing lasts forever. So that's true.
Embrace it.

Speaker 8 Let that be your fuel. Let it be your fire.
You know, I can't give you the directions on how to.

Speaker 8 be successful. I can only show you what has worked for me in some situations, or, you know, you can only tell us what has worked for you in some situations.

Speaker 8 And you apply it to yourself, but you do, I can 100% know that you got what it takes. I'm going to look at every camera.
You got what it takes. You got what it takes.
You got what it takes.

Speaker 8 I promise you.

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Speaker 7 In your book, we're talking about Go Hire, which is a powerful book.

Speaker 7 You mentioned that some of the early books that you got into, The Four Agreements, The Secret.

Speaker 7 I got to interview Rhonda Byrne, the creator of The Secret, a couple of times. And it was really powerful.
She talked about the law of attraction, manifestation.

Speaker 7 I'm curious, what is your formula for manifestation and the law of attraction for you? Is there a definition for you? Is there a...

Speaker 7 a code for you on how to manifest better?

Speaker 8 There have been times where I've attempted to manifest things and it didn't happen

Speaker 8 and there are times where it did happen and then there are times where it happens at a time where i didn't expect it to happen and there and then there are times where it's like oh i put that

Speaker 8 you know i let i i let that go and it ended up coming to fruition so everything is different um but for me what works is like just having clarity on it and being realistic with myself or embracing the unrealistic 185 million records is kind of unrealistic to think about unrealistic, right?

Speaker 8 But it feels realistic to me, though.

Speaker 7 You made it real.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 7 But if you're 18 and thinking, I'm going to sell almost 200 million records. Like, is that real? Is that realistic? It's kind of an unrealistic thought.

Speaker 7 It is at that time of life. But then, I sold 100 million.

Speaker 8 Well, that's just because you may not be there that yet. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 You know, we kind of sometimes, that's kind of like where anxiety and depression comes from is that we try and like put ourselves forward in our story.

Speaker 8 and then by the time you get there you'll be like oh this is it like it's like it's it's natural right so it's like and sometimes that anxiety and all of that like looking forward to something it can hold you back from just naturally being like look it's gonna happen when it happens i'm gonna be ready and

Speaker 8 you know everyone's situation is different so

Speaker 8 That mean, it could be like, say you failed a bar exam five times. Like, it's like you're gonna,

Speaker 8 you're not gonna go your whole life failing the bar exam.

Speaker 8 You're gonna eventually get it because your preparation is gonna meet the opportunity as long as you are being aware, as long as you are being like, okay, this, that's probably where I messed up at.

Speaker 8 Let me really do my, you know, the time you put in is never wasted. Yeah.
You feel what I'm saying? So

Speaker 8 yeah.

Speaker 7 Going back to Posner,

Speaker 7 I said, what else about Bay Sean that that really inspired you? And he said, during that time,

Speaker 7 when he was glowing, he talked about a book called Ask and It Is Given.

Speaker 8 That's one of the ones by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The teachers of Abraham.
Shout out Esther and Jerry Hicks and Deepak.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 Paulo Cuello. Yeah, they're all great.

Speaker 7 I love all those books. What did that book, though, teach you or what did it say for you about your life? Ask and it is given.

Speaker 8 Ask and it is given taught me to

Speaker 8 um

Speaker 8 I guess it taught me to manifest things by putting yourself on the frequency of whatever it is you're desiring. You know, I don't remember what book

Speaker 8 taught me to,

Speaker 8 I try not to say want so much when it relates to the things that I really want in life because I don't like acknowledging the lack of so much.

Speaker 7 There's something out there that you want to create, though.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so I'll say I desire it. It's my desire.
You know, I want it. It's like, i'll say i want sometimes like oh i want some pizza i want that

Speaker 8 things that i know are obtainable but for sometimes when it's really one of those main goals i don't like to say i want to be i like to say like

Speaker 8 um i can't wait until or like i desire my you know it's one of them i desire that or i don't know why that's just a personal thing this is really interesting you're saying this because i think a lot of people i think we need to talk about this for a moment because words matter.

Speaker 8 Words do matter.

