Doing Good with Good Intentions

The speaker talks about the importance of execution in achieving success. They mention a podcast they listened to featuring a lawyer who took a leap of faith and became a successful public speaker. This inspired the speaker to think about their own desire to be a public speaker. They discuss their struggle with writer's block while trying to write their signature speech. They reflect on their childhood aspirations and the influence of influential figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. They also mention the impact of their grandmother and grandfather on their work ethic. The speaker emphasizes the power of doing good with good intentions. Yeah, what's good? It's your king forever burrow. Follow me on Instagram Twitter and tick-tock I am forever burrow that you'll find on my latest posting content Yeah, so guys this week. I got something a little special for y'all something. I've been working on. It's a little backstory. I Was praying and just you know asking God for direction and you know I got a lot of things that I am invested into right now from a space of Starting my own company and You know everything really comes down to things that matter like capital and you know relationships and building a network and it's something that I'm still putting together as we speak so you know the more I strengthen those things the more that the likelihood of success as a company will be to me and You know this year. I said that Everything was about execution So we talked a lot about You know the ideas that we had we talked a lot about the dreams that we had and things of those natures But we have to also communicate that we're executing those things Execution is important because Without that there is no dream. There is no vision. You can't achieve a vision without the execution Right execution is important. It's the core of achieving the things that you have Believe or faith in right execution. It's almost like their scripture in the Bible. It says Faith without work is dead and I've always taken that to mean that like you can have faith in something but you have to work in order to Receive What you have faith in You understand what I'm saying? So it goes back to executing Against the dream you can have the dream you can have the faith But you have to execute and work in order to achieve that dream in order to achieve that dream or vision So I was watching or matter of fact, I was listening to a podcast and I think it was social proof If I'm not mistaken, I think it was social proof and I was listening to a speaker by the name of Ashley Kirkwood, right And she was talking on the show and she was basically going through her career and she is a you know college-educated Lawyer right who graduated from Northwest and I believe and Went on to work at one of the top law firms in the world and the number one law firm in Chicago And she was making you know Around $300,000 at the height of her career, which only which was only a couple of years after she graduated from college So she was doing really well, but you know, she faced her adversity in those roles and you know It inspired her to take a leap of faith and to go into business for herself And you know the first couple things she tried like the e-book it didn't work and then you know, or it did work eventually But she just kept going back to the table and kind of reinventing her plan and you know, she ultimately now is a very successful public speaker and hosting You know just someone blazing The trails as a journalist almost right? So it got me inspired to think about How I've always talked about speaking publicly or speaking publicly Or how always it reminded me how I always thought about being a public speaker, right? That was like and so she had this program that she says like a lot of other People who are leading in the industry. They're not going back in there teaching in there they're providing that resource to people and She talked about help with developing your signature speech in your signature program And also the markets that you want to reach and you know branding yourself and in those things All right, having your plan on how you're going to attract bookings and so I was like I really zeroed in on the on the signature speech because she really made that like a Thing in fact she had the class on how to write your signature speech and I really just started doing my research like, you know Signature speech googling it, you know going on YouTube and you know signature speech and signature talk would always be the results And so as I started to kind of put two and two together People have what they call a signature talk, which is sometimes used in the same breath as Signature speech But I guess there's subtleties in both right, you know How you deliver your your your speeches your signature talk in my in my humble opinion and you know What you write is your actual signature speech? so, you know, I had been thinking about going home and writing my signature speech over the last two weekends and I kept getting writers block, right? I think I've had writers block for quite some time I think I might have had some some some trauma from when I got my bachelor's degree and all of the writing I had to do And then probably my undergraduate So anyway, I was having writers blocking and I was like, you know, I gotta figure something out Like what is gonna be my signature speech? So I started playing around with different topics right and you know different titles and you know, ultimately it led me to Doing good with good intentions Right, and I just had that thought in the bathroom Which is a place that has given me a lot of visions Throughout my life and you'll you'll know more about what I mean with that as we go on But doing good with good intentions that became the title to my my signature speech and so I put together a rough draft of it and I'm going to go over it With you guys tonight on the podcast and that's the special thing that I was talking about earlier. It's a special episode I've never done anything like this. Um, so it's like my first time so it's crazy I'm recording my podcast in my home office, right? And I'm still somehow finding myself somewhat nervous to to present this but you know, he goes nothing as they say All right, so excuse me if I stumble right I Guess this is I Guess this is the title to my signature speech Doing good with good intentions Profound or at least I thought or maybe not Maybe it sounds Maybe it sounds self-centered Or maybe it's too corny my people wouldn't want to hear it But what if they needed to hear it? What if they really needed to know that success is really about doing good with good intentions? When I was six, I had this vision that the world would know my name I Wanted to be someone who inspired change. I wanted to be like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. I Guess even at that age. I knew both of their messages were needed At their core they both were doing good with good intentions They were inspiring change in the world they were leaders of my communities Communities that were black and brown they spoke with the power of 30 million black people. I Felt proud to be one of those people a Member of community a Member of a community of such strong and resilient people resourceful innovative resourceful innovators philosophers poets educators judges kingpins hustlers risk-takers and trendsetters Being black was revived in me in 1992. I I Loved our people and I wanted to be just like Martin or Malcolm. I Wanted to be street smart, but also a scholar in a orator. I Used to use words. I had heard while watching TV I used to use words that I had heard while watching TV or it hustling and grown folks business. I Was used to them I Would use them to give speeches in the bathroom I Would imagine a large crowd. I would imagine a large crowd like the one King gave his iconic. I have a dream speech Or crowds like Malcolm would gather speaking or crowds like Malcolm would gather speaking. I Would imagine a large crowd like the one King gave his iconic I have a dream speech Or like the crowds Malcolm would gather speaking on street corners in Harlem They were inspiring us to be They were inspiring us to rise rise above the oppression rise above the mediocrity Malcolm told us power was in economics and politics that power is what controls society Malcolm told his power was in economics and politics That power is what controls society at least in America Martin told us to be dignified but fierce All I wanted to do Was do good with good intentions It wasn't about me. It was about us a people that resided in the ghettos of America and the black suburbs It wasn't about me it was about us a People that resided in the ghettos of America and black suburbans I Wanted to carry those 30 million black people everywhere I went I Was a proud black boy My grandmother showed me confidence at every My grandmother showed me confidence at a very young age My grandmother showed me confidence at a very young age No matter what we had or didn't have she was upright. She carried herself with class She was smart and well-dressed She had a high school diploma hanging on our living room wall. I Took that she was proud to be an educated black woman It's what made me think at a very young age that I would graduate from high school for sure I had every intention of being someone educated. I Had every intention of being someone educated I'm going on to earn degrees at Central Texas College 2006 at Rutgers University Camden 2019 My grandfather worked at a tobacco warehouse next door to us My grandfather worked at a tobacco house next door to us. My grandfather worked at a tobacco house next door to us He was a simple man He would work and handle mainly tasks around the house He would drink his wild Irish rose and salted rimmed beer until he would pass out on the front porch He showed me that a man should work I Now manage a warehouse with almost 100 associates They both showed me the power of doing good with good intentions He was a simple man, he would work and handle the manly task around the house He would drink his wild Irish rose a salt rimmed beer Until he would pass out on the front porch He showed me a man should work. I now manage a warehouse with almost 100 associates I've led soldiers in the United States Army In the United States Army They both showed me the power of doing good with good intentions