Congradulations Its Been A Month!

The speaker shares their personal story of struggle and perseverance, growing up in difficult circumstances. They discuss their journey to replace their morning Coca-Cola habit with coffee and the challenges they face in finding a healthier alternative. They explore different sweeteners and decide to use raw honey and almond milk. They describe their experience of making their first cup of coffee and realizing that they enjoy it. The speaker also reflects on their podcast, celebrating one month of recording and their intention to continue sharing their story and highlighting black-owned businesses. They express their commitment to making a positive impact on the culture and hope to have guests on the podcast in the future. They end by highlighting their own company, Brax Logistics, and the significance of its name. For years I've shared my story with many of you, a story rich in struggle and perseverance. As a child I was met with immeasurable odds. Born in the city of Goldsboro, North Carolina, and raised by my grandmother. Despite her efforts to protect me from desperate conditions, I was exposed to violence, incest, crack addiction, and a whole lot of other shit a young soul should never have to endure. At times I don't know if I'm haunted by my past or if it's my superpower. At age 6 I had to self-proclaim prophecy that the world would know my name. I'm still fulfilling that prophecy. I'm here to do what I've always done. Give you my story with the hope that it changes the world, or at least the world around you. Yo, what's good? It's your King Foreverboro. Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok at iamforeverboro. There you'll find all my latest posts and content. Alright guys, guilty confession. Every morning I typically have a can of Coca-Cola and a little Debbie Snack Cake. I know, hey look, this is a safe place. You understand? Right? Don't judge me. Alright, I know it's unhealthy, right? And I'm going to kick that habit. In an attempt to kick that habit, I'm replacing that Coca-Cola with another caffeine-induced beverage that most Americans enjoy every morning, which is a cup of Joe, a.k.a. coffee. You know, been in the military for 13 years, right? I never became a coffee drinker, which is kind of rare because soldiers love their coffee, right? They needed to give them that get up and go. Oh, dark 30 in the morning when we're heading to formation to get ready to go run, you know, two to five miles, right? For no apparent reason other than to be a tip top physical shape. So I've been doing all this studying or coffee. That's one thing about me, right? It doesn't matter what I get into. I have to study it intensively for weeks before I indulge in the activity. And so nonetheless, with this coffee thing, right, I started looking up how to make a cup of coffee. You know, what's an American standard cup of coffee? How much sugar to put in there? How much half and half or cream to put in there? You know what to actually use to make the coffee. Right. And so, you know, typically American standard is to get, you know, the drip coffee maker. But here recently, and if you're a coffee drinker, if you don't live on Iraq, you've heard of the Keurig. So we bought a Keurig from Wal-Mart the other day, about 60 bucks. And, you know, the Keurig, you have to put the K-Cups in there and K-Cups are everywhere. Right. There's all different type of brands. Some, you know, traditional brands like Folger, many different type of K-Cups out there. Right. Flavorful coffee and all this other stuff. I wanted to keep it simple and classic. Right. So I went and picked up some Starbucks K-Cups originally. Right. And they had like a vanilla flavor until I didn't like it. Right. It was just too sweet. I didn't feel like I was really doing a great job of replacing the Coke with this coffee if the coffee was going to be just as sweet. And then to my knowledge, I didn't realize that there are 15 grams of sugar in a tablespoon of. I mean, I'm sorry. There's 15 grams in a tablespoon of sugar. And if you look at your average Coca-Cola, if you look at a 20 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola, there's 65 grams of sugar in it. So if you're going to drink coffee in the morning and, you know, put two or three tablespoons of sugar in there, you're defeating the purpose of drinking a soda. Right. You know what I mean? So you're really not getting any health benefits. So then I take it to YouTube and I'm looking at all these health professionals talk about coffee and how it is a healthy benefit to our diet. But it's what we put in it that makes it horrible. So I started looking at sugar alternatives. Right. Things like raw honey, coconut milk and almond milk. Right. Sweetened or unsweetened. There were even people putting ginger in coffee. Right. You know, ginger has a lot of health benefits to it. So what I decided to do, I was like, yo, I out of the 15 or so sweeteners that were not sugar. I decided to go with raw honey. Right. And almond milk. So I went to Publix, got me some Folgers, K-Cups, already had some raw honey at the crib. Shout out to the wifey. Right. Picked up two things of almond milks, unsweetened and sweetened vanilla flavor one for the missus. Right. She doesn't mind the sugar. Right. But I'm getting up in age. Right. And I need to be very conscious about what I put into my body. Right. You know, things on the outside are going pretty good. So it's time to really start focusing on the things