Speaker 7 And how you desire or want something puts you on a different frequency level and how you speak the word yeah it's the frequency for me that's what it is if you say i'm lacking something so therefore i want it

Speaker 7 based on how i'm interpreting you're saying this you feel more separate from that thing that you want to create and draw closer to you like an example is like

Speaker 8 i want that new benz

Speaker 8 and the example is like man it's gonna feel good when i get that new benz man like it's gonna feel it's it's it's like when i like it's going to be like, man, I can't wait to rot.

Speaker 8 Like, it's like, you know, um, I don't even like using can either. Like, I'm excited about the new bins

Speaker 8 because it's mine.

Speaker 7 It's just a matter of when.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's a matter of when.

Speaker 7 So it puts you into more of an abundance frequency versus scarcity or a lack frequency.

Speaker 8 So that's what

Speaker 8 Asking It is Given taught me by Strange and Jerry Hicks. It taught me to be on a put yourself on a frequency and just see how life changes for you.

Speaker 8 You know, I can't guarantee everything you ever want will happen, but I can guarantee that it will, while life will change if you really practice putting yourself on that frequency and keeping yourself there as much as you can.

Speaker 8 Cause it's hard. It's a lot of work, man.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 I don't do like

Speaker 8 life isn't meant to just be work every day. You know, these aren't, it's not, you're not like, we're not in school all day long to like manifest our goals.

Speaker 8 It's like you have to find what works for you. Some people prefer therapy.
Some people prefer yoga. Some people prefer meditation.
Some people prefer

Speaker 8 writing things down. Some people prefer saying them out loud.
Some people, it's like you got to find what really works for you and like see how it goes.

Speaker 7 How do you balance taking action to create what you want versus attracting and allowing it to come to you?

Speaker 8 I feel like you do always have to be proactive. And you realize that, you know, I feel like you put your attention on your intention.

Speaker 8 You're proactive, meaning that you take action.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 then you also have to be able to let it go.

Speaker 8 Gosh, it's so hard for people. Holding on to something, holding on to it.
It's like, it's like you got to let it go and have that trust, you know?

Speaker 8 And you're in the middle of trust. You are in the middle of trust.
So

Speaker 8 you have to trust yourself that that's your, whatever your process is, you know? Uh-huh.

Speaker 7 Yeah. It's hard to trust, though.
Heck yeah. If you want to create it now, and when you feel a lack, you feel separate.
You're like, how do I make it happen now?

Speaker 8 I know. I know.
It can be hard. I don't agree with you because that's a concept that I don't want to take on.
I don't think that it's hard to trust.

Speaker 7 I'm saying for some people, it's hard.

Speaker 8 Yep, it is. It is.
Yeah, for sure. It is.
And it has been hard for me a lot of times in my life.

Speaker 7 What's the thing that you've desired the most that took you the longest to attract or actualize or create in your life that you had to trust

Speaker 8 the longest, definitely being. I've started rapping when I was 11 years old, so I didn't get a record deal until I was

Speaker 8 19-ish, 20, 19 or 20.

Speaker 8 So that's probably the longest one. But when it comes to like

Speaker 8 numbers and sales and stuff, those that's all beautiful, you know what I'm saying? But

Speaker 8 that is just like, it's so

Speaker 8 momentary. Moment, it's so moment.
It's just that is what it is. So it's like, you, that's something you can't control, meaning it's all the way.
Yeah. And you can put your energy on it.

Speaker 8 You could put your intention and your attention. And it may go the way you want.
It may do better. It may do worse.
But that's something that's out of your control if is how people

Speaker 8 consume your art. The real win is that you got to make it.
The real win is that you got to create it. And that's, then that's the win already.

Speaker 7 And putting it out in the universe.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 So it's like all the other stuff is like sprinkles on top. It's awesome.
It's great. Success can be like, I feel like that's a, can be a part of someone's success is like

Speaker 8 achieving the goals that they wanted to achieve on a project.

Speaker 8 And, but, like I said, when that doesn't happen, which that's happened to me, there have been times where I've sold records on the album, not sold as many as I would like to, and so on and so forth.

