Entreprenuer [Bonus]

The speaker shares his personal story of struggle and perseverance, growing up in challenging circumstances. He talks about his journey as an entrepreneur and his current ventures in the last mile logistics space. He emphasizes the importance of sharing one's story and the value of persistence, resilience, commitment, and dedication in entrepreneurship. He also discusses the role of talent and the need for hard work and discipline to fully realize one's potential. He encourages listeners to keep going, stay focused, and continue to cultivate their ideas and talents. 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 going on guys? It's your king, your forever bro. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at I Am Forever Bro. There you'll find all my latest posts and content. All right guys, man, today we're going to talk about something that's really out there right now as a buzzword, and people are using it left and right to describe who they are and what they bring to the table, and that word is entrepreneur. All right, so entrepreneur is defined as a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses taking on greater than normal financial risk in order to do so. I don't think we really know what the word entrepreneur means, right? I think it's used interchangeably with businessman, right, or businesswoman. But I think entrepreneurship is about cultivating and creating and taking ownership of that creation, right? I'm an entrepreneur. I've created things over the years, things that have been successful and some things that haven't been so successful, right? Right now, I'm currently operating within the last mile logistics space. For those of you guys who don't know what last mile is, I'll break it down simple. It's the Amazon Prime vehicle when it shows up to your house to deliver your package, or it's the UPS van that pulls up to your house to deliver your package, or FedEx, or DHL. Those guys are really leading that space right now. Brass logistics is an up-and-coming last mile carrier where we plan to first organize and take over the southeast area. Be on the lookout for a new competitor in that space. We're going to come in and we're going to shock the game. Outside of brass logistics, I also have another line that I just started recently this year called Forever Burrow, and we're going to bring you guys content like the podcast that you're listening to, also some audio albums, a book, and also some apparel. I got some really great ideas on how I'm going to market all of this stuff to you guys and give you guys some deep content related to my story, and also my perspective and insights on our culture and the world. I think it's something that if you feel empowered to do, it's something that you should do because I think that's what makes us all unique is that we have individual stories, and we all come from various backgrounds. You never know who may come across your story and be inspired to change their life or improve their life, so it's important that you get the story out there. You let the world hear what you have to say, and then you let the world use that as they may. Now, be cognizant that when you put things out there, people have the tendency to sometimes take those things and misconstrue them or use them as weapons and tools, but you have to live your life in a fearless place, right? What did my man Moneybagg Yo say on the song recently? He said, you can't live your life in fur. Y'all know he got that Memphis thing going on, fur, right? But anyway, he made a great point there. You can't live your life in fear, man. There's a lot of elements out here that are always going to be on attack, right? Your job is to be on guard in your position, manning that position, and standing on what you believe in, right? And then you can allow the forces that may be to try and transgress against you, right? But it's your job just to stay rooted. Anyway, getting back to what we came here to talk about today, entrepreneurship. I know I get a little off-winded. You guys, as you listen to the podcast and we continue to grow as a podcast, you'll hear those off rants, right? And I think it's something that people who have been around me have gotten accustomed to hearing, and now I'm going to share that with you guys. So we're going to get back on topic, right? Entrepreneurship, buzzword. There's a lot of guys out there that are being very successful in that space, and they're creating vegan restaurant chains. Shout-out to Slutty Vegan. They're creating apparel lines. Shout-out to my man from Howard University with the black HBCU clothing line. You know, I bought a bunch of his merchandise just because of what it represents. And there's a lot of us, you know, in that space right there. We're creating value. We're creating content. We're creating and cultivating. And that's what an entrepreneur is to me, is somebody who goes out there and blazes a trail. In my last podcast, we talked about how I'm maneuvering in a path that has been unpaid. And that's what, in essence, an entrepreneur is, is somebody who is creating a path in a market or an industry where the roles are unpaid. They are scaling something from scratch. And that's what I'm doing. But don't get me wrong, there's other ways to become entrepreneurs as well. You know, there's franchises. There's other things of that nature, right, to get involved in, where you can kind of follow an existing blueprint and then build upon that, right? At the end of the day, at the heart of who an entrepreneur is is somebody who is cultivating and creating in a space and then taking ownership of that. So keep doing what you're doing. If you're in the business space right now, you're building some new idea or some vision that keeps you up at night, keep working at it. Because in order to be a successful entrepreneur, it's going to take persistence. It's going to take resilience. It's going to take commitment, dedication, sacrifice, all of these little buzzwords that people like to throw around but seldomly ever truly practice. And it's important that we are not only using these words, but we're practicing what they mean. And there's been so many examples over the years for me where I have practiced those words and lived those words, and they've been ingrained into who I am as a person, and those are the words that I live my life by. I think it's important that we understand that there's not a talent in the world or a skill in the world that can offset those words. I don't care how talented or skilled you are at something, if you don't put in the time and effort and commitment and dedication to excel in whatever it is that you're doing, your talent means nothing, right? And I know you guys have heard this age-old adage that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work. So it's important that we focus on those intangible things first and continue to develop that talent or that skill that was God-given, right? I feel like with talent, right, it's not necessarily something that you have to work on. I feel like talent is God-given. A great example of that is Zab Judah. If you guys are familiar with the boxing community, as I am, I like to call myself a boxing enthusiast. Zab Judah is a legendary fighter within the welterweight division. He was highly talented, right? When I tell you Zab Judah had some of the fastest hands in boxing, that may be an understatement. He also fought Floyd Mayweather somewhere between 2006 and 2008, I want to say. Zab was talented, right? He comes from Brooklyn. I think his father was his coach. He had natural God-given talent. But what Zab didn't have is those intangible things like discipline and commitment and sacrifice, right? What he had in regards of talent was often overshadowed by the non-practicing of those intangible traits that I just described. And it's only so long that you're going to be able to live off of that talent, right, or be in that hot white space, as Jay-Z calls it. In order to manifest the highest level or the highest potential of your talent, you have to surround it with those intangible things that I just mentioned. So talent is great, but hard work, sacrifice, commitment, and dedication will make that talent greater. And you cannot offset that by just being talented or gifted or something because God gives you that. That's not anything you have to work on. You were born with those talents, and those attributes accompany those talents to actually take that to the next level. The same thing with entrepreneurship. You can have a great idea, but if you're not willing to sacrifice and be committed and dedicate yourself to that journey, then whatever that idea that you have will never meet its full potential. Focus on that idea, that creation, that thought that you have, those talents that you have, and then add in or sprinkle in a little bit of dedication, commitment, hard work, sacrifice, and all of those things, and you'll be successful as an entrepreneur and as an overall person in life. Just keep going, keep grinding, keep doing what you do. All right, guys, have a great weekend. Enjoy your family. Enjoy your friends. Have some drinks if you drink, and just relax, man, and rest and recuperate. If you sprinkle in a little work in there, I can't be mad at you. I do a lot of things on the weekend as well, in addition to relaxing and resting, right? Shout-out to all my entrepreneurs. Shout-out to all my go-getters. Shout-out to all my podcast listeners. Thank you, guys, who have been rocking with me every show. Every week I get an inbox or a text message from a family or friend who is very inspired by what I'm doing here, and they want to hear more of it, so I owe it to them to keep this thing going. Right now we're having fun, man, and I hope you guys are enjoying it as well. All right, I salute. Love y'all. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.