inside. Other than, you know, emotional intelligence and all of the other other things that come with that. More more so about what I'm consuming and what I'm allowing to provide fuel and energy to my body. So I went immediately to the curing just now. Right. This is happening right now. This is real time. I came into the house. I went straight to the curing. I popped in a Folgers K-Cup, made a cup of coffee, eight ounces. Right. And there's really a lot that goes with these ratios of coffee to water. But we're not going to get into that. You guys don't really care. But anyway, put in a K-Cup, did eight ounces. I put in a table, not a tablespoon. Correction. I put in a teaspoon of raw sugar and I put in just a pinch of unsweetened almond milk. I let the coffee simmer for a little bit. Took my first sip. And guys, let me tell you, that is the most disgusting shit I've ever had in my life. Not a coffee good man. It's straight. It's got a real coffee taste to it. Unlike the Starbucks vanilla that I was pouring three tablespoons of sugar into along with some half and half. Right. It tasted like pure sugar. This actually has a strong coffee taste to it. And I'm enjoying it. And I think it's something that I can get into. Right. It might even have me a little boosted right now as I probably down about a good third of the cup. Right. One second. One second. Yeah. So it's official. I'm a coffee drinker. My mornings are going to be so much better. Right. So much better. So I first of all, I like to celebrate a full month of recording this podcast. Right. And I hope that you guys who have taken a listen to one of the shows or all of the shows, I would suggest you listen to all of them. I hope you guys have gained some insight into who I am as a person. Some of my perspectives in life around leadership and being a king. And also, you've gotten to know me a little bit better. Right. As we continue to grow this podcast in the audience. Right. I wanted to continue to be something that's very authentic, something that's very organic. We're going to get into some more deeper stories of our early childhood. And I want to give you guys every week. Right. You know, one of the things I like about the podcast is every week we celebrate a black owned business and our corporate takeover segment of the podcast. Right. Look at me producing shows here. Right. Creating segments within the podcast. Right. And, you know, we've highlighted some great businesses over the last couple of weeks, man. You know, last month or so with, you know, capped out apparel, pretty penny bag legend. Great. You know, spotlight. And I've got some appreciation back from the guys who own those companies. And I just want to continue to see us grow not only as a podcast, but, you know, I'm very big into my impact on the culture. Right. As a black man, I feel like it's my responsibility to carry the culture into every room that I walk into. And I talked about that on the episode before about how I feel charged with that responsibility to change the narrative on our culture. And, you know, my intentions here on this podcast is the same. Right. We're putting the culture out there. I'm the spokesperson for my story. And like I said, carrying a culture on my back. And I want to make sure I'm doing my part. So guys, keep tuning in, man. Keep listening. The content is only going to get better. I'm getting more comfortable recording audio in my home office. And, you know, it's going to get better, man. And I really appreciate y'all rocking with me over the last month. And we're probably going to keep these shows that probably about 10 minutes, you know, later on when, you know, possibly the idea of having guests on, you know, hopefully some some some black business owners. Right. And I'm not trying to copy nothing else. Nobody got going on. Because I know that some of the podcasts out there that are interviewed based in, you know, we're bringing on entrepreneurs in there, giving guys the game. My story is still very much the bedrock of this podcast. Right. And, you know, my challenges and things that I've overcome to give me the insight and perspective that I have. And so we will always base the podcast around that. But as I do continue to spotlight our culture, I would like to possibly have some some conversations with, you know, some guys to really push to push the paradigm forward. Right. So with that being said, man, I'm going to let y'all get back to it. It's the middle of the week. Go out there and finish being great. Keep doing what you doing this week. You know, our corporate takeover segment, we're going to highlight none other than my own company, Brax Logistics. We are a last mile provider here in the southeast region of the United States. Right. With plans to scale out into a full blown third party logistics company. You've heard me talk about Brax before. I got the name from my great grandfather, who was a sharecropper in North Carolina. He didn't own the land. The white man owned it, but he tended to it. And if you don't know what sharecropping is, I suggest you pull up Google and do some research. Right. It was basically slavery after slavery. But shout out to Braxton Simmons, man. And what he did and raising those 16 kids. It is one of them being my grandmother, Mrs. Etta Mae Haley. But if it wasn't for her, I don't know where I'd be at. So, yeah, shout out to Braxton Logistics, a global company in the near future. You got to keep killing it. Keep doing what you're doing. It's always love.