Speaker 8 And it's just, you got to just go, keep going and

Speaker 8 have fun with it. You know what I mean?

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 sometimes you get to take things too serious. And it's like,

Speaker 8 you know, you realize that you already won by getting to do what you love to do. 100%.
Like I said, if like

Speaker 8 you look at anyone else, like,

Speaker 8 you think Will Smith is going to be.

Speaker 8 Down and out there.

Speaker 8 His movie didn't do as well as he wanted. Then the next one does amazing.
And then the next one doesn't. And And then the next one does.

Speaker 8 Like these people, it's like we get to, you know, or then artists be art. Artists.
Yeah. You know, like

Speaker 8 every

Speaker 8 Van Gogh wasn't the Van Gogh. You know what I mean? It's like every piece is like, that's one thing.
And that's the beauty of it. That's really the beauty of it, man.

Speaker 7 You've got a whole chapter in your book about therapy. I'm curious, what is the thing that therapy taught you the most?

Speaker 7 And what is the healing that you've created for yourself that has given you the most peace and freedom?

Speaker 8 Therapy was just a way of being able to communicate things. You know, therapy has a way of being able to communicate

Speaker 8 things that you wouldn't normally talk about, things that you wouldn't normally touch on with a friend or family member necessarily, or may not be as deep in that sense.

Speaker 8 You know, so to me, therapy was just a great way to unpack certain things.

Speaker 8 and you know communication I said this before like communication is the bridge to salvation that God is holding our hand to walk across and just like any bridge you can't skip a step to get to the other side so it's like when you are in therapy you it is really uncovering so many amazing

Speaker 8 uh and hurtful and emotional things about yourself but it really

Speaker 8 helps so many aspects of your life, man. It really can help you unpack things.
It can help you,

Speaker 8 it can help you let go of things. It could help you forgive someone that you've been holding on to.

Speaker 8 And that stuff is like, it takes up real estate in your mind, body, and soul, you know, and that maybe could be holding you back from something really truthfully.

Speaker 8 There are a lot of things that I've had to clear in my life. You know, I've like therapy.

Speaker 8 Yeah, there are a lot of like mindsets, a lot of concepts that I used to believe that I had to communicate and realize that that is not the truth. And, you know, I learned from one of my

Speaker 8 mentors a while ago,

Speaker 8 Christy Sheldon. I haven't talked to her in years, but one of the things she used to do is like when you have a concept of something that you've been applying to your life, she would say,

Speaker 8 whatever, whatever, whatever it is, delete, destroy, uncreate, and transmute across all time, space, dimension, and realities. It is done.
Like, wow.

Speaker 8 done it's over with it's behind you now and sometimes you have to say it like more than once but yeah like

Speaker 8 i definitely

Speaker 8 there was so many i don't even i can't even remember because i've gone i'm over removed them yeah removed it but there have been times where i've had to say that multiple times in my life and that i still do to this day as well like if there's something that is like striking me and like

Speaker 8 I have to delete, destroy, uncreate, and transmute that across all time, space, dimension, and realities.

Speaker 7 Wow, that's powerful, man. That's a good kind of like mantra to reinforce with yourself.

Speaker 7 What would you say is the biggest mental block that you've had to let go of to create more abundance in your life?

Speaker 8 I deserve it.

Speaker 8 That's one of the things. It's like you think you're not worthy, like you said,

Speaker 8 to create more abundance and to create more whatever it is you're after in life.

Speaker 8 You can, I guess, abundance is a good word to label whatever it is you're after

Speaker 8 is to

Speaker 8 um empower yourself and know you do deserve it you know and that may like that's one of the things that like therapy that's one of the things that

Speaker 8 for me meditating or just like

Speaker 8 or just reminding myself who i am you know i'm not better than anyone but i deserve whatever it is i desire

Speaker 8 that's just

Speaker 8 that's a fact that's really a fact. You know what I mean? So

Speaker 8 once you get rid of those concepts and

Speaker 8 of thinking you, you know, how can you be unhappy you don't have something when you don't think you deserve it?

Speaker 7 How do people who feel very anxious, depressed, stressed out, overwhelmed, life's just not going their way, going through a breakup, going through trauma.

Speaker 7 They feel like everything is against them. How do they learn that everything is actually in their favor and that they're deserving of abundance?

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's kind of what this whole book is like. Not the whole book, but that's kind of like what I try.

Speaker 8 It's

Speaker 8 first of all,

Speaker 8 I gotta acknowledge that you're not alone.

Speaker 8 We've all have been there.

Speaker 8 We've all have been there where the world was against us and one bad thing happens after another. And you're like, well, I guess I'm not meant to be doing this.

Speaker 8 Or I guess this is like, you know, where it's brought you to tears or brought you, you know.

Speaker 8 And the best part about those moments is it teaches you something new about yourself, but it also is temporary.

Speaker 8 And you can use that for fuel to your fire. And also,

Speaker 8 you have to make a switch in your mind. You have to realize what you're creating.
Everything is a reflection of you.

Speaker 8 So what are you, you know, instead of blaming everyone else.

Speaker 7 How are you manifesting it?

Speaker 8 Yeah, instead of pointing that finger and you realize it's three fingers pointing back at you, you got to realize that, okay,

Speaker 8 I let me let me change. If I'm not happy with

Speaker 8 how things are going, let me change,

Speaker 8 let me, let me realize that I'm the source and let me change what I'm doing and see if that affect and see how that changes it.

Speaker 8 You know, you're not gonna get

Speaker 8 you're not gonna get

Speaker 8 uh

Speaker 8 what you desire by like being like

Speaker 8 up yeah or like being negative and angry at the world or all these things like

Speaker 8 I'm not saying you can't take that angry there's infinite possibilities you can't take that and let that fuel you but if it hasn't been working for you then yeah you got to change up you got to change up your mentality because your mentality is everything it really is it's the beginning of everything

Speaker 7 faith and then the mentality you know yeah and it's kind of like what uh posner said that it's like you were kind of down and out for a while or in more of like a lower state.

Speaker 7 And then all of a sudden he sees you a few months later and you're glowing. So you change something within you.
Yeah. You didn't take a pill and make you feel better.
You changed something within you.

Speaker 7 You transformed the way you think and then you created from a space of joy and possibilities and freedom.

Speaker 8 Have you ever read that book, The Secrets of

Speaker 8 The Hidden Secrets of I've read it and I can't remember the name of it. It's like talking about speaking to water positively and you're speaking to the water differently.

Speaker 8 And, you you know, you look at the water down to the crystal levels because they're like, and you see that like it'll be like a beautiful snowflake when you're speaking to water positively.

Speaker 8 And then it'll be like a like deformed looking crazy thing when you're like saying like, you suck.

Speaker 8 You don't deserve this, like this and that, as opposed to like, you're worthy. I love you.
It's, you know, instead of, and you see the difference of how in water, right?

Speaker 8 And you realize that we're like 70, 80% water. And you realize how important it is to speak these things onto yourself and to say them out loud,

Speaker 8 it has an effect. What that book taught me is not only is that like people could be like, oh, that's woo-woo.
That's like an opinion. No, that's, that's scientific research that

Speaker 8 the way you, what you say, what you put out in the world literally has an effect on your um the world around you.

Speaker 7 100%.

Speaker 8 And I think your inner, your inner words also, even if you don't speak it out but you're thinking it also has the effect you're just thinking i suck uh i'm nobody but you're not saying it it's still going to impact you yeah it is because that's your subconscious and to me your subconscious mind is like the secret to that's like one of the secrets to manifesting is really because your subconscious mind can't tell what is like

Speaker 8 real and what isn't

Speaker 8 so meaning like you might be like oh i don't know if this is going to work but let me just do it and then you'll be like i am this i am that I am that.

Speaker 8 The fact that you took the time out to acknowledge that your brain is going to believe anything it tells you. So even if you'd be like, oh, I fuck.
Like, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 8 Your subconscious is going to be like, oh, okay. It's like

Speaker 8 you have to treat your subconscious mind like it's your best gullible friend in the world. 100%.
So you feed it, you give it all of the nutrition so it could be the healthiest possible.

Speaker 8 You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 7 In your book,

Speaker 7 you have a couple questions for people. And the question is, what are you avoiding in your life? Is it possible that this thing might serve you in your development?

Speaker 7 What's the best thing that could happen from it? Curious for you, Sean, what are you avoiding in your life right now? What's the thing you're avoiding the most right now?

Speaker 7 That when you address it, it's going to really help you unlock that next level of abundance and freedom.

Speaker 8 You know what? That's something I'm going to have to take with me and think about. That's a great question.

Speaker 8 I think that

Speaker 8 I kind of

Speaker 8 need to

Speaker 8 take time out a little more to

Speaker 8 live my life all the way. What I mean by that is like, go like whatever it is, whatever I feel, I feel like I have to really accept that I deserve that and that I have the means to do it.

Speaker 8 And I, you know, I can't say like, oh, I should, I'm held back by this or that. So that's one thing.
There are a few things on my list that I know that

Speaker 8 are kind of personal. Sure, sure.
You know, yeah, but I appreciate you. Reflect on it.
I appreciate you because that is, that is something that

Speaker 8 that is something that I'm going to actually, I hope somebody wrote that down out there because.

Speaker 7 Well, you got it in your book.

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 I should have brought my journal to take notes, really.

Speaker 8 I love that you do that. Yeah, of course, man.

Speaker 7 What do you need to make peace with? These are questions that you have in your book for us, which I think are powerful.

Speaker 7 You're a deep, wise human being, and I appreciate how you challenge anyone who's getting this book. Again, get the book, go hire.
But

Speaker 7 one of the questions is, what do you need to make peace with?

Speaker 8 Oh, that was a question in my book.

Speaker 7 It's your book. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Which, by the way, the answer I gave is just that some of this stuff is personal. So I just don't want to say it on camera.
It's not like I didn't have it. Like I know what the 100%.

Speaker 8 So what was the next one you said?

Speaker 7 What do you make peace with?

Speaker 8 Yeah. I'll give an example of something that I need to make peace with is

Speaker 8 there is a friend at home that was one of my best friends growing up

Speaker 8 that

Speaker 8 hurt me in a sense of

Speaker 8 overstepping boundaries, try to do business with them, try to put them in things.

Speaker 8 And,

Speaker 8 you know, I don't want to get too many detail because I don't like embarrassing people, but that's one of the things that I need to make peace with in a sense of

Speaker 8 knowing how to move forward with that, but also letting go of that, letting go of that hurt.

Speaker 7 Not holding on to it.

Speaker 8 Yeah, not letting me apply what. Our situation was to other situations, you know, of like maybe being a little bit having a reservation of doing certain business with people because of that situation.

Speaker 8 And that has nothing to do with that, you know, I have to practice that rule of separation that I've been talking about of like, that has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 7 What's the next three steps you need to make after this conversation to support you in

Speaker 7 getting to a peace with that conflict?

Speaker 8 Well, one of the next three steps is one, I have to take time out to actually address these things and respect that,

Speaker 8 you know, a lot of times if we're not making money or doing things, we think that it's wasting our time or whatever you have to. Yeah, it doesn't think that it deserves that much time.

Speaker 8 So I have to realize that I need to take time.

Speaker 8 I need to

Speaker 8 take

Speaker 8 responsibility.

Speaker 8 I need to be confident in my decision.

Speaker 8 That's one of the things that I lacked my whole life was

Speaker 8 confidence in my decisions.

Speaker 8 I had confidence as a person, but being confident in my decision, that doesn't matter

Speaker 8 what the outcome is.

Speaker 8 The confidence in the decision is already a win,

Speaker 8 you know, because that is the quality

Speaker 8 of man,

Speaker 8 and that is the quality that I want to pass on to my future generations.

Speaker 8 That's something I want to see in my son and his son and his daughter, my daughter, or whoever, you know.

Speaker 7 So That's beautiful, man.

Speaker 7 I'm going to follow up with you in a couple weeks and see what's going on.

Speaker 8 I would love to. We got to be like a part two of this.
I'm damn, man.

Speaker 7 I'm damn, man. I've got a few final questions for you.
I don't want to respect your time. What's the thing you are most proud of that most people don't know about you?

Speaker 7 We know you've got, you know, a multi-platinum, 185 million records. You know, you've collaborated with every big artist in the world.

Speaker 8 You're, you know.

Speaker 7 a superstar, but what's the thing that you're proud of most people don't know about you?

Speaker 8 Well, besides making like the best kid ever in the world

Speaker 8 that's one thing i'm for sure proud of um another

Speaker 8 thing is

Speaker 8 being able to

Speaker 8 achieve something that a lot of people told me was impossible you know a lot of people

Speaker 8 and um achieve it by not believing them.

Speaker 8 That's one of the things I'm most proud of because it's so easy to believe believe what someone says.

Speaker 8 But to bring it all the way back around,

Speaker 8 you have to believe what you feel always

Speaker 8 and

Speaker 8 not always believe what you see, but always believe what you feel.

Speaker 8 And that is the one thing I'm proud of that I've been able to do.

Speaker 8 Yeah, when you do think like, you know, you get to collab with your favorite artists, people you consider the greatest,

Speaker 8 you know, from Yay to Jay to Eminem to the Nas to Lil Wayne, or, you know, all of my favorites that are alive still

Speaker 8 and have like plaques with them with their names on it. Like, oh, you know,

Speaker 8 this me and Kanye song went seven times platinum. Oh, me and Jay's, oh, me, Jay, and Kanye's song or five times.

Speaker 8 Oh, your song went this, or you this, or you, you know, going diamond and all these things. It's like

Speaker 8 something I'm really grateful for and proud of, but

Speaker 8 the i'm not as proud of that as just like believing

Speaker 8 and like

Speaker 7 you know believing in myself that i could do it means more than the actual thing yeah does that make sense of course 100 i mean you've collaborated with some of the you know most iconic artists of our generation

Speaker 7 and i'm sure you've learned incredible lessons from each one of them and have inspiring stories from each one of them yeah but which one of those names

Speaker 7 really taught you something that just blew you away of those artists that you got to work with?

Speaker 7 Whether through interacting with them, seeing how they created art, just being in their presence, how they performed on stage, like what was the lesson one of them taught you that really inspired you?

Speaker 8 Kanye, for sure.

Speaker 8 He was the one who let me be a fly on the wall in the studio. Really?

Speaker 8 Yeah. Well, actually, there aren't a lot of people who would let a kid come up to them, rap for them,

Speaker 8 eventually

Speaker 8 sign them, build a bond with them, give them opportunity. It's not a lot of people who would do that.

Speaker 8 And that's just been, he did. He did.
Yeah, for sure. And

Speaker 8 yeah, that's, that was, yeah, that's, that's, that's been awesome. Eminem, too, really.

Speaker 7 What was that like being a Detroit kid?

Speaker 8 Yeah, crazy.

Speaker 7 And Eminem's the king

Speaker 7 in Detroit. Crazy.
What was that like?

Speaker 8 Well, one of the things I've been talking about this whole interview,

Speaker 8 the separation of

Speaker 8 I learned that just because you're the biggest rapper of all time in the world doesn't mean that like you're taking it easy.

Speaker 8 It's like his passion and his, it has nothing to do with his success in a sense. It's the byproduct of his passion, but at the same time, like he's in the studio every day.
He's hungry.

Speaker 8 He's like, trying to do his best and he's like, has sold a trillion records.

Speaker 8 And, you know, i said it in another interview like he cares about rapping like how goku care about fighting you know and i really learned that uh

Speaker 8 that that that passion is its own beast that has nothing to do with you know a lot of people be like oh you know it's just i guess he taught me to just really go with how you feel

Speaker 8 you know that's what he feel like doing

Speaker 7 yeah i got i got two final questions for you i've got a dozen still on here but i don't respect our time here. But I want people to get your book before I ask the final questions.

Speaker 7 It's called Go Higher, Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace.

Speaker 11 This is a game changer.

Speaker 7 And you wouldn't expect a lot of things you're going to read out of this from a guy like Big Sean, but it's extremely, extremely deep, wise, spiritual, and profound.

Speaker 7 And I want to acknowledge you, Sean, for...

Speaker 7 putting yourself out there like this. I know you do this in your art, in your music, and there's undertones undertones of this as well in your music.
Yeah. But you really went all in on this book.

Speaker 7 And I think it's one of your greatest pieces of art because of the impact it will continue to have for generations and how it's truly feeding the soul for so many people when they dive in and start consuming and

Speaker 7 capturing some of this. So I want to acknowledge you for.

Speaker 7 taking the leap of faith to put this out there, to put your heart and soul into something like this, and to be willing to talk about all these concepts that I don't really hear a lot of artists like you talking about.

Speaker 7 I don't hear people talking about manifestation and setting a frequency and letting go of the past. You know, you hear about holding grudges and getting back at people and all these different things.

Speaker 7 You're speaking about boundaries, learning about how to love yourself, self-worth, therapy,

Speaker 7 you know, recreating bonds with your parents, loving your child, being a great dad, being proud of being a father, being there for your son, like all these things, it's just not typical conversation, I think, with that industry.

Speaker 7 And maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I think a lot of people might be thinking. So I want to acknowledge you for

Speaker 8 coming in and using your heart.

Speaker 7 Again, what you said, using your heart to be of service. And I think that's the greatest gift that every person can give to the world is whatever's in their heart, use it to be of service for others.

Speaker 7 And I acknowledge you for doing that with this book, my man.

Speaker 8 Thank you so much, man.

Speaker 7 Two final questions for you. I want people to go get the book, follow you on social media.
Where else can we be of service to you today besides getting a couple copies of the book?

Speaker 8 By just,

Speaker 8 you know, I care about the product of what the book teaches you more than you getting it. Like, you can get it and pass it on to somebody or, you know, and pass it on to 10 different people.

Speaker 8 You know, I really love the.

Speaker 8 It's not about like the amount of the books, but man, I just really appreciate those kind words you said. It's

Speaker 8 sometimes it is, gets a little lonely walking the road I'm on,

Speaker 8 you know,

Speaker 8 but I gotta just keep it real with myself. So

Speaker 8 what I can say is that I'm very grateful. You know, of course, anything you hear from me, you can indulge in, you know,

Speaker 8 just

Speaker 8 be, be the best you, man. Like, that's, that's the way you do it.
You know, you go higher with whatever it is you got going on.

Speaker 7 This is a question I ask everyone at the end, these last two questions. It's called the three truths.
So it's a a hypothetical scenario.

Speaker 7 Imagine you get to live as long as you want to live on this earth, but it's the last day. It could be 100, 200 years old, whatever it is.

Speaker 7 You get to live and you get to accomplish and manifest all your dreams from this moment till then. But you got to turn the lights off and go somewhere else.
Your life is over.

Speaker 7 On this last day,

Speaker 8 you

Speaker 7 have to take all of your work with you. So no one has access to your music, your art, your book, this conversation, it's gone.

Speaker 8 Hypothetical. Okay.

Speaker 11 But you get to leave behind three final lessons.

Speaker 7 I call it three truths. And we would have access to these three lessons.
What would those three truths be for you?

Speaker 8 One is sounds very cliche, but

Speaker 8 you are the source of your happiness. Be happy.

Speaker 8 You don't have to chase it. It's already there.
You just got to choose it.

Speaker 8 Another

Speaker 8 is to have fun. See yourself and everyone else.

Speaker 8 Because

Speaker 8 everything that comes into your existence is just a reflection of you.

Speaker 8 And vice versa.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 8 see yourself and everyone because

Speaker 8 that will really create a lot for you, I promise.

Speaker 7 100%, man.

Speaker 7 Final question. What's your definition of greatness?

Speaker 8 To me,

Speaker 8 it's the act of

Speaker 8 doing your best right so to me the definition of greatness is like

Speaker 8 living at the highest frequency in every aspect getting the most out of life

Speaker 8 whatever that means for you you know like getting the most out of it it's that's that's greatness

Speaker 8 yeah i'm in a big shot hey i appreciate you it's been a true pleasure man yeah powerful man thank you I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy.

Speaker 9 And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life, and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make it easier, you want to make it flow, you want to feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy.

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